The Marion School Committee voted during its April 13 public meeting to accept a $500 grant from the Marion Cultural Council. As explained by Jess Barrett, who wrote a request for funding to bring acclaimed international storyteller Len Cabral to Sippican Elementary School, part of Sippican Elementary School’s first-grade ELA curriculum focuses on folk […] Read more »
Applicants Bernadette Kelly and L. Sheldon Daly III will be allowed to offer their real-estate clients circumstantially driven, short-term stays on the second floor of their 313 Wareham Street office after the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously during its April 14 public meeting to reinstate with a significant amendment a special permit […] Read more »
Better late than never? The Rochester Conservation Commission on Tuesday night approved a Certificate of Compliance for a 12- by 14-foot sunroom built 15 years ago within the buffer zone of wetlands at 68 Bowens Lane. “We had no idea the certificate of compliance was not completed,” Diane Delowery explained as the public hearing […] Read more »
Developer Matt Zuker, who needs Marion voters to support a zoning change at the May 9 Town Meeting so he can build a 48-unit, residential development on a 30-acre parcel near the Wareham town line, hopes the Planning Board will consider his project eligible for a simple majority vote as opposed to the two-thirds […] Read more »
Coming before the Mattapoisett Select Board on Tuesday night was Finance Committee Chairman Pat Donoghue to advise the board members of her intention to speak out about raising local school budgets and the research she has undertaken to more fully understand why the per-pupil costs between the high school and the town’s two elementary […] Read more »
Mark Rasmussen and Brendan Annett from Buzzards Bay Coalition attended the Mattapoisett River Valley Water Supply Protection Advisory Committee’s Tuesday afternoon Zoom meeting, where they proposed that the MRV member towns and Acushnet share in a $6,025,000 conservation restriction of the 240-acre Mahoney Lands. The property is situated mainly in Mattapoisett and also […] Read more »
Brian Wallace of J.C. Engineering came before the Rochester Planning Board on Tuesday night for two separate matters: a playground project at the Countryside Daycare Center and to hear peer-review consultant Ken Motta’s newest to-do list for the residential subdivision at Plumb Corner. Wallace said the existing playground and roadways would be updated […] Read more »
The April 6 meeting was a turning point for the Mattapoisett Master Plan Committee, as a draft of goals and strategies in various categories was unveiled. Guiding the local committee has been Lizeth Gonzalez, principal comprehensive planner with the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District. Goals and associated strategies for established categories […] Read more »
The Town of Marion might realize more benefit than a healthier harbor from its recent regulations requiring any new septic construction in town to include denitrification technology. “Nitrogen mitigation is something you should hang your hat on,” Kent Nichols of Weston & Sampson told the Marion Select Board and Town Administrator Jay McGrail […] Read more »
During the closing minutes of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission’s April 11 meeting, conservation contract agent Brandon Faneuf and associate Greg Lacroix brought up stormwater issues found at the new condominium project known as Stingray City, located on Marion Road. What initially was a simple request for a minor change to the Order of Conditions […] Read more »