My mother loved flowers. Not that she gardened or kept houseplants in sunny windows. That wasn’t her thing. But if you gave her a bouquet or even a wilting dandelion presented from the sticky paws of a child, she’d smile and appreciate the gift. How many water glasses filled with weeds and flowers from […] Read more »
Residents and town officials crowded the Rochester senior center Monday to hear input on whether to withdraw from the Commonwealth’s Green Communities program, which provides grants and technical assistance to support constructing more energy-efficient buildings and homes but also mandates compliance with building codes that increase construction costs. Attendees ended up with only […] Read more »
Born and raised in Mattapoisett, Catherine Heuberger says she has thought for “quite some time” about running for Select Board. When the thought got serious, she wrote the state Ethics Commission to find out if her full-time job as Mattapoisett’s town clerk poses a conflict of interest. “They’re supposed to let me know […] Read more »
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 »