Oak Point will hold its 11th annual yard sale on Saturday, May 1 (rain or shine ) at 200 Oak Point Drive. This is a community-wide effort. The yard sale will be held in the parking lot of the clubhouse and in the gym from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each year organizers collect as many as four 40-foot containers [...]

Middleboro officials are optimistic that the state will contribute to the cost of redesigning the Middleboro Rotary. This week, Gregory Bialecki, the secretary of Housing and Economic Development, visited the rotary and the Route 18 corridor at the invitation of state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton. Town Manager Charles J. Cristello said town officials also learned that the state “will be [...]

The town’s Health Department employees will investigate and report communicable diseases in Raynham, under an agreement authorized by selectmen last week. The agreement makes Middleboro health employees available to Raynham for public-health nursing services, including tuberculosis control, outbreaks of suspected food poisoning and all diseases that pose a danger to public health or are reportable by law to the state [...]

Herring are flourishing in local rivers, lakes and ponds, providing a vital link in the food chain that promises to attract plenty of wildlife inland and at sea this spring and summer. The herring, also known as alewife, are making their yearly trek from the ocean to the Assawompset Pond Complex, traveling more than 40 miles from Mount Hope Bay, [...]

Middleboro’s Board of Selectmen will hold a discussion next month on a proposal to temporarily ban construction of fossil-fuel power plants statewide. The board will take up the topic at its regular meeting May 24, and plans to invite representatives from a regional task force on the proposed Brockton power plant, along with representatives from Middleboro Gas and Electric Co. [...]

The town’s public infrastructure suffered more than $450,000 in damage from last month’s flooding, according to federal and state officials who inspected the town last week. Town Manager Charles J. Cristello told selectmen on Monday that representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency and other officials inspected the worst sites in town, including Summer Street, [...]

An effort to punish with a $50 fine those who do not pick up after their dogs ended as town officials decided to try an education program instead. Selectmen voted unanimously Monday night to remove a town meeting warrant article that would make it illegal for dog owners not to clean up after a pet in a public way and [...]

Town meeting has supported programs that preserve farmland and now voters may be asked if they support a new technology – a solar farm in town. A developer who had planned to build a wind farm has blown off the idea and in its place hopes to build a solar farm as part of a land deal that involves swapping [...]

Rail commuters already experiencing slower rides into and out of Boston from the southern suburbs should brace for things to get worse in the fall. That’s when the MBTA expects to start replacing nearly 145,000 concrete ties that are crumbling after only 12 years along the Old Colony rail lines to Middleboro and Kingston-Plymouth. The problem first surfaced in 2007, [...]

Paul Provencher, the town’s director of veterans services, is looking for volunteers to replace veterans’ cemetery flags on May 8, 2010. Volunteers will be served breakfast at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2188 on Station Street. From there, they will visit Middleborough’s cemeteries. Provencher said he expects the effort to be wrapped up by lunch. If it rains, the [...]