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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 Taber Library. Elizabeth Sherry, the Library Director, will give a brief overview of the library’s services and programs,...

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 level by not only helping seniors in times of crisis, but also getting to know them at other times too. On May 23 the Marion...

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 Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to speak about discovering the San Jose shipwreck. The three-century-old San Jose was a 62-gun...

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 social media. But the dry ponds didn’t stop the May 27 race; they only added another stop for racers to carry boat This year...

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 the Marion benefactress that will be placed in Bicentennial Park on June 18. At 5:30 p.m. Durant will speak at the Marion Art...

The Garden Groomers are back

MATTAPOISETT — Sunshine, salt air and harbor views — who knew that weeding could be so delightful? The Mattapoisett Land Trust’s Garden Groomers meet at Munro Preserve (just west of the Town Wharves) every Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. to pull weeds...

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 celebrate Memorial Day on May 27 with a ceremonial procession between Center School, the the memorials at the library and Town...

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 Scouts all participated in a Memorial Day Parade on May 26. Madeline Dugas read the Governor’s Memorial Day Proclamation for...

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 find a granite cat. Jay Pateakos, however, did, for a renovation project on the Elizabeth Taber Library that included new...

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