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The town has already collected $4 million of a possible $13 million in extra money hidden from the budget process.
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Jonathan Cottrell’s Home and a Political Game of Twister
The latest controversy somewhat related to the Tiverton Glen project — substantial enough to fill the town hall for a Wednesday morning meeting of the Tiverton Board of Canvassers — is the residency of Jonathan Cottrell, a member of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee, who is now applying for appointment to the Planning Board. Some in town have been challenging whether Cottrell is legitimately an elector, or voter, because they say he does not actually live in Tiverton. He, his wife, and his two adult children have been registered to vote for years with their address as 35 Main Road, and that number is the commercial building of his remodeling company, Cottrell Bros. The Cottrells also own property in Swansea, Massachusetts, and his detractors claim that the family actually lives there, in a large, historic house much nicer than the Tiverton property. Indeed, one of the Cottrells’s North Tiverton neighbors has filed a certified letter stating that they are not often present in the residential building that shares a lot with Cottrell Bros. What the Law Says According to Rhode Island General Law 17-1-3.1: A person’s residence for voting purposes is his or her fixed and established domicile. The determinant …
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