WILMINGTON — The third try was a charm for this town's efforts to build a new garage for the highway department.
Voters on Tuesday approved a 10-year, $340,000 bond, 249-103. The bond will cover about one-third of the $963,438 cost of the project. The remainder of the cost will be covered by a capital account that was set up by the town in the late 1990s for the garage.
Voters had previously twice rejected bond votes in 2008.
The current garage, built in 1963, has long been considered antiquated and inadequate for the highway department's current needs, and the town had been looking at a replacement since the mid-1990s.