He has an unorthodox bowling style, but then again, Michael Hogan is an unorthodox Special Olympian.             Hogan, 17 and a junior at Old Rochester Regional High School, is turning heads as much as he turns a 15-pound bowling bowl into strikes. Hogan plans on competing in the United States Special Olympics games for bowling […] Read more »

            Healthcare fraud tends to be “under the radar” for most of us, surfacing when authorities arrest those accused of such behavior or when guilty verdicts are announced and usually in stories buried on the inside pages of the newspaper.             While it is widely acknowledged to be a serious problem, costing the government and […] Read more »

Superintendent Michael S. Nelson and Principal Silas Coellner are pleased to share that six Old Rochester Regional Junior High School students participated in the Southeastern Massachusetts Music Educators Association Junior District Festival (SEMMEA) on March 8 and March 9.             The two-day festival was hosted at New Bedford High School. Students from the MMEA Southeastern […] Read more »

I heard that some politicians who probably never served in the military are talking about bringing back the military draft. In the spirit of transparency, I did not serve in the military, but not for lack of trying. My father had given me six months to get a job or get married after college. With […] Read more »

Marion Town Administrator Geoffrey Gorman, Police Chief Richard Nighelli and Harbormaster Adam Murphy are pleased to share that the Marion Harbormaster’s office, a division of the Marion Police Department, has launched a new online database.             The Town of Marion has contracted with Town Moorings to create a user-friendly online platform, which launched on March […] Read more »

            Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Michael S. Nelson is proud to share that the district’s musicians have showcased their talent in another successful band and choral performance series.             The Friends of Old Rochester Music (F.O.R.M.) Scholarship Concerts, hosted in the Old Rochester Regional High School gymnasium, featured the districts’ choirs on March […] Read more »

The Kousa Dogwood tree donated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is growing outside Old Hammondtown Elementary School. It is a pleasing addition to the campus but more importantly a symbol that Mattapoisett kids care about their trees.             The tree came to the town because Emma Lowe’s winning entry in the 2023 fifth-grade tree-poster contest […] Read more »

            Jodi Bauer, Paul Ciaburri and Randy Parker will all be challenged in their respective bids to stay on the Mattapoisett, Rochester and Marion Select Boards.             Ben Bailey, a member of the Rochester Planning Board and Conservation Commission, has returned nomination papers in a bid to unseat Ciaburri, a multiterm Select Board incumbent, at […] Read more »

            For most of human history, pregnancy and childbirth was the cause of many women’s deaths. In the modern era, this should be an extremely rare event, and in most of the developed world, it is.             About 800 women in the United States die every year during pregnancy, delivery or the six weeks that […] Read more »

            A woman stopped me in the post office the other day to tell me how much she liked my last column. I politely said thank you, though I had no idea what she was talking about. I could not for the life of me remember what I had written only a few days before. […] Read more »