Crowds, participants, officials, and horses gathered at Washburn Park in Marion on Independence Day for the 66th Marion Horse Show, which showcased several riders and horses from the area as well as from places like Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. This year, there were around 70 entries, who competed in several different events that […] Read more »
The Benjamin D. Cushing, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2425 celebrated their annual Fourth of July Parade on Thursday. The parade had one hundred entries including antique cars, tractors, antique trucks, clowns, floats, fire engines and marching bands who organized behind the town house before proceeding onto Main Street. The parade went east on Main […] Read more »
Buzzards Bay Musicfest returns for its 17th year with concerts from July 10 to 14 at the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Tabor Academy, 235 Front Street, Marion. Nationally prominent musicians will perform orchestral and chamber music with selections from Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Vivaldi, among others. Orchestral performances will be held Wednesday, July […] Read more »
Looking back through the veil of time to July 1863: “Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The next day, Lee struck the flanks of the Union line, resulting […] Read more »
Editors note: This story has been serialized into six parts which appeared weekly in The Wanderer By Rudd Wyman •Click Here to Read Part One •Click Here to Read Part Two •Click Here to Read Part Three •Click Here to Read Part Four •Click Here to Read Part Five Part VI Responding to a solid […] Read more »
Carolyn Overmyer, 58, of Mattapoisett passed away on Sunday June 30, 2013 at Sacred Heart Home. She was the wife of David Overmyer; they had been married for 31 years. Born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of the late Paul E. and Mary Alice (Coen) Fair, she had lived in Mattapoisett since 1987. She was […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Town Beach and Leisure Shores Beach were closed to recreational swimming on Tuesday due to a finding of elevated bacteria levels. The town retested the sites on Tuesday and reopened the beaches on Wednesday morning when the new test came up negative . Read more »
Lisa Winsor, of Mattapoisett, is a cancer survivor and a Pan-Mass Challenge cyclist who was honored by the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, June 29 during PMC Night at Fenway Park. Winsor was among the cancer survivors who rode her bike around the warning track in a pre-game ceremony during which the PMC’s 34th anniversary […] Read more »
To the Editor: Wow. I am still so amazed and excited by the incredible support shown by the community for Sippican’s Band Blast. Over 100 volunteers worked before, during and after the Blast to pull it off. I can’t thank Chris and Kelly Horton and their crew from Harbor Blue Seafoods enough for the delicious […] Read more »
To the Editor: In your recent Wanderer issue (Vol. 22, Issue 25, Nr. 1056), Letters to the Editor, Mr. Robert Brown expressed his support for the Mattapoisett Community Tennis Association (for those enjoying tennis) and mentioned the Mattapoisett Lions Club, among others, as being public service organizations. He goes on to say “the Lions […] Read more »