Ask around and people in our area will likely say they’ve never seen anything like it around here – branches lying in piles across the roads, trees barricading streets, telephone poles snapped in half and dangling from above, flaccid wires drooping along the majority of roadsides, and indoor basement swimming pools in just about every […] Read more »
This diminutive black and white diving duck – the bufflehead sea duck – spends most of the winter bobbing up and down along the icy edges of Little Bay. It is named for a large white puffy head in proportion to a black tiny body as the similar profile of a buffalo. A buoyant and […] Read more »
Just off Mattapoisett Road tucked in a corner behind some trees is a small, wooden shack billowing steam from an open skylight window. It’s an early late-winter morning – the time of year when warmer, more temperate days now dawn but still slip back into cold, subfreezing nights. At Mike Forand’s house, these milder mornings […] Read more »
A generation’s most beloved children’s show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, turned 50 last week. I turned 41. I am of the generation of fortunate children to have grown up with Mr. Rogers as our neighbor. Every afternoon and every evening, as soon as the xylophone music of the show’s theme song would ring out from the […] Read more »
We hadn’t been good about keeping close tabs on each other of late. It’s hard to say exactly why. There hadn’t been a disagreement or parting of the ways. But moving to the local area and returning to a part of the globe where her small family lived had meant she’d be physically closer to […] Read more »
Michael Moore, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), recently gave an afterschool talk at the Marion Natural History Museum on “Whales of Our Region,” with a special focus on endangered right whales. Turns out, the kids already knew a lot on the subject of whales. For instance, Moore asked what defines […] Read more »
Last Friday at Rochester Memorial School, it was all one great play on words for the entire school as it enjoyed another one of the school’s annual Vocabulary Day parades. Every year around this time, the third and fourth graders at RMS select one vocabulary word and create a costume to personify it as best […] Read more »
Once upon a time in the dense jungles and forests of Central America, early inhabitants discovered the cocoa pod. It became more precious than gold to those early native peoples. With amazing ingenuity, they developed a method for extracting the beans, roasting them, and then brewing the ebony gems into a drink enjoyed only by […] Read more »
It’s safe to say that last Saturday’s OR Celebrates Family Night, the first district-wide event of its kind, was a bona fide success. The event, hosted by ANCHOR, a parent outreach program at Sippican School, was originally planned for Sippican families but grew to also include families from Mattapoisett and Rochester. “We wanted people to […] Read more »
The Eastern coyote that we often see darting across both country and suburban roads in the nocturnal headlights of our car has come to be as large as a German Shepherd dog. We have become aware that they are not the same at all as the small 25-pound western, wily, animated humorous character in Walt […] Read more »