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Great Picnic85 viewsAttendees at Friday night’s Great Picnic on the one-acre Munro preserve overlooking Mattapoisett Harbor enjoyed live music and adorned their tables with creatively competitive centerpieces featuring everything from a palm tree to pickleballs. Mattapoisett Land Trust Vice President Peter Davies told the Wanderer that the Mattapoisett Museum and the MLT have jointly organized the event for five nonconsecutive years. Proceeds from the annual event support their programs. Photos by Mick Colageo-August 11, 2022
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Bird Island Lighthouse85 viewsBird Island Lighthouse was last updated in the 1990s under the initiatives spearheaded by then-Marion Harbormaster Charlie Bradley. Early this year, the town’s Community Preservation Committee recommended $28,000 in CPA funds to study the components of the lighthouse’s next renovation, a project that will go out to bid next winter and go before voters at the 2025 Annual Town Meeting. Photo courtesy Barry Mullin August 29, 2024 edition
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2021 Halloween Cover Contest84 views2021 Halloween Cover Contest by Coal Kipling
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Arabella84 viewsA large crowd gathered on a rainy Saturday morning at Shipyard Park and Mattapoisett Harbor to witness the launch of “Acorn to Arabella,” a wooden sailboat made by hand in western Massachusetts. Photos by Mick Colageo. June 22, 2023 edition
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Marion Town Party84 viewsThe weather held off as area families converged on Silvershell Beach on August 26 for the Marion Town Party. Photos by Ryan Feeney - August 31, 2023
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2024 Groundhog Cover Contest84 views2024 Groundhog Cover Contest entry by Saffron Hitchings
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Grade 2 Basketball Playoffs83 viewsThe Grade 2 basketball playoffs brought out the best in March 10 action at Center School in Mattapoisett. The Warriors earned their spot in the championship game with a big, 10-2 victory over the Heat, while the Knicks advanced to the title game, narrowly edging the Celtics, 10-8. In the final, 10-2, the Warriors defeated the Knicks, 24-14. Photos by Ryan Feeney
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Cuttyhunk83 viewsPatrick Henry, foreground, and Thomas Tseki use a rope to make waves at Barges Beach during an “Ocean in Motion” exercise, part of their June 16 day on Cuttyhunk. The two 12-year-olds from Mattapoisett were part of a group of approximately 70 Old Hammondtown Elementary School sixth graders on a science field trip organized by the Mattapoisett Land Trust Education Committee and held in conjunction with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the STEAM Academy. Photo by Mick Colageo. June 23, 2022 edition
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Rail Trail83 viewsFriday afternoon provided an opportunity to venture out behind the Benson Brook Landfill to long-abandoned train tracks that will be transformed into a stretch of the Marion Shared Use Path. This view looks west toward Mattapoisett. In the opposite direction, the bike path will cross Route 105, Washburn Park and out to Point Road. Photo by Mick Colageo
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2021 Halloween Cover Contest82 views2021 Halloween Cover Contest by Emily Ford-Hinds
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Island Wharf82 viewsA severely deteriorated seawall at Island Wharf is one of four major projects facing the Marion Harbormaster Department as it prepares grant applications and an operating budget for Fiscal Year 2024. Also in dire need of funding is decaying infrastructure at Old Landing, the town’s 17-year-old patrol boat and the planned Marine Center that in two years has become $1,000,000 more expensive due to inflated construction costs. Photo by Mick Colageo January 26, 2023
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Mattapoisett Boy Scout Troop 53 82 viewsFrom left, Mattapoisett Boy Scout Troop 53 members Lowell Copps, Rafael Duarte and Joseph Higgins install one of 10 birdhouses that were placed along the powerline property off Crystal Spring Road on Saturday. Helen Lozoraitis and Paul Duffy donated the birdhouse kits for the scouts to construct and installed the poles for mounting. With an assortment of hole sizes, the houses will attract a variety of birds that will consume many mosquitoes. Photo courtesy of Wendy Copps - June 15, 2023 edition
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