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According to Massachusetts law, all colleges must offer a tuition waiver to elderly students. However the guidelines, which require all elderly students be at least 60 years old, part of a degree program and maintaining a proficient GPA, are too rigid for a senior just looking to take a class or two to receive this benefit. Massasoit’s answer to this [...]

Trucchi’s Supermarket has announced it will hire 150 people for it’s new store in Middleboro. James Trucchi, president of the Raynham-based grocer, said a job fair will be scheduled in the fall to fill the full- and part-time positions.The Middleboro store is expected to open in early 2012, after renovations are complete at the former Stop & Shop location on [...]

A detailed review of about a third of the documents—including all of the records related to the town manager’s office and the town planner’s e-mails but not other documents related to the town planner—provides a rare view into the Middleborough town government’s perspective of how the project came and, seemingly, went. The documents chart the project from its quiet inception [...]

Middleboro’s Board of Selectmen voted last week to approve the agreement with the Middleborough Professional Firefighters Association Local 3653. The two-year contract extends through June 30, 2012, and does not include any pay increases. Under the plan the town contributes 60 percent of the monthly premium for the PPO plan with the firefighters paying 40 percent. The town contributes 80 [...]

Middleboro will not provide roadside pick up of debris left by Hurricane Irene but will allow residents without a permit to bring debris to the landfill through the end of September, selectmen voted this week. The Selectmen voted 4-2 not to provide roadside pick-up and to allow residents without permits to use the landfill through the end of September. Selectmen [...]

Gotta love Dilbert… he always gets it right!