What do we usually expect from Mother Nature in the month of December in New England? Cold, wet weather. But that was not the case on December 7, when Santa-suited runners of all ages and all capabilities took to the village streets of Mattapoisett. The temps were chilly hovering in the low 30s, but the […] Read more »

            Sunday, December 8, was the day of the annual Marion Holiday Stroll.             The holiday stroll is a Tri-Town event that sets itself apart from the rest in a category all its own. It surpasses the other town events by its very nature; the holiday stroll is not just a town event, the holiday stroll is […] Read more »

            The library is to a book, like a museum is to a work of art. In the library, books are cataloged, placed upon shelves with care, gently opened, adored and essentially worshipped as the relics of the history of human storytelling they are. Which is why it seemed blasphemously counterintuitive to watch a handful of […] Read more »

Have you or a loved one ever struggled to find reliable medical or health information online? Would you like to be better prepared to ask questions at appointments? Don’t miss Dr. Heather Brodie Perry speak about finding reliable health information and health information literacy at her Health Information Workshop on Tuesday, December 10 at 6:30 pm. Dr. […] Read more »

            Jolly old Saint Nick has a busy weekend ahead of him with a number of back-to-back Tri-Town events where Santa (with some events accompanied by Mrs. Claus) will make appearances to spread the spirit of Christmas and listen well to what our Tri-Town kiddies want most this holiday season.             We don’t want you to have […] Read more »

            Over a century after three ghosts fix the cold, miserly heart of Ebenezer Scrooge, he’s been called upon to help someone who is even worse than he was. As it turns out, that someone is his great-great-great granddaughter Emmalina, the central character in the Marion Art Center’s production of Emmalina Scrooge.             Emmalina Scrooge, played by Zoe […] Read more »

            Chuck McIntyre has terrible executive function skills. Keeping organized, remembering to do the tasks on his to-do list, and even getting started with chores like doing laundry or doing the dishes often seems as complicated to the 27-year-old Mattapoisett man as a 1,000-piece puzzle with no picture of the final result to go by. On […] Read more »

            Mattapoisett resident and wellness advocate Dr. Mia Holland has spent her entire life driven to succeed at anything she put her mind to accomplishing. At an early age she was questioning her parents, asking the proverbial “why” when confronted with something she didn’t quite understand, and responding “no” when achievement was denied.             “I was never […] Read more »

            Massasoit (1590-1661) was the grand sachem intertribal chief of all the Wampanoag Indians of the coastal regions of today’s Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His tribes included his own Pokanoket village of Bristol, the Sakonnet people of Rhode Island, Acushnet of New Bedford, Agawam of Mattapoisett, the Nausets of Cape Cod, and Aquinnah of the Vineyard […] Read more »

Sunday’s rainstorm left some of us wondering if it would be worth it to leave the house and go anywhere at all; the senior citizens of the Tri-Town, however, know what they would have been missing out on if they didn’t make it to the Old Rochester Regional Junior High Thanksgiving Senior Banquet – the […] Read more »