The town clerk will not be holding office hours this Thursday, Oct 30th, 2009. Regular hours will resume next Monday night.

The Goshen Free Library will hold it's book sale on Sunday, October 11th from 10 to 3 on the steps of the Town Hall (in case of rain we will be inside). We have all kinds of books and videos available--fiction, children's books, cookbooks, science and nature, history, mysteries and thrillers. Fans of science fiction and fantasy will have an especially large selection to choose from. A limited number of the all new "Goshen Rocks" t-shirts will be on sale and we will be taking orders for more. All proceeds to benefit the library.

The Goshen Historical Society will meet Friday October 2nd, 2009 at the Goshen Town Hall.

The Museum will open again on Sunday, June 6, 2010.   If you have need to see an item in the Museum Collection before that time, please call the Curator, Floyd Merritt, at 268-7001.

During this closing we intend to make some repairs to the building, re-install the exhibits on the lower level, and make some changes in the exhibits on the main level of the Museum to make them more informative about the history and culture of the Town and surrounding area.  We hope that those of you who visited the Museum this summer enjoyed the new installation and will return next year to see the changes we will have made.

The STM was held last night and both articles passed unanimously, with no debate. The meeting was started at 7PM and the meeting was adjourned at 7:05PM.

The first article approved spending almost $74,000 of money from the CPA funds to redo the heating and ventilation system in the town hall, the second article was to transfer almost $6K from the Stabilization account to the Hampshire Regional Assessment account to make up a budgeting shortfall. A lower amount had been approved at the ATM, but since a majority of the other towns in the region voted a higher budget amount, Goshen is required to fund the higher amount as well.

Goshen's Haunted Village has been schedule for Oct 16th and 17th, 2009. For complete information, including information on how to help, or directions to the event, see the website:

http://www.HauntedVillage.Org

A special town meeting is scheduled for Monday September 21st at 7PM to discuss and vote on two items.

The first question is to see if the town will vote to approve the use of approximately $74,000 of available CPA funds to pay for the heating and ventilation work that needs to be done on the Town Hall.

The second question has to do with transferring approximately $7K from the stabilization account to the Hampshire Regional Highschool account to cover the additional assessment from the result of the vote of the 4 other towns in the 5 town region.

On Monday September 14th, Joe Frye of Sears Rd and a member of the Goshen Planning board, was appointed by the unanimous vote of the selectboard to the vacant seat on the ZBA thru June 30th, 2010.

The Goshen Free Library is currently accepting donations for the book sale to be scheduled in October. Please bring books, videos or DVDs in good condition to the library during regular library hours: Monday 5-9 pm, Tues 11 am-1 pm or Saturday 10 am-noon. No textbooks or encyclopedias please.

Last night the CPC committee unanimously voted to support the heating and ventilation project for the Town submitted by the selectboard. The committee's vote has the effect of moving the project to the next step which requires the approval of a majority of voters at a Special Twon meeting.

The selectboard has scheduled a special town meeting for Monday, September 21st at 7PM.