Category: Latest Updates
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Middleborough Planning Board Advances Battery Storage Bylaw, Bracing for a Fight With the State
Read More →: Middleborough Planning Board Advances Battery Storage Bylaw, Bracing for a Fight With the StateBoard would confine new energy systems to a single 150-acre district, an approach the attorney general has struck down elsewhere; separately, REXA’s occupancy permit stalls over missing bollards By John…
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The audit will say Middleborough’s controls failed. The missing paperwork said it first.
Read More →: The audit will say Middleborough’s controls failed. The missing paperwork said it first.It began in 2024 with eighteen months of capital planning minutes that weren’t there. It ends with a town rolling over its debt while auditors trace revenue errors by hand.…
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Middleborough’s FY25 audit won’t be done in time for bond rating call, interim manager warns
Read More →: Middleborough’s FY25 audit won’t be done in time for bond rating call, interim manager warnsAuditors say the finished report will identify material weaknesses; financial advisers recommend rolling over short-term debt as state deadlines for free cash and the tax rate close in By John…
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COMMENTARY
Read More →: COMMENTARY“Point of order.” Then: show us the whole list. The objection produced a motion, the motion reached the Select Board, and Middleborough learned its town manager search had been narrowed…
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The Grove Street Standard
Read More →: The Grove Street StandardA Middleborough shop the Fire Department trusts with the equipment that shows up when it matters By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — There is a particular sound a diesel shop makes…
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Carver Planning Board digs in against state solar mandate — even as it waits it out
Read More →: Carver Planning Board digs in against state solar mandate — even as it waits it outMembers approved a subdivision, a warehouse expansion, and rejected buying landlocked woods, but the real fight was over Beacon Hill telling them how to run their own board By John…
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100 Days In: Middleborough Select Board Chair Teresa Farley Backs a Forensic Audit — ‘One Hundred Percent’
Read More →: 100 Days In: Middleborough Select Board Chair Teresa Farley Backs a Forensic Audit — ‘One Hundred Percent’By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — When Teresa Kelly Farley took over as chair of the Select Board this spring, she inherited a town still reeling from the discovery of a…
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125 Jobs Planned, Zero Guaranteed — and REXA Isn’t Answering Questions About It
Read More →: 125 Jobs Planned, Zero Guaranteed — and REXA Isn’t Answering Questions About ItBy John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — A stretch of West Grove Street is becoming home to one of the more significant private investments in the town’s recent history: a $33 million,…
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Getting to Know Dr. David Thomson, Middleborough’s New Interim Superintendent
Read More →: Getting to Know Dr. David Thomson, Middleborough’s New Interim SuperintendentBy John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — When the School Committee voted unanimously this summer to bring in Dr. David L. Thomson as interim superintendent, they weren’t hiring a stranger to the…
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Who’s Checking the Wetsuits? A Casual Question at Middleborough’s Surf Park Hearing Exposes a Regulatory Blind Spot
Read More →: Who’s Checking the Wetsuits? A Casual Question at Middleborough’s Surf Park Hearing Exposes a Regulatory Blind SpotBy John Barrella August 7, 2026 MIDDLEBOROUGH — It came up almost as an aside. Nearly an hour and thirteen minutes into the Zoning Board of Appeals’ July 23 hearing…
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ANALYSIS: Middleborough Locked In $2,816 Per Megawatt a Year for a Battery Plant. No One Compared It to the Alternative.
Read More →: ANALYSIS: Middleborough Locked In $2,816 Per Megawatt a Year for a Battery Plant. No One Compared It to the Alternative.By John Barrella MIDDLEBOROUGH — The Select Board’s 20-year tax agreement with Kearsarge Energy works out to roughly $2,816 per megawatt per year for the lithium-ion battery facility planned on…
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OPINION: No One’s Proposed a Data Center in Middleborough Yet. That’s Exactly When the Town Should Set the Rules.
Read More →: OPINION: No One’s Proposed a Data Center in Middleborough Yet. That’s Exactly When the Town Should Set the Rules.August 3, 2026 By John Barrella To be clear at the outset: to the best of my knowledge, no developer has proposed a data center in Middleborough. No site has…
Latest Updates
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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…
