The Sudbury Monitor

  • 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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  • What’s Happening at Haskell Field: Solar, Turf, and a Master Plan

    “Big plans are taking shape for Sudbury’s Haskell Field – turf, a master plan, a

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  • School Committee Update: June 15, 2026

    Sudbury, MA The short version: The Sudbury School Committee met June 15 for the last regular meeting of the school year, and the last with Superintendent Brad Crozier, whose departure takes effect June 30. Jessica McCready chaired; members Karyn Jones, Betsy Sues, Julie Durgin-Sicree, and Ellen Lederer-DeFrancesco were present, with Assistant Superintendent Annette Doyle, who…

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  • Finance Committee Update: June 11, 2026

    Sudbury, MA The short version: The Sudbury Finance Committee met for about 90 minutes on June 11, its first meeting since the May Annual and Special Town Meetings. Short a quorum early, it tabled its reorganization and spent the night reviewing the past budget year and looking ahead to a fiscal year 2028 that several…

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  • 633 Pieces of “News,” Zero Opinions: Inside the Sudbury Weekly

    The Sudbury Monitor [Editor’s Note: See our new “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 did what local papers do: it staffed a newsroom, sent reporters to meetings they found boring, ran corrections when it…

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  • Housing Roundtable Update: June 9, 2026

    Sudbury, MA Next roundtable: Monday, October 6. Questions for the housing entities can be sent to pcd@sudbury.ma.us. The short version: The Sudbury Housing Trust convened the town’s first Housing Roundtable on June 9 at the Goodnow Library, featuring presentations and open discussion among the Trust, the Housing Authority, the Regional Housing Services Office, planning staff,…

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  • Analysis: No Vote, No Answer

    [Clarification: ‘J. Fairbank’ was a pseudonymous byline and was not intended to refer to any Sudbury resident or other person. To avoid confusion, the Monitor is retiring that byline. The Sudbury Monitor may publish under a pseudonym; our reasons for doing so are explained on our Editorial Standards page.] The Sudbury School Committee removed a…

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  • Select Board Meeting Update: June 2, 2026

    Sudbury, MA The Sudbury Select Board met for about three hours on June 2, with much of its agenda devoted to following up on the May 20 Special Town Meeting (including how the town’s votes would be carried to the State House) alongside the future of the Sewataro property and a matter involving town-funded political…

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  • Liberty Ledge / Sewataro Advisory Committee Meeting Recap: May 21, 2026

    The Sudbury Monitor Happening today (Thursday, June 4): Camp Sewataro hosts a free spring resident event from 5 to 7 p.m. – lawn games, music, balloon twisting, and an all-ages comedy-juggling show. It is free to Sudbury residents, who are welcome to walk the property during the event. (A Hope Sudbury fishing derby on the…

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