In 1957, I entered the first grade at Sippican Elementary School. It was about a mile away from the home my parents owned, a small, shingled cottage near the intersection of Route 6 and Spring Street. Excitement had been building all summer as my mother ordered my school clothes from the Sears and […] Read more »
Superintendent Michael S. Nelson, Principal Michael Devoll and Guidance Director Lauren Millette are pleased to share that 16 Old Rochester Regional High School students received honors from the College Board Advanced Placement Program for the 2021-22 school year. Two students received the AP Capstone Diploma and 14 students were awarded the AP Seminar […] Read more »
The Ned’s Point beacon stands alone today in a beautiful park at the entrance to Mattapoisett harbor. The lighthouse residence itself was moved to the Cape Cod location in Bourne after Ned’s Point was decommissioned in 1952. The light itself had a history of a troubled and turmoiled construction for busy navigation and ship […] Read more »
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 »