In a poll conducted at the end of last year, Pew Research asked about online connections to communities and neighbors and found that in the 12 months preceding their survey: 22% of all adults (representing 28% of internet users) signed up to receive alerts about local issues (such as traffic, school events, weather warnings or crime alerts) via email or [...]
The Middleboro Police Department has 75 bicycle helmets available for distribution to residents this summer. This program is part of the 2010 statewide bicycle safety program of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Massachusetts law requires children 16 years of age or young to wear a property fitted and fastened helmet when on a bicycle. Contact the Middleboro [...]
Residents will get a break on their trash fees, but it won’t go far because sewer and water rates are going up. Selectmen voted unanimously Monday to drop the trash pickup fee from $208 a year to $204. But the board voted to increase water and sewer rates by 5 percent on the recommendation of Town Manager Charles J. Cristello. [...]
An alligator has been found in a pond in Middleboro, Massachusetts. A person found the alligator while fishing in a local body of water. The person turned the two-feet-long gator in to Massachusetts State Police. The gator will be turned over to a reptile expert. Watch the news video from NECN and WHDH. Not long after the story about the lost [...]
Altimeter Group conducted research, and gleaned input from 34 vendors, agencies, and experts, to determine success criteria and develop a roadmap for Facebook page best practices. They found Eight Success Criteria for Facebook page marketing, and then tested the maturity of 30 top brands across six industries. The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing View more documents from Jeremiah [...]
What began as a group of passionate actors getting together to do theater has quickly transformed into a theater company on the move. The Rogue Theatre doesn’t have a location per se, but what it does have are actors who love what they do and want to share their talents with everyone. President of The Rogue Theatre, Matt Bruffee, said [...]
The facilities expansion project at Soule Homestead in Middleboro received $10,000 in financial support from Mayflower Bank recently. Mayflower has supported the Soule Homestead for many years, the bank said in a news release. The project will provide multiple restrooms, including a handicapped accessible restroom, a handicapped accessible kitchen facility, and an additional handicapped accessible classroom/function space. The project includes [...]
The Middleboro Public Library (MPL) has added a new job search and resume/portfolio creation computer program to its website for its patrons looking for work. Called “Optimal Resume,” this web-based program allows patrons to easily create high-quality multimedia resumes and share them online. Unlike creating a resume in a word processing program, Optimal Resume offers styled templates and easy formatting, [...]
Footnote.com and Lowcountry Africana announced the launch of a new collection of historical records from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History containing estate inventories and bills of sale for Colonial and Charleston South Carolina from 1732 to 1872. FamilySearch International donated the copies of the microfilm of the original historical documents. Charleston’s role as a port of entry [...]
Middleboro Town Hall is hemorrhaging money through inefficient power use, according to a town group committed to energy efficiency. Jeffery Stevens, chairman of the town’s Green Energy Committee, presented the selectmen last week with a 21-page report detailing Town Hall’s energy use. He also suggested ways to cut Town Hall’s energy costs by $12,000 a year, for a one-time expense [...]
