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Music nonprofit to host January event

MATTAPOISETT — The Friends of Old Rochester Music (FORM) presents “January Thaw,” Sunday, Jan. 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall. This informal afternoon will feature ORRHS and JHS student performances (instrumental and vocal),...

Marion School Committee talks initial budget decisions

MARION — Superintendent Douglas White said that staffing would remain consistent at Sippican School, and the 2021 budget would focus on reintroducing a social worker, a fund for computers, and literacy training. He presented a draft budget at a Jan...
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Students get serious engineering help for bottle rockets

MARION- On Jan. 6, Sippican School students in the Into Orbit space club, had the chance to launch homemade bottle rockets thanks to engineers from Lockheed Martin. The bottle rocket launch was a special opportunity for students thanks to Nate...

New ORR business club means business

Though the Old Rochester Regional High School DECA club is barely a year old, and just attended its first district level competition, the fledgeling club did quite well, with 17 of 33 students that attended qualifying for States. Ryu Hyuhn-Aoyama, a...

Mattapoisett School Committee reviews initial school budget

MATTAPOISETT — Superintendent Doug White presented the School Committee with an initial version of their fiscal year 2021 budget, which calls for a teacher reduction, but will include a boost in an unknown amount. White said that the school plans to...

Old Rochester Junior High School to host WinterFest

Old Rochester Regional Junior High School will once again host WinterFest on Jan. 31 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. WinterFest brings the Tri-Town grade 6 through 8 student community together for a fun-filled night of music, karaoke, games, jousting, bungee...

Mariner Youth Soccer to offer scholarships

The Mariner Youth Soccer Association will offer scholarships for former players in the spring of 2020. Scholarship opportunities will be available to high school seniors living in the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester, Fairhaven, and Acushnet...

Old Rochester Regional High School puts on holiday show

MATTAPOISETT — The Old Rochester Regional Chorus, Concert Band and a capella group performed a mix of holiday and non-holiday songs on Dec. 17, while the Jazz Band stuck to non-holiday tunes. Michael Barnicle directed the band and chorus. Jazz band...

Center School students dismissed in holiday style

MATTAPOISETT — Center School students received a cheerful send-off before leaving for their holiday vacation on Friday, Dec. 20, complete with stories, songs, and hallways lined with decorations. “The last hour of school [before vacation] can be...

Old Colony hosts robotics tournament

ROCHESTER — Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School Robotics Club hosted a mock tournament for neighboring schools on Dec. 12. The club set the arena up after school hours, before the participating teams arrived. The tournament is...

Mattapoisett Lions scholarships available to two students

MATTAPOISETT — The Lions Club will provide two $2,500 scholarships to graduating high school seniors or homeschooled students in Mattapoisett, Marion or Rochester. Applications for the scholarships are due March 21. The funds for the Peter Hodges...

Old Rochester students collect holiday toy donations

MATTAPOISETT — The ORRHS Community Service Learning Club recently sponsored a Toys For Tots Donation Drive which ended on Friday, Dec. 13 with a festive Stuff-A-Cruiser event. Police officers from Mattapoisett, Marion and Rochester were on hand to...

Tabor Academy club braves the cold to support Special Olympics

MARION — Tabor Academy students and faculty members, 65 of them, plunged into the water at Silvershell Beach on Dec. 15 in support of Special Olympics. “Don’t act cold, act like it’s summer,” Head of School John Quirk said to Tabor participants...

Old Rochester Regional names Student of the Month for November

Old Rochester Regional High School Faculty and Staff have selected senior Brandon Wilbur of Marion as Student of the Month for November. The Elks of Wareham and New Bedford Lodge No. 1548 sponsor the Elks Student of the Month and Student of the Year...

Old Rochester Regional High School reinstates language requirement

Old Rochester Regional High School graduates in the class of 2024 will have one more requirement to complete than their peers in the class of 2023: two years of a foreign language. The ORR School Committee voted on Dec. 11 to reinstate a former...

Old Colony to start collaboration with other vocational school

ROCHESTER — Aaron Polansky, who serves as the superintendent-director of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School and Kevin McCaskill, Executive Director at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School are fast friends. But they serve...

ORR district to use new format for Kindergarten report cards

All three Old Rochester Regional School District elementary schools will be releasing Kindergarten report cards in a different format this January. The school district currently has a different format for its Kindergarten report cards than for all...

Mattapoisett School Committee looks into nutrition

MATTAPOISETT — The school committee brought in Food Service Director Jill Henesey on Dec. 9 to talk about the school’s drink options after some parents raised concerns about sugary drinks. School committee member Shannon Finning said that she had...

Rochester School Commitee takes issue with MCAS results

ROCHESTER — Administrators presenting MCAS scores faced pretty significant pushback from school committee members on their definition of success on the test and future plans. In presenting the spring 2019 results on Dec. 5, Rochester Memorial School...

School committee honors ‘The Queen of Kindergarten’

MARION — The Marion School Committee recognized Karen Santos, also known as “The Queen of Kindergarten” for her 25-year career as a paraprofessional at Sippican School on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Santos plans to retire soon, around the time of her...

ORR speeds past Wareham in powderpuff football

WAREHAM — According to players on Wareham’s powderpuff football team, the keys to beating Old Rochester Regional High School on Nov. 27 would have been running the ball, good defense, and communicating, but ultimately the Bulldogs proved to be too...

Students get creative with Rubik’s Cubes

Rubik’s cubes can be a challenge, a puzzle or a frustration, but to students and teachers in the Sippican School Rubik Cube Mosaic Club they’re a tool to make art. The club started three years ago when librarian Jessica Barrett noticed other...

Gratitude, good food at Thanksgiving banquet

As it has for 29 years, Thanksgiving came early for 250 tri-town seniors who visited the Old Rochester Regional Junior High School to take part in its Thanksgiving Banquet on Nov. 24. The event brings together students, school staff, community...

ORR releases Term 1 Honor Roll

The term one honor roll for Old Rochester Regional High School is listed below: Torsten Brickley 9 High Honors Colin Carroll 9 High Honors Theodore Carroll 9 High Honors Brady Dias 9 High Honors Nicole Londergan 9 High Honors Drew MacGregor 9 High...

Photos: Spaghetti supper served at Sippican School

MARION — School officials served students and their families a spaghetti supper on Thursday, Nov. 14 at Sippican School, as part of the AnchOR Spaghetti Bingo Night. The meal was plated by volunteers and served by Old Rochester School District''s...

Three ORR students commended by national scholarship

MATTAPOISETT — Old Rochester Regional High School seniors Dante M. Cusolito, Ari Hartley, and Rachel M. Perry have been named “Commended Students” in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. Principal MIchael Devoll will present a letter of...

Student of the Month selected for work to stop overdoses

Junior Annouk Joseph of Mattapoisett is the Student of the Month for October for her work on overdose awareness, recovery and support. In the ten months since her brother's death, Joseph single-handedly organized a whole-school assembly on overdose...

School seeks parent input on superintendent search

The Old Rochester Regional School District is looking for input from parents as to what they are looking for in a superintendent and what they would like the superintendent to focus on. Superintendent Doug White announced in last June that he would...

Play bingo with candy

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Memorial School Parent Teacher Organization will hold a Candy Bar Bingo fundraising event on Friday, Nov. 15 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The evening event will take place in Rochester Memorial School’s cafeteria. Participants...

Listen to the Old Hammondtown School Band for Veterans Day

MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Veterans Day concert will be held at the Old Hammondtown School cafeteria at 11 a.m. under the direction of Conductor Christian Dow. This is Dow’s first year as conductor. When asked about the upcoming performance, he...

New behind the baton: an Old Hammondtown music teacher

MATTAPOISETT — As the Old Hammondtown School Band takes the stage at the Veteran’s Day ceremony on Monday, there will be a new conductor behind the baton, guiding the kids: the school’s new instrumental music teacher Christian Dow. Though he has...

Winners of 2019 Lions Peace Poster contest awarded

MATTAPOISETT — Owen Callahan, a sixth grade student at Old Hammondtown School, has taken the first step to becoming an internationally recognized artist by winning a local peace poster competition sponsored by the Mattapoisett Lions Club. Luke...

Tabor Academy to host dance, musical recitals

MARION — Tabor Academy Dance Coach and choreographer Kimberlee Williams took the school’s recent community reading book, “Into the Raging Sea” as inspiration for a dance number. Williams choreographed the number to honor the 33 crew members who lost...

Tabor Academy club to partner with Special Olympics

MARION — Tabor Academy will host Special Olympics athletes for activities on Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon to kick off a year of volunteering for the organization. Over 250 students, parents and teachers will join Tabor for a day of unified athletics...

Mattapoisett student gets Superintendent’s certificate

Mattapoisett student Mackenzie Riley has been awarded the Superintendent’s Certificate of Academic Excellence for the district. Superintendent Douglas White said at an Oct. 23 School Committee meeting that he awards the certificate based on three...

Photos: ORR students perform skits for homecoming pep rally

MATTAPOISETT — To celebrate homecoming weekend, Old Rochester Regional High School students performed in a variety of skits in a pep rally on Friday, Oct. 25. Skits were broken up by grade level for the homecoming pep rally, with each skit involving...

High school, junior high administrators pleased with MCAS results

Principals at Old Rochester Regional Junior and Senior High Schools made it clear on Oct. 23 that they were pleased with their schools’ Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System results in presentations to the Old Rochester Regional School...

School district names new assistant superintendent

Michael Nelson, the former director of student services at Old Rochester Regional School District was named assistant superintendent of teaching, learning and student services at a School Committee meeting on Oct. 23. Former Assistant Superintendent...