Middleboro’s town manager has a grim budget outlook for the town in the coming fiscal year, as the state projects a $1.5 billion deficit.Town Manager Charles J. Cristello said the state budget deficit will trickle down to the cities and towns. State officials, he said, “have made it very clear that everything is on the table, including local aid cuts.” [...]

The Burkland School was awarded a grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Community Spirit 9/11 Grant Program. The $500 grant will be used to help defray the cost of purchasing fiction and nonfiction books for third grade classes. The Harvard Pilgrim Community Spirit 9/11 Grant Program was created in commemoration to those lost on Sept. 11, 2001 through a special contribution [...]

I generally don’t write about personal things on the JoryPepper.com blog, but there are some people and local companies that I would like to celebrate and could think of no better way to do that than on this public forum. So bear with me on this slight deviation from my normal rantings and musings about Middleboro, communications and genealogy… At [...]

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website. Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available. The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the [...]