On Tuesday the Trustees of the Goodnow Library met for their first meeting of 2024. Two items stood out as noteworthy for residents. First, the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and Ephraim Curtis Middle School yearbook digitization project is complete, and all the yearbooks are available here. As their meeting packet noted: “Not only are…

The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) has been busy over the last couple months reviewing applications for funding. The committee is tasked with reviewing applications each year and making recommendations to Town Meeting on which to approve. Readers can learn more about their mission and the provisions of the Community Preservation Act on their web page…

On December 18, the Sudbury Conservation Commission voted unanimously to extend the order of conditions for the Eversource Transmission Line Project and Mass Central Rail Trail for one year. (0:03:00) The order of conditions on the combined projects was quite robust, and so far the Town of Sudbury has reported that Eversource has largely…

It's peak budget season for Sudbury Public Schools (SPS). They're working to nail down a budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Here's a running summary of the process so far:  SPS received guidance from the Town Manager of 3.22%. That exceeds the 3.17% that SPS said it would need for FY25 when they set the…

On Monday the SPS School Committee voted to approve a contract extension with Superintendent Brad Crozier. There was no deliberation on the contract itself, as that's done in executive session, but members noted their appreciation for the commitment of the Superintendent to Sudbury Public Schools, voiced affirmation of his leadership of the district, and exchanged…

On Tuesday the Select Board took a final vote to ratify their prior vote on tax classification. This is when the Select Board, with the help of the Board of Assessors and the Assessor's department, gets to "determine the percentage of local tax levy which will be borne by each class of real and personal…

Users groups will begin moving into the Fairbank Community Center next week. The building is going to close on the December 11 and remain closed until early in the new year. On Wednesday, the Permanent Building Committee met to get an update, and the Owner's Project Manager shared some recent pictures of the building:  …

The preliminary FY25 budget for Lincoln-Sudbury was presented on Tuesday night at the L-S School Committee meeting. (0:05:45) There were no big surprises. The guidance they received was slightly higher than their request, though they're being cautious with their initial request because of rising health insurance costs, and to mitigate a "fiscal cliff" went debt…