Salt marshes across Buzzards Bay are experiencing significant stress from climate-change driven sea level rise, but also a range of factors that include tidal restrictions and nitrogen pollution. This is the conclusion of the report, “Buzzards Bay Salt Marshes: Vulnerability and Adaptation Potential,” released today by the Buzzards Bay Coalition, the Buzzards Bay National Estuary […] Read more »
Here at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, we have programs to help you prepare for spring and to ride out the rest of the unpredictable winter. Starting Saturday, March 4 at 2 pm, join us as we create Wildflower Seed Balls. Exactly as it sounds, a wildflower seed ball is a ball of wildflower […] Read more »
College of Charleston congratulates students who were named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for Fall 2022, including Sarah Moitozo of Mattapoisett who was named to the President’s List. Moitozo is majoring in Public Health and Sally Butler of Mattapoisett who was named to the Dean’s List. Butler is majoring in Marketing. […] Read more »
The makeup of the Marion Select Board had changed since the last time Tim Sawyer of Yarmouth Port-based Catalyst Architecture/Interiors Inc. was before its members to provide an update on the new Marine Center planned for Island Wharf. Catalyst was first involved almost three years ago in what started out as a design-feasibility […] Read more »
Marion’s 1991 ladder truck took center stage, as Fire Chief Brian Jackvony met with the Finance Committee on February 22 at the Music Hall. A new ladder truck estimated to cost $1,200,000 was originally pitched as a capital need of the department, but the Capital Improvements Planning Committee ranked it outside the top-10 […] Read more »
Friends of the Library coffee hour Thursday, March 2 at 9:30 am. Learn more about the brand new Friends of the Elizabeth Taber Library at our recruitment coffee hour. Serve the community of Marion by supporting the library. New Banned Book Club, first meeting Tuesday, March 21 at 6:30 pm – Learn about the […] Read more »
The new towns of colonial Massachusetts started as theocracies with church and town businesses intertwined. In fact, one of the requirements for the Rochester grant was that “worship should be established within 4 years”. This was clear in Rochester with the 1699 meeting house serving as a place to conduct both church and town business […] Read more »
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that applications are now available for the 2023 Lillian B. Lamoureux Music Scholarship. The scholarship competition is open to all South Coast music students ages 14–21. Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded, one high school student and one college student. The deadline for application (including two […] Read more »
In her February 16 Chairperson’s Report to the Rochester School Committee, Sharon Hartley told the members she has been preparing her report to the town for budget season. Part of that preparation has included the reading of the minutes from every School Committee meeting. “It’s impossible … to read the pages and pages […] Read more »
To the Editor, We have an election coming up on May 16th to elect Mattapoisett residents to important town positions. (Rochester and Marion also have elections coming up) Unfortunately, not many people vote in the municipal elections and so I say to everyone, mark your calendars! Vote on May 16th! In part, because […] Read more »