Joan, Judy, Kathy, Beverly, Jeanette, Jackie, Deb, Cindy, June, Ruth, Dorothy … these are some of the ladies I’ve recently been meeting up with. There isn’t a new fangled name in the lot. No sir, you won’t find a Madison, Taylor, or Katelyn in this group. They are of a certain age, and they are […] Read more »
The Sippican Woman’s Club held its Annual Meeting at The Kittansett Club on Friday, April 25th. Pictured above (left to right ) is outgoing President Susan Ford and newly elected President Susan Granger. For club membership information. contact Jeanne Lake at (508) 748-0619 or visit our website sippicanwomansclub.org. (Jeanne Bruen, Photographer) The Sippican […] Read more »
Thou wilt not miss this performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Rochester Memorial School on Friday, May 2 at 7:00 pm! There is plenty of drama, and just as much humor, and the kids have been hard at work for months getting ready for the big night. At their April 28 dress rehearsal performance after […] Read more »
The photography exhibit now gracing the walls of the Marion Art Center tells two stories, both of adventure and surprise, but in two strikingly different ways. Both masters of their medium, one of the artists rejoices in the journey through childhood when everything in a child’s own backyard is a new discovery, while the other […] Read more »
One of the educational events the Buzzards Bay Coalition had planned for April vacation brought kids to the 6.1-acre property to explore the marshy beach for a scavenger hunt. The osprey from a nearby nest kept a close eye on the group until the treasures were tallied and the group waded back down the mud-puddled […] Read more »
The former American Idol and X Factor contestant from Rochester is home, and in the middle of raising funds for her debut album – and if you donate $5,000 to her Kickstarter.com fundraiser, she promises she will tattoo your name on her body. So far, 21 year-old Jensen is inching closer to her goal to […] Read more »
He wasn’t sure what to expect when he got there. As a history teacher at Tabor Academy, Gary Sousa knows the history between the U.S. and Vietnam – as most of us do. But Gary is a historian, a traveler, photographer, and among other things, a diver, and he always wanted to visit Vietnam. Sousa […] Read more »
The Marion Natural History Museum hosted their very first Earth Day Celebration on April 19, providing little ones with activities that focused on our planet and stimulated their senses. There was a make your own planet earth pinwheel table, a station to decorate your own “Earth cookie” with green and blue icing, a puppet show […] Read more »
It’s happening again. The skies are blackened by swarms of winged devils. The calm of early mornings and twilight reveries vibrate with evil squawks. The treetops sway under the weight of thousands of single-minded beings. They come to procreate on my property and then raise their young, whose waste will be spread across my backyard, […] Read more »
There was no other place a kid in Rochester would rather be the day before Easter than in the fields at Plumb Corner. Well over a hundred children lined the two fields, ready to hunt the hundreds of colorful plastic Easter eggs filled with candy that lay in the grass before them. The excitement over […] Read more »