My previous articles have featured previous migration phenomena not previously known until modern electronic tracking chips have been attached to Monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, great blue herons, and snow geese. However, amazingly, now, just as ospreys are ready to begin their autumn migration in September, we have incredible scientific information about how young ospreys must […] Read more »
Having been leveraged by 2020’s challenges into mostly reactive leadership as a new superintendent of schools, Mike Nelson was thrilled to see the Old Rochester School District kick off the 2021-22 academic year with a preseason proactive effort called Acceleration Academy. The week-long camp, held August 16-20 from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm […] Read more »
A high school junior at the time, Avanna L’Homme didn’t realize what she was getting herself into when she turned in the “fun, little project” assigned her computer-automated drafting class at Upper Cape Tech. A project that began as classwork developed into two years of extracurricular activity, and at age 19, the Wareham native […] Read more »
Who says the Post Office owns the adage “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…?” Just ask the Friends of the Marion Council on Aging and they will tell you, “…We are moving ahead.” On August 19, the gala fundraising event long planned by the Friends group took place on […] Read more »
Three weeks from age 60, Mary Cass was the class of the Mattapoisett Road Race, brushing off her closest competitor and Saturday morning’s humidity with a stellar if sweat-soaked performance. Cass, whose official time of 20:46 (she timed herself at 20:47.3) was 14th overall, led all women by a comfortable 37 seconds. […] Read more »
Our friend the bard, you know, Will Shakespeare, has authored plays that speak to every single human emotion, condition, and behavior from the heights of love to the despair of the same and everything in between. He takes us on journeys of the mind that transcend space and time to any space in time […] Read more »
Henry David Thoreau’s description of the loud, alarming call of the blue jay within hearing in our backyards is an accurate one; he likened the sound to an unreal, steel scream shattering the silence on an otherwise quiet day. It sounded to him like catching a thief in the act of committing a crime […] Read more »
Massachusetts’ South Coast was not on Paul Thompson’s radar, not when he was a child learning to sail in England’s Newcastle area nor at any time during a professional career that took him to upstate New York where he regularly raced on Lake George. But he was thrilled on Saturday morning when Seven Stars, […] Read more »
The meeting room conveniently located next to the children’s department at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library was flooded with tiny tots eager to see and touch anything and everything associated with turtles. The occasion was the arrival of volunteers from Wareham-based New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance. They were visiting to share their love for […] Read more »
Every week several hundred people are benefiting from movement and exercise classes offered at local councils on aging. These classes provide expertise geared toward understanding how to use one’s body correctly and what types of movements to practice in order to gain or regain flexibility, strength, and forward mobility. But today, the need […] Read more »