ArtWeek is returning to Marion this year April 26 – May 5, but in the time leading up to then, it’s an entire Art Month at the Elizabeth Taber Library, with plenty of events to inspire the artist in you.             Anyone can stop by the library and create their own pin back button to hang on […] Read more »

With the spring gathering of migratory Baltimore orioles to their breeding grounds from Central and South America, one can find them high in deciduous leafy tree tops, but not in deep forests. They instead prefer the edges of urban groves, well adapted to proximity to human settlement.             After both the spring and fall arduous migration, […] Read more »

There are people who simply exude positive energy – call it joy. It’s not that they’re shouting, “seize the day!” and bouncing up and down; they are, however, through their efforts and actions, lighting a way, one that can be inspirational and possibly even life-changing.             On March 31, Donna Lee Tufts shared her vision of […] Read more »

            Jamele Adams’ face is as familiar to Old Rochester Regional Junior High as it is unfamiliar. The poet, activist, and dean of students at Brandeis University is no stranger to ORRJHS, as Principal Kevin Brigioli often invites the speaker to the school to engage the seventh and eighth grade in an exchange their regular everyday […] Read more »

            In the winter of 2018, Ari Uhlin of Mattapoisett was casting about trying to decide what service project her family might take on for the holiday season. The Uhlins had already done all the common, traditional ways to give, but this year Ari wanted to do something different.             One day, Uhlin was speaking to her […] Read more »

Prepare yourselves, Tri-Town, because the Old Rochester Regional High School is bringing Anything Goesto ORR and, with the fresh talent of a few new rising stars, the ORR Drama Club is going to make this year’s spring musical the go-to event of the school year.             The show opens on Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 pm at […] Read more »

For the most part, the ballot for Rochester’s Annual Election this year won’t offer residents much of a choice when it comes to democratically elected town officials with nearly all of the races being run uncontested by incumbents seeking reelection.             The only contested race this year will be for Constable, with three vying for the […] Read more »

The American Beech Tree is quite different from other deciduous species because, instead of dropping its leaves in autumn, it retains them attached to the branches until spring. Biologists label this delayed leaf shedding by the scientific term “marcescence.”             Apparently, the beech tree’s benefit from the phenomena is well founded. Marcescence foliage is a deterrent […] Read more »

As the Tri-Town libraries of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester continue their “One Book, Tri-Town” program, no aspect of the selected book’s theme – the Great Depression era – is left out, and that includes the music of the times.             On March 17, the Friends of the Rochester Library hosted an afternoon of music, an old […] Read more »

When one reaches fourth grade at Rochester Memorial School, There’s a ‘peculiar’ tradition that’s really quite cool. The kids are ‘ecstatic’ to participate, Their mission: new words, let me ‘illuminate’. They start with a word that makes them ‘perplexed’, Then they bring it to life looking most ‘picturesque.’ They parade through the gym in their […] Read more »