Project Cannot Proceed, School Closures Possible If Systems Fail The Sudbury Energy and Sustainability Committee was in a pickle on Tuesday, August 6. On one hand, they could fund the control system for HVAC retrofits at the Curtis Middle School and Haynes Elementary School. On the other, they could hold to their values and…

On Tuesday, July 30, the Sudbury Select Board allocated $111,350 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to the Department of Public Works office space renovation project. Town Meeting had previously appropriated $125,000, but the sole responsible bid came in at $197,933.67. The allocation covers the bid, and a 10% contingency budget. The warrant…

The July 30 meeting of the Energy and Sustainability Committee contained just one conversation: an urgent request from Sudbury’s combined facilities director, Sandra Duran, for additional funds to complete a replacement of the rooftop air units at Ephraim Curtis Middle School and Josiah Haynes Elementary School that have reached the end of their useful life.…

On Tuesday, July 30, the Select Board meeting featured a lengthy and winding discussion about after school care in Sudbury. The conversation was initiated in response to a memo from Town Manager Sheehan, which the board had requested at a prior meeting. Sheehan cautioned against the Town getting involved in after school care…

Two years after opening, the playground at Israel Loring Elementary School is closed for significant repairs. The closure was not announced to the general public prior to the beginning of work, but was announced today to the Loring community in a newsletter, a day after Sudbury Weekly contacted the district about the project. The playground…

On Friday, July 26, the Town of Sudbury published an announcement from the camp operator at Camp Sewataro indicating that the fishing pond and swimming pond were closed due to unsafe “blue green algae levels” in the fishing/boating pond. The announcement adds: “Unfortunately, this means we have closed our fishing/boating pond for the immediate future, and out…

The Sudbury Finance Committee met on Monday. Their summer meetings are generally housekeeping and onboarding meetings, but the committee had an appetite to plan a more ambitious fall schedule. Given a Fall Town Meeting is looking unlikely, the committee began discussing financial issues they might work on before they are consumed with annual budget work. The…