On Thursday, May 28 the St. Gabriel’s students gathered at the Fairhaven Animal Shelter to present Animal Control Officer Kelly Massey with a check for $1,727, one-third of their total cash fundraising efforts. The students visited with the cats and dogs currently housed at the shelter, and learned about how their donation would help provide […] Read more »

Loree Griffin Burns knew when she was a young student that she loved science – and writing – and on June 1 she shared her passion for both of her life’s callings with sixth grade students at Old Hammondtown School, highlighting her book Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. The story […] Read more »

The Marion Natural History Museum’s last afterschool program of this school year featured “Chemistry of Tie Dye” with Chemist Jessica Robidoux and coordinated by Dr. William (Toby) Dills of UMass Dartmouth’s Chemistry Department.  The Museum wishes to thank Ms. Robidoux, Dr. Dills, and all the many volunteers who showed up to help with the program. […] Read more »

The night of May 28 was the Spring Concert at Rochester Memorial School. The band and chorus entertained a cafetorium full of family and friends, who especially liked the band’s rendition of “Happy.” Photos by Jean Perry   Read more »

Guided by Loree Griffin Burns, children headed out on May 30 from Plumb Library to search for ladybugs to photograph and document for the Lost Ladybug Project. In all, the kids found five ladybugs. The event was funded by a MOBY grant and organized by the RMS PTOs, the RLT, Kathy Gauvin at ORR, and […] Read more »

After a glorious morning walking their newest nature trail, feasting on potluck in the Friends community room and holding a brief annual meeting, Gary Johnson, outgoing president of the Mattapoisett Land Trust, introduced Kathy Zagzebski, executive director of the National Marine Wildlife Center. Zagzebski was on a mission – a mission to educate humans on […] Read more »

On May 21 at Shining Tides at Camp Massasoit, the Buzzards Bay Coalition proudly announced the completion of the Nasketucket Bay Land Conservation Project. This is the largest land conservation project completed, which covers and protects 416 acres of a variety of habitat and coastal areas. In addition, the BBC has continued to be successful […] Read more »

When Commander Michael Lamoureux of American Legion Post 280 introduced the guest speaker on May 25 for the 2015 Memorial Day ceremony in Mattapoisett, he noted that the biography U.S. Army Sergeant Edward Sweeney, Jr. submitted for the event program was a short one. At age 38, he enlisted in the U.S. Army National Guard […] Read more »

The Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race started as a 4-H project back in 1934 headed by Jim Hartley, when participants fashioned “canoes” from pine boards and decided it would be a fun idea to start a new boat race tradition. A few things have changed since then, including the addition of some ingenious hand-crafted and […] Read more »

This morning, just now, the chorus of bird song rose above the sound of vehicles passing by the house, that steady stream of business on the way to conduct itself, its self-imposed importance and urgency pushing forward, stock-holder values must be preserved, and nothing else matters, except the birds’ song and its soothing quality – […] Read more »