The Marion Planning Board met on Monday for a list of action items that also included preparations and scheduling for 2026. The meeting began with confirmation of the 2026 Planning Board meeting schedule, available on the town website: www.marionma.gov/783/Meeting-Schedule. “My mind doesn’t work that far in advance, so I’m going to say it […] Read more »
Rochester’s Conservation Commission Tuesday approved the Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Notice of Intent proposal to ecologically restore a former 240-acre cranberry bog at 0 Walnut Plain Road by issuing the plan a positive Order of Conditions with special conditions. The plan here includes removal of berms, culverts and irrigation lines, and filling and re-grading […] Read more »
Weeks of delays in achieving quorums necessary to hold a joint meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board and Mattapoisett Board of Health ended when, on October 30, the boards came together. They met to ostensively make a final decision on who would temporarily fill the vacant seat on the Board of Health. A seat […] Read more »
The former Country Fair Grounds on Pine Street became the focus of two important issues at the Rochester Select Board meeting on Monday. Town Administrator Cameron Durant gave the Finance Committee an update on the plans for the new fire station proposed for 65 Pine Street that included news of an approximate $1,000,000 […] Read more »
The Water & Sewer Regulations Review Committee met at the Town Hall Annex’s meeting room on October 23 with the hope of synthesizing some regulations and making them more user friendly to applicants. Committee members for consecutive weeks have waded through the regulations and some of the October 23 talking points included whether […] Read more »
The October 27 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission found the members plugging away at technical documents and procedures for nearly 3-hours. Cases ran the gambit, from your average, Request for Determination of Applicability, to questions around whether or not a new pier would encroach into a shared channel over a mostly underwater […] Read more »
An informal discussion of another proposed solar project in town started Rochester’s Planning Board meeting Tuesday. Project representative Sarah Sterns of Beals and Thomas Engineering reported the plan is for two ground-mounted solar arrays at 0 High Street with frontage off of both High Street and Mayflower Lane. The discovery of a box turtle […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Select Board met on October 28 in regular session. However, with a light agenda before them, they sailed through the meeting. The board discussed the changes to the position of Animal Control Officer that will now come under the leadership of the Police Department. It was explained that changes at the […] Read more »
Plans for a 48-unit condominium development still might be tweaked a bit based on peer reviews from Field Engineering and other town sources, according to the developers’ presentation at the October 22 Marion Conservation Commission meeting in the town Police Station conference room. Toll Brothers Inc. representatives Mark Bamburak and Jeff Heidelberg said […] Read more »
Rochester’s Zoning Board of Appeals on October 23 approved two garages that will be placed technically in their front yards. The board granted two variances to allow the construction of a detached garage greater than the permitted 1,000-square feet in the front yard of 45 Williams Way after property owner William Flaherty explained […] Read more »