East Bridgewater's Special Town Meeting adopted a two-year pause on new data centers and funded a police and fire facilities study. South Shore News reported that voters on Oct. 7 approved a 24-month data center moratorium.
East Bridgewater's Planning Board set aside its own town-wide data center ban and asked for a pause instead. According to South Shore News, the board opened a public hearing on Monday, September 21, on the zoning amendment it sponsored, then voted unanimously to set the article…
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.