Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has traditionally been thought of as a disease of infants. As many as 80,000 babies under age five are hospitalized annually in the U.S. with RSV, mostly in the winter, and some 300 die. Until very recently, there was little that could be done to prevent RSV.             A monoclonal antibody […] Read more »

            There are too many choices. Have you ventured down the soft drink aisle at the grocers lately? There must be a thousand different sugary drinks. Once you decide what flavor you want, you then must decide on small cans, big cans, glass bottles or plastic, quarts or liters, six packs or eight packs.             […] Read more »

            Senior Night at Old Rochester Regional High School made Monday’s 42-35 Unified Basketball victory against Fairhaven even more special because of how the Bulldogs won.             ORR’s three seniors, Traeh Carrington, Jake Newton and John Butler, all contributed, and Player of the Game Thomas Jupin, an athlete, scored two baskets for a career-high four […] Read more »

            “Sidelong, the whole evening, he watched her yellow sweater…,” a sweater that has come to symbolize a budding love, one that would produce an author and artist, a master craftsman, a woman whose reflections either through visual arts or writing expresses emotions.             Margot Wizansky’s latest published compilation of poems is titled “The Yellow […] Read more »

            For some 38 years during the summer, give or take a few days here and there, I had breakfast with the same group of men. The local coffee shop was our meeting place. It was my morning routine.             Our group included an advertising specialties salesman who spent his days selling any product that […] Read more »

            To Old Rochester Regional High School senior Aidan Silk, the iconic Romeo from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was nothing more than a 14th Century frat boy. Silk and other ORR theater students all have a unique perspective on their characters and will make them accessible to a modern audience.             They will take the […] Read more »

            Ringling Brothers, the “Greatest Show on Earth,” announced that the circus is back … without elephants and clowns.             I used to love going to the circus. When I was a boy, the circus set up almost in my backyard right in the field where a funeral home, condominiums, the fire station and the […] Read more »

            Close to 30 years ago, Julie Craig and her husband bought a run-down, 5-acre farm in Mattapoisett.             Fast forward to the present and not only did Craig and others transform the land, they used the farm to transform the lives of many families and people with autism-spectrum disorder and other disabilities. It didn’t […] Read more »

        Are you ready for some spooktacular fun? Dust off the cobwebs and sharpen those scary pencils! Your best Halloween artwork could be on the cover of The Wanderer and you could win a cash prize! Submit your best original Halloween drawing, photo, compilation, or artwork to enter for publication on our November 2 cover. […] Read more »

            Family dynamics are some of the more powerful interpersonal experiences we humans can share. And when those dynamics come together harmoniously, tastefully, gracefully through a shared love of art the result is something quite special. Enter the Macy sisters, whose art exhibit opened on Saturday at the Marion Art Center. The Macys called this […] Read more »