A detailed review of about a third of the documents—including all of the records related to the town manager’s office and the town planner’s e-mails but not other documents related to the town planner—provides a rare view into the Middleborough town government’s perspective of how the project came and, seemingly, went.

The documents chart the project from its quiet inception and chaotic public unveiling, through a brief honeymoon after the intergovernmental agreement was approved, down through the accusations against and guilty plea by former tribal council chairman Glenn A. Marshall, to upwelling questions about the relationship between the town and the tribe.

They provide a glimpse of the casino plans and politics as the tribe shifted from Middleborough to Fall River, a change of heart that has led to Middleborough officials opening a conflict resolution process and threatening legal action against the tribe. Read the lengthy yet interesting article on CapeNews.net.

Is it dead? Who knows. But here’s the latest article about the Wampanoag’s casino crusade…