Local Wiki
Norfolk County
Official County Record
Official source, last checked Sep 15, 2026- County Commission meets
- Wednesdays at 1:00 PM (a consistent recurring pattern across the county's own posted agenda calendar and independently-dated town notices; no single explicit 'meets every Wednesday' rule statement was found).
- Meeting location
- Commissioners' Office Conference Room, 614 High Street (2nd Floor), Dedham, MA 02027 — also offered via Zoom teleconference.
- County Director
- Dan Matthews, County Director · (781) 461-6105 · Dmatthews@norfolkcounty.org
- Agendas posted at
- https://www.norfolkcounty.org/county_commission/agendas___minutes.php
- Board of County Commissioners
- Joseph P. Shea (Chair, Quincy), Peter H. Collins (Milton), Richard R. Staiti (Canton)
Other Local Government Here
Local government is layered — cities, counties, school districts, and special districts are separate, overlapping governments. Most residents are covered by several at once, and more may exist here than are listed below.
Other Known Local Governments Here
These local governments — special-purpose districts, and smaller incorporated cities and towns — are known to exist in this area, but haven’t been individually researched yet, so there’s no meeting info or contacts on file. Listed here as a starting point if you want to look into one yourself; where we could confirm an official website, the name links there. More may exist here than are listed.
School districts (33)
- Avon
- Bellingham
- Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical
- Braintree
- Brookline
- Canton
- Cohasset
- Dedham
- Dover
- Dover-Sherborn
- Foxborough
- Franklin
- Holbrook
- King Philip
- Medfield
- Medway
- Millis
- Milton
- Needham
- Norfolk
- Norfolk County Agricultural
- Norwood
- Plainville
- Randolph
- Sharon
- Sherborn
- Stoughton
- TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School District
- Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical
- Walpole
- Wellesley
- Westwood
- Wrentham
Source: NCES Common Core of Data (via Urban Institute), 2022 directory — regular school districts only