Board advances street acceptance, feast license votes

Select Board · Meeting of August 25, 2026

Stoughton Select Board faced sustained public pressure to drop its investigation firm over conflict-of-interest claims. Multiple town meeting members, including Lisa Lyons, Peggy Di Natale and John Rosenblatt, said Edward Davis Company employee Eileen Donahue previously served in the state legislature alongside Town Manager Tom Coulter, whom the firm is investigating alongside Police Chief Donna McNamara. Di Natale asked the board directly, "Did the board vote on this selection?" and called for the contract to end.

Select Board member Stephen M. Cavey defended the process without addressing individual criticisms, saying "an allegation is not proof." The board took no vote on the investigation itself but unanimously approved a motion to begin accepting Canton, School and Sumner streets as public ways, a step toward securing roughly $4.5 million in state funding, and approved a two-day beer and wine license and parade permit for Our Lady of Fatima Feast contingent on police staffing conditions.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of August 25, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.