Transforming a half-century of permitting precedent, selectmen this week unanimously agreed to streamline the approval process for sporting and entertainment events at Gillette Stadium by requiring a single annual license.

Further diversifying its Foxboro real estate holdings, the Kraft Group is refining plans to develop 1.5 million square feet of office space on its existing Patriot Place footprint.

Beginning Monday, motorists navigating the Common rotary will have to unlearn old habits on the fly under a new traffic control plan adopted Tuesday night by selectmen.