“They’re coming, they’re coming!” yelled Rowan from his front steps at the sounds of horns, soon to be followed by the sight of Skipp the Clown marching up the Farquharson family’s driveway in Rochester and leading a parade of warm wishes for a kid whose birthday party couldn’t be held on a picnic table packed […] Read more »

            What Sippican Lands Trust cannot do this year the traditional way, the organization will just do with safe separation physically and with online programs. Spring Fest is still on for Saturday, May 9, only the virtual way.             “Kristen Saint Don-Campbell with the Boy Scouts of Marion and (Sippican Lands Trust) board president Alan Harris have […] Read more »

            Children are being educated away from the traditional classroom for the duration of the 2019-20 school year so their experience with and how they think about the internet has dramatically changed.             Computer hours are mounting, and they have become task-oriented. Frankly, kids are in need of some comic relief and so are their parents.             That’s […] Read more »

            They were living the American dream, enjoying campus life, friends, studying, pursuing goals and dreams, and maybe thinking about Spring Break. Then the entire world as we all knew it came to an abrupt stop – COVID-19 had arrived.             College and university students may be a population that is a bit invisible right now. Yet […] Read more »

            From our panoramic picture window on the coastline of Sconticut Neck in Fairhaven, we welcomed the avian parade of migratory birds along the Atlantic Flyway, arriving to begin the nesting egg-laying April ritual reproduction. However, the month of May will be the month when the reptilian Snapping Turtle will rise up from muddy bottoms of […] Read more »

            Part of the problem the sporting world faces with the novel coronavirus outbreak is the same one all businesses face: the unknown. It makes planning a return nearly impossible for some of the major professional leagues. Ever since the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League went on hiatus, there’s been no sign of traction […] Read more »

            Over the past weeks, we have been asked many times by generous folks what they can do to help The Wanderer. We have received multiple messages of support and even donations. Thank you to everyone who has reached out, and I want to reassure you, The Wanderer is here for you and will be here for you long […] Read more »

            The committee for the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District (CMWRRDD) announced on April 15 that it was dropping its civil lawsuit against the surviving defendants involved in the Ray Pickles embezzlement case.             The CMWRRDD filed the lawsuit on June 22, 2018, alleging that the former executive director for the trash district, Ray Pickles, […] Read more »

            At this time of year in Marion, there is a glorious bright spot which I look forward to with great excitement and anticipation: the return of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird! It seems especially poignant and uplifting this year.             These fascinating “fairy” birds travel thousands of miles every year to return to their birth nesting origins. Some […] Read more »

            In 1965, I entered Wareham High School. I had one major goal: graduation – period – nothing else. Graduation meant, as far as I was concerned, total liberation from teachers who, for the most part, tolerated me as I tolerated them. Not that I was a class clown or worse, troublemaker, no. I was just […] Read more »