Politics & Government

Avon Referendum Results Revealed

The town held a referendum on two multi-million-dollar projects Wednesday.

AVON, CT - The town will have a new communications system and Avon High School will receive a new synthetic turf field after both projects were approved in a Wednesday referendum, according to the Hartford Courant. The communications system, to be used by emergency service and town employees, will cost the town $3.89 million and the fields will run $2.9 million.

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About 15 percent of the town's voters came about for the vote. Both measures were approved with solid support: the synthetic playing field passing 1220 to 783 and the communications system passing 1654 to 348.

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