TAMWORTH — The Tamworth selectmen’s chair at Thursday’s budget hearing announced that the board doesn’t have enough information to propose outsourcing police department functions by town meeting.
At their Dec. 30 meeting, selectmen said they had been looking into the town being served by a regional department, such as the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
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