Lakeville News

The race for the four Lakeville seats on the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District Committee got even more interesting as the deadline passed for taking out nomination papers.

Created exclusively for a H.B.Burkland-Memorial Early Childhood Center PTA fundraiser by Earth's Elements Jewelry, Hometown Beads are a one of a kind collector's item.

Students from local area named to the dean's list for the fall 2011 semester at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester included Lakeville resident Andrew Lalli, a business studies major, and Middleboro resident Anthony Barbato, who is majoring in business administration.

The Fire Department had to call in 11 off-duty firefighters to battle a garage fire while at about the same time responding to a motor vehicle accident involving a vehicle on fire on Rte.

Apponequet School Council, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 5:30 p.m., Apponequet Regional High School IMC, Conference Room 1, 100 Howland Road.

Four Lakeville seats for the new Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District Committee will be on the ballot when voters head to the polls for the April 2 town election.

Created exclusively for a H.B.Burkland-Memorial Early Childhood Center PTA fundraiser by Earth's Elements Jewelry, Hometown Beads are a one of a kind collector's item.

Board of Selectmen, Saturday, 9 a.m., Apponequet Regional High School IMC, 100 Howland Road, attend budget work session-transitional regional school committee.

The Lakeville Selectmen and the Lakeville Arts Council members have announced the award of 13 grants totaling $4,219, for cultural programs in Lakeville/Middleboro areas.

Lisa Caron Driscoll of Duxbury, in the role of Catherine, tries to comfort and reasure her father, Bruce Kaiser of Carver, that she will never leave him alone in the Theatre One Productions presentation of "Proof" this weekend in Middleboro.

On Saturday, the Clearwater & North Pinellas Times ran a story about four local men who worked feverishly through January to help finish the seven-year-long restoration of a 1946 plane for their friend Walter Crosby, who was dying from cancer.

Selectmen, acting on the request of Town Clerk Janet Tracy, have approved the annual town election warrant for April 2. Since the legislation for the election of the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District Committee has been signed by the governor, Tracy has asked to add those positions to the warrant.

The Theatre One Productions' Second Act Company version of David Auburn's "Proof," directed by Peg Holzemer and narrated by Anita Cole, begins at one o'clock in the morning on the porch of a house in Chicago.

Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate a New Bedford man from his car after the car collided with and slid under the rear of a truck on Rte.

Alex Brandon/The Associated Press Gorgeous orchids such as this Doritaenopsis "Leopard Prince" will be on view this weekend at the Cape and Islands Orchid Society show.

The Board of Selectmen signed the 10-year renewal of the cable TV license held by Comcast, which will begin many behind-the-scenes changes regarding delivering cable TV programming to the town.

Emergency legislation, passed by the Massachusetts House and Senate Jan. 12, has been signed by Gov.

The Handy house in Westport will be the site of an archeological dig next Saturday sponsored by the Westport Historical Society.

In the last 10 days, nobody has come forward to draw nomination papers for the annual town election after the original six incumbents stepped forward.

When I was growing up in Lakeville, the region, pretty much from Brockton on down was lumped together as "Southeastern Massachusetts." At least until you got to the Bourne and Sagamore bridges.