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Community awareness group to Stop the Charlestown Fire District from demolishing the Old Fire Barn

10/31/2026

10/10/2026

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10/04/2026

Weekend homework...looking through redacted documents relative to the Stop the Demolition of The Old Cross Mills Fire Barn Old Cross Mills Fire Barn. Sorry to all those great October weekend events I'm missing, but these are time sensitive studies & research.
If you have not ever requested files of public cities or towns to see what is "public" and what is not...you should. I love the totally black redacted ones for sure because I am a curious Georgieannie type. I also like the "partially redacted" documents because they let you see a little something, but you can't get any real context out of it. I recently filed an Open meetings complaint on the Fire District and that was upheld at the Attorney Generals office that tgey had violated the State Open Meeting Laws. I did submit a complaint on the Town of Charlestown regarding the Old Fire Barn and a meeting, but that was not upheld by the Attorney General because of the agenda item being public , etc etc. - so the Town did not violate the Open meeting at that meeting. That's ok. The big "reveal" will be in these 300+ pages from both the Town and the Fire District to "see" what went on......These documents are being reviewed now and then an appeal will go in to see if they can be un-redacted, if not, they will be turned over for review by the Attorney Generals Office. That's our right , as people in the public, and the duty of the Attorney General to review to determine what is "public" and what is not. The optics of it are most telling. The public is NOT allowed to know what's in these documents...in the meantime, history is lost with an unnecessary demolition of a building that we all paid taxes yearly to maintain ...and now it's demolished, but not the records! 🙏. They will reveal the synchronized plan.....and reveal the actors in the saga of list history

09/17/2026

Thanks for all the likes, if we only had this building given to the community, it would have been kept up. Where there is a will, there is a way

04/21/2026

Will post an update soon. It looks like the demolition is on hold now based on complaint. Maybe missing minutes of the community in 2021 who wanted the Old Cross Mills Fire Barn saved and accountability for the 13+ years of no maintenance spent on building maintenance The grant had a false narrative , which is a no-no- that stated the people in the community wanted the building demolished. Simply not true...so after the minutes confirmed the community wanted the building saved, the complaints were filed . Now that they were trying to get the funds to demolish the building $610,000 from the HUD grant, they have been delayed because of the complaint. HUD denied the Fire District the funding as they did not have the land use authority....the Town is trying to cover, but that has not been public and contradicts what the Town said before, that they did not want the building, perhaps, that might work, as long as we can lobby to get the close to one million dollars and then use the money to fix the building. It states up to one million $. That can go a LONG WAY! More later..

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