An annual gift to the Town of Rochester for $10,000 recently offered by Covanta Energy, owners of SEMASS, will benefit the Rochester Country Fair this year after the Board of Selectmen approved the allocation of $5,000 of the sum to help cover costs of this year’s event. Waste Manager at Covanta met with selectmen on […] Read more »
Tucked away in the southeast corner of Massachusetts, quietly nestled in pine forests and rich with antique homes, the agrarian town of Rochester is a true gem in an otherwise bustling world. Driving along its scenic roadways past farms and stonewalls, ponds and streams, one gets a sense of what life might have been like […] Read more »
On February 5 during a snow event, a FedEx truck careened off Route 28 in Rochester spilling 25 gallons of fuel on the highway shoulder and ditch leading towards sensitive wetlands and a nearby perennial stream. The spill needed immediate attention. FedEx hired Common Sense Environmental to perform the clean up and asked Rochester’s Conservation […] Read more »
The Nasketucket Bird Club will present a program about “Bird Attracting: Covering all the Basics.” Bill Gill, lifelong birder and proprietor of Blisscapes Landscape Design & Nursery in South Dartmouth, will talk about what to plant to attract birds to your yard. Design of your gardens and water features and your choice of shrubs, trees […] Read more »
With Peter Bourgault spending more time in the Marion Harbormaster’s Office now that he has been appointed as the full-time assistant harbormaster/deputy shellfish officer for Marion, someone might walk in and find one’s self doing a double take. Selectman Jonathan Henry pointed to Bourgault and Harbormaster Isaac Perry who sat together in the Marion Town […] Read more »
The following students have achieved honors for the second quarter at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School: – Grade 9 High Honors: Christopher Rogers of Marion – Grade 9 Honors: Cheyenne Bunch of Marion – Grade 10 Honors: Christopher Parisi of Marion Read more »
Get your green on with The Rochester Country Fair. Our Annual Dinner Dance Fundraiser will be celebrated with a Saint Patrick’s Day theme on Saturday, March 19. Guests are encouraged to don their green apparel for this fun spirited event! The Dinner Dance Fundraiser will take place at the Redmen Hall, located at 758 Main […] Read more »
The Marion Pathways Committee announces the availability of bid packages for engineering services to build the Marion bike path. The first phase of the bike path through Marion will start at the end of Industrial Park Drive in Mattapoisett and extend to Point Road in Marion, adjacent to I-195. The idea for having a bike […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett School Committee learned on February 11 that Center School is piloting a breakfast program of its own. Center School joins the three other Tri-Town elementary schools to pilot the program this year and Old Hammondtown School in Mattapoisett, which for years was the only elementary school to offer breakfast. Now, all Tri-Town schools […] Read more »
With a light agenda made even lighter by a requested continuance, the Marion Conservation Commission members on February 10 found themselves in the rare position of having an easy night as they inched their way through two hearings. Doug Thackeray’s Notice of Intent application was again continued at the applicant’s request. Thackeray is seeking permissions […] Read more »