The Rochester Women’s Club held their 23rd annual Earth Day Clean-Up event on Saturday morning. Rochester Troop 74527 Girl Scouts handed out garbage bags and gloves and marked on a map the areas where people picked up trash. Over 50 volunteers registered areas they planned to clean on Vaughn Hill Road, Cushman Road, […] Read more »
From his first day of addiction to the last, former Celtics player Chris Herren let students at Old Rochester Regional High School try on his shoes as he shared his perspective about a promising basketball career derailed by substance abuse and his subsequent journey to sobriety. Herren presented his film “The First Day” during […] Read more »
We’re starting to get into election season! In the upcoming weeks, each town in the Tri-Town will hold both town elections and town meetings. Below are important dates for voters as we enter this exciting time to let your voice be heard. Marion The Select Board will hold a Town Meeting Warrant Review at […] Read more »
The bridge the connects Marion to Wareham across the Weweantic River is still slated to be completed by the end of the year, in December, but it has new work hours that may affect travel across Route 6. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation updated Marion earlier in the week, stating that work time on […] Read more »
After a nine-year hiatus, the circus is back in town. Well not our town. The field near my backyard where it once visited now houses a funeral home, condominiums, and the police station. Instead, it stops at cities around New England and points west. The famous Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus is now […] Read more »
This week in Revolutionary War history, let’s check up on what was going on 250 years ago in New England and the northern Thirteen Colonies. Last week, General Washington and a long column of thousands of Continental Army soldiers finally arrived in New York City. The general would set up a temporary headquarters in […] Read more »
Fifth graders at Mattapoisett’s Old Hammondtown School made a huge impression on the local tree committee (of which I’m a member) with their entries in the annual poster contest. This year’s theme “If Trees Could Talk” brought out an array of inventive renderings from students in Greta Anderson’s art class, many featuring local landmarks […] Read more »
On Saturday, the Mattapoisett Lions Club held their annual Senior Dinner at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church on 27 Church Street. The free dinner was open to all local seniors, with visitors entering the large hall and taking their seats at one of many tables lining the middle of the room, or makeshift cafeteria. […] Read more »
Sippican Elementary School celebrated the creative abilities of its students during the 2026 Arts-in-Action event held on Wednesday evening, with hundreds of pieces of artwork on display and more than 20 live musical performances. Guests viewed a wide range of artworks made by students throughout the school year, including watercolor paintings and plaster masks, […] Read more »
On Monday morning around 7:20 am, the Rochester Fire Department responded to a structural fire just off Cranberry Highway, Route 28, near the Wareham line. The fire began at the recycling facility operated by E.L. Harvey & Sons, Inc. Seven engines, Tower 1 and Units 190, 193, 198, 192, 210, initially responded to the […] Read more »