Taking advantage of warm summer nights, Stoney’s Restaurant is the third restaurant in town in recent weeks that has decided to offer an outdoor lounge area for customers. Selectmen voted unanimously to approve an application of Stoney’s Restaurant, 456 West Grove St., to alter their all-alcoholic beverages restaurant liquor license and serve alcohol outdoors. Get the rest of the story [...]
Barbato Construction Co. Inc., Middleboro, Mass., won a $61,000 federal contract from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, Mass., for the replacement of water delivery systems of fish rearing ponds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Source: Targeted News Service, May 27, 2010
Middleborough Gas & Electric is spreading a few bright ideas to the Robbins Museum of Archaeology to help the volunteer-run facility cut costs from its energy bills. While not old compared to the treasures inside of the museum, the former manufacturing building at 17 Jackson Street is showing signs of age. Not on the outside perhaps, but in its utility [...]
The ghosts who reportedly haunt the 137-year-old town hall lured more paranormal investigators Saturday night and they did not welcome them with open arms. As the investigation began with a 10-minute “quiet time” in which the investigators stand silent, the sound of a door slamming echoed throughout the town hall, according to Charlene Quimby of the Bay State Paranormal Society [...]
The town’s state representatives had little good news for selectmen when they met with them this week, telling the board to expect cuts in state aid for the fiscal year that begins July 1. State Rep. Thomas J. Calter, Rep. Stephen R. Canessa and Rep. William M. Straus met with selectmen for more than an hour. Though the state has [...]
After weeks of speculation, school officials have confirmed that Thomas P. Tatro, the School Department’s director of business and finance, is no longer in the town’s employ. Tatro, 56, has not attended a School Committee meeting since April 29, and his name has been removed from the school’s Web site. School Committee Chairman Gregory D. Thomas had declined to explain [...]
Spanning three centuries and including 52,000 local, regional, national and international titles, the British Library holds one of the world’s finest collections of newspapers. Each year the Newspaper Library at Colindale is used by 30,000 researchers in subjects ranging from family history and genealogy to sports statistics, politics and industrial history. This vast resource is held mainly in hard copy [...]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its medieval and early modern manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000 digital images and can be accessed via the Ransom Center’s Web site: http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/. The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating [...]
The commitment letter he was awaiting to help cement a casino offer arrived Friday afternoon, Mayor Will Flanagan said. “It said, ‘Yes, we are married to the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian tribe,’ ” Flanagan said of Arkana Ltd. The affiliate of Malaysian-based Kien Huat Realty and prime investor of Foxwoods Resort Casino said it would financially back a destination resort casino [...]
Selectmen this week approved a $68.38 million fiscal 2011 town budget that includes a 5.5 percent across-the-board cut due to a reduction in revenue. The budget, which is $779,968 less than last year’s $69.16 million budget, will be forwarded to the Finance Committee for review before town meeting will be asked to approve it on June 7. Town Manager Charles [...]
