From the Town Clerk:

The annual town meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 16th at the Seekonk High School on Arcade Avenue. The meeting starts at 7:00PM. The warrant will include the budget for the next fiscal year.

The water department is holding their annual meeting on Tuesday, May 10th at the Seekonk Library. Their warrant includes the budget for their department for the next fiscal year.

The Memorial Day parade is scheduled for Saturday, May 28th. It will not be ending at the Middle School as in past years. It will end at the Seekonk Library for the dedication of the new Veterans’ Memorial.

Monday, May 30th, the Town Hall will be closed in observance of Memorial Day. This is a good time to thank all our veterans, past and present, for their service to this country. We are grateful for their and their family’s sacrifices.

The Save a Pet Society held their 29th annual auction to benefit the Seekonk Animal Shelter. The auction was a huge success and we want to thank all the sponsors, donors, and attendees. We are fortunate to have such a great support base for our shelter. Save a Pet has a large and varied membership who add their own areas of expertise to the group. Our next fundraiser is the craft fair in September. More information will follow in the next several months. The staff at the Ramada Inn are so helpful and easy to work with and we thank them for all their help.

The Commonwealth has initiated early voting for the November State Election. We will be coming out with the dates and hours for early voting so that people who want to avoid lines in November at the polls will know how to go about early voting. From what we are being told, the ballot is going to have many petitioned questions on it also, so that will slow down the voting process and increase wait time. We will do all that we can to help voters with the early voting process. More to come on this in the future. We are still waiting for Boston to guide us in the rules for this procedure.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and let’s all remember WHY we celebrate this important holiday.