To the delight of several dozen people, a replica of the historic sailing vessel America pulled up to Mattapoisett’s Long Wharf on May 31. People patiently waited for a local fuel supplier to pump over 1,200 gallons of diesel fuel into the massive sailing vessel’s tanks, after which tours were conducted below deck by the […] Read more »
Miss SouthCoast, Jillian Zucco, will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Monday, June 6 from 1:00 to 6:00 pm at St. Anthony’s Church hall at 22 Barstow Street in Mattapoisett. As a licensed EMT and recent graduate of UMASS Dartmouth’s Nursing program, Ms. Zucco is committed to strengthening our community […] Read more »
The Sippican Historical Society will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 9 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall. Caroline Elkins – Pulitzer Prize recipient, Professor of African History at Harvard University and long-time Marion summer resident – will present a lecture, “Empire on Trial.” Professor Elkins’s first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold […] Read more »
Every Memorial Day since 1932, the Benjamin D. Cushing VFW Post 2425 members have led groups of scouts and residents to the cemeteries in Marion to plant flowers at all the graves of departed veterans. This year, with its truckloads of red geraniums and Boy and Girl Scouts scampering across the Evergreen Cemetery, was no […] Read more »
Michael D. Heath died on May 30, 2016 after a long struggle with coronary disease. He was predeceased by his parents, George D. and Ruth L. Heath of Mattapoisett and his sister, Cheryl Marcosa of No.Fort Myers, FL. He is survived by his brother Stephen and his wife, Meredith, of Marion, his sister Rebecca Bacon and […] Read more »
You are invited to a special art show devoted to helping animals in need. Art On Center is teaming up with The Humane Society & Shelter, South Coast to present an art exhibition and fundraiser to benefit the Humane Society. Delightful works of art by local artists in a variety of media are for sale, […] Read more »
Friday, June 10 is the last Open Table for the spring season at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church, so please come. We are taking a break for the summer months of July and August, but we’ll be back in September. The Open Table crew is preparing something extra special and looks forward to seeing you on […] Read more »
The wet weather on Monday, May 30, had participants in the 2016 Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race going with the flow, and what a flow it turned out to be with the intermittent torrential downpours that followed a dry spell that had brought area rivers down to a mere trickle over the past week. The […] Read more »