Marion Planning Board members Norm Hills, Eileen Marum, Jonathan Henry, Alanna Nelson, Tucker Burr and Andrew Daniel and administrative assistant Terri Santos gathered on Tuesday night at the Police Station and were joined remotely by Planning Board member Christopher Collings and Town Planner Doug Guey-Lee for a brief public meeting. On an unofficial […] Read more »
The recent disclosure that cost estimates for repairs to Long Wharf are nearly double the original figures was discussed at the August 25 public meeting of the Mattapoisett Marine Advisory Board. A week earlier, the Select Board reviewed the latest estimate provided by engineering consultants Childs Engineering Corporation expressing concern costs have soared […] Read more »
Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission Chairman John Rockwell called a special public meeting for August 17 to discuss progress on the Point Road Bike Path. Rockwell explained to the members in a short, historical sketch that several years ago, the commission received a grant allowing it to construct a bike path/trail along Point […] Read more »
Ken Steen’s 120-unit, affordable-housing development planned off Route 6 near the Wareham town line is in line for its final public hearing with the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday, September 8, at 6:00 pm. Town Counsel Jon Witten advised the ZBA not to close the public hearing during its August 25 public […] Read more »
The August 24 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Health found the members returning to a recently held public meeting in which a presentation given by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Nitrogen Sensitive Areas subcommittee (NSA) laid out a new program that requires reduction of nitrogen levels into estuaries. Once enacted, the […] Read more »
The Marion Marine Resources Commission Monday night heard dire warnings about the future of the town harbor’s management from Harbormaster Isaac Perry. Perry said the commonwealth’s new Police Act regulations, which require police-officer-level training for harbormasters and their staffs, might wipe out operations like his as stand-alone departments. “It looks like we’d be […] Read more »
There is end in sight for the Enforcement Order issued to the Marion Golf Club, 10 South Drive, for unpermitted tree and brush-cutting activity. Three members of the Marion Conservation Commission walked the site on August 20 and during their August 24 public meeting interacted with Brian Madden from LEC Environmental Consultants. Representing […] Read more »
The August 18 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Health found the board hearing firsthand from members of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection agency regarding new nitrogen-level regulations and other aspects of watershed protections to be implemented by the state within five years. Members of the DEP responsible for various moving parts of […] Read more »
Rockland Trust is building a drive-up/walk-up kiosk in the Village at Plumb Corner parking lot, it was learned during Tuesday night’s public meetingof the Rochester Planning Board. The company’s ATM currently inside the Village mall building is being relocated, Rockland Trust Real Estate Manager Stephen Carroll said, because of the awkwardness of having […] Read more »
The Marion Energy Management Committee welcomed Chief of Police Richard Nighelli to its public meeting on Monday night so they could discuss the possibility of a structural addition to the police-station parking lot that would allow solar panels to be placed over the area. The benefits would not only include the energy created […] Read more »