After weeks of speculation, school officials have confirmed that Thomas P. Tatro, the School Department’s director of business and finance, is no longer in the town’s employ. Tatro, 56, has not attended a School Committee meeting since April 29, and his name has been removed from the school’s Web site. School Committee Chairman Gregory D. Thomas had declined to explain Tatro’s absence, other than to say it was a “personnel matter.” On Wednesday, in an e-mail to The Enterprise, Thomas reported that as of Monday, “Mr. Tatro is no longer employed by the Middleboro Public Schools.”

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