People

Marathoners go the distance for charity

MATTAPOISETT — After watching the Boston Marathon in person for the first time together in 2014, Old Rochester alumni Abby Hiller and Katrina Santos, both 29, are on their way to the coveted race as charity runners for the Boston Medical Center. “It...

Get to know Marion’s new State Senator Kelly Dooner

Newly elected State Senator Kelley Dooner began her first term this month, representing Marion and the rest of the Third Bristol and Plymouth District. Dooner, a Republican, took over from longtime Democrat Marc Pacheco, who served the district for...

Most Popular

• Old Colony freshman wrestles her way to the top and breaks school record

• Injured tree worker rescued by Plymouth County Rescue Team

• Multiple units respond to Marion two-acre brush fire

• Marion Doctor joins SHARE Foundation Board of Directors

• Mattapoisett Highway Department to seek $4 million from Town Meeting for facility improvements

• Patricia "Pat" McPartland, 74

• Select Board appoints new assistant harbormaster

• Tabor Academy Rowing Team safe after boat incident in Fall River Pond

• Old Rochester assistant superintendent featured on ‘Teacher to Teacher’ podcast

• Rochester author James Quaintance pens first of many books

Mattapoisett woman answers the spiritual call

MATTAPOISETT — When the Rev. Patricia Berry, of Mattapoisett, was 9 years old and attending Catholic Mass she wanted to be an altar server but was told she couldn’t be one because she was female. Years later, Berry is the first woman ordained in the...

Blind for years, Marion resident uses mindfulness to overcome

MARION — Two surgeons on either side of Deborah Greenslit’s face chiseled away at her eyeball. With her head, arms and legs strapped down, Greenslit was alert. The ophthalmologists removed, during the nearly two hour procedure, a white cataract from...

Marion boy raises $5,580 to fight hunger

MARION — Sippican Elementary School student Davin Alves was leaving a grocery store one day with his mother Kathy when he saw someone on the street asking for money. The moment stuck with Alves. He woke up the next day and said “there must be...

Mattapoisett native writes murder mystery taking place in hometown

MATTAPOISETT — Jack Matthews knew from the time he was in high school at Old Rochester in the early 1960s that he wanted to write a book. He just didn’t know what to write about. One day in 2012, Matthews was visiting his hometown of Mattapoisett...

Mark Sylvia

Mark Sylvia, Democrat: Fairhaven native Mark Sylvia has always had a passion for government and how it can do good things for people, he said. A father of two, Sylvia earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and master’s degree in...

Joe Pires

Joe Pires, Republican: Raised in Dartmouth and a Rochester resident for more than 20 years, Joe Pires is running to protect the area’s standard of living and quality of life, he said. A father of three, Pires is a member of the Old...