Freetown

FREETOWN — May 18, 2026 — Freetown Select Board unanimously approves FY27 road contracts, revises IT agreement, and directs school roof bid to proceed. The board, meeting May 18, awarded highway salt contracts to Saltine Wire Incorporated at $83.89 per ton untreated and $103.89 per ton treated, road striping to

FREETOWN — May 12, 2026 — Freetown Select Board approves $34.7 million FY2027 budget on unanimous vote ahead of June town meeting. The board, meeting remotely via Zoom on May 12, voted 3-0 to adopt the $34,773,562.50 omnibus budget, which reflects a roughly $90,000 reduction in

FREETOWN — May 4, 2026 — Freetown Select Board requires future retirees to pay active-employee health insurance rates. The board voted unanimously Monday to apply to anyone retiring after July 1, 2027 the same health insurance contribution percentage they carried as active employees — a policy Town Administrator Deborah Furtado said is

FREETOWN — April 29, 2026 — Freetown Select Board authorizes emergency demolition of fire-damaged home and locks in debt structure for $7.5 million community building loan. Meeting jointly with the Finance Committee on April 29, both boards voted unanimously to endorse a 20-year declining debt service plan for a

FREETOWN — April 27, 2026 — Freetown Select Board sends $26.5 million COA-library building to June 1 town meeting and June 8 debt-exclusion vote. The board voted unanimously Monday to advance the combined Council on Aging and library community building, with Town Administrator Deborah Pettey outlining a financing structure

FREETOWN — April 14, 2026 — Freetown Select Board appoints Craig Cabral to Finance Committee and reviews wide-ranging FY27 departmental budgets. In a joint session with the Finance Committee Tuesday, the board unanimously appointed Cabral to a one-year Finance Committee seat over candidates Mark Felski and Gene Fox, swearing him

FREETOWN — April 13, 2026 — South Shore News style brief. One paragraph, 80-150 words.

FREETOWN — March 30, 2026 — Freetown's combined Council on Aging and library building came in $8 million over budget, Town Administrator Deborah Petty told the Select Board at its March 30 meeting. The project, which carries a $25 million total budget — $15 million in town funds plus a pending

FREETOWN — March 2, 2026 — Freetown Select Board sets blizzard equipment rate, warns of unsustainable school costs. The board voted unanimously Monday to pay private loader operators $225 per hour for their work during the February blizzard, pegging the rate to the state's approximately $223-per-hour figure; equipment

FREETOWN — February 9, 2026 — Freetown Select Board approves routine measures and warns of unsustainable regional school cost growth. The board voted unanimously Monday on five items including a $116,848.50 ambulance write-off, two consulting agreements with Apex at roughly $10,000 each to update subdivision and stormwater regulations,