“I’m running fast, and I’m running a lot right now,” said Sarabeth Morrell, an English teacher at Old Rochester Regional High School. Morrell is currently running 30 to 40 miles per week, training for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. on October 26, 2014. “My personal goal is to run this fast enough to […] Read more »
One day, 10 year-old Emma Levasseur was watching television in her home in Rochester when she saw something that made her stop and think. It was a commercial that came on about a school that was holding a shoe drive to collect new shoes and socks for millions of orphans around the globe that do […] Read more »
Smiling faces beneath sunny skies, Rochester Memorial School was the setting May 30 for a day of outdoor fun and fitness during the Miles for Memorial Annual Fitness Challenge. With soccer, Frisbee, hula-hoops, and dance parties, kids were in constant motion everywhere you looked and one could hear music, laughter, and cheering from every corner […] Read more »
When ORR High School students Ian Hibbert and Jeremy Bare walked out onto the stage in longhaired wigs and skirts, the crowd burst into laughter. Twenty-one students from English teacher Kathleen Brunelle’s Theater class performed Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on May 22. The performance had a different spin on the original play, the setting […] Read more »
The contestants in the Rochester Annual Memorial Day Boat Race were awarded for their participation later in the evening on May 27 during an awards ceremony at Rochester Memorial School. The very first race was 80 years ago, and 93 year-old Louise Watling has attended all but two of them, cheering on friends and family […] Read more »
Scores of Mattapoisett residents gathered in front of the Mattapoisett Free Library the drizzly afternoon of May 26 to pay homage to veteran Americans who lost their lives. Onlookers filled the lawn and spilled out into the street to watch the Memorial Day ceremony with special guest speaker Navy Reserve Commander Paul J. Brawley who […] Read more »
Scenes from the 2014 Rochester Memorial Day Parade, Sunday, May 25. Read more »
Are you looking for events taking place in your neck of the woods this Memorial Day? Every corner of Tri-Town will be honoring our local veterans with parades and ceremonies, along with the tradition that continues in Rochester with the Rochester Annual Boat Race kicking off at 8:30 am at Grandma Hartley’s Reservoir on Snipatuit […] Read more »
The show was called “Small Town – Big Art,” which is a pretty accurate description of the ratio of the scope of the location to the enormous talent that was on display at the Mattapoisett Historical Society Museum from May 16 to May 17. The museum was packed with people the evening of the exhibit […] Read more »
Long before people evolved to the point where ‘leisure time’ was part of living and an expectation after working 9-to-5, Mattapoisett Harbor was a working harbor. There were the ship builders, the fishermen, and the farmers. Wait, farmers? Yes, farmers. Mattapoisett’s little harbor was a vital link in supplying the Elizabeth Island chain with fresh […] Read more »