The Marion Social Club, a charitable service club made up of your neighbors, is pleased to announce the award of three scholarships to the following high school graduates:             ORR Senior Matthew Hunt was awarded the William H. Claflin, Jr. Scholarship for $2,500.00.             ORR Senior Ella Bartholomew and Bishop Stang High School Senior Dale […] Read more »

Emmanuel College awarded a BA in Theater Arts to Sarah Melloni of Rochester at the College’s 103rd Commencement on May 10.             Olivia Lapierre of Rochester has been named to the Plymouth State University Dean’s List for the Spring 2025 semester.             Summer Williams of Rochester has been named to the Plymouth State University President’s […] Read more »

The Jennifer Rusinoski Memorial Scholarship Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient of our second annual $2,000 scholarship. The recipient of this year’s award is Kelsi Chick of Rochester. Kelsi plans to attend Plymouth State University. For more information or if you would like to contribute to next year’s scholarship, please contact the foundation at […] Read more »

Robert Burke of Mattapoisett and Dylan Pallatroni of Marion have been named to the Champlain College Dean’s List for achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in the Spring 2025 semester.             Springfield College has named Rylee Kouta from Mattapoisett to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the 2025 spring semester. Kouta […] Read more »

The fourth Annual Ken Souza Memorial Scholarship was awarded to ORRHS graduating senior Ezra Thompson of Mattapoisett. The award is given each year to the outstanding senior video production student in the ORCTV/ORRHS School to Career video production program and is named to honor ORCTV’s first board president Ken Souza. Ezra developed and created many […] Read more »

Caitlin O’Donnell, Honors Valedictorian at Old Rochester Regional High School, daughter of John and Julie O’Donnell, Mattapoisett, is the recipient of the Mattapoisett Land Trust one-thousand-dollar Community Service Award, granted seldomly.             With Caitlin’s extraordinary skills and expertise in google documents she was able to create a supercharged powerful presentation depicting Land Trusts properties, visual […] Read more »

At the Mattapoisett Congregational Church Julie Mennino handed out six scholarships on June 1 including: New Bedford High senior Elliott Talley earned the Coquillette family scholarship and is planning to attend Northeastern. He hopes to also continue his advocacy for the community. Old Rochester senior Ella Bartholomew also earned a scholarship from the Coquillette family […] Read more »

Torsten Brickley of Mattapoisett and Trent Crook of Rochester have been named to the Dean’s List for the Spring 2025 semester at Clarkson University             Lucas Pothier of Rochester was named to the Dean’s Honor List at Cedarville University for Spring 2025. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.75 GPA or higher for […] Read more »

The Mattapoisett Woman’s Club is pleased to announce that Mattapoisett residents Caitlin O’Donnell and Meredith Cameron are the recipients of the 2025 MWC scholarships awarded to graduating high school seniors.             Caitlin is a senior at Old Rochester Regional High School and plans to attend the University of Massachusetts Amherst and pursue an undergraduate degree […] Read more »

Sippican Lands Trust is pleased to announce the 2025 recipient of the Richard I. and Helen A. Arthur Scholarship. This award is given to a high school senior or a student in their first or second year of college who is a Marion resident, with a preference towards students interested in the environment, conservation, or […] Read more »