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Collyer To Run Again

On January 14, immediately at the commencement of the Select Board meeting, member Jordan Collyer asked to make a public statement. Speaking from prepared notes, Collyer said he wanted to dispel rumors regarding whether or not he’d be running again in the upcoming spring elections. He confided to the public that he was a recovering […] Read more »

Boulder Usage For Wetland Development

The Marion Conservation Commission Wednesday, January 8, whittled through an agenda of many routine projects within flood and wetland buffer zones. Commissioners mostly expressed concern about a project on Dexter Road seeking to reuse boulders and build an accessory garage. Commissioners also expressed concern about a project seeking to remove an old cottage and […] Read more »

Bike Path Maintenance – Who and How

In a continued informal discussion regarding possible erosion issues sustained near the footings of benches installed at the entrance of the bike path boardwalk on Good Speed Island, environmental agent Samantha Carew reported her findings. Carew said that the benches in question were not on the original plan of record and had not been permitted. […] Read more »

Kabeyun Road Hearing To Be Continued

The Marion Zoning Board of Appeals held its first meeting of the new year on January 9. Two special permits were requested. Susan Billings of 17 Kabeyun Road sought a special permit to allow for the reconstruction of a non-conforming single-family dwelling. The building has a 7.8-foot deviation towards the property line. The owner […] Read more »

Storage Facility Sign Permit Approved

Rochester’s Zoning Board of Appeals on January 9 granted a Special Permit for multiple signage at the ExtraSpace Self-Storage facility proposed for 667 County Road. Project representative Joseph Sanda told the board last month that the developer is seeking a special permit to allow the erecting of six signs on the property. The biggest of […] Read more »

Preparing the FY26 Budget

In the run-up to the spring town meeting, Mattapoisett’s Finance Committee has begun the intensive work of studying all aspects of the town’s revenues and expenses. Members Paul Amoruso, Brian Connelly, Kathleen Costello, Aaron Goldberg, Gary Johnson, Karen Keenan, and Colby Rottler met with town administrator Mike Lorenco on January 9 to jump-start what will […] Read more »

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Events

Marion Natural History Museum

Winter tree walk with DCR forester James Rassman will be held on February 5 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. James will be leading our adult group on a walk[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Republican Town Committee

The Mattapoisett Republican Town Committee welcomes members, guests, and community members to join us on Thursday, January 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm [...] Read more »

Hello from Plumb Library

If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to try to read more, or read outside of your comfort zone, maybe joining a book club will help you acco[...] Read more »

MNHM Afterschool Programs

Creating a winter habitat will be held on January 22 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Winter can create some survival difficulties for the animals of our area[...] Read more »

A Hike, Hot Cocoa, a Campfire and a Craft

Looking for something to do on Monday, January 20 to get you and the kids out of the house and into the woods? The Mattapoisett Land Trust is combinin[...] Read more »

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Opinion

Friends of the Mattapoisett Library

To the Editor: The Annual Jewelry[...] Read more »

Sippican Woman’s Club

To the Editor: The Sippican Woman[...] Read more »

Thank you, Tobey Hospital

To the Editor; Thank you, Tobey H[...] Read more »

Project 2025

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Sports

Back From Break

Hockey The Old Rochester Regional[...] Read more »

Bulldogs Victory Before the Holidays

The Old Rochester Regional High School boys’ basketball team hosted Seekonk on December 20 in thei[...] Read more »

First Game Goes to Overtime

Old Rochester High School’s hockey team played their season opener at Dartmouth on December 15, in[...] Read more »

Futsal Champs

Beckham Harvey of Marion has an exciting journey this month. He, along with his futsal team FC Flair[...] Read more »

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Features

Alcohol: how Bad is it?

The news media have been filled with reactions to the U.S. Surgeon General’s recent pronouncement that alcohol was a major cancer risk, and that alcoholic beverages should carry a cancer warning lab[...] Read more »

Our Volatile Planet

In what can only be described as a coincidence, a surprising coincidence, Rochester’s Plumb Library along with the Friends of the L[...] Read more »

60 Years of Song

On a bitterly cold Monday, the first of 2025, members of the Sippican Choral Society met in the northern section of the Wickenden Chapel on Marion’s Spring Street. For sixty years, the choral societ[...] Read more »

Norovirus – What You Need to Know

There are many gastrointestinal infections that spread person-to-person, including E. coli, salmonella and listeria, but by far the most common is the norovirus. &n[...] Read more »

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Happenings

MA Preservation Projects Fund 2025 Grant Cycle

Secretary William F. Galvin, Chair of the Massachusetts Historical Commission is pleased to announce that Round 31 of the Massachusetts Preservation P[...] Read more »

UCC Celebrates a Historic Milestone

United Congregational Church is excited and honored to announce the ordination of Patricia Berry, the first woman ordained in the church’s 330-y[...] Read more »

River’s Edge Book Club

The River’s Edge Book Club of Marion hosted a successful annual Holiday Children’s Book Drive this past December 2024. This season, the Bo[...] Read more »

From the Files of the Rochester Historical Society

This fall I was driving along Rte.202 in Western Massachusetts. It was after the leaves had left the trees and the landscape struck me as quite gray a[...] Read more »

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