The Rochester Fire Department, together with the Rochester Police Department, recently recognized three civilian residents and 14 first responders with Lifesaver Awards in a ceremony at the Rochester Council on Aging. The awards were based on two incidents, one in April and one in August, in which a victim suffered cardiac arrest. In […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center opened their latest show on September 28 featuring artists Pam Hoss and Kim Barry. Getting to know the artists and being able to learn more about what inspires these two highly accomplished artists was a treat and more meaningful, as we could hear it all from their lips to our ears […] Read more »
On September 26 at Old Rochester Regional High School, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities held a public hearing to share with impacted communities (Mattapoisett and Acushnet) and residents therein a plan to extend an existing, overhead transmission line and an associated substation. The developer/owner of the site is NSTAR, doing business as Eversource. […] Read more »
Rudd Wyman just turned 96 but still remembers taking his daughter Sarah Jane (Wyman) Dickson and his son Steve Wyman to imaginary journeys to the moon and back. His daughter, Sarah Jane, recently published a children’s book “My Moon” based on the stories of her dad and how he helped engage the imagination of […] Read more »
The 1938 hurricane was the topic of an informative and entertaining presentation hosted by the Mattapoisett Museum on September 19. The speaker, John Horrigan, is no stranger to historically themed presentations. Horrigan is also a highly respected sports announcer and TV host. He brought the events leading up to the hurricane’s landfall and the […] Read more »
Some more suggestions on how to start making your current home a place in which you can stay as you become frailer. Stairs may become a problem as we transition from old to very old. I look upon stairs as a sort of built-in Physical Therapy, forcing us to strengthen our leg muscles with […] Read more »
Did you watch the presidential debate a while back? Probably not, because I haven’t found many who did. That’s okay, I forced myself to spend nearly two hours of my life watching so you wouldn’t have to, and I will be watching the vice-presidential debate as well. After all, it is my job as a […] Read more »
David Schafer, registrar and genealogist from 2016 to 2023 and now chapter of the Cape Cod and Islands of Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), was the speaker at the September 18 meeting of the Rochester Historical Society. Schafer began his PowerPoint presentation with the recounting of an event 250 years ago this September […] Read more »
Superintendent Michael S. Nelson is pleased to announce that Sippican Elementary School has partnered with the Marion Institute to participate in the Grow Education Farm-to-School (Grow FTS) program for the second year in a row. “We are very happy to partner for another year with the Marion Institute to offer this program to students,” […] Read more »
At the beginning of September, we made a trip to England. We had moved to Rochester from Plymouth exactly five years ago and thought visiting the town of Rochester, England, would be interesting. Rochester, Massachusetts was officially incorporated on June 4, 1686, as Rochester, named for Rochester, England, from which early settlers to […] Read more »