To the Editor What a great ten days for the Town of Mattapoisett. At the November 6th Town Meeting we brought closure to matters surrounding Tinkham Forest – following twenty years of discussion, debate and votes dealing with the preservation of the Forest and access to the Forest. Town meeting also approved significant funds […] Read more »
Bike Path Finds Traction
Chairman John Rockwell reported Tuesday night that the Marion Pathway Committee has submitted its “100% plan” to the state on the Marion Shared Use Path that is intended to connect pieces of the South Coast Bikeway emanating from the Mattapoisett line and continuing to Point Road. Rockwell said detail work will be required […] Read more »
Sisters in Crime New England for Mystery Making
Avoid the post-Thanksgiving blues by joining four fantastic local mystery authors for Mystery Making on Saturday, November 25 at 2 pm. For this interactive presentation, Maureen Boyle, Sharon Healy-Yang, Stephen Rogers and Sharon Ward will brainstorm on their feet to create a brand new mystery, using suggestions from the audience. Come be part of the […] Read more »
RMS Talks MCAS
MCAS testing and what to do with the information was on the table when the Rochester School Committee met on November 2. “We’re back at a place where MCAS data is starting to become more meaningful,” said Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson, qualifying the remark by noting that MCAS provides […] Read more »
Medical Bills: How to Fight Them
Years ago, when I would visit with my in-laws, after the initial pleasantries, my mother-in-law would bring out a shoebox full of paper and say, “Edward, do I owe anyone any money?” In the box were dozens of undecipherable pieces of paper, many of which were marked, “This is Not a Bill,” even though they […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Library
Jim Parker, whose folk art watercolors are on display at the Mattapoisett Library during the month of November, will be providing instruction on how to paint a watercolor of the historic SouthCoast on Sunday, November 26. Parker has painted hundreds of paintings, and his goals and motivations for his folk art paintings are to recreate […] Read more »
Ralph E. Parsons
Ralph E. Parsons, 75, aka “Rocky”, aka “Ralphy”, aka “Dad”, aka “Papa Ralph”, finally allowed his big, generous, fun loving heart to retire peacefully yesterday at his home at Dexter Beach in Marion. Ralph’s heart had quite the amazing history. It took its first marvelous thumps in New Haven, CT. His mother Rita, his father […] Read more »
Dog Hearing Needs Larger Venue
A Special Permit application for an in-house, dog-training business at 16 Bishop Road drew a standing-room-only crowd of concerned neighbors to Rochester Town Hall on November 9, forcing the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals’ public hearing to be postponed. After noting that the meeting was no longer accessible to all who wanted to […] Read more »
Thanksgiving Lives On
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. Even as a little boy when you’d think it would be just like any other day, just me and my mother and father at the dinner table, it was special. Instead of the usual meatloaf or tuna casserole, or “potato bargain” … a concoction of sliced potatoes […] Read more »
ORR Playoff Runs End
The Old Rochester Regional High School football team got a touchdown from Gavin Martin and a two-point conversion from Devin St Germaine, but a stingy Shawsheen Tech defense ended the Bulldogs’ postseason run with a 28-8 victory in the teams’ MIAA Division 5 quarterfinal on November 10 in Billerica. “We had our chances […] Read more »