The Soule Homestead Education Center is in the second year of its “most ambitious project yet,” a $253,000 expansion that will include three bathrooms to replace portable toilets, kitchen facilities and classroom space. Soule Homestead Director Frank Albani appeared before selectmen recently to present the homestead’s annual report and provide an update on the expansion project. The first year of [...]
Brianna Grace was born to sing. With a mature, smoky voice and an acoustic guitar she is looking to take Nashville by storm. At 16 years old, Brianna has been signed to an independent record label called Pretty World Records, and has just come back from a stint in Nashville, where she recorded a three-song EP with songwriter/producer Steve Oliver. [...]
The Middleboro Republican Town Committee will host a Republican candidates Spring Meet and Greet Night, Thursday, April 1 at the Mitchell Memorial Club. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and run through 10 p.m., offering attendees the opportunity to acquaint themselves with local, state and county candidates. Each candidate will be allotted time to explain their platform and discuss [...]
The MBTA on April 5 will resume replacing defective rail ties on the commuter rail line between Brockton and Middleboro. Nine miles of track between the Campello station in south Brockton and the Middleboro/Lakeville station will be taken off-line on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Work is expected to be completed by May 7. Inbound trains headed for [...]
They’ve been blazing trails, hauling dead trees and cleaning out the Fredrick S. Weston Memorial Forest for years largely on donations and volunteer time. Selectmen and members of the committee that oversees the forest learned the fund to care for the 220-acre tract has grown substantially, from nothing to more than $450,000, due to a trust fund that bears the [...]
A virtual journey into the past has become a reality for local historians, genealogists and the public. Online access to news, sports, obituaries and feature stories that appeared in the pages of The Republican as far back as the 19th century are now available. Newsbank Inc., one of the world’s premier information providers, has scanned copies of the newspaper’s microfilm [...]
In order to encourage more people to find their ancestors and connect with family, Footnote.com, the web’s premier interactive history site, is opening all of their U.S. census documents for free to the public for a limited time. Unlike any other historical collection on the web, the Interactive Census Collection has the unique ability to connect people related to ancestors [...]
State Sen. Marc Pacheco told the selectmen Monday night that he continues to support the town’s ability to host a casino resort should that be in the cards, as it were, for Middleboro’s future. The longtime senator, who is up for reelection this year, made a personal visit to the selectmen’s meeting because, he said, he believed he had to [...]
Tracy Renée Miller is a certified feng shui consultant who has been working with both residential and business clients since 1997. Ms. Miller holds a diploma from the Feng Shui Institute and a degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia. She has appeared on HGTV and lectures on feng shui for the American Institute of Architects, the Sherwin Williams [...]
The superintendent of Middleboro schools again reiterated his position that if the town does not pass the $2.4 million Proposition 21/2 override question when they go to the polls April 3, then the schools will see a layoff of 40 teachers, class sizes as high as 40 and a decline in the school system. Dr. Sullivan presented a 42-page budget [...]
