Matthew Sherman never got to see the finished product of his labor of love. The contractor who ‘rescued the rescuers’ from a shoddy construction job passed away on July 24 of this year, but not before leaving behind a legacy that dozens gathered to honor on Thursday night, September 7. The owners of the Rochester-based […] Read more »
The monarch butterfly is a world famous member of the Lepidoptera order that is remarkable enough to be described by Aristotle’s term ‘metaphysical,’ his way of understanding the underlying nature of things and creatures of the world. The monarch is the only one of its kind to annually complete an almost supernatural inter-continental migration of […] Read more »
It was an art lover’s delight on Friday night, September 9, at the Marion Art Center, when local artists Bess Woodworth and Betsy Payne Cook kicked off their month-long show with an opening reception. Attendees admired both abstract combinations of color and pastel plein air paintings displayed in the MAC’s Cecil Clark Davis and Patsy […] Read more »
Name: Aaron Polansky Role: Superintendent, Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School Age: 41 How he came to Tri-Town: He lives in Raynham and grew up in Natick, but he spends his days (and many nights) in Rochester. Favorite Tri-Town spot: “It’s in the neighborhood next door (to Old Colony), the lake. In the summer, […] Read more »
After almost two weeks spent under the bright lights of Miss America rehearsals and appearances, Jillian Zucco found herself enjoying two things on Monday: her cellphone and the sun. Driving back to Mattapoisett from New Jersey, she reflected on life back in the real world after 13 days spent competing for the Miss America crown. […] Read more »
Rachel Rowley Spaulding has written one book, but that slim volume has earned her accolades from readers and critics alike. Kirkus Reviews praised Spaulding’s In Search of the Ellen Marie in November 2014, which she self-published in August of that year. Of the book, Kirkus wrote: “…a page-turner may be a cliché but this memoir-cum-mystery […] Read more »
Some find it ironic that Rochester, the only town in the competition without a coastline, once again took the first and second place awards in the Public Safety category for best chowder during the Mattapoisett Firefighters Association’s 3rd Annual Chowder Cook-Off. Although this year the Rochester Fire Department stole first place from last year’s winner […] Read more »
When you are a child, the world can be a frightening place, especially if enhanced by old-fashioned parenting that employs fear to control a child’s behavior. My mother was a master at fear tactics, bless her soul. I, her daughter, lived in fear. Once, Ma told me to stop sucking my thumb because it would […] Read more »
For many backyard bird watchers, this cherished furtive, rapid-flying figure flitting from flower to feeder and then hovering in midflight is the only one of some twenty other hummingbird species that is common east of the Mississippi, prevalent in Canada and the United States. The male ruby-throated hummingbirds arrive here in mid April ahead of […] Read more »
Over the Labor Day weekend, things around Tri-Town got relatively quiet in the newsroom – not really what we newspersons prefer. Having said that, though, quiet times in Tri-Town make for a little bit of down time for the usually busy newsperson, and this particular newsperson decided to trot over to one of her favorite […] Read more »