To the Editor; A quotation in last week’s account of the Planning Board’s meeting about the proposed solar bylaw deserves my response. A town official is quoted, “We need to look at Mattapoisett as Mattapoisett and take a hard look at what we are planning, not killing possible revenue. Ninety-four percent of the […] Read more »
Upside-Down House Gets Special Permit
The March 17 meeting of the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals was short and sweet with just one case scheduled, and short and sweet is just what the property owners Michael Esposito and Cynthia Redel, 18 Ned’s Point Road, needed after a devasting fire consumed their large, seaside home on April 6, 2021. That property […] Read more »
From the Files of the Rochester Historical Society
In her book,” Mattapoisett and Old Rochester,” Mary Hall Leonard cites a description of Rochester written by an anonymous author in 1815. Among the more detailed aspects of degrees of latitude and longitude, he writes about the town’s rivers, brooks and ponds. One of these is Merry’s Pond and he describes it as,” a round […] Read more »
Septic Code Will Reflect Practice
There are two ways that the Marion Board of Health could revise its Septic Code: 1. Rewrite to rid the document of “Frankenstein” elements; 2. Write in a statement that if the state sets a different set of criteria for a leaching area besides Marion’s, the state’s criteria will take precedent. “There are […] Read more »
Employees to Get 3 Percent Raise
The Rochester Select Board is recommending a higher-than-ever, cost-of-living raise for all town employees in the next fiscal year in an attempt to keep employees from leaving the town workforce. On Monday night, the board proposed a 3-percent COLA increase for FY23, a move that in prior years yielded no more than a […] Read more »
DPW Open House & “Pre-Town Meeting” Meeting
The Town of Marion invites residents to attend two upcoming events. On Saturday, April 9 at 10 am the Town will hold an Open House at the Dept. of Public Works Facility on Route 6. We will offer a tour of the buildings at the site and showcase the proposed plans for a new […] Read more »
Albert R. Rivet
Albert R. Rivet beloved husband of Elizabeth (Lanagan) Rivet and son of the late Normand and Yvonne (Lague) Rivet transitioned peacefully from this life to the next in the presence of his family at home on March 24, 2022. He was born on January 17, 1947 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was the proud […] Read more »
Stephen Arthur Cook
Stephen Arthur Cook, a.k.a. Cookie, peacefully drew his last breath on a glorious spring morning. Cookie’s focus and passion was his family. He will be missed by his wife Diane of 50 years, his 3 children, Douglas S. Cook and his wife Monika of Jackson, WY, Danielle Cook Kawash and her husband Sameer of […] Read more »
The MAC Theater Announces Open Auditions
The Marion Art Center Theater announces open auditions for the upcoming production of select one acts from the humorous collection All in the Timing by playwright David Ives. Auditions will be held at the Marion Art Center on Saturday, April 2 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm and on Sunday, April 3 from 1:00-3:00 pm. The MAC […] Read more »
Town Meeting Vote to Guide Future of DPW
With an eye geared toward the May 9 Town Meeting, the Marion Finance Committee reviewed PowerPoint presentations on both the proposed Marine Center and new Department of Public Works facility during its March 16 meeting. The two projects will appear as articles on the warrant for the May 9 Annual Town Meeting and […] Read more »