Harper Lane Brewery a dream come true for Middleboro brewer: Top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Top stories this past week included:
More of our picks for All-Scholastics. This past week, we celebrated local athletes in: boys soccer.
The latest Greater Taunton real estate report, featuring a multi-family home in Taunton that sold for $605,000. The Russell Street home was built almost 100 years ago, in 1925, and it has two units with gleaming hardwoods, natural light, and sperate front porches. Each unit has two spacious bedrooms, one bathroom, eat-kitchens, and cozy living rooms. Check out this property, as well as other recent top-sellers.
These were the Top 5 stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
Middleboro brewer lives dream of opening taproom — with these 7 beers on tap
When Mike Pasalacqua started brewing and selling his own beer in 2018 he knew the end goal was to open his own taproom and brewery.
And now, the hard work has paid off, and the dream has come true, with the opening of Harper Lane Brewery, at 16 Wareham St., Middleboro.
Here's Pasalacqua's story, and what's on tap.
Harper Lane Brewery: Middleboro brewer lives dream of opening taproom — with these 7 beers on tap
No new noise complaints at TJ's Diner. License Commission readjusts Sunday hours.
License Commission chairman Peter Lamb says TJ's Diner owner John Deandrave has done a great job with lowering the music volume to the satisfaction of residents and no further complaints have been filed with the police department.
With these positive movements, the Commission voted Jan. 24 to amend the restaurant's Sunday hours.
Gazette Reporter Ed Baker has the story.
Hours amended: No new noise complaints at TJ's Diner. License Commission readjusts Sunday hours.
Middleboro art and gift shop offers food for the soul for local artists
The Soulful Palette, a gift and art shop, opened at the start of the year on Grove Street in Middleboro.
It offers a place where local artists and vendors can sell their art and products.
Take a look inside, right here.
The Soulful Palette: Middleboro art and gift shop offers food for the soul for local artists
City Council mulls zoning change that would allow marijuana cultivation in highway districts
Kyra Fernandez is constructing a recreational marijuana retail shop at 354 Winthrop St., and would like to add a marijuana cultivation growth facility on the same site. But, according to current city ordinances, marijuana cultivation facilities are prohibited in highway districts, only allowed in industrial districts.
Fernandez has petitioned the City Council to amend the zoning ordinance to allow combined marijuana retail and cultivation businesses in highway districts on Route 44, Route 140, and Route 138.
Gazette Reporter Ed Baker has the story.
City Council news: City Council mulls zoning change that would allow marijuana cultivation in highway districts
MBTA says South Coast Rail stations will be finished within weeks. Check out the progress.
Could we be saying all aboard soon for South Coast Rail?
Key stations in the project are almost complete, according to officials at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
See where the projects stand, including Taunton's, right here.
Rail construction: MBTA says South Coast Rail stations will be finished within weeks. Check out the progress.
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