A recent Berkshire County Superior Court decision, Stockbridge Bowl Association, Inc. v. Town of Stockbridge Conservation Commission,...

New IGR Regarding Community Preservation Fund The Community Preservation Act has been the subject of considerable interpretation and...

Happy 2020! Whether you agree that the new decade started this month or doesn’t start until January 2021, we hope that you will agree...

Clamping Down on PFAS: MassDEP Finalizes Waste Site Cleanup Standards and Proposes Drinking Water Standards MassDEP’s march forward on...

The State Ethics Commission recently issued a new advisory on the kinds of gifts and gratuities a public employee may receive under...

Municipalities Maintain a Substantial Degree of Control over Adult Use Cannabis Establishment Licensing Through the Host Community...

The Appeals court, in Murchison v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Sherborn, recently clarified the circumstances under which a plaintiff will...

Emily and Ruth are denizens of the City of New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park Zoo; they are Asian elephants. A citizen sympathetic to their...

Information on Sale of Hemp-Derived Products Hemp is a variety of cannabis but without the levels of THC found in marijuana. Hemp is...

Die-hard Red Sox fans recall when the Red Sox were not terribly successful in reaching the pinnacle of Major League Baseball competition...

Nothing too scary in this October edition of the Miyares and Harrington LLP newsletter. We are thrilled to read of the adventures of...

A recent Federal District Court decision highlights the distinction between the supermajority vote of a Special Permit Granting Authority...

Town Meeting Time– the go-to guide for Town Meeting – states that, “[i]n King James’s day debate may have been properly classified in the...

April is national poetry month! Alas, your poetically-challenged editor is unable to provide this month’s Miyares and Harrington LLP...

In our March newsletter, we reported on a statement by the Supervisor of Public Records that municipalities require her authorization to...

EPA: The Clean Water Act Does Not Apply to Groundwater On April 15, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an...

Welcome to our very own version of March Madness, the Miyares and Harrington LLP newsletter! Let’s hope that your bracket is still...

Every municipality has, at one time or another, faced the problem of deciding whether to adopt a particular requirement as a general...

The Public Records Law permits a Record Access Officer to assess reasonable fees for the production of a record. However, the requestor...

As municipal boards and committees are increasingly aware, Open Meeting Law complaints must be filed with the public body within 30 days...