We’re setting off to find where the leprechauns have hidden their gold this St. Patrick’s Day. Come along with the Mattapoisett Land Trust as we search for the treasure on a hike in the woods. Bring the family out after school and wear your green. We are meeting at 3 pm at the Oliver […] Read more »
School Year 2023 – 2024 Kindergarten Registration for the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett & Rochester is now available. -Sippican School –16 Spring Street, Marion -Rochester Memorial School – 16 Pine Street, Rochester -Center School – 17 Barstow Street, Mattapoisett The Kindergarten Registration Information is now available on the Old Rochester Regional School District website […] Read more »
Representatives of Rochester town departments and boards met Tuesday night to review the new policy on access to Town Counsel, section by section, to iron out the concerns of some board members. Planning Board Chairman Arnold Johnson conducted the paragraph-by-paragraph review after Select Board Chairman Woody Hartley said the meeting had been scheduled […] Read more »
COA Book Group will meet at the Rochester Council on Aging on Tuesday, March 21 at 1:00 pm. We will be discussing The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis. The next book will be The Maid by Nita Prose, and copies will be available at the meeting to borrow. Please bring your library card. […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Free Public Library will celebrate St Patrick’s Day, Celtic culture and the arrival of spring by presenting a performance by Parents’ Choice Award winning performer Davis Bates. Entitled “A Celtic Celebration”, the program will involve the audience in a variety of cultural traditions. It will include traditional songs and tales from Ireland, Scotland […] Read more »
To the Editor; Recently, regional news reports have chronicled actual behaviors now occurring within local school districts that point to racism: pure and simple. And the removal (banning) of select literary classics from school library shelves that has come to be reveals to me—a retired high school English teacher—that there are people in our […] Read more »
Dave Andrews of the Bay Club Real Estate Holdings and engineer Bob Field of Field Engineering came before the Mattapoisett Planning Board on Monday night to request approval of a Form C Definitive Subdivision for parcels located inside the original 624-plus acres. Original conceptual plans for the site in question were for the […] Read more »
The Great Horned Owl is found everywhere in America because of its aggressive and powerful hunting ability. It is also known as the Tiger Owl for taking prey as various as rabbits, hares, snakes and even skunks. It will even attack a porcupine or a Bald Eagle, often with fatal results for both prey […] Read more »
Attend a free workshop entitled, Let’s Make a Pinhole Camera at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library on Sunday, March 26 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm with local photographer David Walega. This free workshop is in conjunction with Walega’s Mattapoisett Library Artist Series exhibit entitled, Let the River Run running from March 21 to April […] Read more »
It’s almost spring, and things are stirring at the Historical Society. Our first meeting is April 19 at 7:00 at the museum, 355 County Rd. The program will discuss Rochester’s many celebrations, pre-1940. May brings us both the bees of Nettie’s Bees and the Historical Commission’s dedication of the new Revolutionary War Memorial. There […] Read more »