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Special Town Meetings
Marion Special Town Meeting – October 22, 2018
6:30pm – Sippican School, Spring Street
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Rochester Special Town Meeting – November 19, 2018
Memorial School – Pine Street

Mattapoisett Special Town Meeting – November 26, 2018
ORRHS Auditorium, Marion Road

News

Rochester Adds New “Soft” Recycling Program

In addition to the regular single-stream paper, plastic, and glass recycling collection, Rochester will soon participate in a new curbside recycling program for “soft” recyclables. On October 4, the Rochester Board of Selectmen held a special meeting and signed a contract with WasteZero, a curbside recycling company, for a separate collection of wares considered “soft” […] Read more »

Contract Talks Remain ‘Convoluted’

The top candidate for the executive director position and the representatives of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District have yet to strike an employment contract deal, with negotiations now stretching into a seventh week. The CMWRRDD wasn’t sure last week if it was going to have a contract deal or if it was […] Read more »

Planning Board Calls in $1.5 Million Surety

On October 3, the Mattapoisett Planning Board did something they have been contemplating for months, calling in a $1.5 million surety for a housing development built on what the board believes were empty promises. Coming before the Planning Board on this night to discuss all matters related to Brandt Point Village, a single-family home subdivision […] Read more »

Over 55 Development Slowly Moves Forward

There was only one hearing on the agenda for the Rochester Planning Board on October 9. Continued from September 25 was the Special Residential Development proposed for Rounseville Road. The 22-duplex residential development planned for senior housing has been slowly processing through legal and regulatory entanglements associated with an existing conservation Order of Conditions, drainage […] Read more »

Tri-Town Schools Adopt 2023 Strategic Plan

The Old Rochester school districts have a new Strategic Plan, with three main goal areas to strive towards over the next five years. The joint school committees of Old Rochester Regional and the three towns accepted the 2023 Strategic Plan on September 27, which addressed three areas: 21stCentury learning, social-emotional learning, and global citizenship. “We […] Read more »

Board Wrestles with Setback Amendment

There was one thing on the minds of the members of the Marion Planning Board Monday night: the zoning amendment put forth by Sherman Briggs. On September 18, the Marion Board of Selectmen allowed the last-minute addition to the Fall Special Town Meeting warrant of Briggs’ article proposing 10-foot setbacks in the Residence E zoning […] Read more »

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Mon 15

Seasonal Flu Clinics

October 15 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Mon 15

Seasonal Flu Clinics

October 15 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Mon 15

Community Conversation on Suicide

October 15 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Tue 16

Protect Yourself from Medicare Fraud

October 16 @ 9:00 am

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Events

Bourne Wareham Art Association

The Bourne Wareham Art Association will meet on Tuesday, October 16at BBs Restaurant, Cranberry Hwy, Wareham from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.         [...] Read more »

Focus on Photos: History of Photography

There will be a lecture by Liz Waring entitled, Focus on Photos: History of Photography on Sunday, October 28at 2:00 pm at Mattapoisett Free Public Li[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Woman’s Club

The October luncheon and meeting of the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club is on Thursday, October 18at 11:00 am. We meet at Reynard Hall in the Mattapoi[...] Read more »

Upcoming Programs at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library

Traditional Irish Music Session – Join local musicians and Irish music enthusiasts at an open session on Sunday, October 14from 2:00 pm to 4:00 [...] Read more »

Poet Josephine Yu at the Mattapoisett Library

Josephine Yu will be reading at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library on Sunday, October 20at 2:00 pm. The public is invited to hear this award-winning[...] Read more »

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Opinion

Marion’s Green Community Status

To the Editor:             Marion’s qualifying as a designated State Green Community ma[...] Read more »

Marion Energy Management Committee

To the Editor: Feel the Green! A Warrant Article for Marion’s Electric Cars. Have you noticed the [...] Read more »

ORR High School Drama Club

To the Editor: I’m writing on behalf of the students of the ORR High School Drama Club and the Fri[...] Read more »

Friends of the Plumb Library

To the Editor:             We, the board of the Friends of the Plumb Library in Rochester[...] Read more »

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The Latest in Our Photo Gallery

Images: The Lands of the Sippican Lands Trust Radio Tower Property S.P.I.R.I.T.S Old Colony Highlanders Pipe Band
Ghost stories Striped Bass Planting Island Sharing the Harvest
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Sports

Hockey Unlimited

Hockey Unlimited, an organization founded nearly 54 years ago and committed to teaching the fundamen[...] Read more »

Old Rochester Travel Basketball Association

Old Rochester Travel Basketball Association is announcing their tryouts for the 2018-19 basketball s[...] Read more »

ORR Football Secures SCC Large Title

Old Rochester Regional football didn’t mess around in the battle for the South Coast Conference La[...] Read more »

Fall Pickleball

Adult Drop-in Pickleball weekday Fall hours will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until Sun[...] Read more »

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Features

Library Director Sets ‘SAILS’ for Norfolk

The Elizabeth Taber Library is preparing to say farewell to its library director of five years, Elizabeth “Libby” O’Neill. O’Neill, who resides in Mansfield, has accepted a position at the Nor[...] Read more »

Investigation Suggests Spirits ‘Live’ in Library

It’s that time of the year when children begin planning their Halloween costumes in anticipation of shouting out that well known call of the wild, “Trick or treat!” The Halloween festival season[...] Read more »

Mushroom Experts Show the ‘Fun’ in Fungi

If you think about it, mushrooms are more like humans than plants – plants can use the sun to make their own energy, while mushrooms (and humans) are incapable of making their own energy. They’re [...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Man Takes Tuna Fishing to TV

A small boy sits in his boat while overhead the clear blue sky is filled with sun and soft clouds cast shadows across the surface of the pond. The child begins to imagine a life at sea: a life filled [...] Read more »

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Happenings

SLT Approves Executive Officers

At a meeting of the Sippican Lands Trust (SLT)’s Board of Directors held on September 11, 2018, a new slate of Executive Officers was approved. The [...] Read more »

Sippican Historical Society

In 1998, the Sippican Historical Society commissioned an architectural survey of Marion’s historic homes and buildings. The survey was funded one-ha[...] Read more »

Friends of the Mattapoisett Council on Aging

The Friends of the Mattapoisett Council on Aging (FOTMCOA), a non-profit, non-governmental group, has been aiding COA programs and supplementing the n[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Files for Federal Grant

At the end of July, the Town submitted an $8.5 million dollar grant proposal to the Federal Department of Transportation (“DOT”) to reconstruct In[...] Read more »

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Schools

Academic Achievements

Paul George Matos of Rochester made the dean’s list at Wentworth Institute of Technology for t[...] Read more »

UCT Eighth Grade Open House

Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, located at 220 Sandwich Road in Bourne, will hold their an[...] Read more »

Preschool Screening Clinic Scheduled

The Old Rochester Regional School District will be holding its annual screening clinic for three and[...] Read more »

Academic Achievements

Shawn Arruda of Acushnet has been recognized for achieving academic distinction at the University of[...] Read more »

A Closer Look at ORR’s Library Commons

Upon entering through the front doors of Old Rochester Regional High School, there lies what appears[...] Read more »

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Obituaries

Nicholas “Nick’ Mendes

Nicholas “Nick’ Mendes (USMC, Ret.) age 80, of Rochester passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 9, in Bourne. He was predeceased by his parent[...] Read more »

Carol H. (Houston) Perry

Carol H. (Houston) Perry, 89, of Mattapoisett died October 4, 2018 unexpectedly at Charlton Memorial Hospital. She was the wife of the late Manuel R. [...] Read more »

Bruce A. Maksy

Bruce A. Maksy, 77, of Rochester, died Thursday, October 4, 2018 at his home after a long illness. He was the husband of Deborah C. (Moody) Maksy. Bo[...] Read more »

Patrick James Spencer

Patrick James Spencer was a man with a giant heart, who loved his family unconditionally. Growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts, he was an avid sport[...] Read more »

Richard “Dick” Arthur

Richard “Dick” Arthur, 85, of Marion, MA, died peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on September 29, 2018 after a long struggle with[...] Read more »

Michael J. Deprospo

Michael J. Deprospo, 80, of Rochester, formerly of Watertown, died Sept. 28, 2018.  He was the husband of Norma M. (Ligor) Deprospo and the son of th[...] Read more »

Daniel Armand Charron

Daniel Armand Charron, age 74, passed away Saturday, September 29, 2018 at Tobey Hospital surrounded by his loving family. He was the husband of Sandr[...] Read more »

Dennis Michael Perry

Dennis Michael Perry, 71, of Mattapoisett, passed away on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. He was the devo[...] Read more »

Jeremiah James “Jay” Froh

Jeremiah James “Jay” Froh, 38, of Cape Coral, Florida passed away Tuesday September 18, 2018. Born in New Bedford, the son of Harlyn “Butch” a[...] Read more »

Carol A. Wolfe

Carol A. Wolfe, of Marion and Englewood, FL, died Sept. 22, 2018 at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River. She was the wife of Gerald F. Wolfe of M[...] Read more »

Robert H. Atkinson, Sr.

Robert H. Atkinson, Sr., of Mattapoisett, passed away peacefully early Tuesday, 18 September 2018, at Brookdale Dartmouth Village in Dartmouth, MA. He[...] Read more »

Emily C. McLaughlin

Emily C. McLaughlin, 85, of Acushnet, passed away on Saturday, September 22, 2018 in St. Luke’s Hospital. She was the wife of the late William M. Mc[...] Read more »

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