Wayland Select Board cancels Memorial Day parade, plans mostly mail-in June election

WAYLAND -- May 1, 2020, Wayland scraps Memorial Day parade and pushes June 9 election toward mail-in voting. The Select Board, chaired by Cherry Karlson, read a cancellation statement from Public Ceremonies Committee Chair Richard Turner on Friday and confirmed that veterans' graves will still be flagged with help from local Girl Scouts. Town Administrator Louise Miller told the board the annual town meeting recess has been extended to May 30 and may slip past June 30, leaving the Loker School roof, school accessibility work, a roughly $70,000 Happy Hollow kitchen project and the Route 27 bridge unfunded; the town would operate on a monthly DOR-approved expenditure schedule. Town Clerk Anna Ludwig will open outdoor office hours starting May 15, and the board voted 5-0 to waive its three-year health-insurance-waiver reenrollment wait for this open enrollment. Vice-Chair Doug Levine pushed for a clearer absentee-ballot page, saying, "I just want this to be as user-friendly as possible."