Twice Monthly Adult Art Workshops with Jeanine Cappuccino. The next Free art instructional class for August: Saturday, August 27, 10-11:30 am. Learn one point and two-point perspective, then apply techniques to landscape sketching of Various Marion Landmarks (this class involves a short walk around Marion.) Writing Your Own Obituary: A free writing workshop with […] Read more »
People often have trouble finding the Rochester Historical Museum on their first try. It has to do with the confusing house numbers and the inability of GPS to figure them out. County Road, as we know it today, runs from Rte.28 in Wareham until it reaches Rte.105 in Marion. If you were to stand in […] Read more »
“There are 1,000 girl Eagle scouts in the United States, according to Google. Now there’s 1,001.” Nineteen-year-old Rochester scout Audrey Blanchard says it with a laugh rather than as a boast. She’s proud yet humble about recently earning her Eagle scout badge. Her dad Michael Blanchard notes that Audrey is Rochester’s only Girl […] Read more »
Rockland Trust is building a drive-up/walk-up kiosk in the Village at Plumb Corner parking lot, it was learned during Tuesday night’s public meetingof the Rochester Planning Board. The company’s ATM currently inside the Village mall building is being relocated, Rockland Trust Real Estate Manager Stephen Carroll said, because of the awkwardness of having […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center Theater’s opening weekend for its production of Rabbit Hole has been postponed to August 26. The production will now run August 26, 27, 28, September 9, 10, 11. There will be no play on Labor Day weekend, but performances will resume for the second weekend on September 9. All Friday and […] Read more »
On September 11 at 10 am at Silvershell Beach, Saint Gabriel’s Episcopal Church will be kicking off their New Youth and Family Ministry program with worship, picnic and fishing, welcoming all families in the Tri-Town area. Today’s youth and their parents face all of the issues that traditionally challenge families and so much […] Read more »
Award-winning Marblehead-based author Eric Jay Dolin came to the Mattapoisett Library on August 17 with copies of his new book and revealed a little-known reason the United States won its war for independence. “Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution” explores the role played in the war effort by privateers, ships manned by […] Read more »
The Marion Energy Management Committee welcomed Chief of Police Richard Nighelli to its public meeting on Monday night so they could discuss the possibility of a structural addition to the police-station parking lot that would allow solar panels to be placed over the area. The benefits would not only include the energy created […] Read more »
Four weeks of work is scheduled at 28 Pitcher Street, a failing property that the Marion Board of Health has discussed in many meetings and took up again during its August 18 public meeting. The owner visited the Town House earlier this month and then produced a list of recommendations put together by […] Read more »
Starting Wednesday, September 7 at 7:00 pm, First Congregational Church of Rochester will host an 11-week DVD and discussion group on Pastor David Jeremiah’s Revealing the Mysteries of Heaven in the Fellowship Hall at 11 Constitution Way. If you have questions about heaven — especially about how to get there — this series will help […] Read more »