Letter to Editor

Increasing Business While Preserving Attleboro's Neighborhoods

Attleboro resident Ellen Parker hopes Industrial Business Park remains a place for low-traffic business.

I was rather surprised at the answer to a question posed to Attleboro City Council candidate Richard Conti at the forum a couple of weeks ago. He suggested that one solution to the Idustrial Business Park Park on Ides Hill was to rezone it to general business, which is a smaller implementation of commercial zoning. I am not exactly sure what he is thinking, or perhaps he has forgotten the whole reason why the city embarked on an Industrial Business Park. It was not to create more fast-food chains and mini-malls. I personally feel that it is not the place to invite businesses such as a McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, and other small retail stores with heavy traffic. I had thought the concept of the IBP Park was to draw low traffic businesses …

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Roxanne Houghton

6:37 pm on Thursday, October 6, 2011

Best idea yet, Deb!   more ›

Letter to Editor

Fate of ARA Rescue by Retirement Board in the Hands of the Appraiser

Gary Sagar of the City's Retirement board said the five-member board will do its due diligence on the ARA proposal.

Dear Editor, This letter to the editor is written to hopefully answer why the Attleboro Contributory Retirement System (CRS), is exploring the idea of a possible investment in the Industrial Business Park (IBP), owned by the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority (ARA). I take full responsibility as the lead proponent for initiating this idea and would like to share with you my involvement in this investment idea, as Chairman of the five-person Attleboro Contributory Retirement System. I regret however, this initiative occurs during an election year and that The Sun Chronicle has denied my request that they print in their entirety, our Letter of Intent of June 23, 2011, and our press release of June 28, 2011. Upon reading in the local press the…

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Steven Scott

6:08 pm on Friday, August 5, 2011

Thank you, Reason   more ›

Mayoral Candidate Asks Officials to Pull the Plug on ARA Bailout

Candidate for Mayor, Ronald Churchill is calling for Mayor Kevin Dumas and the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority to abandon a proposal.

Attleboro Mayoral Candidate Ronald M. Churchill is calling on Attleboro Mayor Kevin Dumas and Attleboro Redevelopment Authority (ARA) Chairperson, Judith Robbins to abandon an ARA proposal before it's too late.  Churchill, who has put city issues under the microscope since announcing his candidacy for mayor, said the existing proposal to bail out the ARA and the financial challenges it faces with an 189-acre park with public retirement funds is “fundamentally flawed.” Churchill is calling on Dumas and Robbins to dismiss the proposal, before more time and money is wasted. Evaluating the use of retirement funds as an option to rescue the ARA is the prudent thing to do, according to Dumas.  "As a leader, I am charged with vetting all …

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