ORLEANS — For the first 51 minutes of the select board meeting on Dec. 3, the young children in the room could be heard talking and, at times, crying in the background. But those sounds were drowned out by the applause that came after the…

ORLEANS — For the first 51 minutes of the select board meeting on Dec. 3, the young children in the room could be heard talking and, at times, crying in the background. But those sounds were drowned out by the applause that came after the…