Week in Review

Week in Review: Remembering Newtown Victims, Dirty Water, Fight with Cops and More

A recap of this week's headlines from Dec. 15-21.

Miss anything in Foxborough this week? Here's your chance to sit back and catch up on some Patch. Below is a recap of this week’s biggest headlines on Foxborough Patch: VIDEO: Krafts to Donate $25K to Newtown; Patriots Remember Victims Patriots President Jonathan Kraft told media Sunday The Kraft Group and his family will be donating $25,000 to those affected by the Newtown tragedy. On Sunday, the Patriots honored the 26 victims of the school shooting with a special moment of silence prior to its game with the San Francisco 49ers at Gillette Stadium. Read more by clicking here. *** Foxborough DPW Director: Brown Water is Expensive Problem; ‘Will Take Years to Fix’ Foxborough DPW Director Roger Hill says the town's brown water is …

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Selectmen Set March 4 Special Town Meeting for Water and Sewer Vote

Foxborough will hold its second Special Town Meeting in three months on March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Foxborough High School to decide whether it will join a proposed Regional Sewer District with Mansfield and Norton.

Facing an important deadline, selectmen voted Tuesday to hold a Special Town Meeting on March 4 to decide whether Foxborough will enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) with area towns to form a Regional Sewer District in Mansfield. The March 4 meeting has been tentatively set for 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Foxborough High School and will focus on "two to three" warrant articles related to the IMA and proposed Regional Sewer District. Town Manager Kevin Paicos said selectmen may decide to include a warrant article to appropriate roughly $50,000 to design plans to convert the post office building into a town hall but the STM warrant would be short to focus on sewer. “We want to keep this warrant clean for the AdCom, who is going …

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5 Things You Need To Know Today

5 Things for Dec. 17: Pats Fan Falls from Stands at Gillette Sunday, Foxborough School Committee Meets Monday and More

Here's five things you need to know in Foxborough for today, Dec. 17.

Editor's note: Five Things You Need To Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. If you know of something happening in town that did not make our list, please add it in the comment section! Today’s weather in Foxborough, according to the National Weather Service based in Taunton, calls for showers likely, mainly before 1 p.m. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 47. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Monday night: Rain. Low around 43. North wind 8 to 10 mph becoming east after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent. New precipitation amounts between a half and…

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Foxborough Town Manager’s Top Objective is to Develop Effective Sewer Strategy

The Foxborough Board of Selectmen presented Town Manager Kevin Paicos with a list of 22 goals and objectives for 2012, headlined by the town’s need for an effective sewer strategy.

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos' top priority over the course of the coming year, according to the selectmen, is to work with the town's Water and Sewer and other departments to develop an effective sewer strategy and expand programs. Paicos was presented a list of 22 goals and objectives he has to meet over the course of the year at Tuesday's Board of Selectmen meeting. The top two were related to the town's need to address its water and sewer issue. The list, which includes 29 total goals and objectives (seven of those goals are for the board of selectmen), was comprised by selectman Lorraine Brue. Brue polled each member of the board, Paicos and the town's finance director, Randy Scollins to rank the 29 goals and objectives by …

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