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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Around Town: Recreation Board Member Resigns, Selectmen Schedule Business Opportunity Meeting with Invensys & More

The following town news and notes were compiled from the Jan. 22 Foxborough Board of Selectmen meeting.

Invensys, locally known as the Foxboro Company, is interested in meeting with the town’s Board of Selectmen to discuss future business opportunities with a community it has served for over 100 years. Foxborough Board of Selectmen vice chair Mark Sullivan has been speaking with the company’s leaders about where the business is and what its future plans are in town. Invensys has agreed to attend to the Feb. 5 BOS meeting to share these discussions with the public and other board members. Foxborough’s Board of Selectmen accepted with regret the resignation of Peter St. Laurent from the Board of Foxborough Recreation. St. Laurent’s letter cited work and family commitments as reasons for her resignation. “I will send a letter to Peter on behalf…

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Steve

11:43 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

I didn't think you would skip this story. I think with the light of the media on this certain things will not be done or people will be outraged.   more ›

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Foxborough Official Assures Alleged Abuse Victims Town will Not Fail Them Again

Foxborough Board of Selectmen chair James DeVellis told the alleged sexual abuse victims of a former Foxborough employee the town is “turning over every stone and file cabinet” in search of the truth.

As more light sheds on the allegations against William E. Sheehan, four of his alleged victims have come forward to ask town officials how the former Foxborough educator and community leader was able to allegedly abuse young boys for nearly 20 years without detection, according to a recent article in the Boston Globe. Globe correspondent Michele Morgan Bolton reported in Tuesday’s story, “Alleged abuse victims seek Foxborough response” that four alleged victims of Sheehan “called Monday for the town of Foxborough to investigate past management practices” to bring to light how Sheehan was allegedly able to sexually abuse at least 23 children in Foxborough from 1963-1981. “There has been a deafening silence from Town Hall,’’ the men told …

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