The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals opened a public hearing on December 8 into a plan to build an 80×204-foot steel building with 10 separate bays and 16,320 square feet of floor space at 19 Country Road. But the board could not even come close to rendering a decision. Neighbors who are so […] Read more »
Having seen the Town of Rochester push back on the state’s winter-2023 timeframe to implement a new regulation requiring septic owners in designated nitrogen-sensitive areas to install expensive denitrification systems, Mattapoisett Board of Health Chairman Carmelo Nicolosi was eager to follow suit when the board met on December 8. A debate is growing […] Read more »
The December 12 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission was one of those rare occasions when a municipal board gets to hear from the youth in the community. Coming before the commission on this night was Boy Scout Murray Copps to discuss his Eagle project. Copps has secured permission from various private-property owners, whose […] Read more »
After Bernie Lynch of Community Paradigm Associates explained that “the numbers we used to see for these jobs have been cut by at least a third” and told the story of a recent search that yielded 13 candidates, only one of whom had been a town manager, the challenge facing a smaller town like Marion […] Read more »
In his Tata & Howard Report to Tuesday’s monthly public meeting of the Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission, Jon Gregory reported a December 19 meeting with Koch Separation Solutions at the Mattapoisett Water Treatment Plant to go over the filter-changeover schedule. “We’ll be operating two systems at the same time,” said Gregory, […] Read more »
The impression that Finance Committee member Peter Winters made during his November 15 interview before the Marion Select Board and the Board of Assessors still resonated when the two boards reconvened on December 7 at the Cushing Community Center. Board of Assessors Chairman George T.J. Walker said all three candidates (Winters, Michael Pierre […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board Tuesday night brought a plan to place a large-scale, solar-panel system canopy over the Rochester Memorial School parking lot another step closer to approval. The board noted it has received the project’s peer-review report from consulting engineer Ken Motta, but it discussed only the landscaping portion of the report […] Read more »
Members of the Rochester Conservation Commission will be visiting 32 Gerrish Road on Saturday, December 17, to see for themselves if a plan to build a single-family home, patio and landscape wall within a wetlands buffer zone there requires a Notice of Intent application. Brian Grady of G.A.F. Engineering, representing property owners Kevin […] Read more »
Before the Marion Capital Improvements Planning Committee can confidently sink its collective teeth into capital requests being made by the Old Rochester Regional School District, it has requested greater detail to facilitate its own process. In interviewing various municipal department heads, the CIPC takes in annual capital requests, each at least $10,000 in […] Read more »
The momentum felt earlier this year by the Town of Marion in its quest for a new harbormaster’s headquarters facility has been obscured by a dark cloud of doubt. In introducing initial budget projections for FY24, Harbormaster Isaac Perry told the Marine Resources Commission during its November 21 public meeting that he had […] Read more »