Burke Voters Approve New Highway Garage

BURKE — After multiple years of planning, officials finally put a new highway garage cost before voters on Tuesday and got the construction go-ahead. The ballot question before the townspeople was whether to approve an expenditure of $2.9 million to build a new garage. The results from the day-long voting were 239 yes to 59 against. It’s the green light that officials have been working toward for many years. The town’s current garage site is off School Street in the village of West Burke. It’s off a town highway, in a residential area, near the West Branch of the Passumpsic River. The current garage, which is decades old, is deficient in multiple ways, including air quality, heating, insulation and size.