Arts

Artist brightens Onset VFW with murals honoring military service

Wareham veterans who frequent the Dudley Brown VFW in Onset might have noticed a new, eye-catching tribute to their service on the walls — and it’s all thanks to a young artist with ties to the organization. Shaez Gomes has spent months volunteering...

The industrious beaver

Reader George B. Emmons of Fairhaven contributes occasional essays about the wildlife of Wareham. As a Wareham Week reader and coastal resident, you may not see many beavers in your travels unless you go back inland to where their dams...

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A class act: Student stars in new, locally-filmed TV show

Wareham native Charlie Tacker was bitten by the acting bug — or radioactive spider, perhaps — after he watched all of the Spider-Man movies when he was around age 4 or 5. “I was really fascinated with it. My mom thought I was going to end up jumping...

Cartoonist makes mental health accessible

Mental health can be a hard topic to talk about. For Wareham artist Cara Bean, that makes it a perfect subject to be explored through comics populated with unique and surprising characters. Recently, she published “Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic...

Wareham actress stars in short film

At just 21, Naomi Oliver has a mind boggling resume: She graduated college at 19, enrolled in a master’s program at Harvard, had a recurring role in a Netflix original series, and starred in a short film. Not to mention her gold medals for figure...