Come on down to the Rochester Country Fair and enjoy a Good Old Country Auction sponsored by Camara’s Auction! You name and can sell it! The Auction will take place at the Rochester Country Fair on Thursday, August 14 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm under the big tent provided by Chase Canopy Company. Fair admission […] Read more »
The American Red Cross will hold a Mattapoisett Community Blood Drive on Thursday, July 31 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Bay Club, County Road. To make an appointment to donate blood, please call 1-800-REDCROSS or visit us at www.redcrossblood.org. The American Red Cross is facing a looming blood shortage, leading to an […] Read more »
Join the Buzzards Bay Coalition at Camp Massasoit – at the end of Reservation Road in Mattapoisett – on Saturday, August 9 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm for a fun, free program to learn to dig your own quahogs from Buzzards Bay. Experts with the Coalition will teach you the basics of local quahogging: […] Read more »
Join us at the Elizabeth Taber Library on Thursday, July 31 at 6:30 pm, for a book reading, discussion, and signing with Deborah Doucette, author of The Forgotten Roses. Deborah Doucette began her writing career as a free-lance journalist subsequently writing the non-fiction book Raising Our Children’s Children: Room In The Heart. Her novel, The […] Read more »
A committee of the Old Rochester Regional High Class of 1965 has started planning their fifty-year reunion in the summer of 2015. If you graduated from ORRHS in 1965, please email your current address to mdjonesww@aol.com as well as any current addresses of classmates and teachers with which you have kept in touch. It’s been […] Read more »
The Book Thief (PG-13, 2 hr. 10 min.) is playing at the Mattapoisett Senior Center, Center School, 17 Barstow Street, on Tuesday, July 29 at 12:00 noon. Sponsored by the Friends of the Mattapoisett Council on Aging (formally known as the Friends of the Elderly), the movie is free. You get two pizza slices for […] Read more »
The Sippican Lands Trust (SLT) cordially invites the public to visit our newly acquired property “Osprey Marsh” on Saturday, July 26 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. “Osprey Marsh” was recently gifted to the SLT by the Howland family of Marion, and is a 19.8 acre waterfront property on Planting Island Cove. Please join us […] Read more »
There will be fun for all ages at the First Congregational Church of Marion’s annual Super Duper Summer Fair on Saturday, July 26 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, 28 Main Street, Marion. Find furniture, paintings, decoys, glassware, rugs and more at the Silent Auction and Fine Gifts tables. The expanded craft table features hand-painted […] Read more »
The Marion Concert Band continues its Friday evening concert series with a Young People’s Concert on Friday, July 25. The program, which will include a storyteller, a hands-on “rhythm band” piece, and the selection of a guest conductor from among the children in the audience, is as follows: National Anthem “Montmartre March” by H. Wood […] Read more »
Join the Mattapoisett Historical Society and Seth Mendell as he relates the history of this fascinating waterway right on our door step on Wednesday, July 23 at 7:00 pm at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, 7 Barstow Street, Mattapoisett. Seth’s comments will include: – Around the Cape or across the isthmus – August Belmont and […] Read more »