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Wayland Select Board backs $38.6 million water-supply borrowing for spring Town Meeting

WAYLAND — February 9, 2026 — Wayland Select Board unanimously backs $38.6 million water-supply borrowing ahead of spring Town Meeting. The board voted 4-0 on Monday to support Article HH, authorizing a 20-year, zero-interest state loan with first payments due in fiscal year 2031, after construction wraps

Wayland Planning Board approves removal of 33 scenic-road trees

WAYLAND — February 9, 2026 — Wayland Planning Board clears 33 scenic-road trees, resists Select Board's Route 20 task force. The board and the Board of Public Works voted 5-0 on Feb. 9 to approve removals on Glezen, Plain, Draper, Lincoln, Rice, Oxbow, Sherman Bridge, Claypit Hill, West

Wayland FinCom digs into $113.3 million FY27 budget, 5 percent tax increase

WAYLAND — February 9, 2026 — Wayland Finance Committee reviews $113.3 million FY27 budget with 5.39 percent tax hike. Town Manager Michael McCall and Finance Director Brian Keveny told the committee Monday they closed a projected $1.8 million deficit through level-service budgeting, reclassifying DPW debt and issuing bond

Wayland DPW board clears removal of 42 roadside trees

WAYLAND — February 9, 2026 — Wayland board approves removal of 42 trees, sparing a healthy Dean Road locust. The Board of Public Works, meeting jointly by Zoom with the Planning Board, voted 4-0 to remove 33 scenic-road trees and 4-0 again to remove nine shade trees across roads

School Committee may co-sponsor 25 Holiday Road study article

WAYLAND — February 4, 2026 — Wayland School Committee signals openness to co-sponsoring a study of the 25 Holiday Road parcel. Select Board Chair Carol Martin and Article DD liaison Bill Whitney appeared Tuesday to brief members on a warrant article funding engineering work, environmental review and an appraisal of the

Wayland Housing Partnership maps incentive tools for affordable ADUs

WAYLAND — February 4, 2026 — Wayland Housing Partnership weighs incentives to make some new ADUs affordable. Massachusetts Housing Partnership's Dana LeWinter told the committee Feb. 4 that the state counted at least 843 ADU applications and 549 approvals in the first six months of the new by-right law,

Historical Commission votes to press town to add history to civic brochure

WAYLAND — February 4, 2026 — Wayland Historical Commission votes to demand history be added to future town brochures. Members voted unanimously Tuesday to send a letter to Town Manager Michael McCall and the Select Board after a recent civic mailer produced by Town Clerk Trudy Reed and Select Board co-chair

Wayland Finance Committee reassigns warrant articles, confirms wage measure pulled

WAYLAND — February 4, 2026 — Wayland Finance Committee reshuffles warrant articles and formally flags late-arriving budgets. At its Feb. 4 meeting, the committee approved amended minutes adding language expressing concern about "receiving the budgets this late in the budget season," with one veteran member calling it "really

Wayland capital committee defers major projects, flags four for "purgatory" list

WAYLAND — February 4, 2026 — Wayland capital panel reshuffles five-year plan, parks four big projects in "purgatory." The Capital Improvement Planning Committee on Feb. 4 deferred a $1 million salt shed rehab and replaced an $1.8 million transfer station garage line with a $550,000 fiscal 2029

Wayland committee backs both herbicide and hand-pulling for Heard Pond

WAYLAND — February 3, 2026 — Wayland's Surface Water Quality Committee approved a dual attack on Heard Pond water chestnuts. Members voted 3-0 to contract for both Clearcast herbicide application and hand-harvesting this season, with scope capped by a roughly $30,000 budget. Chair Thomas Klem is drafting