Wareham News

Police arrested seven people in three separate drug incidents last week, Public Information Officer William Fihlman said.

As supplies of the H1N1 vaccine slowly creep upward, most boards of health and providers are able to check off at least one target group on the long list of those waiting for the vaccine: pregnant women.

The New Bedford School Department has launched a sister-city project with the Cape Verdean islands of Sao Filipe and Santa Cruz in a partnership that includes the Wareham and Brockton schools and Bridgewater State College.

The Wareham Career Center, operated by New Directions, is currently accepting applications for GED and subsidized work programs for out-of-school youth in the Wareham area.

Think of someone powerful enough to move a shipping lane: to alter the path of behemoth tankers and freighters coming into Boston from Africa, Canada and South America, representing an international industry.

For Nicole and Daniel Sheffield's two young sons last year, Santa Claus did not wear a red suit, have a white beard or slide down a chimney with a bag of presents.

American Championship Wrestling comes to the Wareham Boys & Girls Club Saturday, Nov.r 14, at 7pm, featuring a heavyweight title match, tag team and inter-gender matches and more.

Transparent, respectable government still eludes Wareham, as a questionable hiring process for the town administrator follows on the heels of one selectman's suggestion that he would try to reverse Town Meeting in a spring ballot referendum.

What: A comic/serious play by Anton Chekhov about an extended, dysfunctional, Russian family in the late 1800s.

Wareham Community Television recently held its inaugural membership meeting at Salerno's in Onset.

A man and a woman were arrested in connection with a robbery at Wareham Precious Metals, Wareham police public information officer William Fihlman said in a statement Friday.

The town's new library director is out of a job just three days after being introduced at the weekly Board of Selectmen's meeting Tuesday.

A 27-year-old Wareham man is charged with unarmed robbery and larceny of drugs after handing a note demanding drugs to an associate at the Rite Aid Pharmacy on Marion Road, then fleeing the scene.

Diane Kozak, the author of "Full Circle 911" and "Exposing Eurabia", will meet with 25 students at the Wareham Cooperative Junior/Senior High School on Nov.

The Veterans Day Parade Committee is inviting organizations to participate in the town's 50th annual Veterans Day observance.

Police are investigating an unarmed robbery that occurred Monday morning. The Rite Aid on Marion Road reported a robbery at around 10:30 a.m. A man ran out the front door.

A suspected drug dealer is accused of attacking another man outside the Wareham Elks on Cranberry Highway.

A combination of a federal grant, Community Preservation funds and private donations, together totaling more than $3 million, will be used to protect more than 300 acres of land fronting on Buzzards Bay.

A Marion man with a long criminal record was arrested Friday afternoon after leading police on a foot chase.

Town meeting lasted just two evenings this week but its repercussions will be felt in town politics for months leading up to the April town elections.