Cohasset Select Board Enters Executive Session on Wheelwright Park Cell Tower Legal Opinion

COHASSET — June 9, 2026 — Cohasset Select Board retreats to executive session over disputed Wheelwright Park cell tower legal opinion. The five-member board voted unanimously Tuesday to convene behind closed doors under M.G.L. c. 30A, Section 21(a)(7) to review outside counsel's opinion on the town's legal obligations regarding a contracted monopole cell tower in Wheelwright Park, and to decide whether to waive attorney-client privilege and release that opinion publicly. Four residents spoke during public comment, including Ginny LeClaire, chair of the Open Space Committee, who cited a 199-to-30 town meeting vote directing the board to seek an alternative site and argued that the Wheelwright family's will creates a perpetual charitable trust that bars non-park uses without court and attorney general authorization. A resident identified as Fred and Open Space and Recreation Committee member Connie Afshar both pointed to a 5G small-cell installation already operating at Forest Avenue and Jerusalem Road as evidence that the monopole project has been overtaken by technology. No vote on the substantive cell tower question was recorded in the available transcript.