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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
Supporters and opponents of Mohegan Sun's casino project are seen outside a polling place in Palmer, MA on Nov. 5, 2013
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Supporters and opponents of Mohegan Sun's casino project are seen outside a polling place in Palmer, MA on Nov. 5, 2013

A recount will take place today of the vote that killed a $1 billion casino project in the western Massachusetts town of Palmer.

Supporters and opponents of Mohegan Sun's casino project are seen outside a polling place in Palmer, MA on Nov. 5, 2013
Credit WAMC
Supporters and opponents of Mohegan Sun's casino project are seen outside a polling place in Palmer, MA on Nov. 5, 2013

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.

Copyright 2013 WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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