2025 Updates from Town Clerk
Your 2025 annual census is coming! Please complete it and return it to the Town Clerk’s office (by mail, in person, or using the black dropbox outside the town offices). … Continued
Category: Town News
January at the Wendell Free Library
January at the Wendell Free Library Library NEWS: Accessible Push Button Doors Thanks to grant funding from the American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities grant for Accessible Small and Rural Libraries, the Wendell Free Library now boasts push-button activated exterior and interior lobby doors. Thank you to all who participated in the Community Conversations around … Continued
Website Usage Survey
The Website Committee and the Selectboard want to get some feedback from the community now that the new website has been up for about a year. We will use the results of this survey to make improvements and adjustments. Start the survey.
December at the Wendell Free Library
Library NEWS: New boosted WIFI at the Library. The library was able to take advantage of leftover funds in the town managed Community Compact IT Grant to upgrade to 3 brand-new WIFI access points and other internet equipment upgrades that will help facilitate hybrid meetings and patron internet use. Big thanks to the Glenn Johnson-Mussad … Continued
Wendell Holiday Craft Fair
Craft Fair 2024 The Friends of the Wendell Free Library are hosting the Annual Craft Fair at the Meeting House on: Friday December 13, 4-8 p.m. & Saturday December 14, 9-4 p.m. The first hour of each day is for masked shoppers. Only those wearing masks will be admitted. Masks will be available at the … Continued
Town Clerk Hours 12.7.2024
The Town Clerk’s Office will be open from noon – 2 pm on Saturday, December 7th. Apologies for any inconveniences.
End of Outdoor Burn Ban
Due to recent rains, higher humidity and cooling temperatures, per order of the Fire Chief, New Salem and Wendell will end its outdoor burning ban effective Tuesday at midnight. Residents may again have small, contained cooking fires. If residents have questions as to what constitutes a safe fire pit, please contact the fire station. A … Continued
Town Clerk Office hours
The Town Clerk’s office will be open from noon until 2 pm on Saturday, December 7. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Wendell Preliminary Results
11.5.2024 Results Tuesday, November 5, 2024 – State Election Preliminary Results; WENDELL Total Votes Cast = 602 Number of registered voters = 774 Percent of the registered voters that cast ballots = 77.7% Position: || Votes for each Candidate: || Ballot Question: President and Vice President Vote count (total) … Continued
Elevated Wildfire Risk
Franklin County, and all of Massachusetts, remains at elevated wildfire risk due to the ongoing drought. Lack of rainfall has made freshly fallen leaves and what is already on the ground extremely dry. Accordingly, per order of the Fire Chief, all outdoor burning, to include campfires, cooking fires, exterior fireplaces (not including wood boilers for … Continued