The Sudbury Finance Committee (FinCom) is going through its usual process of reviewing articles for Annual Town Meeting in May. They are tasked with making recommendations to support or oppose articles to Town Meeting, and this process ultimately results in the position statements you see in the Town Meeting Warrant. The Select Board goes through…

One of Sudbury's sometimes-overlooked conservation parcels now has a trail guide published by the Sudbury Conservation Department. Poor Farm, which has a parking area at the intersection of Willis Road and Marlboro Road, is an approximately 55-acre parcel with a unique history. According to the trail guide "Before there was Social Security and…

Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee member Nicole Burnard may have broken the confidentiality of executive session with an Open Meeting Law (OML) complaint that, if Burnard’s statements in the complaint are correct, revealed elements of committee deliberations in recent executive sessions. (Complaint embedded below)  The committee agendas have said the executive sessions were to…

The Finance Committee welcomed Town Manager Andy Sheehan for a Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget hearing on the evening of March 2, and attendees learned just how a previously-anticipated FY27 override was averted. The short answer is that new growth (new tax revenue from construction, renovation and property improvements) came in stronger than…

An anonymously-sponsored Change.org petition has been circulating in Sudbury and surrounding towns over the last week. The petition makes several demonstrably false claims, but garnered over 400 signatures for a "vote of no confidence" in four of the five members of the Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee. The petition appears to be an attempt…

The Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) school district has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for after-school care in the school buildings. Meanwhile, the Sudbury Park and Recreation Department is slated to present concepts for collaboration with SPS at the March 2 meeting of the school committee. With regard to the RFP, the district…

A rhetorical bridge appears to have been built between the operator of Camp Sewataro and one member of the Sudbury Select Board, as both parties have adopted the same phrase to describe residents calling for a formal planning process for the Town-owned property: a "small but vocal minority." The use of the phrase by…

The Sudbury Select Board created a Liberty Ledge/Sewataro Advisory Committee during the Tuesday, February 24 meeting of the board. The committee will be tasked with a simple mission: "The Committee shall explore possible uses of this town-owned property and offer an advisory report on recommended uses to the Select Board." The goals and objectives…

Summer camp excellence is making headlines across the region this month. Deepening its longstanding commitment to youth development, the MetroWest YMCA announced Tuesday its selection as a grantee of the American Camp Association’s (ACA) Character at Camp Grant Program. The announcement comes at a time when the value of summer programming is taking center…

Capital Night has long been an anticipated evening of deliberation in Sudbury's Town government. It's a massive joint meeting with the Select Board, Finance Committee, Capital Improvement Advisory Committee and representatives from Sudbury's two school districts. The Town Manager typically presents the Town Manager's Capital Budget for the upcoming fiscal year, then department heads present…