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9th Plymouth
East Bridgewater's Special Town Meeting on Oct. 7 approved a 24-month moratorium on new data centers. It also funded a $250,000 police and fire facilities feasibility study by a 112-40 count, according to South Shore News.
8th Congressional
Weymouth's Town Council opened a public hearing on steeper penalties for breaking mandatory water restrictions. The measure is 26106, an amendment to ordinance section 8-301 on water supply.
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
East Bridgewater voters adopted a two-year pause on new data centers. At the Oct. 7 Special Town Meeting, voters approved a 24-month moratorium after the Planning Board swapped out a permanent ban printed in the warrant.
11th Plymouth
A request to borrow $1,600,000 for rubbish barrels was tabled at the Brockton City Council Finance Committee meeting of Oct. 5, 2026.
10th Plymouth
A $1.6 million rubbish barrel purchase was tabled, and the city says it is rethinking its approach. At its October 5 meeting, the Brockton City Council's Finance Committee took up an order to appropriate $1,600,000 for purchasing rubbish barrels.
9th Plymouth
East Bridgewater's Oct. 7 special town meeting took up a data center ban, and amendments to turn it into a temporary moratorium. The recording shows that the printed Article 2 was not the only text before voters. The collected sources did not establish how the article ended.
8th Congressional
Whitman's Select Board takes up a hiring freeze ahead of a January tax vote on the South Shore Tech building. According to South Shore News, the board voted on a freeze through Jan. 31. Under it, any vacancy would need board action before being filled.
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Hanson voters allow marijuana delivery and set aside a $250,000 water search. At Monday's Special Town Meeting, voters approved limited recreational marijuana delivery on a counted vote of 53-33, according to South Shore News. Article 32 was the last item of the night.
11th Plymouth
A $1.6 million order to buy rubbish barrels was tabled at the City Council's Finance Committee on October 5. The order would have appropriated $1,600,000 for the barrels.
10th Plymouth
A $1.6 million order to buy rubbish barrels was tabled at the October 5 Finance Committee meeting. The order would have appropriated $1,600,000 for the barrels and authorized the city treasurer, with the mayor's approval, to borrow under Chapter 44 and issue bonds and notes.
9th Plymouth
East Bridgewater's Planning Board voted unanimously on Sept. 21 to set aside its own town-wide data center ban. It asked the Select Board for a 12-month moratorium on data center siting, and asked town meeting to pass over the zoning article, according to South Shore News.
8th Congressional
Hingham's school roofs head to Special Town Meeting with a town-share estimate of about $16.17 million for the two elementary projects.
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
East Bridgewater's Planning Board opened a hearing on a town-wide data center ban that it sponsored, then voted unanimously to set the article aside. According to South Shore News, the board asked the Select Board for a 12-month moratorium on data center siting.
11th Plymouth
The Brockton City Council's Sept. 28 meeting included a commission reappointment, a state transportation grant order and a notice of the Nov. 3 state election. Our account relies on the retrieved caption track of the Brockton Channels recording of the Sept.
10th Plymouth
Brockton City Council confirms two appointments and adopts a state transportation grant order. At its September 28 meeting, the council confirmed the reappointment of James Wade to the Commission on Human Rights.
9th Plymouth
Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues is scheduled to face charges Friday, September 25, after a clerk magistrate hearing in August found probable cause to charge him with assault and battery, a misdemeanor, stemming from a May parade where a Brockton High School student alleges he…
8th Congressional
Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues is scheduled to face charges Friday after a clerk magistrate found probable cause in August to charge him with assault and battery, a misdemeanor, following a complaint from a Brockton High School student who alleges he touched her…
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.
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.
9th Plymouth
Brockton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
8th Congressional
Easton, Quincy, Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Norwood, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood, Weymouth, Brockton, Abington, East Bridgewater, Hingham, Hull, West Bridgewater, Whitman; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanson, Whitman, Avon, Randolph
11th Plymouth
Brockton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
10th Plymouth
Brockton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
9th Plymouth
Brockton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
8th Congressional
Easton, Quincy, Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Norwood, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood, Weymouth, Brockton, Abington, East Bridgewater, Hingham, Hull, West Bridgewater, Whitman; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Brockton, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanson, Whitman, Avon, Randolph
11th Plymouth
Brockton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
10th Plymouth
Brockton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
9th Plymouth
Brockton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts