At Monday night’s Freeport City Council meeting, Resolution R-2025-49 was passed—handing Fehr Graham a $255,000 construction engineering contract for the 2025 Streets Program. The contract was approved without a single question, comment, or concern from the voting majority: Sellers, Klemm, Shadle, Johnson, and Parker.

On May 19, 2025, the Freeport City Council passed Resolution #2025-50, approving a renewal agreement with Opportunity Space, Inc., doing business as Tolemi, for the continuation of the rental registry platform. This decision came after a presentation by Director Duckmann, who extolled the successes of the program, yet failed to address some of the challenges and shortcomings that have also marked its implementation.

At the May 19, 2025 City Council meeting, Freeport’s elected officials voted to approve Resolution #2025-48, awarding $337,500 to Fehr Graham for construction engineering services—without a single question, concern, or moment of discussion.

In a rare and disgraceful pivot, Dan Stevens — known in some circles as Freeport’s very own “trailer park Rush Limbaugh” — has taken the front page of Village Voices this week not to stir his usual pot of veiled racism and political gossip, but to launch a direct and unapologetic attack on a disabled American veteran.