Tax-savvy donors are using their IRA’s to make gifts to the NSRWA. Will you be one of them? Tax reform has increased the standard deduction with the result that fewer people are itemizing. Using an IRA charitable distribution, otherwise known as a qualified charitable distribution, will give you a tax break when you make a […]
If you are Marshfield resident, please attend the Fall Town Meeting on Monday November 18, 2019 to help improve the South River for river herring by removing the dam at Veterans Memorial Park that provides limited access for spawning river herring to the South River. The NSRWA has been working with the town of Marshfield […]
Untold Brewing is releasing a new citrus hazy beer the weekend of November 16 and 17 (with a pre-release on Friday November 15th) aptly named “With Purpose” in collaboration with The Pink Frame to give back to the community. A portion of the proceeds from all beer sales (draft and cans) will be donated back […]
Last Friday the NSRWA celebrated people who are protecting our waters! Highlights from this year’s work emphasized how many people contributed to our mission this year. Our staff worked with volunteer photographers Lisa Irwin, Kezia Bacon, Mike Sleeper and Jim McIntyre to make our new ExploreSouthShore.org website look fabulous and added a new outdoor listings […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent Hanover’s Forge Pond Park is large (75 acres), and as you drive up the entrance road, it might be easy to presume from first glance that it is strictly an athletic complex surrounded by pine and oak forest. There are three baseball fields, three softball fields, and three multi-purpose fields, commonly filled with soccer teams on weekend mornings. There […]
December 19, 1919 By: Henry T. Claus Transcribed and edited by Jane Estabrooks A Democracy Afloat Others perhaps had a large share in making history in those history-making days, but in the light of today no vessel reaches quite the picturesque heights attained by the Roanoke, 99 tons, built in 1842 at Barstow’s Lower Yards. […]
The Third Herring Brook will be able to keep its “cool” with new protections provided from being designated a Coldwater Fisheries Resource (CFR) by Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. CFR-designated streams support fish that require cold water such as native brook trout, slimy sculpin, black-nosed and longnose dace, and white suckers. These fish are […]
Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00 – 9:00 pm South Shore Natural Science Center Join us on Friday, November 1st, at 7:00 pm to hear about the exciting accomplishments of the organization and our plans for our 50th anniversary. We will be honoring the winner of the Barbara Anne Pearson Memorial Award as well as our […]
Lend your voice to help us tell the DEP we want the Fireworks Site cleaned up, our rivers left as healthy as before they were contaminated, and a future that allows for reconnecting habitat in our river system without fear of future contamination left behind by an inadequate clean up. Click here to read the […]
December 19, 1919 By: Henry T. Claus Transcribed and edited by Jane Estabrooks Came to Boston’s Tea-Party Another history-making ship that the North River gave to the nation was the brig Beaver, one of the vessels participating in Boston’s famous tea party on Dec. 16, 1773. The Beaver, tonnage unknown, was built by Ichabod Thomas […]