Nineteen thirty-nine, and 1978; those were the years that Rockland first built, then updated with three new bays, the Town’s fire station on Union Street, respectively. Now 45 years later in 2023, with no room left to bring it up to 21st Century standards, the Board of Selectmen on February 21st approved the Fire Station Building Committee’s recommendation to relocate and build a new fire station at the Lincoln School site, 99 Church Street, sending the matter to Rockland voters on April 8th, and Town Meeting on May 1st for final approval.
The idea of building a new station was included in the Fire Department Response Time Study Final Report in October 2021. The Fire Station Building Committee, made up of Fire Chief Scott Duffy, Deputy Chief Thomas Heaney, Lieutenant Charles Williams, Retired Chief James Killinger, Architect Christopher DeFilippo, Jeanne Blaney, Director of Rockland Recreation, and Susan Egan-Tasker, Principal Clerk at Rockland Highway Department, held several meetings and public hearings before issuing its report. The matter was first covered here in the June 2022 Town Newsletter with the promise to keep you posted in later issues. This is our third update to our readers.
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