Family history website www.findmypast.co.uk is making available online for the very first time fully searchable indexes and images of the parish registers of Wales. The project is taking place with the permission of the Church in Wales and Welsh Archive Services and findmypast.co.uk is working with FamilySearch International, the world’s largest repository of genealogical records, to digitise the records. Around [...]
In keeping with Governor Patrick’s commitment to protecting the environment, Department of Agricultural Resources Commissioner Scott Soares today announced 35 grants to fund projects mitigating or preventing negative impacts to natural resources from agricultural practices. Awarded through the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources’ (DAR) Agricultural Environmental Enhancement Program (AEEP), grants totaling $465,000 went to farms in the towns of Barnstable, [...]
Governor Deval Patrick today announced that the state will target $2,513,973 in federal weatherization recovery funds to replace old, inefficient heating systems with new state-of-the-art units for public housing authorities in Chicopee, Hopkinton, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mansfield, Middleboro, Provincetown, Randolph, Reading, Spencer, Wakefield, Whitman, Winchendon, Winchester and Woburn. Those heating system upgrade projects will generate jobs, and foster lower energy costs [...]
The chairman of Middleboro’s Planning Board said the town’s mileage reimbursement rate, which has remained the same for six years, is inadequate and has asked the selectmen to increase it. In a recent letter to the board, Planning Board Chairman Michael J. Labonte asks the selectmen to increase the rate from 37.5 cents a mile to 50 cents. Labonte said [...]
A nine-member group of residents appointed to find new and efficient ways for the town to use technology is set to have its first meeting in early November. The Middleboro IT Assessment Task Force is set to meet at 7 p.m. November 3, 2010 in Town Hall. The group was established in July at the direction of the selectmen. They [...]
Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I’m a chatty soul. Because I work at home, with only the dogs and rabbit to keep me company, I use Twitter as my virtual office water cooler. I learn new things, I get breaking news and it helps me get questions answered. To me, it’s a useful resource for information, laughter [...]
Dr. Charles Wall, president of Massasoit Community College, has announced the college’s commitment to open a satellite location in the Lincoln D. Lynch School in Middleboro center. Local officials and legislators addressed the large audience gathered in the selectmen’s meeting room in Middleboro Town Hall in April, extending a warm and enthusiastic welcome to Massasoit, and proclaiming their excitement and [...]
Cisco recently announced the results of an international workplace study that reveals three of five workers around the world believe that they do not need to be in the office anymore to be productive. In fact, their desire to be mobile and flexible in accessing corporate information is so strong that the same percentage of workers would choose jobs that were lower-paying but had leniency in accessing information outside of the office over higher salaried jobs that lacked flexibility…
Small businesses often live and die by word-of-mouth advertising but often don’t think about conducting more formal advertising programs or campaigns. Often, small business owners don’t think that they can afford to advertise because they are operating on shoestring budgets as they get their business off the ground and advertising is simply a cost that is beyond your reach at [...]
The Greater Boston Food Bank has presented the Middleboro-based Sacred Heart Food Pantry with its Community Partner of the Year Award. The pantry began 25 years ago and was open by appointment only, giving out only non-perishable foods, to a dozen families a month. Today it serves 800 people a month. and is open nights and weekends. Congratulations to everyone [...]
