Editor’s Note: As we did since the onset of the pandemic, The Wanderer has invited candidates in contested races to submit up to 350 words about their candidacy for public office. This week we have the three candidates for two open seats on the Trustees of the Mattapoisett Public Library: Bill Coquillette, Don Fleming and […] Read more »

Mattapoisett’s Tree Committee is an active and vital volunteer group dedicated to the preservation of the town’s trees and its canopy. Just ask any one of the eight members, and you will hear how important tree preservation and planting is to human life.             As part of Mattapoisett’s Arbor Day observances that included raising the […] Read more »

The largest predatory master of the sky over Buzzards Bay as well as the national aerial emblem of America is returning to be frequently seen along our south-coast shoreline.             However, according to Benjamin Franklin, the Bald Eagle is not at all regal because of a flawed character reputation of acquired bad habits. He said […] Read more »

Mattapoisett Museum, in collaboration with the Tri-Town Against Racism organization, has a special treat for the Tri-Town area – 32 family portraits featuring diverse families.             The goal of the exhibit as stated by TTAR organizer Rhonda Baptiste is to give diverse families a level of recognition sometimes not easily found and to give their […] Read more »

            Large trash bags were littering the side of the roads in Rochester this past weekend, and that’s a good thing.             On April 24, the Rochester Women’s Club’s annual Spring Cleanup event in honor of Earth Day (which this year was on April 23) sent out around 50 volunteers of all ages, including whole […] Read more »

            Assistant Town Administrator Judith Mooney, Facilities Director Shaun Cormier and the Marion Energy Management Committee are pleased to share that the Town of Marion has been awarded a $102,000 Green Communities Competitive Grant from the state’s Department of Energy Resources (DOER.)             The grant funding is part of a statewide initiative to help Massachusetts […] Read more »

            Old Rochester Regional High School students Brendan Burke, Colin Carroll and chapter cofounder Edward Gonet IV will proudly compete April 23-27 at the DECA International Career Development Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.             Other ORR students are making the trip and that may be the bigger story.             “Kira, Kinsley, […] Read more »

            Mattapoisett resident Sara Garde had always wanted a Great Dane, but she never expected to have one given to her, nor could she have imagined the circumstances that would bring her and Redd the Great Dane together.             Garde is an Army veteran. Two years after graduating from high school in June 1996, she […] Read more »

Willow Ruel was admittedly nervous at the sight of Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and Jeremy Swayman approaching her like they would any other Boston Bruins teammate, offering a fist bump with a hockey glove and a pat on the head.             This actually happened at 12:30 pm Saturday on TD Garden ice, moments before the […] Read more »

The Marion Art Center’s latest exhibit brings together the works of two artists who share a common goal of finding the beauty and meaning that hides within and bringing it into the light. The show is titled Emergence. Very apropos for a spring event.             Tracey J. Maroni is a painter whose canvasses explore what […] Read more »