by Nancy Beal

Two dozen Beals citizens turned out for the annual town meeting March 28 and took two hours electing officers and raising $225,730. As usual, salaries and snow and solid waste removal commanded the highest figures, but two new issues surfaced. The now-defunct town office — an old 20-by-20-foot shed at the corner of Cemetery Road and Bridgeview Street that was replaced in the 1990s by a doublewide on the old school property — will be torn down. Also, the town will become the channel through which island postal service will continue to run.