Communities
05/28 Literacy Teachers Defend Professional Development Initiatives
Literacy teachers this week spoke out to defend their work in the district, and said that teachers' union President Laura R. Carlyle does not speak for everyone when she criticizes the district's investment in professional development. 0
05/28 Fall River Land Set Aside For Mashpee Tribe's Casino
Tribe Gets Option To Purchase 300 Acre Resort Property For $21 Million 0
05/21 Mashpee Tribe Leaves Middleborough For Fall River
Tribe And City Officials Tout Jobs Potential, But Long Series Of Obstacles Still Lies Ahead For $500 Million Resort 0
05/21 FAA Signs Off On Cape Wind
The good news keeps coming for the Cape Cod Wind Farm, which this week received a crucial approval from the FAA. 0
05/21 School Board Set For Final Review Of Standards-Based Report Cards
Standards-based report cards are an attempt to change the type of information teachers gather, and parents receive, about their child’s educational progress. 0
05/21 DA Says School Committee Violated Open Meeting Law - Matter Could End Up In Court
The school committee will meet next week to mull over the assistant district attorney’s ruling that the proceedings of a recent meeting at which they renewed the contract of Superintendent Mary Ellen Johnson are null and void. 0
05/14 School Committee Wrangles Over Special Ed Plans - Public Frustrated With Lengthy Debate
It took nearly two hours on Wednesday evening for the school committee to approve a trio of job descriptions for positions in the district’s special education department. The protracted discussion earned the committee a frustrated response from parents. 0
05/14 Company Denies Work Caused Landfill Stink
Steven Boyd, owner and principal of Waterhouse Road-based Hydros—the company that entered into a 2007 contract with the Bourne landfill to find a low-cost microbial solution to controlling the odor-causing hydrogen sulfide gas coming from the facility—visited the Bourne Board of Health on Wednesday. 0
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