The melody and lyrics of this New Year anthem of remembrance or fraternity sung when the clock strikes midnight was first transcribed by Robert Burns in 1788. Burns set the tune to the traditional folklore of another poet, making him co-author of this emblem of a musical year ending soon to be known all over […] Read more »
Just in time for the New Year, the Town of Marion’s tenth police chief was sworn in on December 28. Thirty-one-year veteran of the Marion Police Department, Lieutenant John B. Garcia, replaces Chief Lincoln Miller effective December 31. Becoming police chief, Garcia said after the swearing-in ceremony, “is the pinnacle of any law enforcement officer’s […] Read more »
The sun was hanging in the sky over Mattapoisett on New Year’s Day 2018 as a hail and hearty group of polar plungers and their supporters gathered at the Mattapoisett Town Beach for the annual charity event Freezin’ For A Reason. In spite of record-cold temperatures, ocean water recorded at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and a […] Read more »
One of the highlights of each year for me is standing before the bookshelf in my study and beholding the completed collection of the entire year’s issues of The Wanderer – 51 to be exact, with one online-only edition, which this year happens to be the one you are now reading. It’s a moment of […] Read more »
On December 29 as many people hunkered down grateful for a warm home, plentiful plates of food and enjoying the lull between Christmas and New Year’s Day, others were working hard to provide basic shelter and a hot cup of coffee to the growing number of homeless and disenfranchised people in the greater New Bedford […] Read more »
When it comes to the evolution of technology and engineering at Old Rochester Regional, the sky’s the limit. Literally. And the school district and ORR School Committee couldn’t be happier – after all, the ingenuity of some of the engineering students and their teacher has already won the high school $25,000 in prize money that […] Read more »
It wasn’t just a white Christmas on Monday. It was also a wild Christmas with sudden winds picking up mid-morning that progressed into horizontal snow and sleet, downing trees and power lines throughout Tri-Town. Still, the weather left those at the Mattapoisett Town Beach for the annual Christmas Day Swim sponsored by Helping Hands and […] Read more »
Back in 2015, the state awarded the schools in the Tri-Town district a cumulative total of $60,000 in technology grant money – all the schools except for the junior high, that is. “What we couldn’t understand was … what happened with our junior high?” said Assistant Superintendent Elise Frangos. “It was somehow an omission.” Frangos […] Read more »
When I asked my son, “So how was your Christmas this year?” he simply stated, “Awesome.” This year when people ask me how my Christmas was, I’ll say that it was nice and then change the subject. I think I do that every year, though, after each imperfect Christmas passes and we move onto the […] Read more »
The traditional holiday of Christmas was not always looked upon as a favorable celebration by the Puritans in the colonial days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony body of government. Their strict religion regarded drinking and partying as a false celebration of the birth of Jesus, with stronger ties to paganism than their own concept of […] Read more »