Middleboro selectmen came under fire this week for changing the board’s longstanding practice of allowing residents to address selectmen during the public comment portion of their meeting. According to the new policy, which went into effect June 21, 2010 residents must contact the board’s secretary the Wednesday before the Monday meeting and state what public comment or inquiry they wish [...]
Local firefighters will hold this year’s fill-the-boot campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association on Sept. 17-19, 2010. Firefighters will be out looking for donations from motorists passing through the four corners downtown and at the entrances to local grocery stores. Source: The Boston Globe, August 15, 2010
The Burt Wood School of Performing Arts will be moving to 133 Centre St. in downtown Middleboro in September. This fully equipped performing arts center will allow the school to expand its curriculum, host many events throughout the year, and serve as a rental opportunity for patrons in need of space. The new location will include five private lesson suites, [...]
The Nathan Hale Veterans Outreach Center opened its Middleboro office at 25 Wareham St. on July 1. The main programs offered in both Middleboro and Plymouth are completely free for veterans and their families. Programs include transportation to the VA Hospital for medical appointments. Veterans can go to Brockton on Tuesdays and Thursdays, to Jamaica Plain on Wednesdays and West [...]
The average customer of Middleboro Gas & Electric is expected to save about $90 a year as new rates go into effect on Sept. 1, 2010. Last week electric rates dropped for the second time this year when Middleboro Gas & Electric Commissioners passed on the savings in wholesale costs. The first drop of about a half-cent came in January [...]
The two latest online sources that have come to my attention are “London Lives” at www.londonlives.org and 19th century British Newspapers from the British Library. London Lives, subtitled “crime, poverty, and social policy in the metropolis,” covers 1690 to 1800. It guides readers to more than a dozen websites and local archives where you can pull up an abstract of [...]
Middleboro Selectmen have given Police Chief Bruce D. Gates the go-ahead to hire a part-time computer specialist. Gates said the position doesn’t offer benefits and will be up to 15 hours a week. Pay starts at $17.40 an hour and may increase with experience. The posting is available at Town Hall locations and in the police station. Gates said applications [...]
The A.D. Makepeace Company invites all who entered last year’s “Make It Better with Cranberries” cooking contest — and anyone who enjoys a crunchy cranberry pecan square or foolproof “Cranberry Fool” — to a festive release party for the cookbook resulting from the contest. The event, cosponsored by the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association (CCCGA), will be held at the [...]
New Zealanders looking to learn more about their family trees will soon have access to around three million maritime immigration records. Some 300,000 pages of passenger and crew lists noting who arrived at which New Zealand port in the 1800′s, and on what date, have been digitized and are now being uploaded to genealogy website, www.FamilySearch.org. The shipping documents have [...]
A fire can destroy a home in the space of a night, turning a lifetime of memories into ash. Family pets too can be taken, trapped inside of a burning house. However, a recent donation to the Middleboro and Lakeville fire departments will give some pets a fighting chance. Pet oxygen masks work a lot like their human equivalents, helping [...]
