The Rochester Select Board is recommending a higher-than-ever, cost-of-living raise for all town employees in the next fiscal year in an attempt to keep employees from leaving the town workforce. On Monday night, the board proposed a 3-percent COLA increase for FY23, a move that in prior years yielded no more than a […] Read more »
With an eye geared toward the May 9 Town Meeting, the Marion Finance Committee reviewed PowerPoint presentations on both the proposed Marine Center and new Department of Public Works facility during its March 16 meeting. The two projects will appear as articles on the warrant for the May 9 Annual Town Meeting and […] Read more »
Richard Vacca is a biologist, has worked as a quality assurance engineer, and has been an environmental planner in the private sector, as well as town planner and conservation agent for Franklin, Hanson and West Bridgewater. Vacca is also an attorney. After Vacca came before the Mattapoisett Select Board on Tuesday night as […] Read more »
Jeffrey and Amanda Costa will be able to build their garage and covered breezeway at 47 Cross Road after the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals determined during its March 17 public hearing that a variance allowing greater than the by-right square footage is warranted. In deliberating the merits of the request, ZBA member […] Read more »
Both applicant Christopher Kuppens and the Kittansett Club came away from public hearings with the March 9 Marion Conservation Commission able to proceed with their plans. The commission voted to issue an Order of Conditions to Kuppens for his Notice of Intent to construct a driveway, install utilities and perform site grading within […] Read more »
On March 9, the Marion School Committee held the public hearing for the FY23 Marion school budget. Handed the controls after opening remarks by Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Howie Barber outlined the budget in a PowerPoint presentation. The foundational approach has been […] Read more »
In early 2020, the Mattapoisett Planning Board began working on a solar bylaw that would put in place regulations on various sized solar arrays. From studying solar bylaws in other communities to attending conferences on the topic to working with legal teams, former Planning Board administrator Mary Crain and Planning Board member Janice Robins […] Read more »
The Marion Finance Committee held its final department interview for the FY23 budget season on March 9, taking on the Department of Public Works. The DPW covers a lot of ground between water, sewer and highway, but Director Nathaniel Munafo’s more complex challenges come on the sewer side, where projects large and small […] Read more »
In appearing before the Rochester Planning Board during the latter’s March 8 public meeting, Brian Wallace of JC Engineering, Inc. formally requested a judgment of “substantial completion” for Units 1, 2, 21, 22, 43 and 44 of the Plumb Corner Village housing development. “Forty-four is a model home so it’s really five units […] Read more »
The former Leisure Shores Marina has undergone massive cleanup and improvements since being purchased by Buzzards Bay Management LLC, Ned and David Kaiser, sentiments expressed by Mattapoisett Conservation Commission Chairman Mike King on March 14. Representing the marina’s Notice of Intent filing was David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc. The proposed […] Read more »