Junior High Is What Happened

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 »

Library Features Student Work

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 »

Destination Imagination GEEKS in Knoxville

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 »

Running a Tight Ship

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 »

‘Belle Aventure ‘ Will Not Race

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 »

Art in Bloom Opens Tonight

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 »

It’s True “Sippican’s Got Talent”

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 »

Water Restrictions and Conservation Tips

Water bills are due next week in Marion and at the end of the month in Mattapoisett. A little blue slip of paper included in the mailing notifies residents of a water restriction in effect from June 15 through September 15. “This is a conservation restriction,” says Rob Zora, Superintendent of the Department of Public […] Read more »

Mad Scientist Wows Plumb Patrons

The Joseph H. Plumb Library in Rochester kicked off their summer reading program entitled “Dig Into Reading” last Friday evening, where “Mad Scientist” Laser Leigh presented a group of K-6 graders from the Tri-Town area with several scientific experiments and an informative, yet fun, lecture on the wide scientific world. The presentations included segments on […] Read more »

Proud Ghosts of Point Connett II

•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 By Rudd Wyman Part II In 1938, like everyone on Point Connett, the Warren family had to rebuild. Bob and Grace Warren had twins, Jack and Jill, who became […] Read more »