While the cost of joining the local yacht club is actually more comparable to hitting a bucket of golf balls at a Route 6 driving range than a membership at Augusta National, Mattapoisett Yacht Club Commodore Rick Warren acknowledges that stereotypes pose a recruiting challenge. “It’s hard. We try to get members to […] Read more »
Jim Forker’s journey to a dream come true overtaken by tragic loss left him searching for answers, and that search brought forward a book that he hopes will in some way help other middle-aged men who have found their perfect life and have had it taken away. The first-time author has written “The […] Read more »
Nestled along an old roadway on the outskirts of modern-day Rochester stands the East Rochester Church, once the home of a Methodist congregation. Today it is still stately in its Greek Revival old age and still gives people a place to go and reflect on the town’s long history. It is in this manner […] Read more »
Editor’s note: The Wanderer invited candidates in contested races (more candidates than open seats) to write up to 350 words explaining their candidacy. Questions submitted by the League of Women Voters South Coast helped provide talking points for the candidates. Three candidates are running for two open seats on the Rochester Planning Board. The only […] Read more »
With the untimely passing of Select Board member John DeCosta, Mattapoisett voters were asked to pick not one but two new Select Board members in 2021. While Jodi Lynn Bauer won the seat vacated by Paul Silva in the May 18 Town Election, a second special election is planned for a date in July yet […] Read more »
There is only so much one can glean from a PDF file, and so the revised plans for Marion’s proposed Marine Center to house the harbormaster and staff took on a dimension closer to real life on Saturday morning when Harbormaster Isaac Perry and Marine Resources Commission Chair Vin Malkoski conducted an informal meeting […] Read more »
There were flowing tears of joy from Jodi Lynn Bauer and her campaign workers on May 18 as the election results were read by Mattapoisett Town Clerk Cathy Heuberger: Bauer with 1,154 votes and Nicole Demakis with 821. “I’m glad its over,” Bauer exclaimed while still wiping away tears. She said the last few […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional High School Drama Club will perform “Macbeth” on May 21-22 as an outdoor film event at the high school. Based on “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by Sir William Shakespeare and starring Tyler Trudeau as Macbeth and Chloe Bean as Lady Macbeth, the cast includes Isabel Friedrichs, Lee Grondin, Jimmy Harrington, […] Read more »
Editor’s note: The Wanderer invited candidates in contested races (more candidates than open seats) to write up to 350 words explaining their candidacy. Questions submitted by the League of Women Voters South Coast helped provide talking points for the candidates. Two candidates are running for open seat on the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen that is […] Read more »
The American Lobster is a classic coastal symbol of enormous national seafood environmental recognition steeped in history 400 years to the landing of the Pilgrims in Plymouth. Lobster had been so plentiful before then, the Mi‘kmaq natives easily found them along the water’s edge after a windstorm. They subsequently could be gathered by […] Read more »