What animal in our local area can go into a deep freeze in winter and come out of it in spring? Gary Johnson says that creature is the wood frog, which had mated, laid its eggs, and left town by the time a group of 10 people visited its vernal pool in an […] Read more »
For avid birdwatchers, few ducks are handsomer than the brightly colored male American merganser. The boldly black and iridescent green crest on its head are strikingly contrasted above a pristine white body, which itself is offset by an orange bill and webbed feet. The female merganser, however, has been painted with earth-bound plumage […] Read more »
We take them for granted. They have become so completely part of the local landscape that they probably don’t even register on our conscious minds as we motor along, taking care of our 21st century business. Stone walls are everywhere. But a mere heartbeat ago in geological time, stone and rock walls served […] Read more »
This past September, the Town held a meeting to review a proposed new Marine Facility to be located at Island Wharf. Based on the discussion and comments received at that meeting, the design of the proposed facility has been revised. Attached are “Before and After” drawings showing the original design from September 2020 and […] Read more »
Little could Joanne Smith and Kirsten Jimenez realize in January 2020 just how significant their little idea would be to the children attending Rochester Memorial School a year later. Entrenched in a normal winter, Smith, an art teacher at the town’s elementary school, and Jimenez, the Parent-Teacher Organization president, began discussing and planning […] Read more »
Samuel Evan Ellis could not have known when he got a tattoo on his hand that the words he had chosen for his body art would become professorial – “Never Die.” When his sister saw the tattoo, she was a bit miffed, asking him why he would select that wording. He simply replied, “Because […] Read more »
The Town of Marion hopes it is turning a fiscal corner after Representative William Straus presented its delegates with a $250,000 check on April 2, part of a $2 million commitment from the state to assist on debt payment associated with the rehabilitation of the Wastewater Treatment Plant lagoon off Benson Brook Road. […] Read more »
The colorful, eye-catching oyster catcher is a spectacular species of shorebird about as large as a crow, but whose black plumage is brightly contrasted with a long, red bill and, like many coastal creatures, equipped with a pair of long, yellow legs for wading in shallow shoals. By now, the oyster catcher has […] Read more »
They don’t consider themselves exceptional or even special for what they have done. It wasn’t really planned; instead just evolved out of circumstances surrounding the pandemic. But when a Mattapoisett couple found themselves able to help, they simply faced the need and made a difference. We’ll call them Mrs. BC and Mr. RC […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Neck residents are eventually going to have to move up, so they don’t have to move out. Flooding, not only from coastal storms of historic magnitude but a science-based projection of rising tides under sunny skies, threatens access to the approximately 250 residents of the neck at increasing levels in this century, […] Read more »