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Last 14 days

• School Committee debates new tardiness policy. Easton's School Committee weighed a proposed tardiness policy tying repeated unexcused lates to lost class credit, as members split over whether it would push teen drivers to speed to beat the bell.Easton News
• Historical Commission weighs Depot Street home rebuild. Easton's Historical Commission took up a plan to demolish the derelict 1786 house at 364 Depot Street, with new owner Ben Carroll proposing a farmhouse-style replacement designed to closely echo the original and salvage its granite steps and other pieces.Easton News
• Environmental panel weighs data center zoning limits. Easton's Environmental Stewardship Committee weighed sending the Planning Board a letter backing restrictions on data center construction, pointing to Mansfield's town meeting vote to ban most such facilities, ahead of a September 28 public hearing on the issue.Easton News
• Select Board acts on evictions, contracts, data center referral. Sitting as the Rent Control Board, Easton's Select Board took up eviction certificates for four tenants at 305 Turnpike Street, while also weighing new police union contracts, a landfill contract, and a proposed ban on data centers referred to the Planning and Zoning Board.Easton News
• Council on Aging details transportation staffing cuts. Easton's Council on Aging director told a newly expanded board that a transportation coordinator and a full-time driver position were eliminated from the town budget, warning there is no way a scaled-back staff can keep up with demand for services.Easton News
• Housing Trust seeks guidance on affordable housing reserve. Easton's Affordable Housing Trust invited an outside housing consultant to help weigh workforce, veteran and senior housing priorities for its reserve, as one member asked whether the town has properly verified senior housing as its greatest affordable housing need.Easton News
• Housing Authority studies solar to cut energy costs. Easton's Housing Authority weighed a no-cost feasibility study on solar power with Resonant Solar, comparing its roughly $207,000 annual National Grid bill against potential energy credits, as fire-damaged units 123 and 124 near a September 24 completion date despite a lingering smoke smell.Easton News
• School Committee reviews grants, flags ceiling defect. Easton's School Committee took up new federal and state grant awards alongside a report on a 12-year-old ceiling defect near a temporary entrance at Richardson Olmsted School, which Superintendent Dr. Pruitt called safe despite repair estimates running into tens of thousands of dollars.Easton News
• Human Rights Committee sets fall event calendar. Easton's Human Rights Committee welcomed new member Jenny Dunkley and turned to fall logistics, including a September 26 Walk for Peace and an October 4 Wampanoag-themed program still awaiting word from an outside educator, while weighing a paused land acknowledgment proposal for schools.Easton News

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