Paint a gorgeous flower on canvas, try weaving on a pin loom, or jam with a live jazz band, during the SouthCoast Spring Arts festival at the Marion Art Center May 6-15. The MAC will offer 10 days of accessible, interactive creative adventures for anyone interested in trying something new or just sparking their creativity. […] Read more »
St. Gabriel’s Church will host the premier concert of four string quartets entitled “The Four Winds” written by local composer Ronald Wisner on July 25 at 7:30 pm at St. Gabriel’s Church, 124 Front St., Marion. The concert celebrates the community’s connection to the sea after the isolation during Covid. Ukraine is in the […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional High School students Brendan Burke, Colin Carroll and chapter cofounder Edward Gonet IV will proudly compete April 23-27 at the DECA International Career Development Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Other ORR students are making the trip and that may be the bigger story. “Kira, Kinsley, […] Read more »
Please join us on Sunday, May 1 at 4 pm at Rustico Restaurant for the Mattapoisett Land Trust 2022 Annual Meeting and a Volunteer Appreciation Reception. The event will begin with a social hour including appetizers and drinks, and then we will honor MLT volunteers and conduct a brief Annual Meeting to elect Directors and […] Read more »
The Town of Rochester and the Board of Health offer no-cost weekly Keep Well Health Clinics facilitated by Rochester’s Public Health Nurse, Connie Dolan, RN. Services include answers to your health questions, blood pressure checks and monitoring, lung sound assessment, blood oxygenation assessment, medication review, information about health topics important to you and other basic […] Read more »
Applicants Bernadette Kelly and L. Sheldon Daly III will be allowed to offer their real-estate clients circumstantially driven, short-term stays on the second floor of their 313 Wareham Street office after the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously during its April 14 public meeting to reinstate with a significant amendment a special permit […] Read more »
Mattapoisett resident Sara Garde had always wanted a Great Dane, but she never expected to have one given to her, nor could she have imagined the circumstances that would bring her and Redd the Great Dane together. Garde is an Army veteran. Two years after graduating from high school in June 1996, she […] Read more »
Helen (Rapoza) Couto, formerly of Mattapoisett, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, died at home April 20, 2022, at the age of 91, surrounded by her loved ones. She was the wife of the late Abell Couto. Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Mariano and Francesca (Borges) Rapoza. […] Read more »
On Saturday, April 23 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, there will be a seed swap on the grounds of the Plumb Memorial Library, sponsored by the library and the Rochester Garden Club. Bring seeds to swap for new ones, or just come by to pick up some free seeds. The Friends of Plumb […] Read more »
Better late than never? The Rochester Conservation Commission on Tuesday night approved a Certificate of Compliance for a 12- by 14-foot sunroom built 15 years ago within the buffer zone of wetlands at 68 Bowens Lane. “We had no idea the certificate of compliance was not completed,” Diane Delowery explained as the public hearing […] Read more »