Governor Deval Patrick announced that Middleboro-based Mass Tank Sales Corporation will manufacture foundations and other metalwork components of the Cape Wind renewable energy project in Nantucket Sound. In partnership with the EEW Group of Germany, the world’s leading manufacturer of offshore wind energy structural components, Mass Tank will establish the first facility in the country for the manufacture of these [...]

In a 2010 survey – “Socializing the CEO”, Weber Shandwick takes a close look at CEOs and their “social status.” The agency studied the communications of CEOs in the world’s largest 50 companies and audited traditional outreach as well as the following digital/social activities…

I have been having a lot of conversations lately about blogging. Many of the people I run across in my life are really hesitant to try blogging. Some of my team members – while they are supposed to be blogging in my company’s social collaboration system – have not yet started. The reasons are varied: They feel like they don’t [...]

Property values have seen their largest drop in four years, but the owner of the average home in Middleboro will see about a $128 increase in their yearly tax bill. Selectmen have set the residential tax rate at $13.07 per $1,000 of assessed valuation and the commercial tax rate at $13.88 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Tax bills are expected [...]

A local meals tax that was rejected in June was approved by special town meeting voters Monday. Town Manager Charles J. Cristello said the state is facing a $2 billion budget deficit and the meals tax was a way to avoid deeper budget cuts. Selectmen supported the .75 percent meals tax as a way to increase revenue without increasing the [...]

Effective May 1, 2011, Middleboro will take over management of local access TV channels that show town-government meetings, community events and local cable shows, under Middleboro’s new contract with Comcast of Massachusetts, Inc. The contract puts the town in control of public, educational and government-access programming. The contract calls for the town to purchase the channels and studio at 163 [...]

The director of veterans services for the town of Middleboro recently implicated two area charities as being involved in a “ploy” that involves telemarketers telling potential donors that they work with the director and his office. “One of them has even stated that they are working with me by name and using the name of my office in their telemarketing [...]

Monday’s special town meeting faces competition from a Little League dinner and a New England Patriots football game, hurting the chances of reaching a quorum of 150. Selectman Alfred P. Rullo Jr. said his board is making calls to residents because the meeting is necessary in order to balance the budget and set the tax rate. Rullo said the town [...]