Citing “additional discovery,” Robert Nolan, the attorney for recently retired Mattapoisett Police Chief Mary Lyons, requested and received a new pre-trial date of Thursday, September 30, while addressing Falmouth District Court on Tuesday morning. Nolan and Lyons were both present at court via Zoom. On July 19, Lyons entered a not guilty plea to […] Read more »
The Marion Natural History Museum is one of those rare places where we may pause, study an aspect of our natural world in a meaningful unhurried manner, and contemplate the importance of all life, not just our own. That was just the case on August 20 when Ph.D. candidate Valentina Lagomarsino, who studies […] Read more »
Climate change can no longer be ignored. Extreme droughts, record-high temperatures more severe and more frequent storm records are now common annual events in US (and the world). The Tri-Town area is not isolated from the changing environment. Recently, the Tri-Town area experienced poor air quality due to smoke from the large fires in the […] Read more »
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 »