The Hardwick Select Board voted to accept inventories of 21 unapproved open-session and 24 unapproved executive-session meeting minutes and set an April 30, 2026 deadline to finish the executive-session backlog.
The Hardwick Select Board voted to back a regional push for expanded rural health care through UMass Medical after Baystate Health secured court control of the Gilbert Trust once tied to Mary Lane Hospital.
The Hardwick Board of Health heard that PFAS and 1,4-dioxane contamination near the town's closed landfill exceeds drinking water standards in multiple wells, with no state requirement yet to map the plume's spread toward Ware's water supply.
Hardwick residents pressed the Select Board over a failing elementary school boiler after a special town meeting fell short of the two-thirds vote needed for roughly $60,000 in repairs.
Hardwick Select Board approved a Barre Road utility pole petition, a $1,700 land trust donation, a recycling center hire and an amended West Brookfield ambulance contract, while a resident's open meeting law complaints dominated debate.
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