Wampanoag Experience Powwow, in conjunction with Open Farm day at Round the Bend Farm, 92 Allens Neck Road, Dartmouth, MA, Sat., 9/17, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Free admission. All are welcome. Grand entry at noon. Join us for the official opening of the Wetu at 3 p.m. See page 6 for story. Featuring emcee Anawon… [Read More]
Scouts Registration
Scout Troop 52 and Cub Scout Pack 52 are hosting two in-person Information and Registration Nights on Thursdays, 9/15 & 22, 6:30-8pm, at St. Mary’s Parish hall (440 Main Street, North Fairhaven 02719). Boys and girls are welcome: Pack 52, Kindergarten – 5th grade, or Troop 52, middle school and high school. For more information… [Read More]
Halloween Swap
Halloween Sustainability Swap. Drop off clean, used Halloween costumes and decorations in the bin at Town Hall, 40 Center St., Fairhaven, from now to October 7. On October 8th at Kids Fest, you can pick out items you might want yourself at the Sustainability Commit-tee’s Halloween Swap booth! Costumes should be clean, and… [Read More]
Apple Peach Festival feeds and entertains
By Beth David, Editor Acsuhnet’s 41st annual Apple Peach Festival returned after a two-year hiatus, due to the pandemic, and the fair grounds were filled. The two-day festival on the grounds of the Long Plain Museum featured food vendors, arts and crafts vendors, and live entertainment. There was no parade this year, but organizers say it… [Read More]
Conrad’s Law walk draws about 150
By Beth David, Editor The family of Conrad Roy III, who died by suicide in 2014 at the urging of someone he knew, held an awareness/memorial 5K walk/run on Saturday, 9/10/22 at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, to gain support for “Conrad’s Law,” which would make suicide coercion illegal in Massachusetts. The state is one of only… [Read More]
Fairhaven Town Auction this weekend
Fairhaven will hold its annual town auction this Saturday, 9/17/22, beginning at 9 a.m., at the BPW garage, 5 Arsene Street, Fairhaven. Items that have been declared surplus by various town departments will be auctioned off. COUNCIL ON AGING 1 Swintek 7000 electric typewriter 4 drawer small tan filing cabinet 1 Tan file holder 1… [Read More]
Wampanoag Experience Project Highlights Native History
By Hartman Deetz, Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member On a beautiful stretch of road along the edge of Apponagansett Bay sits a stacked stone foundation with no house on top. These would be the remnants of the Russell Garrison House, which served as a defensive outpost for the first lonely colonists that came to occupy what is… [Read More]
Best selling author to visit Fairhaven
Press Release New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias will present a slide presentation on his book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue, on Monday, 9/26/22, at Fairhaven town hall, 40 Center Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. and presentation starts at 6:30. The Disney Corporation has… [Read More]
From the Tree Warden
Plant the Parks Greetings from the Tree Department. It’s been a dry hot summer and the trees are feeling the heat just like us. We are already seeing trees start to shed their leaves prematurely and we have lost some to the extreme drought. On the bright side, the vast bulk of the 124 trees… [Read More]
Letter_Ancient Tree Destroyed
Ancient Tree Destroyed Between the mouth of the salt marsh and the thickly wooded, easternmost tip of West Island, there stood an ancient, gnarled and beautiful cedar tree; a Juniperous virginiana, of particular grace and stature. I’ve admired it for years walking the path that skirts the marsh. I’ve sat on its low bent boughs… [Read More]
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