To the Editor: Wow. I am still so amazed and excited by the incredible support shown by the community for Sippican’s Band Blast. Over 100 volunteers worked before, during and after the Blast to pull it off. I can’t thank Chris and Kelly Horton and their crew from Harbor Blue Seafoods enough for the delicious […] Read more »

To the Editor:             In your recent Wanderer issue (Vol. 22, Issue 25, Nr. 1056), Letters to the Editor, Mr. Robert Brown expressed his support for the Mattapoisett Community Tennis Association (for those enjoying tennis) and mentioned the Mattapoisett Lions Club, among others, as being public service organizations. He goes on to say “the Lions […] Read more »

To the Editor:   The Mattapoisett Community Tennis Association (MCTA) is a public service organization like the Lions Club, Boy Scouts and the Red Cross. We are a nonprofit corporation chartered in Massachusetts in 1999, and registered with the United States Tennis Association (USTA). We have no paid employees – we are all volunteers – […] Read more »

To the Editor: “My heart leaps up when I behold/A rainbow in the sky.” So wrote beloved British poet William Wordsworth. I didn’t see a rainbow; in fact, today is a cloudy day, but this morning, as I was running in Mattapoisett, I came upon a rather large group of Center School students and their […] Read more »

To the Editor: On behalf of the Marion Rochester Regional Health District, I would like to extend my sincere thank you to the Rochester voters who supported us at Town Meeting. You overwhelmingly voted to support the Health District  125-2. The collaboration of professional personnel and services through the Health District does go a long […] Read more »

To the Editor: People of Mattapoisett, be aware. Be very aware. Change is happening, as it well should and must. Executive Order #525 has been sent to all of the towns and cities and requires us to have a plan for the town that “has merit.” It doesn’t tell us how to zone our town […] Read more »

To the Editor: I take exception to some of the statements and behavior revealed on the second night of the Marion Town Meeting. I have served five years on the Marion Planning Board. I have been the minority voice on the Board for most of that time. Thus I have had plenty of experience listening […] Read more »

To the Editor: The Boards of Health of the Towns of Rochester and Marion wish to reply to recent newspaper articles and statements by Rochester’s Town Administrator and Town Counsel concerning the status of the Marion Rochester Regional Health District, in which they have attempted to build a case for withdrawal from the District for […] Read more »

To the Editor: The Rochester Board of Selectmen and the Town Administrator have decided, on their own, to put an article on the Rochester Town Meeting Warrant to dissolve Rochester’s ties with the Marion Rochester Regional Health District. The Rochester Board of Health and the Marion Board of Health members have expressed their firm opposition […] Read more »

To the Editor: Good grief! A press report states that a member of the Mattapoisett Planning Board suggests the area all along Route 6 in town, from the Fairhaven town line to Aucoot Road (close to the Marion town line) be rezoned business. In my younger days, the cry was, ‘Let’s not let Route 6 […] Read more »