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40 Dr. Cosgrove said the Town Manager was going to cut out Mystic Valley payments completely but according to the paper it was only cut down by $3000. Mr. Smith reported to the Board that a Dr. Gaut is going to build a house up on Marrett Street, up in the wooded area. Marrett Street is a small road up near the road to Hanscom Air Base off of Route 2A. He said he had done deep hole testing there before and recently and the water table is quite high. There is one spot only that the septic system can be put in. He said the land owner that Dr. Gaut brought the land from had told him that he could connect to Town sewer through Woodpart Circle, but that isn't so. Mr. Smith told the Board that he has been up to his ears in complaints about "no heat" from residents that are renting property. At one address on Mass. Ave. there were four people living in an apartment. The landlord was not supplying heat as was in the contract. There had been a dispute over a garbage disposal and the landlord would not fix the heating elements until the dispute was settled. Then the pipes froze be- cause of lack of heat, etc. Mr. Smith told the landlord unless he fixed all of these things, and supplied heat he would file a complaint against him in the Concord Court. Another complaint came from a Marrett Road address. There were roomers there and the landlord would not raise the thermostat. Mr. Smith by this time checked with the State Health Department and told the landlord tem- peratures were to be maintained at $68° F. The warming of temperatures are helping the complaints from coming in. Mr. Smith told the Board that we are getting complaints about wood stoves. People are apparently burning other things besides wood and they are caus- ing odors that are getting into other peoples houses. The State is writing a set of guidelines but will not be able to enforce them. Mr. Smith told the Board that he went to a Physicians and Nurses Meeting of the schools on head lice. The nurses seem to be having a problem with the parents sending the children back to school with head lice or nits but they bring letters stating that they are cured of this. Parents aren't always doing too much to get rid of the problem. Mr. Smith said he told the nurses that they still have the right to send any child from school that they find with head lice. Mr. Smith reported that Brigham's in the center went out of business. He also said that the Sheraton rooms had been inspected and the part of the motel that was closed is now ready again to rent rooms. He said that the new "Goodies to Go" owner did a beautiful job of renovating the store. He also told the Board that a "Lil Peach" store was trying to locate in the centre.