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On November 9, Article 19 asks you to approve more water out of town. The last arrangement ran 31 months before a meter existed, and nobody can find a signed copy.
Read More →: On November 9, Article 19 asks you to approve more water out of town. The last arrangement ran 31 months before a meter existed, and nobody can find a signed copy.Massachusetts drought declarations are advisory. The enforceable restriction runs through the town’s own permit and bylaw, and Middleborough’s notice names the Select Board as the body that decided. Meanwhile water…
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Middleborough’s fiscal 2025 has been reported four different ways. Here is the memo I sent the auditors.
Read More →: Middleborough’s fiscal 2025 has been reported four different ways. Here is the memo I sent the auditors.Residents pay the bills. They should see the same documents the auditors see. The full 14-page memo is published with this column.
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I went to the State House and found New England’s champions sitting on the stairs
Read More →: I went to the State House and found New England’s champions sitting on the stairsNine kids, two banners, one very large trophy, and a Grand Staircase that suddenly looked a little small.
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Middleborough’s finance director resigned Wednesday. By Thursday the town had a plan to keep the tax rate on schedule.
Read More →: Middleborough’s finance director resigned Wednesday. By Thursday the town had a plan to keep the tax rate on schedule.Monday’s agenda asks the board to pay for two things the finance office would normally do, and then to hold a tax hearing that depends on one of them.
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Middleborough has spent a year reviewing a 928,000-square-foot warehouse. Railroad status in Washington could put it beyond the town’s reach.
Read More →: Middleborough has spent a year reviewing a 928,000-square-foot warehouse. Railroad status in Washington could put it beyond the town’s reach.Middleborough · Conservation Commission A conservation group has asked federal regulators to block the company’s bid for railroad status, arguing the point of it is to put the 928,000-square-foot warehouse…
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Middleborough is about to rebid its school buses. The town’s books can’t show what Five Star has been paid.
Read More →: Middleborough is about to rebid its school buses. The town’s books can’t show what Five Star has been paid.Middleborough’s school bus contract goes back out to bid this year. The town’s records show what it spends on outside bus companies, but not how much of that went to…
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The surf park’s lawyer has two cases before the zoning board Thursday. The board should ask the same question in both.
Read More →: The surf park’s lawyer has two cases before the zoning board Thursday. The board should ask the same question in both.Middleborough · Opinion Michael O’Shaughnessy has carried some of Middleborough’s largest recent projects through town boards. In the records I reviewed, none of his clients has offered to protect the…
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The Middleborough Eagle Scout Behind a 200-Scout Saturday at Camp Norse
Read More →: The Middleborough Eagle Scout Behind a 200-Scout Saturday at Camp NorseMiddleborough · Scouting Two hundred Scouts, 29 merit badges and one Saturday at Camp Norse. The Middleborough Eagle Scout who has run Merit Badge Mania five times explains how a…
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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
Read More →: A 928,000-square-foot warehouse returns to Middleborough’s wetlands board tonight, on land the state calls rare turtle habitatMiddleborough · Conservation Commission The wetlands board resumes its hearing tonight on a warehouse that would cover more than 21 acres off Wareham Street. State records show the site is…
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Carver is still waiting on its 2024 audit. Put a deadline in the town administrator’s contract.
Read More →: 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 already list the work the town is waiting on, starting with…
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One Year of Hard Questions, 3 Million Views and Better Government: Thank You to The Herd
Read More →: One Year of Hard Questions, 3 Million Views and Better Government: Thank You to The HerdJohn Barrella – The G.O.A.T. News One year ago today, on Oct. 13, 2025, I started a Facebook page with a simple idea: the people who pay for local government…
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Middleborough’s finance director resigned Wednesday. By Thursday the town had a plan to keep the tax rate on schedule.
Monday’s agenda asks the board to pay for two things the finance office would normally do, and then to…
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Middleborough has spent a year reviewing a 928,000-square-foot warehouse. Railroad status in Washington could put it beyond the town’s reach.
Middleborough · Conservation Commission A conservation group has asked federal regulators to block the company’s bid for railroad status,…
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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…
