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The Sudbury Weekly and local officials

Correspondence between the Sudbury Weekly’s publisher and Town and school officials, as produced under the public records law. Our reporting on it: 773 Pieces of News, Zero Opinions and Inside the Circle.

With the Town of Sudbury

• Town of Sudbury correspondence with the Sudbury Weekly (2026, 2,480 pp, 354 MB). The Town’s production of emails between Town officials and the Weekly’s publisher. Most pages are copies of the Weekly’s email newsletter; the direct correspondence is at pp. 1-6, 203-209, 1036-1188, 1285-1294, 1852, 2169-2171, 2247-2269 and 2479-2481. Personal contact details redacted.

• Select Board members’ records with the Sudbury Weekly (2026, 91 pp). Emails and text messages produced from Select Board members’ personal accounts. Personal contact details redacted.

• Text messages: Select Board member Charlie Russo and Kevin LaHaise (Feb. – May 2026, 9 pp). The full text thread from the Select Board file (pp. 83-91), as its own download.

Excerpts cited in Inside the Circle (each page is stamped with its page number in the full file):

• LaHaise to the Finance Director, Jan. 13, 2026 (p. 1040). The correction offer.

• “Sewataro,” Feb. 16, 2026 (pp. 1060-1063). LaHaise’s email to the Town Manager and Finance Director, “as a resident,” and the Town Manager’s reply.

• “Re: Attorney emails,” Mar. 8, 2026 (p. 1075). LaHaise to a School Committee member, with the Finance Director in the Bcc line.

• “Sewataro financial benefit,” Mar. 18, 2026 (p. 1059). A question at 6:00 PM, an answer at 6:03 PM.

• “Presentation,” Mar. 24, 2026 (pp. 1036, 1162). The Finance Director sends Recreation Commission presentations unprompted.

• “Recall article,” Apr. 15-19, 2026 (pp. 1054-1057). LaHaise and the Town Manager on a recall warrant article.

• “Thank you,” May 6, 2026, 12:37 AM (pp. 1068-1071). LaHaise to the Planning Board and staff, copying the Town Manager, after Town Meeting.

• Kouchakdjian, “Article,” Feb. 20, 2026 (SB p. 9). The Select Board chair asks for a sentence to be taken out of a news story.

• Russo re-election letter, Feb. 12-13, 2026 (SB pp. 81, 83). Submission, reply and publication.

• Text messages, Mar. 9, 2026 (SB pp. 85-86). The change to a January opinion piece.

• Text messages, Mar. 9, 2026 (SB p. 88). “I try my best to be balanced.”

• Text messages, May 11, 2026 (SB pp. 89-91). “What they’re saying about you is bullshit. And it’s not news.”

With the School Committee and district

• School Committee ↔ Sudbury Weekly emails (Oct 2025 – May 2026, 249 pp). The email record between the committee and the Weekly.

• Records request: the Sudbury Weekly (Mar 2026, 46 pp). Some of the Weekly’s own requests to the district.

School Committee and district records

• Crozier 2023 employment agreement + approval minutes (Dec 11, 2023). Brad Crozier’s original contract with Sudbury Public Schools.

• School Committee emails with after-school program bidders (Oct 2025 – Jan 2026). RFP correspondence.

• Open Meeting Law complaint + counsel’s response (Feb – Mar 2026, 35 pp). OML compliant filed over a closed-door vote.

• SED cease-and-desist (Mar 5, 2026, 11 pp). A letter from the School Committee’s law firm ordering Sudbury Extended Day to stop, plus billing.

• Records request: C. Gleason (Mar 2026, 11 pp). A resident’s request and the district’s response.

• Crozier separation agreement, Part One (Apr 3, 2026, 7 pp). The superintendent’s $51K exit terms.

• 2026 Special Town Meeting warrant (Spring 2026). Includes the recall and no-confidence articles (3 and 4).

• Outside-counsel legal invoices (Mar – May 2026, 99 pp). Some of the district’s legal bills.

• Doyle interim-superintendent contract (May 16, 2026, effective Jul 1; 11 pp). The replacement’s terms.

 

• More School Committee emails with after-school program bidders (69 pp). Further RFP correspondence, including additional providers.

• Outside-counsel legal invoices, May 2026 (6 pp). More of the district’s legal bills.

• Records response on the Crozier settlement (Apr 21, 2026, 1 p). The district releases Part One and withholds Part Two as not yet executed (excerpt).

• Executive-session minutes deferral (Jun 24, 2026, 2 pp). The district declines to release the sealed minutes until after July 1, 2026.

• Crozier separation agreement, Part Two (Jul 1, 2026, 5 pp). The superintendent’s final $102K exit terms; $153K with Part One.

• Open Meeting Law declination (Jul 14, 2026, 2 pp). The Attorney General’s office declines to review one of Nicole Burnard’s complaints against the School Committee.

• Nicole Burnard to the School Committee chair (Jul 14, 2026, 2 pp). The former chair asks how the Sudbury Weekly had the AG’s decision before residents did, citing the committee’s own media policy.