On Tuesday, April 23, Sudbury's Rail Trails Advisory Committee (RTAC) will hose a public forum to share the 25 percent designs of Phase 3 of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. Phase 3 will take the trail from the roughly the intersection of Union Road and Station Road in Sudbury the rest of the way into…
The Fairbank Community Center is open to the public while the last phases of the project are wrapped up. The Permanent Building Committee met on April 8 to talk through some last-mile challenges.
The first challenge is a water leak that the project team believes is coming from the old roof of the Atkinson pool. More…
On Wednesday, April 10, the Sudbury Planning Board held a public hearing to discuss the proposed Firearms Safety Business Use Bylaw, and to hear from the public. Sudbury Select Board member, Charlie Russo, presented the bylaw to kick things off. After a public comment, the board members offered high level comments and voted to recommend approval of…
On Monday night the Finance Committee met to discuss warrant articles for Annual Town Meeting in May. The committee previously voted not to recommend approval of a Community Preservation Committee article that would fund the study and design of a wider driveway to access Parkinson Field and an accessible connection to the Bruce Freeman Rail…
The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) recently voted to support a project that would study and design an improved, wider driveway for Parkinson Field, as it is currently one lane in and out. Once it had their support, they submitted an article for the warrant for Annual Town Meeting. Projects that apply to the CPC…
The Town of Sudbury announced a sprawling Earth Day event that is slated for April 20. The event will be held throughout Sudbury’s historic town center with participation from an exhaustive list of community organizations, nonprofits, local businesses and Town departments. Here’s the flyer that was published by the Town:
There will be demonstrations, activities, a…
This Is Why You Won’t Find Fast Food In Sudbury
Sudbury residents have grown accustomed to driving elsewhere for drive-in food. But many wonder why they can’t find anything of the sort in Sudbury. Yet others wonder why there are drive-throughs for some businesses, like banks and pharmacies, but not others like fast-food restaurants. On…
The MBTA Communities legislation, or “Section 3A”, became law in 2021. It “requires that an MBTA community shall have at least one zoning district of reasonable size in which multi-family housing is permitted as of right and meets other criteria set forth in the statute…” More information here.
In other words: it requires 177 towns…
On Tuesday, March 13 the Sudbury Select Board voted 3-2 to recommend approval of the Firearm Business Safety Use Zoning Bylaw to Town Meeting in May. The vote was split along the same lines as prior votes, with Members Russo, Roberts and Carty in support, and Chair Dretler and Vice Chair Kouchakdjian opposed.
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The “parental rights'' movement is widespread across the country. Some credit a group called Moms for Liberty in Florida for starting the movement a few years ago, primarily in reaction to Covid-19 measures related to remote learning, mask-mandates and vaccination requirements. But the concept of parental rights in public education has long been used by…