JACKSON — At the town’s second municipal budget hearing Feb. 4, selectmen voted 2-1 not to support a warrant article that would spend $100,000 to move the old town hall, now the home of the Jackson Historical Society 200 feet closer to the village from its current location.
The JHS, which has leased the building for $1 from the town since 2009, is in the midst of a $1 million fundraising campaign for the project and the $100,000 would help it to add to the $800,000 is has raised through grants and donations so far.
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