I want you to know that irrespective of how all this shakes out, I have always taken great comfort in knowing that your children and my children know the truth about these last five years. Despite the distortions your wife and you have put forward, I know that Max and Peter know the truth—as do […]

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Dear Matthew, For a while, I think people might have believed that you didn’t have anything to do with your wife’s business interests in town. Even when you’ve not been 100% compliant with recusing yourself from board discussions about your wife’s non-operational pot shop, you’ve long banged the drum of non-involvement. This isn’t really true. […]

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Hello Everyone, Everything that I’ve written so far has been to convince you (and me) that if there’s a way to abolish poverty in Littleton for the 6.3% who experience it, we owe it to each other, as townspeople, to try because we’re all running out of time to be good to each other. Littleton […]

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In April 2019, two women, referring to themselves as the “co-proprietors of Littleton Apothecary,” submitted their written proposal to the Littleton Board of Selectmen* on the hope that they might be granted a license to open a recreational cannabis shop in Littleton. The women’s proposal, in a nutshell, was to open a super cool recreational […]

Read more "POT TWIST: Dispatch 2: The Would-Be Queens of Cannabis"

In the fall of 2016, voting Littletonians answered YES (3,233 to 2,713) on Ballot Question 4, the measure to legalize cannabis for recreational use and to create a statutory framework to regulate—and heavily tax—its sale. A YES vote also meant that Littleton would be a town where cannabis would be sold. The commonwealth’s statutory framework […]

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What Should Littleton Be Known For? With a few exceptions, I’ve lived in Littleton, Massachusetts my entire life. I’d leave and come back, leave and come back. I am here now. Littleton has always been my hometown. In December of 1973—a month before my third birthday—my parents, my 11-month-old sister, and I moved into the […]

Read more "To the Good People of my Hometown"

Last night, I appeared at the Select Board meeting and read this statement: I was here two weeks ago to ask this board to find out when the Littleton Apothecary is planning to open.      Have you done that?* A week and a half ago, Christine Nordhaus posted about the Apothecary on Facebook. Some questions were […]

Read more "The Saga Continues . . ."

We’ve got a problem. For over a year now, requests have been made to our Select Board to find out what exactly is happening with a business that really ought to be up and running by now. Normally, the “government” keeps its nose out of the goings-on of private businesses. However, an exception is made […]

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Dear Erica, When I was in law school, we learned about two types of wrongdoing. There is the type where someone is accused of violating a criminal law, and the matter is adjudicated in criminal court. All criminal matters are prosecuted by the state and begin with an arraignment or an indictment. To be convicted […]

Read more "An Open Letter to Erica Podgorni"

Dear Anthony, I would like to offer my condolences. I’m the sort of person who always says “I’m very sorry for your loss” as soon as I learn of a death, or in your case, two recent deaths. How I wish I’d done this last night during the Select Board meeting, but I was so […]

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