When Old Rochester Regional High School Musical Director Mike Barnicle recommended the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” to ORRHS Theater Director Maxx Domingos, the young director was not so sure it would be a good fit. Barnicle talked Domingos into it and, as fate would have it, the tight-knit cast — or one […] Read more »
If voters at Town Meeting agree, a tennis court in disrepair off Point Road will become four pickleball courts by the end of the year after the Marion Community Preservation Committee voted to recommend the Town of Marion Recreation Department’s request for $75,000 in Community Preservation Act funding. The request was one of […] Read more »
The American Crow is one of the most widely distributed and recognized birds in North America. According to naturalists, there are more crows in this country than when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. That is because they take good care of their young and are very clever in defending them against numerous enemies. […] Read more »
With much ongoing discussion about creating a new police station or public safety building, I decided to look back to see what I could find on policing in Rochester’s earlier days. Surprisingly, very little of Mary Hall Leonard’s book on old Rochester’s history deals with policing. There is a lot of mention of laws being […] Read more »
TTAR (Tri-Town Against Racism) is excited to announce our fourth in series Community Conversations: How to Talk to your Kids about Race, Diversity and Inclusion. This series allows the TTAR leadership team to host local conversations with experts about how we can collectively do better. The Tri-Town community has continuously come together during the past […] Read more »
When Tabor alum Maija Scarpaci came home from her first semester at Holy Cross during the fall of 1995, she felt that her childhood home was too quiet. Scarpaci instead came home to Tabor Academy, visiting her former teachers, many of whom were all saddened by the tragic injury of Scarpaci’s then boyfriend, […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board Tuesday granted one-year extensions to two solar photovoltaic system installation permits for projects on Featherbed Lane and Braley Hill Road. The representative for both plans, Greg Sampson of Boston-based Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, said the sticking point is that a group transmission multiyear study for solar projects in the […] Read more »
Select Board member Brad Morse told Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of Rochester’s Public Safety Building Feasibility Study Committee that he wouldn’t be surprised to hear suggestions at the annual Town Meeting that Rochester resign its status as a Green Community in Massachusetts. At issue is the cost of doing business, and in this case, the […] Read more »
New Banned Book Club, first meeting Tuesday March 21 at 6:30 pm. Learn about the history of attempts at banning books in American and international libraries and discuss books that have made the American Library Association’s Banned Book List. This month we will be discussing Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. Pick up copies at the library […] Read more »
If you’re interested in learning about all of the town’s celebrations from 1793 – 1936 or to find out about all kinds of info on Bees or just get together after the winter to chat and eat yummy refreshments and renew your membership, then you need to circle the dates for our first two meetings […] Read more »