https://southcoast360.com/town-lakeville.html Local news for the South Coast of Massachusetts, from posted public documents. en-us https://southcoast360.com/art/app/feed-144.pnghttps://southcoast360.com/town-lakeville.html144144 Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:09:09 -0500 https://southcoast360.com/apponequet-football-season-tribute-nov-7-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/apponequet-football-season-tribute-nov-7-2026.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:09:09 -0500 South Coast 360 Sports Desk Freetown A year after going 2-9, Apponequet won all eight regular season games behind Joe Procaccini, the Canessa brothers and sophomore Pete Suneson, and its 21 seniors play once more on Thanksgiving. https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-heating-oil-6-18-rehoboth-freetown-lakeville-most-oil-homes-nov-7-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-heating-oil-6-18-rehoboth-freetown-lakeville-most-oil-homes-nov-7-2026.html Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:29:43 -0500 South Coast 360 Business and Real Estate Desk South Coast Heating oil averaged $6.176 a gallon in Massachusetts on Nov. 2, $2.55 more than a year ago. About two in three Rehoboth homes heat with it, against about one in 20 in Fall River. https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-boards-no-recommendation-plate-reader-ban-blight-bylaw-nov-5-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-boards-no-recommendation-plate-reader-ban-blight-bylaw-nov-5-2026.html Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:20:33 -0500 South Coast 360 Town Hall Desk Lakeville The Select Board and Finance Committee voted Nov. 4 to make no recommendation on two citizen petitions, a plate reader ban and a blight bylaw. Town Counsel warned of legal problems in both. https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-flood-watch-2-to-4-inches-rain-through-saturday-nov-5-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-flood-watch-2-to-4-inches-rain-through-saturday-nov-5-2026.html Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:52:28 -0500 South Coast 360 Breaking and Public Safety Desk New Bedford The Flash Flood Warning for New Bedford, Fall River, Dartmouth, Wareham and 12 other places expired at 11:30 p.m. Friday and was not extended, and a Flood Watch runs until 10 a.m. Saturday, the Weather Service said. https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-miaa-football-playoff-brackets-seeds-nov-1-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/south-coast-miaa-football-playoff-brackets-seeds-nov-1-2026.html Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:09:20 -0500 South Coast 360 Sports Desk Fairhaven Abington beat Wilmington 46-28, so Joseph Case plays at No. 3 Abington on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Division 6 Round of 8, as both schools list it, and Old Rochester plays at unbeaten Hudson the same night. New Bedford plays at Springfield Central on Friday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-special-town-meeting-nov-18-license-plate-reader-ban-blight-bylaw-oct-31-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-special-town-meeting-nov-18-license-plate-reader-ban-blight-bylaw-oct-31-2026.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:03:05 -0400 South Coast 360 Towns Desk South Coast A citizens' petition on Lakeville's Nov. 18 Special Town Meeting warrant would bar town departments from using license plate readers or facial recognition. A blight bylaw with fines and battery storage zoning are also up. https://southcoast360.com/raynham-brush-fire-cobb-street-berkley-dighton-rehoboth-crews-oct-30-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/raynham-brush-fire-cobb-street-berkley-dighton-rehoboth-crews-oct-30-2026.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:38:43 -0400 South Coast 360 Breaking and Public Safety Desk South Coast Raynham firefighters sent to a report of an unattended campfire near Cobb Street on Friday night, Oct. 30, found a brush fire spreading fast in the wind. Tankers from Berkley, Lakeville, Middleborough and Rehoboth and a Dighton forestry unit helped put it out, the fire chief said. https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-police-seek-missing-15-year-old-sophia-herrera-oct-22-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/lakeville-police-seek-missing-15-year-old-sophia-herrera-oct-22-2026.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:00:53 -0400 South Coast 360 Breaking and Public Safety Desk South Coast Lakeville police are asking for the public's help to find 15-year-old Sophia Herrera, last seen leaving Apponequet Regional High School at about 10:48 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21. Police ask anyone who sees her to call 911. https://southcoast360.com/freetown-planning-board-beech-bluff-farm-composting-oct-20-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/freetown-planning-board-beech-bluff-farm-composting-oct-20-2026.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:01:00 -0400 South Coast 360 Town Hall Desk Freetown Happy Trails Farm LLC wants a special permit for commercial composting on 5.27 acres of Beech Bluff Farm off Chace Road. The Freetown Planning Board resumes the hearing Oct. 20, after ordering a town engineering review of the plan. https://southcoast360.com/early-voting-this-week-acushnet-dighton-lakeville-seekonk-wareham-oct-19-24-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/early-voting-this-week-acushnet-dighton-lakeville-seekonk-wareham-oct-19-24-2026.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:30:00 -0400 South Coast 360 Town Hall Desk South Coast Early voting places and this week's hours in Acushnet, Dighton, Lakeville, Seekonk and Wareham, plus the Saturday, Oct. 24, voter registration deadline. https://southcoast360.com/halloween-events-marion-wareham-dighton-lakeville-oct-2026.html https://southcoast360.com/halloween-events-marion-wareham-dighton-lakeville-oct-2026.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:30:00 -0400 South Coast 360 Community Desk South Coast Marion police Trunk or Treat Oct. 24, Wareham's Trick or Treat on Main Street Oct. 30, Dighton library movie nights and Lakeville's candy drive.