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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...
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Student of the Month selected for overdose advocacy

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...

Marion School Committee, administrators react to MCAS scores

MARION — When it comes to Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System testing, Sippican School is holding its own and solidly better than the state, but looking for ways to push students to the next level, Old Rochester Regional Superintendent...

Mattapoisett student commended by National Merit Scholarship Program

DARTMOUTH — Bishop Stang student Kathleen Downey, of Mattapoisett, has been commended by the National Merit Scholarship Program for her performance on the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. A total of about 34,000...

Mattapoisett School Committee reflects on MCAS achievement

MATTAPOISETT — In light of recent achievement and recognition from the state, Assistant Principal at both Center School and Old Hammondtown School Kevin Tavares gave a presentation on Mattapoisett students’ strong performance on the 2019 MCAS to the...

Brendan Stack recognized as the Elks Student of the Month

Senior Brendan Stack of Rochester was selected as the Elks’ Student of the Month by the Old Rochester Regional High School faculty and staff. Staff members say that Stack is a well-rounded student. He is a leader in the classroom, on the athletic...

Local educators inducted into international society

Four local educators were recently inducted into the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an honor society for women. There are more than 90,000 members worldwide, who have been chosen for their excellence in an academic field. Stephanie Cyr, a...

Robots take over Old Hammondtown classroom

MATTAPOISETT — Any unsuspecting passerby who wandered into the computer lab at Old Hammondtown School between the hours of 9 and 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 4 might have taken a robot to the feet. For the third year, Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical...

Rochester School Committee talks solar energy and LED lights

ROCHESTER — Two light-related projects for Rochester Memorial School have hit a bit of a cloudy patch. At an Oct. 3 meeting, Superintendent Doug White gave an update on proposed plans to install LED lighting at the elementary school and a solar...

Old Colony on par with peers on MCAS scores

ROCHESTER — Old Colony showed itself to be very on-par with other vocational and technical high schools, which serve as its peers and with the state where state data was available for MCAS exams. The school’s tenth graders were the only ones to take...

Middle schoolers celebrate ‘Boosterbash’ for fundraising success

MATTAPOISETT — Students at Old Rochester Regional Junior High School took a break from classes on Thursday, Sept. 26 to get outside and enjoy the sunny weather, music, a variety of inflatable games and obstacle courses, and even got to see their...

Tri-town scores for MCAS high, Mattapoisett recognized by state

Though all schools in the Old Rochester Regional School District surpassed state averages on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, Mattapoisett did particularly well, earning a good word from the state in a fact sheet on the results for...

Rochester Memorial celebrates summer reading participants

ROCHESTER — Though students at Rochester Memorial School are almost a month into school, summer reading efforts are still paying off for students who completed the program, as they got posters, a book, a round of applause from their classmates and...

Sippican School welcomes new library pets

MARION — Sippican School Librarian Jessica Barrett has welcomed two new guests into her library, but unlike her students, they are nocturnal, have shells, and live in a tank. Barrett got the idea to adopt a library pet over the summer after seeing...

Old Rochester Regional plans for club fee increase

Starting in October, Old Rochester Regional High School will impose a $100 activities fee to participate in some of its clubs. Principal Mike Devoll told the Old Rochester Regional District School Committee at a Sept. 11 meeting that the change...

ORR hits snag with solar project

The Old Rochester Regional District School Committee is considering a 20 year solar contract for the high school parking lot, but it hit a major snag: apparently it can’t sign a lease for that long. “Under statue, a regional school district cannot...

Community groups feel pinch from rising rental fees

When the Old Rochester Regional Travel Basketball Association got a rental bill from the Old Rochester Regional School District, it found the cost had gone up by more than $10,000 from last school year. The organization’s director, Greg Yeomans, and...

Solar array proposed for Rochester Memorial School

ROCHESTER — Matt Shortsleeve, of the Hopkinton-based Solect Energy, proposed a 300 kilowatt rooftop solar array for Rochester Memorial School to the Rochester School Committee on Thursday, Sept. 5. According to Shortsleeve, the proposed array could...

Busing contract for Bristol Agricultural comes in higher than expected

MARION — The contract to bus students to Bristol Agricultural High School has come out for more than expected, leaving school and town administrators working together to find additional funds. This summer, the school district went out to bid for...

Marion School Committee takes in the new this year

MARION — The Sippican School Committee was a little more active than usual at its first meeting of the year, taking a tour of the school and meeting with new staff members. Eugene Jones, the facilities director for the district, led the school...

Photos: Old Rochester Regional High School holds open house

Parents visited Old Rochester Regional High School on Sept. 3 for an Open House night. Marisa Vital, program manager for the Southeast Tobacco-Free Community Partnership, started off the evening by presenting on the latest trends and dangers...

Junior High School plans new fundraiser

Old Rochester Junior High School will host a “booster bash” this month with the goal of raising $12,000 for student activities. The two-week fundraising campaign will kick off with a Pep Rally on Friday, Sept. 6. Through the campaign students will...

Old Rochester Superintendant announces June retirement

The Old Rochester Regional District School Committee and the Massachusetts School Superintendency Union #55 (which is made from the school committees in all three tri-town towns) met Aug. 28 for a rare meeting with a single purpose: to start the...

Tabor prepares for accreditation, athletics with new year

MARION — Tabor Academy will open its doors on Sept. 3 to new and returning students from 26 states and 21 countries from around the world. Seventeen new faculty have joined the community, as well. Over the summer tennis courts have been resurfaced,...

ORR freshmen get a jump start on school

When Old Rochester Regional Principal Michael Devoll wanted to show incoming freshmen that they could be and do a whole host of things outside the classroom, his best resource was his current students. At an Aug. 23 Freshmen Orientation the...