Lunenburg brief: Thursday, September 24, 2026
Lunenburg schools push two town meeting warrants as chair warns of financial crisis
Lunenburg schools push two town meeting warrants as chair warns of financial crisis.
From Lunenburg News
- School Committee advances warrants amid finance crisis warning. Lunenburg's School Committee advanced two Special Town Meeting warrant articles, for a special education reserve and a turf field and track study, as the chair warned the district is 'in a financial crisis that will not get better.'Lunenburg News
- Conservation board takes up cemetery growth, boat ramp. Lunenburg's Conservation Commission weighed a cemetery expansion at North Cemetery and a rebuilt Lake Shirley boat ramp, after a resident challenged engineering assumptions on the ramp design and neighbors objected to a separate Page Street driveway over runoff concerns.Lunenburg News
- Select Board weighs food pantry's School Street move. Lunenburg's Select Board weighed a license agreement and fee waivers for the food pantry's move to 30 School Street, as a planning board member argued the project needed design review first and a resident pushed for stricter fund-transfer voting rules.Lunenburg News
- School Committee grills third business manager finalist. Lunenburg School Committee interviewed its third business manager finalist in three years, pressing him on preventing unspent funds from returning to the town after a prior manager misreported spending, as one resident objected to being shut out of the questioning.Lunenburg News
- Aging board welcomes new coordinator, presses on gaps. Lunenburg's Council on Aging welcomed new outreach coordinator Janet Robbins while working to define its own advisory voice, flagging a conflicting senior-center gift fund tally and questioning whether residents will fall inside ambulance coverage for a new UMass emergency facility opening in Groton.Lunenburg News