All Southcoast Active Service Military, Reservists and Veterans are invited to join the monthly meetings of the American Legion: Florence Eastman Post #280, serving the Tri-Town area of Mattapoisett – Marion – Rochester and beyond. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, Oct […] Read more »
Mattapoisett’s Special Fall Town Meeting, scheduled for Monday, November 6, will feature several capital expenditures, including $350,000 for renovation to the Highway Department and $300,000 for roadway improvements. But those sums will be eclipsed by the $8,000,000 needed for the town’s 16% share of needed upgrades to the Fairhaven sewer plant. During the […] Read more »
The theme of this year’s Friends of Marion COA Annual Meeting will be Interconnections: Working Together within Our Community. Speakers from the Sippican Historical Society, Tabor Academy and the Marion Art Center will each talk briefly about their present and future collaboration efforts. They will cite activities done this past year in conjunction with the […] Read more »
The next meeting of the Nasketucket Bird Club will be on Wednesday, October 25 at 6:30 pm at the Mattapoisett Public Library, 7 Barstow Street. Free and open to the public. More bird info at the Nasketucket Bird Club website: www.nbcbirdclub.com/ or the Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/NasketucketBirdClub. The meeting program will feature Shawn Carey […] Read more »
Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday agreed to join the Conservation Commission in its protest of what a recent regional Conservation Restriction agreement will do to the town’s water rights on 13 acres of Rochester land. The board approved sending its own letter to the Select Board to take further action against the 241-acre regional […] Read more »
Close to 30 years ago, Julie Craig and her husband bought a run-down, 5-acre farm in Mattapoisett. Fast forward to the present and not only did Craig and others transform the land, they used the farm to transform the lives of many families and people with autism-spectrum disorder and other disabilities. It didn’t […] Read more »
Tune into the changing seasons and spend some meaningful time outdoors on Sunday, October 15. Mattapoisett Land Trust is hosting a Fall Mindfulness Walk, free and open to people of all ages and abilities, led by the wonderful Yoga and Mindfulness Instructor, Carly Baumann. The program will go from 10:00-11:00 am, beginning at the MLT […] Read more »
Are you ready for some spooktacular fun? Dust off the cobwebs and sharpen those scary pencils! Your best Halloween artwork could be on the cover of The Wanderer and you could win a cash prize! Submit your best original Halloween drawing, photo, compilation, or artwork to enter for publication on our November 2 cover. […] Read more »
On Sunday, October 22 at 3:00 pm, the Tri-County Symphonic Band, under the direction of Philip Sanborn, will perform their season opening concert; “Blue October.” The program will be held in the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Tabor Academy in Marion, MA and will feature piano soloist Susan Saposnik. Ms. Saposnik will play the world […] Read more »
The Marion Garden Group partnering with the Tree Committee began a project of identifying and putting aluminum tags on the many species of trees around town last year. This monumental task continues again this year. Led by Sylvia Strand, volunteers will meet in Bicentennial Park on Friday and Saturday, October 13& 14 at 10:00 am. […] Read more »