Select Board approves road layout and intermunicipal agreements. The board voted unanimously to approve the layout of Southridge Drive as a town way at its September 28 meeting, with the matter heading to Town Meeting on October 7 for voter acceptance.
East Bridgewater Board of Health adopts revised health agent job description, hires four firms to cover vacancy. Chair Rob Lyons led Vice Chair Tom Duquette Jr. and Clerk Andrew Hudson through HR- and attorney-requested edits to the job description, which the board approved 3-0.
East Bridgewater's health agent resigns effective immediately, leaving the Board of Health scrambling for coverage. Chair Rob Lyons told the board Monday the agent, identified only as Mike, quit at 4:30 p.m. that day, cutting short a planned transition period.
East Bridgewater Planning Board calls for 12-month freeze on data centers. The board voted unanimously Monday to ask the Select Board to impose a moratorium on data center siting and to request that Article 2, its own proposed zoning ban, be passed over at the October 7 Town Meeting.
East Bridgewater Select Board advanced four conservation parcels to Town Meeting. The board unanimously approved an article transferring four tax-title conservation parcels to the Conservation Commission for permanent preservation, advancing it to the October 7 Town Meeting.
The Patriotic Activities Committee agreed to borrow Kiwanis Club fencing to address trash at a parade staging area. Paul L. Connell, chair, and Dalphina Rogers, clerk, led the committee's discussions on Veterans Day parade preparations.
East Bridgewater board OKs $250,000 public safety study, sets October 7 town meeting. The Select Board approved a Kaestle Boos Associates contract for a feasibility study on a combined police and fire station, contingent on Town Meeting funding.
East Bridgewater Finance Committee reorganizes, previews a costly fall warrant. Members elected David Walsh chair, Jennifer Huss vice chair and Karen Gilman secretary, then approved a $9,000 Reserve Fund transfer for a Central Street land survey.