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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Town Officials to Meet with National Grid, DPU Wednesday

Foxborough officials are holding a "small meeting" with National Grid and DPU to discuss the issue with the union loop after its failure during Hurricane Sandy caused mass power outages in town for the third time in one year.

Several Foxborough town officials are sitting down with National Grid and the Department of Public Utilities Wednesday to discuss issues with the town's powersource - the union loop. "It’s a small meeting with the president of National Grid, Marcy Reed and DPU," said Foxborough Board of Selectmen chair James DeVellis at Tuesday's BOS meeting. In addition to DeVellis, Foxborough Board of Selectmen vice chair Mark Sullivan, Town Manager Kevin Paicos and Foxborough Fire Chief Roger Hatfield are expected to attend Wednesday's meeting.  "Basically [we are meeting] to discuss what is happening with the union loop and how we can work together to address the issue," DeVellis said. The union loop is the powersource that has failed during Tropical …

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Foxborough Officials Fed Up with National Grid … Are You?

Members of the Foxborough Board of Selectmen vented their frustrations regarding the town’s most recent power outage following Hurricane Sandy Monday.

Foxborough Board of Selectmen chair James DeVellis is angry – as are many of the residents – following the town’s third significant power outage over the last year caused by a storm. “This is the third time now and I’m sick of it,” DeVellis said. “I’m tired of it. The same thing being said now [by National Grid regarding the power outages] was said last year.” DeVellis and other Foxborough officials vented their frustrations to National Grid liaison Tom Coughlin Tuesday, calling the power outage situation a bad running “joke” for the town. “When the newspapers and television crews set up on our Common the day before [the storm] to say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen to Foxborough,’ it’s almost a joke,” DeVellis said. … I don’t know what …

G Parker

1:15 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012

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