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Thoughts In Return? A Q&A With Fairbank Septic Pumping

1 -- Tell us about your business. How did you get started and how has the business grown and evolved since you got started? Prior to owning my own business I spent almost a decade working for a local company as a technician. When the owner decided to retire I made an unsuccessful attempt to…

ByKevin LaHaiseMarch 2, 2024

Firearms Business Bylaw Discussions Get More Contentious, More Complicated

The Tuesday, February 27, meeting of the Sudbury Select Board featured a contentious debate about a public forum on the proposed Firearm Safety Business Zoning Bylaw, as well as draft articles about the proposed bylaw that will run in the Select Board’s quarterly newsletter. The proposed bylaw would require firearms businesses to get a…

ByKevin LaHaiseMarch 2, 2024

Theme Contest for 4th of July Parade Accepting Submissions

As has become tradition in Sudbury, the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce is accepting submissions for the theme of the 4th of July Parade. The Chamber's Parade Committee will choose a winning theme, and the person who submits it will be awarded a gift certificate to a local restaurant, and will receive recognition on the Chamber…

ByKevin LaHaiseFebruary 28, 2024

LWV Candidates’ Forum for SPS School Committee Available, Select Board Forum Cancelled

The League of Women Voters’ Candidates’ Forum for the two open seats on the Sudbury School Committee (PreK-8) is now airing on Sudbury TV and is available as video on demand. Candidates Karyn Jones and Mary Stephens participated in the forum, recorded Feb. 24 in the SudburyTV studio. The third candidate, Richard Thalmann, withdrew…

ByThe League of Women Voters of SudburyFebruary 28, 2024

PSYCHEDELIC STANDOFF

Inside The Competing Approaches To Legalizing Psychedelics In Mass One side is behind the ballot initiative to regulate access to psychedelics. The other side has been advocating and organizing grassroots efforts across New England. Is there any chance these rivals will break through the tension and work together? Ballot initiative season is…

ByJack GorslineFebruary 26, 2024

A Q&A With Neighbor Brigade

Can you tell us a bit about Neighbor Brigade? How did it get started and what work does it do? Our late founder, Pam Washek along with her dear friend Jean Seiden started the Wayland Angels back in 2003. At that point it was an informal group of neighbors, run off of a spreadsheet,…

ByKevin LaHaiseFebruary 25, 2024

Community Center Demolition: Surprise and Delight?

Sudbury’s new Fairbank Community Center has, in many ways, defied all the odds. It took roughly a decade of task forces and working groups to get to a proposal that voters supported. Then Covid hit. But a global pandemic wasn’t all that the project had to overcome. Ensuing supply chain disruptions wreaked havoc on…

ByKevin LaHaiseFebruary 24, 2024

Voter Registration Deadlines Loom

Saturday, Feb. 24—tomorrow—is the last day to register to vote in the March 5 Presidential primary election. Saturday is also the first date you can vote in that election. Early in-person voting in the Presidential primary is Feb. 24 through March 1. For more information on the primary, click here. The deadline to register to…

ByThe League of Women Voters of SudburyFebruary 24, 2024

A Look at Super Tuesday Primary

Massachusetts’ Presidential primary election will be held Tuesday, March 5, commonly known as “Super Tuesday” because of the number of primary elections taking place around the country. Primaries are, by definition, party elections, and there are three available party ballots—Democratic, Republican or Libertarian. Voters registered with a party must take that party’s ballot. Unenrolled…

ByThe League of Women Voters of SudburyFebruary 17, 2024

Capital Night Highlights Budget Pressures for Sudbury

Monday February 12 was Capital Night in Sudbury. That’s when the Select Board, Finance Committee and Capital Improvement Advisory Committee get together to review capital articles and the Town Manager’s Capital Budget. The committee members tend to ask clarifying questions, vet the proposed projects/purchases, and try to assemble a broader picture of how the Town…

ByKevin LaHaiseFebruary 17, 2024

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