Welcome Back Bird Walk

Join the Mattapoisett Land Trust and the Nasketucket Bird Club in welcoming back our avian Spring migrants with an all-level bird walk on Saturday, April 12, at 8:00 am. This walk will be led by Mike Labossiere, a member of the Nasketucket Bird Club. It will be a delightful morning in nature and a wonderful […] Read more »

Sean J. Brice

Sean J. Brice, born on July 4th, 1969, passed away unexpectedly on April 7th, 2025. Sean grew up in Marion, MA, attending Old Rochester Regional High School, where he played four years of varsity hockey. Sean graduated in the Class of 1987, as a member of the National Honors Society.             After high school, he […] Read more »

ORR Sends Wake-up Call with “The Drowsy Chaperone”

            The Tony Award winning screwball musical comedy “The Drowsy Chaperone” is the story of a 1920s style stage musical set in the imagination of a lonely musical theater fan. Its pace is frenetic and makes its cast work very hard, but the Old Rochester Regional High School Drama Club will be meeting the challenge […] Read more »

Solar Array Expansion Faces Criticism

            Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday allowed a proposal for a floating solar array at 53 Dexter Lane to proceed from informal discussion to the formal application stage, but not before lodging a complaint against the plan’s expansion.             In an informal discussion of the project in a prior board meeting, Matt Swanberg of New Leaf […] Read more »

Marion Republican Town Committee

The Marion Republican Town Committee will conduct its next monthly meeting on Monday, April 14, at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion, Massachusetts. The public and new members are welcome. We look forward to seeing you. Read more »

Nasketucket Bird Club

The Nasketucket Bird Club will present Sounds as a Second Language and Warbler ID with Michael LaBossiere and Justin Barret. Spring migration has begun, and beautiful colorful birds will soon be hiding behind leaves up in the trees. They will be singing pretty songs so it’s possible to identify them by sound even if you […] Read more »

School Choice Questioned

            On April 8, the Mattapoisett Finance Committee and Select Board sat down with Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Michael Nelson and Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Howard Barber. For more than an hour, Barber laid out all the moving parts of the schools’ budgets with PowerPoint presentations and deep dives into what […] Read more »

Upcoming Events at the Elizabeth Taber Library

During Saturdays in April, the Elizabeth Taber Library will be hosting Basket Weaving workshops with artist Patty Benson of the New Bedford Arts and Cultural Emporium. Workshops are taking place in the Elizabeth Taber Library’s new event space. Each session in April will have participants creating a completed basket. There are currently limited spaces only […] Read more »

‘Teacher to Teacher’ Podcast

Old Rochester Regional (ORR) School District and MA Superintendency Union #55 Superintendent Michael S. Nelson is pleased to share that Assistant Superintendent of Student Services Jaime Curley was recently featured on Corwin’s “Teacher to Teacher” podcast.             Curley joined host Dr. Carol Pelletier Radford and fellow guest John Almarode for the premiere episode of Season […] Read more »

From the Files of the Rochester Historical Society

My Grandmother was born in 1894 and grew up in Roxbury, a section of Boston, which is very different today than it was then. Her father had come to the United States from Ireland by way of Canada. Once here, he went from operating a tea cart to owning a brick-and-mortar store.             My grandmother […] Read more »