May 11 was a wet and wild day for the students and instructors who make up ORR Junior High School’s chorus and bands, as the groups attended the Great East Music Festival hosted in West Springfield. The seventh- and eighth-grade chorus, led by Angie Vaughn, secured gold, as did the seventh- and eighth-grade band, led [...] Read more »
Ask an eighth-grader where they see themselves in 10 years, and most will give you a blank stare. Many are honing a skill at vocational technical school or planning for college and have some general idea of where they think their future lies. Ask Marion resident Aaron Norcross, and he will tell you about his [...] Read more »
Retired Fire Chief Scott Ashworth wasn’t always into collecting and restoring antique pieces of firefighting history. Ashworth’s love of all things automotive came from his racing days at the Golden Spur Speedway in Lakeville, and he even has a garage filled with colorful NASCAR race jumpers (both old and new), as well as the Oldsmobile [...] Read more »
Olivia R. Silva’s first step toward world domination took place earlier this month at the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair. The 16-year-old from Mattapoisett won a first-place award among 400 competitors for her research on the effects of a compromised immune system on T. molitor, the common mealworm. “It was more of an environmental [...] Read more »
Let me start by confessing that I am not a “townie.” Many of you reading this article might snicker and say to yourself “Well, I am,” or “Same for me.” Mattapoisett, like nearly every other location you could think of in the U. S. of A., has become a melting pot just like our great [...] Read more »
Recently, some students at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School have gotten to work, and the results should be something that they and other residents of Rochester should be proud of for a long time to come. Led by their teachers, groups of juniors and seniors from the school have traveled each day (weather [...] Read more »
Eighteen Old Rochester Regional High School students and one Tabor Academy student, along with their fathers, spent April vacation working at an orphanage on the island of Trinidad. The students ranged from freshmen to seniors. Trinidad Tobago is the official name of the country and consists of two southern Caribbean islands. They are located off [...] Read more »
Are you Boston Strong? Sippican School is! Students in Nicole Radke’s fourth-grade classroom organized and ran the school’s most successful charity fundraiser in just two days. Upon learning about the tragedy of the Boston Marathon Bombings and reflecting upon the courage and bravery of the first responders, students asked their teacher, “Can we do something [...] Read more »
There’s no snow on the ground, but there is a Christmas tree. Marion’s new town Christmas tree arrived and was planted on Friday. The twenty foot Concolor Fir, from upstate New York has a root ball nine feet by three feet. The tree is a type of white fir with light colored bark and silver [...] Read more »
“I guess it’s because I’m older than most,” said Anna White, Rochester’s most esteemed historian, during an interview at her home. “I know some of the history first hand.” Born on in Rochester in 1927 in the Dexter Lane house of her family, White has spent all but about 12 years of her life living [...] Read more »
