As a Tree City USA, the Town of Rochester celebrated its fourth Arbor Day and its new “Growth Award” by planting five young dogwood trees at Hillside Cemetery. Donning a raincoat and umbrella, the Town’s representative to the Arbor Day Foundation, Rochester resident Matt Monteiro, presented the town with its five new trees and told […] Read more »
It’s quite possible that you’ve never heard of the windmill on Cuttyhunk that was once the largest windmill in the world, but it’s likely that you’ve heard the names of two of the several young environmentalists, engineers, and idealists who built it back in the late 1970s. John Rockwell of Marion and former Marion resident […] Read more »
Big shoes to fill? We won’t even go there as the Rochester Memorial School students prepare for their spring play sans their director, Danni Kleiman, who retired last year after directing the student actors for 31 years. But as the students debut their play “A Stranger in Camelot” on Friday, May 4, the audience will […] Read more »
On a rare and recent sun-drenched spring afternoon, Gary Johnson of the Mattapoisett Land Trust pulled on his waders, picked up his insect net, and led a group of nature-starved humans into the woods at the Woodcock Preserve. This property, which has been owned by the MLT since the early 1970s, had been hard to […] Read more »
I never thought my next story idea would appear inside of a library bathroom. Of all the places in the Universe, it’s a pretty random place to find inspiration. I was only there for a tissue, a quick hand-washing, and a one-second glance in the mirror, but in the middle of all that while wiping […] Read more »
Morning clouds split the morning sun, the stream was clear and shallow, grassy and worms underneath. Ellen Flynn, Mattapoisett Library Trustee, found this poem within the text of an old page torn from a book using a method of extracting poetry from the mundane, pre-existing visual word chatter of a random selection of writing. It’s […] Read more »
The American woodcock species has a fancy Latin classification entitled Philohela Minor, but it is actually a down-to-Earth ground-nesting buff-colored bird with black markings as illustrated. Slightly larger than a quail, it looks quite different with a long bill and a flexible upper mandible to probe deep into the ground to capture and extract earthworms, […] Read more »
In little more than a month, three Tri-Town Destination Imagination teams will be heading to Knoxville, Tennessee May 22-26 to compete at “Globals,” the finale to a long and challenging journey. The Lightning Bolts, a team from Rochester Memorial School, will be heading to Tennessee for the second year in a row. Destination Imagination is […] Read more »
Sustainability experts now know the most effective actions we as individuals can take to mitigate the negative impact on the environment and reduce our individual carbon footprint, and it isn’t electric cars and recycling. Scientists now say the highest-impact action one can take to reduce the carbon emissions contributing to climate change is actually an […] Read more »
It has been said that runners run because the act of running is intoxicating, addicting … something they simply must do. But those who have committed their time, financial resources, and their very bodies to the act of maneuvering a homemade boat down a narrow, shallow river way in sometimes hateful spring weather year after […] Read more »