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Marion Council on Aging to offer Thanksgiving food baskets for those in need

MARION — The Marion Council on Aging will be offering Thanksgiving baskets to those who need assistance during the pandemic. The COA will be distributing them on Friday, Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center, 465...

Families trick-or-treat around Tri-Town for Halloween

Despite covid, families in Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester found ways to have fun this Halloween. Events throughout the weekend allowed Tri-Town families to participate in Halloween festivities while maintaining social distance and safety. On Oct...

Old Rochester District working through logistics of winter sports

Winter sports are on track to return after fall sports were cancelled by the South Coast Conference, but guidelines for winter sports are still “very much up in the air,” according to Old Rochester Regional School District Athletic Director Bill...

Tabor alum, foundation founder Travis Roy, dies at 45

MARION — Travis Roy, a Tabor Academy graduate who turned a quadriplegic college hockey injury into a foundation that has helped spinal cord injury survivors, died at 45 on Oct. 29. In 1995, Roy was starting his college hockey career as a freshman...

Mattapoisett shifts down to yellow on state covid map

Mattapoisett recovered to yellow status on the state covid map after a week as a red community. The state covid map color codes municipalities by their incidence rate, or rate of cases per capita over a two week period. Red communities have the most...

Take a guided tour Hoff Property Parcels with the Sippican Lands Trust

Sippican Lands Trust is hosting a tour of the Hoff Property Sunday, Nov. 1st at 1 p.m. Those interested in learning more about this unique property and want to take a tour of what it will take to conserve this land, can sign up for a guided tour...

ORRHS students commended by National Merit Scholarship Program

Old Rochester Regional High School announced four of its students received commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program on Oct. 29. Alexander Craig, Parker Simpson, Evan Smith, and Emma Vivino have been named commended students by the...

Wareham hopes to operate transfer station while staying in waste district

A contentious waste district meeting will be followed up by another next week as members were unclear on how Wareham could continue to operate the Rte. 28 transfer station after January 1. Wareham’s Town Administrator Derek Sullivan attended the...

Read the Oct. 29 ‘paper’ online

The Oct. 29 eEdition of Sippican Week is live on our site. It looks exactly the same as if you were reading it in print. Physical copies are still available wherever you would normally find Sippican Week in the Tri-Town. Enjoy!

Mattapoisett Public Health Nurses say town likely to stay red

MATTAPOISETT — Public Health Nurses Emily Field and Amanda Stone said the town will likely remain designated as a “red” community for another week at an Oct. 28 Board of Health meeting, “with the hope that next week there are no new cases and we can...

Buses won’t take backseat in Rochester development talks

ROCHESTER — As planning moves forward for a 208 unit apartment complex at the corner of Cranberry Highway and Route 28, Steen Realty and Development Corporation came before the Rochester Planning Board to work out a solution for school bus drop offs...

Mattapoisett Town Administrator gives covid update

MATTAPOISETT — Town Administrator Michael Lorenco announced changes to Town Hall hours after Mattapoisett was classified as a “red” community on the state covid map at a Board of Selectmen meeting on Oct. 27. Lorenco said that the Mattapoisett Free...

Mattapoisett to skip Fall Town Meeting

MATTAPOISETT — The Board of Selectmen decided to forgo a Fall Town Meeting after Mattapoisett was designated as a be a high-risk community on the state covid data map. “If we’re in the red zone, how are we going to hold a town meeting right now?”...

Town Clerks report record numbers for Tri-Town early voting

As the Nov. 3 election approaches, residents in Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester have come out in full force to vote early. “I can tell you from my experience that the percentage is way up,” Rochester Town Clerk Paul Dawson said. He said that 47%...

Sippican Women’s Club commemorates 100 years of women’s right to vote

MARION — Outside the Sippican Woman's Club on Front Street, there’s a banner and wreath commemorating 100 years of women’s right to vote. Unbeknownst to some, the suffragette movement of the early 1900s is a part of the history of the club. In 1915...

Tempers flare over in-person learning plan at second Mattapoisett School Committee Meeting

MATTAPOISETT — Tensions from an Oct. 22 special Mattapoisett School Committee meeting spilled over into a regularly-scheduled meeting on Oct. 26, where parents called once again for a plan to return the town’s youngest students to full in-person...

Rochester Historical Society details the town’s haunted history

The writer of this piece, Connie Eshbach, is the vice president of the Rochester Historical Society. This is part of a series of Rochester history briefs. For people living in the 1600's and 1700's, the idea of encounters with all manner of...

Joseph H. Plumb library to reopen Oct. 26

Starting Monday, Oct. 26 at 1 p.m, the Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library in Rochester will be reopening to the public by appointment for browsing and computer use only. Appointments are for 30 minutes each, and a maximum of 10 people can be in the...

Sign up for fall programs at Marion Art Center

The Marion Art Center has added a second fall session of “Art in the Afternoon” for ages 7-10. The Children’s Art Lab class runs Fridays from 3:00-4:00pm in the MAC Studio. The four-class session will run on Nov. 6, 13, 20, and Dec. 4. Cost is $80...

Do a Halloween costume photoshoot and more at Marion Art Center

The annual Halloween parade won’t happen as it normally does due to the pandemic. However, the Marion Art Center witches have not given up on providing the community with some much-needed Halloween fun. The MAC encourages kids to send in their own...

Marion Brownies learn survival skills at Camp Hadley

MARION — Brownies from Marion Girl Scouts Troop 67047 spent the day at Camp Hadley on Oct. 24 to learn outdoor survival skills and see each other in person (socially distanced of course.) The Brownies laid out their towels around a fire pit made...

Sign up to watch early voting ballot counting in Marion

MARION — The Town of Marion will be opening and depositing early voted ballots received as late as 11:59 PM Sunday November 1, 2020 on Monday November 2 at 8:30 AM in the Town Clerk’s Office at 2 Spring Street. The Town Clerk’s office requests that...

Rochester 10-year-old donates $700 worth of diverse books to school

ROCHESTER — Stop us if you’ve heard this one — how does a fourth grader from Rochester turn greens from the ground into hundreds of greens to purchase racially diverse books for his school library? Well, ‘lettuce’ tell you. Kelcey Roberston donated...

Opinion: Marion Selectmen unhappy about water rates too

Nobody is happy with their most recent water and sewer bills. The members of your Select Board are really not happy. Massachusetts requires us to submit an annual balanced budget each Spring for our Sewer and Water Enterprise Funds and for the...

Create a paper dragon with the Mattapoisett Free Public Library

MATTAPOISETT — Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) Projects To Go brings will offer projects related to aeronautics, or the study of flight, this November. STEAM Projects To Go are created for busy teens, grades 6 to 12, who...

Parting Ways offers half-off sale

Parting Ways Consignment, a local nonprofit, is holding a store-wide half-off discount sale in an effort to help its community save money. The sale will run for one week beginning Oct. 31st. Learn more at PartingWaysConsignment.com

Trunk or treat events keep Halloween ‘spirit’ alive

Normally, the scariest parts of Halloween are things like vampires, witches and ghosts. But this year, coronavirus was by far the most frightening part of the holiday. To fend off the virus, towns adapted their halloween traditions to be virus-...

Mattapoisett kids learn about nature via video game

MATTAPOISETT — Racoons building a village on an island, collecting bugs to donate to a museum run by an owl, and using the sales of turnips as a stock market sounds like a nonsensical video game idea. But at a virtual children’s event from the...

Rochester receives $33,600 covid aid check from Plymouth County

ROCHESTER — Plymouth County Treasurer Thomas O’Brien presented the town of Rochester with a check on Oct. 23 for $33,602.20 as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funding that the county received after covid shutdowns began...

Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company’s hundred year history

All throughout its 121 year history , Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company has been one of the South Coast’s key businesses. At a talk Thursday night, Wendy Goodwin, president of the Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company, walked listeners through the history of...

State covid data: Rochester, Mattapoisett now in red, Marion in gray

Mattapoisett and Rochester are now in the red with eight cases each on the state’s map of coronavirus data released on Oct. 22. Meanwhile, Marion has remained in the gray with less than five cases. Municipalities are categorized by the state into...

Bay scallop season opening in Mattapoisett

MATTAPOISETT — Shellfishing for bay scallops is now open in certain parts of the waters in Mattapoisett and will expand to more areas starting Nov. 1 On Oct. 15, the outer Mattapoisett Harbor opened for commercial and recreational fishing, and the...

Flu shots available for Mattapoisett homebound residents

MATTAPOISETT — The town is offering residents that are homebound or with limited mobility the option to get a flu shot administered at their home for no charge. To schedule an at-home appointment, call Public Health Nurse Emily Field at 508-758-4118...

Coastline Elderly Services offers heat and electric bill aid

Coastline Elderly Services, Inc. is offering assistance to elders in Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester who need help with paying the heat or electric bills. The funds will pay for gas, electric, propane, wood, or other heating needs to help reduce...

Read the Oct. 22 ‘paper’ online

The Oct. 22 eEdition of Sippican Week is live on our site. It looks exactly the same as if you were reading it in print. Physical copies are still available wherever you would normally find Sippican Week in the Tri-Town. Enjoy!

Warrant set for Marion Special Town Meeting

MARION — Residents will vote on nine articles in the upcoming Special Town Meeting at Old Rochester High School auditorium on Nov. 5 at 6:45 p.m. The warrant has been posted on the town’s website and has been mailed to residents. It includes...

Water rates come into question at Selectmen’s meeting

MARION — What started out as a nearly $4,000 water abatement denial at an Oct. 20 Selectmen’s meeting, turned into a discussion of the town’s costly water and sewer projects. Resident Bernard Greenwood pleaded his case to the Board that he shouldn’t...

Revoked aquaculture permits transfer possible

MARION — After resident Shea Doonan’s aquaculture permits were revoked on Sept. 8, he was mandated to remove his equipment from his farms within 60 days. If not, the Harbormaster’s office would come in and remove it for him. But before either...

Rochester Select Board sign Town Meeting warrant

ROCHESTER — The Board of Selectmen signed the warrant for the Nov. 16 Special Town Meeting with the Finance and Capital Planning committees at an Oct. 19 meeting that includes capital purchases of equipment for different departments. Voters will...

Residents voice concerns over Randall Lane solar array

MATTAPOISETT — Abutters, historical commission members, engineers and residents came out virtually for what was the first of multiple public hearings on a proposed solar array at the end of Randall Lane on Oct. 13. One main concern by many wasn’t...

Joseph H. Plumb Library to reopen

ROCHESTER — The Joseph H. Plumb Library will reopen on Oct. 26, Library Director Gail Robers said at an Oct. 19 Board of Selectmen meeting. “We are at long last ready to reopen,” Roberts said. And the library will implement some new programs soon...

Marion thanks Sippican Historical Society for Town House Donations

MARION — Following the Elizabeth Taber statue ceremony on Oct. 17, the Board of Selectmen thanked the Sippican Historical Society for its donations to the town house renovations. Donations from the Sippican Historical Society totaled over half a...

How Halloween is being celebrated in the Tri-Town

Boo! It’s getting close to Halloween, and covid is still here. While normal Tri-Town holiday events have been called off, there are still ways for kids to get out and celebrate safely. "We are urging residents to remain vigilant if they choose to...

Hundreds in Tri-Town turn out to vote early

Residents from the Tri-Town turned up in droves to the Marion Town House, Mattapoisett Town Hall and Rochester Senior Center over the first weekend of early voting in Massachusetts. Town clerks saw a steady stream of over 200 residents on Oct. 17,...

Rochester Senior Center suspends certain activities for covid

In an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus, the Rochester Senior Center has temporarily suspended the following activities: Dental care, French Culture and Conversation, Step & Stretch, and Yoga. Although the Senior Center remains closed to...

Gillis-Lazzaro engagement announcement

Mrs. Lynne Gillis of Mattapoisett and Fort Lauderdale, Florida is pleased to announce the engagement of her daughter Elizabeth (of the late Attorney Paul J. Gillis) to Pete Lazzaro, son of Barbara and John Lazzaro of Coral Springs, Florida...

Bringing olive oil to Marion, ‘Ripe from the Vine’

MARION — Bottles nestled neatly on hardwood shelves, a tasting bar, and gift baskets complete with breads from Forno Bakery . Sounds like a winery, right? But Ripe from the Vine on 119 Wareham Road isn’t a winery, it’s a new specialty olive oil and...

Elizabeth Taber comes home to crowds, speeches

MARION — One of Marion’s most cherished figures is now immortalized in Bicentennial Park. The new Elizabeth Taber statue was unveiled on Oct. 17 at a dedication complete with speeches, cupcakes and dozens of Marion residents. The statue was...

Nick’s Pizza receives alcohol license suspension, two day shutdown

MATTAPOISETT — The Board of Selectmen suspended Nick’s Homemade Pizza House’s wine and malt license for seven days, and ordered a shutdown of the restaurant for two days at a hearing on Oct. 16 over mask compliance issues. The wine and malt...

1650s drawing sells for $514,000 at Marion art auction

MARION — Lot 389 at Marion Antique Auction’s Oct. 10 auction was a 1652 hand drawing of Dutch Army General and Navy Admiral Maarten Tromp by Dutch painter Jan Lievens. Frank McNamee, co-owner of Marion Antique Shop, figured it would sell for $80,000...

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