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911 Network Expands to Include Hanover

            The Rochester Board of Selectmen likes how it’s going as a member of the Duxbury-hosted Regional Old Colony Communications Center and anticipates a renewal of its inter-municipal agreement (IMA).             ROCCC provides 911 police, fire, and EMS emergency dispatch service for six towns, as Director Michael Mahoney told the selectmen during their March 1 […] Read more »

Marion on Hold for Second COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

            The Marion Board of Health learned on March 2 that a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine in Massachusetts has resulted in the town having to cancel its March 5 vaccination clinic to administer a second dose to residents that received their first dose last month.             Marion was authorized back on January 30 to receive […] Read more »

Mattapoisett Library, Town Hall to Reopen

            With active COVID-19 cases standing at 15 and the town’s infection status in the green zone, the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen discussed the reopening of at least two town buildings, the library and Town Hall.             Coming before the board during its March 2 meeting was Library Director Jennifer Jones, who offered a phased […] Read more »

Selectmen Reject Ray Pickles Memorial

            The Marion Board of Selectmen voted unanimously during its March 2 meeting to turn down Diane Bondi Pickles’ proposal of a memorial bench in honor of her late husband Raymond Pickles that she would donate and set near the Harbormaster’s office at her own expense.             Ray Pickles, former Marion town administrator, town clerk, […] Read more »

No Frontage, No House on Bog Property

            Walter Hartley will not be building a house on the 15-acre Pine Street parcel that was once in the family and recently acquired after all.             Representing his daughter, applicant Katherine Hartley of 16 Walnut Plain Road, to the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals in a February 25 public hearing, Walter Hartley could not […] Read more »

Tabor Sent Back to Drawing Board

            The proposed campus center at Tabor Academy was closing in on a motion by the Marion Planning Board to vote to approve until Town Planner Gil Hilario told the board during its March 1 meeting that he had just confirmed by phone with Town Counsel Barbara Carbone that the board’s 4-1 vote just minutes […] Read more »

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Thu 11

Mattapoisett Library’s ‘ZOO to You’ Virtual Program

March 11 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sat 13

Surfcasting the Cape Cod Canal for Striped Bass

March 13 @ 2:00 pm
Thu 18

Mattapoisett Library’s ‘ZOO to You’ Virtual Program

March 18 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sat 20

NBSO Presents “Celebrating Black Culture”

March 20 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Events

Rochester Girls Softball Returns This Spring

Rochester Girls Softball League (RGS) recently announced that registration is open for the 2021 spring league at www.leaguelineup.com/rochestergirlsso[...] Read more »

NBSO Presents “Celebrating Black Culture”

The NBSO is back with another fantastic virtual concert! Join us on March 20 from the comfort of your own home as we safely place 23 musicians, Music [...] Read more »

Surfcasting the Cape Cod Canal for Striped Bass

The Mattapoisett Library is pleased to announce that East End Eddie Doherty will be presenting a fishing seminar including a PowerPoint demonstration [...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Annual Town Election

The Annual Town Election in Mattapoisett is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18. Nomination papers are available by appointment only. Interested parties sho[...] Read more »

Paul Cuffe: His Purpose, Partners and Properties

If the name Paul Cuffe is unfamiliar to you, the virtual library discussion with authors David Cole and Betty Slade about their work, “Paul Cuffe: H[...] Read more »

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Opinion

Foster Care

To the Editor;             According to the D[...] Read more »

Regional Wastewater Solution

To the Editor;             The Buzzards [...] Read more »

Thanks

Dear Editor:             We would like to exp[...] Read more »

National Thank a Police Officer Day

Dear Editor,             January 9, 2021 was [...] Read more »

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Sports

ORR, Old Colony Set for Fall II Season

            After successfully maneuvering th[...] Read more »

ORR Made Most of Opportunity

            It would be hard to blame any ath[...] Read more »

Girls Basketball Title Run Height of Winter

            Old Rochester Regional High Schoo[...] Read more »

Pause Couldn’t Break Horan, Bulldogs

            Although Old Rochester Regional g[...] Read more »

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Features

Mel Will be Missed in Mattapoisett

            An era is ending as Melody Pacheco, assistant to the town administrator since 1991, is retiring on March 17. If you’ve had any [...] Read more »

Drive-In Left Lasting Memories

            People of a certain age will have memories of going to a drive-in movie theater. As little children, the back seat of the family car [...] Read more »

Pre-dawn Fire Levels Garage, Totals Truck

Dr. John Howard, a member of the Marion Board of Health, was awoken on February 18 by the news that his garage at 62 Water Street in Marion was on fire. No one was injured but for a minor injury to a [...] Read more »

A Pond Called Carolyn

Carolyn Longworth of Fairhaven is a retired director from the Millicent Library after some 25 years of dedicated service. After she retired, she was asked by the town’s selectboard to come to a [...] Read more »

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Wanderer Today



Happenings

Tri-Town Clean-up

On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, the ORR Community Service Learning Club, the ORR Environmental Club, and Mattapoisett Boy Scout Troop 53 came to[...] Read more »

MLT Blanche B. Perry Scholarship

The Mattapoisett Land Trust is seeking applicants for their $1,000 ‘”Blanche B. Perry Scholarship.” This award is available to a Mat[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Seed Library Ready for Checkouts

Just restocked, the new and improved Mattapoisett Free Public Library’s Seed Library is ready to fill requests! Patrons can now pick exactly the[...] Read more »

From the Files of the Rochester Historical Society

Krakatoa was a small volcanic island in what is now Indonesia. As part of the Dutch East Indies, located in the ocean about 100 miles from Jakarta, it[...] Read more »

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Schools

ORRHS Term 2 Honor Roll

The following students have achieved honors for the second term at Old Rochester Regional High Schoo[...] Read more »

Academic Achievements

Sienna Wurl, of Mattapoisett, is among more than 500 students named to the Western New England Unive[...] Read more »

Bishop Stang Second Quarter Honor Roll

Bishop Stang High School is proud of the accomplishments of our students, and recognizes those stude[...] Read more »

Academic Achievements

The following students Earned Fall 2020 Dean’s List Honors at Stonehill College: Luke Couto, M[...] Read more »

Marion Scholarship Committee

The Marion Scholarship Committee wishes to invite graduating seniors who reside in Marion and plan t[...] Read more »

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Obituaries

Gail Eleanor (Muren) Stetson

Gail Eleanor (Muren) Stetson of Fairhaven, MA, passed away on February 27, 2021 due to the neurodegenerative effects of Frontotemporal Dementia, at ag[...] Read more »

Emilie S. Piper

Emilie S. Piper passed away on Monday, February 15, after a period of declining health. A longtime resident of Pittsfield, MA, she spent her last mont[...] Read more »

Evelyn Midura

Evelyn Midura passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends whom she loved, on February 13, 2021, following a nine-year battle with Ovarian [...] Read more »

Earle L. Sylvia

Earle L. Sylvia, 85, of Mattapoisett, passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, February 27, 2021. He was the husband of Mary-Jane (Silveira) Syl[...] Read more »

George F. Zine, Jr.

George F. Zine, Jr., 71 of Wareham, died Friday, February 5, 2021 at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston due to complications from diabetes. He[...] Read more »

Hilda Fernandes (Lage) Laliberte

Hilda Fernandes (Lage) Laliberte, 88 years beautiful, passed away on Friday, February 19, at her home. She was the wife of the late Edmond Laliberte a[...] Read more »

Gloria Jean (Lunt) Precopio

Gloria Jean (Lunt) Precopio, 74, of Mattapoisett, MA, passed on Thursday, February 18, 2021, at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich, MA, after a brie[...] Read more »

Esther Irene (Clemishaw) Peltola

Esther Irene (Clemishaw) Peltola, 92, of Middleboro, passed away peacefully on February 20, 2021 at the Hannah B.G. Shaw Home. She was the wife of the[...] Read more »

Roger Normand Bolduc

Roger Normand Bolduc made his last wildly inappropriate and probably sarcastic comment on February 18th 2021.       &nbs[...] Read more »

Gertrude Trumbull Burr

Gertrude Trumbull Burr died peacefully at home in her sleep, on Friday, February 12th, age 97, after a life well-lived.  No matter how busy, her [...] Read more »

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