Efforts to track down U.S.-held records that may assist Holocaust restitution claims are now a click—and possibly a fee—away. The U.S. National Archives and Footnote.com, a fee-based history research Web site, recently launched the largest online interactive collection of Holocaust records. The collection organizes more than 1 million Holocaust-era records, including concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz [...]
At first glance, the photo-copied documents simply looked like government forms and applications. But when Susanne Mori read more closely, she found the story of her grandfather’s life as he made his way in America more than five decades ago. Those 23 pages of facts and dates revealed how a young man, Jinbei Mori, left Japan and arrived in San [...]
With the economic downturn, many of us have cut back on our business expenditures and reduced our calculated risk-taking in order to maintain the status quo. While this may have helped to keep the business alive, it very likely came with complacency. If you’re ready to break free of the static and blow the doors off of 2010, then it’s [...]
Social networking true believers use words like engagement, responsibility, and transparency that smack of the Internet’s hippie days in the late 1990s, yet social networking has proved to be much more than a passing fancy. The exploding numbers associated with the most popular sites like Facebook and Twitter inspire awe in even the most jaded statisticians. Time spent on social [...]
Three grants worth $510,000 announced today by Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) Commissioner Laurie Burt will protect 173 acres of land vital to safeguarding the quality of public drinking water wells and reservoirs. The communities of Amherst, Middleboro, and Williamsburg will receive Drinking Water Supply Protection Grants that aim to help [...]
Foursquare is an application you can add to your smartphone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Palm Pre). When you ‘check in’ the application pulls your actual current location from the GPS on your phone and you get points for going to different locations and businesses. Here is how foursquare defines themselves: “Foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide [...]
The building commissioner reported to selectmen that housing permits were up significantly in December, which may reflect an upward turn in the housing industry. In December, the town received requests for 15 housing permits, which nearly equaled the 20 permits it issued from January 2009 through November, noted Bob Whalen. Get the rest of the story on EnterpriseNews.com.
Faced with the possibility of extensive job cuts in the Middleboro School Department, local parents and residents were to meet last night at the public library to form a group to study a $2.4 million Proposition 2 1/2 tax override to maintain level service. The measure will appear on the April 3 town election ballot. A group of parents and [...]
Commuters on the Middleboro-Lakeville commuter rail line will know precisely when their train’s a-comin’. The MBTA announced it would begin on Thursday offering real-time train arrival information along the Greenbush, Kingston-Plymouth and Middleboro-Lakeville lines. A countdown to the next train’s arrival would be displayed on large electronic boards on the train platform. The arrival time is calculated from data gathered [...]
Faced with cutting his budget an additional 4 percent next year, Fire Chief Lance Benjamino warned selectmen Monday night that emergency response times will be longer as a result. Anticipating a $2.5 million budget shortfall next year, selectmen asked department heads to cut their budgets by 4 percent in order to help balance the town budget. In order to meet [...]
