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.
Quincy's Flock camera debate drew 24 public speakers, and the council has not acted. The City Council's Oversight Committee met Oct. 6 for a forum on the city's Flock Safety cameras.
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.
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.
Quincy city councillors used a Sept. 29 hearing to ask whether the city should have caught the embezzlement by its former elder services director sooner. The Finance and Oversight Committee held the hearing as a joint meeting. Thomas Clasby Jr.
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.
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…