The 58th Yaeger Music Scholarship will be awarded this year. The scholarship has been awarded for the past 57 years from a fund established by the late Clement L. Yaeger, a Fairhaven resident and longtime New Bedford library employee. The committee wishes to recognize outstanding music students in this 58th year. To apply, music […] Read more »
As the Rochester Finance Committee took care of old business on Monday night, August 9, and talked out its anticipation of the town’s October 18 Special Town Meeting, its members also voted to appoint Richard Munroe as FinCom’s new representative to the Capital Planning Committee. Munroe is familiar to the Finance Committee as […] Read more »
On August 10, Mattapoisett’s Highway Surveyor Garrett Bauer met with the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission to discuss an emergency repair. Recent heavy rains and the need for maintenance to a drainage outfall system that discharges into the harbor at the end of Ship Street had been reported as failing by residents in the area. “The […] Read more »
We are lucky in Rochester that so many of the residents who came before us took to pen and paper to leave us records of how life used to be. We’re doubly lucky that so much of their writings can be found in the museum. We have ledgers that give us an idea of business […] Read more »
Cameron Powell Fordyce was born on August 24, 1937, in St. Louis, MO. He passed away on July 22, 2021, in New Bedford, MA, surrounded by family. He leaves behind his devoted and beloved wife of 46 years, Jackie Fordyce, his children Cameron Fordyce, Dr. Hilary Fordyce, Lori Lynch, and Rob Bennett, his grandchildren, Isabelle […] Read more »
On August 9, 2021, Robert Anthony Eleniefsky “Captain Hokey Pokey” passed away peacefully after a brief illness with his children by his side. He was born in New Bedford in 1940. He attended Catholic school as a child. He attended Fairhaven High School until the call of the sea was too strong to resist. […] Read more »
Sherri Ann (Kauranen) Ashley, 54, of E. Freetown, died Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford after a brief illness. She was the wife of the late Edward P. Ashley. Born in Falmouth, she was the daughter of Patricia A. (Stowe) and Michael J. Kauranen of Rochester. She graduated from […] Read more »
Constance Hartley (Chick) Shepard passed away on 30 July 2021 peacefully in her home in Marion, Massachusetts. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 26 July 1926 spending her early years first in Winchester and later in Arlington, MA. Before moving to Marion, she resided in Wellesley Hills, MA for over 50 years. Connie […] Read more »
On August 10, Mattapoisett’s Select Board and the public heard from Town Administrator Mike Lorenco on the current state of improvement projects, many of which have been wending their way through state and federal review processes and grant applications for years. None on Lorenco’s list has been more omnipresent than the Mattapoisett Bike […] Read more »
Outdoor story times with Children’s Librarian Ms. Heather: Join us every Friday at 10:30 am in our reading circle. All ages welcome, no sign-up required, weather permitting. Flashlight Storytimes: Tuesday nights, August 17, 24, and 31 at 6:00 pm. Come and have story time at night in front of the library. Bring your blankets […] Read more »