Just as the holiday music starts to play before Thanksgiving, Middleboro Gas & Electric customers are getting a break from their electric and natural gas expenses before the holiday arrives. At their recent meeting, department commissioners voted unanimously to grant an additional ten percent discount for all electric and natural gas residential customers in Middleboro and Lakeville. This holiday tradition [...]
On Tuesday, November 3rd, Middleboro voters passed adopted the Community Preservation Act. The 4,371 to 3,795 win for proponents of the adoption of the 2000 state law came as a surprise, given the fact that local voters turned down the program in 2002 when times were considerably better financially. The plan calls for a 1 percent surcharge that will cost [...]
The Henry B. Burkland School and Middleboro High School each received $750 grants from the ExxonMobil Education Alliance program to support the schools’ local programs. The two local New England Farms stores within Middleboro coordinated the grants. The ExxonMobil Educational Alliance program is designed to provide Exxon and Mobil retailers with an opportunity to invest in the future of their [...]
The Trustees of the Middleborough Public Library announce an Amnesty (Fine Free) Week from November 22 through November 28, 2010. Any overdue Middleborough item returned during that time will have the fines cancelled, no matter how long it has been out. Simply drop off your overdue books or media items into the bookdrop or at the main desk. The Library [...]
The town’s technology manager is continuing to stick up for financial software that is more than 20 years old, saying it suits the town’s needs even as a special committee works to improve what consultants have branded a staggeringly outdated technology system in town. Roger Brunelle Sr., the town’s information-technology director and a member of the special committee, has defended [...]
Middleboro Selectmen will hear a plan to buy eight homes in Woloski Park using $685,606 in federal funding through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Woloski Park is in a flood zone along the banks of the Taunton River and Purchade Brook. There are 10 homes in the neighborhood. Eight homes and three vacant lots are targeted for a buyout with [...]
In honour of Remembrance Day, Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, announced the first ever online launch of the largest collection of Canadian military records related to the death and burial of soldiers who fought in the First World War. The company has also announced that select Canadian, US and British military records will be available for free from November [...]
Ancestry.com, which has the largest online collection of historical military records, today added more than 115,000 U.S. Military Academy Cadet Application Papers from West Point to its online collection of military records to commemorate Veterans Day. The West Point Application Papers include letters from applicants from 1805-1866 requesting appointment, letters of recommendation and notification from the War Department if the [...]
ObituariesHelp.org launched a new Large Family Trees Template page filled with oversized charts in nine, ten, eleven and twelve generations with more generations and designs to come – for free! Melanie Walters, founder of ObituariesHelp.org is an advocate of free genealogy and believes that resources should be made available to people. She says, “I created these free family tree templates [...]
One company was from New Hampshire, the other from East Bridgewater. Only $4,000 or so separated the amount they sought to charge Middleboro for installing a circulation system in the Barden Hill water tank. Selectman Stephen J. McKinnon wanted to award the work to the East Bridgewater company, Aqualine Utility Corp., saying it’s better to hire a local company with [...]
