Here is a look at the first week of results in scheduled games for all ORR athletic teams. Football: The Old Rochester Regional football team has a lot of expectations to live up to this season. Last year, the Bulldogs took home their first conference championship since 2002 and made a strong playoff run in […] Read more »
Feestaardvarken (Party Aardvark) is a 30-meter long (98 feet) concrete sculpture located in the center of Arnhem in the Netherlands. The sculpture was commissioned by Burgers’ Zoo to commemorate their 100th anniversary in 2013. It was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, who has many great works including a giant rubber duck that has been […] Read more »
Two Brandt Island Road projects brought out neighbors and abutters whose concerns were heard by the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission at their September 8 meeting. The first project heard was Brandt Point Village, which has been the subject of storm water management hearings and proposed unit reconfiguration to this cluster housing project that has brought out […] Read more »
Remember the Good Old Days with the students who attended Rochester’s Waterman, Pierceville and Center Schools on Saturday, September 20 at the Rochester COA, Dexter Lane from 11:00 am to 3:00pm. $20 per person includes lunch. Send payment to The Rochester Historical Society, P.O. Box 171, Rochester, MA 02770. Read more »
Dear Editor: It seems NSTAR has hired a logger, not an arborist, to enforce its easement rights on residents abutting the power lines. I can only speak to Mattapoisett, but from sun up to sun down, loggers are stripping the land and loading truck after truck of wood that technically belongs to the property owners- […] Read more »
Jeannine G. (Guilbault) Dickerson, 56, of Marion died September 7, 2014 at home after a long illness.She was the wife of Jeffrey P. Dickerson.Born in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of the late Robert and Maddeline (Frechette) Guilbault, she was raised in Fenton, Michigan and has lived in Marion for the last 20 years.Jeannine was formerly […] Read more »
“The Good and the Bad” Best Ball – September 3, 2014 – Field of 67 1st Place (34): Kathy Macedo, Louise Tuohy, Steffi Peck, Deb Wilson 2nd Place Tie (35): Joan Forrester, Claire Schell, Pat Grace, Jeannine Wales MaryEllen Ryder, Linda Mowles, Joan Harrington, Sally Billington, Dyan Kieltyka, Judy Williams, Margaret Linehan, Kay Conroy, Michelle […] Read more »
Aidan St. James of Rochester was recently recognized for achieving academic distinction at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. St. James, majoring in plastics engineering, was named to the dean’s list at UMass Lowell for the Spring 2014 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list at UMass Lowell, a student must have completed no fewer than […] Read more »
The Marion School Committee was back in session September 3, with a couple of new key administrative staff members attending their first meeting. Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Doug White introduced the new School Business Administrator, Patrick Spencer, and the new Director of Student Services, Mike Nelson, to the committee before getting down to […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Woman’s Club will hold their first regular meeting of the fall on September 18 at noon in Reynard Hall of the Mattapoisett Congregational Church, 27 Church Street. Now that summer company has departed, kids are back in school, the garden is looking good, and you have a free afternoon, please be our guest […] Read more »