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Wamp consultant wants Middleboro job; Beautiful town with an ugly past

Former Brockton mayor seeks Middleboro job
Is consultant for Wampanoag PR firm

Former Brockton Mayor John T. Yunits Jr. is one of four finalists for town manager in Middleboro, a job advertised at $130,000 a year.  The town manager search committee finished its culling process Tuesday and gave selectmen the names of four candidates...Selectmen could name a town manager as soon as Saturday, said Wayne C. Perkins, search committee chairman.

Yunits, who headed the city's government for 10 years, is president of the Brockton Rox baseball team and has opened a consulting firm since leaving office.

Yunits is also a consultant for the Liberty Square Group, the firm that handles public relations for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and their bid to open a casino in Middleboro...  Enterprise.
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A beautiful town with an ugly past

Turners Falls is a beautiful place with an ugly past. The former mill town, a village of Montague on the Connecticut River, is named for Captain William Turner. In 1676, Turner led a group of 160 men into an Indian encampment on the river, where women, children, and elders from the Narragansett, Pocumtuck, Nipmuc, and other tribes lay sleeping. Turner and his men massacred them.

The village has wrestled with that legacy, and in 2004, Montague officials joined with representatives of several Indian tribes in a Reconciliation Day ceremony to recognize the tragedy...  There are few Indians living in Turners Falls today. Currently remaking itself as an arts mecca, the village, two hours west of Boston, is a happening place, with a small but healthy private airport.

Over the last couple of years, airport officials hoping to expand a runway have been stymied by representatives of the Narragansett nation and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), who say that the hill that would be leveled for the runway is an important cultural site and that piles of stones there mark spots where spiritual ceremonies were performed. An archeologist who assessed the site disagrees with the tribes, and the Narragansett nation has appealed to the National Register of Historic Places to settle the matter... Globe.