Judges in the Mattapoisett Police Department’s 2019 Annual Halloween Costume Contest had a tough time naming the winners of this year’s contest due to the number of extraordinary costumes in each age group. Some of the outstanding ones included ‘team’ costumes like Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West and their portable house with […] Read more »
Fossils of dragonflies date back to 300 million years on Earth, and today the insect is found on every continent of the world. Using the name “dragon” for an insect may have come from the myth that they were once dragon-like creatures during the time of the dinosaurs. In Japan, the Samurai warriors saw them […] Read more »
A new historical novel by award winning author Roxana Robinson explores her family’s history – a history that shocked and troubled her enough to take the topic of slavery head on. Robinson has written five novels, including a well-received biography of Georgia O’Keefe, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts award for her work. […] Read more »
Chase sat up in bed. It was going to be another sleepless night. He shook his head back and forth and lightly rapped it. Something had to stop the humming, but what? No sense in telling his parents; they couldn’t hear it. He knew he wasn’t the only one who could. A few of the […] Read more »
There is one thought that sustains the winter-weary soul through darkness and cold – that summer will come again. But like a small child waiting from Christmas Day or birthday gifts, the wait can feel very long. Some of those gray cold days are eternities. But summer did come, and with it, my desire to […] Read more »
When you think about the American Revolution, do you think of “taxation without representation,” the Boston Tea Party, and the Boston Massacre as the principal reasons behind the war? They are, of course, the primary factors behind the revolution that we are taught in school, but a deeply rooted unrest among the colonists would grow […] Read more »
The Halloween spirit was in the sea air on October 19, when the Mattapoisett Lions Club hosted its 4th Annual Fall Free Family Fun Festival in Shipyard Park. Enjoying warm gentle breezes and bright blue skies, families poured into the park to partake of games, snacks, face painting, and being together in celebration of the fall […] Read more »
The pied-billed grebe is a small brown waterfowl about the size of a chicken that is common to most North American wetlands. Yet it is so reclusive, rarely seen even by avid birdwatchers. The grebe is habitually evasive. When observed, it rarely flies, usually ducking under the water in a shallow dive with only the […] Read more »
Andrew Daniel isn’t a suit-wearing kind of guy, and he’s not the type who is comfortable speaking before an audience of 400. As manager of the one-man facilities department, Daniel is more of a work boots, flannel, and baseball cap guy more accustomed to a workday mostly spent interacting with familiar co-workers or on his […] Read more »
The Annual Mattapoisett Fire Department Open House is one of those Tri-Town events not to be missed. With its free food, fun fire safety activities, and live fire and rescue demonstrations, it’s easy to walk away feeling energized by the adrenaline of the close encounters with danger, albeit controlled encounters with danger, and with a […] Read more »