Tabor Academy sophomore Charlotte Forker has been forced to grow up way ahead of schedule. Having lost her mother, Jen, a school nurse and beloved member of the Tabor community, to cancer on October 22, 2018, Charlotte wants to change the world.             The 15-year-old has joined the Students of The Year campaign through […] Read more »

            The Marion Police Department is pleased to announce that Richard B. Nighelli has officially begun his new role as Chief.             Chief Nighelli, a 17-year veteran of the department, was sworn in during a private ceremony at the Marion Police station on Thursday, January 7.             “As a member of the Marion Police Department […] Read more »

            The comical, animated chipmunk that entertained us all last summer by scurrying back and forth across our backyard with cheeks stuffed with seeds and nuts is a comical personality of the larger squirrel family.             The chipmunk appeared regularly, every morning during daylight hours, industriously finding and transporting food to be stored up for […] Read more »

            In the face of a daunting task, Sammy Davis got nervous just like anyone else would. It wasn’t December’s 45-degree ocean water that bothered her, more so she was afraid of letting down the Travis Roy Foundation.             “I was nervous we wouldn’t reach our original goal,” Davis told The Wanderer.             Uncertainty proved […] Read more »

            New Year’s is typically a time of celebration, the denouement to a frenetic, all-consuming holiday season. The calendar marks the inevitable ends and the new beginnings, and this transition gives license for one last hurrah. And after the hangovers comes the introspection followed by a clichéd manifesto of self-improvement and conquest.             The movers […] Read more »

            Nolan Gibbons was a young man whose love of all things musical manifested itself at a very young age. His mother, Sheila, and father, Warren, dedicated themselves to giving their son all the opportunities possible for a musically gifted child. To that end, Sheila would spend many hours taking Nolan to and from rehearsals […] Read more »

            I was in my early twenties before I fully appreciated the tasteful difference between oleomargarine and butter. You see, in my childhood home, it was oleomargarine that was the staple for spreading on toast, tossing into a pot of hot potatoes, or merely slathering on saltine crackers. Ma’s frugality called for margarine, a taste […] Read more »

            Robert Burns, who lived from 1738 to 1798, is today renowned in the literary English-speaking world as Scotland’s so-called Ploughman Poet; this title is both spelled and pronounced in heavy Scottish brogue to relate to his pastoral pleasures of writing verse and music in the 18th century with a Highland flair.             His parents were hard-working […] Read more »

            Inspired by her angels, Hannah Strom is already strategizing on how to pay it forward. “I want to help people just like people helped me,” she told The Wanderer last week, only days after taking the giant step of a Sunday run from Island Wharf along Front Street past Pitcher Street where she lives and on down […] Read more »

It’s a rather old story, especially for those of us whose family history is rooted in southeastern Massachusetts and the surrounding area: The story of the cranberry.             My family relied on the annual cranberry harvest to provide seasonal jobs. The screening of cranberries, a process of culling less-than-desirable berries as they sped by on […] Read more »