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6th Plymouth
Marshfield Public Schools have lost 75 staff positions from last year to this year, School Committee Chair Sean Costello said at a September 15 meeting, as the district works with a fiscal 2027 budget of $57.8 million — down from $60.4 million the prior year.
7th Plymouth
Whitman's public library is two years into a five-year state clock to restore municipal funding it fell short of providing, Library Trustees Chair Margaret McEwan told the Select Board at the town's first joint meeting of all elected and appointed committee chairs.
5th Plymouth
Hanover's Fire Chief Jason Cavallaro told the Select Board he wants the town to shelve a long-pursued North Hanover fire substation and instead put roughly $5 million toward expanding and renovating the nearly 40-year-old Fire Department headquarters.
6th Norfolk
With Rep. William Galvin not seeking re-election, the three-way Democratic primary for the open 6th Norfolk seat is the district's defining 2026 story, and this week's campaign-finance filings show real separation in fundraising. Lisa R.
5th Bristol
Somerset's Zoning Board of Appeals is set to take up a petition from Somerset Energy Storage, LLC on October 1 for a Planned Development permit to build a commercial Battery Energy Storage System (B.E.S.S.) at 1606 Riverside Avenue, within the town's Industrial Zoning District…
5th Norfolk
Holbrook's Select Board opened the warrant for a Special Town Meeting on September 9, 2026, setting a November 18 meeting date at Holbrook High School.
4th Norfolk
Weymouth school administrators have halted plans to install a phone-restricting app called Commons on Weymouth High School students' devices, and Superintendent Melanie Curtin apologized to families for moving too fast. The district learned Aug.
4th Plymouth
Marshfield Public Schools have lost 75 staff positions since last year, School Committee Chair Sean Costello said at a September 15 meeting, as the district absorbed the fallout from a failed override vote and closed out fiscal 2026 with no circuit breaker money carried forward.
3rd Norfolk
Weymouth school administrators have halted plans to require a phone-restricting app called "the Commons" on Weymouth High School students' devices, after families learned of the plan through a Sunday message with little advance explanation.
3rd Plymouth
The Weir River Water System, which supplies Hingham, Hull and part of Cohasset, remains under a Level 2 "significant drought" ban on non-essential outdoor water use, and the board of water commissioners (Hingham's select board, serving in that role) this week heard a proposal…
3rd Bristol & Plymouth (Senate)
Middleborough's new interim town manager, Robert Nunes, used his first Select Board meeting on Sept. 21 to ask that the Special Town Meeting originally set for Oct. 19 be pushed back — he floated Nov.
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues is scheduled to face an assault and battery charge Friday after a clerk magistrate found probable cause in August, stemming from a complaint by a Brockton High School student who alleged he touched her inappropriately during a May parade.
3rd Bristol
Taunton's City Council, sitting as the Committee on Fines and Salaries, approved a payroll warrant of $1,996,482.17 and a batch of vouchers over $100,000 — including $339,787.69 to Green Acres Landscaping for Memorial Park phase two work and $653,983.44 to H&L Bloom for student…
2nd Norfolk
A Ward 6 school and infrastructure project that has meant months of digging, detours and noise near the site is entering its final stages, according to Ward 6 Councillor Deborah Riley in a QATV neighborhood interview.
2nd Plymouth
Middleborough's Special Town Meeting, originally set for Oct. 19, is being pushed back after interim Town Manager Robert Nunes told the Select Board and Finance Committee on Sept. 21 that the supplemental budget needs more work before voters can act on it.
2nd Bristol & Plymouth (Senate)
A possible nor'easter is expected to bring wind gusts up to 55 mph, coastal flooding and beach erosion to the SouthCoast beginning Friday night into Sunday, according to the New Bedford Light. New Bedford's CoveWalk, HarborWalk and Fort Taber close starting Thursday at 8 p.m.
1st Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Marshfield Public Schools have lost 75 staff positions since last year, School Committee Chair Sean Costello said at a September 15 meeting, as the district works through the fallout of a failed override vote.
1st Plymouth
Plymouth Public Schools opened a budget hole over the summer, driven by unanticipated out-of-district special education placements and federal grants that came in below last year's levels, according to South Shore News.
18th Worcester
Oxford's Fall Special Town Meeting is set for Wednesday, October 7 at 7:00 PM at Oxford High School, 100 Carbuncle Drive. The warrant includes proposed zoning bylaw changes and preliminary right-of-way plans for Route 12, according to the Town of Oxford's announcement.
1st Norfolk
According to the posted agenda, Randolph's Town Council is scheduled to meet Monday, September 28, at 6 p.m. in Chapin Hall, with three zoning ordinance amendments returned from the Planning Board and Zoning and Ordinance Subcommittee listed as "available for vote": one adding…
12th Plymouth
Plymouth Public Schools opened the school year with a roughly half-million-dollar hole in its budget, caused by unanticipated out-of-district special education placements and federal grants that came in below last year's levels, according to the South Shore News report.
13th Middlesex
Sudbury voters will find 10 questions on their November ballot rather than the usual nine statewide items. The extra question is a non-binding referendum, placed on ballots in eight Massachusetts House districts including the 13th Middlesex, asking whether the district's…
12th Middlesex
Newton has four vacant crossing-guard posts this fall after two guards resigned in August and the Police Department could not fill the openings before school started, according to Fig City News.
12th Bristol
Middleborough's newly arrived interim town manager, Robert Nunes, used his first Select Board meeting on Sept. 21 to ask that the Special Town Meeting be pushed back from Oct. 19, saying the town needs more time to sort out a supplemental budget.
11th Plymouth
Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues is scheduled to face charges Friday for assault and battery, a misdemeanor, following an August clerk-magistrate hearing that found probable cause.
10th Plymouth
Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues is scheduled to face an assault and battery charge on Friday, stemming from a May parade incident in which a Brockton High School student alleges he touched her in a way that made her uncomfortable, according to WCVB's report.
10th Bristol
The Rochester Select Board met briefly on September 21 and approved the Board of Assessors' recommendation to set the FY2027 property tax rate at $10.62 per thousand dollars of assessed value — just three cents above the current rate.
9th Plymouth
Brockton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
8th Plymouth
Bridgewater, Raynham
8th Bristol
Westport, Fall River, New Bedford, Freetown, Acushnet