The Marion Garden Group planter boxes are again out and placed about our town. We would love to have your help to help us keep these planters looking their best throughout the summer. Would you be willing to join our Planter Angel Team? As a Planter Angel, you will be assigned to one […] Read more »
Sunday May 21 is the annual Tour de Creme bike ride. Due to changes since 2019 when the ride last ran, the routes are different than they have been before. Please be advised to expect bike riders in the late morning and early afternoon on or crossing: Mattapoisett Neck Road, Brandt Island Road, Prospect Road […] Read more »
Kimberly Ray, President of The Mattapoisett Lions Club, one of 45,000 Lions Clubs around the world, is pleased to announce that this year’s winners of the Peter B. Hodges Memorial Scholarship are Caitlin Collier and Andrew Poulin, seniors at Old Rochester Regional High School. Each student will receive a scholarship in the amount of $2,500. […] Read more »
In last week’s article, I mentioned steps that the Rochester Town Meeting took to prepare for the possibility of war with Great Britain. The Town Meetings continued to address events as they occurred. On Dec. 12, 1772, they met to read a Letter of Correspondence from Boston. After the letter was presented, Deacon Seth Dexter, […] Read more »
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 »