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John DeCosta
MATTAPOISETT Selectman John DeCosta died on April 28, two weeks after sharing his cancer diagnosis at an April 13 Selectmen’s meeting.
Born in New Bedford, DeCosta lived in Mattapoisett his whole life.
DeCosta worked as a Park Supervisor for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, served as a call firefighter for 17 years and worked for the Water and Sewer Department for 15 years.
In addition to serving as a Selectman, DeCosta was a founding member of the Community Preservation Committee. He was also a member of the Capital Planning and Open Space and Recreation committees.
Mattapoisett firefighters honored DeCosta with services on May 2, and the Selectmen paused for a moment of silence at their May 3 meeting.
Friday, February 19, 2021 - 7:42 am
Brent Bishop with family in tow. Photo submitted by Judy Fuhr.
To the Editor:
Where can you ski or snowshoe for free, bring your children to learn to xc ski and love the outdoors, enjoy the beauty of nature and occasional wildlife, learn to ski or to improve your skiing at a nominal cost, rent equipment for small fry for nothing and pay only $7.00 per day for quality equipment for yourself, skijor with your dog, skate ski or traditional ski in groomed and set tracks, enjoy a heated lodge with capabilities to warm up a lunch or purchase a few treats to enjoy?
land. guest: this group is interesting, and they are called freedom from religion foundation, a play on the first amendment opposed to in god we trust, as our not tremendous and tried to take the national day of prayer, and take under god, out of the pledge and wanted in god we trust, sandblasted off the visitors center in washington, dc so no surprise they don t like the jesus statue but they have the songs, like nothing fails like prayer, and what they have done here instead of trying to go to court they have this administration s letter to a park supervisor who said maybe we are violating the first amendment and made the decision and they were going to take this down, the outcry came and we got 70,000 americans joining with us and this is still a few more days to send in comments to the park service, and they pulled back so they were ready to take the statue down. alisyn: but, jordan, the