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Meeting approves articles quickly

Annual Town Meeting took less than an hour Monday to approve all 17 articles on the warrant. The meeting had been delayed for 15 minutes due to a lack of a quorum, said Town Clerk Nadia Parker. Phone calls were made, and the meeting started when 75 residents were in attendance. They approved a warrant that included a $17.7 million operating budget, $307,000 for road work, extending water services to two streets in town, a new flood plain map, and a 20-year plan with New Bedford that will pay Rochester in lieu of taxes for use of town land for a solar-energy plant.