Category: Business
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Middleborough turns back to a former town manager with its 2025 audit still unfinished
Read More →: Middleborough turns back to a former town manager with its 2025 audit still unfinishedSelect Board meets privately Monday on a possible dismissal, then votes on an interim manager’s contract and an acting treasurer By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — The Select Board will vote…
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Twenty-Five Years, Counted
Read More →: Twenty-Five Years, CountedBy John Barrella There is a short list of days where everyone above a certain age can tell you exactly where they were standing. Dallas, 1963. The moon landing. And…
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Three more change orders on Raynham’s $30.5 million public safety building — and a health department to rebuild
Read More →: Three more change orders on Raynham’s $30.5 million public safety building — and a health department to rebuildThe Select Board takes up its twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth change orders tonight on a project voters funded five years ago. It also has two health jobs to fill and…
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Two large solar projects seek delay as Rochester Planning Board meets tonight
Read More →: Two large solar projects seek delay as Rochester Planning Board meets tonightSeparate LLCs filed the Walnut Plain Road and High Street applications. Both list the same Lowell address — New Leaf Energy’s. By John Barrella ROCHESTER — The two largest items…
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Two of Middleborough’s three state representatives are back at The GOAT this week
Read More →: Two of Middleborough’s three state representatives are back at The GOAT this weekRep. John Gaskey sits down Thursday; Rep. Norman Orrall follows Friday, on the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11. It’s a second visit for each. Middleborough is a town most people…
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Cannabis shop, office building, and a stalled subdivision top a packed Lakeville Planning Board docket
Read More →: Cannabis shop, office building, and a stalled subdivision top a packed Lakeville Planning Board docketBy John Barrella LAKEVILLE — A retail marijuana proposal, a new commercial office building, and a request to keep a long-approved residential subdivision alive headline a crowded Planning Board agenda…
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A utility that’s supposed to pay for itself — and three years of red ink that says it isn’t
Read More →: A utility that’s supposed to pay for itself — and three years of red ink that says it isn’tBy John Barrella Middleborough’s water and sewer funds ran healthy surpluses as recently as 2022, then reversed hard. The town’s own numbers show where the pressure is coming from —…
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Before Middleborough hires out its trash, it should count more than the truck payments
Read More →: Before Middleborough hires out its trash, it should count more than the truck paymentsBy John Barrella Privatizing garbage collection can save money — or quietly cost more. In a town still waiting for its financial fog to lift, and a DPW that hasn’t…
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Regional planners to weigh transit funding, aging mobility, and a new push for bike-pedestrian advocates
Read More →: Regional planners to weigh transit funding, aging mobility, and a new push for bike-pedestrian advocatesBy John Barrella The body that shapes how southeastern Massachusetts spends its federal transportation dollars meets Wednesday in Taunton. TAUNTON — The region’s transportation planning board convenes Wednesday afternoon with…
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In Carver, the board that polices sand mining is stocked with the industry it regulates
Read More →: In Carver, the board that polices sand mining is stocked with the industry it regulatesBy John Barrella Correction: An earlier version of this story reported that Alan Germain was appointed to the Carver Earth Removal Committee in 2023 to fill its trucking-industry seat. Germain…
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Middleborough School Committee to take up immigration-enforcement policy, bullying handbook updates Thursday
Read More →: Middleborough School Committee to take up immigration-enforcement policy, bullying handbook updates ThursdayBy John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — The Middleborough School Committee returns to the Middleborough High School auditorium Thursday evening for its first meeting of the month, with a agenda that pairs…
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In Middleborough, a wave pool meets a wave of skepticism
Read More →: In Middleborough, a wave pool meets a wave of skepticismBy John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — For more than two centuries, the fields off East Grove Street were farmed, most recently as a dairy operation, before sitting mostly fallow. The land…
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What 88 River Street Means for Middleborough’s Next Special Permit
Read More →: What 88 River Street Means for Middleborough’s Next Special Permit“A special permit is a contract with the whole Town,” one resident argues. Community Submission / Letter from a ResidentThis piece was submitted by a Middleborough resident and reflects that…
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We asked Indus and LaMountain Bros. what they know about the fuel tanks at 400 Canopy Drive. Here’s what we asked, and what we’re still waiting to hear.
Read More →: We asked Indus and LaMountain Bros. what they know about the fuel tanks at 400 Canopy Drive. Here’s what we asked, and what we’re still waiting to hear.UPDATE Monday at 12:12pm EST: I heard back from Rich Goodick, President of Indus. Here is his reply to our questions: “Good morning John, I will be in attendance for…
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What Middleborough’s tax-break filings didn’t mention: thousands of gallons of fuel
Read More →: What Middleborough’s tax-break filings didn’t mention: thousands of gallons of fuelThe Select Board’s Monday agenda also may bring a sobering financial-conditions update tied to the FY2025 audit By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — It has not been a quiet summer at…
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BREAKING: Republican Attorney General Candidate Michael Walsh Joins The GOAT Podcast
Read More →: BREAKING: Republican Attorney General Candidate Michael Walsh Joins The GOAT PodcastLynnfield attorney says the state’s top law enforcement office has drifted from its constitutional role By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — Republican candidate for Massachusetts attorney general Michael Walsh sat down…
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Bridgewater rated its town manager 4.4 out of 5. Then the Inspector General’s letter arrived.
Read More →: Bridgewater rated its town manager 4.4 out of 5. Then the Inspector General’s letter arrived.Every recorded council vote on business Justin Casanova-Davis introduced has been unanimous. Now the council has broken its own meeting calendar twice, hired outside counsel, and told residents nothing. By…
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School Committee returns Thursday with a vacant seat, a closed-door contract session, and a superintendent search still ahead
Read More →: School Committee returns Thursday with a vacant seat, a closed-door contract session, and a superintendent search still aheadBy John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — The School Committee opens its Thursday meeting behind closed doors, and reopens it to a full plate: an empty seat at its own table, the…
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A 928,000-square-foot warehouse returns to Middleborough’s wetlands board tonight, on land the state calls rare turtle habitat
Middleborough · Conservation Commission The wetlands board resumes its hearing tonight on a warehouse that would cover more than…
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Carver is still waiting on its 2024 audit. Put a deadline in the town administrator’s contract.
Carver · Opinion The Select Board takes up Glenn Cannon’s next contract behind closed doors Thursday. Its own records…
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Lakeville forms a panel to explore buying 30 Howland Road as the owner’s rock-removal hearing slides to Nov. 10
Lakeville · Select Board & Planning Board In back to back meetings, the Select Board created a nine-member committee…
