Sudbury Weekly recently covered the release of a Town of Sudbury Financial Report and Reference Guide that provides a detailed analysis of Sudbury’s financial position, including comparisons to similar communities. Sudbury Weekly then published a follow-up on school spending, and will continue to cover some of the insights brought forward by the report. This week, we’re looking at Sudbury’s…

A recent report issued by the Town of Sudbury presented school spending in a manner that many residents don’t typically think of school spending. While “per pupil cost” is a common method of analyzing school spending, and the report included that (page 83), the report also laid out Sudbury’s “net school spending.” The Massachusetts…

Sudbury weather for April lived up to the theme of April Showers. The area received rain on 17 days for the month. But, no big rain storms were embedded in the monthly rainfall numbers. Hence we continue to run somewhat sub par on our precipitation values. And yes a little snow was thrown in but…

It’s no secret that one of the best theaters in Boston is in Concord—at The Umbrella. So, it was surprising to see the theater not quite half full during The Spitfire Grill’s preview weekend on Saturday night. That should change: this production is firing on all pistons, especially its lead character, Percy Talbott, played by…

According to the Open Government Partnership, “transparency occurs when ‘government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the public, and meets basic open data standards…’” Based on that standard, the Town of Sudbury took a significant step to increase transparency on Friday, April 25, when it published nearly 200…