Here is a plug for a magic show to benefit the Rogue Theatre Company – featuring Adam Bond. Adam has been very good about plugging my shows and causes on his radio show. BTW – I’ll plug any event within reason.
Fun-de-Mental
Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 118:00 ...
Recently I posted about the letter sent by the Middleboro BOS to the BIA opposing any change to the tribe’s LIT application. I thought people might want to see the actual letter.
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The PDF document, like many Middleboro documents is a scan of a document. The means that it is essentially a gi ...
BOS assess Middleboro casinoIn a unanimous vote, the Middleboro BOS approved a letter opposing the Mashpee Wampanaoag’s plans to alter their fee to trust application by adding a Fall River site to it:
“It is nothing short of legal chicanery for the tribe to now attempt to expand its initia ...
Brown thumbs up for slotsAs Massachusetts continues it’s headlong rush to casino gambling, Senator Scott Brown has taken a break from obeying his party overlords to interject himself into the local casino issue. As we all know by now, the House voted for two resort casinos and slots at the t ...
Recently I took a hard look at our household’s spending on phone, Internet, and cable TV. YIKES!!!!!!!!!
We have Comcast cable TV (no premium channels), Verizon FIOS Internet, and Verizon Wireless (3 cell phones) and no home phone land line – one of the cell phones stays put at the hou ...
There’s an old saying – ask and you shall receive.
I’m in the market for a pop-up camper – probably a 10 footer. I’m looking for one in good condition for a good price and don’t care about fancy features like showers and toilets. Please email me or call me a ...
Some notable stuff in this week’s Middleboro Gazette. First and foremost of course is my column – an innocuous piece that sings the praises of the Middleboro Library. Basically it recounts what a jackass I was when I first started using the Internet and thought that libraries were usel ...
I have to tell you that hearing these sorts of uniformed scare tactics repeated is really tiring. This from Senate president Therese Murray:
Senate President Therese Murray said yesterday that a new directive from the federal government makes Native American gambling parlors all but inevitable in ...
From The Enterprise:
Selectman Stephen J. McKinnon has filed a formal complaint against board Chairwoman Marsha L. Brunelle, saying she violated ethics by presiding over a meeting about the town department her husband supervises.
I have video of the last BOS meeting where McKinnon motions for Brun ...
Middleboro selectman Steve McKinnon made a motion to remove Marsha Brunelle as BOS chairman over what he considered to be an ethics breach. Brunelle had chaired a meeting that concerned an assessment of the IT department – which is run by her husband Roger. McKinnon felt that Brunelle should ...
Fall River casino drawingI have to admit, that some of the artists rendition’s of proposed casinos look pretty cool. Just check out this drawing of a Fall River casino being proposed by the Mashpee Wampanoag. It’s much cooler then the simple outline drawings we saw in Middleboro. The ...
A poster on my forum pointed out some of the events that are going on this summer in Middleboro.
This Sunday is a benefit for Nemasket River Productions. Note – I have no affiliation with the group.
I am a new member of the NRP board and have been involved with this event, so I know that we ...
I have to admit that the twists and turns in the Middleboro casino saga have left me bewildered. The Mashpee Wampanoag entered into an agreement to buy 300 acres in Fall River and told Middleboro that they don’t intend to pursue a casino in town. Early drafts of casino legislation all had a ...
I’ve seen this falsehood-as-fact repeated enough times that I thought I’d mention it. In the most recent Gazette, a letter to the editor stated that the BP oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf was the fault of liberals and environmentalists. The rationale for that bizarre statement is tha ...
Reposted from OakPointCommunity.org:
Community Cleanup June 19
COMMUNITY SPIRIT CLEAN UP
INVITATION
Massasoit is coming to town.
As a welcoming to our community, Middleborough on the Move, is inviting all those interested, in turning out for a cleanup of the outside grounds and building exterior.
Wh ...
Middleboro recently received the results of a 2010 IT Assessment conducted by the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. The assessment revealed some weaknesses and made recommendations for correcting them. One of the main recommendations was to combine the various IT groups into a single ...
Clean and green is the wayFrom the DOI:
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved the Cape Wind renewable energy project on federal submerged lands in Nantucket Sound, but will require the developer of the $1 billion wind farm to agree to additional binding measures to minimize the poten ...
This is my response to an email I got from a friend
> Hi Mark,
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> I am a faithful reader of your Gazette articles. Thank you for sharing
> your insight on many different subjects.
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Thanks. I apologize for the length of this email. I’m probably over explaining things but want to err on the ...
Before the recent Middleboro town meeting, I took part in a sign holding for Rep. Tom Calter. I brought the kids along since they had karate class right next door at the YMCA. The kids had a great time and got a little too enthusiastic – running on the grass next to cars waving their Calter ...
Town meeting went smoothly finishing up at 10:45 PM. All charter change articles passed. The question to increase the local meals tax was defeated. The big article for me was the one to put CPA on the fall ballot. It passed with a very solid margin of victory. There was the usual cast of char ...
Interesting article in the most recent Mashpee Wampanoag newsletter. This came to my attention via the REELWamps blog. This is an interesting blog that gives an insider’s view to the Mashpee Wampanoag leadership. It is particularly critical of the current Cromwell regime. The blog authors ...
Kindle e-readerAs a technology buff, I occasionally invent things in my mind only to see them actually invented years later. That’s not to say that others haven’t thought of the same thing – just that I hadn’t heard of it. It was many years ago that I imagined the e-reader ...
I’ve been a strong proponent of CPA for a long while now. While I’m not involved in the current effort to pass CPA, the people that are have created this fact sheet.
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Briefly, the Community Preservation Act would allow the town to assess a small surcharge on your property tax that wou ...
Dear Friends and Family,
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Mary Daurio’s life has changed since her diagnosis with MS. My wonderful Sister-in-Law and Friend bravely deals with the daily challenges of this disease.
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I plan to ride 175 miles in the MS Capecod Getaway Ride. Please join me in helping MS sufferers, like Mary, ...
I haven’t had much to say since my last gig. Still, having nothing to say has never stopped be from talking before and gosh darnit it’s not now. Leading up to a gig there is this sort of flurry of activity and rehearsal. Once it’s done I sort of need a little down time. In th ...
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