When I toured the Webster property last fall, along with a half dozen other people, I could smell the cannabis plants. And I was not alone. The group remarked on the very distinctive scent (stench, for some) coming downhill from Sanctuary at 234 Taylor Street on a windless afternoon. Over the years, I’ve heard lots […]

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Earlier today, I was trying to remember the approximate date that you first brought up your concerns that the Select Board wasn’t getting updated information on the HCAs and TIFs—aka contractual agreements—that the Select Board has with those businesses that hold these HCAs and TIFs in town. I went online to LCTV’s YouTube channel (Did […]

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This open letter is to every person who has had the opportunity to both observe and make conclusions about me and my character for the last many years.  Five years ago, I resigned my seat on our town’s Board of Selectmen. This was for many painful reasons, not the least of which was an error […]

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You’re going to be reading that quite a bit going forward: “Someone told me.” While it’s nice to have something “in writing” to refer to—say, a link to click on to read Littleton Apothecary’s HCA’s Paragraph 14 “Covenant Not to Sue” and Paragraph 12 “Successors and Assigns” or MRM’s backdated HCA—there is some critical information […]

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In the spring of 2022—several months before Athena Assets sold 160 Ayer Road to MR3—Athena Assets received a check for all of Littleton Apothecary’s back rent. The owner of Athena Assets remembers the check being “in the 60s”—so, at least $60,000.00 of unpaid back rent for Suite 4: Littleton Apothecary’s suite, where Matthew’s wife had […]

Read more "Remember that $60k in Back Rent, Littleton?"

Paragraph 14 of Littleton Apothecary’s HCA is a “Covenant Not to Sue.” About a year ago, I had coffee with Chuck and asked him why Matthew’s wife’s HCA had a “Covenant Not to Sue” when the other HCA (the one awarded to Community Care Collective for an identical license) lacked the same language. This conversation […]

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As Cindy Napoli was telling the Select Board that she was recusing herself from the presentation and discussion of David Giannetta’s proposal to the Select Board for one of the two recreational cannabis licenses, some guy comes into view at the 1:42:05 mark with a laptop, places on the table from where David would give […]

Read more "Who’s That Guy, Chuck?"

On May 20, 2019, Matthew’s wife and I, as co-proprietors of Littleton Apothecary, made our presentation to your board, starting at the 1:01:50 mark. Right after we presented our proposal and took seats in the front row, your friend David Giannetta made his pitch for one of the two licenses to sell cannabis in town. […]

Read more "I Got It Wrong, Chuck"

Three years ago, I ran for one of two seats on our local Board of Selectmen. On a sunny May afternoon, two days before the election, I, along with the other two candidates and our respective supporters, stood on the town common holding up signs and waving to passers-by. Some enthusiastic drivers beeped their horns […]

Read more "Throwback Thursday: “Beat that Bitch”"

To hear others expound on the merits of small-town living, you’d be convinced of the perils of either bucolic isolation or city anonymity. If you and your family are off-the-grid, say, homesteading in Idaho, you could be eaten by a pack of rabid wolves months before anyone might happen upon your compound. Choose to reside […]

Read more "Wayback Wednesday: The Curse of Small-Town Living"