Meetings Ahead
Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join.
Thursday, March 28
- Open Space Committee, 2 p.m.
- Finance Committee, 3 p.m.
- School Committee, 4:30 p.m., hybrid
Monday, April 1
- Concert Committee, 10 a.m., Community Center
- Ad Hoc Building Committee, 4:30 p.m.
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m., hybrid
Tuesday, April 2
- Board of Health, 5:30 p.m., hybrid
Conversation Starters
Voter Roll Update
Town staff continue to prepare for two separate town meetings on May 4. The special town meeting warrant — postponed since October — is frozen. So is its voter roll, which closed to new registrants on Oct. 11.
But until April 20, residents can still register to vote in the annual town meeting, which is also set to begin on May 4. According to a voter list provided to the Independent on March 26, 86 people have registered to vote in Truro since Oct. 11.
The town plans a check-in period between the two meetings.
“You’ve got to clear the house,” select board member Stephanie Rein said, when the board was strategizing about the logistics. She was speaking, she said, “as a person who has worked in a nightclub.”
None of the 86 new registrants were challenged or removed from the town’s voter roll last fall. The town currently has 2,303 registered voters.
Groceries and Liquor
Scott Cloud, owner of the Truro General Store, appeared before the select board on March 26 to ask about the possibility of becoming licensed to sell alcohol all year.
“We would like to go year-round, and part of that would be we would like to have a year-round liquor license,” Cloud said.
Currently, no grocery stores operate year-round in Truro. Salty Market in North Truro closes for the winter.
Truro has a quota of two year-round liquor licenses, said Assistant Town Manager Kelly Clark. Town staff are researching the possibility of expanding that number, she said. No vote was taken by the select board. —Sophie Mann-Shafir
