You have to hand it to the seventh-graders who opt out of Old Rochester Regional Junior High School’s Survival Week: They don’t just sit around twiddling their thumbs. ORRJS science teacher Kathy Gauvin heads up the school’s Selected Courses Offered for Personal Enrichment program, which serves as the alternative for students who don’t sign up […] Read more »
The biannual Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race is set to start on Friday, June 14, with First Attention Signal scheduled for 11:30 am, preceded by the final days of preparation in Marion. On Thursday, registration runs from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, followed by the Skippers’ Meeting and Weather Briefing at Tabor Academy at […] Read more »
Editors note: This story has been serialized into six parts which will appear weekly in The Wanderer and at wanderer.com •Click Here to Read Part One •Click Here to Read Part Two By Rudd Wyman Part III Across from Warrens, the Trefrey family summered. Charles ran a successful real estate business in the Boston area […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: Due to the nature of this piece, the identities of the young people are not disclosed. Here goes nothing. I’ll be straight up with you from the beginning. This is not an easy article to write. There are many things I’ll need to be careful about. Please let me make it clear that […] Read more »
Most libraries would throw away books that have been drawn in, cut up, and pasted or taped together, but the Mattapoisett Free Public Library has presented some for everyone to see. A group of junior and senior artists from Old Rochester Regional High School have taken books from art teacher Joanne Dorothy’s father’s library, and […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional Junior High School’s representative in the Destination Imagination Global Finals traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., during Memorial Day weekend to compete against the world’s most dynamic young minds. The GEEKS – Sara Lafrance, Holly Frink, Rikard Bodin, Kyle Rood, and Edward Krawczyk, as well as team managers Tina Rood and Kerry Bulman – […] Read more »
Mattapoisett – what’s not to love! We have farmlands, woodlands, swamps, a harbor, beaches, a bike path and pastures. Route 6 is dotted with businesses whose products and services we want and need. We have good schools and wonderful teachers. Lovely churches with large congregations welcome all. North Street is a scenic by-way. Our village […] Read more »
The ocean match race between two classic yachts— Belle Aventure and Spirit of Bermuda— was broken this week when Belle’s captain Dave Thompson notified the Marion Bermuda Race organizers that they would not be able to race in the 645-mile crossing to Bermuda on June 14th. Spirit, the big blue Bermuda sloop had anticipated the […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center’s Art in Bloom opens tonight at 6pm, and organizers and volunteers gathered Friday afternoon to prepare the exhibit. Works by Mary Jane McCoy and Arthur Kvarnstrom will be paired with interpretative floral arrangements by members of the Marion Garden Discussion Group. Bobby Fuller and Karilon Grainger assembled an arrangement for a […] Read more »
Eighty-four students, thirty-seven performances, six acts, and two teachers add up to one great night of entertainment. The talents showed through at Sippican School’s “Sippican’s Got Talent” this evening. There was dancing, there was singing, magic and even stand up comedy, they had it all. Photos by Paul Lopes Read more »