The Mattapoisett Fire Department traveled to Livesy Park in Fairhaven on Saturday to compete in a Fire Muster Competition and Parade. Engine One won Best Overall in the parade and the department placed 2nd in dry hose evolution, and 2nd place in the midnight run event. Photos by Tom Lincoln Read more »
The heat didn’t keep the crowds away from the Marion Art Center’s Arts in the Park, held at Bicentennial Park on Saturday. Hundreds of people browsed the 44 booths featuring local artists offering jewelry, glass, paintings, textiles, collage, photography, carved and painted wood, ceramics, garden furniture, and garden sculpture. “This is our seventh year doing […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center wrapped up the first session of Artstart with a production of ‘The Secret’ this Friday. The two-week program for children ages four to nine focuses on arts, crafts, music, theater and stories. Program director Nancy Sparklin said the children had great fun and all got along wonderfully. Session two starts on […] Read more »
With a joyous vibe filtering through the huge crowd at Shipyard Park, people came together for the 2013 Mattapoisett Road Race. They came from places near and far to be together, to say they accomplished something, to laugh, to remember – to run. The Mattapoisett 4th of July Road Race has become an event many […] Read more »
Crowds, participants, officials, and horses gathered at Washburn Park in Marion on Independence Day for the 66th Marion Horse Show, which showcased several riders and horses from the area as well as from places like Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. This year, there were around 70 entries, who competed in several different events that […] Read more »
The Benjamin D. Cushing, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2425 celebrated their annual Fourth of July Parade on Thursday. The parade had one hundred entries including antique cars, tractors, antique trucks, clowns, floats, fire engines and marching bands who organized behind the town house before proceeding onto Main Street. The parade went east on Main […] Read more »
Looking back through the veil of time to July 1863: “Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The next day, Lee struck the flanks of the Union line, resulting […] Read more »
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Lisa Winsor, of Mattapoisett, is a cancer survivor and a Pan-Mass Challenge cyclist who was honored by the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, June 29 during PMC Night at Fenway Park. Winsor was among the cancer survivors who rode her bike around the warning track in a pre-game ceremony during which the PMC’s 34th anniversary […] Read more »
The Tri-Town will be bursting with red, white, and blue starting bright and early on Thursday, July 4 and running all weekend long. Residents will exercise their freedom to run around in the middle of the street at the Mattapoisett Road Race on July 4. Founded in 1971, the race will cover five miles – […] Read more »