Please join us at the Elizabeth Taber Library on Thursday evening, May 10, at 6:30 pm for an author talk with Marie Fricker. She will be discussing her book All in My Head: How a Hypochondriac Beat Brain Cancer. A book signing will follow. Marie (Gallishaw) Fricker is a head writer for the 30-office Jack […] Read more »
Ever heard of ‘gaga ball?’ If not, you’re not alone because neither had the Marion Conservation Commission until aspiring Eagle Scout Jackson Saint Don on April 25 proposed installing a gaga ball pit at Silvershell Beach for his Eagle Scout project. “Is Lady Gaga gonna come play?” asked Conservation Commission Chairman Cynthia Callow. “No? Never […] Read more »
It’s quite possible that you’ve never heard of the windmill on Cuttyhunk that was once the largest windmill in the world, but it’s likely that you’ve heard the names of two of the several young environmentalists, engineers, and idealists who built it back in the late 1970s. John Rockwell of Marion and former Marion resident […] Read more »
Bryant Universityis committed to the pursuit, recognition, and celebration of academic excellence. Christopher Carando, Class of 2018 from Mattapoisett, has been named to Bryant University’s Deans’ List for the fall 2017 semester. Read more »
In 2017, Tabor Academy’s rowing team competed for its 100thseason, an anniversary matched only by a handful of high school programs in the United States. In that time, the team has had unprecedented success on an international scale. The story of this historic rowing program is told in the new feature documentary “A Century of […] Read more »
There will be a Sunday Morning Family Walk in the Woods entitled “Loving God’s Creation” on May 6at Munn Preserve in Mattapoisett. The Mattapoisett Congregational Church Sunday School and Mattapoisett Land Trust will lead a spiritual walk for children and their parents to explore emerging Spring beauty, the importance of salt marshes, local history and […] Read more »
Big shoes to fill? We won’t even go there as the Rochester Memorial School students prepare for their spring play sans their director, Danni Kleiman, who retired last year after directing the student actors for 31 years. But as the students debut their play “A Stranger in Camelot” on Friday, May 4, the audience will […] Read more »
Geraldine “Gerry” (Francis) DeCosta, 89, of Mattapoisett died May 1, 2018 at Sippican Healthcare Center after a brief illness. She was the wife of the late John N. “Jackie” DeCosta. Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Antone and Mary (Paes) Francis, she was raised in Acushnet and lived in Mattapoisett since 1949. […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health wants to regulate and require a permit for private residents to grow recreational marijuana at home, and it approved the draft regulation during its April 24 meeting. The board has been under the advisement of its casual consultant, Cheryl Sbarra from the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards, on possible municipal […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board has some upgrades it wants to add to the Town’s solar bylaw, and on April 24 board members discussed the best ways to go about bolstering the bylaw and making it a bit more restrictive. At the top of the list, the board wants to impose a 300-foot setback from any […] Read more »