Don’t miss the Elizabeth Taber Library’s Annual book sale this summer! It will be held at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front St, on Friday, August 7 from 4:00 – 7:00 pm and Saturday, August 8 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. There will be over 3,000 items for sale including books for all ages, […] Read more »
Please join us to raise money for Gateway Youth Hockey. Gateway Youth Hockey is a nonprofit organization solely based on the children. Our goal is to help children from the Tri-Town area continue to participate in youth hockey and to provide learn-to-skate programs for all ages at the lowest cost possible, allowing any child to […] Read more »
It was smooth sailing for the Marion Planning Board at their regular meeting on Monday, July 6. Before adjourning, the board extended a site plan approval for Johnson Family Investments, as well as concluded the pre-submission conference for the Gas Station Allied Ventures property located at 439 Wareham Street. Arnold Johnson appeared before the board […] Read more »
To the Editor: We have compiled the results of the 2015 alewives (herring) migration as recorded by an electronic fish counter on the Mattapoisett River at Snipatuit Pond in Rochester. This year’s count of herring in the Mattapoisett River was 42,332. That is approximately 13,000 fish less than the 2014 total of 55,429 which was […] Read more »
The 2015 Marion Fireworks Committee would like to thank all of the supporters that made the Saturday, July 4, 2015 fireworks display such a success! It was a fantastic night, and we would love to have a repeat of it in 2016! We are still accepting donations. Any donations received will be used toward the […] Read more »
The annual and weekly Marion Mile, sponsored by the friends of Marion Recreation and Wareham Pediatrics, started back up on Tuesday, June 30 for this summer’s season. The first of six nights had a great turnout as over 100 runners competed in the race designated as “just for kids.” Children between ages 7-14 are welcome […] Read more »
What determines history? Is it the natural result of leaders’ decisions and longer demographic, social and economic trends? World events could have turned out very differently than they did. What would have happened if the UK had signed an armistice with Hitler in the spring of 1940? What if the United States had decided not […] Read more »
Highway Surveyor Barry Denham met with the Mattapoisett Planning Board during its July 6 meeting to request approval of plans for the rebuilding of the Acushnet Road culvert. The project has been inching its way through time-consuming processes required by several state agencies. With the acceptance of the town’s plans that have been executed by […] Read more »
All are invited to the Friends of the Mattapoisett Library’s annual meeting to be held on July 21 at 6:30 pm at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, 7 Barstow Street. After a brief business meeting, special guest Cheryl Hatch, independent journalist, photographer and professor, will present “Let This Ebola End” about her recent trip to […] Read more »
While we were busy with the daily routines of our lives on June 11, something was happening on a nearby beach in Marion that has happened for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. On this morning, the first female endangered diamondback terrapin returned to the site of her own birth, now the newly restored turtle habitat […] Read more »