Over a long career outdoors, Russ Cohen has honed his knowledge of wild edible plants, oftentimes called weeds and/or invasive species by the average person. Cohen is a highly sought after and respected speaker on the topic of edible plants and has spent his professional life learning and educating people on the types of […] Read more »
Reports from the National Weather Service that Cranston, Rhode Island, took on nearly 11 inches of rain in a 24-hour period made the 2 or so inches that fell on the Tri-Towns seem like a momentary sprinkle. Nonetheless, municipal officials in the Tri-Towns are quick to address potential areas of concern. Highway surveyors […] Read more »
She was sitting in her kitchen removing stones from cherries with the aid of an antique extractor she’d found on a dusty shelf in the back of a secondhand shop. It was a red, runny mess of a job, but she was smiling, happy, enjoying herself. Her kitchen was a wonderland of old-fashioned […] Read more »
Every so often, one of the professional golf tours comes to the Boston area, and those of us interested in seeing how the elites blast the ball off the tee to a standard spot on the fairway, shape their irons and putt for dough stand silently and watch as the best in the world […] Read more »
With escalating changes to weather patterns that forebode a future landscape alternately turned to deserts and/or underwater due to sea-level rise, it poses a question in the mind of many: What can I do to affect change? Many months ago, Mattapoisett Library Director Jennifer Jones reached out to the community after learning of a […] Read more »
“There are 1,000 girl Eagle scouts in the United States, according to Google. Now there’s 1,001.” Nineteen-year-old Rochester scout Audrey Blanchard says it with a laugh rather than as a boast. She’s proud yet humble about recently earning her Eagle scout badge. Her dad Michael Blanchard notes that Audrey is Rochester’s only Girl […] Read more »
Award-winning Marblehead-based author Eric Jay Dolin came to the Mattapoisett Library on August 17 with copies of his new book and revealed a little-known reason the United States won its war for independence. “Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution” explores the role played in the war effort by privateers, ships manned by […] Read more »
One of 15 Tri-Town residents who took part in the August 6-7 PanMass Challenge bike ride, Debbi Bacchiocchi, is eager to note that every participant has a story. “You can talk to 6,000 riders, and they will all tell you a story,” said Bacchiocchi, making a rough reference to the approximately 6,300 who […] Read more »
For Phil Macomber, it was just a routine job of removing a fuel tank from a powerboat at the Mattapoisett Boatyard where he had worked for years, explained General Manager David Kaiser. There was an explosion that rocked the Ned’s Point neighborhood, then another and another. Macomber was seriously injured but thankfully survived after […] Read more »
The Dragonfly and Damselfly are both active members of the species, which are valuable mosquito-control predators, patrolling freshwater bodies of rivers, ponds and lakes. Their flight behavior and physical identity are both recognized with very long bodies attached to a double narrow set of transparent membrane wings. The front and back sets of wings […] Read more »