The next dance is on Friday, November 13 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm for $8 at The Knights, 57 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett. Teen dances are a safe place for 6th, 7th and 8th graders to have a good time socializing, dancing and listening to their favorite music on a Friday night. Knights chaperones and […] Read more »
A Rochester couple is seeking the public’s help in finding a missing engagement ring lost on Halloween night. Joelyn Conde and Ian Moniz say the diamond ring, priceless in sentimental value, was lost somewhere during a 45-minute period of trick-or-treating. Conde gave the ring to Moniz for safekeeping and the ring at one point fell […] Read more »
The faith communities of the First Congregational Church, St. Gabriel’s, and St. Rita’s are co-sponsoring a flu clinic with the Marion Board of Health on Sunday, November 15 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm at the First Congregational Church’s Community Center Meeting room behind the General Store at 144 Front Street, Marion. Please remember to […] Read more »
Don’t miss the Tabor Academy Fall Dance Recital on November 12 at 6:30 pm in the Fireman Center for the Performing Arts at Tabor Academy at 235 Front Street, Marion. This year, the dance team is 23 strong! They will perform five hip hop routines, a theatre routine to “Money” from Cabaret, a ballet excerpt […] Read more »
The monthly meeting of the Florence Eastman Post 280 will be held at the Post Hall at 7:00 pm on November 18. At this meeting, we will review the Veterans’ Day Ceremony of November 11 and our upcoming fundraising efforts, as well as the pending dues changes that will be effective January 1, 2016 when […] Read more »
Change is intimidating, even for those who appear to be fearless. For the transfer students at Old Rochester Regional High School, change meant leaving their friends behind and moving into an entirely new school system, completely unsure about what to expect. These students are on a totally different playing field from the incoming freshmen, who […] Read more »
Leona M. (Bellotti) Freitas, 95, of Mattapoisett passed away Monday November 9, 2015 at the New Bedford Jewish Convalescent Home. She was the beloved wife of Manuel C. Freitas; they had been married for 42 years. Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late John E. and Evelyn (Desmarais) Bellotti, she lived in New […] Read more »
At 10:30 this morning at Sippican Elementary School in Marion an automated message went out over the schools’ PA system announcing that the building was on lockdown. As a result of this notification students and staff followed the lockdown procedures. Marion Police and administration conducted a sweep of the building. There were no threats or […] Read more »
November 11 is a significant date in history – for the United States and for the world. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, “the war to end all wars” was officially over when the armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect. We now annually […] Read more »
“I’m for it one hundred percent,” Rochester Conservation Commission Chairman Rosemary Smith said on November 3 in response to a positive vote by the commission – voting in favor of surface water protection bylaws. Conservation Agent Laurell Farinon, also a member of the Mattapoisett River Valley Water Supply Protection Advisory Committee (MRVWSPAC), asked the commission […] Read more »