August 25, 2025

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Former Medfield Parks Director Kevin Ryder pleads guilty to embezzlement

  • August 3, 2025

Former Medfield Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Ryder pled guilty to stealing municipal funds and exploiting his public office for financial gain, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office said in a statement Thursday. Ryder, 51, of Medfield, worked as the town’s Parks and Recreation Department Director from 2014 to August 2022, according to the department’s website.

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Investment

FDR Park opens new Gateway Plaza, with more to come

  • July 11, 2025

FDR Park has been around since the Philadelphia World’s Fair in 1926, and some of its infrastructure dates back to that time. It was originally called Olmstead Park, for the landscape firm that designed it, and re-named after president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1955. In the 21st century, the 348-acre park struggled with underfunding, flooding

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