On Saturday, June 28 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, rain or shine, the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club will host their biennial garden tour “Down by the Bay.” Nine gardens will be featured including a lily farm, Bay Club, seaside, and village locations. Not only will there be spectacular gardens, but some of the home […] Read more »
The Sippican Woman’s Club will hold a luncheon and its Annual Meeting on Friday, April 25 at noon at The Kittansett Club in Marion. There will be a cash bar from 12:00 – 12:45 pm. Seating is at 12:30 pm, with luncheon served at 12:45 pm. The Nominating Committee will present the slate of officers […] Read more »
Everyone noticed the boxes of tissues placed at the end of every row in the auditorium on April 10, as students filed in and prepared for “Every 15 Minutes,” a presentation to seniors about drunk driving and texting while driving. The tissues were an ominous sign of what was to come, but some students seemed […] Read more »
It’s happening again. The skies are blackened by swarms of winged devils. The calm of early mornings and twilight reveries vibrate with evil squawks. The treetops sway under the weight of thousands of single-minded beings. They come to procreate on my property and then raise their young, whose waste will be spread across my backyard, […] Read more »
As Mattapoisett’s Finance Committee nears the end of its hard work preparing for the spring town meeting, they met on April 9 with various department heads to ask questions pertinent to capital funding requests. First up was John DeSousa, Chairman of the Community Preservation Committee. As he had done at the selectmen’s meeting the night […] Read more »
Kevin T. Brogioli, Principal of Old Rochester Regional Junior High School, announces the following Students of the Month for March 2014: – Red Team: Megan Guaraldo and Logan King – Blue Team: Vanessa Ortega and Joseph Robinson – Orange Team: Ainslee Bangs and Tyler Menard – Green Team: Allison Kvilhaug and Benjamin Lafrance – Special […] Read more »
The Maconchu Club of the Mattapoisett Congregational Church will meet at 7:00 pm on Saturday April 26 instead of their regular meeting night due to Easter. The speaker for the evening will be Thomas Shire who has a very varied background and who will speak to us about having owned a number of theaters including […] Read more »
Come join the melodic fun as The New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus performs at the Mattapoisett Historical Society, 5 Church Street, on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 pm. The 40+ member chorus’ repertoire includes the chanteys (work songs) of the Yankee sailor and whaler, along with the ballads and ditties of global mariners and […] Read more »
The next Rochester Republican Town Committee meeting will be Saturday, May 3 at 9:30 am at the East Freetown Crossroads Plaza, second floor. The public is welcome. Read more »
Members of Old Rochester Regional High School’s AFS club went on a short-term exchange to a high school in Illinois last Wednesday through Sunday. The students were hosted by AFS club members in the small town of Arcola. While there, they experienced what life is like in America’s mid-west. ORR students on the trip included […] Read more »