Wareham News Archives

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.

For folks who love to cook with fresh cranberries, the long wait is over. Bags of Massachusetts' official berry are once again stacked high in local supermarket produce sections.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 2:54 pm US/Eastern Three Massachusetts hospitals have changed their visitor policy in hopes of limiting access to patients most at risk for H1N1 and the seasonal flu.

A jury trial date of Jan. 5 has been set for Crime Watch Director George Coleman on charges that he ran into a female pedestrian with a Crime Watch cruiser last summer.

Police are looking for a Wareham man suspected of kidnapping a woman last week in Fairhaven and forcing her to drive him into New Bedford.

B/F searching for birth parents ..born 10/07/1966 birth certificate says WAREHAM Mass..Adoptive parents resided in Nahant..Adopted a girl one year previously.

Description: To assist small business concerns by providing long term financing through the sale of debentures to the private sector.

Where the salt water of Buttermilk Bay meets the cold water springs that feed Red Brook, sea-run trout find the right conditions to lay their eggs, burying them under the stream-bed's gravel to hide them from predators.

WAREHAM, Mass. - A Taunton man who has pleaded guilty to three charges relating to spitting in a woman's face now has 72 criminal convictions as an adult.

The state will funnel $50.3 million in federal recovery funds to 10 stalled, affordable housing developments across the commonwealth.

They came to celebrate a new saint: Father Damien de Veuster, "the leper priest of Molokai" who served that island's banished sick and dying to the end, canonized in Rome on Sunday - at last.

One person was killed when a flat bed tow truck carrying an SUV collided with another vehicle on Route 495 in Wareham Thursday evening around 10:30 p.m. The flat bed tow truck also apparently hit the Route 195 bridge abutment and overpass during the accident.

Police say a flatbed tow truck has crashed into a stalled vehicle on a highway in southeastern Massachusetts, killing one person.

Al Amaral is president of the Buzzards Bay Area Habitat for Humanity. October 09, 2009 12:00 AM On Monday, Oct.

The Friends of the Wareham Community Pathway are sponsoring another Pathway Challenge to be held Monday.

Shawmut Diner in New Bedford will host a blood drive with the Southcoast Blood Bank from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct.

With the flick of a switch, a huge wooden machine that almost scrapes the ceiling springs to life at the Flax Pond Cranberry Co., carrying cratefuls of bright berries up a conveyer belt to judgment day as it did for generations here in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Among the projects on the area's Transportation Improvement Program list for future years are: Reconstruction of the Route 6-County Street intersection in New Bedford, $5.4 million, FY 2011.

The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association and A.D. Makepeace Co. will holding their sixth annual Cranberry Harvest Celebration on the Columbus Day weekend.