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 »
On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, the ORR Community Service Learning Club, the ORR Environmental Club, and Mattapoisett Boy Scout Troop 53 came together to help the Mattapoisett Land Trust. Four students from the clubs and eight Boy Scouts met up at the MLT Santos Farm Property at the end of Bowman Road to help […] Read more »
After successfully maneuvering through the winter sports season, the first since the beginning of the pandemic, Old Rochester Regional High School is set to take on another challenge: hosting winter sports in the middle of March. Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School will also have student-athletes playing football, soccer, and field hockey instead […] Read more »
Gail Eleanor (Muren) Stetson of Fairhaven, MA, passed away on February 27, 2021 due to the neurodegenerative effects of Frontotemporal Dementia, at age 60. She was born August 8, 1960, to the late Albert and Irene Muren, in New Martinsville, WV. She is survived by her beloved husband, Jon Stetson, of Fairhaven, MA; cherished siblings, […] Read more »
An era is ending as Melody Pacheco, assistant to the town administrator since 1991, is retiring on March 17. If you’ve had any dealing at all with Mattapoisett’s Town Hall, then you probably know Pacheco, aka ‘Mel.’ Before holding down the fort in the Selectmen’s office, she worked in the Clerk’s Office, the […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
Rochester Girls Softball League (RGS) recently announced that registration is open for the 2021 spring league at www.leaguelineup.com/rochestergirlssoftball. Girls in grades 3 through 8 who reside in Rochester, Marion, and Mattapoisett, and any surrounding towns that do not offer a softball league, are invited to sign up now through March 6. RGS Junior teams (grades 3 […] Read more »
The following students have achieved honors for the second term at Old Rochester Regional High School: Highest Honors, Grade 9: Chloe Bean, Chase Besancon, Noah Bongiorno, Murray Callahan, Meredith Cameron, Theodore Cecil, Julia Crain, Alia Cusolito, Amalia Dupre, Dylan Durgin, Amber Engel, Jaymison Gunschel, Jacob Hadley, Macy Ingham, Theo Jacobsen, Sara Kroll, Keelin Lienkamp, Megan McFadyen, […] Read more »
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 »