A Jewish genealogy organization has teamed up with a popular family heritage website to help people researching distant Jewish relatives. Jewish research charity Jewishgen holds more than 14 million records which researchers can consult about their Jewish ancestry. The organization has agreed a deal with Tel Aviv-based My Heritage, a website which has 50 million members. Users create profiles to [...]
The selectmen, still miffed that the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has backed out of a casino deal in town, want the tribe to continue honoring one of the provisions of the pact – namely, a $250,000 annual payment to the town. The board this week dashed off a letter to the Department of the Interior to report that the Mashpee have [...]
The Oak Point Veterans Association will host a “Meet the Candidates” night Wednesday, Aug. 25. Candidates running for all constitutional, county and local offices regardless of party affiliation will be invited to attend. This event is being held at Oak Point, and area voters are encouraged to attend. The Oak Point Veterans Association sends “Care Packages” to troops on a [...]
A local Middleboro business has received a grant for $162,320, one of the state’s largest awards for a solar-powered project, in a second round of stimulus grants through the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. 4M 16 Commerce LLC, run by Walter J. Zaverucha and Stephen Jewell, propose a 200-kilowatt solar field atop the former Computer Boards building on Commerce Boulevard. [...]
A letter from the Board of Selectmen is on its way to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, warning it to proceed with caution on the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s required application to put land into trust so the tribe can move forward with a casino. Selectmen on Monday unanimously supported sending the letter, which details their mistrust of the tribe [...]
Nearly $1 million in no-interest federal loans will soon be available to improve substandard housing in the town center and Lakeville’s Clark Shore and to help homeowners in danger of foreclosure. Lakeville and Middleboro have received a community-development grant of about $910,000 that will be distributed through Middleboro’s Office of Economic and Community Development, which hopes to improve 15 homes [...]
Selectmen this week voted to establish a committee that would implement a consultant’s recommendations to improve the town’s technology. Last month, consultants told selectmen there are “gross inefficiencies” in the town’s practices and offered solutions to revamp the aging and inadequate systems. For more information, visit EnterpriseNews.com. You can find a copy of the IT Assessment on Nemasket.net.
A small-to-medium size business (SMB) is different from a large corporation in many ways (I don’t think that I am breaking any news by this statement). An SMB views the world differently. Aside from the obvious facts that an SMB has smaller revenues, fewer people and (probably) a narrow product or service scope, there are other less obvious differences in [...]
The Middleboro Historical Museum will welcome visitors to four of its seven period buildings from Wednesday through the end of September. Guests are welcome between noon and 3 p.m. and by appointment. The museum’s collection includes two 1820-era mill houses, a blacksmith shop and the 1700-era Sprout Tavern Outhouse, the oldest of the buildings, among other artifacts. The museum is [...]
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