The greens weren’t too fast and the moment wasn’t too big for Raymond Dennehy IV, but the winds blowing on opening day of the Mass Amateur made his trip back to the Kittansett Club a puzzling one.             “I enjoy putting on fast greens. I don’t enjoy wind. It’s tricky,” said Dennehy IV, whose two medal-play […] Read more »

            A 14-year-old artist with an eye for sports uniforms and flags, Owen Modracek wanted an answer to a question so he figured out a sure-fire way to get it: He drew up his own answer and presented it to his town.             “I wanted to see if there was a flag of Rochester,” he said. “I […] Read more »

            Suddenly in midsummer nightfall, fireflies appeared outside our windows looking over Little Bay in Fairhaven, as darkness settled in along the coastline, giving them a dark background against which to shine brightly for the mating emanation of the annual season.             As a member of the Lampyridae insect family, the firefly is actually a beetle that […] Read more »

            Nature’s ability to soothe the souls of humans has never been more needed than now. That point was sharpened when Alan Harris, president of the Sippican Lands Trust, spoke during the ceremonial ribbon-cutting event at its newest trail – the Osprey Marsh Universally Accessible Boardwalk on July 17.        Harris spoke to a small group of donors […] Read more »

            Upon entering the Marion Art Center to view the newest exhibit VESSELS, there is a stillness, a calm, gentle quiet that seems to permeate the galleries. That is the essence of the exhibit that fills the delicate venue – elegance and grace.             VESSELS, now through August 15, is a harmonious tripling of talent. Three regional […] Read more »

            There are times when a smell hits your olfactory scenes opening a door to the past that has been shut a very long time. At that moment you are transported to a place in time, a place once known so well. Or maybe a sound or even an image takes you back and you become […] Read more »

            Is soap art?             “My soap is,” said Jennifer Marie Hofmann, who displays many colorful bars of soap in a booth sheltered by the shade of a tree during Marion’s “Arts in the Park” festival held by the Marion Arts Center on Sunday.             The Ayer resident, who turned a 2009 hobby into a thriving business in […] Read more »

            Great projects are rarely conceived according to the first draft and sometimes it takes a broken play to score a touchdown, but the volunteers who make the Mattapoisett Road Race what it’s become over a half-century have one thing in common: an ethic borne of passion for athleticism, their community and the Old Rochester Regional […] Read more »

            If you live near the standing-water shoreline as we do on Little Bay in Fairhaven, our midsummer evenings on the back porch are filled with watching fleeting dragonflies and damselflies streaking back and forth to catch mosquitos in midair.             In New England alone, there are no less than four indigenous species of them that prevail […] Read more »

            After watching an excellent television program on the public broadcasting station, a viewer might sit and watch the credits roll. Somewhere near the bottom, it says the program was made possible by… any number of charitable agencies, endowments or entities.             When it comes to the wide variety of locally-based or locally beneficial arts events and […] Read more »