Taunton

Taunton’s Mill River Restoration Bears Fruit—and Fish Taunton’s Mill River Restoration Bears Fruit—and Fish

Mill River Blog reports that after 200 years, river herring (bluebacks) have been spotted in the Mill River above the Hopewell Mills dam in Taunton, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries recently set up a video monitoring station...

 » April 17th, 2013
MA Boater Killed in Race Accident MA Boater Killed in Race Accident

Kennebec Journal: The operator of a powerboat participating in a race on a Taunton pond over the weekend died after his boat flipped. A spokesman for the Massachusetts Environmental Police says the man died when his boat flipped...

 » September 11th, 2012
Boater Rescued in Taunton River, MA Boater Rescued in Taunton River, MA

  SouthCoastToday: A Somerset carpenter whose family had given him up for dead was pulled from the Taunton River Friday thanks to 2 brothers who heard his “desperate” cries for help more than an hour after he was...

 » April 30th, 2012
Return of the Handy Cat Return of the Handy Cat

Catboat fans may remember the Handy Cat, a fiberglass, gaff-rigged 14-footer designed by Merle Hallett of Maine’s Handy Boat Service in 1969 and first produced in the 1970s by Cape Dory Yachts of Taunton, Massachusetts. After building over 150...

 » January 25th, 2012