Rochester’s three Select Board members overrode the wishes of the two-member Board of Assessors and appointed Finance Director Suzanne Szyndlar as a new member of the Assessors’ panel on Monday. Board of Assessors Chairperson Jana Cavanaugh and member Diana Knapp had wanted recently retired assessor Debra Lalli to return to the position as an […] Read more »
The Rochester Finance Committee took care of some housecleaning items for Fiscal Year 2022 with Finance Director Suzanne Szyndlar during its public meeting on Monday night. Two year-end transfers were unanimously approved by vote, one for $96,872.80 and another for $30,632. The latter was handled first and was relatively simple, as $30,632 was […] Read more »
Monday night’s meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board featured a light agenda that was breezily handled in approximately 25 minutes. Town Clerk Catherine Heuberger met with the board seeking approval that would grant the police chief authority to select which patrol officers would be deployed for poll duty during the State Primary to be […] Read more »
On July 28, the members of the Mattapoisett Marine Advisory Board heard Harbormaster Jamie McIntosh’s updated Emergency Management Plan. Although still in draft form, the board found the plan substantial, touching all the major areas that fall under his purview. In a follow-up, McIntosh provided the following draft now ready for the Select Board’s […] Read more »
The lone news from the Rochester Conservation Commission’s August 2 meeting was this: The commission has now lost two associate members this summer and needs them replaced. Commission Chairman Christopher Gerrior, remotely participating as a regular member via Zoom, announced that Lena Bourque recently told him she is not renewing her associate membership on […] Read more »
The July 28 meeting of the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals started with an introduction to the new Building Commissioner, Carl Bizarro, and some good news. The good news was that the new commissioner is on the same page as the board on handling zoning enforcement. Board member Richard Cutler asked Bizarro how […] Read more »
Monday night’s public meeting of the Marion Planning Board yielded little in the way of adjudication or voting decisions, but a significant piece of information emerged out of a general discussion regarding the town’s Master Plan. Noting an item regarding the power of the Planning Board to control derelict commercial properties, member Andrew […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Assessors want to replace retired assessor Debra Lalli with Debra Lalli as an appointee, but the Select Board delayed that appointment Monday night, objecting that the members should have been told sooner that this was the plan all along. “Did you know this would happen?” Select Board Chairman Woody […] Read more »
Last winter’s contentious situation between residents of Marion Village Estates and developer Ken Steen over snowplowing responsibilities on Fieldstone Lane sent the newly formed homeowners association onto Town Meeting floor looking for acceptance as a town street. Their motion failed, as the town cited the hammerhead dead end to Fieldstone Lane as a […] Read more »
What for several months seemed to be a stagnant situation with the prospects of a solar array at the Benson Brook Landfill took an energized turn at Monday night’s Marion Energy Management Committee meeting. EMC member Alanna Nelson came away from an Eversource presentation at a recent CVEC meeting, calling what she learned […] Read more »