Just up the road in New Bedford is a treasure trove of visual arts: watercolors, carvings, oil paintings, and photographs, primarily depicting a place and time when the city of New Bedford was the whaling capital of the world – the 19th century. On July 11 in the 21st century at the Mattapoisett Free Public […] Read more »
On Monday, July 23at 6:30 pm, local author Michelle Cusolito will be talking about her new book “Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible ALVIN.” Copies of the book will be for sale the night of the event and can be reserved ahead of time by calling the library at 508-763-8600. The cost of the book […] Read more »
Edward Albee’s “Seascape,” winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, will open at the Marion Art Center on Thursday, August 9with subsequent performances on Friday, August 10; Saturday, August 11; Thursday, August 16; Friday, August 17; and Saturday, August 18. All performances will start at 7:30 pm. This two-act drama (dramedy) is about a retired couple […] Read more »
Colleen Oakes and Renee Buteyne were only 12 when they met in junior high at Old Rochester Regional. The two girls spoke for the first time after Buteyne (formerly Bussenger) watched as a girl at school asked to borrow Oakes’ lip gloss “and she intentionally jammed her finger in it and ruined it,” said Oakes, […] Read more »
The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals was almost ready to approved a Variance for Nicholas Araujo to allow a single-family house on an unaccepted way, Schoolhouse Road, but opted to continue it one last time. The public hearing was continued from June 28 to allow the applicant to present enough data to convince the board […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District (MRVWD) is one of the 58 public water systems to be awarded a Beyond Compliance Award by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) for 2017. The MRVWD received the award in the Consecutive System category. As stated by MassDEP: “The 58 systems in the four different categories of […] Read more »
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, next to the Town Beach in Mattapoisett, continues their 134 year tradition of visiting clergy from Massachusetts and beyond. Services using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer are conducted at 8:00 am and 10:00 am each Sunday through Labor Day weekend. The Reverend Marc Eames, Rector, The Church of the Advent, […] Read more »
Mattapoisett usually isn’t thought of as having a rich history full of icons and innovators. Sure, the little oceanside town maintains its fair share of wealthy visitors and whaling artifacts, but to the uninformed outsider, Mattapoisett is mainly a small New England town full of everyday people. That being said, upon further investigation, Mattapoisett has […] Read more »
Rochester’s Facilities Director Andrew Daniel has accomplished what he set out to do nearly a year ago – to make Rochester facilities accessible to all; and there isn’t much else left to do in order for the municipal buildings of Rochester to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Aside from a couple narrow secondary […] Read more »
On Friday, July 20, the Marion Concert Band continues its Friday evening concert series with a program of American popular music. The program, which features a horn quartet and a variety of pop styles from the 1900’s to the present, is as follows: Thundercrest March – E. Osterling Second American Folk Rhapsody – C. Grundman […] Read more »