🌱 How a Marion waterfront camp just earned national historic recognition.

Cheers Marion! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How a Marion waterfront camp just earned national historic recognition.
• Why Marion’s health budget is rising faster than other departments’
• How painted buoy “trees” are turning Marion’s holiday spirit into real help

Today's riddle: What did one magnet say to the other magnet? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Breezy with a bit of snow, with a high of 39 and low of 35 degrees.
• Wednesday: Partly sunny and windy, temps: high: 40, low: 25.
• Thursday: Cloudy most of the time, with a high of 42 and low of 28 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Tremont Advent Christian Camp Meeting Association (wanderer.com) — A historic Oakdale Avenue campground in Marion has just been deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, a major step toward formal recognition. The Tremont Advent Christian Camp Meeting Association site, home to camp meetings since 1905, will now undergo a full nomination process led by a preservation consultant and funded with Community Preservation funds, targeting final submission in summer 2026.
   

• Budget Increase From Health Insurance (wanderer.com) — Marion’s Board of Health has endorsed a preliminary 2.8% fiscal 2027 budget increase, driven largely by a new online permitting system and sharply higher health insurance costs. Members praised the health director’s planning but warned the hike may be hard to justify when most departments are held to 2%, and they confirmed their first-and-third-Thursday meeting schedule into the new year.
   

• Marion nonprofit brings festive decoration ashore (theweektoday.com) — A new student-run nonprofit, Marion Buoys of Hope, has nearly hit its $10,000 year-end goal by “selling” painted buoys for a festive tree outside Marion Music Hall on Front Street. The Tabor Academy juniors behind the project are directing proceeds to Damien’s Food Pantry in Wareham, buying winter gear and food while rallying Marion residents and businesses around a creative holiday tradition they plan to expand next year.
   

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• Christmas Day
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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 23

• Baby and Toddler Storytime
  Rita E. Steele Auditorium Millicent Library , 45 Center St , Fairhaven
  9:30 am
• Stories, Songs and Instruments at East Falmouth
  East Falmouth Branch , 310 East Falmouth Highway , East Falmouth
  10:00 am
• Stay & Make: Drop-In Craft at North Falmouth
  North Falmouth Branch , 6 Chester Street , North Falmouth
  10:00 am
• 3D Movies: Big Blue Pictures
  Cook Memorial Theater
  10:30 am
• Intermediate Mahjong
  West Falmouth Library , 575 W Falmouth Hwy , Falmouth
  1:00 pm
• Block Party! Legos in the Library
  Childrens Program Room Falmouth Public Library - Main Library , 300 Main Street , Falmouth
  3:30 pm
• The Polar Express Train Ride (Buzzards Bay)
  Buzzards Bay , 70 Main St , Bourne
  4:30 pm
• Planning Board Meeting
  Falmouth, MA Calendar , 59 Town Hall Square , Falmouth
  6:30 pm
• Conversation Meetup-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
  Bay Meeting Room Falmouth Public Library - Main Library , 300 Main Street , Falmouth
  7:30 pm

Wednesday December 24

• Pre-K Storytime
  Rita E. Steele Auditorium Millicent Library , 45 Center St , Fairhaven
  10:30 am

Thursday December 25

• Museum is closed for holiday
  New Bedford Whaling Museum , 18 Johnny Cake Hill , New Bedford

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Hi everyone.
  If anyone is looking for snow plowing I would try Mike from Surroundings Landscaping 508-965-9695. He also does basement cleanouts, and bulky item… (Nextdoor Marion Village)

• Cumberland Farms posted a job opening for Retail Sales Associate in Marion. Apply here.
• Chipotle posted a job opening for Crew Member in Wareham. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Marion here.

🗞 Nearby News

Mattapoisett

• Center School Principal Linda Ashley to Retire at End of School Year (wanderer.com)
• Six Tree Removals Approved, Black Oak Spared (wanderer.com)
• Photos of the Week by Peter Pereira - December 19, 2025 (heraldnews.com)

Wareham

• Wildlife in Wareham: What birds can you see around town (theweektoday.com)
• Lucky Goat to close Main Street taproom by end of year (theweektoday.com)
• Robin Alice Phillips, 73 (theweektoday.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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