Election Day is almost here! Get ready to rock ‘n roll and vote for your favorite candidates on Saturday, April 2, 2011!! Read all about the people who are running and then voice your opinion by casting your ballot. A four-way race is happening for the two seats on the Board of Selectmen currently held by Marsha L. Brunelle and [...]

Starting in late April and into May, you can forget about grabbing a weekend train up to Boston for a jaunt to the museums or Back Bay shops. That’s because rail workers have resumed the $91.5 million project to replace defective concrete ties on 61 miles of commuter rail lines on the South Shore. But suspending weekend rail service is [...]

Middleboro’s Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to sign a memorandum of agreement with the clerical and council on aging unions, which includes no wage increase for the current fiscal year and a change in health plans that will bring savings to the town. Town Manager Charles J. Cristello told selectmen that the unions agreed to incorporate the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance [...]

Updated March 21, 2011: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has rejected the town’s request for a traffic light at Clark Street East and Route 105, but has agreed to perform some road work to ease congestion there. First Reported July 14, 2009: The state highway department is considering installing two traffic lights on Route 105, one by McDonald’s and the [...]

Steve Rohleder, group chief executive of Accenture’s Health & Public Service operating group, makes an argument for towns and cities across the United States to look at shared service model for some of their functions. Does every town in America really need its own police force, fire department, and dog catcher? Must every municipality have its own back-office administrative bureaucracy [...]

ABC Media Productions plans to shoot on location in Middleboro for a reality documentary pilot show entitled “Ghost Town.” The Board of Selectmen this week granted permission to the company to film in town from March 29, 2011 to April 1, 2011. “The show is a reality documentary style show focusing on the life and work of Maureen Hancock, a [...]

Middleboro’s Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to approve a three-year contract for Town Manager Charles J. Cristello. Cristello, who currently earns $133,900 annually, will not seek a salary increase this year or next year. His current salary reflects a 3 percent pay increase that the selectmen authorized last year. He did not accept that until recently, saying he wanted to [...]

Mocavo.com, a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an important industry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family [...]

Middleboro’s election season is ramping up and soon will be in full swing. As a marketing/communications professional, however, one candidate stands out from the rest of the pack. Allin Frawley has launched his campaign for Board of Selectmen with – GASP! – a website. A really nice website, at that. It tells you who he is and what he stands [...]

In November 2010, Perkins Paper, a family owned company, bought out Cirelli’s, for an undisclosed amount. The stock, drivers and warehouse personnel in Middleboro were moved to the Taunton facility, said Dan Healy, Perkins director of finance. He said a few people were laid off, but he hopes that if sales rise from $380 million to the $450 million goal, [...]