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Chocolate Festival627 viewsTri-Town Chocolate lovers were invited to feed their sweet tooths at the North Rochester Congregational Church's Annual Chocolate Festival on Saturday, April 4. Proceeds from the event will go towards restoring the church sanctuary, which was recently added to the National Register of Historicla Places. (Photo by Robert Chiarito)
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Branching Out625 viewsMembers of the Rochester Council on Aging (COA) dedicated a tree outside the Senior Center in memory of longtime COA member Marie McCarthy on October 3. (Photo by Robert Chiarito.)
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Teddy Bear Picnic625 viewsPlumb Corner in Rochester was the sight for this year's Teddy Bear Picnic on Saturday, May 16, sponsored by the Tri-Town Early Childhood Council. Photo by Robert Chiarito.
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Rochester Halloween Party624 viewsElsie Cadance won third place in the "Age Three and Under" category in Rochester's annual Halloween Party Costume Contest held on Monday, October 29, 2007. (Photo by Deborah Silva).
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Midnight Magic621 viewsThe Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library in Rochester hosted a party to celebrate the release of the seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on Friday July 20, starting at 9:00 pm and ending at 12:15 am on July 21, the official release date for the book. The event included lessons in spellcasting and sorcery for fans of the beloved series. (Photo by Robert Chiarito).
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Leap, Frog!621 viewsThe popular frog races were held on Saturday, August 18 during the annual Rochester Country Fair. (Photo by Robert Chiarito).
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Bench Mark619 viewsEight students from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester recently constructed and installed three new benches on the Village Court property in Mattapoisett. Working diligently under the direction of OCR instructors, the students dug holes and firmly anchored the benches on the premises in 90-degree heat. Mahoney Builders donated the lumber for the project and a plaque on each bench reads: “Donated by Old Colony RVTHS and Mahoney Builders.” (Photo courtesy of Joyce Gagne).
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Hunger Walkers617 viewsRochester residents Julie, Caroline, and Lily of the South Coast Hunger Team participated in Project Bread’s 39th annual Walk for Hunger recently. Some 43,000 took part in the event that raised a record-breaking $3.3 million. The funds are used to feed hungry people at food pantries, soup kitchens, food banks, and food salvage programs across the state. For more information, visit www.projectbread.org.
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Rochester Runners616 viewsIn the second running of the Rochester 5K Road Race, 39-year-old Jim Dandereau of Fairhaven took top honors and set a new record for the fledgling 3.1-mile rural course with a time of 16:19 and a pace of 5:16. The record was previously held by Mike Norton of East Falmouth, who completed the 2006 inaugural race in 16:39. (Photo by Deborah Silva).
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Cream of the Crop614 viewsMembers of the Souza family of Rochester all pitched in to help harvest this year’s crop of cranberries at one of the few remaining bogs in town. The family recently took over the bog in an effort to revive and continue the proud farming tradition for which the area has become known. (Photo by Robert Chiarito).
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Waterman Reunion613 viewsSeveral hundred former students of the Waterman School, the precursor to the Rochester Memorial School, came together for a unique school reunion that spanned the decades from the end of the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century at the Rochester Senior Center on the afternoon of Saturday, September 15. (Photo by Robert Chiarito).
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Rochester Halloween Party612 viewsDylan Flannery won first place in the "Age Three and Under" category in Rochester's annual Halloween Party Costume Contest held on Monday, October 29, 2007. (Photo by Deborah Silva).
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