Come celebrate local artists from the Tri-Town and Southcoast at the Mattapoisett Historical Society’s Small Town-Big Art Show. Join our community in meeting local artists and finding treasures for your own art collection. Exhibit Reception with refreshments provided by Shipyard Galley and Seahorse Liquors on Friday, May 16, 6:00 – 7:30 pm with additional exhibit […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional High School’s AFS club is looking for volunteers in the Tri-Town area to host foreign exchange students for the 2014-2015 school year. This year, the school welcomed two exchange students – Ailina Cervantes Diaz from Costa Rica and Louisa Truss from Germany – but the school has had up to five students […] Read more »
Sunday turned out to be the perfect day for a fun run through Marion – all to benefit Sippican Elementary School student enrichment programs. The Volunteers at Sippican Elementary, aka VASE, is the school’s parent-teacher organization in charge of hosting events to raise money for field day, field trips, and learning opportunities for each […] Read more »
The Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race on the Mattapoisett River, sponsored by the Rochester Fire Department, will take place on Monday, May 26 starting at 8:30 am at Grandma Hartley’s Reservoir, Snipatuit Road, in Rochester and finish at the Herring Weir, River Road at Route 6, in Mattapoisett. The race is open to persons of […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Land Trust invites the public to join its members and friends on Saturday, May 10 for “Wolf Talk,” a presentation about the habits of the gray wolf by Michael LeBlanc and Amy Foss and accompanied by their ambassador wolf, Denahee. Michael and Amy have raised and studied wolves since 1978, and in addition […] Read more »
On Friday, May 9 at 7:00 pm, the public is invited to the Marion Music Hall (164 Front Street) for its Classic Film Friday Presentation: Viva Las Vegas. The event is co-sponsored by the Sippican Historical Society and the Marion Council on Aging, and is offered to the public, free of charge. The 1964 film […] Read more »
Joan, Judy, Kathy, Beverly, Jeanette, Jackie, Deb, Cindy, June, Ruth, Dorothy … these are some of the ladies I’ve recently been meeting up with. There isn’t a new fangled name in the lot. No sir, you won’t find a Madison, Taylor, or Katelyn in this group. They are of a certain age, and they are […] Read more »
John A. “Bud” Kelenosy, 92, of Wareham, died May 1, 2014 in Tobey Hospital, Wareham. He was the husband of the late Ruth (Loring) Kelenosy and the son of the late Anthony and Zuzanna (Pokrzyura) Kelenosy. His first wife, Elinor (Bennett) Kelenosy died in 1967. He was born in Wallingford, CT and lived in Wareham […] Read more »
On Saturday, May 3, South Shore residents will gather at the Mattapoisett Friends Meeting House to discuss the Safe Driving Bill, a bill that would remove immigration status as a barrier to Massachusetts drivers from getting tested, licensed and insured, thereby improving road safety for all Massachusetts residents. In separate recent online polls conducted by […] Read more »
Tabor Academy has a number of annual traditions; perhaps one of the most important of them is the annual lap-a-thon. For the past eight years, rain or shine, the lap-a-thon has taken place at the Tabor track on a Sunday in the spring, and it did again this past weekend. Gary Sousa, Tabor faculty member, […] Read more »