From the Statehouse News Service Weekly Roundup (that former Medfield resident John Nunnari faithfully continues to share with me weekly, despite being gone 5+ years) –
“State tax collections continue to cruise, putting the total haul with just one month left in the fiscal year more than $2.8 billion ahead of last year’s pace”
Yet the state is not sharing so much with Medfield this year. Current Cherry Sheet estimated increases for state revenue sharing with towns over last year are modest.
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Posted in Budgets, Financial, Legislature, State
From Helen Dewey, of Medfield Environment Action –
Medfield Environment Action will be hosting another Sustainable Yard and Garden Tour on Sunday, June 22, from 3 – 5:30 pm. Attendees will travel to four different gardens in Medfield. The homeowners will walk attendees through the yard and provide an overview of their garden and what makes it sustainable. Homeowners will discuss what they have planted, how they maintain it and any equipment that they use. The garden on Pine St and the one on Stagecoach Rd. were featured in the last tour in September, 2024. Come see the gardens in full bloom in June! It will be set up like a crawl in which folks move from garden to garden, at specific times, providing their own transportation. Car-pooling is encouraged! There is no cost to attend, and all are welcome. Register ahead of time at tinyurl.com/SustainableGardenTour-2025 to receive more information about each garden and any weather related updates.
Why would one want to strive for a yard that has a low impact on the environment? Conventional yard care can be time consuming, is destructive to the eco-system and harmful to an entire food web. For example: poison the grubs, birds are harmed by eating the grubs, use chemicals to achieve green grass, storm water becomes contaminated, moreover turf offers nothing in the way of food for nature. In addition, children and pets can be harmed when exposed to grass and yards with a lot of chemicals.
The homeowners on the tour will show how a sustainable, low impact yard is a work in progress but the benefits include lower maintenance costs, cleaner air to breath, (no gas powered leaf blowers), improved visual appeal, no secondary poisoning through the food web, re-use or composting of leaf materials on-site, conserving water, supporting biodiversity, “the living earth”, precious time available to focus on other activities and a sense of helping rather than harming, everybody wins.
Whether you are an avid gardener interested in learning some sustainable practices that you can implement or just curious as to what it is all about, join us on Sunday, June 22 to take a walk around some beautiful, thoughtful and eco-friendly gardens in Medfield. The flyer with the addresses of the gardens is posted on the MEA website, meamedfield.org. Any questions please email meamedfield@gmail.com
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Posted in Environmental, Events, Green, Medfield Environmental Action
Tagged environment, garden, gardening, Nature, sustainability
NB – Apologies for the fact that the prior post had an incorrect link to the Medfield TV Community Survey, which has now been corrected
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Medfield TV Community Survey
Thank you again,
Katie Duval
She/her/hers
Executive Director
Medfield TV
508-359-8888
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Posted in Medfield TV
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Medfield TV Community Survey
Thank you again,
Katie Duval
She/her/hers
Executive Director
Medfield TV
508-359-8888
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Posted in Medfield TV
From Patch Mayor Colleen Sullivan, who is also our town photographer expert –
PHOTO GALLERY: Medfield Memorial Day Services 2025
Memorial Address given by State Representative, Josh Tarsky (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
Co-Chair, Memorial Day Committee: Michelle Doucette (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
(Revolutionary, Mexican, Civil, Spanish American, WWI, WWII, Korean and Vietnam Memorials)
“Star Spangled Banner” – MHS Choral Student Julie Karam
Invocation – Hunter Guthrie, First Parish Church
Introductions – Co-Chair, Memorial Day Committee: Michelle Doucette
Gettysburg Address – Blake Middle School 8th Grade Student Brielle Dhaiti
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Posted in Events
From today’s photo memories my OneDrive shared –
Mike Sullivan and Mark Fisher being really good sports to both join me as the Town House Team at a MCPE trivia fundraiser, and to wear the fanciest team hats in the room. Despite my ringers’ vast knowledge about Medfield and our winning thinking hats, we lost.
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Posted in Uncategorized
I hold regular monthly office hours at The Center on the first Friday of every month from 9:00 to 10:00 AM.
Residents are welcome to stop by to talk in person about any town matters.
Posted in Select Board matters, Uncategorized
From Viktorria Glissendorf at Medfield Outreach –
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Hi MCAP Members,
I’m attaching a flyer for our focus groups taking place next week, as well as a sample write-up you can use if you’d like. I’d really appreciate it if you could share this with your networks, especially those parents/guardians of high school/middle school students.
Information gathered will help influence our future coalition work, and is extremely valuable!
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Posted in MCAP - Medfeild Cares About Prevention, Medfield High School, Medfield Outreach, Schools
The Senate released its cherry sheet budget numbers today, and the Senate’s money for Medfield tracks the House and Governor’s budget amounts fairly closely – meaning that the town will not likely see much increase in state aid next year.
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Posted in Budgets, Legislature, State
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