IDEX® Health & Science signed the lease with Campanelli to provide turnkey services on the build-to-suit facility on the Middleborough, Mass.–based campus, a property whose development by Campanelli Companies dates back to the 1980s and is currently home to several large companies. Breaking ground on the new IDEX Health & Science facility marked the 12th business and 9th building in [...]

A new organic farm in Middleboro and a farmers market in Bridgewater are set to debut this year, two signs that locally grown food is a growing commodity in the region. The Dahlia Farm on Plymouth Street in Middleboro will offer organic vegetables and herbs, eggs from free-range chickens and cut flowers, said farmer Jim Reynolds. People will be able [...]

The new Mashpee Wampanoag leadership is scheduled to appear before Middleboro selectmen at the board’s April 13 meeting. The tribe signed a deal with Middleboro officials in 2007 to develop a casino in the town. Middleboro selectmen have yet to meet with new tribal chairman Cedric Cromwell and vice chairman Aaron Tobey, who were elected in February. Next month’s meeting [...]

The Soule Homestead Education Center plans to break ground in June for the first part of a $160,000 renovation that will include the addition of three composting bathrooms and a kitchen attached to its main barn. Director Frank Albani told selectmen that the project includes demolishing the existing addition to the barn and framing the new bathroom and kitchen section. [...]

Members of the Nature’s Navigators 4-H Science Club built wood duck nesting boxes that they are donating to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. The group based in Middleboro gathered last Saturday to build the nesting boxes in response to call for donations from MassWildlife. Charles Chace a volunteer leader of the group explained that wood ducks are cavity [...]

The owners of the historic Otis Briggs House are looking for a buyer to purchase and relocate the house. The Victorian Eastlake-style house stands behind Steve’s Sports Den at 145 Centre Street in downtown Middleboro, Massachusetts and is on the proposed site of a new mixed use commercial and apartment building. The developer of the project, Robert Saquet, manager of Egger’s Furniture Store [...]

The horse shoe may be a good luck charm, but it takes skill to keep a horse in good shoes. Hoof health is essential to both horse and rider, and farrier Ernie Gaouette of Middleboro sees to it that his shoes fit like a glove. Here he looks over a horseshoe he crafted for a mare at Briggs Stable in [...]

Cirelli Foods of Middleboro, New England’s largest family-owned broad line foodservice distributor,  has acquired Savage & Company of Framingham, an independent baking distributor. Originally founded in Brockton more than 60 years ago, Cirelli Foods serves more than 4,000 customers in the Northeast, including independent restaurants, multi-chain units, schools, healthcare facilities, non-profits, and other foodservice operations. Locally owned and operated for [...]

As someone who lives in the Everett Square area, I think this is an awesome idea. My only caveat is that I would not want to see cars or trucks stored on this site, but simply make the site the home of police and DPW administrative offices. The DPW and Police Station Building study committees are both eyeing the former [...]

It would appear that the Wampanoag Tribe is conceding a bit of defeat here… The Mashpee Wampanoag are still focusing their attention on opening an Indian casino in Middleboro, but the tribe’s new leaders say it’s not their singular focus. With well-documented hurdles to that plan — a Supreme Court decision that limits taking land into trust for tribes recognized [...]