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Neil Zolot / medford@wickedlocal.com After 52 years of cutting hair in Medford Square, John Giglio, 71, is retiring. Giglio’s seen hair styles change, changes in the city and customers get older and bring in their own kids for haircuts. “You get to know a lot of people and families in this business,” he said. “It’s a great business. You build relationships with people.” “You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who’ll say anything bad about John,” said his colleague Steve DeBene...

SARAH McBRIDE Bloomberg News This year, the partners at Founders Fund — a prominent San Francisco venture capital firm that has backed Airbnb Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and other leading companies — took an informal internal poll: If the fund could open a major new office outside the Bay Area, where would it go? It’s a question many venture capitalists and startups have considered this year in some form or another, spurred into action by the coronavirus pandemic...

JUNEAU — Arrests and court cases in Dodge County for the highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine have been going up over the last year.  Becky Bell, Dodge County Health and Human Services director, said that cocaine and heroin continue to have higher numbers of people going into treatment with only a few seeking treatment over the last few years for methamphetamine. But in 2020, there has been 15 people seeking treatment for methamphetamine.  "It has hit our county," Bell said. Ov...

Neil Zolot / Correspondant Support local journalism by subscribing at https://cm.wickedlocal.com/subscriberguide, and subscribe to the Medford Transcript newsletter here. City officials last week approved a special tax plan that will bring an expected 250 jobs to Medford over the next 10 years. The Medford City Council on Dec. 8 approved Tax Increment Financing for Monogram Gourmet Foods to reopen the old Whole Foods Market, Inc., Bread & Circus Bakehouse, at 300 Middlesex Ave. as a wholesale s...

Neil Zolot / Correspondant Support local journalism by subscribing at https://cm.wickedlocal.com/subscriberguide, and subscribe to the Medford Transcript newsletter here. Taxes for Medford businesses are on the rise. The Medford City Council on Dec. 8 set the fiscal year 2021 tax rates, lowering residential property taxes, but shifting more of the burden onto commercial and industrial classes. Medfords tax rates will be set at: • Residential property — $9.41 per $1,000 of value • Commerci...