The next meeting of the 2022/2023 Machacam Club season has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 5. We meet at the American Legion Eastman Post on Depot Street. Doors open at 5 pm for social time followed by dinner at 6 pm. Our speaker program begins at 6:45. We welcome New Bedford Fire Chief (Ret) […] Read more »
Lois C. (Phillips) Straffin, 81, of Rochester, passed away peacefully at home with her family at her side on September 22, 2022. Survivors include her husband, Richard W. Straffin, they were married for 48 years; her 6 children, Glen Jutras, Scott Jutras, Eric Jutras, Donna Nichols, Michael Straffin, Patricia DeNardo and her husband Marc; 12 […] Read more »
Brian and Beth Keane received a Negative Box 2 Determination of Applicability for their plan to raze an existing house and garage and construct a new home with an attached garage, driveway, retaining walls, landscaping and utilities 8 Pie Alley, but the decision made by the Marion Conservation Commission on September 14 was made […] Read more »
Senior Jacob Patnaude led the Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School cross-country team in its first two meets of the 2022-23 season. The outmanned Cougars gave visiting Bristol Plymouth a tussle on September 14 before dropping a 24-33 decision that starts off Old Colony’s season at 0-2. The Cougars opened on the road with […] Read more »
At the beginning of the 18th century, the basic design of lighthouse beacons was perfected by the French inventor Augustine Fresnel. In his research, Fresnel deducted that the power for electric light was pure energy sent out in waves through the air. He experimented with three types of light prisms to effectively focus their […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center welcomes photographer John Wiliszowski, who will give an educational lecture, Photography’s Path to Digital Expression, on Saturday, October 15 at 10:30 am in the MAC’s Anne Braitmayer Webb Theater. Tickets are just $15 for MAC members and $20 for nonmembers. The presentation is an introduction to a series created for artists […] Read more »
Once the early settlers of the New England colonies got past the first years of subsistence farming, they were ready to acquire items not easily found in the woods and fields of their new home. Bartering became a way to get the things that they wanted, but they were always looking for some form of […] Read more »
The plan to finance construction of Marion’s new Marine Center at Island Wharf was predicated on two $1,000,000 grants from the state’s Seaport Economic Council, which first granted Marion $300,000 before adding the first of the aforementioned $1,000,000 grants. “I don’t have high hopes for the final installment,” said Harbormaster Isaac Perry, who said […] Read more »
Dog owners are on notice. Your time to own an unregistered pet without being fined is up. On Monday night, the Rochester Select Board signed the town’s Annual Dog Enforcement Warrant, notifying all dog owners in town their canine must be licensed. The warrant authorizes Animal Control Officer Anne Estabrook to catch […] Read more »
The sound of nails being hammered and the smell of freshly sawn wood permeated the air on September 16, as students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Bourne continued their in-field carpentry education led by instructor Andrew MacLeod at the Cushing Community Center in Marion. MacLeod, who previously owned a construction […] Read more »