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NATICK — The developer of a new building proposed for the site of a July 2019 fire that destroyed a downtown business block says he might pull the plug on the project after the five-member Planning Board failed to achieve the four votes necessary to move it forward. The board’s 3-2 vote supports a revised draft decision between the board and developer Stuart Rothman for a proposed two-story building at 1 South Main St. However, because the decision included the board's prior approval of a special permit on a zoning bylaw, four affirmative votes were necessary to support the draft d...

MetroWest Daily News SOUTHBOROUGH — A local man is asking for the state’s help in uncovering a paper trail he believes will show theft by the town’s Recreation Department and moves that town officials took to cover it up. “There was obviously theft of public funds,” said Ginny Kremer of Concord-based Blatman, Bobrowski & Haverty LLC, representing Southborough resident Jack Barron. “What the people who are taxpayers in the town of Southborough are entitled to know, was (the recreation employee) thrown out or was she given a sweetheart package?” The town’s attorney for the ca...

NATICK — A decision by the Natick Planning Board to withhold a legal opinion from the public — related to a controversial real estate development proposal — may be a miscalculation, according to a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Jordana Greenman, a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Real Estate Law Section Council, said the board may have “destroyed” its position to not release the legal opinion supplied by town lawyer Karis North. North provided the opinion on the board's request, and recommended the board not release it to the public, citing attorney-cli...