In a networking session last Thursday evening, Rochester Women’s Club Co-Presidents Marsha Hartley and Nancy Boutin reviewed the club goals accomplished in 2011. Completing two-thirds of an ongoing roofing project was first on the list. “We plan to finish the back part of the roof this year… We’re proud of the fundraising and community work […] Read more »
When people think of Mattapoisett history, whaling shipbuilding normally comes to mind. However, the town has another, lesser-known distinction: the first female radio announcer in New England hailed from none other than Mattapoisett. Eunice Randall Thompson – the aunt of former Selectman George Randall and a noted radio announcer and engineer – recently was posthumously […] Read more »
Although Rochester has managed to maintain its staff, service and programs for the past four years, an ever tightening budget due to rising education and health care costs may force the town to make tough decisions in 2012, Town Administrator Richard LaCamera said. “This is going to be most challenging year the town has had […] Read more »
Café Parlez, the fiction book club, which meets at the Joseph H. Plumb Library in Rochester the last Thursday of every month at 6:30 pm, is appropriately named – they talk (parlez) and they eat (café). “I’d say once a year we’ll get a call from someone who wants to know if we are reading […] Read more »
Losing a loved one leaves a hole that never really goes away. For survivors, gravestones may be the only place of solace to recall someone sorely missed. But the Mattapoisett Tree Committee has helped families and friends of loved ones find another way to honor and remember someone: a memorial planting. A tree – which […] Read more »
On Saturday, December 17, nine members of the Nasketucket Bird Club led by Justin Barrett, Club President and Mike LaBossiere, Past President, scoured the marshes, woods, thickets and shoreline of Fairhaven during the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. The count has been going on for over one hundred years and our club has participated since […] Read more »
The Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School (UCCRTS), where Marion students attend, recently broke ground on a 10,000 square foot building, known as the Nursing and Allied Health Education Center. “The demand for skilled workers in the medical field is growing and we want to provide even more opportunity for our students,” said Kevin Farr, […] Read more »
Bam, crack, flower…these strange words and many others can be heard on a regular basis at the Mattapoisett Council on Aging’s Social and Wellness Center in Center School on Barstow Street where the game of Mah-Jongg is played every Wednesday at 1:30 pm. Usually, at least two tables, with 8-10 players come together in the […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional High School is home to a student organization known as SOLE, or Students Organizing Labor Equality. A division of the United Students Against Sweatshops guided by student president Sara DeMello and teacher advisor Colin Everett, SOLE meets on Wednesday afternoons in the school library to discuss and initiate ways of encouraging Old […] Read more »
Helping Hands and Hooves hosted their 11th annual Christmas Day Swim at 11:00 am at the Mattapoisett Town Beach. Helping Hands and Hooves is a non-profit (based in Mattapoisett) that is dedicated to providing therapeutic horseback riding lessons for adults with disabilities. If you would like to learn more about Helping Hands and Hooves you […] Read more »