Bedford Sets Select Board, Assessors, Planning Board Meetings This Week

Bedford's town government calendar fills up this week, with the Select Board, Board of Assessors and Planning Board all scheduled to meet within a three-day span, while Bedford Patch profiled a Middlesex Community College graduate's path back to a degree.

TOWN HALL

The Select Board meets Monday, Aug. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Select Board Room, according to the town's public calendar, opening a busy stretch of municipal business this week. The Board of Assessors and the Planning Board are both scheduled to meet Tuesday, Aug. 11.

Overnight utility work tied to the new Bedford Fire Station project remains on track for the nights of Aug. 10, 11 and 12, running from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night, per the town's News Flash update, a story the town's News Flash also covered earlier this week.

ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS

"Return to MCC Allowed Grad to Pursue Dreams": Bedford Patch reports that Alicia Sirmopoulos found a community of support at Middlesex Community College that helped her get back on track toward graduation and a career (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/bedford-ma/amp/34607263/return-to-mcc-allowed-grad-to-pursue-dreams).

"JOHN TOSCANO Obituary (2026) - Bedford, MA - Boston Globe - Legacy": A death notice published via Legacy.com and The Boston Globe lists Bedford Funeral Home on Great Road as handling arrangements for Bedford's John Toscano (read it at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/john-toscano-obituary?id=62134361).

COMING UP

Monday, Aug. 10: Select Board meeting, 7 p.m., Select Board Room.

Tuesday, Aug. 11: Board of Assessors meeting.

Tuesday, Aug. 11: Planning Board regular meeting.

Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.