Town meetings are almost always in the evenings. All towns in New England have a town meeting form of government (that’s what makes them towns). Sort of the distinguishing feature of New England government. Cities, like Boston or Portland, ME, have mayors and city concils.
Town meetings tend to be dominated by special interests. It’s only when you infringe on something important to real people that you get much of a turn out. Like when they tried to merge the Acton and Maynard school districts, they got like 3000 people at the town meeting, or when they tried to close down the Concord Town Dump. The Concord Town dump is that scar on the southeast of the intersection of Route 2 (Concord Turnpike) and Walden Street, a musket shot away from Walden Pond. Google Map Walden Pond and zoom out.
It is the same way here in NH regarding town meetings.
What I see as a result of this is the stores in Concord lose revenue to retailers in surrounding towns. People will still buy bottled water. I always keep a case in the basement that I buy at Market Basket when it goes on sale for $2.99/case.
Was their a problem with people not recycling the bottles ?
I assume there is no deposit on water bottles in Ma like there is on soda, beer and other beverage botles and cans.