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Park and Recreation Commission Gets A New Member 
A joint meeting and vote of the Select Board and Park and Recreation Commission on Tuesday resulted in the appointment of William Granger Atkeson to the Park and Recreation Commission. (0:27:50) Atkeson fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Jennifer Stone.  The vote was unanimous across both the Select Board and the Park…
Divided Select Board Accelerates Gun Business Bylaw
[Editorial Disclosure: The author of this story provided a signature for the Citizen Petition mentioned in this story.] On Tuesday the Select Board had another conversation about its draft zoning bylaw (page 18) to regulate gun businesses in Sudbury. There are currently no regulations specific to the location of gun-related businesses in Sudbury.…
SPS Budget Approved By SPS School Committee
It's peak budget season for Sudbury Public Schools (SPS). They're working to nail down a budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Here's a running summary of the process so far:  SPS received guidance from the Town Manager of 3.22%. That exceeds the 3.17% that SPS said it would need for FY25 when they set the…
Assessors, Assessments and Tax Rates, Oh My!
On Tuesday the Select Board took a final vote to ratify their prior vote on tax classification. This is when the Select Board, with the help of the Board of Assessors and the Assessor's department, gets to "determine the percentage of local tax levy which will be borne by each class of real and personal…
Lincoln-Sudbury Budget: No Surprises 
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…
SPS Budget: Never Enough, Ever The Victim
Act One:  All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players In December of 2022, the SPS School Committee was gearing up to pursue an override for FY24. Come January of 2023, the SPS School Committee was in a joint meeting with the Sudbury Select Board insisting that they had asked…
Sudbury Steps Up Its Sustainability Game
In May of 2022 a Citizen Petition passed at Sudbury’s Annual Town Meeting after much debate. The petition called for the Town to hire a Sustainability Director, declare a climate emergency, and begin long-term planning for sustainability, among other action items.  Prior to the 2022 Annual Town Meeting, the Select Board requested a legal…
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