2025 has been a rough year for the SMILE playground at Haskell Field. A long-delayed project to repair the poured rubber surface resulted in the removal of shade trees and a play structure, but without enough budget remaining to replace any equipment or add shade structures. Resident outcry led to a prompt submission for Community…
Sudbury Town Manager Andy Sheehan has been on quite a roll with union contracts since joining Sudbury. After inheriting and settling an unsettled firefighters collective bargaining agreement in the months after joining as Town Manager, Sheehan kept the dealmaking hot streak alive in 2024 and 2025.
In the latest development, the Town published…
The Town of Sudbury has published the 2025 Camp Sewataro financial statement and the revenue share to the Town is $116,404. That's almost identical to the $114,692 paid out for the 2024 camp season. The agreement between the camp operator and the Town sends 25% of net revenue under $1 million from the private camp…
The Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee posted an agenda for a Monday, January 5 meeting, and it appears that the district is on the cusp of finalizing agreements with three union groups, including the teachers.
According to the agenda, the committee will meet first in executive session to discuss negotiations and executive…
We're about to complete another trip around the sun, and not much has changed here in Sudbury. The Town budget is stretched thin, the intersection at Horse Pond Road and Boston Post Road is still as harrowing as ever, and the restaurant space is vacant once again at 29 Hudson Road.
Of course,…
The Ephraim Curtis Middle School auditorium has formally been named the Dr. William Smith Auditorium after a vote of the Sudbury Public Schools School Committee on December 18.
The committee voted in favor of a recommendation from Superintendent Brad Crozier to name the auditorium after Dr. William "Smitty" Smith, who served as principal…
The Sudbury Public Schools School Committee moved one step closer to voting a calendar for the 2026-2027 school year on Thursday, December 18. A unanimous vote of the committee advanced a draft calendar that will come back before the committee for a final vote at a later meeting. (Page 43 here.)
The committee had…
The latest budget discussion of the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School School committee outlined a Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget shortfall of $298,655. That's nearly double the estimated shortfall presented earlier in December, but district leadership informed the board at that time that they expected that number to change in the coming weeks.
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The December 17 meeting of the Sudbury Planning Board featured a discussion about their ongoing efforts to establish a wireless services overlay district. Doing so would adjust the way the Town regulates installation of wireless infrastructure, potentially creating opportunity for private investments that could improve Sudbury's woeful cell coverage.
While the bylaw changes…
Sudbury voters approved two ballot questions for school roofs on Tuesday, December 16.
The Special Town Election was called for two debt exclusions that will fund replacement and repair of roofs at the Josiah Haynes and General John Nixon elementary schools. A Special Town Meeting voting earlier in the month also approved the…