Thursday, June 14, 2012
In a joint session, the Foxborough Board of Selectmen and Planning Board will be meeting June 28.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Foxborough Board of Selectmen and Planning Board will meet in joint session at the Foxborough Town Hall on Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. to consider a housing production plan for the town. Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) staff Jennifer Raitt, Chief Housing Planner, and Jennifer Erickson, Regional Planner, have spent over seven months preparing a draft plan for the boards’ consideration. This work is funded by MassDOT’s South Coast Rail project that will restore passenger rail transportation from Boston’s South Station to the South Coast of Massachusetts. A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community's proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing by creating a strategy to enable it to meet its affordable…
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The Foxborough Board of Selectmen will be meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at town hall.
The Foxborough Board of Selectmen will be meeting with National Grid representative at Tuesday night's meeting at town hall at 7 p.m. Selectmen will also be receiving a refund check from Foxborough school business manager Bill Yunka as the high school renovation project is coming in under budget. State Rep. Jay Barrows (R-Mansfield) will also be meeting with the board to talk about the regional wastewater agreement. Another topic on the agenda is the fire department's overtime study.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Residents impacted by the new bylaw to restrict unlicensed parking lot in the Gillette Stadium will have a chance to ask questions and give their input at a June 4 meeting.
Members of the Foxborough Board of Selectmen, police chief Ed O'Leary and building inspector Bill Casbarra will be holding a meeting for those impacted by the change in parking regulations for Gillette Stadium events Monday, June 4, at Ahern School, starting at 6:30 p.m. O'Leary and Casbarra drafted the bylaw, which was referred to as a public safety issue. Town officials are going to discuss protocal since a new bylaw was passed at the recent town meeting prohiting residents in the area of the stadium for charging to park at events at Gillette Stadium that draw more than 15,000 fans. They also want to answer questions and hear input from the residents. "They are working through the process and it's not quite there yet," said selectmen …
Monday, May 21, 2012
Foxborough selectmen will discuss their priorities for FY13
When they met Tuesday night, the Foxborough Board of Selectmen will be discussing their priorities for FY13. The meeting will be at the town hall at 7 p.m. Selectmen will also discuss town counsel review, pavement maintenance management system. remote public board participation, the open meeting law and the board of selectmen's office hours. They are expected to go into executive session to discuss the firefighter contract, hear a firefighter grievance and review executive session minutes.
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Boston Globe looks at what is next for the land across from Gillette Stadium now that the casino is out of the picture.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
With the casino out of the picture, the question now remains what will the Kraft Group do with the 200-acre parcel across from Gillette Stadium, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The land has been looked at as a biotechnology park or a place for companies to locate their headquarters, but economic conditions made that unlikely. Foxborough selectmen James DeVellas, the new board chairman, said they were willing to work with the Kraft Group. “We do want to work with them as much as we can,” DeVellis said in the Boston Globe article. “But it has been a difficult year. And this will bring a quiet and calm back.” Both Bob Kraft and Steve Wynn ended their plans for a casino after seeing the results from last week's election where two …
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The annual Foxborough town meeting will be held Monday in the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
The following are meeting schedule for this week. Monday, May 14: The Foxborough Board of Selectmen will be meeting at the high school at 6:30 p.m. in room 105 to go over contracts with the fire department, article 7, department of public works, article nine and to discuss the veterans compensation, article 23. The Foxborough Advisory Committee will be meeting Monday at 6:45 p.m. in the high school auditorium to discuss any unresolved items before town meeting. The Foxborough annual town meeting will be held in the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 15: The Foxborough Stadium Advisory Committee will be meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. at town hall. On the agenda for review are the New England Patriots' preseason and regular …
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Foxborough selectmen will be meeting tonight at the town hall at 7 p.m.
1. The Foxborough Board of Selectmen will be meeting tonight at town hall at 7 p.m. 2. The Foxboro High track and field teams are on the road today at Canton for a 3:30 p.m. meet. 3. The Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce will be holding the Fashion Envy Show Thursday at the Blue Hills Country Club from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at www.nvcc.com. 4. Check out some of Foxborough fine young artists as the Taylor School will be hosting its art show from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 5. Remember the rain? It's back again today with showers and a high of 58.
Foxborough Patch will be providing coverage of today's election.
Today promises to be a historic day as Foxborough will be voting at the Ahern School from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. A highly competitive selectmen's race is expected draw a large number of residents to cast their ballots with the casino being the hot topic. Selectmen chairman Larry Harrington and selectmen Lorraine Brue are up for reelection, while school committee member Martha Slattery and former state representative Ginny Coppola are trying to earn spots on the board. Foxborough Patch will be providing coverage of the election throughout the day and up until the race is decided. Foxboro Cable Access will also have live coverage of the election with the candidates in the studio starting at 8 p.m. It will be available on Comcast 22, Verizon 38 …
It's election day in Foxborough. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Ahern School.
1. Election Day is here with a large turnout expected to vote at the Ahern School from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. 2. The Foxborough High softball team will be hosting Stoughton in a 3:30 p.m. game, while the girls' tennis team will be hosting the Black Knights. The Foxborough baseball team will be traveling to Stoughton, while the Foxborough girls' lacrosse squad is at Ursuline Academy. 3. The Taylor School Art Show will be Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. 4. The Foxborough selectmen's meeting is scheduled for Tuesday night at town hall. 5. Today's weather will be mostly sunny with a high of 67 and a low of 51.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Two Foxborough selectmen met with Kraft Group to resolve lawsuit.
Foxborough selectman Jim DeVellis said he and selectman Lynda Walsh meet recently with the Kraft Group to see if they could end the lawsuit filed against the town. At Tuesday's selectmen, DeVellis talked about the meeting he and Walsh had with Bob and Jonathan Kraft and Dan Murphy of the Kraft Group at Gillette Stadium. The Kraft Group filed a lawsuit against the town after its representatives weren't allowed to speak at the March 13 selectmen's meeting about the Route 1 billboard issue. After filing the law suit, claiming their civil rights were violated, officials of the Kraft Group were allowed to speak at a selectmen's meeting March 27. DeVellis said he wanted the meeting to see if the town and the Krafts could find a resolution the …
Deborah A Stewart
1:33 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
OMG! Are you kidding me Mr King? Maybe all of us who make under 100K a year should just move from town so we won't sour your "rose colored" outlook of Foxboro. Then it can really become the perfect,white picket fence, stepford purist town that you and others believe it should be. It is getting harder and harder to want to remain in this town with people who have attitudes like yours. God help … more ›