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Feds Join Fight To Save 175-Year-Old NJ Family Farm From Bulldozers: 'Not For Sale' Feds Join Fight To Save 175-Year-Old NJ Family Farm From Bulldozers: 'Not For Sale'
Feds Join Fight To Save 175-Year-Old NJ Family Farm From Bulldozers: 'Not For Sale' The federal government is joining the fight to assist a New Jersey farm that has been a fixture off the Turnpike for more than a century.  A 175-year-old family farm in Cranbury (Middlesex County) is now at the center of a high-stakes legal and political showdown after the township began the process of seizing the land for a housing development, triggering a wave of public outrage, national media attention, and direct intervention from the Trump administration. The farm, located at 1234 South River Road, has been in the Henry family for over 150 years.  It’s widely known throughout the com…

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by Zak Failla
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Former Massachusetts Official Convicted of Fraud Charges Former Massachusetts Official Convicted of Fraud Charges
Former Massachusetts Official Convicted of Fraud Charges A former housing official in Massachusetts has been convicted in connection with a $2.3 million fraud scheme. Worcester County resident Jacklyn Sutcivni, age 47, of Dracut, was convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and false claims, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced on Wednesday, Aug. 4.  The district attorney's office said Sutcivni used her position as an employee of the City of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development for the scheme.  S…

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by Nicole Valinote
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Revolutionary War Building Is Part Of A Proposed 200-Unit Apartment Complex Revolutionary War Building Is Part Of A Proposed 200-Unit Apartment Complex
Revolutionary War Building Is Part Of A Proposed 200-Unit Apartment Complex A proposal to turn a Revolutionary-War-era manufacturing building into an apartment complex has been filed in the Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor. Developer Douglas Backman has proposed renovating the 50,000-square-foot Steelcraft Building in Millbury into a mixed-use building with two adjacent apartment buildings, according to documents filed with the town’s planning and development department. The renovation is expected to cost $50 million. The development is called Singletary Arms and would include 197-198 residential units, 2,400-square-feet of restaurant space, and 10,000-sq…

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by Kristin Palpini