Historian Deborah Swiss will speak on January 19 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall about her book, The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia’s Convict Women. The book focuses on three remarkable survivors who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land – ordinary women who lived extraordinary lives as they triumphed over tragedy, […] Read more »
The Elizabeth Taber Library presents our first Lego Challenge Event on Tuesday, January 24 at 3:00 pm for children ages 10 and up. The first 10 minutes of this program will be unstructured building play, followed by three timed challenges such as building a piece of furniture, building a mode of transportation and building the […] Read more »
With the first semester of the school year at an end, it is already time for students of all grades at ORRHS to begin to consider their academic plans for the next year. This task falls as well to the eighth graders at the junior high who have had a chance to tour the high […] Read more »
After months of site visits, engineering, meetings, compromises and calculations, the 5-acre solar array planned by Michael and Johnann Forand, 268 Mattapoisett Road, got steps closer to being constructed. On January 17, Evan Watson of Prime Engineering representing Clean Energy Collective, Worcester, and Dan Wells of Goddard Consulting, Northborough, met with the Rochester Conservation Commission […] Read more »
This week was a very special time at Old Colony. For months, the freshmen have rotated around multiple different shops, getting a taste for each vocation. They have experienced everything from their initial top choices to shops that would be considered nontraditional. This week, these students were finally assigned their permanent shops where they will […] Read more »
Reminding the residents present who oppose Chris Bryant’s proposed aquaculture farm south of Meadow Island that there would be no final license granted that night, the Board of Selectmen gave preliminary approval for the aquaculture license application to move forward, prompting some in attendance to gasp in displeasure. The hearing was continued from December 20, […] Read more »
To the Editor: I want to take this opportunity as we start the New Year to thank all the generous folks of Mattapoisett who have donated incredible amounts of clothing, blankets, sleeping bags, winter coats, gloves, mittens, and numerous other outerwear items for the Mobile Ministries/Loaves and Fishes Program run out of St. Paul’s Church […] Read more »
For their January book, “Just the Facts” Nonfiction Book Discussion Group will be reading The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman. While driving out of the American embassy on February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was handed an envelope whose contents […] Read more »
In light of a $33,000 fine for the unpermitted rock formation – a seawall as per the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – at Sprague’s Cove, Marion Town Administrator Paul Dawson and the Board of Selectmen answered resident Sherman Briggs’ request for disclosure on who performed the unpermitted work and who authorized it. During the […] Read more »
Squirts: On Saturday, the Gladiator Squirts kicked off the weekend with an early morning win against Milton 9-1. The Gladiators took a while to get going, but late in the first period Brayden Cannon opened the scoring on a pass from Ben Hebbel and Tommy Clavell. Hebbel added a goal on a rebound to close […] Read more »