Red and purple hearts, respective colors of Tabor Academy and College of The Holy Cross, decorated an overpass on I-195 and were held up by family, friends, and supporters all the way down Front Street past Tabor and beyond Marion village down to Pitcher Street for Hannah Strom’s June 3 homecoming. Strom had been recovering […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: The Wanderer invited candidates for contested seats on elected boards and committees in the tri-towns to submit up to 350 words stating their case to the voters. This week we hear from candidates in Mattapoisett and Rochester. The respective elections in these towns are scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, and Wednesday, June 17. […] Read more »
Kathy Massey had an unusual encounter on June 4, capturing a “tegu” dragon along Route 6 just over the Marion line. “This is a first for me. This thing is wild – wild. I can’t get over the head,” said Massey, who has been Mattapoisett’s Animal Control Officer the past 23 years with 30 years […] Read more »
And then there were two. A wide-ranging field of candidates have vied for the position of Mattapoisett Library Director to replace the very soon to be retired Susan Pizzolato. Now two finalists have been selected by the Search Committee – Jennifer Jones of Plymouth and Ellen Snoeyenbos of Halifax – from a field of more […] Read more »
Aaron Allen-Murdock won’t let a little knee injury discourage his hoop dreams. The 19-year-old Marion native was all ready to run the fast break right into the Old Rochester Regional High School gymnasium to retrieve his Class of 2020 yearbook when he was whistled for a three-second lane violation. Allen-Murdock’s momentary miscue amused the faculty […] Read more »
There hadn’t been a gathering in the village of Marion of this many people in months. Nearly 200 citizens in face masks converged on the lawn of the Marion Music Hall on the afternoon of June 2 in solidarity with the rest of the nation to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black […] Read more »
“People have been so desperate for books,” stated Susan Pizzolato, Mattapoisett Public Library Director, during the May 21 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Trustees. With the permission of the Friends of the Mattapoisett Public Library, Pizzolato made up give-away bags from books that under normal circumstances would have been sold at the monthly library […] Read more »
On the crest of a small hill in Agawam Cemetery is my father’s grave. He is surrounded by his father-in-law, his infant boy-child, and his wife. Down the hill rest more extended family members from my mother’s side of the family. At 92 his mind and its ability to regulate not only thoughts but biological […] Read more »
Since the Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race first began in 1939, the event has only been canceled four years and for one occasion — World War II. With the novel coronavirus pandemic putting a stop to countless events across the country, the 2020 edition was not expected to become an exception. In fact, at one […] Read more »
My daughter and her husband Mike live just around the corner from our house on Sconticut Neck in Fairhaven but are not frequent visitors anymore since the coronavirus invaded our shores and changed our lives. My daughter taught preschool in Plymouth, now closed for the summer, and Mike is a very active paramedic with an […] Read more »