Neale Birdsall of Duxbury, MA passed away in his home on August 3rd of complications from Parkinson’s Disease, surrounded by his family. Neale was 86 years old. He is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Janice (Kealey) and their three children, Anne Kellogg of Holliston, MA, Gregg Birdsall and his wife Amy of […] Read more »
The Town of Rochester on Sunday, August 6, officially acknowledged the planting of a gingko biloba sapling gifted to the town by its former Town Administrator Michael McCue – a rare gift that not many other cities or towns in this part of the world possess. This special baby tree was born of an international […] Read more »
Tickets are currently available for Marion Art Center’s upcoming production of The Dinner Party by Neil Simon. The bittersweet comic drama revolves around a chaotic French dinner party. Six people – three divorced couples – arrive to dine in a chic Parisian restaurant, each unbeknownst to the other. During the dinner, they are forced to […] Read more »
Last week, the Old Rochester Athletic Boosters proudly unveiled its most recent project on the ORR campus – large aluminum letters on the exterior wall of the gymnasium overlooking the athletic fields. Standing nearly 10 feet tall, the new letters are clearly visible from almost the entire athletic complex and stand as a bold reminder […] Read more »
Coming to ORRHS this fall … The Bulldog Block. Taking a nod from the success of the flex period at our junior high school, we will be incorporating a fixed period of time to provide interventions, supports, enrichments and extensions for all students during the regular school day. Every day. The Bulldog Block will land […] Read more »
The Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce, Town of Wareham, and the Tremont Nail Advisory Group are hosting “Meet Me At The Tremont,” 8 Elm Street, Wareham, on Saturday, August 26 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm. The event takes place at the Tremont Nail Factory, a historic landmark on the Wankinco River, featuring breathtaking […] Read more »
Name: Marissa Johnson Role: President, Old Rochester Youth Football Age: 36 How she came to Tri-Town: She grew up in Central Massachusetts and Dartmouth before her family relocated to Rochester just before her freshman year at ORR. What she’d change as the President of Tri-Town: I don’t know if I’d change anything. I can tell […] Read more »
Gabrielle Poitras of Marion has been named to the spring 2017 Dean’s List at Becker College. Read more »
By the time you read this, we’ll all be lamenting the quick arrival of August. But before you pull out your wool sweaters, let me take you back to July. Somewhere around July 10th as I made my way around a low-priced retail store, I was confronted by an oversized cardboard display. At first, I […] Read more »
At the August 1 meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission, the commission and the public heard for the first time about plans for a new business on Kings Highway proposed by Craig Canning of Progressive Grower Inc., as the plans pertain to the wetlands. Those plans are to develop the property for an agricultural supply […] Read more »