Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and participating museums across America. During the summer months, free admission is available to currently serving military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve. Free admission for military personnel and their families […] Read more »
A beautiful double Adirondack chair is going home with someone from the June 24 Mattapoisett Woman’s Club’s June in Bloom Garden Tour. On that same day, the Club will be holding a raffle for a 2-seat ready-to-use Adirondack chair as a finale to the day’s Garden Tour. Tickets are priced at one (1) for […] Read more »
The Rochester Republican Town Committee will be hosting a candidate night for Rochester candidates running for Select Board, ORR and Rochester Memorial School Committees. The candidate night will be held May 9 at the North Rochester Church 247 North Avenue beginning at 6:30 pm. Each candidate will be asked to provide a brief introduction […] Read more »
The lead up to the Revolutionary War covered ten years or more. As England tried to recoup the money spent to fight France in the New World, new taxes were imposed on the colonists. The protests that followed caused a divide in the populace. On one side were those who wished to remain Englishmen and […] Read more »
In its quinquennial State of Buzzards Bay Report, the Buzzards Bay Coalition points to three drivers that led to an uptick in the overall Bay Health Score, the first increase since the organization began tracking Bay health in this way in 2003. The report’s findings also caution that changes attributed to climate change, including warmer […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center’s Arts & Crafts instructor Aylin Cetik is offering birthday parties in the MAC Studio. Parties for ages 4 and up will be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays, with 15-20 minutes reserved at the end of the party for a sweet treat. Available times are 10 am-11:30 am or 1:00 pm-2:30 pm. […] Read more »
July 4 will be here before we know it and so will the 51st running of the Mattapoisett Road Race. This year there will be some exciting changes. Begun in 1971 by Bob and Doris Gardner, 15 runners raced from Point Connett to Shipyard Park. Over the years, the route has changed a few times, […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Recreation Summer Camp registration is open! We have many one-week camp offerings this summer. Providence College D1 player Meg Hughes will be running a Girls Soccer Clinic, June 19- 22. Brian Rudolph has two weeks of Competitive Basketball trainings on June 26-30 and July 17- 21. We have four options for Golf clinics at […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center will run a new session of Yoga at the MAC in May with instructor Elke Pierre. Classes will meet Tuesday mornings for four weeks in May in the MAC’s Patsy Francis Gallery (upstairs). Enjoy an hour of yoga while viewing beautiful artwork in the gallery. May 6, 9, 16, and 23. […] Read more »
The newly formed “Friends of the Elizabeth Taber Library” officially organized on Tuesday, April 13. The group is made up of community members with the following goals: supporting the library by being involved in fundraising, helping with special programs/programming and other activities designed to enhance the scope and outreach of the library. The following partial […] Read more »