Select Board Votes to Cancel Extra Meetings
Hardwick Select Board cancels its own extra meetings after public accusations of neglected oversight. Chair Jeffrey S.
Select Board · Meeting of August 24, 2026
Hardwick Select Board cancels its own extra meetings after public accusations of neglected oversight. Chair Jeffrey S. Schaaf and Vice Chair William F.
Tinker clashed openly over why warrant reviews never happened, with a resident, identified only as Joe, telling the board "you passed this warrant policy, you have yet to review a single warrant in the public." The board approved a liquor license transfer for Whistle Stop LLC, signed a regional school lease that every member town but Hubbardston has signed, and learned a well serving a building between the police station and a local co-op tested positive for PFAS, triggering $2,500 in added testing. The town administrator also disclosed $253,000 in state winter-storm reimbursement has already been committed to free cash, a roadside mower and paving, without a board vote. Tinker pushed an OCR records-digitizing plan that Schaaf and Clerk Zachary E.
Spencer called outside the board's purview.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of August 24, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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