All three of the Tri-Towns have a potential contest for a selectmen’s seat in the 2021 Annual Town Elections. Two chairmen, Rochester’s Paul Ciaburri and Marion’s Randy Parker, are both running for reelection. In Mattapoisett, longtime Selectman Paul Silva’s seat will be contested by Jodi Lynn Bauer, Nicki Demakis, and former Selectman Tyler […] Read more »
As Mattapoisett resident Brad Hathaway shifted through yellowing documents and old school papers drafted seven decades ago, he came across an assignment that made his heart tickle with joy. The professor had written across the top, “Good story, should be printed in some paper.” Hathaway could never have imagined as he typed his essay […] Read more »
Some of the repairs made in 2007 that set the 90-foot high flagpole in Shipyard Park in solid stead finally yielded to the elements last week, resulting in an upper section being disassembled for further examination. “There was a problem with one of the pulleys at the top of the pole,” said Mattapoisett […] Read more »
An era is ending as Melody Pacheco, assistant to the town administrator since 1991, is retiring on March 17. If you’ve had any dealing at all with Mattapoisett’s Town Hall, then you probably know Pacheco, aka ‘Mel.’ Before holding down the fort in the Selectmen’s office, she worked in the Clerk’s Office, the […] Read more »
People of a certain age will have memories of going to a drive-in movie theater. As little children, the back seat of the family car became a playground until it was time for the movie to begin. Then we’d be admonished to settle down with our buckets of popcorn, piles of candy, and tankards […] Read more »
Dr. John Howard, a member of the Marion Board of Health, was awoken on February 18 by the news that his garage at 62 Water Street in Marion was on fire. No one was injured but for a minor injury to a responding firefighter who was later treated at Tobey Hospital in Wareham and released. […] Read more »
Carolyn Longworth of Fairhaven is a retired director from the Millicent Library after some 25 years of dedicated service. After she retired, she was asked by the town’s selectboard to come to a meeting to review her distinguished record of achievement. She was very pleased when they read a proclamation of her diligence in working […] Read more »
For all the hardship that dominates the news as businesses struggle to stay afloat, first responders take necessary risks, and administrators and faculty strive to maintain a stellar record at thwarting coronavirus transmission in the local schools, there is one group for whom winter cannot end soon enough, and that’s the seniors. Marion’s […] Read more »
When Grades K-2 Sippican School students return from winter vacation week this coming Monday, February 22, they will be back in school full-time. In preparation for their return, Sippican Principal Marla Sirois held an informational Zoom meeting on February 11 to explain and illustrate the changes and take questions. While Sippican’s return to […] Read more »
For some people, tromping around woodlands or along rocky coastlines in winter is not their idea of how to spend downtime. But for many thousands of others, it is the perfect time to go birding. But first, let’s begin with a simple truth: There is birding, and there is birdwatching. We will be […] Read more »