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Peer tutoring program fights childhood illiteracy

Sara Duane helps Emmerson with a worksheet during a peer tutoring session at the Learning Loft. Photos by Grace Roche

ROCHESTER — Early Saturday morning, a pair of Old Rochester Regional High School students sit with their elementary school counterparts. Pencils scratch at printed-out worksheets, blue and red plastic…

Afterschool group gets outside to continue learning

Marianne Piche talks to members of the Marion Natural History Museum's afterschool group during a walk in Holmes Woods on Wednesday, April 8. Photo source: Elizabeth Leidhold

MARION — Learning doesn't stop when the last school bell rings for members of the Marion Natural History Museum's afterschool group. Kids learned about polinators and young…

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Marion native to run Boston Marathon in remembrance his father

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MARION — By the time he was 5 years old, Geoffrey Noonan had entered the world of running as he competed in the Marion Mile, a short series of races where kids ran a timed mile or half mile. When he got older, Noonan joined his high school’s cross...

Vivian Jones’s memory lives on through community fundraising

Classmates and friends surround Vivian Jones, center, at the June 2025 Kids Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon that raises money for cancer research and treatment. Photos source: Jennifer Jones.

ROCHESTER — After Vivian Jones was diagnosed with cancer in May 2024, she spent 219 nights at the Boston Children’s Hospital with her mother Jennifer Jones by her side. Jones said the hospital and Hole In the Wall Gang Camp — an organization that...

Middleboro teacher, outdoor educator promotes stewardship with Sippican Lands Trust

Alan Harris is the former president of the Sippican Lands Trust and an educator at Middleboro High School. Photos by Grace Roche

MARION — When Alan Harris isn’t in the classroom teaching about nature, he can be found on Sippican Lands Trust trails caring for nature and advocating for stewardship and connection. Harris has worked with the Sippican Lands Trust for over 30...

Squash takes Tabor Academy coach across the world

Moronta congratulates winning girls from the U13 division of the Beijing Open finals.

MARION — The game of squash has guided Guillermo Moronta’s life since fifth grade. His proficiency in the sport brought him to Tabor Academy, led him to enroll and play at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and connected him with many of the people...

Tri-Town duo put their cooking ‘chops’ to good use

Meg Albert, left, and Patty Nicholson make a combined 80 quarts of soup for Damien's Food Pantry each week. Photo by : Grace Roche

MARION — When the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — better known as SNAP — went unfunded for part of November 2025, two Tri-Town residents had just begun a food assistance program of their own. Meg Albert, of Marion, and Patty Nicholson,...

Marion teens prepare for mission trip serving youth in foster care system

The youth of Saint Gabriel's Episcopal Church held a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for their trip Saturday, Jan. 24. Photos by Grace Roche

MARION — While the youth of Saint Gabriel's Episcopal Church have gone on several trips to volunteer in communities in need, they haven’t gotten to serve people their own age. For each trip, Youth Director Wendy Reardon selects a few projects for...

Service project feeds families at Old Rochester Junior High

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MATTAPOISETT — Seventh-grader Andrew Cody rushes around a small room in his junior high school’s building. He’s busy scanning the barcodes of the dry goods packed into the space with a scanner connected to his computer. He cuts out stickers and...

Friends of Jack supports pediatric health around the South Coast

Jill Fearons, left, and Dr. Brian Sard, Chairman and Medical Director of Pediatrics at Southcoast Health, pose together after The Friends of Jack donated $11,529 to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford to purchase medical equipment. Photo source: Friends of Jack Foundation

MATTAPOISETT — Jill Fearons never left her son Jack’s side when he was admitted to Boston Children’s Hospital at 5 years old. Jack needed surgery to correct a brain malformation that can cause motor and cognitive dysfunction. As he was recovering...

‘Once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader’: Mattapoisett resident performs at Atlanta Falcons 60th anniversary

Botelho shakes her pom poms.

MATTAPOISETT — Elaine Botelho was on the Atlanta Falcons’ first cheerleading squad in 1966. The 78-year-old has lived in Mattapoisett since 2005 and is a mother, grandmother, teacher, gardener and former president of Mattapoisett Woman’s Club....

Run for a Santa Cause: Mattapoisett mom, teacher to host fundraiser run for MS

Pease and her 4 children visiting in the hospital, December 5, 2024, the day Pease was diagnosed with MS.

MATTAPOISETT — Mattapoisett mother and Fairhaven Middle School teacher Jennifer Pease was inspired by her MS diagnosis and daughter to organize a 5K Santa Stampede fun run to raise awareness of the disease for the first time this December. On...