Is there a greater beauty given to us mere mortals than in the form of nature itself? Think about the Grand Canyon or maybe even the flowers in your own back garden. If being honest, Mother Nature is the only true artist in the universe. Humans attempt perfection where nature does it naturally. Pun intended! […] Read more »
As Tabor Academy’s flagship SSV Tabor Boy made her exciting and historic start across the starting line of the Marion Bermuda Race on June 14, some history on the vessel seems appropriate. Tabor Boy is competing one-on-one versus the beautiful and modern tall ship, Spirit of Bermuda. She is entered in the celestial navigation class […] Read more »
“You all look amazing,” Principal Rosemary Bowman said tenderly to her Center School students on Friday, June 14, as the school and community members gathered outside beneath the flag pole to celebrate Flag Day. “I have a chill as I gaze out and see each and every one of you. I love the way people […] Read more »
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 18, 2019: Kiwi Spirit was the line honors leader from start to finish in the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race. The Farr 63 finished off St. David’s Lighthouse at 2:27:59 on Tuesday. Francis Seldorff’s Kinship, a Baltic 52, was second across the line at 5:01:02. Friends and families and volunteers have all […] Read more »
The highlight of SCOPE week for seventh grade students of Old Rochester Regional is the annual cardboard boat race when groups of students have a blast designing and building their boats of cardboard and duct tape to race on the open waters off Mattapoisett Harbor. The week of activities include field trips and creative learning […] Read more »
In this modern day and age of natural history, human beings are now discovering advanced miraculous phenomena about the previously esoteric octopus. Although oceans cover about 71 percent of the earth, it seems that human beings have barely scratched the surface of the immense shallow Atlantic continental shelf of North America, just beyond the south […] Read more »
It’s a right of passage for parents as much as it is for Old Rochester Regional Junior High students – Survival week. Roughly half the seventh graders at ORR choose to hike to the hills of western Massachusetts and participate in Survival week, a one-week outdoors hiking and camping experience that has been one of […] Read more »
If the Town of Rochester was founded on June 4, 1679, then that can only mean one thing – Rochester has just officially turned 340 years old. It used to be called “Sippican” by the Wampanoags, the Native American tribe who inhabited the land when the first English settlers arrived in the area and founded […] Read more »
When Nolan Gibbons was a very small child, he quietly marked each white key on the family piano with a letter – the correct letter designation for each. But that alone did not alert his parents Shelia and Warren that their child was interested in music, it was all the other things he was doing […] Read more »
On May 25, the Rochester Land Trust (RLT) invited the public to walk the Church’s Wildlife Preserve, a property it owns and manages on Marion Road. The event was titled “Forest Management/Logging Walk and Talk” featuring forestry expert Phil Benjamin whose grasp of the natural cycles of woodlands was on full display. Walkers learned that […] Read more »