The Mattapoisett Land Trust (MLT) scored when they applied for and received a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant. The $960,000 grant is one of the largest distributed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The department’s website notes that, “The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant program (MVP) provides support for cities and […] Read more »
Center School has been standing as a beacon of education and, more recently, as support to seniors as the headquarters for the Mattapoisett Council on Aging. And lest we forget, it also houses the offices of the Recreation Department. Built in 1898 with funding by the well-known local philanthropist Henry Huttleston Rogers, Center School has […] Read more »
On June 15, a day that can only be described as a picture-perfect summer’s day, more then 30 people assembled outside the Sippican Historical Society (SHS) Museum and office to embark on the first of three historic walking tours planned in partnership with the Healthy Tri-Town Coalition. The tour guide was none other than long-time […] Read more »
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 »