Carey McCollester has a lifetime of experience in theater, but she expected more nerves for the dress rehearsal of Tabor Academy’s Winter Musical production of Mamma Mia! than what she expects when the curtain is raised for real at 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 13, at Hoyt Hall on the Marion campus. “For me personally, I find […] Read more »
On February 7, rain and high winds hit Southeastern Massachusetts, resulting in thousands of electrical outages. The hardest hit in the Tri-Town area was Rochester with more than 500 Eversource customers reporting wires down and service interruptions from mid-afternoon into the night. Gusts of over 70 miles per hour were reported by the National Weather […] Read more »
For more than a decade Mattapoisett’s Free Public Library has been at the heart of the community, keeping pace with evolving technologies and the needs of the people it serves. At no other time in the library’s history has it seen such swift-moving changes and associated demands. And there, deftly and expertly guiding this critical […] Read more »
Two new species of tropical “tuna” fish are now migrating further north to the South Coast of Buzzards Bay, surprising fishermen who catch them while going after striped bass and bluefish. They are the Atlantic bonito and the false albacore found primarily in more temperate waters around Florida and from the West Indies to Brazil. […] Read more »
In some Latin American cultures, it’s customary to say ‘see you later’ instead of ‘good-bye’. Adios has an air of uncertainty as to whether the parties will ever meet again; we say our ‘good-byes’ to a loved one who has passed away, to a house in which we lived as we close the door one […] Read more »
The first thing one sees when approaching a stack of Wanderers is our bold and colorful cover photo. Designing an attractive and interesting cover every week is something we at The Wanderer strive to accomplish with every edition we produce. We know what it takes to compose a great photograph and we know a potential cover when we see […] Read more »
The League of Women Voters, conceived and chaired by the leading suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920, has evolved over the decades. Supporting women and helping to register many thousands, campaigning for the creation of the United Nations, sponsoring the first televised presidential debates and, more recently, focusing on issues that negatively impact minorities, students, […] Read more »
Hannah Strom of Marion was one of the passengers in the van transporting members of the Holy Cross women’s rowing team that collided head-on with a pick-up truck in Florida on January 15 while the team of seven and a coach traveled to a winter training in Vero, Florida. Strom is a 2018 graduate of […] Read more »
When you walk through the doors of the Marion Art Center at any given point in time you are bound to find something unexpected, surprising, thought-provoking, and exquisitely beautiful. No small feat for a petite building with limited gallery space. But once again that is exactly what is happening right now as the MAC’s galleries […] Read more »
Snowy owls have not been arriving to prominent coastal points of Buzzards Bay as usual on the wings of the Winter Solstice, crossing over from Cape Cod as annually reported by the Falmouth Christmas Bird Count. This bird count happens to be the longest-running science survey in the world and has reported only several snowy […] Read more »