Buzzards Bay News

However, the experts are backing off the larger snowfall totals, as it appears that heavier bands will stay out at sea.

UMass scientists presented a status report on the ground-breaking Massachusetts Estuaries Project Friday but did not placate a prominent critic who contends mismanagement has delayed some crucial SouthCoast reports for years.

Silberberg recently moved to Orleans from New York, where he was a social studies teacher for 27 years and an adjunct instructor at New York University for 10 years.

Tom Hanks will star in a movie about the dramatic rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy graduate held captive for five days by Somali pirates in 2009.

A 23-year-old Hyannis man was arrested Monday night on multiple child pornography charges that included soliciting nude photographs from a 14-year-old girl over the Internet, a prosecutor said.

PHOTO JOHN SLADEWSKI/The Standard-Times ++ MATTAPOISETT --- Estuary where Eel Pond meets the sea in Mattapoisett Harbor.

The Plymouth woman accused in the hit-and-run death of a Buzzards Bay teen in 2010 will have to wait a few more months for her trial.

The Lloyd Center for the Environment is holding a volunteer training session for the Seabird Ecological Assessment Network program, to be held at the Lloyd Center for the Environment's Bond House located at 430 Potomska Road in Dartmouth on Saturday, Feb.

A nature trail could become part of the learning experience for elementary school students at East Fairhaven and the new Wood School.

Residents interested in applying for money to make essential improvements to their homes are invited to two informational sessions next week.

Seniors will be competing in Eastham Senior Center's annual 5th Grade Spelling Bee at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the senior center, 1405 Nauset Road, North Eastham.

The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has a new life-size ship bridge simulator, which was filmed as part of a documentary.

The Garden Club of Buzzards Bay has a small amount of money which it wishes to donate to qualified projects in SouthCoast.

Many films have been produced on or about Cape Cod, including 2001's "Summer Catch" with Freddie Prinze Jr.

Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing for the Queen of England in 1602, named the string of islands separating Buzzards Bay from Vineyard Sound for his Queen.

After years of penny-pinching and layoffs, the town of Bourne is anticipating a less-stringent budget for fiscal 2013.

A Falmouth District Court clerk magistrate will decide whether Falmouth's water superintendent is to be charged criminally for allegedly stealing town-owned chemicals.

Conveniently located in Patriot Square near the movie theatre, Jason's Tavern offers American and international casual dining for the whole family, as well as cocktails, Keno, and early bird specials.

The supplemental state budget making its way through the Legislature contains several items that will make helpful differences in SouthCoast, state Rep.

CINTRON, Lisa, 44, 325 Sandwich Road, Falmouth; admitted sufficient facts to larceny of a value more than $250 from a person 60 years and older or disabled, larceny of less than $250 from a person 60 years and older or disabled and improper use of a credit card of more than $250, Oct.