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Front pages:2008
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Paper gets it wrong on the towering tower4/10/08 As noted below, the tallest structure in Middleboro is, and will remain, the Barden Hill water tower because it is on a hill. Despite this, Gatehouse News reports via The Taunton Gazette in an opinion piece with the "supposed to be clever" headline "Well, there goes the neighborhood": That the 19-story hotel at the casino in Middleboro will be taller than any building in major cities like Brockton, Fall River, and New Bedford shouldn’t surprise anyone. That it will stretch upward beyond the water tank on the town’s Barden Hill shouldn’t shock anyone either. I suggest readers take this with a grain of salt since the writer thinks a redisgned roadway replacing the infamously dangerous rotary would give drivers "the thrill of their lives trying to find the lane they want when speeding over the traffic exchanges that will replace it."
Mike Quish's Mr. Limo message board is back online with dual focus, debate and looking at Wamponoag history (Note-no longer online) 4/7/08 On March 29th I reported as follows: Casino advocate's popular message board taken down
As trite as the saying is, there's not much else to state than the reports of the demise of this message board, popular with both the casino pros, some foes, and a few whose positions are (dare say) nuanced, were premature. It is now back online. So far there's not much discussion of the casino. Thre are but a few topics, a new one having to do with the national election and another with the BOS election. Even criticisms of Verizon are sneaking in. Quish is allowing lots of leeway to go off topic, so there has been recent discussion of the problems some residents, myself included, have been having with Verizon. Towering tall tales
3/27/08 Still on the tower (see below), no, now make that the "towers" (plural) the Brockton Enterprise tells us in an opinion piece today that the "hotel towers will transform the landscape." Stating the obvious about verticle growth, if the resort casino is going to be a "smashing success" they tell us that "the only place to go is up" (so much for a subterranean expansion) and further suggest that we won't see merely a second tower, but "several" new hotel towers. As self-anointed experts on the federal recognition process they assuage resident's immediate fears about a Middleboro skyline to rival Boston's by telling us how long it will take for the land to go into trust. So for the immediate future I gather we are supposed to enjoy the time we have remaining to enjoy the bucolic nature of Middleboro. By the time the casino towers are blighting a portion of the view many of us, myself included, will already have subdivisions or rows of new MacMansions on our once barely inhabited roads. Personally, two years ago we saw four of these homes built on the dirt section of Tispaquin Street where we lived in the only house there for 15 years. And now we hear that the owners of couple of hundred of acres of cranberry bogs and upland across the street may sell 17 house lots. Indeed, with or without towering 200 foot tall towers, the bucolic nature of Middleboro is changing now, and will change in the future. 3/23/08 The headline of the article is Casino hotel in Middleboro to tower over area The Enterprise informs us that It would be "the tallest building in Middleboro, for that matter — far surpassing the 120-foot-high Town Hall, as well as the 167-foot Barden Hill water tower." Of course, the Barden Hill water tower is, as the name indicates, on a hill. It can be seen from a number of places in Middleboro. What we don't know is where the Mashpee hotel will be visible from. Nearby residents may not be able to see it at all if their houses are surrounded by trees. More distant residents may see it if they have a clear field of vision between them and the hotel. Perhaps the tribe will offer to float a balloon 200 feet above the site of the hotel and put this debate to rest once and for all.
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It's real. It's serious. But because Middleboro almost certain to host a resort that is also a major casino, we should learn the basics about this psychiatric disorder.
