The Sudbury Monitor

Analysis

The long pieces: public records and data, and what they show.

  • The Open Meeting Law

    The Open Meeting Law has never sustained a substance allegation in fifteen years. The Committee told Town Meeting to take it to the AG. Here is what the AG’s record says about what that means.

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  • Screenshot of the Superintendent Screening Committee interest form

    Thoughtful and Transparent

    Two members of the Sudbury School Committee will pick the people who screen candidates for the next superintendent. Here is how, in the Committee’s own words. The Sudbury School Committee is looking for a superintendent. It has hired a search firm and is now assembling a screening committee – a group of 13 to 17…

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  • Bar chart of weighted survey scores for the Liberty Ledge/Sewataro property: summer camp 1,992, open space 1,775, active recreation 1,106, community events 962, educational 304, entertainment 240, affordable housing 171, market-rate housing 126.

    Last Place, Still in the Plan

    Survey respondents ranked housing last, and the Sewataro advisory committee voted for the camp. Meeting recordings show how housing stayed in its draft anyway.

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  • Feb. 16, 2026 email from Kevin LaHaise to Town Manager Andy Sheehan and Finance Director Victor Garofalo: I'm writing as a resident and not in any capacity related to Sudbury Weekly.

    Inside the Circle

    Town records show the Sudbury Weekly’s publisher advising, praising and protecting officials he covers, and branding critics’ claims “misinformation.”

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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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  • A bundle of papers on a weathered picnic table, with a camp cabin, a wooded footpath and a pond behind it.

    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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  • 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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