Select Board member Brad Morse told Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of Rochester’s Public Safety Building Feasibility Study Committee that he wouldn’t be surprised to hear suggestions at the annual Town Meeting that Rochester resign its status as a Green Community in Massachusetts. At issue is the cost of doing business, and in this case, the […] Read more »
Scott Machos will have his new shed but not without some lengthy deliberation on the part of the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals, which approved a variance during a March 9 public hearing. Machos sought a variance under Chapter 20.40, Section E2 of the Rochester Zoning Bylaws for approval of the construction of a […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Select Board Member Jordan Collyer, in talking Tuesday night about the opening of the Mattapoisett Bike Path Phase 1b, made his feelings very clear. “The MOU is going to be the problem,” said Collyer, referring to a “memorandum of understanding” between the town and the state, in which areas of responsibility for […] Read more »
Abutters criticized a proposal to replace a house at 694C Mill Street (end of Giffords Lane) but not before Marion Conservation Commission Vice Chairman Emil Assing aired his concerns during the commission’s February 22 public meeting. S&S Ventures, LLC filed a Notice of Intent for reconstruction of a single-family house at 694C Mill […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional School Committee’s scheduled discussion on committee-sponsored social-media accounts and access nearly resulted in the takedown of the committee’s Facebook page before a last-second support of a motion resulted in only a temporary shutdown pending internal review. Committee Chair Michelle Smith read a prepared statement during the committee’s March 1 […] Read more »
Representatives of Rochester town departments and boards met Tuesday night to review the new policy on access to Town Counsel, section by section, to iron out the concerns of some board members. Planning Board Chairman Arnold Johnson conducted the paragraph-by-paragraph review after Select Board Chairman Woody Hartley said the meeting had been scheduled […] Read more »
Dave Andrews of the Bay Club Real Estate Holdings and engineer Bob Field of Field Engineering came before the Mattapoisett Planning Board on Monday night to request approval of a Form C Definitive Subdivision for parcels located inside the original 624-plus acres. Original conceptual plans for the site in question were for the […] Read more »
The Marion Planning Board was finally able to put a bonnet on the lengthy list of changes in town bylaws that will be brought before voters at the May 8 Annual Town Meeting. The board, made up of Chairman Norm Hills, Eileen Marum, Andrew Daniel, Jon Henry, Alanna Nelson, Chris Collings and Tucker Burr, […] Read more »
The Rochester Select Board Monday night told a group of residents who packed the Town Hall meeting room that the board could not help them with their concerns over a plan for a wireless communications tower on High Street. On the night’s agenda was the question of overturning the Select Board’s right to […] Read more »
Deputy Harbormaster Adam Murphy went before the Marion Select Board on Tuesday night to discuss proposed Harbormaster Department fee increases for FY24. Vin Malkoski, the chairman of the Marine Resources Commission, was also on hand after writing a letter of support for the measures. Murphy stressed that while the department faces serious financial […] Read more »