Mail ballots for the March 30 town election are on their way to voters, and those ballots must be received in the Town Clerk’s office by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted.  Town Clerk Beth Klein said approximately 2,400 voters have requested mail ballots and that ballots are being mailed the week…

The Sudbury Police dispatcher deployed on U.S. Navy Reserve duty who was injured in Dubai is “doing just fine,” said Police Chief Scott Nix. Owen Gerow, 22, sustained injuries the first day of the conflict when the United States and Israel attacked Iran and Iran retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases in the Middle…

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…

The Candidates’ Forum for the March 30 Annual Town Election is now available.  Voters can view the program on demand via the LWV Voters’ Guide or sudburytv.org. A cable subscription is not needed to view the programs on demand on a computer or smartphone.  The forum will run on SudburyTV’s cable channels, Comcast…

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…

A Sudbury police department dispatcher deployed on U.S. Navy Reserve duty was injured in an Iranian attack on a military base in Dubai Saturday. Owen Gerow, 22, sustained injuries the first day of the conflict when the United States and Israel attacked Iran and Iran retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases in the Middle…