Middleboro police are helping the state Department of Correction to contact residents who want to be on the Rapid Notify System, which can contact people within a mile of the Bridgewater prison of a prisoner escape. Up to 1,000 phone numbers can be notified within three minutes of a prisoner escape through the system, according to Police Chief Bruce D. [...]
Fifteen homeowners in Middleboro and another five in Lakeville could receive zero-interest loans through a housing rehabilitation program that would be a major piece of the state grant the towns are applying for jointly, Community Development Director Anna Nalevanko told the selectmen Monday night. The selectmen in both towns voted Monday night to apply for a Community Development Block Grant [...]
Skeptical that Gov. Deval Patrick will be able to follow through with his promise to level-fund local aid next fiscal year, Town Manager Charles J. Cristello is sticking with his original budget that projects a 4 percent, or $800,000, cut in local aid. Cristello met Monday with selectmen to review the town budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins July [...]
Every community in the Taunton area saw unemployment increase in December, and Taunton, Lakeville, Middleboro and Rehoboth broke the double-digit mark. To the south, Fall River has state’s second highest unemployment rate, 16.9 percent, while New Bedford’s is 15.8 percent. Lawrence, located north of Boston, has the highest unemployment rate in Massachusetts, 17.8 percent. Get the rest of the story [...]
Family historians and genealogists who hit walls searching for information about ancestors should try Live Roots at www.liveroots.com, a genealogy search engine. It also is available as a Facebook application. The project, under development by D’Addezio and Genealogy Today, offers access to one-of-a-kind family history files working in sync with genealogy providers and files collected by D’Addezio. To search, type [...]
Cars stacked in piles four or five high, oozing oil, the smell of evaporating gasoline permeating the air — it is the common vision of an automotive salvage yard. But another look at a modern autmotive recycling plant shows that a dramatic evolution has taken place in the business. Middleboro Recycling Inc. is a family-run business that opened in 1947, [...]
The United States is a country inhabited almost entirely by immigrants. From 1836 to 1914, 30 million people emigrated from Europe. In her new release, “How Will I Know Where I’m Going, If I Don’t Know Where I’ve Been? A Genealogical Journey” (published by AuthorHouse), Elizabeth Ruderman Miller offers those interested in their ancestry hope, how-to and a look at [...]
Campaigns advocating tax-limit overrides for operational budgets are expected to be few and far between this year, just as they have been for the last two years. But one that has started early is a $2.4 million proposal in Middleborough to help fund local schools. A new group called Yes4MiddleboroSchools plans to vigorously promote the requested tax increase over the [...]
The Patrick-Murray administration announced 43 grants totaling $662,000 for projects that will help farmers mitigate or prevent negative impacts to natural resources from agricultural practices. Awarded through the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources’ (DAR) Agricultural Environmental Enhancement Program (AEEP) grants went to farms in the towns of Ashfield, Barnstable, Bernardston, Carlisle, Carver, Conway, Deerfield, Duxbury, East Longmeadow, Egremont, Hadley, Harvard, [...]
Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment [...]
