The July 18 Mattapoisett Planning Board agenda included an informational meeting with Chris Vandenberghe of Outback Engineering, Inc. representing a Site Plan application filed by Sun Partners Solar of Newton. Vandenberghe outlined the scope of the project planned for 156 Acushnet Road, currently being used as agricultural land. The array is a 198-kilowatt alternative […] Read more »
A cannabis retail store may soon be coming to the Rochester Crossroads mixed-use development at Routes 58 and 28. The design of “Megan’s Organic Market,” an established cannabis retailer, seeks to normalize the retail cannabis-buying experience with a typical, retail-store configuration, company Principal Nick Andrian explained to the Rochester Select Board members Woody […] Read more »
For a very simple reason, the Rochester Planning Board has reversed course on its recent attempt to charge regulatory violations against the Buzzards Bay Coalition for cutting trees on Marion Road. Town Counsel Blair Bailey told the board during its Tuesday night public meeting that according to the coalition’s legal counsel, the Marion Road […] Read more »
The Building Committee appointed by the Marion Select Board for the purposes of lending various types of expertise to the process of enacting a plan to construct a new Department of Public Works operations center at Benson Brook met for the first time on Monday afternoon inside Town Administrator Jay McGrail’s office. Casey […] Read more »
In his July 12 Tata & Howard report to the Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission, engineering consultant Jon Gregory alerted the commissioners as to the economy’s effect on pricing even where it concerns the chemicals for the water-treatment plant based in Mattapoisett. Gregory characterized chemical price bids per gallon as “extremely large numbers […] Read more »
Chief of Police Richard Nighelli attended the June 15 meeting of the Marion School Committee to discuss the potential of a School Resource Officer (SRO) at Sippican School. Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson made sure to clarify for all listeners to the discussion that funds are not in the FY23 budget for such, […] Read more »
On July 12 members of the Mattapoisett Tree Committee met with the Select Board to give a 15-slide presentation on a variety of tree-related topics associated with the engineering and design work taking place for a project known as “Village Streets” (Main, Water and Beacon streets and Marion Road.) The roadway project since […] Read more »
Concerns about speeding on Marion’s roads, articulated a couple of years back by since-retired Select Board member John Waterman, eventually led to the formation of a Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. That committee’s work is now bearing fruit An update was jointly provided by Meghan Davis, engineering manager with the Department of Public Works […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Board of Health Chairman Carmelo Nicolosi was admittedly hesitant to accept Andrew Brousseau’s pitch on behalf of Gloucester-based Black Earth Composting on June 29. The board, including members Michelle Bernier and Russell Bailey, met with Brousseau and Mattapoisett Health Agent Gail Joseph at the Mattapoisett Transfer Station to discuss Brousseau’s proposal for […] Read more »
The Marion Planning Board Tuesday night granted a special permit to a business that will sell made-to-order, cold-food charcuterie and vegetable and fruit platters out of a Wareham Street storefront. Cynthia Servais explained that “Savor the Spread,” the business she plans to open at 119 Wareham Road, will not be involved in cooking any […] Read more »