News Briefs

Have you ever seen a sheep dog at work? The deftness with which a dog, typically a Border Collie or Australian Shepherd, can herd sheep under the direction of its dog handler has long been recognized as one of the best examples of the working relationship between humans and dogs. We have one of those dog/handler teams living here in Dunstable.

submitted by Stan Foster, photos by Debbie Foster

One of the great pleasures of living in Dunstable is sharing our yard with a wide variety of creatures that live with us permanently or regularly visit. One of our regular visitors this winter has been a family of turkeys. It has not been a great winter for them, so our bird feeders have been a welcome oasis in this desert of snow. It has been interesting to observe how their appearance and behavior has changed just in the last week as spring approaches.

While Santa was making his way down Groton Street delivering gifts on Christmas night, one of his reindeer lost an antler!

Taking a break - As some of you may know, I also maintain Dunstable's municipal website - www.dunstable-ma.gov. Over the past year, I've been trying to find time to revamp that site to make it easier to maintain, unfortunately to no avail. That has now become a task that I no longer wish to postpone. So, as we are passing through a rather slow news period, I am taking a break from writing articles for Dunstable Commons to free up some time to work on a new town website.

Motions on all three articles that were voted on at last Monday's Special Town Meeting passed.

The Selectmen have closed the warrant for the Special Town Meeting coming up on Monday, October 29. There are three articles on the warrant: