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FCC to host benefit concert for Ohio derailment victims

Tenor David Won and pianist Timothy Steele will perform a benefit concert at the First Congregational Church of Wareham, 11 Gibbs Ave., in support of those affected by the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment. The concert, entitled “Safe Within...

Citizen feedback sought for proposed Mill Pond Dam reconstruction

The state Department of Transportation is planning to rebuild the Mill Pond Dam and replace the bridge that goes above the dam, crossing the Agawam River as part of Cranberry Highway. The Department is looking for citizen feedback on the proposed...

Batter up at girls softball opening day

Slide into the Wareham Girls Softball league’s opening day on Saturday, April 22 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m at 98 Charlotte Furnace Road. Some players will hit the field while others will hit the snack shack. Burgers, hot dogs, chips and Kona Ice will be...

A real nice clam boil at Redmen Hall

Redmen Hall, 745 Main St., will hold a clam boil “with all the fixings” on Saturday, April 29 at 3 p.m. Doors will open at 2 p.m. There will be chowder, music and raffles, too. For tickets, which are $40, call 508-291-0882, see a Redmen member or...

Opinion: Revitalize downtown, vote yes on rezoning

April 17, 2023 To the Editor: I am writing to urge Wareham residents who want to improve our Town to show up and vote for change at Town Meeting on Monday April 24 th , 7pm at Wareham Elementary School. I urge our citizens to vote “Yes” on article...

Celebrate World Laughter Day with laughter yoga

Get the giggles out with laughter yoga at the Marion Council on Aging, 465 Mill St., on Sunday, May 7 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Laughter yoga is the practice of using singing, dancing and controlled laughter to improve mental and physical health. This...

Improv at the Library? ‘Yes, and’ it’s free

This spring, Gateway Improv is offering six weeks of free improvisational theater classes. The workshop runs on six Saturdays — May 6, May 13, May 20, June 3, June 10 and June 17 — from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Wareham Free Library. To register,...

Colonial fashion show brings local historical figures to life

From Lincoln Hill to Fearing Hill, from Mackie’s Bridge to Gault Road, the American Revolution lives on in Wareham. The namesakes of all four places are local historical figures: Rufus Lincoln, Israel Fearing, Andrew Mackie and John Galt. These...

Kids race to Onset for post-Easter egg hunt

Five-thousand eggs, filled by hand with candy over the course of two months. Gone in 10 minutes. The Onset Bay Association and its legion of volunteers scattered the eggs across Bayview Park the morning of Saturday, April 15 for their annual Easter...

Crews respond to brush fire on Route 495

Seventeen Wareham and Onset firefighters responded to a half-acre brush fire on Route 495 in Wareham on the afternoon of Thursday, April 13. According to Wareham Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Haskell, the fire started in the area between Exit 1,...

Earth removal investigation, sewer contract cancellation up for Town Meeting vote

Two votes at Town Meeting will concern what is happening beneath Wareham residents’ feet. The Select Board is asking residents to vote on whether the town should appropriate $50,000 to hire an engineer to investigate the possibly illegal removal of...

Taller, denser downtown up for Town Meeting vote

Voters at Town Meeting will decide whether to approve dramatic changes to the zoning laws for Main Street and Merchants Way, changes which would double housing density, increase building height, decrease the number of new parking spaces and allow...

Kiss my bass: Go fishing at Tihonet Pond derby

The Wankinquoah Rod and Gun Club Junior Associates, in collaboration with the A.D. Makepeace Company, will host a fishing derby on Tihonet Pond, 150 Tihonet Road, from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 4. Prizes and raffles will be awarded at 2 p...

Middle School names Honor Roll students

Wareham Middle School has announced its High Honor Roll and Honor Roll students for Term 3 of the 2022-23 school year: High Honor Roll Seventh graders: Aguilar, Camden Cael Beaudoin, Ingrid Isis Benson, Amelia...

School district would receive nearly $1.5 million increase in proposed 2024 budget

The town’s largest dollar amount budget increase for 2024 would go to the school district. As previously reported , Wareham School District sought budget increases for new social worker salaries, as well as transportation and infrastructure needs...

Select Board approves use of town roads for summer, fall events

The Select Board unanimously approved Tuesday, April 11 applications for the use of town roads for multiple events over the summer and fall. Buzzards Bay Coalition asked for the use of town roads due to the Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride on October 1,...

Ukulele-playing chimney sweep gives lessons at Council on Aging

Peter Gugliotta acknowledges that, outside of “Mary Poppins,” musical chimney sweeps are a rare breed. And yet, there he was, strumming his ukulele in Room 227 of the Council on Aging, wearing a Guns N’ Roses T-shirt under his Atlantic Chimney...

Go back to the ‘50s with Historical Society

The ‘50s were pretty nifty for Main Street. To find out how nifty, attend an educational presentation at the Methodist Meeting House, 495 Main St., on Monday, April 17 at 7 p.m. The presentation, sponsored by the Wareham Historical Society, will...

New engine, station roof among upgrades approved at Fire District meeting

Voters at the Wareham Fire District’s annual meeting on Monday, April 10 unanimously approved a host of equipment upgrades and infrastructure repairs. Voters approved $1.2 million for a new fire engine to replace the current Engine 5, which has 144,...

Town Meeting could urge Select Board to probe Makepeace ownership of Parker Mills Dam

Voters at the April 24 Town Meeting will be asked to direct the town to determine what portion of the crumbling Parker Mills Dam is owned by the A.D. Makepeace Company, so that work to repair or remove the dam can proceed. Wareham resident Barry...

Town Clerk and assistant retiring due to lack of staff

Town Clerk Michele Bissonnette and Assistant Town Clerk Donna Rhodes are retiring due to a lack of staffing in their office. Bissonnette, 62, said that she is resigning due to the VOTES Act, which then-Governor Charlie Baker signed into law in June...

Affordable housing, walking trails request funding at Town Meeting

Voters at Town Meeting will decide whether various businesses and organizations will receive over $1 million in Community Preservation Commission funding for affordable housing projects and walking trails throughout town. Community Preservation...

Saintly savings at Good Shepherd rummage sale

The Church of the Good Shepherd, 74 High St., will hold its annual spring rummage sale on Saturday, April 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Clothing, coats, shoes, domestic items, puzzles, games, toys, “white elephant” items and small furnishings will be...

Minutemen reenactment will feature colonial couture

Don’t fire until you see the whites after Labor Day. The Wareham Minutemen and Militia Companies, Inc. will host “Wearing Wareham,” a Revolutionary War-era fashion show and reenactment, at the High School on Saturday, April 15 at 1 p.m. The...

Town’s newest police officer wants to get to know community

Twenty-four-year-old Lindsey Vermette, Wareham’s latest police officer, has lived in town for three years. However, she is discovering some parts of Wareham for the very first time now that she’s on the force. “[I discovered] how big and how busy it...

Utility poles block final reconstruction work on Cranberry Highway

The majority of reconstruction work on Cranberry Highway in East Wareham is complete. However, utility poles lining the shoulder of the highway – many in the new roadway itself – are preventing final sidewalk, paving and traffic signal work. The...

Breakfast is served at Wesley UMC

Wesley United Methodist Church, 462 Main St., will host its monthly Free Community Breakfast on Saturday, April 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Waffles, bacon, sausages, fresh fruit, assorted juices and coffee will be served. The church’s Mission...

Chicken, fish and fellowship at Onset prayer luncheon

The Onset Foursquare Church Prayer Team is hosting its annual luncheon at the Church, 301 Onset Ave., on Saturday, April 29 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The theme of the luncheon, “For Such a Time as This,” is taken from the Book of Esther. Chicken and...

High School Key Club gets top honors at convention

The Wareham High School Key Club came home from the New England District Key Club Convention, held in Springfield from Friday, March 31 to Sunday, April 2, with a busload of awards. High schools across the country have Key Clubs, student-led groups...

The career hunt is on at CYE Community Job Fair

Community Youth Empowerment Wareham is looking for local businesses with summer job openings to participate in its CYE Community Job Fair, to be held at the Onset Bay Center, 186 Onset Ave., on Tuesday, April 25 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Businesses...

Middle School announces award winners

A creative optimist, a “model student,” a talented artist and a social studies expert are the Middle School’s award winners for the month of March 2023. Fifth grader Jasmine-Anne Cruz, sixth grader Elizabella Bryden and seventh grader Kailyn Ostiguy...

Riddle me this: Families hunt for clues and eggs at All American Assisted Living

The Easter Bunny left a series of riddles lying around All American Assisted Living on Saturday, April 8, and only the most dedicated det-egg-tives were able to sniff out his trail. For the third year in a row, the assisted-living facility hosted a...

Bridge Church’s ‘Bunny Trail’ avoids Easter egg scramble

Instead of hosting “a hectic and easy egg hunt,” Lisa Tavares, a pastor at the Bridge Church in Onset, wanted to bring the “true Easter story” to the Church's Bunny Trail event on Saturday, April 8. The free event brought out about a dozen families...

School Committee calls action on film club

The School Committee voted unanimously on Thursday, April 6 to approve a student-led film club at Wareham High School. Students Gisella Priestley, Aiden Dillen and Kiley Sullivan said that their classmates were interested in the idea of a film club...

No bark, no bite: Therapy dogs bring comfort to Council on Aging

Beverly Adkins lives in Dartmouth, but she goes out of her way to visit the Wareham Council on Aging because “the people are wonderful.” When she visited the Council on Aging on Thursday, April 6, Adkins got to pet and play with some wonderful...

One person transported to hospital after crash on Cranberry Highway

A vehicle crashed into a utility pole on Cranberry Highway Wednesday morning, damaging the pole and injuring the sole occupant of the vehicle. Emergency responders transferred the driver to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford. The Wareham Fire...

Swifts Beach resident launches write-in campaign for Sewer Commission

Bob Scanlan, a member of an advocacy group which has strongly criticized the Sewer Commission for its handling of sewer repairs in the Swifts Beach neighborhood , has launched a write-in campaign for a seat on the Commission. “The Sewer Commission...

Walk across town to help the homeless

The Wareham Area Clergy Association is sponsoring a five-mile walk in support of Turning Point on Sunday, May 21 at 1 p.m., rain or shine. The walk will begin and end at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 74 High St. Walkers can register from 12 p.m...

High School JROTC cadets lay wreath at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

As she and her fellow Wareham High School JROTC cadets laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, the significance of the moment weighed heavily on eighth grader Sage Brophy’s mind. Brophy and her fellow cadets...

District ‘investigating’ blog post about High School teacher

Wareham Public Schools is “investigating” a blog post made about High School teacher Lisa Cunha, Superintendent Matthew D’Andrea said in a mass email sent out to parents on Wednesday, April 5. The blog post appeared on the controversial website...

Select Board declares pit bull puppies a nuisance

The Select Board declared a Briarwood Beach man’s two pit bull puppies to be a nuisance at its meeting on Tuesday, April 4. Briarwood Beach residents and Department of Natural Resources officers testified that the dogs, belonging to Kenneth Andrews...

Learn about war in Ukraine at the Library

Henry Quinlan, a West Wareham resident who has studied Russian politics for 35 years and spent five years living in Moscow, will give a lecture about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine at the Wareham Free Library on Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m...

Take a survey and a road trip for the Library

The Wareham Free Library is asking local residents to share their thoughts about the Library using an online survey at surveymonkey.com/r/X3VTGJ5 . Residents can share how they feel about the Library’s current offerings, and what they want to see in...

Land Trust and Onset Water District forge new trails

In 2021, Wareham Land Trust Executive Director Elise Leduc-Fleming went to the Onset Water District with “a wild idea.” Leduc-Fleming’s plan was to unite four miles of long-abandoned trails off of Red Brook Road, where the town borders of Wareham,...

Consultants float two designs for floodproofing downtown

During a Zoom meeting on Monday, April 3, the Fuss & O’Neill and Woods Hole Group consulting firms presented two floodproofing designs for Main Street and Merchants Way, representing two ends of the spectrum for Main Street’s future. One design...

Assistant Superintendent not chosen for top job in Dartmouth

Wareham Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Dr. Andrea Schwamb was unsuccessful in her bid to become superintendent of Dartmouth Public Schools. The Dartmouth School Committee ultimately chose Dr. June Saba-Maguire, assistant superintendent of...

Book it: Barnes & Noble is coming to town

Wareham is getting a new bookstore for the first time in over a decade. Barnes & Noble plans to open a new location in Wareham Crossing this summer, with opening day currently scheduled for Wednesday, June 14. “We always think it’s really...

Veterans’ mobile food pantry serves those who served

Veterans, like most Americans, have been feeling the effects of rising costs. Michael Field, a volunteer with the Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center, heard from a veteran whose rent increased from $800 to $1400 a month. With Social Security...

You better werk: Sashay over to Council on Aging fashion show

The Council on Aging, 48 Marion Road, will become a catwalk on Wednesday, April 19 at 12 p.m., as supermodels of all ages do their thing on the runway. The show will feature Council on Aging members and Girl Scouts from Daisy Troop 77427 strutting...

Hop to All American Assisted Living for an Easter egg hunt

All American Assisted Living, 300 Rosebrook Way, will host an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 8 at 12 p.m. Refreshments will be served, and the Easter Bunny himself will stop by. To register, call 774-678-0513.

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