Lakeville News

Here is Cody's acrostic poem, in which the first letter of each line spells the poem's title.

It was another star-spangled 4th of July in Freetown with the annual parade featuring everything from majorettes to a World War II tank.

Girl Scouts and cookies have gone together for more than 80 years, but recently there has been a new twist on the fundraising program.

The following area residents were named to the Bridgewater State College for the spring 2009 semester.

Teachers and other school staff in the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District will be paying more for health insurance and won't get a pay increase in the first year of their new contract, according to union pacts approved over the last two weeks.

Michael Buckley of Lakeville, a senior at Boston College High School, and the youth Prosecution Attorney of Massachusetts, Judicial Branch, was a member of the B.C. High Youth and Government delegation, which recently participated in the annual YMCA Youth & Government Conference at the Statehouse.

ALVES: of Milford, Conn., formerly of New Bedford, Mass., Saturday, June 20, 2009, Ann , 79.

The school year ended abruptly Monday at the Assawompset Elementary School, where an outbreak last week of the swine flu kept half the students home on the first school day of the week.

"I wanted to form a team because people need to know that only 3 percent of all money raised for cancer research goes towards childhood cancer and they're still using treatments from the '60s and '70s because they don't have money for research." - Stephanie Tabor, 13, cancer survivor and one of the speakers at Wareham's Relay for Life.

Kayla Carlson needed to come up with a community service project before her recent bat mitzvah, and knowing that a group can often accomplish more than one person, she teamed up with Freetown-Lakeville Middle School Friends of Rachel Club to collect six overflowing boxes of animal supplies and $267 to donate to the Lakeville Animal Shelter.

State Rep. Stephen R. Canessa will hold office hours in Freetown, Lakeville and Middleboro on Friday.

Now that the 2009 parade of high school graduations is history, I'm thinking about ... high school.

Voters approved allocation plans for a $21.5 million balanced budget, a $1 million override and a $1.7 million override during Monday's Annual Town Meeting which drew an overflow crowd to Apponequet Regional High School.

The registered voters in Lakeville, who turn out for tonight's annual Town Meeting will be asked to vote three budgets for fiscal 2010, not just one.

Watched by friends and family and bathed in warm sunlight, the class of 2009 bade farewell to Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School in Rochester at the annual graduation ceremony on Sunday.

The following graduated Thursday night from Bristol County Agricultural High School: Acushnet, Melissa Vieira; Fairhaven, Shawna LaPointe; Lakeville, Chelsea Galuski; New Bedford, Steven Albert, Amanda Couturier, Krystal Gillespie, Kallie Lima, Abishal Savino, Amanda Sylvia, Katelyn Vieira, and Mariah Whiteman; Rochester, Lindsay Aldworth and Tayla ...

Laurie Belanger stayed in a sheikh's opulent hotel, strolled the marble floors of gilded Middle Eastern palaces and dined on mint lemonade and pastry in some of the world's finest restaurants.

The Johns Hopkins Talent Search found what it was looking for at the Freetown-Lakeville Middle School: students with outstanding academic talent.

The 7th Annual Mullein Hill Christian Academy Golf Tournament will be held, Monday, June 22, 2009, at Poquoy Brook in Lakeville.

SouthCoast school districts are seeking the following amounts in federal stimulus money, which is being substituted for Chapter 70 state education aid: Dartmouth $1,018,378 Fairhaven $805,285 Fall River $9,847,697 Freetown $162,678 Lakeville $256,370 Marion $48,934 Mattapoisett $59,736 New Bedford $11,668,556 Rochester $171,858 Wareham $1,313,698 ...