The Citizen Participation Officer (CPO) proposed will be discussed and voted on by the city council over the next weeks. Nicole Horton, if accepted by council, will replace Heather Gutierrez who left her post at the end of 2023. She served in that role for under a year. The Citizen Participation Officer develops and implements

The owners of H&R Supply/H&R Roofing, have been indicted and arrested. Ronaldo Solano, 51, and Adriana Solano, 40 were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston with one count each of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. They were arrested last Wednesday.

Sunwave Inc, seeks to open a restaurant in the site of the former Hot Breads on Worcester Road. Sunwave is the parent/corporation which owns and operates Street Kitchen, an Indian eatery, with a single location currently in Marlborough on Main Street. Sunwave is operated by Tarang Jain and Bhaskar Velamakanni. A Common Victualler (CV) license

See our initial post on the administrative leave back a month ago:

All legal filings in this matter are up to date as of Feb 15, 2024

 Please note that the Fire Department transitioned Record Management Software on 9/13/2022 from “FireHouse” to “ESO Fire RMS”.  Therefore, there are three reports for Calendar Year 2022 – one for FireHouse (1/1/2022-9/12/2022), one for ESO (9/13/2022-12/31/2022), and a compilation totaling for 2022. 2023 2022 2021

“Due to the need of several interested parties, the operational portion of the fire report for this fire is being released.  Per G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(f), and lack of an actual record of such, the Fire Origin & Cause investigation portion of the report will be released when the investigation is complete.”

Last month, John Reardon of Millis, MA, formerly a long term resident of a SMOC shelter in Framingham, called threatening and hateful messages into several synagogues south of the Boston area. At the time of his arrest he was living in a SMOC facility in Millis. See our Jan 29th post, ‘Man calling in threats

In an undercover sting, a health department informant finds store illegally selling menthol cigarettes, under code phrase “Small Mango”. This isn’t DTF. This is in Nobscot… north side, at the Nobscot Convenience Store. Menthol cigarettes have been made illegal for sale in Massachusetts. It is illegal to sell out of state cigarettes and these are

Please note that this email mentions an Executive Session Exemption 5 (“To investigate charges of criminal misconduct or to consider the filing of criminal complaints”) and that was later changed to accurately reflect Exemption 4 (“To discuss the deployment of security personnel or devices, or strategies with respect thereto”).