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 case, Antoine Fares of Norwood-based Norris, Murray & Peloquin LLC, confirmed that a Southborough employee was fired, but that he couldn’t respond to allegations made by Barron and Kremer.
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-client privilege.
However, the board may have relinquished its ability to keep the opinion from the public after board Chairwoman Terri Evans spoke about some details of the opinion in an open meeting, according to Greenman.