Members and guests are invited to our monthly meeting at The Sippican Woman’s Club, 152 Front Street, Marion, on Friday, March 9 at 12:30 pm. Our program speaker will be Deb Ewing who will speak about The Turtle Garden established to restore the diamondback terrapin’s nesting habitat at The Cove on Hammetts Creek in Marion. […] Read more »
Old Colony triumphed last week with two vocational titles and another 1,000-point scorer, adding more hardware to its increasingly crowded trophy case with girls’ basketball winning and repeating as State Vocational Small School Tournament champions and the boys bouncing back from last year’s six-point loss to Franklin County to earn a Vocational Tournament title of […] Read more »
The Rochester Council on Aging is pleased to offer Soup and Sandwich Lunches every Monday at noon. Advance registration is required and a suggested donation for the meal is $4. Thursday, March 1, legal appointments will be held from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. Monday, March 5, the Art Group meets at 10:00 am. The Pampered […] Read more »
The Marion Energy Management Committee is tasked with reviewing thousands of data points, a myriad of details associated with energy-consuming machines, buildings, systems, and the people that require the smooth and continuous flow of power to fuel modern-day living. No small task indeed. And the goal: to save the town real dollars through the utilization […] Read more »
Gettysburg College students with a quality point average in the range of 3.300 to 3.599 for a semester’s work are placed on the Deans’ Commendation List. Rikard Bodin of Mattapoisett, Class of 2020, and Allegra Horstmann of Marion, Class of 2018, have been placed on the fall 2017 list. Read more »
Just off Mattapoisett Road tucked in a corner behind some trees is a small, wooden shack billowing steam from an open skylight window. It’s an early late-winter morning – the time of year when warmer, more temperate days now dawn but still slip back into cold, subfreezing nights. At Mike Forand’s house, these milder mornings […] Read more »
There will be a rabies clinic at the Mattapoisett Fire Station on Sunday, March 4 from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm. The cost for this vaccination is $15. Town of Mattapoisett dog licenses will be available for purchase. The license fee is $9 for spayed or neutered dogs; all others are $12. Dogs and cats […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Historical Society proudly announces music auditions for the Society’s 60th Anniversary Celebration! We are seeking musicians to volunteer to perform for this community event. Do you or your group play rock, classical, jazz, or folk music? Do you sing acapella, sea chanteys, or in a barbershop quartet? Please consider auditioning! We will be […] Read more »
Seed Lending Library to start soon: The Elizabeth Taber Library, in partnership with the Marion Garden Group, will be offering seeds to check out again this year starting March 1! Community members may “check out” seeds for free from the Elizabeth Taber Library. The idea is that you plant the seeds, let some go to […] Read more »
Candidate for the Rochester Board of Selectmen Catherine Mendoza has withdrawn from the three-way race for selectman on Thursday, February 22, leaving a two-way race between current Finance Committee and Zoning Board of Appeals member David Arancio and Rochester’s Emergency Preparedness Director Paul Ciaburri. Mendoza is known for her outspoken opposition to Wellspring Farm, the […] Read more »