Middleboro has applied for a $1.3 million MassWorks grant to redesign Everett Square (a.k.a. John Glass Square)…

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The Virginia Historical Society recently launched Unknown No Longer, a database of Virginia slave names. The database builds on work of the Historical Society’s “Guide to African American Manuscripts.”

Middleboro’s Conservation Commission has a vacancy and invites local residents to apply…

Archives.com has joined in partnership with the National Archives of the United States to provide the public with free digital access to the 1940 Federal Population Census beginning on April 2, 2012. In close collaboration with the National Archives, Archives.com will build a website for researchers to browse, view, and download images from the 1940 Census, the most important collection of newly released U.S. genealogy records in a decade…

The state moratorium on river herring fishing ends in December, but the Atlantic States Fishery Commission has issued a moratorium for the entire East Coast commencing in January on river herring fishing…

Ken Kimmel, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, announced the contaminated soil at Rockland Industries at 255 Plymouth St., will be removed by December 31, 2011 either by the owners or his agency. Kimmel said Rockland Industries was notified in an October 25, 2011 letter that a deadline had been set and, if need be, the DEP will move forward with the cleanup…

Oak Point, one of Middleboro’s over-55 residential complexes, was sold this week to an Illinois company for $55 million, the largest real-estate sale in Middleboro history. Hometown America, a privately held company based in Illinois, purchased the 1,000-acre, 870-unit Oak Point complex. Hometown owns and operates more than 100 manufactured housing communities across the country.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced that material from four Museum collections containing information on more than 30,000 victims of Nazi persecution is now available online at Ancestry.com and can be searched at no cost. The collections contain information on thousands of individuals including displaced Jewish orphans; Czech Jews deported to the Terezin concentration camp and camps in occupied Poland; and French victims of Nazi persecution.

Deceased Online is “the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland – a unique resource for family history researchers and professional genealogists.” Launched in 2008, Deceased Online already has more than 5 million records from over 30 cemeteries and crematoriums online, and consistently wins awards as one of the best UK web sites for family history…