Politics & Government

Liquor License Violation Hearings and MIAA Football Championship on Tap for Selectmen Meeting

Tuesday's meeting of the Foxboro Board of Selectmen is sure to be busy as the board plans on holding public hearings for four establishments with alleged liquor license violations and will consider the application for the 2013 MIAA football state title games at Gillette Stadium.

According to the selectmen's agenda, the establishments that will have hearings are as follows:

  • Gillette Stadium
  • Skipjacks
  • Tastings Wine Bar and Bistro
  • Foxborough Country Club

Details of the alleged violations will be divulged along with testimony at Tuesday's meeting. The selectmen will not receive information from police or the establishments until the hearing.

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In September, the Foxboro Police Department announced they were conducting compliance checks to ensure that liquor stores and liquor serving establishments were asking for identification and correctly reading the identification.

The selectmen will also look at the MIAA's application to hold the six football state championship games at Gillette Stadium on Dec. 7.

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This will be the seventh year the state title games have been played in Gillette Stadium since some of the games returned to Foxboro in 2007.

The games, which until this year were known as Super Bowls, attracted around 17,000 fans for six games in past years. Bad weather and big games such as Brockton vs. St. John's Prep meant a lower attendance of 13,289 for the 2012 games.

This year however, there will be only six state title games total compared to the 19 regional Super Bowls last year.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in the Foxboro High School media center.


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