The April 14 meeting of the Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee featured an exhaustive presentation on academic benchmarking. The presentation focused on social and emotional learning, mathematics, and English language arts. The actionable portion was mathematics. The administration proposed a change to the grade seven math curriculum following the benchmarking presentation. Grade seven at Ephraim…

The Sudbury Community Preservation Committee (CPC) is tasked with administering Sudbury's Community Preservation Act (CPA) program. Their work includes an obligation to "Study the needs, possibilities, and resources of the Town regarding community preservation." On April 16, the committee held a public hearing to get input on potential future projects. First, the Town…

[Feature Image: Town of Sudbury - Park and Recreation Commission] The Monday, April 14 meeting of the Park and Recreation Commission was not a typical meeting for the commission. By the end of the evening, a commissioner had successfully advocated for the Finance Committee to reverse its vote on Article 44, residents had provided…

Camp Sewataro will host another 20 days of resident swimming in the summer of 2025. The camp operator went before the Select Board on April 15 to discuss repeating the 20-day program or downsizing to a 10-day program that would allow for more routine maintenance on the upper pond. The Select Board voiced a preference…

The Sudbury Finance Committee voted 7-2 Monday, April 14, to oppose Town Meeting warrant article 54, submitted by citizen petition, to cut Sudbury's Community Preservation Act (CPA) surcharge from 3% to 1.5%. Under the CPA, the state provides some matching funds in three rounds based on the amount raised by the local surcharge and other…

On Monday, April 14, the Sudbury Finance Committee voted narrowly to oppose a Town Meeting article that would appropriate $450,000 of Community Preservation Act funds for the Sudbury Housing Authority's (SHA) scattered-site duplex project. The project, if it goes forward, would convert four of the SHA’s existing single-family homes into duplexes. The Finance Committee vote…

Make way for rail trails. In this case, the Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT). Sudbury Weekly previously reported that Eversource was expected to turn the corridor over to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on April 1; and that happened this week according to comments during the Wednesday, April 2 meeting of the Sudbury Rail…

On Wednesday, April 2, Sudbury’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) voted to oppose a Citizen Petition on the warrant for Annual Town Meeting. The petition proposes to cut the Community Preservation Act (CPA) surcharge in half. (Page 100) All the CPC members voted not to support the Citizen Petition except member Dan Carty, who abstained on…