Old Rochester Regional High School held their annual “New Student ORRientation” on Friday, August 23. All incoming freshmen were invited to the orientation, as well as school choice students, exchange students and those new to the Tri-Town. The event ran with the aid of several ORR staff and around 40 volunteer ORR students. The orientation […] Read more »
Aidan St. James of Rochester was recently recognized for achieving academic distinction at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. St. James, majoring in plastics engineering, was named to the dean’s list at UMass Lowell for the spring 2013 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list at UMass Lowell, a student must have completed no fewer than 12 […] Read more »
What is SSAC? Just another mundane government acronym? Well, yes and no. SSAC is the State Student Advisory Council. It is a government council, but it’s far from mundane. SSAC is made up of over 60 peer-elected students from Massachusetts’s five regions: Southeast, Greater Boston, Northeast, Central, and Western. Altogether, this diverse group of high […] Read more »
It takes a lot of work from a lot of volunteers to get the Rochester Country Fairgrounds ready, and students at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School are learning the importance of that work within their community. Before school commenced in late June, students from the Metal Fabrication, Carpentry, Electrical and Graphic Design shops […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional High School will be hosting New Student Orientation for all incoming freshmen and transfer students on Friday, August 23 from 12:00 to 2:30 pm in the high school auditorium. Please be advised that this is a parent-friendly event and we strongly recommend parents attend as the afternoon has a lot of information […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional High School Class of 1988 announces they will be holding their 25th Reunion celebration on Saturday, August 10. All classmates are invited to bring their families to the Mattapoisett Town Wharf, near the gazebo, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm for an informal gathering. A cocktail party for adults only will be […] Read more »
Henry Blanchette of Marion graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Ryan Muther, a Computer Science and History major from Marion, was named to the Dean’s List at Union College for the 2012-13 academic year. Read more »
Old Colony’s Metal Fabrication and Joining teacher, Kris Garcia, attended the first-ever ASM Materials Science camp at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston during the second week of July. Twenty-two teachers, mainly science teachers or technical-education teachers, attended the 5-day workshop. They learned the basics of Materials Science and its applications, and conducted many labs […] Read more »
Emily Blachly of Mattapoisett graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a Master of Science degree in secondary education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in the spring 2013 quarter. Katherine Jean Delaney and Lilli V. Paknis of Marion qualified for the University of […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Doug White announced this week that Derek Medeiros will succeed Moira Rodgers as Principal at Rochester Memorial School. Rodgers resigned short of one year on the job. Medeiros offered his own resignation from the ORR School Committee soon after his election in order to apply for the RMS principal […] Read more »