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Commission to respond after unexpected $5,000 invoice tied to National Register application

5919855 · October 9, 2025
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Summary

Norwood Historical Commission members discussed an unanticipated $5,000 invoice delivered to a consultant working on a National Register nomination; commissioners said they had asked the historian only for review and comment, not paid research, and directed staff to draft a response and seek town-manager and CPC guidance.

Commission members discussed an unexpected invoice for work on a National Register of Historic Places nomination submitted to the town by a historian, identified in meeting remarks as Wendy Frontiero. Commission chair Judith Howerwood said she had received an email and then “an invoice of $5,000,” and that the commission had not authorized payment or contracted for paid research.

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