With about 10 percent of Middleboro’s adults out of work, the town’s public library and Massasoit Community College are hosting a series of workshops to help people improve their job-hunting skills. The free workshops will take place at Massasoit’s Middleboro computer lab and will begin at a date to be decided in November, library director Danielle Bowker said. Each workshop [...]

FamilyLink announced that it has partnered with Historic Map Works to add more than 1.3 million maps and 100 billion names to its growing collections. According to the companies, the partnership will provide access to more than two million images that span several hundred years of American urban and rural development. Users can trace the histories of their homes, farms, [...]

Selectmen held a public hearing on the 34-article warrant for the Oct. 4 special town meeting and agreed there is little extra cash to fund the $1.023 million in capital expenditures sought by department heads. For over an hour selectmen heard from department heads who pleaded their case for new equipment and painted a picture of a fleet of vehicles [...]

The Middleboro Council on Aging has received a grant to offer a program entitled, My Life, My Health to the community. The program is designed for adults of any age who are living with a chronic condition. The workshops are designed to help participants set and meet personal goals, talk to their doctor about their health, make choices about their [...]

The state Legislature passed a law allowing alcohol to be served at 10 a.m. on Sundays at restaurants, but eating establishments in Middleboro won’t be doing that anytime soon. Effective on July 1, 2010, restaurants can serve liquor at 10 a.m. on Sundays, while previously it was 11 a.m. The law does not apply to package stores. However, local approval [...]

The question of whether the town should provide its own ambulance service may be put to voters in a nonbinding ballot question. Selectmen recently discussed the matter with Fire Chief Lance Benjamino, who agreed with his predecessor that the town should have a town-run ambulance service. Benjamino, who was appointed in March after having served as fire chief in Halifax [...]

Some quick tips and ideas on how to integrate social media into your marketing and communication plans as well as maintaining these channels after they are up and running… Provide Prominent Links: Clearly advertise the social network accounts associated with your organization on every page to encourage visitors to sign up. Explain What Customers Will Be Getting If They Join [...]

The ScotlandsPeople service has been updated to include Catholic Parish Registers, which cover baptisms, marriages and deaths from 1855. New features such as maps which plot results have been added to make it easier for people overseas to understand their ancestors’ lives. Visit the site at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Source: The Herald, September 6, 2010

The Friends of the Middleboro Public Library (MPL) are requesting donations for their Sept. 22-25 semi-annual book sale. (See the online events calendar at www.midlib.org for exact times.) While the greatest current need is for donations of novels/fiction, the Friends also will accept non-fiction titles, CDs, DVDs and videotapes. The library is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to [...]