Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School recently opened registration for its 9th annual Summer Discovery Experience program and tickets are expected to sell out fast. This unique summer programming runs from July 13-24. Registration is open now on Eventbrite starting at $161.90 per session. Half-day and full-day options are available, with most morning […] Read more »
Kim Ray, President of The Mattapoisett Lions Club, one of 50,000 Lion’s Clubs around the world, is pleased to announce that Leah Hollenbeck a senior at Old Colony Regional Technical High School and Caitlyn Lund, a senior at Old Rochester Regional High School, are the recipients of the 2026 Mattapoisett Lion’s Club Peter Hodges Memorial […] Read more »
The fifth Annual Ken Souza Memorial Scholarship is being awarded to two ORRHS graduating seniors, Ian Hartwig and Christopher Huffman. The award, given each year to the outstanding senior video production student in the ORCTV/ORRHS School to Career Path video production program, is named to honor ORCTV’s first board president Ken Souza. The two students […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center is once again offering a volunteer orientation on Saturday, June 6 starting at 10:30 am in the MAC’s Anne Braitmayer Webb Theater. The event is open to anyone and everyone. Are you interested in volunteering but haven’t signed up because you want to learn more first? Perhaps you have helped out […] Read more »
Come One Come All to a Cleanup day at the Hammond Cemetery on River Road in Mattapoisett on Saturday May 23 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Over the past three years we the members of the Mattapoisett Cemetery/Veterans Advisory Committee, along with many of your neighbors, have been in the process of restoring […] Read more »
As all those who were at Town Meeting know, one of the items addressed was the Town Report. Town Reports are mandated and have been at least as long ago as the 1800’s. I looked at the Historical Museum and found that our oldest one was from 1871-1872. However, the Library could do one better […] Read more »
Ticket sales have begun for the upcoming Annual Benefit Pops Concert for the Tri-County Symphonic Band. The theme for this year is “Flay Day: 250 Years of Independence.” The concert will, once again, be held on the waterfront in a grand tent on the campus of Tabor Academy in Marion. Fine music, cupcakes and lemonade, […] Read more »
The League of Women Voters of SouthCoast will host a Rochester Candidates’ Forum on May 19, at 6:30 pm at Rochester Memorial School, 16 Pine Street. The event is free and open to the public. The forum will feature candidates running for Select Board, Planning Board, and School Committee in the Wednesday, May 27 […] Read more »
On April 23, 2021, Gerald D. Garcia passed away after a full and active life at the age of 95. Gerald was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on May 13, 1925. He earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Seminary and over the years served in Congregational churches in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts. […] Read more »
Come to the Mattapoisett Free Public Library to view a lovely ceramic exhibit created by local artist Wendy Goldsmith from June 2 to June 30. Goldsmith went to art school and majored in printmaking and also studied ceramics. A few years later she went back to clay but still uses printmaking techniques in her process. […] Read more »