Marion News

This contract includes options for low-rate initial production and full-rate production quantities of OE-538 Increment 2 hardware, as well as options for engineering/depot repair services and provisioning item orders, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to an estimated $57.6 million.

State police Sgt. Timothy Finn already had a car stopped on the side of the highway, but sitting in his cruiser he could see another vehicle coming up from behind that wasn't budging from the right-hand lane.

As part of Bourne's July Fourth parade, the original 6- by 5-foot portrait of Marion artist Alexander Byron's painting "We Must Never Forget" will be displayed.

When: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 10 Tickets: Tour only, $20; tour and luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a private club in Marion overlooking the bay, $40. Tickets for the tour and luncheon are available at Marion General Store, the Bookstall and St.

America's foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold.

The deadline for returning youth applications to the Greater New Bedford and Wareham Career Centers is Tuesday.

The North Adams Public Library's director, Marcia Gross, and children's librarian, Marion Grillon, started at the library just five months apart from one another in 1999, and the pair is retiring just a few months apart.

This pastel by Jean Hirons, "Tranquil Marsh," is part of an exhibit opening this evening at Marion Art Center.

For more information about water quality or to check for local beach closings, go to the state DPH Web site at www.mass.gov/dph Local health officials have closed a few local beaches after tests showed high levels of bacteria in the water.

Rep. William M. Straus is a Massachusetts state representative and chairman of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, which has oversight of fisheries issues.

The Marion Police Brotherhood will be hosting a public safety day today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Several public safety agencies will be on hand to provide information about their organizations, including the Police Department, the Fire Department, Emergency Medical Services, the Harbormaster's Office, the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department and the ...

The Old Rochester Tri-Town Education Foundation, a fund of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, will host a "Taste of the Tri-Town" on Friday to support local public education.

SouthCoast school districts are seeking the following amounts in federal stimulus money, which is being substituted for Chapter 70 state education aid: Dartmouth $1,018,378 Fairhaven $805,285 Fall River $9,847,697 Freetown $162,678 Lakeville $256,370 Marion $48,934 Mattapoisett $59,736 New Bedford $11,668,556 Rochester $171,858 Wareham $1,313,698 ...

CATHOLIC BISHOP CALLS FOR PRIESTS TO MARRY -Advocates for a change in the Catholic Church's stance on celibacy have found support in a bishop recently appointed to the diocese of Bozen-Brixen in Italy.

East Mountain Books 60 County Road, Marion, MA 02738 Contact: Father Ameen Phone: 774-526-9636 E-mail: Eastmountainbooks@yahoo.com **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** BISHOP'S CONFESSION RENEWS CELIBACY DEBATE -When Fernando Lugo, president of Paraguay and former Catholic bishop, admitted recently to fathering a child while still in the priesthood, he ...

For 20 years, former Red Sox great Dominic DiMaggio served on the Board of Trustees at Saint Anselm College, among his connections to the Granite State.

The Boston Red Sox held a moment of silence for Dom DiMaggio before their game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Sgt. Kenneth Gifford pointed to the stack of guns crammed into the evidence closet at the New Bedford Police Department's firearms division.

Parishioners at St. Anthony's Church in Mattapoisett and St. Rita's Church in Marion learned at their respective Sunday Masses that their two parishes soon will be merging.

Four Cape residents were arrested this weekend in connection with a shooting last month in what Marion police described as a drug deal gone bad.