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Old Rochester Regional names two Students of the Month

Old Rochester Regional has honored two Students of the Month: Zoe Kelley and Will Gauvin. Kelley is the Student of the Month for May. She is from Marion. Gauvin is the Student of the Month for April. He is from Mattapoisett. The Elks of Wareham and...

Marion has new write-in candidate for ORR School Committee

To the Editor: I have written my name in as a school board member for ORR because I would like to know the rest of the story!!! I would like to know more about what we are teaching and how we are teaching the ones who will soon be taking over our...
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Sippican School honors departing community members

MARION — In keeping with a district tradition, the School Committee, school administrators and the Marion Teachers Association presented retiring teachers, administrators and school committee members with books which will be added to Sippican School...

Marion, Tabor Academy in talks on reopening school in the fall

MARION — Public Health Nurse Kathy Downey has started talking with Julie Przybyszewski, director of Tabor Academy’s heath services about how to reopen campus in the late August or September. Downey said at a June 2 Board of Health meeting the school...

Cuddly donkeys cheer up Sippican School students

MARION — She may need a boat to get home, but Sippican School instrumental teacher Hannah Moore can still use her two donkeys, Nancy and Peggy, to cheer up students from afar on Ram Island in Sippican Harbor. While the building is closed through the...

Rochester Council on Aging honors graduates with video

ROCHESTER — High school seniors in Rochester won’t be able to celebrate their graduation in June, so the seniors of the town’s Council on Aging released a video that pays tribute to the class. Different members of the council’s board of directors...

Sippican School searching for new assistant principal

MARION — Sippican School is searching for a new Assistant Principal, as Kyle Letendre, who started in the role this year, will return to Old Hammondtown school at the end of the year. Sippican School principal Marla Sirois brought the transition up...

ORR turns textbook return into a chance to connect

The act of returning textbooks and picking up yearbooks is a simple one, but staff at Old Rochester Regional High School turned it into a chance to connect with seniors they haven’t been able to see in class. “We miss seniors so much. This is a way...

Press box at ORR high school now fully funded

At a May 27 Old Rochester Regional School Committee meeting, Superintendent Doug White said a project to reinstall a press box at the high school is now fully funded. The project has been funded by the Old Rochester Regional Athletic Booster Club...

ORR outlines more details on senior events.

Old Rochester Regional High School Principal Michael Devoll revealed to the ORR School Committee more details on senior events at a May 27 meeting. Devoll said he had tried to make unprecedented decisions “grounded what is right for our students and...

Auditor recommends changes to ORR district financial practices

A financial auditor called the Old Rochester Regional School District “a poor district” and said it has to work out deficit, credit and long-term financial management issues. Tony Roselli, of Roselli Clark and Associates found a $149,701 deficit...

Old Colony to hold July graduation ceremony

ROCHESTER — Though they may not be able to celebrate their graduation as they normally would in early June, seniors at Old Colony will be honored the next month during their senior week, ending with graduation on July 19. On July 13, seniors will...

Old Rochester Regional finalizes superintendent contract

Michael Nelson will be the next superintendent of schools for the Old Rochester Regional School District after the Joint School Committee voted May 18 to approve his $172,000 contract. The district made an offer to Nelson on March 5 after...

New Kindergarten process disrupted by pandemic

MARION — Doreen Lopes, the Old Rochester Regional Early Childhood Coordinator, worked with teachers to try to think of everything in designing a new transition program to Kindergarten earlier this year. Everything except for a pandemic. The new...

Book fairies, virtual spirit week cheer up students at Sippican School

MARION — Though a pandemic is keeping teachers and students at Sippican School physically apart, administrators are working hard to give back to students and the Marion community, and to keep students and teachers connected through optional Zoom...

ORR considers certification for early childhood program

MARION — School Committee members got some updates on the district’s youngest learners at a May 20 meeting, including a move toward certification for the high school pre-school program. Assistant Superintendent Michael Nelson is working the...

Old Colony vocational teachers shift gears for online learning

At Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School, the mechanic shop is closed, the pulses of light in the welding shop can’t be seen, and patrons aren’t waiting for a haircut. But that doesn’t mean students aren’t learning the trades that...

Tabor Academy to celebrate seniors virtually

Although the campus is closed, Tabor Academy will congratulate its 134 seniors from 15 states and 11 countries around the world in an online virtual gathering on May 29 at 10 a.m. Students will join with Tabor faculty, friends, and families for this...

Tabor Academy inducts 26 seniors to Cum Laude Society

Tabor Academy will induct 26 members of the class of 2020 into the Tabor chapter of the Cum Laude Society. “These students have worked incredibly hard in a challenging program to achieve consistently at this level,” said Eileen Marceau, Associate...

Health provider gives small boost to ORR meals program

The Old Rochester Regional School District has received $500 from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation mini-grant program for its coronavirus meals program. Mary Ellen Conlon, an employee of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care nominated the school for...

Elementary schools spread knowledge, allow connections through screens

With each announcement that reopening school would be pushed back even further, Old Hammondtown School sixth grade social studies and nonfiction literature teacher Sara Jacobsen said she experienced “waves of grief” at the thought of losing time...

Elks select Student of the Month for March

Old Rochester Regional High School senior Brianna Lynch of Mattapoisett has been named the Elks’ Student of the Month for March by the school’s staff. The Elks of Wareham and New Bedford Lodge No. 1548 sponsors the Elks Student of the Month and...

[Photos]: High schools show seniors signs of support

All three Tri-Town high schools have taken signs of support quite literally when it comes to their seniors, providing them with lawn signs to build class pride even when students can’t be in class. Mattapoisett business Village Signs made and...

Showing appreciation for teachers

MARION — Though teachers may not be in the classroom the Volunteers at Sippican Elementary, the school’s non-profit and Parent Teacher Organization, made sure that they still felt the love, virtually, for Teacher Appreciation Week. The volunteer...

Rochester Memorial School works to take virtual learning from good to great

ROCHESTER — Old Rocheste Regional School District Superintendent Doug White told the Rochester School Committee that the school had around 30% of the content for the year left to cover, now that the state has focused on covering new content again...

Schools to start teaching new material again

MATTAPOISETT — After weeks of online review, students can now start learning new content again, Old Rochester Regional administrators said. When the state first started remote learning, educators and parents alike expressed frustration at the lack...

School committee discusses racist TikTok incident

MATTAPOISETT — When Old Rochester Regional High School student Jendell Teixiera found a racist TikTok video by a fellow student, she said on Facebook that racism in the school has not changed. At their next meeting, Mattapoisett School Committee...

Mattapoisett 2021 school budget approved

MATTAPOISETT — In a May 4 video meeting, the Mattapoisett School Committee approved the 2021 fiscal year school budget of $7,357,475, an increase of 2.39% from last year. Contract adjustments for staff, special needs programs and custodial services...

ORR seniors talk missing end of the school year

For the Old Rochester Class of 2020, there will be no prom this month, no final theatrical performance, no last athletic triumphs, no spring walk with cap and gown and diploma. In the words of Class Treasurer Emma Gabriel: no sense of closure. In a...

Old Colony to move to new schedule, hold July prom, graduation

ROCHESTER — Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School will move into an alternating vocational and academic schedule for online classes starting May 4, and plans to hold prom and graduation for seniors in July, if it is safe to do so then...

Rochester, ORR change plan for elementary school solar project

ROCHESTER — If a solar array goes up at Rochester Memorial School it won’t be on the roof, that much is clear. Last August, the town began looking at the possibility of putting solar panels on the roof at Rochester Memorial School. Selectman Woody...

ORR announces schedule for senior events

Old Rochester Regional High School’s prom and Graduation have been moved to August, and some other senior events will be held only online. The administrative team has delayed announcing senior plans for weeks as it tried to figure out ways to give...

Old Rochester Regional High School releases term 3 Honor Roll

The Old Rochester Regional High School Term 3 honor roll list is as follows: Allen, Jaelyn Shea 10 High Honors Andrade, Isaiah Michael 11 High Honors Baltz, William Keaton 10 High Honors Brezinski, Camden Frederick 12 High Honors Cavanaugh-Fauteux,...

ORR ranks in top third of Massachusetts high schools

The US News & World Report ranked Old Rochester Regional High School at number 105 of 345 schools in the state, putting ORR in the top third of all schools in the state. High schools are ranked based on college readiness, graduation rate,...

Distance learning to continue until summer

It’s official — students and teachers won’t be returning to school buildings this year, making a reality what many teachers and administrators had suspected for weeks now. On April 21 Governor Charlie Baker ordered all public and private schools to...

Old Rochester Regional receives grant for meals program

The Eos Foundation awarded a $6,425 grant to the Old Rochester Regional School District to continue its meals program while students learn remotely. Through the program, breakfast and lunch are available to children and students ages 0 to 21 at the...

ORRHS seniors start front adoor-nments for school pride

Although the doors to the building are closed until May, Old Rochester Regional High School isn’t letting that stop it from honoring graduating seniors. This year, students and staff just have to be a little more creative. The high school has been...

Tabor Academy cancels in-person classes, commencement

MARION — Tabor Academy announced April 16 that it would continue classes virtually through the end of the year, hold a virtual Commencement in May with hopes for a waterfront ceremony later and cancel Baccalaureate and reunion as a coronavirus...

Hunger doesn’t stop: school district provides new meals program

When schools closed on March 13, the Old Rochester Regional School District had three days to completely rework how it does food. The new program, which looks to combat food insecurity, started off solidly on March 17, and Director of Food and...

ORR principal discusses senior celebrations

Like so many events over the next months, prom and graduation are still up in the air. And while Old Rochester Regional High School Principal Michael Devoll doesn’t have any answers yet, he is working with South Coast administrators to make sure...

Old Rochester Regional School District cancels April vacation

In a video meeting on April 13, the Old Rochester Regional Joint School Committee voted to cancel the upcoming April vacation and move the end date of school forward from June 24 to June 18. Old Rochester Regional School District superintendent Doug...

Jacob DeBastos named Elk’s student of the month

The Elks of Wareham/New Bedford Lodge No. 1548 named Old Rochester Regional senior Jacob DeBastos its student of the month for February. The Elks Student of the Month award is given to a student from a local high school who excels in scholarship,...

Teachers start new term in a virtual classroom

Old Rochester Regional teachers Michele Barry and Rick Regan had never heard of the videochat platform Zoom two weeks ago. After a crash course, they are now experts enough to use it for classes, but also pushing students to get away from the screen...

Tabor Academy technology helps with medical shortage

Amidst a nationwide shortage of medical-grade protective masks, Tabor Academy student and Mattapoisett native Hannah Watt wanted to help, but didn’t know where to start. “I feel very helpless,” Watt said, since “I don’t know how to sew” or otherwise...

Old Colony donates, makes personal protective equipment

ROCHESTER — With no one using any of the shops at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School, its teachers realized they had an abundance of personal protective equipment, and decided to put it to good use amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Old Colony to move to a credit/non-credit system for the rest of the year

ROCHESTER — Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical School will cancel finals and move to a pass/fail system for the rest of the school year. The school has gradually revealed details of how it will continue operations in reaction to orders from...

Tabor Academy shares more details of online learning model

MARION — As of March 26, school is still “in-session” for Tabor Academy, but a distance, as the school explores online learning. The Tabor learning model for online classes will include both scheduled class time and coursework completed outside of...

Old Rochester Regional High School cancels finals

For Old Rochester Regional High School, strategies to deal with the unexpected leave of at least a month and a half to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the community will include cancelling finals, modifying the term schedule and grading term...

Old Colony culinary teacher brings career from simmer to boil

ROCHESTER — Early days of baking carrot cake with her grandmother, have led to Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical School culinary arts teacher Samantha Clarke being named the 2019 Massachusetts Restaurant Association’s Educator of the Year...

Old Colony devises preliminary schedule for time away from school

ROCHESTER — After weeks of working on materials and a format for online learning during school coronavirus shutdowns, Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High school sent out a letter to community members on March 28, outlining some of the...

Old Rochester schools closed until May 4

The Old Rochester Regional School District posted new resources and information for parents, students and community members, as Governor Baker announced on March 25 that schools will be closed until May 4. The school’s website now displays a pop up...

ORR Superintendent provides online learning updates

On March 23, Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Doug White provided updates on the state’s progress of developing an online curriculum and discussed future resources for students at a joint school committee district meeting via...

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