There’s another tear in the increasingly frayed relationship between The Kraft Group and the town of Foxbrough.

The latest flap is over revenue for two billboards on Kraft-owned land on Route 1.

Seeking a bigger share than the 50/50 split negotiated in 2007, town officials this year opened management of the billboards to public bid instead of renegotiating the existing deal with The Kraft Group.

Not a single bid, however, was submitted by the town’s deadline earlier this month. So, some town leaders placed an article on Foxborough’s May 14 Town Meeting warrant, seeking to take Kraft’s billboard land by eminent domain.

In a flyer mailed to town residents over the weekend, The Kraft Group denounced the move as an "extraordinary and unprecedented action," which it called "damaging to the 25-year relationship between the town of Foxborough and The Kraft Group."

The Kraft Group contends that an eminent domain taking would require the town to pay the Kraft Group the fair market value of that land, including future billboard revenue potential.

The town has received more than $400,000 in revenue from the billboards over four years, according to The Kraft Group.

The flyer claimed the company was silenced on the issue by Town Manager Kevin Paicos at a March 13 Board of Selectmen meeting. Efforts to present The Kraft Group’s viewpoint were also thwarted at a March 19 water and sewer commissioners’ meeting, the flyer said.

"[C]omission members were quite apologetic but informed us that the town manager instructed them to keep us from speaking," the flyer said.

The billboard dispute comes in the midst of New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft’s controversial attempt to gain town approval for a proposal from Wynn Resorts to build a $1 billion resort casino on Kraft-owned land near the stadium and Patriot Place mall.

Paicos was not available for comment this morning. Kraft Group Director of Site Development Dan Krantz also could not be reached for comment.