Thanksgiving has passed and the Christmas season has begun, notwithstanding the fact that stores have been selling Christmas merchandise ad nauseum since September. In our house, the season begins the day after the turkey has been devoured and the offspring have returned to their own homes, not to be heard from until there are gifts […] Read more »
There might not have been a wintery bite to weekend’s breezes or snow on the ground, but it wasn’t needed to make the Festival of Trees 2022 a holiday treat. For a few years now (skipping the obvious winter of pandemic constraints), the Friends of the Marion Council on Aging has held a Festival […] Read more »
The holidays are upon us. We’ve cooked and eaten the Thanksgiving feast and now we plunge head-first into the gift-giving mania that is shopping. When the grandchildren were little, I’d shop year-round, hiding things away in July with great anticipation of smiles in December. However, there are other more delicate matters, family matters […] Read more »
There is a partnership that has grown between two groups whose goals, while not the same, blend the very best in volunteerism for the beautification of their town: Marion Tree Committee and the Marion Garden Group. For several years now, the MGG has striven to place oases of flowers in previously neglected locations such […] Read more »
Editor’s note: Five members of the Old Rochester Regional Youth Football 12-and-under team share their experience of the 2022 season that saw the Bulldogs rebound from a 2-3 record to run the table through the Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts League of Pop Warner Football and then win their way to the New England […] Read more »
The bruises and cuts may have hurt even more by Sunday, but in the long term, each and every welt should remind the members of the Old Rochester Regional Youth Football 12-and-under team of what they accomplished. At one point this fall, the Bulldogs were 2-3, and one more loss would have canceled […] Read more »
November 20 shone bright and clear but with a stiff breeze that reminded anyone outside that winter is indeed on the way. That did not dissuade about 20 hearty souls from attending a stone wall-building workshop hosted by the Mattapoisett Land Trust. The workshop was led by MLT’s Peter Davies at the Oliver Wendell Holmes […] Read more »
Michelle Cusolito has been bringing the undersea world into focus for children with the 2018 publication of her first book, “Flying Deep” (2018, Charlesbridge) a trip into the ocean aboard the submersible ALVIN. This true story earned the scientist and author the 2019 National Science Teachers Association recognition in the category of “outstanding science trade […] Read more »
A recent social-media discussion suggesting that crime is running rampant (the contributor’s words, not mine) hereabouts has prompted me to do some research into the history of crime in our idyllic village. A perusal of yellowed newspaper clippings pasted into my grandmother’s scrapbook reveals that crime is not a stranger to Mattapoisett. The 1950s […] Read more »
Almost 400 years ago, the Mayflower, with 191 men, women and children, reached Plymouth after a grueling 66 days at sea. They had been blown off course from their planned destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. After exploring Cape Cod for another month because it was so perfect for settlement, another storm […] Read more »