Cushing Cemetery Clean-up Day will be held on May 20 from 9:00 – 2:00 pm. Stop by and lend us a hand. Bring your bags, rakes, trucks, and muscles! Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. If you can’t attend and would like to make a donation, you can send a check to Cushing […] Read more »

Local musician Rebecca Correia is coming to the Old Rochester Regional High School auditorium for a special Mother’s Day fundraiser concert to benefit the new mural painted outside the junior high. Junior high school student Delaney Shaw spearheaded the junior high mural/arts project painted by Ryan McFee and Todd Woodward. Tickets for the Sunday, May […] Read more »

This Friday, May 12, Open Table is serving another delicious meal at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church and everyone is welcome! Doors open at 4:30 pm and supper is served at 5:00 pm. Paul is back and the meal is guaranteed to light-up your taste buds! We hope you will invite a friend or neighbor to […] Read more »

Cambodia Travel Talk: Thursday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. For the past few years, Rick DaSilva and Gary Sousa have helped organize and chaperone multiple student service trips on behalf of Tabor Academy. Last summer, they led a group of 32 students to the village of Sophy, located about 20 miles southeast of Siem Reap, […] Read more »

The last teen dance for this school year is Friday, May 12 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm for $8 at The Knights, 57 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett. Teen dances provide a fun and safe place for 6th, 7th and 8th graders to socialize, listen and dance to their favorite music on a Friday night. Knights […] Read more »

Beautiful and whimsical 8 x 8-inch canvases have begun arriving at the Mattapoisett Library in support of the Friends’ Calling All Artists fundraiser. Over 100 canvases to be decorated have been signed out by adults, teens, and children. Some are already on view upstairs in the library’s lobby. An Artists’ Reception is scheduled for Tuesday, […] Read more »

The monthly meeting of the Florence Eastman Post 280 will be held at the Post Hall at 7:00 pm on May 17. This meeting will cover the normal reports and will also review the current status of our preparations for the Memorial Day Parade and any updates on the House Committee’s research into the repair […] Read more »

The Marion Garden Group is hosting its annual Plant Sale on Saturday, May 13 in the park across from the Art Center. Members have been digging, dividing, and repotting a good selection of beautiful perennial plants, herbs and shrubs that have thrived in local gardens and are offered for sale to the community at reasonable […] Read more »

The Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race on the Mattapoisett River, sponsored by the Rochester Fire Department, will take place on Monday, May 29, starting at 8:30 am at Grandma Hartley’s Reservoir, Snipatuit Road, in Rochester and finish at the Herring Weir, River Road at Route 6, in Mattapoisett. The minimum age for contestants is seven […] Read more »

Got talent? Share it! Like supporting local talent? Join us! The Marion Art Center (MAC) invites you to share your talent at its second Open Mic Night on Saturday, May 20, at 7:00 pm. Local vocalists, instrumentalists (acoustic only), poets, humorists, storytellers and more are invited to perform on the MAC stage in this relaxed, […] Read more »