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Millbury Needs More Housing

There's no dancing around the facts, and Jeff Raymond believes a moratorium on multi-family projects sends the wrong message. We're fully in election season in Millbury, and while we have some general thoughts on the upcoming board races in town, the other item on the docket

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SCENES FROM THE SECOND PARISH: Sinners, Saints, and Fools

Let 'em laugh while they can Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends And the joke's on them -- Brandi Carlile, "The Joke." Last Friday night, I was

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THROWBACK TUESDAY: The Saturday Lunchtime Wrestlers

This column was originally written for the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle in March 2021. With Dave Dwinell appearing at Asa Waters Mansion on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at noon to discuss his book, Ringman, I thought it was worth sharing again. When I was nine years old, I saw my first professional

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SCENES FROM THE SECOND PARISH: Mix All the Satellites

It all started when Google canceled Stadia... Actually, it all started when Google announced that they would transition Chrome to Manifest V3... Now that I think about it, I think it was when Google canceled Reader... Of the 200 or so of you who read this, maybe 25 of you

THROWBACK TUESDAY: 40B and Me

I originally wrote this in February of 2022, following the Planning Board's denial of a housing project off Rice Road. Many believed that the Planning Board was the final step, but others were sure the developer would move toward an affordable housing build. With the Board of Selectmen

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NAFFBLOG: Worse Than the NIMBYs: The NIMTOOS

▪️"Our greatest political problem in society is political correctness, properly understood." - Peter Thiel The most important goal of public discourse should be to have real conversations about real issues. If we cannot adequately discuss items like housing, zoning, tax rates, and growth we will never be able

THROWBACK TUESDAY: Sweet Leaf

THROWBACK TUESDAY: Sweet Leaf

A look back at the 2019 opening of Nature's Remedy