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Committee starts statue fundraising

MARION — The Celebrate Elizabeth Taber Committee has raised $60,000 of a $200,000 goal to erect a life-size bronze statue of...

Elizabeth Taber Library to hold annual meeting

MARION — The Marion library’s Board of Trustees will host its Annual Meeting on Monday June 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth...

Seniors get to know firefighters at barbecue

MARION — The Marion Fire Department is always serving the community, but now it is taking its senior service to the next...

Hear about the ‘holy grail’ of shipwrecks

MARION — On June 7 at 7 pm the Marion Natural History Museum (8 Spring Street) will host Dr. Jeff Kaeli, of Woods Hole...

Dam damage can’t stop the Rochester Memorial Day Boat Race

ROCHESTER — Images of dry spots after dam damage in the area where the Memorial Day Boat Race is held had racers worried on...

The Garden Groomers are back

MATTAPOISETT — Sunshine, salt air and harbor views — who knew that weeding could be so delightful? The Mattapoisett Land...

Learn about sculpting Elizabeth Taber’s statue

MARION — New Bedford artist Eric Durant will speak about his process of depicting Elizabeth Taber for an upcoming statue of...

Mattapoisett celebrates the service of slain warriors, known and unknown

MATTAPOISETT — Veterans, their families, lawmakers, Selectmen, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and their families gathered to...

Photos and video: Rochester Memorial Day Parade

ROCHESTER — Selectmen, the Rochester Memorial School band, Rochester Cub Scouts pack 30 and Scout BSA Troop 31 and Girl...

Elizabeth Taber Library officially opens new entrance

MARION — When handling a library entrance redesign project, most Library Board Presidents don’t have to worry about where to...

Marion celebrates servicmembers, remembers sacrifice

MARION — Marion resident and Massachusetts Air National Guard Captain Andrew Bonney and the Selectmen held a ceremony to...

Summer lighthouse tours scheduled for Ned’s Point

MATTAPOISETT — The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 63 will offer tours of Ned’s Point lighthouse this summer from June...

Mattapoisett Fire Department helps with capsized boat

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Fire Department and Harbormaster helped pump out and remove an overturned boat from the...

Lands Trust to hold annual meeting, lecture

MARION — The Sippican Lands Trust (SLT) will host its 2019 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Marion...

Marion wins Tree City award

MARION — The Town has been selected to receive a Tree City Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation. The Tree City...

Join a summer reading program or book group at the Rochester Library

ROCHESTER — The Friends of Plumb Library will hold a Tent Sale on Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Rochester...

Senate adds to Marion COA budget

MARION — A Senate amendment in the budget has awarded Marion and several other area Councils on Aging with $10,000. Senator...

Photos: Volunteers ready cemeteries for Memorial Day

MARION — The Marion Recreation department organized a group of volunteers to plant flowers at veterans’ graves in...

Art on wheels rolls into Mattapoisett

MATTAPOISETT— The New Bedford Art Museum’s Art Mobile visited the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, and held a free event...

Mattapoisett Council on Aging to host talk on historic philanthropist

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Council on Aging will host a presentation on Henry Huttleston Rogers, who gave the money to...

Last Open Table for the season

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Congregational Church will host its next Open Table, and last dinner until September 13, on...

Mattapoisett Memorial Day service

MATTAPOISETT — The Florence Eastman American Legion Post 280 will host a Memorial Day program on May 27 at 1:30 p.m. The...

Mattapoisett approves school renovations, fire station in town vote

MATTAPOISETT — Town voters showed their support for the Fire Department and Old Rochester Regional High School in a May 21...

Renovations approved for Marion Senior Center

MARION — Anyone who knows Marion Recreation Director Jody Dickerson and Marion Council on Aging (COA) Director Karen Gregory...

Marion Selectmen raise water rates

MARION — A proposal at the last Board of Selectmen meeting to generate additional revenue by opting to not limit summer...

Making yoga more diverse

MATTAPOISETT — Project Wheel House, a New Bedford organization dedicated to bringing the benefits of yoga to people of all...

Learn to repair stone walls

MARION — The Sippican Lands Trust and the Mattapoisett Land Trust will team up to teach a workshop on repairing stone walls...

Rochester Town Meeting OKs renovations, rejects press box

ROCHESTER — Cheers and applause erupted at Rochester Memorial School, when the Town Moderator announced that a motion to...

Decision on Marion cul-de-sac project postponed

MARION — Planning Board members debated how to prevent standing water at a housing project, but waiting for an engineer to...

Town Meeting denies clerk more pay, decides to vote on appointed position

ROCHESTER — Town Meeting voters turned down an amendment proposed on the floor that would have increased the Town Clerk’s...

Rochester approves marijuana regulations at Town Meeting

ROCHESTER — Town Meeting voters quickly approved two marijuana-related articles on May 20 to control the sales and use of...

Rochester approves next step in housing development, energy saving measure

ROCHESTER — Voters at Town Meeting approved a special district that would allow a proposed housing development project to...

Marion departments to hold town party in August

MARION — The Marion Firefighters Association will work with the Marion Harbormaster Department to host the Annual Marion...

Buzzards Bay Coalition goes “Crazy about Crabs”

MATTAPOISETT — The Buzzards Bay Coalition will visit Mattapoisett’s Shining Tides Beach as part of a women’s exploration...

Look for birds at Nasketucket

MATTAPOISETT — The Buzzards Bay Coalition will hold a Saturday morning walk to look and listen for songbirds, shorebirds,...

Enjoy pancakes for charity

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Lions Club is teaming up with Oxford Creamery to host a June 2 pancake breakfast. The...

Show patriotism, compete for places at Fourth of July parade

MARION — The Annual Marion Fourth of July Parade will begin on July 4 at 9 a.m., offering participants the chance to...

Enter a triathlon with the Mattapoisett Lions

MATTAPOISETT — The Lions Club will host a triathlon on July 14 starting at the Town Beach at 8 a.m. Sign in will start at 7...

Rochester Historical Society to host reunion

ROCHESTER — The Historical Society is sponsoring a Fiftieth Anniversary and Reunion celebration on Saturday, September 14 at...

Dogs at The Bogs for a Waggin’ Walk

MATTAPOISETT — As Rebecca Vasa, the Buzzards Bay Coalition Outdoor Exploration Manager, introduced the May 19 Waggin’ Walks...

Bikers get a sugar rush on this ride

MATTAPOISETT — Some 360 riders travelled 9,914 miles in Mattapoisett and surrounding towns, visiting ice cream shops in a...

Show of support for new Rochester recycling facility

ROCHESTER — State and local government officials and other area businesses gathered to support the new Zero Waste Solutions...

Marion voters approve ORR renovations, outsourcing trash pickup

MARION — Voters on Friday approved tax increases to fund renovations at Old Rochester Regional High School and to outsource...

Supper and raffle to raise money for boat race

ROCHESTER — The Memorial Day Boat Race will hold a ham and bean supper and a raffle on Saturday May 25 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m...

Marion to host celebration for retiring, incoming Town Administrator

MARION — The town will host an Open House to wish retiring Town Administrator Paul Dawson well as he begins his retirement...

Rochester Senior Center notes

ROCHESTER — The Senior Center will host the Rochester Memorial School Jazz Band for a concert and BBQ luncheon on Friday May...

Mattapoisett Lions Club honors members

MATTPOISETT — The Lions Club took the chance to honor some of its own on May 8 with a dinner at the Inn on Shipyard Park...

Town House fixes, bike path approved at Town Meeting

MARION — Town Meeting voters spent time on the second night, May 14, debating how they should use Community Preservation...

Marion to move to appointed Town Clerk

MARION — After a debate on the merits of appointed and elected town clerks, Marion voters decided at the May 14 night of...

Marion residents reject vacant properties bylaw

MARION — At a second night of Town Meeting on May 14 voters rejected only one article, a proposed bylaw that would have...

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