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 »
The timing of the wind-down of the local elementary schools’ two-year improvement plans and the Old Rochester Regional School District’s Vision 2023 plan with the emergence of a new, outsourced, literacy-assessment program is music to the ears of the Mattapoisett School Committee. Darci Burns, PhD and Executive Director of Hill for Literacy, Inc., […] Read more »
The proposed bylaw changes for the 2023 Annual Town Meeting will be trotted out to one more Marion Planning Board meeting, according to Chairman Norm Hills. The draft summary of changes reviewed during the board’s February 21 meeting was nothing the members had not heard before, but Hills solicited questions and got some. […] Read more »
Abutters voiced their concerns and dismay that property adjacent to their homes on Beech Wood Road was going through conservation review. On February 27, a Notice of Intent filed by Carmelo Nicolosi for the construction of a single-family home with fill and grading in a buffer zone became a bit controversial when abutter Colleen […] Read more »
The makeup of the Marion Select Board had changed since the last time Tim Sawyer of Yarmouth Port-based Catalyst Architecture/Interiors Inc. was before its members to provide an update on the new Marine Center planned for Island Wharf. Catalyst was first involved almost three years ago in what started out as a design-feasibility […] Read more »