Barbara Welling, 82, passed peacefully at home on Saturday, March 17, 2012. A long-time resident of Mattapoisett, Barbara was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. She attended Boston University, where she received her BA in music and where she met her husband of 46 years, the late Mason Welling. They settled happily in Mattapoisett and raised […] Read more »
Helen (Walulik) Kiely, 82, of Rochester passed away on Tuesday March 6, 2012. She was the wife of the late Edmund J. Kiely. Born in Plainfield, NJ, the daughter of the late Michael and Veronica Walulik, she lived in Plainfield and Lebanon Township, NJ for many years before moving to Rochester in 2005. Helen was […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Council on Aging will host an art show this Saturday, March 24, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. The exhibit features over 30 paintings from the council’s art class. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. The Council on Aging is located at the Center School, 17 Barstow St. Read more »
When it comes to Bay Watch Realty’s 40B project, the end is yet to come. On March 22, the Zoning Board of Appeals once again continued a public hearing on the developer’s proposed affordable housing development, a 96-unit project off Route 105 that would include 60 affordable rentals and 36 single-family homes. The hearing covered […] Read more »
This course is designed for adults who would like to try watercolor painting, but do not know where to start. Students will explore different techniques, while working on landscape, still life, figurative, and /or imaginative painting, in a nurturing environment. Tuition for the 8 week session is: $160 for Members of the Art Center and […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional district fiscal year 2013 budget topped the agenda at the Joint School Committee meeting on Thursday, March 22. Superintendent Doug White provided an update to the committee on where next year’s budget stands. “When we started this back in November, and we were looking for level funding, it was about a […] Read more »
After 12 weeks of rehearsal, endless hours of memorization, and the tedious practice of perfecting English accents, students in the drama club at Old Rochester Regional High School were ready for the final dress rehearsal of their production of “The Boy Friend.” The play, which is more like a theatrical institution responsible for launching the […] Read more »
For the past five years, Kelly and Marc Weglowski, founders of “Healing little Hearts,” have been working to raise money for pediatric heart research at Children’s Hospital Boston. They have specifically focused their efforts on research of tissue-engineered heart valves that grow with a child and reduce the necessity for multiple, risky open heart surgeries […] Read more »
The Sippican Healthcare Center in Marion has been renamed this week. The new name is the Sippican Royale and she is a cruise ship heading out of Marion Harbor to the ports of call of Bermuda and Hawaii. The ship departed on Monday, March 19 and will return on March 23. “It’s been a long […] Read more »
Marion Art Center is not your grandmother’s theater. It is clear that the center is leaping into edgier material, hoping to attract audiences craving productions outside the typical realm of classical theater. Romantic Fools, a vaudeville comedy playing at 8:00 pm on March 23 and 24 at the MAC, represents this move toward contemporary theater. […] Read more »