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Canton earns top financial award for 20th year
The Town of Canton has received a top national award for municipal financial reporting for the 20th consecutive year, recognizing the town's commitment to transparency and financial disclosure. The honor was announced by Interim Town Administrator Jennifer Kemalian and Finance Director Allyson Podgurski, according to a community announcement. The Town of Canton Finance Department earned the Government Finance Officers Association's Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2025. The Government Finance Officers Association, a professional organization representing more than 28,000 public finance professionals in the United States and Canada, presented the award based on the town's annual comprehensive financial report. The association said the report was reviewed by an impartial panel and met the program's standards for clear financial communication and full disclosure. "The report has been judged by an impartial panel to meet the high standards of the program, which includes demonstrating a constructive 'spirit of full disclosure' to clearly communicate its financial story," GFOA said in an announcement shared with the town. The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting is considered the highest recognition in governmental accounting and financial reporting. GFOA created the program in 1945 to
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Dianna Carney
Hanover Businesses Can Win Big in the Chamber’s First Pumpkin Decorating Contest
Hanover Chamber of Commerce of Hanover, Massachusetts, is inviting local businesses to bring a little autumn creativity to town with its first pumpkin-decorating contest. Participants can decorate one or more pumpkins, display them inside or outside their business, and share a photo for the chance to win a $200 gift card to a Hanover business of their choice.
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Fall River mill building purchased by local family-owned business
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WJAR) — A historic Fall River mill is now under new ownership, and the buyers aren’t a major developer. Instead, it’s a family-owned business with roots in the city. Frank Clegg Leatherworks, which has called the Tower Mill building home for about a decade,...
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Hasbro tells Rhode Island workers: Move to Boston or lose your job
The toy company notified the state that nearly 600 employees could be terminated by year’s end if they don’t transfer to its new Boston office. Nearly 600 Hasbro employees in Rhode Island face a choice as the company moves its headquarters to Boston: work at its new Seaport office or lose their jobs.
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WinnCompanies and Arch Communities complete 56-unit transit-oriented community
Braintree, MA WinnCompanies and development partner Arch Communities have completed The Eastwalk, a 56-unit, transit-oriented, mixed-income development. Federal, state and local officials joined WinnCompanies executives for a tour of the five-story community, which offers a range of bedroom sizes for low-income, middle-income, and market-rate households in a riverfront neighborhood expected to benefit from future city and state infrastructure investments.
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Miss Lizzie’s Coffee shop ordered to pay $31K in legal fees
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — It appears the trademark dispute between Miss Lizzie’s Coffee and its former neighbor has come to an end. U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin ordered the owner of the Fall River coffee shop earlier this week to pay U.S. Ghost Adventures, which owns the Lizzie Borden House, $31,207 in attorney fees after losing the trademark infringement lawsuit by default.
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After more than a century, an old Massachusetts cranberry farm gets new life as a wetland
Century Bog, a 75-acre stretch of fields and woods across Plymouth and Wareham, looks more like a construction site than a former cranberry bog. Excavators have churned up soil, ripped out pine trees and broken up buried plastic piping. In their place are wide moats of thick, sloppy mud, so dark they're nearly black.
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Take a look inside a Fall River luxury linen company with customers across the world
The Herald News
Lizzie Borden trademark suit over. Cafe owes $31K but still open
The long-standing legal battle between the two major Lizzie Borden tourist attractions in Fall River seems to be over. A federal district court judge has ordered Miss Lizzie’s Coffee to pay its former neighbor, the Lizzie Borden House, just over $31,000 in attorney fees after having lost a trademark infringement lawsuit by default. The Lizzie Borden House and Miss Lizzie’s Coffee have had bad blood since September 2023, when the museum and inn’s parent company sued its new neighbor on Second Street in federal court. US Ghost Adventures, owner of the Lizzie Borden House, argued it has the exclusive right to use the wordmark “Lizzie Borden” in the restaurant and hospitality industry , and alleged customers mistakenly thought the businesses were related. Who owns Lizzie Borden? How trademarking a dead person's name works Earlier this year, Miss Lizzie’s Coffee lost the lawsuit by default, when a federal judge ruled that owner Joseph Pereira, acting as his own attorney, did not adequately respond to court requests for information. USGA had claimed it was due more than $239,000 for lost profits, damages to the trademark, “damages to [USGA’s] goodwill,” expenses spent “mitigating customer confusion” and more. On Oct. 8, Judge Leo Sorokin
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First cranberries harvested from bogs with solar panels overhead
The first cranberries have been harvested from bogs that feature two solar projects in Massachusetts — Black Cat Agrivoltaics Project in Plymouth and Ring Road Agrivoltaics Project in Kingston. The projects are owned by developer Greenbacker Renewables and were installed by Distributed Energy Infrastructure (DEI). Cranberry farmer Iain Ward,...
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Prestige Media files $50,000 deal to buy WSAR from Bristol County Broadcasting
Manuel Sarmento’s Prestige Media Group has filed a $50,000 agreement to buy talk station WSAR (1480 AM) and its Fall River-licensed translator W240EB (95.9 FM) from James Karam’s Bristol County Broadcasting, according to Insideradio.com. Under the terms, Bristol County Broadcasting will pay half the cost of a tower...
Dorchester Reporter
New cannabis operator opens for business in Codman Square
Copyright © 2026 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. This content may not be re-published or re-used without written permission. The exterior of the new Legal Greens storefront location in Codman Square. Photos by Seth Daniel. Legal Greens Dispensary in Codman Square opened its doors last week. The recreational marijuana store...
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Raytheon’s Portsmouth operation lands Navy research contract for radar upgrades, with work running through 2031
Raytheon, an RTX business, has been awarded an Office of Naval Research contract to develop advanced target-detection capabilities for naval radar systems, with work split between the company’s Portsmouth facility and a site in Andover, Massachusetts, through 2031, according to the company. The company’s Advanced Technology team will develop and test signal and data-processing algorithms […] The post Raytheon’s Portsmouth operation lands Navy research contract for radar upgrades, with work running through 2031 appeared first on What's Up Newp .