A Special Permit filed by James DePierre, 20 Cove Street for the construction of a new home on a flood compliant foundation was granted. Also granted was a Special Permit requested by George Luber, 13 ...

President Trump announced on the day of his inauguration that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization, a process that takes a year under a joint resolution of Congress passed in ...

Florence Martocci of Mattapoisett has donated her grandparents’ Quaker wedding certificate to the meeting. Joseph Lilburne Hiller and Florence Louise Crowell were married in the meeting house May 28, ...

Robert Haley, President of the Mattapoisett Lions Club, one of 49,000 Lions Clubs around the world, is pleased to announce that Emerson Gonet and Bailey Pelland, both seniors at Old Rochester Regional ...

The Elizabeth Taber Library is transitioning to our summer programming schedule, so be sure to take a close look at our event calendar. We look forward to sharing more about our summer reading program ...

What began as informal discussions regarding affordable-housing needs and possible impact of ADU’s (accessory dwelling units) in the community grew to include such construction types as ADU, Route 6 ...

Statements from candidates in the Marion and Mattapoisett town elections appeared in the May 15 issue of The Wanderer. Statements from Rochester candidates appear below. The Rochester Town Election ...

Starting pitcher Sharon Delancey and the Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School softball team won a pair of games last week that raised her record to 7-5 and the team’s record to 9-7 ...

Speaking of elected officials, an article in the recent Town Meeting warrant to change the number of Select Board seats from three to five passed overwhelmingly. Adding two new positions to the Board ...

Superintendent Michael S. Nelson is proud to share that the Old Rochester Regional School District earned the distinction of being one of the Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) for the third ...

Books and Babble Bookclub will meet at 6:30 pm Thursday May 29 to discuss “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown. Books are available to pick up at the Library.