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 »
Four weeks of work is scheduled at 28 Pitcher Street, a failing property that the Marion Board of Health has discussed in many meetings and took up again during its August 18 public meeting. The owner visited the Town House earlier this month and then produced a list of recommendations put together by […] Read more »
The Joseph H. Plumb Library Board of Trustees met on August 18 to update members on the search for a new library director. After the sudden resignation of former Library Director Jennifer Woodward on August 5 after only a month on the job, trustees were mum on explaining why Woodward exited so soon. […] Read more »
During Monday night’s meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission, David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & Leone, Inc. confirmed to the commissioners that a Chapter 91 waterways permit application has been filed on behalf of property located in Rochester. During the previous meeting, Conservation Commission Chairman Mike King had expressed the need to further […] Read more »