(Sept. 14, 2023) The town is withholding payment while it conducts a compliance review of its contract with Jim Burneka Jr. of Firefighters Cancer Consultants. Burneka was hired in August to assess …
ROYALSTON Building Inspector Geoff Newton and Board of Health Chair Phil Leger appeared before the Selectboard at its meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 4, to seek advice and funding for enforcing some of Royalston’s bylaws, “By way of background,” said.
New Bedford Board of Health in the Political Hot Seat [OPINION]
Step aside COVID-19, New Bedford has a more political health issue to decide. The expansion of Parallel Products in the North End of the city is coming up.
The Finance Committee of the New Bedford City Council met last Thursday to discuss the situation with a city company looking to expand its operations in the New Bedford Industrial Park. Specifically, the councilors were getting an update from the team of lawyers Mayor Jon Mitchell has put together to stop the expansion.
Mark R. Reich from the firm KP Law (formerly Kopelman & Page) gave the council a wide-ranging briefing based on his 25 years of practicing municipal law. He has the unique ability to make the dry subjects of environmental law, local public health regulations, and state permitting interesting even in a remote meeting (full disclosure: I was a selectman in Freetown when the Board hired Kopelman & Page and I had a working relationship with numerous att