The decade-plus-long push to build a new fire station on Fairgrounds Road has been dealt another setback, after just one bid was submitted this week for the construction of a modular building that came in over budget and would not have passed muster with the state attorney generals office, town officials said.
Voters in 2015 and 2016 at both Town Meeting and the ballot box approved the construction of a $17 million fire station at 4 Fairgrounds Road, but the project came in $142,000 over budget, and the Finance Committee last year rejected a Board of Selectmen request to transfer from the general fund enough money to make up the shortfall.