Walpole Residents Vote In Favor of Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban

At a town meeting on Saturday, Walpole, New Hampshire voted to ban the sale or distribution of single-use plastic bags and to install high speed internet service in town, reports the Sentinel Source.

Fall Mountain High School Students Sydney Curven and Ruby Frithsen students led the bag ban movement, gathering over 160 signatures. These signatures made it possible to bring the ban to the meeting under citizen’s petition. The motion will go effect after one year, in order to give shop owners the time to conform.

The high-speed internet service was voted in by a paper vote of 135-2. $3.2 million will be appropriated to install a “fiber-to-the-premises” network giving the option for high speed internet to all business and homes in town.

Approximately 140 citizens voted through all 12 articles at the town meeting in under two hours.