Thirty Dartmouth and Westport artists and artisans have teamed up for their fourth season open studio weekend–August 13 and 14 from 10 am to 5 pm. Consisting of some of the area’s premiere painters, ceramic artists, photographers, jewelers, woodworkers and others, the ART drive uniquely puts emphasis on a consistent…

Wendy Williams Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. PLEASE CALL BAKER BOOKS FOR DETAILS – 508-997-6700 For hundreds of years, squid-giant, colossal, and otherwise-have been demonized as mysterious monsters of the deep. Even today they maintain a mystique, but scientists are gradually discovering some of their long-hidden secrets. Squid…

From: Beverly Carter (508) 992- 6958 beverlycarter2@comcast.net www.the-art-drive.com For Immediate Release the ART drive Open Studio Tour Donates To The Lloyd Center Dartmouth, MA –the ART drive –Dartmouth and Westport artists and artisans that teamed up last year to start a new open studio weekend donated $2000 to The Lloyd…

Dartmouth, MA – Susan Jennings, Director of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Office of Community and Campus Sustainability, will deliver the key-note address at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Lloyd Center for the Environment, Thursday, May 7th, 6:30 pm at the Dartmouth Grange Hall, 1133 Fisher Road in Dartmouth.…

The Chronicle DARTMOUTH / WESTPORT – Dartmouth and Westport artists that teamed up last summer to start a new open studio weekend donated $3,000 to the Lloyd Center. The monies will be used to fund a class of 25 fifth-graders in a year-long Turn-The-Tide education program; and for The Art…

Dartmouth, MA – What started out years ago as a way to thank their members and supportive neighbors, the LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT’S Fall Family Fun-Fest has become an annual fixture on the calendar of a growing number of South Coast nature enthusiasts. In celebrating the coming of the…

The Chronicle DARTMOUTH – A last-minute surge in demand caused the ticket sales for the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s annual clambake fundraiser to soar beyond all expectations, resulting in a sell-out for the fifth-year in a row. Last Friday night saw South Coast residents and guests from all over…

Standard Times Science is coming out of its shell at the Westport Middle School, thanks to a $2,000 grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust. In the 2008-09 academic year, all seventh and eighth grade students will be taking part in a Diamondback Terrapin Science Program, through the Lloyd…

By Robert Barboza Editor OUTSTANDING CONSERVATIONIST: William W. Pinney, Jr., recipient of this year’s George G. Haydock Award for outstanding contributions to protecting the coastal environment, accepts his award from Lloyd Center president Mary Ellen Hawes Lees at the Center’s annual meeting Thursday night. Lees was re-elected president, joining Robert…

NEW BEDFORD — The “Driving Green” workshop on Saturday is third in the trio of “Shrink Your Footprint” workshops at the Buttonwood Park Zoo. The series is sponsored by seven local non-profits: Buttonwood Park Zoo, The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, Lloyd Center for the Environment, Massachusetts…

Long before the sun had risen on the cold, calm morning of February 17, a crew of die-hard birders headed for the quiet Dartmouth woods to observe owl behavior. Led by Research Associate Jamie Bogart, the group set out to hear owls during their courtship period at the hour when…

On Sunday February 3, 2008, Lloyd Center staff, scientists and volunteer surveyors completed the second count for this season’s annual winter waterfowl survey, from the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island to Apponagansett Bay in Dartmouth. This year’s total of 7,073 birds in our estuaries and coastal ponds surpasses the December…

Spend warm, sunny days on the beach of your choice, helping protect the endangered piping plover, a shorebird that nests each year on the State beaches of Horseneck, Gooseberry, Demarest Lloyd, and West Island. These beaches experience high levels of human visitation and recreation, such that disturbance to adult birds…

By Daniel H. King Staff Writer Chronicle BUZZARDS BAY — On a beautiful winter day, dozens of curious area residents headed out into Buzzards Bay to see some of the South Coast’s least-seen inhabitants, seals. The Lloyd Center for the Environment hosted their annual Seal Watch and Cuttyhunk Island Tour…

DARTMOUTH – Once a month, Lloyd Center Educators arrive in Quinn Elementary School’s third-grade classrooms armed with props, worksheets, activities and other materials. Why? To teach the children about birds. Through birds, students are exploring basic concepts of life science such as food chains, predator/prey relationships, adaptations, migration and extinction,…

The Lloyd Center for the Environment just received notification from Monarch Watch that one of the Monarch butterflies tagged by students from Westport Elementary School was recovered in the El Rosario reserve in Mexico. The butterfly had traveled 2,290 from Westport to the over-wintering grounds in the mountains of central…

JACK IDDON/The Standard-Times DARTMOUTH – While working for an environmental group might seem light years away from a career in the city, the transition has been a natural one for D’Arcy MacMahon, executive director of the Lloyd Center for the Environment. Mr. MacMahon has spent the past 30 years working…

The Standard-Times October 12, 2004 By Jonathan Darling DARTMOUTH- Fifth-grade students at Cushman Elementary School took the lessons they learned in the classroom out to the environment at the Lloyd Center in Dartmouth last week. “It’s to get kids excited about the environment,” said Sarah Van Vleck, director of institutional…

The Chronicle Sept 1, 2004 By Christine Styan DARTMOUTH – Fledgling piping plovers blending into the pebbles on Horseneck Beach are part of a success story. Working with the federally endangered species, Lloyd Center Jamie Bogart has spent his summer making sure beachgoers stay away from the baby plovers before…