Freetown

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