Sanders faults town's July Fourth picnic, presses LCTB funding case

Straight Talk with George Sanders · Meeting of July 7, 2026

Littleton public-access host presses town on debt disclosure and cable-department funding. George Sanders, host of Straight Talk, used his July 7 broadcast to say the town failed to mark the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding with anything beyond a bring-your-own-lunch picnic at Fay Park, despite an offer from the Littleton Rotary Club to organize the event. Sanders said the town owes $933,115 in principal and $82,427 in interest in fiscal 2027, dropping to roughly $400,000 by fiscal 2029, and argued the town should publish that schedule annually.

He said the town's public-access department, which he called LCTB, is nearly out of the subscriber-fee reserve that has funded it for years and should get town budget support "like every other department" rather than form a fundraising nonprofit. "Let's be better stewards of the taxpayers' money," Sanders said. He also detailed a Planning Board review, set for July 9, of senior housing and retail plans at 550 and 410 King Street.

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Source: the Straight Talk with George Sanders meeting of July 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.