10th Annual Benefit Pops Concert entitled “Three Generations of Disney” – Father’s Day, June 17th, 2:00pm Social Hour / 3:00pm Concert, The Grand Tent at Fireman Performing Arts Center, Tabor Academy, 235 Front Street, Marion. Come join us in an elegant, spacious tent on the scenic shore of Sippican Harbor, as cupcakes from On the […] Read more »
Richard Wheeler to paddle entire Buzzards Bay shoreline starting May 19. The Buzzards Bay shoreline, from Westport to Cuttyhunk, is 281 miles long, but rather than letting that distance separate us, local historian and educator Richard Wheeler, along with the Buzzards Bay Coalition, is seeking to connect all the communities of the region. Starting May […] Read more »
Check out these shots from the 6th Annual Tiara Mother’s Day 5K Road Race! Such a great turnout for the event! Read more »
The next Rochester Republican Town Committee Meeting will be held Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 9:30an at the Underhill’s. Public welcome, for info call 508-763-5001 Read more »
The SouthCoast Children’s Chorus presents its Spring Concert ~ Singing Our Dreams ~ on Sunday, May 20 at 4:00 pm at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, 124 Front St. in Marion. Directed by Leslie Piper and accompanied by Joyce Jacobsen, the Chorus is comprised of 46 young singers from the communities of Westport, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Rochester, […] Read more »
Members of the Rochester Women’s Club are calling all area veterans to a Meet and Greet event on Saturday, May 19th, Armed Forces Day, from 9 a.m. to noon at the clubhouse, 37 Marion Road, Rochester Center. A continental breakfast will be served. Prizes, based on a wide variety of criteria, will be awarded throughout […] Read more »
On Saturday, May 12, the Marion Trees and Parks Committee held the annual Marion Town Clean-Up. Residents met Music Hall, donned their “safety green” vests or neon pink t-shirts, and dispersed around town, picking up garbage and recyclable materials from the roadsides. “We’ve been doing this for 15 years,” said Tinker Saltonstall, who is on […] Read more »
NSTAR is reporting that on May 11 at 12:25pm a power cable failure in the area of Industrial Drive in Mattapoisett caused an outage for approximately 5,000 customers in Marion, Mattapoisett and Fairhaven. Within twenty minutes they were able to restore power to all but 500 customers by rerouting. The remaining customers are expected to […] Read more »
Robert T. Grant of Marion passed away on May 8, 2012 in Bourne, Massachusetts. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts on January 24, 1930 to Edward Grant and Margaret V. (Conlon) Grant of Cambridge. Bob was a graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School where he played goalie on the hockey team. After graduation […] Read more »
There’s no doubting that some forms of exercise are painful, dreadful and just down right boring, especially with age. But there’s one local Rochester resident who is looking to show adults that exercising can be fun. “I’ve been a member of a gym for years and years, and I cannot stand working out in an […] Read more »