THE TRANSPARENCY TRACKER
Under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 1-200, the administration must fulfill public records requests promptly. Below is the real-time ledger of withheld documents.
The $300,000 Deception: Inside Sherman's Municipal Shell Game
How do you overspend a $14,000 routine maintenance budget by 2,000 percent? By quietly turning it into a slush fund to hide the escalating costs and delays of a $50 million school renovation bond.
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The Architecture of Oversight: When the Auditor Works for the Architect
A forensic review of Sherman’s public records reveals a closed-loop financial ecosystem where the Board of Education Chairman is privately employing the Selectman tasked with auditing his $50 million school project.
UPCOMING EVENT • SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2026 @ 8:33 AMHistorical Society Barn Sale
BARN SALEVOLUNTEERS NEEDED!SHS Barn Sale Donation Days Ahead!Here’s the perfect reason to spring clean: The Sherman Historical Society’s annual fundraising Barn Sale! W...
Live at Limoncello - Featuring: Dean Snellback
Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 6 PMLive at Limoncello - Featuring: Dean Snellback1 Route 37 E, Bldg 1, Sherman, CT, United States, Connecticut 06784This month, 23rd May, 06:00...
OBITUARY • APRIL 27, 2026Rev. Paul Astbury
Rev. Paul Astbury, who shepherded the congregation at the Sherman Church for 14 years and balanced his pastoral duties with a quiet passion for literature and the natural world, died on April 27, 2026, at his home in Sherman, Connecticut. He was 78.Born in Blue Hill, Maine, on February 1...
Catherine Ann Goyette
Catherine Ann Goyette, a longtime resident of Sherman, CT, passed peacefully at her home, surrounded by love and family.She is survived by her beloved grandson, Noah; her daughter, Christine (Joseph); her sisters, Loretta Heagerty and Helenlee Heagerty; her niece, Jennifer Moss; her neph...
$50 Million Ghost Ship: A Megaproject Without a Paper Trail, and a First Selectman’s Panic
As the Sherman School project balloons to a staggering $50 million, FOIA requests reveal a terrifying void of daily logs and oversight. When Sherman CT News pointed a camera at the site, Town Hall responded with police intimidation and a literal corridor
