Editor’s note: The Wanderer has invited student speakers at this year’s high school graduation exercises to share their speeches with our readers. Tabor Academy’s Commencement Ceremony celebrating the Class of 2024 was held on May 31. Tabor annually selects a male student and a female student to deliver the Senior Address as co-heads of school. […] Read more »
To Noah Bellefeuille, becoming an Eagle Scout is about much more than a rare level of expertise in all things outdoorsy. The 17-year-old Rochester resident just finishing up his junior year at Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School wants to be a calming influence in a fragile society dialed deep into social media […] Read more »
Longtime Town of Marion employee Kathy Kearns is being recognized by Town Administrator Geoffrey Gorman as she retires after working for the town for nearly 32 years. According to the press release issued by the town on Tuesday, Kearns worked as an accounts-payable clerk in the town’s Finance Department but could be found working […] Read more »
Pediatricians are fond of saying that children are not just small adults – that their physiology and response to diseases are different. In the same way, women are not just men with different sex organs. Every cell in women is different than the corresponding cell in men, due to the difference in chromosomes. […] Read more »
Like crocuses, election season has passed, not to reappear for year. Like those blooms, participation in town government is left to the winners, and the rest of us can go back to ignoring all things political, at least on the local level. Which, in my humble opinion, may be a good thing. The town […] Read more »
On May 21, the Mattapoisett Museum’s Education Committee and Curator Connor E. Gaudet were delighted to present “Women’s Day” to the fifth graders of Old Hammondtown Elementary School. The Museum and OHS teachers Katherine Trudell, Amy Casi and Stacy Barrows collaborated to develop a program of workshops to dovetail with their unit of study on women’s rights. […] Read more »
The first impression we got upon entering the Marion Art Center on May 24 was all the color pouring out of paintings done by Robert Abele and Mary Moquin, whose works now grace the gallery walls through the month of June. These works, nearly all of dwellings, cottages and tenements, are given over to […] Read more »
Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll stopped by Island Wharf on May 22 to view the development of Marion’s new Maritime Center. During her tour, she got an inside look at the construction that will serve as the new headquarters for the town’s Harbormaster Department. Marion Harbormaster Adam Murphy and Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne […] Read more »
Editor’s note: Vietnam veteran and longtime Marion resident Charlie Brown enlisted in the Army in 1966, was selected for Officer Candidate School and upon completion was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He was transferred to Vietnam and assigned to the First Cavalry Division Airmobile, with 430 helicopters – their rides into battle. He was combat […] Read more »
Neighbors across the street from an inspiring display of teamwork involving the Rochester Fire Department and support from neighboring Wareham, Marion, Mattapoisett and Acushnet departments described the High Street house that caught fire on Monday morning in Rochester as “cursed.” A fire at the address had occurred two years ago, but what had […] Read more »