During the Senior Awards Night at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School on May 31, Superintendent-Director Aaron Polansky surprised Rochester Police Chief Paul Magee with an award honoring him for all the years of community building and support he provided the school during his tenure as chief. Magee will retire on September 14, but […] Read more »
Some sixty species of birds have their place in Shakespeare’s plays and poetry, esoteric figures for the many moods and meanings within the imaginative human drama of his mind. Shakespeare knew his birds well; and today, after some four hundred years, Shakespeare’s acumen is confirmed by the modern-day ornithology of Audubon behavioral classification of flocks. […] Read more »
We don’t always possess the awareness that any particular time we walk through a door it may be for the last time. But Old Rochester Regional seniors for a second year have been treated to that insight as they returned one final time to their respective elementary schools to enter the front doors one last […] Read more »
Back in January, MJ Linane’s ORR engineering students learned that the drone project they entered in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest had won them a hefty prize package worth $25,000 in technology for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) education at the high school as the statewide winners. Now, months later, the students were […] Read more »
We had gone on a vacation to Maine. She had never been to Maine or really anywhere in her entire life. But now that she had found the fortitude to free herself, without benefit of medical or psychological intervention, she was ready to travel a bit. I was thrilled. Ma lived most of my life […] Read more »
This 84thannual Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race on Monday was nothing like the 83rdlast year. No torrents of rain smashing steadily onto the hundreds of spectators and swamping the 100 participants in their canoes in a soup of rain and river water. This year, only cloudy skies hung above our heads – still hundreds of […] Read more »
On May 28, the residents of Mattapoisett once again turned out in high numbers to attend the Memorial Day observance sponsored by the American Legion Florence Eastman Post 280. Opening the day’s event was Legion Commander Michael Lemoureux who then invited Legion Chaplain Richard Langhoff to give the prayer. Tri-Town veterans’ agent and long-time legion […] Read more »
It was a cold and windy early-summer morning in Marion on Monday, May 28, as crowds of onlookers came to pay their respects and observe the annual parade this Memorial Day. Gathering outside of the Marion Music Hall located on Front Street, flocks of locals and parade-walkers came together in remembrance of America’s fallen heroes. […] Read more »
As spirited tiny Cub Scouts scampered about the grounds of Rochester’s Town Hall on May 27, older kids and adults quietly waited for the Memorial Day service to begin. The joyful sounds from the children mixed with birdsong and misty cool air as the skies darkened, threatening to rain on the annual parade. But the […] Read more »
Frequent reports of red foxes in urban neighborhoods as well as inner cities are examples of a trend of wildlife living in comfortable contact with human beings. It is happening everywhere as a growing wildlife frontier moves back in to reclaim habitat previously over-populated by people. There are rough edges along the way because subsequent […] Read more »