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Members of the Town of Westwood are invited to help Westwood Poet Laureate Beth Swinning write a poem about Westwood for Westwood Day. Interested participants can fill out an online form and answer the question, "When you hear WESTWOOD, what is one word that comes to mind?"
A successor to Lynne Viti, Westwood's first Poet Laureate, Swinning will use the responses she receives to inform the poem that she plans to perform at Westwood Day on September 20th.

Mist, with a high of 37 and low of 24 degrees. Overcast for the morning, mist for the afternoon, clear overnight.
This is progress and I am glad to see the Select Board moving in the right direction. However, a majority of voters at last Monday's Special Town Meeting voted to recommend that the Select Board immediately cease its lawsuit against the Westwood Land Trust.
What is the citizen's petition about? I checked the town website, and the only information I could find on town meeting articles was from last year. The public hearing dates for 2026 are posted as February 24-25.
Apparently, you need to submit a public records request through the town's FOIA portal. What a shame, since it should have been posted to the town website upon certification of petition signatures.
Westwood Minute has obtained a copy of the petition and has added a short description of it to the article. A copy of the petition is attached below the article.