The town’s new holiday schedule for rubbish and recycling pickup takes effect next month, and will require residents to recondition themselves on when to take out the trash. The new schedule shifts regular collection forward a day when there is a holiday. If the holiday falls on a Monday, as it will on July 5, the entire week is shifted [...]

Selectmen have refused to meet with a political action committee that has been demonstrating in front of the post office for months. The board decided unanimously to deny the LaRouche Political Action Committee’s request for a meeting, on the grounds that the group’s agenda concerns national matters over which the selectmen have no say. Get the rest of the story [...]

U.S. Officials can’t account for all early applications, but from 1810 to 1925, the State Department issued more than 1.5 million passports. They are housed at the National Archives in Washington. For the most part, the government issued passports only to citizens. For brief periods (1863 to 1866 and 1907 to 1920) the government also issued passports to aliens who [...]

Project Life Saver, which helps track individuals who are afflicted with an illness that cause them to wander, is close to being implemented in the town. Ed Beaulieu, a trustee for The Future of Middleboro Trust, which is sponsoring the program, said training was completed last week for police, fire, and health department personnel. “It will be up and running [...]

Technology consultants are expected to advise selectmen tonight to hire a new information-technology chief to oversee operations in the general government and the schools. In a report to the board, consultants from the Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management call the town a $66 million entity whose mid-1980s technology model is causing gross inefficiencies. Those problems, they say, [...]

Police will be patrolling house parties and monitoring ID checks at liquor stores to crack down on underage drinking this summer. Officers have teamed up with Middleboro Youth Advocates to send a strong message to the community that underage drinking is unacceptable. The partners aim to reduce underage drinking and over the summer will be on party patrol and perform [...]

Despite an infusion of more than $200,000 to the school budget at Monday’s town meeting, 30 teachers will be laid off. School Committee member Sara M. Cederholm said at Thursday’s meeting that 16 kindergarten and elementary teachers will be laid off, at least six teachers at the middle school and six at the high school. There also will be four [...]

School Superintendent Robert M. Sullivan has announced three finalists for the job of high school principal and two for middle school headmaster. The high school principal finalists include Paul Branagan, who has been the assistant high school principal since March; Whitman-Hanson Regional High School Principal Edward S. Lee; and Duxbury High School Assistant Principal Diana M. Myers-Pachla. They were among [...]

Marcia Buiser of Watertown, Mass., Erin McKenna of Boston, Thomas V. Casey II of Grafton, Mass., Paul DiCarlo of Middleboro, Mass., and Janel Lanphere of Pawtucket, R.I., have developed particles. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,727,555 on June 1. The patent has been assigned to Boston Scientific SciMed Inc., Maple Grove, Minn. According to the abstract released by [...]

The road Joe Ciaglo took to work will soon bear his name. Ciaglo, who died last month after 24 years as wastewater superintendent and two months of retirement, will be honored with a street sign on Access Way, which leads to the wastewater plant. The road will be called Joe Ciaglo Way. Selectmen approved the name change last week at [...]