Trucks weighing 52 tons may start rolling through part of south Foxboro Monday during an 85-workday removal of toxic soil from a federal Superfund site on County Street.

Selectman Larry Harrington convinced his colleagues Tuesday to seek a summit with town unions to see if the unions are willing to reopen their contracts and forgo raises in an effort to avoid layoffs in the new budget year, which begins on July 1.

For the price of one cup of coffee per week per household, the town can avoid major layoffs and help keep Foxboro a well-maintained town, attractive to businesses and residents alike, selectmen chairman Paul Feeney said.

A four-way race for two seats on the board of selectmen is taking shape, along with a race for housing authority and board of health.

Six-year finance director Randy Scollins this week confirmed that he has applied for the position of town manager.

School officials are turning their attention to the Burrell Elementary School as the department's next major repair and renovation project.

Faced with a tough road reconstruction dilemma, selectmen Tuesday voted 5 to 0 to alter the Payson Road and North Streets intersection to slow speeders without resorting to a major redesign that would chop a piece off one resident's yard and substantially reduce her property value.

The Planning Board is scheduled to continue its public hearing at 8:30 tonight (March 11) in Town Hall on a plan for the construction of 24 housing units at the former state hospital site.

For the past three decades, members of the Stratis family have commuted a roughly 100-mile round trip between Worcester to Foxboro to operate the Foxboro House of Pizza on Bird Street.

Foxboro Police arrested a suspect breaking into a car on Spring Street early Friday morning, and were able to add an additional charge over the weekend thanks to a news group alert by Police Chief Edward O'Leary.

Route 1 Liquor Mart tipped off police Friday afternoon to a minor attempting to buy alcohol with a false identification.

Nancy Lawton, whose family by marriage has operated a North Street farm for generations, says the Board of Health has put agricultural nuisances under a regulatory microscope while neglecting its duty to consistently enforce sanitary standards at restaurants.

After months of meetings, the Board of Health voted 3 to 0 Monday to adopt new stable regulations for the first time in decades.

A pickup truck driven by a Mansfield man veered off Cocasset Street early Tuesday morning, shearing two utility poles and knocking out power to 2,300 customers in East Foxboro, including the Burrell Elementary School. The driver escaped with minor injuries.

With the U.S. Attorney's Office now reviewing the case, former Foxboro resident Jimmy Anderson Sr. says he doesn't believe his son had anything to do with an attempted mail bombing of a Harvard professor in the 1990s, and he says investigative documents released by the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives haven't done anything to convince him otherwise.

Sandra Herrmann managed to do her job at Town Hall Monday morning, but she couldn't keep the tears from flowing.

Thousands of runners are expected to descend on this town July 4 for a major road race that will start and end at Gillette Stadium and pass through the center of town.

Trucking 31,000 tons of contaminated soil from the Hatheway & Patterson Superfund cleanup site may require roughly 1,000 round trips through the streets of Foxboro and Mansfield.

Two residents have taken out nomination papers to run for two seats on the Foxboro Housing Authority in the May 3 annual town election.

State Rep. Jay Barrows formally kicked off his campaign for re-election last Thursday (Feb. 25) with an event at Normandy Farms.