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Halifax Board Approves 3-0 Heavy-Truck Exclusion for Part of Old Plymouth Street (opens the original)
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HALIFAX — September 22, 2026 — The Select Board voted 3-0 Tuesday for a heavy-truck exclusion on the western end of Old Plymouth Street and declared it in place, redirecting traffic toward a Pine Street intersection the chair called dangerous. The meeting record does not establish whether state approval is still required before enforcement.Subscribe nowThe Full StoryThe board’s measure would exclude all through trucks over 2.5 tons gross from the western section of Old Plymouth Street betw
Scituate Board Backs $5M for Gates Apartments and $3.8M Pier 44 Park, Both on Borrowed CPC Money (opens the original)
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SCITUATE — September 22, 2026 — The Select Board recommended a $5 million Community Preservation commitment to the Gates Apartments elderly housing project and $3,835,165 for construction of Pier 44 Park, sending two articles that lean on borrowed money to the October 19 special town meeting — the harbor park a night after the Advisory Committee voted against it.Subscribe nowThe Full StoryNeither can be covered out of cash on hand. The park would draw $3,835,165 in Community Preservation m
Hanson Board Won’t Recommend Interest Relief on Overdue Tax Bills, Backs $112,000 Parking Lot Repaving (opens the original)
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HANSON — September 22, 2026 — The Select Board voted not to recommend a special town meeting article that would let the treasurer-collector write off interest on overdue tax bills, and will move to pass it over at town meeting on Oct. 5, after the town accountant advised against it. Members also recommended $112,000 to repave the library and senior center parking lot.Subscribe nowThe Full StoryThe board locked in its recommendations on the October special town meeting warrant without the Finance
Pembroke Parent Reads Federal Disability-Rights Allegations Into the Record; District Says It Has No Email From Her (opens the original)
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PEMBROKE — September 22, 2026 — Parent Natalie Sacco told the School Committee that her profoundly autistic son was shut out of a YMCA after-school program run on school grounds, that she was told to hire and pay for an aide herself, and that two escalation emails went unanswered. Superintendent Erin Obey and member Katrina Delaney said they had no record of them.Subscribe nowThe Full StoryParent Natalie Sacco used the public comment period to read a prepared statement into the official public r
Norwell Schools Close FY26 With Special Education Reserve $750,000 Below State Guidance (opens the original)
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NORWELL — September 21, 2026 — The Norwell School Committee’s year-end fiscal 2026 report put district spending at $33,433,131, with utilities close to $300,000 past budget after the coldest winter in almost 10 years, and left the special education circuit breaker account roughly $750,000 below the reserve level the state recommends — a position the district’s own forecast shows going negative in fiscal 2029.Subscribe nowThe Full StoryThe district’s Director of Finance, O
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