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…

On Wednesday, the Rail Trails Advisory Committee (RTAC) met after recently completing a walk of the proposed route of Phase 3 of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. That's the section that runs from the intersection with the Mass Central Rail Trail at Union Road and Station Road and continues south to the Framingham border.  …

On Monday the Sudbury Public Schools School Committee met, and MCAS results were back on the agenda. You can watch the presentation at 1:20:00, but the slides were also included in the packet for the meeting.  A big focus in the presentation was a comparison to 2019 results. Apparently something happened in 2020 that may have…

The State passed legislation commonly referred to as "MBTA Communities" back in 2021. The specifics of that legislation are not exactly common knowledge, and that's likely because zoning legislation is insufferably boring quite technical and requires a good deal of context to understand exactly what the impact will be in the real-world. Here's the best we can…

In their last meeting, the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) sent a warning to applicants. They wanted more detail and more substance. In this week's public hearing it was clear that several applicants got the memo, and they brought the thunder.   The two applications with the broadest interest are probably the Community Gardens…

Sudbury Town Clerk, Beth Klein, recently requested that the Select Board vote to opt out of vote-by-mail/mail-in voting in the upcoming 2024 Annual Town Election (ATE). (Page 30) The VOTES Act of 2022 gives the Select Board the authority to opt out of mail-in voting. Klein joined the Select Board meeting on Tuesday to explain…