After gathering sixty-two signatures, ensuring my name would be on the ballot, I knew I’d be invited to Candidates’ Night. I also knew the event would be recorded by LCVT, making it part of the permanent public record of the Town of Littleton. My blog and my Substack are not part of the public record, […]

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A few years back, the Boxborough Select Board asked the FBI to conduct an investigation into allegations of police corruption in town. At the time of the 2021 federal criminal probe, Littleton’s Assistant Town Administrator Ryan Ferrara had been serving as Boxborough’s Town Administrator—a small-world fact I thought worth pointing out. In Massachusetts, the FBI […]

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A year ago, I ran for a seat on the Select Board on a single issue. I focused my entire campaign around bringing attention to the 220 households in Littleton that fall under the poverty line and what the Select Board could do, as the town’s policy-maker, to end poverty in town. I didn’t expect […]

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About a month ago, a former Littleton resident, who’d spent her childhood in town, reached out to a Littleton Facebook group and asked what current Littletonians thought about the town she’d left decades ago. Of course, there were many people who accurately reported how much the town had changed, and the tone of their replies […]

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I first met John Sagl twenty years ago when he and his wife Jackie brought their three-year-old, firstborn child to My School, the long-ago bankrupted cooperative nursery school in town, where my three-year-old, firstborn child was also a student. Warm, funny, and smart, I immediately liked John. In 2012, when the Board of Selectmen (as it […]

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In January 2021, the Littleton Select Board entered into a Host Community Agreement with a Delaware LLC that allowed for the construction of a 143,640-square-foot Amazon Distribution Center at 151-153 Taylor Street. In the last couple of years, a constant stream of Amazon-branded delivery vans either painted dark blue with pithy ad lines like “Warning: […]

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On March 13, 2023, the Littleton Select Board’s agenda included “Cannabis Host Community Agreements.” When the agenda item came up at the Select Board meeting, the matter was postponed. To operate a cannabis business in Massachusetts, the cannabis business must hold a Host Community Agreement with the municipality where the business is conducted. In Littleton, […]

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