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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…
Why Your Wireless Coverage Stinks In Sudbury
Sudbury is known for its green space, its history and its schools, among many other wonderful things. One thing the town isn't known for is wireless coverage. Online community forums are frequently peppered with requests for recommendations on cell carriers, and there's never a clear winner in the comments. So what exactly is going on…
Thoughts In Return?
A Q&A about Tercentenary Markers with Jan Hardenbergh 1 -- You recently participated in a panel discussion titled "The Signs Are All Around Us." How did that experience and conversation influence your thinking, either as an individual or as Sudbury's Town Historian, on the signs/roadside markers in Sudbury? First let me…
Rail Trail Planning: All About Those Amenities 
On Wednesday, the Rail Trails Advisory Committee (RTAC) met after recently completing a walk of the proposed route of Phase 3 of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. That's the section that runs from the intersection with the Mass Central Rail Trail at Union Road and Station Road and continues south to the Framingham border.  …
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