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Tri-Town sees 8 new covid cases amid national uptick

The Tri-Town had eight new cases of covid in the week leading up to July 22, the most in a single week since late may. Of the eight, four cases came from Marion, two from Mattapoisett and two from Rochester, according to state covid data. The local...

Marion to host hazard mitigation information session

MARION — The Town is hosting a Zoom call to inform community members about its Hazard Mitigation Plan on Tuesday, July 27 at 6 p.m. Marion is working with the Woods Hole Group on the plan. Having a Hazard Mitigation Plan makes the Town eligible for...

Things to do: See music, take a bike tour

From a bingo hike to an open mic, there’s a lot to do in the Tri-Town this week. For more info on these and other activities, visit sippicanweektoday.com. Friday, July 23 Take a hike The Mattapoisett Free Public Library...

Mattapoisett Select Board weighs in on Police Chief arrest

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Select Board made a statement on the arrest of Mattapoisett Police Chief Mary Lyons who was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after a traffic stop on Saturday, July 17. Lyons has since been placed on...

Daring dogs: High-flying border collies soar at library event

MARION — The dog days of summer are here! A crowd formed around Elizabeth Taber Library on Tuesday, July 20 as Mike Piazza’s high-flying border collies snatched speeding frisbees from the air for all to see. Piazza brought with him two dogs, Mojo...

Marion approves provisional entertainment license for Mary Celeste

MARION — The Select Board granted the Mary Celeste Whiskey and Wine Library a provisional entertainment license on July 20. The board closed a public hearing that was continued from its June 22, where residents brought up concerns about the...

Learn about Mattapoisett’s Select Board candidates

MATTAPOISETT — Mattapoisett’s Special Town Election to fill the Select Board seat left open by the death of John DeCosta in April is on July 27. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m at Old Hammondtown School. Two candidates, Kenneth Wilbur and...

‘Cedar Beach’ to run for six dates in August

MARION — The Marion Art Center has six show dates slated for the August production of “Cedar Beach,” written by Mark Howland and and directed by John Heavey. The play is about family and a family-owned property. Spanning several generations that...

Open auditions for art center play ‘Steel Magnolias’

MARION — The Marion Art Center will host open auditions for all roles in the upcoming production of “Steel Magnolias,” written by Robert Harling and directed by Jennifer Palmer. Auditions will be Aug. 5 from 5 to 6 p.m. and Aug. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1...

Marion Town House main entrance open to public

MARION — The Town House main entrance is now open to the public. Following renovations the entrance is now fully handicap accessible. The Town of Marion thanks the Marion Facilities Department and Sippican Historical Society for their work and...

Coast Guard Auxiliary to offer free vessel safety checks

MATTAPOISETT — The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 013-06-05 will offer free vessel safety inspections and safe boating information on July 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m at Town Wharf. Some of the items to be checked include proper display...

Beer, oysters at Great Community Picnic on Aug. 5

MATTAPOISETT — The Great Community Picnic returns for its fifth year at Munro Preserve, adjacent to the Town Wharf on Aug. 5. Mattapoisett Land Trust and Mattapoisett Museum, the event hosts, will provide tables, chairs, tablecloths, and lighting...

Mattapoisett Road Race shortened, rescheduled for August

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Road Race will be held on Aug. 21, instead of its usual July 4 date this year. The race will begin at 9 a.m., and will support college-bound Old Rochester Regional High School recent graduates. The race is typically...

Library, women’s club to host garden lecture

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Free Public Library and Mattapoisett Women’s Club are collaborating to host a lecture by John Forti, author of “The Heirloom Gardener.” Forti will hold a lecture called “Heirloom and Native Plants – A Living History”...

Marion COA friends to host community center fundraiser

MARION — The Friends of the Marion Council on Aging will host “An Evening on Sippican Harbor,” a celebration and fundraising event for the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center on Aug. 19 from 4 to 7 p.m.. The fundraiser will support the final phase...

Rochester looks to hire new town planner

ROCHESTER — The town settled on a top candidate for the position of town planner at a July 19 Selectmen’s meeting, choosing to enter contract negotiations with Kaitlin Young. “I think she’s a good fit for the town of Rochester,” Selectman Brad Morse...

Rochester appoints Tri-Town Against Racism director to School Committee

ROCHESTER — After a failure to elect a Rochester School Committee member in the May Town Election, a seven-person selection committee comprising the Selectmen and School Committee members appointed Jason Chisolm to the position on July 19. Chisholm...

Mattapoisett community comes together for Harbor Days

MATTAPOISETT — A small city of tents occupied Shipyard Park on July 17 and 18, as vendors and visitors returned to Mattapoisett Lions Club Harbor Days after the festival was cancelled last year due to covid. Events over the weekend included live...

What’s in there? Lions Club opens 50-year time capsule

MATTAPOISETT — An event 50 years in the making. At the end of a day of Mattapoisett Harbor Days festivities on July 17, King Lion Ross Kessler opened up a time capsule left under the Shipyard Park gazebo in 1971. The capsule was left at the...

Harbor Days painting event makes a splash

MATTAPOISETT — Harbor Days got a taste of Bob Ross-ian fun on Thursday, July 15 as Paint at Splash held an adult paint night under the big tent. “I just need to grow out my ‘fro,” quipped Painting Instructor Bridget Bannon. Participants who...

Girl Scouts lead Plumb Library kids’ event

ROCHESTER — Rochester Girl Scout Troop 62150 paid a visit to Plumb Library on Thursday, July 15 to lead a kids’ activity of their own design, complete with arts and crafts, music, nature and, of course, reading. Girl Scouts Abby Jacques, Allyson...

Three new covid cases in the Tri-Town

The Tri-Town had three new cases of covid in the week leading up to July 15, the most in a single week since the beginning of June, with one case coming from Marion and two from Rochester, according to state covid data. Despite the cases, all three...

Local novelist to speak at Mattapoisett Library

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Free Public Library will host a local author spotlight event with recently published novelist Kathleen Hickey on Tuesday, July 27 at 6:30 p.m. Hickey, a Mattapoisett resident and active community volunteer, wrote the...

Things to do: Travel back to the ‘70s, see high-flying pups

From Harbor Days to high-flying pups, there’s a lot to do in the Tri-Town this week. For more info on these and more events, go to sippicanweektoday.com. Thursday, July 15 Tails and tales with the Rochester Girl...

Illumination education: Woman’s Club fundraises scholarships with luminaria

MARION — Red, white and blue lights lined the streets of Marion on Independence Day weekend — and they did more than just look pretty. “Illuminate to Educate,” a Sippican Woman’s Club fundraiser, reached its goal to fund scholarships for 2022 Marion...

Tri-Town officials negotiate ORCTV agreement

The governing boards of the Tri-Town met jointly on Tuesday, July 13 to discuss the renegotiation of the contract between the towns and ORCTV, the local access channel that provides video coverage of town meetings and other events. The agreement...

Tri-Town officials mull over enrollment study

Bueller? As enrollment declines in the Old Rochester Regional School District, Tri-Town officials at a July 13 joint meeting of Marion and Mattapoisett’s Select Boards and Rochester’s Board of Selectmen called for an enrollment study on the OR high...

Audits, term lengths highlight Tri-Town meeting with OR district

Town and school officials are working toward revisions to a decades-old regional agreement with an eye on fall Town Meetings. Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester’s governing boards met with Old Rochester Regional School District Officials on July 13...

Sippican Lands Trust to host trip to Cuba

MARION — Intrepid travelers could sip their cuba libres in the land of Castro this November as the Sippican Lands Trust hosts a 8-day tour of the Carribean island nation. The trip — a joint venture organized by SLT and Cuba Up Close, a...

Mattapoisett Museum to host Harbor Days Weekend events

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Museum will be open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18 during Harbor Days Weekend. The Mattapoisett Women’s Club will be selling their summer-themed greeting cards on those days to raise money...

Marion eight-year-old to lead historical bike tour

MARION — Children ages 8-12 are invited to join Greta Agnew on July 26 at 4:30 p.m. for a kid's tour of Marion's most interesting and historic sites and buildings, hosted by the Sippican Historical Society. Eight-year-old Greta designed the tour...

Marion, Mattapoisett firefighters graduate from training

Marion and Mattapoisett are getting a few new firefighters. Three Marion firefighters, Derek Malouin, Jared English and Patrick Owen, and three Mattapoisett firefighers, Angelene Perry, Rebecca Longworth andEvan Grodzki, recently graduated from the...

Rochester Historical Society seeks donations

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Historical Society is looking for donations for its yard sale in August. The sale will be held at the Museum 355 County Rd. on August 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations to the sale may be dropped off on Fridays in July from...

NolanFest celebrates life of late OR student Nolan Gibbons

MARION — People young and old came out to Silvershell Beach in droves on Sunday, July 11 to celebrate the life of Nolan Gibbons at NolanFest, a music festival organized in honor of the late Old Rochester Regional High School student. Gibbons was a...

South coast black bear ‘BooBoo’ killed in van crash

MARION — BooBoo, the beloved black bear that has been spotted repeatedly along the south coast in recent weeks, died from its injuries after being struck by a van on I-195 two weeks ago, according to Bear Biologist Dave Wattles of Massachusetts...

More summer events coming up at Mattapoisett Library

The second half of the summer has begun and the Mattapoisett Free Public Library still has the events to keep you busy. There is still plenty of time to get the most out of the Adult and Teen Summer Reading Program and the Children’s Summer Reading...

Rochester has lone Tri-Town covid case

For the second straight week, only one new case of covid was reported in the Tri-Town, this time occurring in Rochester. Despite the case, all three towns remain “gray” on the state’s covid risk map, meaning each town has under 10 ongoing cases...

Alpacas, zebu visit the Elizabeth Taber Library

MARION — Parents, grandparents, and a herd of children turned out to see the animals at Elizabeth Taber Library on Thursday, July 8 where Pine Meadow Farms hosted a petting zoo. The event featured alpacas, tortoises, rabbits, goats, and zebus — a...

Mattapoisett Library holds screen printing workshop

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Free Public Library held a screen printing workshop for all ages on Wednesday, July 7. Michelle Skaar, the librarian who planned and led the event, said that screen printing is the kind of arts and crafts project she...

Things to do: Meet alpacas, make a mandala, and more

Alpacas, art shows and concerts are coming to the Tri-Town this week. For more information on these and other upcoming events, visit SippicanWeekToday.com. Thursday, July 8 Meet alpacas at the library The Elizabeth Taber Library will...

Silly songs, animal anthems at Mattapoisett Library

MATTAPOISETT — Davis and Bates, the story tale singing duo of Davis Bates and Roger Tinkell, sang silly songs and anthems about animals at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library on July 6. The duo entertained children and families alike with songs...

Solar array plans withdrawn after abutters speak out about project

MARION — Plans for a private solar array at 8 Quails Crossing were withdrawn, after abutters spoke out against the array at a June 21 Planning Board Meeting. The board accepted the withdrawal of plans at a July 6 meeting. The planned array was to be...

Fast food: Marion Planning Board approves food truck

MARION — The Planning Board approved a food truck for the parking lot of Tri-Town Barber Shop on July 6. The truck will sit in the business’ picnic area, which already has infrastructure for a food truck. Owner Shawn Lynch said he plans to have a...

Marion to adopt body art regulations

MARION — The Board of Health approved license fees and regulations for body art establishments at a July 6 meeting. The board set operating regulations for body art establishments, specifically for a beauty establishment that looks to add...

High-flying dogs, storytimes, book sales at the Elizabeth Taber Library

MARION — The Elizabeth Taber Library has a number of events lined up for July, from high-flying pups, to outdoor storytimes, to book sales. On July 17, The New Bedford Art Museum’s artMobile will visit the library from noon to 2 p.m., once again...

Concerts, tails and tales at Plumb Library this month

ROCHESTER — July 19 is the last day to register for "Tails and Tales,” the 2021 Summer Library Program at Plumb Library. Those who have already signed up can pick up the activity bag, which includes reading logs and stickers, at the library. Bring...

Mattapoisett Harbor Days Schedule

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Lions Club Harbor Days celebration is on, and will feature myriad activities from painting to concerts to feasts in Shipyard Park. The event schedule is as follows: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Strawberry...

Proposed $300 million state transportation bill would bring over $100,000 to Marion

MARION — A state-wide transportation infrastructure bill could bring over $100,000 to Marion for projects like improvements to roads, bridges, and sidewalks. The $300 million bill will include $200 million for renovations and repairs for roads and...

Water main break causes shutoff for some Marion residents

MARION — A water main broke on the morning of Tuesday, July 6, on route 6 between Point Road and Front Street, forcing Marion Water Division to cut off service to that portion of the road and the side streets branching from it until repairs can be...

‘Action is critical in this area’: Frederick Douglass discussion sheds light on local racism

MARION — A crowd filled the community center of the First Congregational Church of Marion on the morning of July 3 for a reading of Frederick Douglass’ 1852 address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” From wall to wall, community members and...

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