The Planning Board put its full weight behind the Zoning Board of Appeals in its decision-rendering process of Bay Watch Realty Trust’s request to modify a Special Permit application for its latest proposed affordable housing development. “I think we can all agree that the ZBA is doing a great job,” said Chairman Jay Ryder at […] Read more »
Rochester Trail Guide Coming Soon
Rochester expects to produce a trail guide for local walkers and hikers in 2012, the Rochester Conservation Commission discussed at their meeting on January 3, 2012. The booklet will first be distributed to members of the three organizations behind the effort, including the Trustees of the Reservations, Rochester Lands Trust and the Open Space Acquisition […] Read more »
Relay For Life of Tri-Town
Relay For Life of the Tri Town will join over 5,000 other Relay events across the nation in celebrating the ones that have survived, remembering those that we have lost and fighting back against cancer. The Relay For Life of the Tri-Town will carry this message to the people of our community on January 15 […] Read more »
Challenging Year Ahead for Rochester
Although Rochester has managed to maintain its staff, service and programs for the past four years, an ever tightening budget due to rising education and health care costs may force the town to make tough decisions in 2012, Town Administrator Richard LaCamera said. “This is going to be most challenging year the town has had […] Read more »
Rochester’s Café Parlez has Fun and Food
Café Parlez, the fiction book club, which meets at the Joseph H. Plumb Library in Rochester the last Thursday of every month at 6:30 pm, is appropriately named – they talk (parlez) and they eat (café). “I’d say once a year we’ll get a call from someone who wants to know if we are reading […] Read more »
ORR Defeats Apponequet
Girls and Boys Winter Track – Both the boys and girls went up against Apponequet High School and emerged with wins after a tense meet. The girls did well in the 55-meter, with Ally Saccone and Hannah Walsh placing in the top spots. In the thousand meter, Abby Hiller and Sam Barrett scored for the […] Read more »
Memorial Plantings Honor Departed
Losing a loved one leaves a hole that never really goes away. For survivors, gravestones may be the only place of solace to recall someone sorely missed. But the Mattapoisett Tree Committee has helped families and friends of loved ones find another way to honor and remember someone: a memorial planting. A tree – which […] Read more »
Story Hour Volunteers Needed
Do you love to see youngsters’ eyes light up when they have fun? Do you enjoy doing hands-on crafts with children? Could you spare an hour or two each week? If so, then New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park is looking for you. New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park’s weekly Friday morning story hour at […] Read more »
Makes Resolutions with the YMCA
The New Year is a time for new beginnings! For the Y – a leading nonprofit that strengthens community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility – one of the most important resolutions is to resolve to make positive changes that strengthen individuals as well as entire communities. Following are five New Year’s Resolutions […] Read more »
Give a Pint of Blood, Get a Pound of Coffee
Southcoast Blood Bank’s annual promotion, “Give a Pint, Get a Pound” returns to the region during National Blood Donor Month this January. In January 2012, anyone who donates blood at the Southcoast Blood Bank at St. Luke’s Hospital or at any Southcoast Blood Bank site or blood drive, will receive a certificate for a free […] Read more »