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Recount To Be Held On Palmer Casino Vote

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published November 26, 2013 at 4:01 AM EST
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A recount will take place today of the vote that killed a $1 billion casino project in the western Massachusetts town of Palmer.

Mohegan Sun acknowledges the recount is un-likely to change the outcome of the referendum. The Connecticut-based casino company petitioned for the recount after its project was turned down by a 93 vote margin.  Mohegan Sun said in a statement Friday that it would pursue a non-casino development on the land it controls in Palmer. Reports the company is in talks about a casino project in the Boston area prompted casino supporters in Palmer, such as Town Councilor Paul Burns to accuse Mohegan Sun of being disingenuous.

MGM Springfield is the only casino project to pass a local referendum in western Massachusetts.
New England News
Paul Tuthill
The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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