Selectmen Quell Adams House Dispute
Board of Selectmen find desired compromise after passing a motion that required two arguing parties to hash out their differences in the hallway.
Sometimes the best place to solve a local dispute isn't around the big wooden desk in the main conference room of Abbot Hall. Sometimes all it really takes is asking two arguing parties to step out into the hallway and have a long overdue conversation. That is exactly what happened at Wednesday night's meeting of the Board of Selectmen. Project managers overseeing a construction project at the Adams House on Front Street made a formal request to board members to grant them a four-week extension on a scaffolding permit issued in November. Making the request was Bruce Greenwald, of the Marblehead-based D. Bruce Greenwald Architects and project manager Mark Driscoll, both of whom described how the restoration project was hindered by a winter …
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