To the Editor: The Elizabeth Taber Library wrapped up this summer’s program for children, “Build a Better World” with an End-of-the-Summer-Program Ice Cream Sundae Social. Over the course of six weeks, many children ages two to twelve enjoyed story times, reading games, a magic show, as well as activities such as: creating a solar cooker […] Read more »
ConCom Goes Into Overdrive
On Wednesday, August 30, the three members of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission – Chairman Michael King and Commissioners Chapman Dickerson and Trevor Francis – handled 14 separate cases in a meeting that lasted three hours. Due to a lack of quorum at the previously scheduled meeting, and the threat of another on Monday, August 28, […] Read more »
Alexander Byron
Acclaimed maritime artist and larger-than-life local activist, Alexander Byron, 87, died September 5th in Plymouth. Born in New Bedford, Alex was a lifelong local, residing in Wareham, Bourne, and Scituate before settling in Marion with his wife Suzanne over 50 years ago. A self-taught oil painter, Alex spent the last decades of his life interpreting […] Read more »
Flag Football Kick-off Clinic
Mattapoisett Recreation will be offering a free Flag Football Kick-off Clinic on Sunday, September 10 from 9:00 – 10:00 am at Tabor Academy Football Field. Coaches will be running skills and drills stations to test speed, accuracy and endurance. Registration is open online at www.mattrec.net. Registrations will also be accepted at the clinic. Deadline to […] Read more »
New Book Discussion Group at the Mattapoisett Library
The Mattapoisett Free Public Library will kick off its Sunday afternoon hours on September 10 with a new book discussion group facilitated by Bobbi Gaspar. The book to be discussed will be Ruthless River: Love & Survival By Raft on the Amazon’s Relentless Madre de Dios by well-known local author Holly FitzGerald. Copies of Ruthless […] Read more »
The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
For many backyard bird watchers, this cherished furtive, rapid-flying figure flitting from flower to feeder and then hovering in midflight is the only one of some twenty other hummingbird species that is common east of the Mississippi, prevalent in Canada and the United States. The male ruby-throated hummingbirds arrive here in mid April ahead of […] Read more »
Donald J. Torres
Donald J. Torres, 80 passed away Friday, July 21, 2017 in the home he loved on the Weweantic River, with his wife at his side, Ora Mae Torres. Born in New Bedford, the son of the late Sofia and Jacinto Torres, he was the first in his family to attain a college education. He graduated […] Read more »
Finding More Than Metal (Life on Loan)
Over the Labor Day weekend, things around Tri-Town got relatively quiet in the newsroom – not really what we newspersons prefer. Having said that, though, quiet times in Tri-Town make for a little bit of down time for the usually busy newsperson, and this particular newsperson decided to trot over to one of her favorite […] Read more »
Rochester LEPC Receives State Certification
The Rochester Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) has been certified by the State Emergency Response Commission. Mr. Doug Forbes from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency presented the certificate of Certification to the members of the LEPC. Forbes said, “I would like to commend Emergency Management Director Paul Ciaburri and all the members of the […] Read more »
Sippican School Car Wash
The 6th grade class at Sippican School is excited to start the year with the Annual Car Wash and Bake Sale to raise funds for their mountain classroom trip to New Hampshire, which takes place next May. The car wash/bake sale is Saturday, September 16 from 9:00 am to noon in the school bus loop. […] Read more »