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Neck Road Crashes Linked, Charges Filed

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Rochester Police have brought charges against the driver involved in a serious crash on Neck Road Tuesday evening. Police filed charges today in Wareham District Court against 20-year-old Joshua A. De[...] Read more »

Community Preservation Approves Seven

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The Community Preservation Committee has spent the last year working on updating procedural documents, site visits to proposed projects, and developing improved application forms with a new scoring sy[...] Read more »

Marina Business Zoning To Be Reviewed

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Mattapoisett’s Planning Board has reviewed and modified language on several by-laws as part of an overall plan to make zoning by-laws more user friendly and in line with master planning which they u[...] Read more »

Future Town Clerk’s Pay Reduced

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The Town Clerk’s Office budget will reflect a salary decrease for the elected office position, a notion suggested by Town Administrator Michael Gagne, who pointed out that the candidates who have su[...] Read more »

Fire Inspector Faces Possible Charges

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The Mattapoisett Police Department has filed for criminal charges against Fire Inspector Lieutenant Patrick Saltmarsh for allegedly stealing $1,345.76 from the Firefighter’s Association, and Saltmar[...] Read more »

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Events

Mattapoisett Republican Town Committee

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The next meeting of the Mattapoisett Republican Town Committee is Wednesday, March 26 at 6:00 pm at the Mattapoisett Public Library. Guest speaker wil[...] Read more »

Classic Film Friday

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On Friday, March 14 at 7:00 pm, the public is invited to the Marion Music Hall for this month’s Classic Film Friday Presentation: The Quiet Man. The[...] Read more »

South Coast Chamber Music Society

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For the final concerts of their winter season, the South Coast Chamber Music Society will present piano trios by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert on[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Road Race

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The committee met recently to start planning the 44th Annual Mattapoisett Road Race, which will start at Shipyard Park at 9:00 am on July 4. The cours[...] Read more »

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Opinion

Enough of this Cynicism

Dear Sir, I feel compelled to take umbrage with the article in the February 20, 2014 Wanderer articl[...] Read more »

ORRJHS Oxfam Hunger Banquet

To the Editor: On behalf of the ORRJHS seventh grade teachers and students, I would like to express [...] Read more »

Isn’t Mattapoisett Special?

To the Editor; Isn’t Mattapoisett Special? Our landmarks are remarkable – Salty the Seahorse at [...] Read more »

Coyote Concerns

To the Editor; What a web of contradiction we weave in last week’s article “Coyote Conce[...] Read more »

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Sports

Hockey Unlimited Honors 3 Players

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During the final week of the season at Tabor Academy, Hockey Unlimited bestowed awards upon three of[...] Read more »

Boys’ Basketball Advances in Tournament

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Here is a look at the twelveth week of scheduled games for ORR winter athletics. Boys’ Basketball:[...] Read more »

Gateway Youth Hockey

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Squirt Grizzlies: On Saturday, the Gateway Squirt Grizzlies avenged their only loss of the season in[...] Read more »

Men’s College Squash Nationals – Division E

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Marion resident TJ Dyer is carried off the squash court at Harvard University after winning the deci[...] Read more »

Boys’ Basketball Receives Tournament Seeding

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Here is a look at the eleventh week of scheduled games for ORR winter athletics.          [...] Read more »

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Features

Council on Aging Lecture Series

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Mattapoisett’s Council on Aging is offering a series of lectures on art history and appreciation.  Jill Sanford, has spent the past 15 years teaching people of all ages the basics in art observatio[...] Read more »

A Year with Harry

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Another year has flown by leaving behind lots of happy memories and some that have been, well, shadows that only time will help to fade. Last spring we brought home Harry, our Havanese puppy. He is no[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Library to Open on Sundays

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The Mattapoisett Free Public Library will soon offer Sunday hours from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, hoping to make library resources available to patrons who might not otherwise find time to visit the library dur[...] Read more »

“F” is for Family and Fun (and Free)

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There was so much to do and discover on March 1 at the “Strengthening Families Fair”, funded by the Department of Early Education & Care, and coordinated by the Old Rochester Regional School D[...] Read more »

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Happenings

Talking about Trees

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If trees could talk, what stories they might tell about the many events that have occurred under their branches! The Mattapoisett Tree Committee is ea[...] Read more »

Calling All Volunteers!

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The Elizabeth Taber Library is starting an Adult Volunteer Program this spring and is seeking interested volunteers to assist with shelving books, col[...] Read more »

ORCTV Receives Grant

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Old Rochester Community Television is pleased to announce that it has received a $500 Community Reinvestment Grant from the Eastern Bank Charitable Fo[...] Read more »

March Programs at Plumb Library

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Brian J. Lowney, author of Unconditional Love: Pet Tales to Warm the Heart and the “Fin, Fur, and Feathers” column in New Bedford’s The Standard[...] Read more »

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Schools

Debate Team Makes ORR History

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Last Wednesday, students of the Old Rochester Regional debate team completed their undefeated season[...] Read more »

District Presents ORR FY15 Budget

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  “What does it take to educate our students here at Old Rochester?” asked ORR Superintende[...] Read more »

Academic Achievements

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Breanne Inman-Trendowski of Mattapoisett graduated in December from Saint Joseph’s College of [...] Read more »

Falmouth Academy’s 26th Annual Science Fair

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At Falmouth Academy’s 26th annual science fair Thursday, February 13, more than 170 students in gr[...] Read more »

ORYF Bulldogs Scholars

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Several ORYF Bulldogs were recently selected as 2014 Pop Warner All-American Scholars for the New En[...] Read more »

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Obituaries

Marie (Solveig) (Dahl) Tollefsen

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Marie (Solveig) (Dahl) Tollefsen, 89, of Fairhaven, died Friday, February 21, 2014 at St. Luke’s Hospital surrounded by her four loving daughters. S[...] Read more »

Estelle Jacobson

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Estelle Jacobson of Mattapoisett MA passed away peacefully February 24, 2014 at Windham Terrace Assisted Living in Windham, NH. Estelle was born on De[...] Read more »

Lorraine D. (Beaupre) Boardman

Lorraine D. (Beaupre) Boardman, 84, of Mattapoisett died February 27, 2014 at Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI. She was the wife of the late Robert M. Boa[...] Read more »

Marian D. (Tate) Lammey

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Marian D. (Tate) Lammey, 93, of Mattapoisett died February 24, 2014 peacefully at Sippican Healthcare Center. She was the wife of the late Archibald L[...] Read more »

Silvana (Morgardo) Kane

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Silvana (Morgardo) Kane, 90, formerly of Fairhaven, passed away Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at the Middlesex Health Care Center, in Middletown, CT. Sh[...] Read more »

James R. Persson

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James R. Persson, 59, of Mattapoisett died Wednesday February 19, 2014 peacefully at home. He was the loving husband of Nancy D. (Reid) Persson. Born [...] Read more »

J. Robert “Bob” Carrier

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J. Robert “Bob” Carrier passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on February 13, 2014. For 63 years he was the beloved husba[...] Read more »

Steven S. Sylvia

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Steven S. Sylvia, 92, of Fairhaven passed away Sunday, February 16, 2014, at Alden Court Nursing and Rehab Center, in Fairhaven, after a long illness.[...] Read more »

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