Analysis
The long pieces: public records and data, and what they show.
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The School Committee Closed a $47.3 Million Year in Two Motions
Sudbury’s School Committee closed a $47.3 million year in two motions. The report it approved showed its own budget the highest percentage over of any cost center.
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The Sewataro Process Treats the Camp as a Proposal
Sudbury’s Sewataro survey asks what the property should be. It never asks whether it should go on being a camp, the one decision the town faces before 2027.
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773 Pieces of “News,” Zero Opinions: Inside the Sudbury Weekly
The Sudbury Monitor [Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of an analysis first published June 14, 2026, including an updated count and a new section. See our “Records” Page for direct access to the records cited in this article.] For seventy-one years, Sudbury had a newspaper. The Town Crier was founded in 1951 and…
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Sudbury Voters Passed a Recall. The Board That Opposed It Holds the Levers.
Sudbury voters passed a recall in May. Within weeks the Select Board released a legal memo on revising it and began weighing a fall Town Meeting – the record, in order.
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The Town Square
Sudbury’s argument moved to a Facebook group. Six months of OneSudbury, read as data: one real fight, a debate that is not an echo chamber, and a forum that is not the electorate.
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Sudbury’s Budget Math Turns Negative: A Projected $3 Million Gap, and the Override Question
Sudbury’s own projections show the budget swinging from balanced to a roughly $3 million gap in FY2028, putting an override on the table. Where the numbers come from, and what to watch next.
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633 Pieces of “News,” Zero Opinions: Inside the Sudbury Weekly
The Sudbury Weekly runs a News section, an Opinion section, and a written content policy. It looks like a paper. We read all 633 items in its archive; here is what they show.
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Analysis: No Vote, No Answer
The School Committee removed a well-reviewed superintendent without a public vote. A member’s Open Meeting Law complaint asked how. The committee’s response to that question, more than the removal itself, is what the record shows.
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Deep Dive: A Data-Driven Analysis of Sudbury School Committee Legal Invoices
Two years of district legal invoices, read line by line: spending more than doubled after April 2025, when Karyn Jones became chair, and what the lawyers were working on changed.