On May 7, the board voted, 4 to 1, to allow Jason Southwood to convert the former seasonally-operated Cone Zone at 2028 Western Ave. into a year-round retail dispensary.
When the paid GEMS squad took over from the volunteer Western Turnpike Rescue Squad, McGaughnea said, “The ones that we originally bought, we bought from Western Turnpike and they don’t really fit the way we operate as an ALS ambulance,” he said of Advance Life Support.
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