Candidates for U.S. Senate Democratic nomination squared off in Lowell Monday.
Selectmen decide to continue working on connecting the police/fire station's generator to the town hall, animal shelter and the new senior center currently under construction.
Former Congressman Barney Frank's personal papers will be housed at the library on the campus of the University of Massachusets-Dartmouth.
The following is the results of the Seekonk General Election.
There are three competitive races and one measure on the ballot.
The selectmen candidate questions opponent Mike Brady's character.
A Town Meeting vote on a temporary move for the senior center is postponed indefinitely. The move could happen anyhow because the board of selectmen already approved it.
U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III participated in a live text chat on Patch Wednesday and answered a number of reader questions.
Republican Steve S. Howitt of Seekonk is asking House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo for a public hearing on his transportation financing bill.
The incumbent selectmen has spent nearly $2,500 in a self-funded campaign.
He is one of seven candidates running for two seats on the Seekonk School Committee.
The town is looking for people to serve on the Seekonk Cultural Council.
Buckley is one of two challengers in the three-man race for one seat on the Seekonk Board of Selectmen.
Brady is one of two challengers in the three-man race for one seat on the Seekonk Board of Selectmen.
Cavaco is the incumbent in the three-man race for one seat on the Seekonk Board of Selectmen
A longtime Seekonk resident makes her endorsement for the selectmen election.
If you elect my opponents, they will fall in line with business as usual.
Seekonk approves the promotion of four officers.
Seekonk selectmen vote 5-0 to deny a transient selling license for the Easter season for the location at 625 Fall River Ave.
The relocation of the temporary use for the senior center causes debate in Seekonk.
Paul Buckley is the selectmen pick. Evan Berwick and Kyle Rose are the choices for school committee.
The event will take place Thursday at the Legion Hall.
Mike Brady and Francis Cavaco take issue with each other's statements on school safety.
The session will take place at the Seekonk Library Saturday at 10 a.m.
The new Fourth District congressman will answer reader questions on Wednesday, March 27.
Congressman Joe Kennedy III will be hosting office hours Wednesday in Fall River.
The selectmen chair says there is a coordinated effort to make him look bad because certain people do not want him holding Town Hall accountable.
The meeting had been scheduled to take place on the first night of the Jewish holiday Passover.
Paul Buckley, who is running for Seekonk selectmen, says, "The lack of leadership, communication, along with understanding and sensitivity for the voters is the real issue."
The meeting is scheduled to take place the first night of the Jewish holiday Passover.
Mike Brady says the meeting should be moved so it does not fall on the first night of the Jewish holiday Passover.
Nelson Almeida says as a Catholic he would not want a meeting scheduled on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday. State Rep. Steven Howitt, who is Jewish, says he does not have a problem with a meeting on Passover, although he will probably not attend.
Pam Nolan says the error that led to the cancellation of the special Town Meeting "falls on my shoulders."
Seekonk schools will see a $34,000 shortfall if the sequester is not resolved, not to mention peripheral costs due to other cuts.
Some state legislators are moving to ban schools sending home letters to students who score overweight or obese on the Body Mass Index. Are the letters good public health policy, unwanted state intrusion or maybe both?
Locations include Boston, Lowell, New Bedford, Worcester and Springfield.
A new date for the special meeting will be scheduled.
The deadline to submit artwork is April 19.