• Learn to Play Chess: Beginning chess players of any age – youth and adult – are invited to learn the game from instructor Jim Kegle on the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. This is your opportunity to learn the pieces and their moves, their value, simple strategies, and attack [...] Read more »
For the second summer, the Buzzards Bay Coalition is proud to offer River Exploration Camp, a weeklong day camp delivered in partnership with YMCA Southcoast. River Exploration Camp will allow campers to get up close and personal with the outdoors while exploring Buzzards Bay and the Mattapoisett River. If your child or grandchild loves to [...] Read more »
Edible Perennial Gardening and Landscaping, a PowerPoint presentation about growing trees, shrubs, vines, canes, and herbaceous plants for produce in New England with naturalist and landscaper John Root, will be presented on June 6 at 6:30 pm at the Rochester Town Hall, 565 Rouseville Road. Informational flyers will be available, and plants will be offered [...] Read more »
The Maconchu Club of the Mattapoisett Congregational Church will meet at 6:00 pm on May 18 for a potluck dinner. Members should bring either a main dish or a salad for eight, and their own place settings. The speaker for the evening will be Sally Hunsdorfer of Marion, telling us about her work with the [...] Read more »
Members of the Benjamin D. Cushing Post 2425 Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at 10:00 am on May 25 to place flowers on the graves of deceased veterans of all wars. The placement of flowers will start at Evergreen Cemetery and then proceed to three other cemeteries in Marion. Anyone interested in assisting is [...] Read more »
Greg Skomal is the state’s leading shark expert, and has spearheaded efforts to tag and track great white sharks off of Cape Cod. Skomal, who has a Ph.D. from Boston University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology in New Bedford, has studied sharks from the Arctic Circle to [...] Read more »
Local author Ed Lodi will give a talk about his latest book The Women of King Philip’s War on May 9 at 6:30 pm at the Plumb Library, 17 Constitution Way, Rochester. Though often overlooked by historians, women played major roles in the war. Included are three squaw-sachems: Awashongs, Weetamoo, and Quaiapen, who rose up [...] Read more »
The Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race on the Mattapoisett River, sponsored by the Rochester Fire Department, will take place on May 27 starting at 8:30 am at Grandma Hartley’s Reservoir, Snipatuit Road, in Rochester, and finish at the Herring Weir, River Road at Route 6, in Mattapoisett. The race is open to persons of all [...] Read more »
On May 4 at 8:00 pm, the Marion Art Center is hosting a public reading of James Marlow’s new play, “Touched by War.” Marlow is a professor at UMD, and the reading is in collaboration with Culture Park of New Bedford. The play is about a Vietnam veteran who believes the autism of his son [...] Read more »
Marion Recreation will be holding a Summer Program Information and Registration Night on May 6 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Sippican School. Please enter from the Park Street entrance, at the Bus Loop. In addition to Camp Silvershell, we offer Sailing, Swimming Lessons, Dance Camps, Basketball Clinics, Digital Photography, Counselor in Training, Junior [...] Read more »
