• Call for Artists: The Marion Art Center invites artists to submit work for an exhibition and sale entitled “Images: The Lands of the Sippican Lands Trust”. The exhibition will run from October 5 to November 10, 2012. Maps of the trails for the Sippican Lands Trust properties may be picked up at the Lands […] Read more »
Selectmen Commit to Fall Town Meetings
The town of Marion will have a Fall Special Town Meeting every year, the Marion Board of Selectmen ruled at its Tuesday, December 6 meeting. The vote stemmed from a request by Community Preservation Committee Chairman Lori Schaefer – who asked the board to guarantee a fall meeting to help plan for its dispersion of […] Read more »
Sippican Choral Concert Delights 600
Not an empty pew seat was to be found at Sippican Choral Society’s 47th annual performance, “Christmas Through the Years,” on Sunday, December 4 at Tabor Academy’s Wickenden Chapel. About 600 music revelers enjoyed the choral music of the society’s 80 singers and 37 member children’s chorus – who performed under the direction of Brian […] Read more »
Planning Board Supports Habitat Effort
In true community fashion, the Marion Planning Board and the local Buzzard’s Bay Area Habitat for Humanity (BBAHH) worked together to try to make a project happen at the meeting on Monday at the Town House. At a prior November meeting, which addressed the original proposal, several board members, including a vocal Steve Gonsalves, said […] Read more »
Marion Selectmen OK Single Tax Rate
The Marion Board of Selectmen (BOS) agreed to retain the Single Tax Rate classification for the town for fiscal year 2012, bucking the trend of SouthCoast towns that have voted for a split tax rate between residential and commercial property. The BOS heard from the Board of Assessors, who presented a detailed estimate of how […] Read more »
Do You Remember?
Football is a big part of most schools and Old Rochester Regional is no different. September 1961 marked the first interscholastic athletic competition for the new school. To mark the opener against Dighton-Rehoboth, more than 300 of ORR’s students were bussed to Dighton to watch the team makes its debut. After being outplayed in the […] Read more »
ORR Rolls out the Red Carpet
The seniors and some underclassmen of Old Rochester Regional High School gathered in the auditorium on Thursday, December 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm for the school’s second annual Senior Superlatives Gala. Tickets to the event cost $5, serving as a fundraiser for the Old Rochester Regional Athletic Booster Club. The event was designed in […] Read more »