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Little Library496 viewsMary Kathleen Briand and her dog Boone are stewards of the Little Free Library in Briand’s front yard located on Hammond Street next to the tennis courts at Center School. Little Free Library is a book exchange program where you may take a book and/or leave a book for free. The little library movement was established to promote literacy and access to books around the globe. Photo by Marilou Newell
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Pipsissewa496 viewsStephen Chicco sent in this great photo of a Pipsissewa plant growing wild on Converse Point in Marion.
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Firefighters Memorial 496 viewsEight firefighters – four from Rochester – followed bagpiper Iain Massie to the Firefighters Memorial the morning of 8/24 to begin the inaugural four-day, 316-mile long Southern New England Brotherhood Ride, organized by Rochester Firefighter Andy Weigel. The ride was to remember 14 who lost their lives in the line of duty this past year. Photos by Jean Perry
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Corpse flowers496 viewsCorpse flowers – These monotropa uniflora – “Indian pipes”, “ghost plant”, or “ghost pipes” as they are otherwise known – are perennial waxy-white, fleshy, iridescent flowers that rise from the forest floor like tiny ghosts in a graveyard, hidden beneath the shadows of ferns and fallen tree trunks. These herbaceous flowers exist without the sun’s energy, void of the chlorophyll that gives other plants their green color.
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Marion Halloween Parade496 viewsThe Marion Art Center’s annual Marion Halloween Parade brought out scores of children and families for the much anticipated ghoulish gallivant through the village streets of Marion. Photos by Paul Lopes
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Marion Natural History Museum496 viewsOn November 28, the Marion Natural History Museum's afterschool group hosted Manny da Costa, a watershed scientist from Inter-fluve. Da Costa discussed some river restoration projects and taught about the importance of rivers for fish passage and water quality for our watershed. Student groups worked on problems involving hydrology, fish passage, riparian (rivers), and shellfish, and came up with some great ideas for protecting our watershed.
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Tree Lighting in Shipyard Park496 viewsMattapoisett held its annual tree lighting at Shipyard Park on Saturday, December 8, treating hundreds to an afternoon of festivities that included live Christmas music, free food courtesy of local restaurants, time to chill with Santa, and, of course, the excitement of the town’s tree lit up for the first time. Photos by Jean Perry
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Rochester Boy Scout Troop 31 and Cub Scout Pack 30496 viewsRochester Boy Scout Troop 31 and Cub Scout Pack 30 were invited to celebrate Scout Sunday in a special service performed by Pastor Philip H. Viall, with the assistance of Liturgist and Troop 31 Chaplin, David Andrews, at the Long Plain United Methodist Church in Acushnet this past Sunday. The warm and welcoming worship ceremony included thanking and honoring scouts and leaders for their dedication to community, the posting of the colors presented by local Eagle Scout candidates Jacob Andrews and Colin Macki
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Pinewood Derby496 viewsMattapoisett Pack 53 held its Pinewood Derby on March 9 at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church. The Cub Scout division had 14 entries, and the Enthusiasts division had 11 entries. The five fastest Cub Scouts cars going to the regional competition in Rochester on March 23: 1st Gabe Michaud, 2nd Kyle Pina, 3rd Thomas Tseki, 4th Matthew Crain, and 5th Eamon Perez. Matthew Crain's blue and gold lego car won Best Scout Theme car, and the Most Unique Design went to Liam Garvin's camping car.
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Sippican Lands Trust Easter Egg Hunt496 viewsThe Sippican Lands Trust hosted another Easter egg hunt at its Peirson Woods property off Point Road on Sunday, April 14. It was a successful hunt for the dozen or so kids who found every single one of the 600 eggs hidden along the trail. Photos by Jean Perry
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Sherlock Holmes at RMS496 views“The game is afoot” at Rochester Memorial School with its annual spring drama production! This year director Karen Della Cioppa has brought to the stage our favorite “the professor of facts,” Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. John Watson, starring Ambrose Cole as Holmes and Nolan Bushnell as Watson. Watch as Holmes and Watson uncover another dark mystery in an adaptation of “Sherlock Holmes: Mystery at the Manor”, this Friday, May 3, at 7:00 pm in the RMS cafetorium. Photos by Jean Perry
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Dickinson vs. Whitman496 viewsIn one corner, the enigmatic Emily Dickinson; in the other, the emphatic Walt Whitman. An audience watched the two throw poems like punches during the MAC’s May 3 event, “Dickinson vs. Whitman, the Poetry Knockout!” Stephen Collins was back in the Tri-Town as Walt Whitman, facing off against the Tri-Town’s own Annemarie Fredericks in poetic fisticuffs.
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