Tim Clark walked out of Tuesday's Board of Selectmen meeting after further disagreement over the "statement of intent" adopted last April to guide the Municpal Building Committee in its plans to renovate Town Hall and Hildreth House.

A flock of gulls hop and peck their way across the mud flats, feasting on mussels. A huge yellow excavator looms over the muck like a brontosaurus looking for lunch. Clearly, some changes are under way at Bare Hill Pond.

North Middlesex Bank is "in the process of finalizing a forbearance agreement" that has already halted foreclosure auctions that had been scheduled for December at two affordable rental properties: Great Elms on Stow Road, and The Inn on Fairbank Street.

With $491,000 available in the Capital Stabilization Fund, the Capital Planning and Investment Committee is faced with whittling down $3.9 million in capital requests from town departments for fiscal 2013.

Selectman Bill Johnson raised questions about the future of the old library at the Planning Board's Dec. 19 meeting.