January 12, 2025



~ Building Community One Positive Story at a Time.

Taunton River Watershed Alliance Announces Winners for 2025 Tide Calendar Contest

East Bridgewater resident Shari Sprong's "Winter Reflections" photo of Satucket River is featured in the Taunton River Watershed Alliance (TRWA) 2025 Tide Calendar as part of a slate of photographers to have their photos used within the calendar. The TRWA uses the profits made from the calendars to continue its mission of being “a voice for the river as an advocate for environmental protection, sustainable development, and responsible stewardship of our precious natural resources.”

For more information on the other winners of the contest and to see other ways the TWRA can be supported, as well as events being offered, please visit the TWRA Website.

To purchase a calendar, email director@savethetaunton.org or visit TRWA’s Watershed Center at Sweets Knoll State Park, 1387 Somerset Ave, Dighton, for $20, they do ask to call ahead to make sure the Center is open at  508-828-1101

Written by Dona Guerrero, BuzzAround Intern, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Source & Picture: Taunton River Watershed Alliance

Special Town Meeting

January 13, 2025 7p

143 Plymouth Street

Jr/Sr High School Auditorium

To address the Grdan W. Mitchell School Window/Roof Project

Link to open town Warrant

East Bridgewater Planning Board Meeting

1-6-25

Video Courtesy of EBCAM

EB Library

Small Animal Scavenger Hunt

Mon, Jan 13 -

Sat, Jan 18

9a-2p

EB Public Library

Join East Bridgewater Public Library for a fun scavenger hunt based on popular characters, beloved book characters, and more! Earn a small prize when you find them all.

For more information, visit the EB Public Library Calendar

EB COA Home Cooked Lunch & SINGO

Wed, Jan 15

12p

EB Council on Aging

Enjoy a home-cooked lunch of Chicken, Broccoli, Ziti, Garlic Bread, and Dessert at the EB COA!

After lunch, join in the fun with SINGO—test your musical knowledge, try your luck, and win some great prizes!

For more information, read the EB COA Newsletter

HUGS Community Christmas 2024 was a HUGE success!



I am overwhelmed by the generosity of our amazing community. 

Because of all of you, HUGS was able to help 120 families and almost 300 children have a great Christmas. 

HUGS was supported by a lot of wonderful individuals, families, businesses and organizations in and around EB. 

We would like to thank everyone who participated in any way, whether you took a tag, made a donation, participated in our raffle, volunteered your time or helped to spread the word.

Below is a list of the groups, organizations and businesses we would like to give special thanks to this year:

Bridgewater VFW Auxiliary, Bridgewater Vineyard Church, BuzzAround, Chapman Funeral Home, E Watson Excavating, EB Kiwanis Club, EB Lions Club, EB Society of New Jerusalem Church, EBHS Boys Basketball, EBHS Football, EBHS Girls Basketball, EBHS National Honor Society

EBIA, EJM Auto, Forni Bros Oil, Friends of the EB Commercial Club, Lincoln Club in memory of Joanne Noyes*, Mobile Animal Care, Rotary Club of the Bridgewaters, Salon Esprit, Secret Garden Pet Resort*, Skinner’s Sugar House, Toys for Tots , Tri Town Masons, Viking Sports Parents, Waves Salon, Whitmore’s Yard Care

Big thanks to all of our Giving Tree locations and our drop off locations:

Cadence Academy EB and Whitman locations, Center at Sachem Rock, EB Commercial Club,

Dewhurst Lumber, EB Public Library, EB Town Hall, EBCTV Studio, Happy Frog Copy Center, Johnny Macaroni’s West and Plymouth St. locations, 

Little Discoveries both locations, Paul Wolfe Motors, Paula Coffey Dance Center, , St. John’s Parish, Union Congregational Church, Whitman Fire Department.

Special thanks to all of the volunteers who gave their time and helped to make this season so successful. We could not do it without all of you!

~ Theresa McNulty EBHugs FB

Annual Town Census Has Mailed

The annual census is mailed to all East Bridgewater residents at the beginning of each calendar year, it is an important legal document mandated by Massachusetts General Laws. M.G.L. Ch. 51, Sec. 4 requires an annual street listing of residents as of January 1st each year. 

Information from the census is added to the Commonwealth's Voter Registration Information System (VRIS). Voters are required to return the form annually to retain their active status on the voter list.

The census form does not register you to vote, if you wish to register to vote or change party affiliation you must complete a voter registration form. If you are a registered voter, failure to answer the annual census may cause you to be listed as an ‘inactive voter’ and require you show proof of residency at the polls.

The annual Street List contains the name and address for all East Bridgewater residents over the age of 17 and designates those residents who are registered voters. The updated one will be available in the spring and can be purchased from the Town Clerk’s Office for $15.00. 

Please complete and return your census to the Town Clerk, as soon as possible:

• Verify and/or complete all information listed on form, as of January 1, 2025
• List ALL residents in dwelling unit, including pre-school children, college students, and those in military service. Birth dates are required. Make all changes in the shaded space below the printed line. 
• Enter the name and information for all new residents on any available blank line
• Draw a single line through any resident no longer residing at the address and indicate new address, if known to you.
• Nationality: Enter only if NOT a US citizen
• US Veteran: Indicate Yes or No
• Sign and return to Town Clerk; a self-addressed envelope is enclosed for your convenience.

East Bridgewater Town Clerk

Climate Can Do:

Doing our part to decrease Nano-plastics in the environment

To do our part, we need to stop disposing of single-use plastics as much as possible. Our throwaway culture affects our drinking water. We often prioritize convenience over consideration of long-term impacts, leading to trash cans filled with plastic and roadways littered with single-use bottles. These plastics break-down over time leaching nano-plastics into our drinking water.

Let's work together to make a change.

Here are some suggestions:

• Replace plastic water bottles with a refillable one
• Bring your own take-out container for restaurant leftovers or frequent restaurants that use earth-friendly containers
• Wash and reuse any plastic containers you get with purchases
• Purchase drinks in cans or glass, not plastic (That plastic bottle is leaching nano-plastics into your drink)
• Purchase laundry and dish detergent in Pods or Sheets instead of plastic bottles

Together, we can do it!

Climate Can Do written by Jacquelyn Rose

Source: National Institute of Health

Consumer Reports

East Bridgewater Select Board Meeting

1-6-25

Video Courtesy of EBCAM

LBGTQ+ Support Groups

Meetings every Monday at 36 North Bedford St (2nd Floor, 2nd Door on the Left).

Teens: 6:00 PM

Adults: 7:15 PM

No registration needed

just drop in!

be-community.org

Old Colony Safe Streets for All - Interactive Map and Data Dashboard

As part of the Old Colony Planning Council’s (OCPC) “Safe Streets for All” (SS4A) initiative, the OCPC has posted an interactive website – “Where Do You Want To See Safety Improvements in the Region”. Residents and other interested parties should place pins on the map showing a location with walking concerns, accessibility for people with disabilities concerns, biking concerns, driving concerns, or general concerns and leave comments and photographs (if they have them). Visit the Interactive Map to do so.

East Bridgewater High Schoolers Know How to Be in the Spirit!

EB Seniors Helped Police Pass Out Food and Gifts

High School Seniors Owen, Randy, Stephen, Madison, and Sophie helped SRO Connor, Detective Cacciatore, Officer DeJesus, Officer O’Brien, Admin Nicole Micele, and Deputy Chief McLaughlin deliver 39 meals and Christmas gifts to families donated by Guns & Hoses and Cycle Carpentry this morning. (December 20).

Reposted From: EB Police Department FB

EBHUGS Gets a Hand from EBHS Basketball Teams!

Huge shout out to EBHS girls and boys basketball for raising over $1100.00 and buying gifts for our families in need. 

These kids organized and helped out at

The center, too!!

This is what our community is all about. 

They are a great group of kids. We are very grateful for their help!

Thanks to their coaches for allowing and encouraging participation.

Thanks to Jenn Pohl for organizing and orchestrating all of these kids and making this happen!!

Reposted from East Bridgewater HUGS

WEEKLY TRIVIA GAME



Have fun with us and bee entered to win:

a free full day of doggie daycare at

Angie' Pet Care

in-home custom pet daycare in Middleboro

Value $45

Historical Tidbit Question:

The EB train station was located next to which church?

Email us your answer at: Prizes@buzzaround.info Please include your name and phone number with your answer.

Prize Box Rules

By entering, you give us permission to print your name in next week's Buzz Around.



On January 15, 2025, before 2p, we will randomly pick a winner from the correct answers.

The Buzz Around is brought to you this week by: Dona Guerrero, Jamie Puhi, Jacquelyn Rose, & Greg Venezia.

Innovation: 

Earth friendly lifestyle changes are here; bringing about new industries and ways of living that don't harm the planet. 

For energy sourcing, offshore floating wind farms are further out in the ocean, less in the way and more productive: As reported by John Upton of Climate Central and Clarisa Diaz of Quartz: Wind farming is "bringing job training for a growing army of maintenance workers known as wind energy technicians. The skills are being taught by hundreds of community colleges and other training institutions nationwide." Offshore wind farming has been booming in Europe for decades and morerecently across parts of Asia. "... oceans are reliably blustery places. Calculations by the nonprofit Environment America indicate that offshore wind farms could provide almost all of the power Americans need by 2050. That means keeping the lights, heaters, and air conditioners on and fueling a nation’s worth of electrified cars, trucks, and transit systems, all from coastal wind farms."

Looking forward folks: imagination, innovation & change for better living in sync with the environment. It's exciting. 

~ Jacquie

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