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Developments Pose Record Impact

            The elephant in the kitchen proved too big not to talk about when the Marion Planning Board met via Zoom on April 5.             In a public hearing opened to entertain applicant Matt Zuker’s request for a zoning reclassification of 30 acres of land on Bournhurst Road and Wareham Street (Route 6) from single-family […] Read more »

Committee Looks to Be Proactive

            Times they are a-changing, or so the song goes. But change is inevitable as the push and pull of surrounding events, or in this case big-ticket municipal projects, have the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee ready to dig deeper and more expansively into requests than ever before.             On March 31, committee Chairman Chuck McCullough […] Read more »

Budget Matters Tidied Up

            Town Administrator Jay McGrail and Finance Director Judy Mooney appeared before the Finance Committee at its March 31 Zoom meeting to explain changes to two articles for the Spring Town Meeting warrant. The committee members voted to approve the changes to Articles 2 and 20, part of their meeting including votes to approve warrant […] Read more »

Asphalt Facility Gets Another Green Light

            In a Zoom meeting held on April 6, the Rochester Conservation Commission continued a discussion related to extending a previously issued Order of Conditions for the construction of a bituminous concrete (asphalt) processing facility along King’s Highway.             Stephen Meltzer of Edgewood Development Company, LLC, representing the project, explained that he conducted a successful […] Read more »

Selectmen Waiting on DeCosta before Borrowing

            The April 6 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen may have been a brief 25 minutes, but the two items on the agenda represented opportunities to improve lives, both everyday life and, for some, the quality of a life being lived in the shadow of medical issues.             One day motorists may be […] Read more »

Farinon, Starrett Exits Will Require Reset

            The Town of Rochester will lose two key employees at the end of Fiscal Year 2021, Conservation Agent Laurell Farinon and Town Planner Steven Starrett. Both employees’ resignation letters were officially accepted by the Board of Selectmen during its April 5 meeting.             Farinon was recognized for her 27 years of service to the […] Read more »

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Wed 14

Rochester Council on Aging Board Meeting

April 14 @ 9:00 am
Sat 17

Discover Vernal Pools with the MLT

April 17 @ 1:00 pm
Sun 18

Rabies Clinic

April 18 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Wed 21

Birds: The Epic Adventures of a Massachusetts Bird Photographer

April 21 @ 6:30 pm

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Events

MAC Calls for Art Auction Contributions

Save the date for the Marion Art Center’s Online Art Auction, July 28-31. In the meantime, the MAC is collecting art donations in preparation for t[...] Read more »

Discover Vernal Pools with the MLT

Vernal pools are a vital breeding habitat for resident amphibians and invertebrates such as wood frogs, spotted and blue-spotted salamanders, and fair[...] Read more »

Marion Town House

The Marion Town House is once again opened to the public. Hours of operation are 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday –Thursday, and 8:00 am – 3:30pm on Fr[...] Read more »

Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride

The Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride provides one of the most scenic coastal cycling courses in all of New England, and it returns for its 15th year on Sun[...] Read more »

Rabies Clinic

A rabies clinic for cats and dogs will be held on Sunday, April 18 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at the Mattapoisett Fire Station, which is located at [...] Read more »

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Opinion

Residents of Costal Mattapoisett

To the Editor and Residents of Costal Mattapoisett,         [...] Read more »

Marion Democratic Town Committee

To the Editor;             The Marion De[...] Read more »

Thank You

A great big thank you to all.             I p[...] Read more »

Friends of Old Rochester Music

To the Editor;             Music and arts hav[...] Read more »

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Sports

Old Colony Golfers Ahead of Their Time

            If you take a quick glance at the[...] Read more »

Humbling Opener for ORR

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

Fall II in Full Swing

            Old Colony Regional Vocational-Te[...] Read more »

Leap of Faith Has ORR Junior Back on Track

            Soccer has been such a big part o[...] Read more »

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Features

April Is Donate Life Month

            Samuel Evan Ellis could not have known when he got a tattoo on his hand that the words he had chosen for his body art would become pr[...] Read more »

Marion Projects Receive Federal, State Aid

            The Town of Marion hopes it is turning a fiscal corner after Representative William Straus presented its delegates with a $250,000 ch[...] Read more »

Colorful Oyster Catcher Faces Uncertain Future

            The colorful, eye-catching oyster catcher is a spectacular species of shorebird about as large as a crow, but whose black plumage is [...] Read more »

A Hundred and Fifty Thank Yous

            They don’t consider themselves exceptional or even special for what they have done. It wasn’t really planned; instead jus[...] Read more »

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Happenings

From the Files of the Rochester Historical Society

Like many parts of Massachusetts, Rochester has quite a few areas of second-growth woods. Wood lots from the heyday of sawmills (once there were 57 mi[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Boy Scouts Troop 53

Mattapoisett Boy Scouts Troop 53 is looking for donations of the following materials for Care Packages for Mattapoisett seniors: facemasks, hand lotio[...] Read more »

Marion Art Center

The Marion Art Center has awarded prizes to four students in the current “High School Student Art Show.” The exhibition committee based its decisi[...] Read more »

Take Home Science: Chemistry

Calling all grade 3-7 young scientists! Do you like to do science experiments? Make up potions? Watch a solution change colors? Launch rockets?  [...] Read more »

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Schools

Academic Achievements

Jack LeBrun of Mattapoisett was named to the Dean’s List at Lehigh University in the Fall 202[...] Read more »

ORRJH Students of the Month

Silas D. Coellner, principal of Old Rochester Regional Junior High School, announces the following S[...] Read more »

Mattapoisett Woman’s Club Offers Scholarships

Mattapoisett Woman’s Club is pleased to offer two $2,000 scholarship awards to Mattapoisett reside[...] Read more »

Academic Achievements

Alexa Mcleod of Marion, Jake Yeomans of Marion, and Julia Cabral of Mattapoisett have been named to [...] Read more »

Marion Scholarship and Education Committee

Through the generosity of Marion residents, the Marion Scholarship and Education Committee is offeri[...] Read more »

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Obituaries

Michael R. Bowers

            Michael R. Bowers, 55, a lifelong resident of Fairhaven, passed away unexpectedly M[...] Read more »

Manny Del Lima, Jr.

Manny Del Lima, Jr., 78, of Rochester, passed away unexpectedly at home on Thursday, April 1st, 2021.         [...] Read more »

Patrick S. O’Neale

Patrick S. O’Neale, 62, of Fairhaven, passed away Friday, April 2, 2021 at home surrounded by his loving family following a long battle with pancrea[...] Read more »

Charles J. Vosseler

Charles J. Vosseler, 83, of Mattapoisett passed away Thursday April 1, 2021 at home after a long illness.        &n[...] Read more »

Karen M. (Goulart) Canastra

Karen M. (Goulart) Canastra, 57, of Fairhaven died March 29, 2021 of ovarian cancer at home surrounded by her loving family.     &[...] Read more »

Jocelyne M. Tapper

Jocelyne M. Tapper, 83. Jocelyne used to say that she “opened and closed” a great many eyes in her career as both a maternity nurse and a [...] Read more »

Donald J. DuBois

Donald J. DuBois, 86, of Rochester, formerly of Newton, died Sunday, March 28, 2021 peacefully at his home surrounded by family and friends. He was th[...] Read more »

Richard Lewis Prouty

Richard Lewis Prouty died peacefully on March 24, 2021 following a brief illness lovingly surrounded by his family and his wife, Kim.   &nbs[...] Read more »

Dale C. Dakin

Dale C. Dakin, 80, of Rochester passed away Tuesday March 16, 2021 after a brief illness. He was the husband of Barbara A. (Bishop) Dakin; they had be[...] Read more »

Donald R. LaBrode

Donald R. LaBrode, 66, of Acushnet passed away at home on March 14, 2021 surrounded by his loving family.        &n[...] Read more »

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