My grandparents’ house on Snipatuit Rd. (one of Rochester’s older houses) was a rambling structure with an added-on addition and an upstairs with two bedrooms and several attics. When we visited on school vacations, there was often something interesting retrieved from an attic that we could play with. A short aside, my grandmother, Marion […] Read more »
Even though February is the shortest month of the year, there is no shortage of things to do here at the Library. Love chocolate? We have a travel-cupful of candy at the desk that you could win. Come in and take a guess at how many pieces are in the cup, closest guess wins […] Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Rochester’s Wild Animal Farm and asked if anyone had any additional information. As luck would have it, two people responded. The first was an email from Bill Chamberlain. He remembered as a child walking through a stretch of woods along Mary’s Pond Rd. It would have […] Read more »
The MAC will once again host school vacation workshops Monday February 17th through Thursday February 20 for ages 5-8 years old. The cost for each workshop is $35 for MAC members and $40 for nonmembers. Instructors Benares Angeley and Aylin Cetik will guide your child through the following activities: Circus Camp – Monday, February […] Read more »
Annual Census Forms have been mailed out to all households in Mattapoisett. If you did not receive one, please contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 508-758-4100 X 2. Please return them as promptly as possible, as failure to respond to the census may result in removal from the voting list. Dog license applications are on […] Read more »
The MAC has opened registration to members for the ArtStart 2025. ArtStart is the MAC’s summer art program for children ages 4 1/2 to 9 years, offered in June and July each year. ArtStart teachers are specialists in music, dance, theater, and art, most of whom teach throughout the year and are professionals in their […] Read more »
The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Monday, May 12, followed by the Town Election on Friday, May 16. Here is the list of the available elected positions: Board of Assessors (1) Board of Health (1) Select Board (1) Marion School Committee (1) ORR School Committee (1) Open Space Acquisition Commission (2) Planning […] Read more »
The Town of Marion has a vacancy on the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission (MOSAC). This position will be appointed by the Select Board and MOSAC and the appointment will end May 2025. In addition to this appointed position, the Marion Select Board is seeking volunteers to serve on the following Town Boards and Committees: […] Read more »
Friends of Old Rochester Music will be launching a Music Hall of Fame in 2025 to recognize the choral and instrumental students that graduated from ORR ten or more years ago who continue to enrich their community with music or have gone on to successful music careers. We have formed a committee to review nominations, […] Read more »
Many of the ideas for these articles come from newspaper clippings in the museum archives. Unfortunately, more than 2/3rds of them are missing their dates. However, with a certain amount of research, it is sometimes possible to come up with an approximate time frame. For this article I determined that J.C. Albert Langevin was Acushnet’s […] Read more »