Falmouth votes to keep its pesticide ordinance

Falmouth Residents Vote to Keep Pesticide and Fertilizer Ban, Approve $13.7 Million for Town Facility Upgrades

Falmouth residents have narrowly rejected an effort to repeal the town’s new pesticide and fertilizer ordinance, with about 55 percent of those who turned out to the polls voting against the measure. Approved Tuesday by a wider 61 percent margin was the proposed $13.7 million bond to expand the town’s public works facilities. [RELATED: What [...] The post Falmouth Residents Vote to Keep Pesticide and Fertilizer Ban, Approve $13.7 Million for Tow…

Falmouth votes to keep its pesticide ordinance

A challenge to the divisive pesticide and fertilizer ordinance was added to the ballot through a citizen petition after the Town Council passed the new rules in May.