Middleboro is one of 38 communities in Massachusetts receiving a share of $4.5 million in federal funds to help curb youth substance abuse. Middleboro Youth Advocates, a group that includes parents, substance abuse agencies and members of local government, will get $100,000. The Drug Free Communities Support Program is distributing the money in conjunction with the White House Office of [...]

Recently, I wrote a blog post about how Middleboro, Massachusetts’ town government could use traditional and non-traditional media to communicate with residents and businesses. As Hurricane Irene (or, more technically speaking, Tropical Storm Irene) blew through town, I started to think about how the town could have used a variety of channels to communicate what was happening. After we lost [...]

The Hannah B. Griffin Shaw Home for the Aged will more than double its size after a $16 million expansion adds an Alzheimer’s unit and 10 private rooms in a “small neighborhood” center. The expansion will add 60 beds to the current 47-bed facility at 299 Wareham St. and more than double its square footage to 59,500. The will also [...]

Route 105 will be the dividing line for school placement as younger students to the north will go to one school at the elementary complex on Mayflower Avenue and those to the south to the other school. The Middleboro School Committee recently heard a plan to divide the town in half, with the line weaving through the downtown, for a [...]

Lately I’ve been seeing articles about companies banning social media in the office as well as some companies (mostly overseas) that have banned the Internet all together. My immediate reaction to these stories is that these companies are not the norm and that’s why journalists are writing about them. A study from Robert Half Technology found that 38% of chief [...]

Dialysis patients will no longer have to depend on volunteers to drive them out of town for treatments thanks to a $140,000 grant that will provide transportation for Middleboro residents to the Raynham and Taunton area. Francis Gaye, regional administrator for the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority, said the New Freed Funding grant was issued by the Federal Transit [...]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has offered Middleboro a $2.2 million grant that would increase the ranks of the Fire Department and help reopen stations in the north and south ends of town. Fire Chief Lance Benjamino was notified by U.S. Senators John F. Kerry and Scott Brown that he was the only chief in Massachusetts to get a FEMA [...]