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-- The Hillside Country Club took another step last night toward recovering from the fire last May that laid waste to the golf course's clubhouse: The Board of Selectmen approved a transfer of the club's liquor license.
"This is just a mere formality," Selectman John V. Moriarty said before the board voted unanimously to transfer the license from the temporary trailer the country club has used to its new clubhouse, which construction workers are finishing up.
The clubhouse, a popular area banquet facility, is expected to open in mid-April, owner George Cardono told the selectmen last night. Cardono said he had hoped to open April 1, "but I have to be realistic."
The public hearing, required by law, was very brief. Cardono explained that he wanted to transfer the license, which had been transferred to the temporary trailer from the fire-leveled former clubhouse, to the new building. No one else spoke in favor of the transfer, and no one spoke in opposition.
In other business last night, the selectmen gave their support to a proposal from the town's cell-phone tower committee.
The committee has proposed hiring IDK Communications to provide expert evaluation of proposals from communications companies that want to build cell-phone towers on town-owned land.
Executive Secretary David J. Marciello said the town had received several such proposals from companies. "They say, 'The going rate is this,' and, 'We think it's a fair deal.' Well, that's what IDK can tell us," Marciello told the selectmen.
Although the contract would call for IDK to receive $4,920 for its consulting services, taxpayers would not have to pay a dime, Marciello said. The money to pay IDK would be figured into the fees that any company would have to pay to locate a tower on town-owned land, he said.
IDK is based in Littleton, about halfway between Fitchburg and Lowell.
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