Marion celebrated Veterans Day 2025 in high style despite frigid conditions. At Old Landing Veterans Park, Front Street, with snowflakes starting to fall, Town Administrator and retired Navy Commander Geoffrey Gorman introduced an invocation from Rev. Eric Osterday of the First Congregational Church of Marion, then the “Pledge of Allegiance” led by Marion Girl Scouts, […] Read more »
The Wanderer recently had the privilege of interviewing two women whose determination is astounding. You see, these friends are running hard to help others. Kristen Wingate and Jen Pease, Mattapoisett residents, are runners who have taken their joy of movement to the next level, running to raise money that will help Multiple Sclerosis research. […] Read more »
The 2025 Veterans Day event held annually in Mattapoisett featured a special guest speaker. Connie Eshbach is well-known for her commanding knowledge of local history, more specifically the history of the tri-towns once collectively known as Rochester. In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Eshbach briefly explored theTri-Town’s impact on […] Read more »
The Marion Select Board passed on a chance to procure solar panels right now for the newly constructed Department of Public Works building but gave the green to a new tradition – a holiday buoy tree to raise money for a local food pantry. These were two items discussed at length at the […] Read more »
Mattapoisett’s very own Julie Gallagher is in Marbella, Spain to compete in this year’s annual Ironman Pro Series 70.3 World Championship. Gallagher qualified for this strenuous, multi-faceted race last year and has been training since. She and her two daughters, Addie and Ansley, left our neck of the woods and headed to Spain on […] Read more »
This week in Revolutionary War history, let’s check up on what was going on 250 years ago in and around the colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay. Never uneventful, last week, delegates from the Continental Congress met George Washington at his headquarters in Cambridge with discussions mostly centered on the General’s plans to make it […] Read more »
I am not a doctor, and I don’t play one on television. I don’t write a medical column either, I leave that to the good Dr. Hoffer whom you can find elsewhere in this journal. But I do know a lot of doctors. Between the missus and me, we’ve had nearly a dozen. Six of […] Read more »
Since we are in the Medicare “open enrollment” period, Oct 15-Dec 7, now is a good time for a quick review. Medicare was enacted in 1965. It established parts A and B. Part A is free to all Americans 65 and older and to younger people with chronic kidney disease or who are […] Read more »
Rochester – The Tri-Town Veterans’ Office in conjunction with The Friends of the Rochester Senior Center hosts its annual Veterans Dinner and Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, November 11, in honor of our community’s veterans. While seating for the dinner is limited due to space constraints, the ceremony will be livestreamed on Facebook beginning at […] Read more »
November deserves the last flourishes of fall. Too many people go directly into Christmas from Halloween as though guided by commercialism. Not me. “The trail doesn’t end here,” I tell myself. Yet some folks will skitter away, their energy flagging, their enthusiasm waning, their journey complete. November is upon us and so is […] Read more »