Natick Select Board confirms $8.5 million bond sale and reaffirmed AAA rating

NATICK — June 10, 2026 — Natick Select Board ratifies $8.5 million debt sale and advances Main Street redesign on a long Wednesday night. The 5-0 bond vote confirmed $4,015,000 in bond anticipation notes won by Academy Securities at 2.8289 percent and $4,510,000 in GO bonds won by SWBC Investment Services at 3.292766 percent, after S&P reaffirmed Natick's AAA rating May 19. Transportation planner Morgan Griffiths presented four Route 27 reconstruction options — a $2 million mill-and-overlay and three roughly $11 million full builds — and reported that a 15-member working group narrowly endorsed the "hybrid" concept by an 8-7 vote, with a full report due June 24 and a possible board vote July 8. The board also approved a new Section 12 wine-and-malt license for Epilogue Books and Wine at 21 Summer Street, where proposed manager Sean Morgan said the list will cap at "15 a glass max." Members reappointed Michael Downey to the Conservation Commission and named Jasmine Huq Ahmed, Shruti Karulkar and Carol Gloff to the MathWorks Scholarship Committee. Finance staff flagged a $1.9 million snow-and-ice deficit.