Spring is here! Winter has departed, the daffodils are in bloom and the Red Sox are on their way to a World Series victory. Hope springs eternal. It’s true that baseball is not as popular as it once was, surpassed by football, basketball, soccer and, of course, pickleball. Even so, despite the cold, […] Read more »
What is an old-growth forest? As the question implies, it is an old forest with trees of great age. But where does one begin the old-growth clock? What clues lie on forest floors and in wispy treetop canopies? These topics and others related to old forests were discussed on March 31 when Dr. David […] Read more »
The Opossum is the only marsupial species on the North American continent where the young are born prematurely and subsequently brought to life in their mother’s pouch. She proceeds to wean them until they are old enough to be on their own. The Opossum is also the only mammal with a prehensile tail that […] Read more »
The ideological divide that permeates social media and national politics has intensified election season in the Tri-Towns with a particular focus on local and regional school committees. In Rochester, Joe Pires, whose term on the Old Rochester Regional School Committee is up this year, is running for reelection against challenger James O’Brien, who […] Read more »
He’s not even a high school graduate, but Old Regional Rochester senior Joseph “Jed” Dupree is being mentioned in the same sentence as Stephen King, Andy Warhol and Sylvia Plath. Dupree, an artist since Kindergarten, submitted paintings to the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards at Tufts University. Two of his paintings received top honors — the […] Read more »
The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the most high-profile birds on the North American continent. It is nearly as big as a crow in color, black with bold, white stripes down its neck. It is named pileated because the dictionary derives from the term “pileated,” meaning capped top of its head covered with a […] Read more »
It drives my wife crazy that all my friends and I do is talk about the good old days. I’m sure it’s because we can’t remember much of what we did last week. Many of our memories are of our days at Center School in the original building built in 1898 and in […] Read more »
I’ve been thinking about writing an essay about all the dogs I encounter on my walks through Mattapoisett village. Unfortunately, a writer’s block has descended upon me, and I have been unable to come up with any good ideas. So, I decided to check out this “AI” thing I have been reading about […] Read more »
On March 16, the Mattapoisett Museum with support from the Mattapoisett Cultural Council hosted Dr. Daphne Geanacopoulos, historian and author of “The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd.” Geanacopoulos brought to light a woman who has not been forgotten but more likely overshadowed by her husband William Kidd. She was […] Read more »
Some people are more concerned with “being called a racist” rather than acknowledging that they might have biases, according to Dr. Tyrone Black, the Associate Head of School at Tabor Academy. This was one of many eye-opening messages delivered Tuesday night by a panel hosted by Tri-Town Against Racism. The conversation at Tabor […] Read more »