The Sippican Choral Society is looking for quite a few new members to help us ring in the Christmas 2018 season. Rehearsals are starting on Monday, September 10, and we’d love for you to join us. We are a group of local singers who love to lend our voices to this large and inviting group. […] Read more »
If you are someone who is affected by color blindness, new glasses you can borrow from the Mattapoisett Free Public Library might offer you a new visual experience. Thanks to a generous donation from the Mattapoisett Lions Club, the library now lends a pair of EnChroma glasses, designed for use with a particular type of […] Read more »
There was a renewed sense of optimism by the end of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District Committee meeting on August 29 with the hiring of a new executive director with real vision, committee members remarked, after having fired its former executive director, Ray Pickles, in January after years of mismanagement and alleged […] Read more »
The old photographs are all that remain. There are few family members, if any at all, who had firsthand contact with my long-deceased grandparents. Those of us who may have heard a story or two are getting older. We don’t spend much time talking about our ancestors. Is it true that once the collective conscientious […] Read more »
2018 is a new beginning for scouting as we now welcome both girls and boys from kindergarten to grade 5 to participate in all the fun and learning that Cub Scouts provides. Scouts and adult volunteers are welcome! Marion scouts meet on Thursday evenings and have tons of additional optional events on weekends and vacations. […] Read more »
Family Storytime – Children of all ages are welcome to family storytime to be held on Wednesdays from 10:30 to 11:15 am beginning September 26. This eight-week series does not require registration, so drop in and join the fun. Read to Breton – Lenore Everett and her certified therapy dog, Breton, will be back this […] Read more »
Robert A. “Bob” Connelly, 80, of Rochester, Massachusetts passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at Vibra Hospital in New Bedford. Born in Boston and raised in Milton, he was the son of the late Thomas G. Connelly, M.D., and Alice (Molzon) Connelly. Bob is survived by his dedicated companion, Mary Keating of Rochester; […] Read more »
Laura Eva “Smith” Lebeau, age 66, passed on August 27, 2018 at home in Fall River after a lengthy illness. She was born and raised in Rochester, MA. Laura was proceeded in death by her parents Alexander J. Smith and Marjorie M. Smith, her daughter Laura Ann Lebeau, and her brother Joseph A. Smith. She […] Read more »
Hormidas R. “Butch” Boucher, age 99 of Rochester, passed away on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 in Nemasket Healthcare Center in Middleboro, MA, surrounded by his loving family. He was the husband of Doris (Barrett) Boucher to whom he had been happily married for 71 years. Born in New Bedford, youngest child of the late Victor […] Read more »
The Rochester School Committee was the first to approve a modest increase in the price of school lunch, but voted to wait until January to enact it, setting a precedent for the remaining districts who have not yet met this school year. On August 29, School Business Administrator Patrick Spencer proposed an increase of 25 […] Read more »