The Rochester Planning Board accepted the inevitable notice on Tuesday night that Industrial Tower and Wireless LLC is withdrawing its site-plan review application for its proposed 190-feet monopole-style telecommunications tower facility on High Street. The Zoning Board of Appeals last week unanimously denied a special permit for the tower project’s request to reduce […] Read more »
A plan proposed by Todd Mello and Tara Menard for a barrier beach campsite on Cove Street met with neighbor ire when presented by David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc., during the May 10 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission. A letter submitted by Bob Warren, a resident in the beach neighborhood, […] Read more »
The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously denied a special permit for a proposed 190-foot monopole-style telecommunications tower facility on High Street that close neighbors had crowded the hearing room for over a month of meetings to oppose. The High Street neighbors barely restrained themselves from applauding during the May 4 public meeting, as […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional Joint School Committee/Superintendency Union #55 carried out a lot of business during Tuesday night’s public meeting, the most significant of which was formal agreement with Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson on what union-side Chairperson Sharon Hartley indicated would be a long-term contract extension. Both sides voted unanimously. Hartley […] Read more »
It was an hour past the posted start time of 6:30 pm before Monday night’s Mattapoisett Spring Town Meeting got underway. Long lines at the registration desks, lines that circled around the rear of Old Rochester Regional High School kept moderator John Eklund from opening the meeting on time. But once everyone was seated […] Read more »
Three major construction projects in the Town of Marion will proceed with cautious optimism after key votes of citizen support at a well-attended Annual Town Meeting on Monday night at Sippican School. Articles 10 and 11 of the warrant addressed the proposed operations center for the Department of Public Works and the harbormaster’s […] Read more »
A vote of approval by the Marion Conservation Commission on April 27 was a hollow victory for Omegon Nominee Trust in a Negative Determination of Applicability to upgrade two, existing, failed cesspools to Title 5 compliance with the installation of a 1,500-gallon concrete septic tank and chamber leaching area at 28 Landing Road. […] Read more »
Monday night’s brief Mattapoisett Planning Board meeting found the members looking at a 1987 subdivision roadway covenant for a project that never took place. Outgoing member Janice Robbins said that while combing through files in the Planning Board office, she happened upon an unreleased roadway covenant for Brookside Estates, a subdivision that would later […] Read more »
A technical glitch that prematurely knocked the April 21 remote-access, public meeting of the Marion Board of Health offline was resolved with a special meeting called for April 27. In that subsequent meeting, the board officially closed unfinished business from April 21 and further developed its discussion on a strategy to replace Health Agent […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission approved an underground connection to solar power on Old Middleboro Road and gained two new members on Tuesday night. Middleboro Road solar-farm developer Solar MA Project Management, LLC’s original plan was to install utility poles down the length of Old Middleboro Road to a homeowner there. Tuesday night, company representatives […] Read more »