The Board of Selectmen will form a committee to review a potential name change for the Board of Selectmen. If you are interested in serving on this new advisory committee please send an email with a letter of interest to Town Administrator Kristine Trierweiler at ktrierweiler@medfield.net by June 10, 2021.
Posted onApril 23, 2021|Comments Off on Select Board meeting 4/20/21
First in person meeting of the Select Board for over a year this past Tuesday. The photo shows the new layout of the room. Medfield TV’s Brett Poirier is at the left, beside the Medfield TV camera person. There is a large screen TV in the corner on the wall behind me, to my right. My laptop is showing the zoom feed, which is what also appears on the large screen TV.
I took this photo of the beaver dam that is to be breached per the emergency order requested by the MASS DOT from the Town of Medfield’s Conservation Commission. That application and emergency order are in the packet of meeting materials. The dam was built by the beavers where a culvert goes under the North South Framingham to Walpole RR line, between the tracks and McCarthy Park, ponding water where none had before and putting the railbed at risk per MASS DOT. I accompanied Conservation Commissioner Deborah Bero on her site walk before the emergency order issued.
The beavers had previously dammed the other side of the RR tracks, between the RR tracks and Rte. 27, causing large numbers of trees along Rte. 27 to die, and great blue heron to start nesting in the dead trees this past year. However, that former beaver pond activity area between the RR tracks and Rte. 27 is now no longer flooded by the beavers, so the beavers appear to have moved to the other side of the tracks.
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