As you all know, the Select Board used to be called the Board of Selectmen. What you might not know is that Littleton’s Board of Selectmen was once known by a far longer title: The Board of Selectmen and the Overseers of the Poor In Littleton’s second century, this publicly elected board provided Littleton’s poorest […]

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Recently I was introduced to the idea of “real friends” versus “deal friends,” and I couldn’t but help think of you, Chuck, and feel a certain sadness. Right around the time cannabis came to town, you joined the Select Board. And you know what I think happened? I think former hedge-fund manager/millionaire Jason Sidman looked […]

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On July 17, 2023, I texted you: I’d like to meet with Jason Sidman as soon as possible. You and he, I’m told, are friendly. I went by the grow facility last week, left my card, and haven’t heard from him. Your quick reply: I’m friendly with everyone? (followed by a smiling and winking face […]

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In early November, there was an email back and forth among several parties: Thirteen days later, the Planning Board met and referred to the email exchange. It’s worth watching, starting at minute mark 1:54:50. When Planning Board member Jeff Yates mentions that the Apothecary’s license is “being transferred,” Planning Board Chair Mark Montanari says that […]

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You’ve been on the Select Board since 2015 and have been consistently observed as having a particular interest in those Select Board matters that involve money. With respect to cannabis coming to Littleton, you’ve been both ubiquitous and, according to many, flagrantly self-serving. And yet, so far as I can tell, no one’s held you […]

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According to Athena Assets, all of your wife’s back rent at 160 Ayer Road for the Apothecary (a minimum of $60k) was paid in a lump sum by a Boston law firm, Lawson & Weitzen, several months before MR3 bought the property. In those intervening months, Athena Assets received the Apothecary’s monthly rent promptly on […]

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On July 28, 2021, MR3 LLC (hereinafter MR3) was organized as an LLC in New York. There is no indication as to ownership in the New York LLC filing, nor is there any indication of the type of business MR3 conducts. On November 10, 2021, MRM INDUSTRIES LLC (hereinafter MRM) was organized in Massachusetts by […]

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On April 29, 2023, I bumped into Gary at the library. Feeling emboldened from just having finished reading POVERTY, BY AMERICA by Matthew Desmond, I approached Gary and suggested that the profits from your wife’s unused cannabis license could do a lot of good, could help the 326 Littleton households enrolled in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition […]

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Someone I have never met wrote this to me in a FB thread: Anyone who was in town when you were leading our town as a member of the Select Board knows what you’re capable of. You lied to us then and you lie now. You’re “stunned” someone you’ve never spoken to doesn’t trust you? […]

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It’s the weekend, and I thought you all might like to play a grown-up version of “Hidden Pictures” from HIGHLIGHTS Magazine. Instead of a sketch drawing, I’m going to show you a document that was forwarded to me in mid-November. As you read through, see if you can pick out all the things hiding in […]

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