At a joint meeting of the Planning Board and the Select Board on Thursday, the two boards decided to form a committee to draft a municipal separate stormwater systems bylaw – also known as MS4.

First of all, annuals are expendable – if you don’t like a certain plant, it’s easy enough to eliminate. Second, they are inexpensive. Third, they’re easy to propagate. Adding them to the perennial ...

It may not feel like summer outside, but Silvershell Beach is opening for the season on Monday, June 16. Reminder that Beach Stickers or Guest Passes are required year-round, all hours, not just when ...

Since the May Town Meeting when a home rule petition for the expansion of the Select Board from 3 to 5 members passed by a majority, many in the community have been holding their breath. Would the ...

With less than a month until the 4th of July, it’s time to lace up your sneakers and start training for the Mattapoisett Road Race, “4 on the 4th”. When this tradition was started in 1971 by Bob and ...

The picture with this article is of the Town Hall entrance with the plaque sourced by the Historical Commission. It bears the ...

A familiar feature of the Marion skyline, the Wickenden Chapel steeple will be undergoing repairs this summer. On June 16, the steeple will be carefully dismantled and removed from the top of the ...

In a short but well-attended meeting Tuesday, Rochester’s Conservation Commission approved an Abbreviated Notice of Resource Area Delineation confirming the bordering vegetated wetlands boundaries at ...

Some amount of radon is unavoidable, but levels above 4 picocuries per liter are considered a cause of lung cancer. Radon is the number one cause of lung cancer in non-smokers, and the combination of ...