Government

Cohasset Select Board and Advisory Committee jointly approved $405,458 in fiscal year 2026 year-end budget transfers at their July 14 meeting, while declining to authorize an emergency reserve fund draw for Sandy Beach parking-lot striping.

Cohasset Select Board names Michelle Leary town manager and orders study of alternative cell tower sites. The board voted 5-0 at its June 16 meeting to approve a contract for Leary, who had been serving as assistant town manager, with terms to be posted publicly once signed.

Cohasset Select Board retreats to executive session over disputed Wheelwright Park cell tower legal opinion.

Cohasset Select Board unanimously authorizes Town Hall relocation search as renovation clock runs out.

Cohasset Select Board reorganizes under new Chair David Farrag and grapples with public safety facility fallout.

COHASSET — May 7, 2026 — Cohasset Select Board member David Farag made a floor appeal at Town Meeting urging a yes vote on purchasing the King Street property for a new public safety building. Farag, of 39 Beachwood Street, told Town Meeting members the Elm Street police station — built in 1962