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A Midsummer Night’s Dream385 viewsCome to Rochester Memorial School on Friday, May 5 at 7:00 pm for the annual Shakespeare play! This year, the students will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This will be Danni Kleiman’s last year directing the annual play, as she is retiring this year after 31 years. Photos by Jean Perry
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Famous Massachusetts’ Person Presentations385 viewsThird grade students at Center School put on their annual Famous Massachusetts’ Person Presentations on Tuesday, June 20. Each student dressed as their chosen famous Bay Stater who made their mark on history and invited parents to watch the presentations. Photos by Jean Perry
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Race to the Finish 385 viewsJuly 4th morning in Mattapoisett means its time for the annual Mattapoisett July 4th Road Race, a five-miler that starts and finishes at Shipyard Park. The proceeds fund scholarships to ORR graduates. Photos by Sarah French Storer
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Living History 385 viewsIt looked like July 8, 1776 at Silvershell Beach in Marion this past Saturday. Folks from the Fairhaven Village Militia and Wareham Militia Group in conjunction with Marion Recreation and the Marion Cultural Council took spectators back in time to Colonial Massachusetts during a weekend-long encampment at the beach. Participants in olde-tyme apparel demonstrated what life was like in the 1770s during the Revolutionary War through demonstrations of drilling, cooking, and flintlock musket use. Photos by Jean
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Local Flavor 385 viewsTuesday evening was the Mattapoisett Women’s Club sponsored Taste of the Town, an annual event when local food purveyors fill the tent at Shipyard Park with the flavors and aromas of Mattapoisett’s lively restaurant scene. Photos by Jean Perry
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Happy Days at Harbor Days 385 viewsIt all seems to come and go so quickly year after year, but while the Harbors Days are here the people of Mattapoisett and surrounding towns make time to enjoy the annual seaside event – the fish fry, lobster feast, pancake breakfast, and arts and crafts – that the Mattapoisett Lions Club works so hard all year round to keep going. Photos by Glenn C. Silva
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Peace with Paper385 viewsPeace with Paper, a drop-in event held at the Plumb Memorial Library. This event is to help build a better world through relaxing after a long day and is for kids and adults. Photo by Glenn C. Silva
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Sowing a Seed of Peace 385 viewsThese tender young leaves belong to a ginkgo biloba sapling propagated from a 250-year-old tree that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast. The Town of Rochester held a ceremony by the recently planted baby tree at the Dexter Lane ball fields on August 6, the 72nd anniversary of the bombing, and also acknowledged the Town’s participation in Arbor Day. Photo by Jean Perry
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Happy Campers 385 viewsWhat's happening on a Tuesday morning at Camp Massasoit? It’s easier to ask what's not going on – swimming, boating, archery, crafts, exploring, wall climbing, ball playing, and that's all before they even break for lunch. Photos by Jonathan Comey
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Minecraft Magician 385 viewsIt was all about “Building a Better World” on August 14 during a children’s performance sponsored by the Plumb Library and the Rochester Cultural Council. Performer “Jungle Jim” Manning merged Minecraft with magic and built a blast of a time with the kids. Photos by Jean Perry
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Partial Eclipse, Total Excitement 385 viewsThe Plumb Library welcomed celestial spectators on Monday for the region’s partial eclipse of the sun, handing out free eclipse glasses. Photos by Glenn C. Silva
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No Rain On This Parade 385 viewsThe RCF was packed on Sunday with people out enjoying the fair food, parade, frog racing, and pie tossing at (willing) faces. Photos by Glenn C. Silva
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