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Songs, stories and smores: Halloween fun meets land conservation

Under the night sky, lit up in pink by the northern lights, people gathered around a campfire for songs, stories and smores during a Halloween bonfire hosted by the Wareham Land Trust and the Wareham Free Library. At the bonfire held Thursday, Oct...

We want to see your Halloween decorations!

Is your yard especially spooky this time of year? Do neighbors cower in fright? Or howl in good fun? We are looking to scare up a cool photo collection of Halloween decorated yards in Wareham to give our readers a fright. Send photos of your...

Town seeks new state designation to protect year-round housing

As the beaches get a little less busy and summer residents begin to head back to their hometowns, Wareham will see the population dwindle to half of what it is during the summer. Officials, concerned with how the high number of seasonal renters...

Through beaches and bogs: Buzzards Bay Coalition cycles through Wareham

As people cycled through coastal Massachusetts farmland and felt the ocean breeze in their face, riders raised money for the Buzzards Bay Coalition during the 18th annual Watershed Ride. This year, over 320 riders took on a 100, 75 or 35 mile route...

Friends from across the pond

Wareham residents welcome friends from Wareham, United Kingdom as a part of a cultural exchange program where Warehamites from across the pond visit and establish friendships. The cultural exchange program known as “twinning” is when two towns make...

Sen. Marc Pacheco honored before retirement

Members of the 3rd Bristol and Plymouth district communities came out to thank longtime state Sen. Marc Pacheco with a thank you and retirement party for his work as the senator prepares for retirement at the end of this term. The event held at the...

100+ crowd experiences Grace Morrison’s ‘Saltwater Country’

Grace Morrison wowed a near sold-out crowd in her hometown of Wareham on Saturday, October 5, singing songs from her upcoming album Saltwater Country with a full band. More than 100 people attended the event, which was hosted in partnership with...

Farm fresh food at the YMCA

The Gleason Family YMCA brought in Bootstrap Farm Club which runs a mobile farm stand to bring high quality produce, meats and other products to the community. Bootstrap Farm Club is an organization that works with local farmers in Massachusetts and...

Sip and Support raises money and builds community

The Gleason Family YMCA held their annual sip and support fundraiser filled with prizes, games and live music to help them not only raise money but continue to form relationships within the community. The fundraiser held Thursday, Oct. 3 at Stone...

Meet the new Wareham Land Trust executive director

The Wareham Land Trust recently welcomed a new executive director to help them continue to push their message of building community through environmental consciousness throughout town. The new executive director, Alexandra Zollo, brings years of...

Select Board votes for favorable action on town meeting warrant items

At the Oct. 1 Select Board meeting, the board voted to support a number of items on the Town Meeting agenda, including a vote to allocate funding for Lopes Playground renovations and 20 new raised beds for Damien's food pantry garden. The item for...

Maritime museum weighs anchor after six-year restoration project

The Wareham Historical Society recently celebrated the completion of a six-year journey to acquire, rehabilitate and restore the Captain John Kendrick Maritime Museum. Captain John Kendrick was in command of the United State’s first expedition to...

Opening for Warren's Harborview nears

The Harborview Restaurant and Marina received an occupancy permit from the town’s building department that will allow it to host a grand opening with a tentative opening date at the end of October. Once open Harborview owner Danny Warren is looking...

Town receives $100,000 to help renovate Lopes Playground

The town has received a $100,000 a state grant to construct a handicap-accessible path around the perimeter of Lopes Field in Onset. The money is a key piece of a larger project that includes replacing the aging playground equipment in the Lopes...

Wareham Media meets for annual meeting

At their annual meeting, Wareham Media, formerly known as Wareham Community Television, asked the town to examine the audio and visual capacities of the town hall auditorium and discussed their recent rebranding. The event, which was held Wednesday...

Cranberry harvest season in full swing

Local cranberry growers are watching the fruits of their labor float to the top of the bogs as harvest season comes into full swing. Many local bogs are owned and farmed by the Wareham based agricultural company A.D. Makepeace. The company is a part...

Deadlines set ahead of Nov. 5 election

In advance of the Nov. 5 election, residents are reminded of upcoming deadlines to prepare for voting. Saturday, Oct. 19 is the first day of in-person early voting for all precincts at Town Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early voting continues Monday,...

Throwback fun coming to Main Street

Where there once sat an engine shop and a steakhouse on Main Street, will soon host a bar and restaurant that aims to take customers back in time to the ’80s and ’90s with a fully functioning arcade decked out with retro inspired decor called RWND...

Hospital workers rally for new contract

Chants for a fair contract and signs asking drivers to honk for a better wage filled Besse Park as Tobey Hospital employees rallied for their cause of securing a new contract. The rally held Wednesday, Sept. 25 was hosted by hospital employees who...

Electric vehicle chargers planned for Main Street

The town is looking to install two electric vehicle chargers in the Main Street parking lot at Pezzoli Square. According to Town Administrator Derek Sullivan, the two dual-head “Level 3 chargers will allow four cars to be charged at the same time,...

Harvest Moon Festival creates sense of community

As people from near and far gathered at Prospect Park and Onset Pier, live music rang out from the bandshell, local restaurants cooked up South Coast classics, over 100 different vendors set up shop and classic car owners showed off their cars at...

Bayview Park construction underway

Just outside of the Onset Bay Center, construction on Bayview Park has begun with the main goal of increasing the accessibility of the park. Town Administrator Derek Sullivan explained the work currently being done is to remove and replace the...

Saltwater Country: A love letter from Wareham native Grace Morrison

Grace Morrison’s upcoming album, Saltwater Country, is part love letter to her hometown, part portrait of a woman who has grown into herself and her music, and part affirmation that her songwriting deserves to be heard and celebrated. “The eternal...

Wareham shows growth in math and science in 2024 MCAS scores

The 2024 MCAS scores for all public schools in Massachusetts, including Wareham have been released by the state and Wareham shows growth in math and science but remains stagnant in English language arts. The MCAS test measures the performance of...

Wareham Firefighters honored for heroic actions at awards ceremony

Pride, family and honor were just a few of the topics brought up during the Wareham Fire Department awards ceremony. The ceremony held at the Main Street Fire Station on Tuesday, Sept. 24, saw many members of the department come together with...

Wareham receives two environmental grants from the state

Wareham has been awarded two environmental grants by the state to help protect and preserve the town’s natural ecosystems. The first grant is for $75,000 that will be put toward working with the Buzzards Bay Coalition to permanently protect 215...

Gaskey and Hewins get ready for 2nd Plymouth District race

Gaskey and Hewins get ready for 2nd Plymouth District race Republican nominee for state representative of the 2nd Plymouth District John Gaskey "accepts the challenge" presented by Democratic write in candidate Sarah Hewins. "She has every right to...

Booming success: Government agencies collaborate on oil spill drill

Off the waters of Onset pier, local, state and national agencies joined forces to conduct an oil spill drill. In the drill conducted Monday, Sept. 23, members of the Onset and Wareham Fire Departments, Department of Natural Resources and the United...

55 years later: Wareham High School class of 1969 reunites

Inside the Redmen Hall, old friends got together to reminisce about old stories and share new ones as the Wareham High School class of 1969 gathered for their 55-year high school reunion Saturday, Sept. 21. Kathleen Hunt and Jay Maloney have helped...

Wareham takes out the trash in town cleanup event

The Wareham community went all over town picking up trash and debris along its streets, parks and beaches to help keep the town clean as part of the biannual tradition known as Don't Trash Wareham. The event took place Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday...

Faithful fundraiser for Grace Lighthouse Church

Connection and construction was the motivation for the Grace Lighthouse Church's family festival fundraiser held Saturday, Sept 21. At the festival, guests congregated at the church's current 3065 Cranberry Highway location to connect and donate to...

Grace Lighthouse Church construction nears last chapter

After almost two years of planning, Wareham’s Grace Lighthouse Church is nearly done building its first permanent place of worship. "The Church under the tent" has been renting a building since 2011 and hosting its congregations under a tent at 2703...

Cape Cod Canal Day rescheduled to Sept. 22

BUZZARDS BAY — Cape Cod Canal Day, the free family-friendly event hosted by the Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce, has been rescheduled to Sunday, Sept. 22 due to inclement weather Saturday. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at...

Liquor license suspension postponed for Onset business pending appeal

Onset Beach Patio and Grille will still be allowed to serve alcohol pending an appeal filed with the Massachusetts Alcohol Beverage Control Commission regarding a two-month liquor license suspension imposed by the Select Board. The two-month...

Wareham to hold mad dash for trash

Grab your friends and your garbage bags and head out on the town because the Don't Trash Wareham town cleanup event is back Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22. According to Don't Trash Wareham founding member Nora Bicki, organizers are asking...

Cyclists pedaling for petals to stop in Wareham for tree planting

Seventy-nine cyclists traveling 430 miles in the 2024 Tour des Trees will stop in Wareham among a few other towns to plant trees. The ride, which raises money for the Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund, begins in Stamford, Connecticut on...

Kelly Dooner kicks off state senate campaign

Taunton City Councilor and Republican candidate for the 3rd Bristol and Plymouth District senate seat Kelly Dooner will kick off her campaign with Republican Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr with an event at the Towne Tavern in Wareham, Wednesday,...

Pacheco endorsed by primary challenger ahead of general election

Taunton City Councilor and 3rd Bristol and Plymouth Senate hopeful Barry Sanders has endorsed former Democratic opponent Joe Pacheco in his race to secure the senate seat that represents several municipalities from Wareham to the Rhode Island border...

A ‘revival’ for Relay in Wareham

For the first time since 2018, a crowd gathered at the Wareham Middle School track to participate in Relay for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Event organizers Tricia Hackett-Turner and Megan Murphy called the event on Friday,...

Taste of our Towns offers good food for a good cause

As people dined on local cuisine and listened to the South Coast Musicians play the classics at Turning Point's 2nd annual Taste of our Towns event on Monday, Sept. 16, the organization was raising money to help support struggling families...

‘Summer vibe’ to continue through fall at Harvest Moon Festival

Onset’s annual Harvest Moon Festival will return this year featuring familiar favorites like live music, local vendors and plenty of food trucks – but this year there will be no fireworks display to paint the bay in colors. According to Onset Bay...

Library closes chapter on mold, reopens

After an outbreak of mold caused by a failed HVAC system closed the Wareham Free Library for over a month, the 59 Marion Road branch re-opened Monday Sept. 16. According to Wareham Free Library Director Patrick Marshall, the town's municipal...

Trucks and tots raise funds for Turning Point

Emergency vehicles filled the parking lot of D&J Enterprise on Saturday, Sept. 14 – but so did monster trucks, cement mixers, tow trucks and a National Guard hummv. Those vehicles, their owners and swarms of children braved the early-fall heat...

Like stars on the water, kayaks glow in Onset

Blue, purple and green lights twinkled across the water of Onset Bay on the night of Thursday, Sept. 12 as a little over a dozen kayaks, canoes and paddle boards made their way around Wickets Island. Stuart Downie, the Buzzards Bay Coalition’s vice...

Onset Beach Patio and Grille to appeal liquor license suspension

The Onset Beach Patio and Grille plans to appeal the Select Board’s suspension of its liquor license, with owner Frank Evangelista claiming he was not made aware of the Sept. 3 disciplinary hearing where the Select Board made its decision. The...

Carver town official joins race for 2nd Plymouth seat

When Carver Select Board member Sarah Hewins learned that longtime 2nd Plymouth district representative Susan Williams Gifford lost her reelection campaign to primary challenger John Gaskey, she was “really surprised.” According to Hewins, Gaskey’s...

Tensions rise over delays for Harborview Restaurant and Marina

The Harborview Marina and Restaurant faces headwinds as it attempts to open as scheduled, and its founder Danny Warren has exchanged pointed fingers with the Wareham Planning Board, claiming their approval process for the building is dragging on...

After-hours events lead to 60-day suspension of liquor license for Onset Beach Patio & Grille

A series of events held after permitted hours — and a series of Facebook posts promoting said events — has landed the Onset Beach Patio & Grille in hot water, as the Select Board voted to suspend its liquor license for a period of 60 days...

Gaskey wins out over Gifford, Pacheco leads Sanders on primary night

With a majority of towns having recorded their numbers, the unofficial results for the state primary election show clear signs of who will next represent Wareham in the state government. In the Republican primary for the 2nd Plymouth seat in the...

Slavin celebration, Harborview inauguration postponed

While originally planned to be the first event taking place at the long-awaited Harborview restaurant and marina , a celebratory party to honor Alan Slavin’s retirement has been postponed. The party is to celebrate the retirement of Alan Slavin from...

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