The Rochester Planning Board critically reviewed rather than approved the projects they were presented on Tuesday night. The panel started with informal discussions over site plans for a marijuana retail establishment on Cranberry Highway and a native tree and wildflowers nursery at 157 Vaughn Hill Road. Megan’s Organic Market, the marijuana retail facility, […] Read more »
Visit the library to enjoy a classic film on Friday, May 5 at 1:00 p.m. in the Community Room. Check our website for details on the film. This is the start of a new film club that will meet the first Friday of the month, schedule permitting. Enjoy some free popcorn while you watch. No […] Read more »
Coping with the Loss of a Pet Program Thursday April 27, 6:30 to 7:30 – Join us in welcoming Susan Holt, DVM, and Veterinary Chaplain Kelly Drescher Johnson, B.A., M.Div., to speak about coping with the loss of a pet and provide helpful strategies and resources for people mourning an animal companion. Local pet photographer […] Read more »
The Rochester Select Board made a significant, last-minute change to the Annual Town Meeting warrant, as they reviewed the draft articles on Monday night. The board followed member Brad Morse’s recommendation to combine all the measures on the warrant related to withdrawing from being a designated Green Community into one article. Article 29 […] Read more »
Nature hides in plain sight and when discovered, brings unexpected rewards. That was the collective sentiment on April 19 when approximately 20 students and three staff from Tabor Academy joined the Mattapoisett Land Trust as volunteers to help clean out a new walking trail on a parcel of land acquired last year by […] Read more »
July 4 will be here before we know it and so will the 51st running of the Mattapoisett Road Race. This year there will be some exciting changes. Begun in 1971 by Bob and Doris Gardner, 15 runners raced from Point Connett to Shipyard Park. Over the years, the route has changed a few times, […] Read more »
On Saturday, April 29, the national nonprofit organization Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) invites the community to a Volunteer Day event to help landscape Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rebecca Mann’s future specially adapted custom home. The new home for Chief Warrant Officer 2 Mann, who was severely injured in Afghanistan, has more than 40 adaptations […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center is partnering with the Marion Community Center and Tri-Town Against Racism to present a public reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? The event will take place on Saturday, July 1 at 1:00 pm at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center located at […] Read more »
By 2030, the utility company Eversource wants all of its operations to be carbon neutral. Through one program, they are asking neighboring communities – Fairhaven, Acushnet, Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester – to be a part of the first steps toward that movement. Ryan Earle and Maija Benjamins, representatives from Eversource, met with Marion […] Read more »
George B. Dornblaser, Jr. 83, of Rochester, formerly of Marion, passed away on April 19, 2023, in Hathaway Manor, New Bedford. He was the husband of the late Mimi (Hellier) Dornblaser and the son of the late George B. and Grace (Altmiller) Dornblaser. He was born in Hazelton, PA and was a long-time resident […] Read more »