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Resident urges Select Board to prioritize naming new streets for local veterans and include military ranks
Summary
At public comment, resident Neil Kaiser urged the Select Board to name newly created streets after local service members from WWI through Vietnam, to add ranks on signs and to give precedence to Historical Commission recommendations; he asked the board to place the issue on its next agenda.
Neil Kaiser, a Foxboro resident, told the Select Board during public comment that newly created town streets should be named after local service members who died in wartime and that ranks should be included on street signage. "You have to give these soldiers the name of a street," Kaiser said, urging the board to follow a list recommended by the Historical Commission and not default to contractor‑chosen names.
Kaiser cited examples in town where ranks appear (he referenced a local "Lieutenant Anderson Way"), asked that a street now bearing a contractor's name be changed to honor a PFC from Vietnam, and said the Historical Commission has already provided candidate names. He asked the board to make the item an agenda topic for the next meeting so members can hold a formal discussion.
Board members responded that they would add the issue to the next agenda for a formal dialogue. The board took no formal action at the meeting; the matter will return as a potential agenda item for future consideration.
