Mattapoisett’s Community Preservation Committee oversees the grant application process for monies dedicated under the state’s Community Preservation Act to special projects not covered by the town’s general operating budget or other financial instrument. The committee studies the applications to ensure they qualify under the state guidelines for grants in one of several categories […] Read more »
Once a decision was made, the Town of Rochester wasted no time in getting its future ducks in a row. On Monday night, the Select Board voted to approve an interim arrangement that will enable Glenn Cannon to take office as new town administrator on Monday, March 28. Cannon was scheduled to replace […] Read more »
When Travis Andrade appeared before the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals during the latter’s February 24 public meeting, he knew what he was doing. That’s because he grew up with both parents heavily involved in municipal government. In seeking a variance under Chapter 20.40, Section D.1 of the town’s Zoning Bylaws for the approval […] Read more »
A downward trend in student enrollment in the Old Rochester Regional School District has tri-town finance committees seeking more information and they attempt to navigate long-range fiscal challenges, and Mattapoisett’s participation in a school-consolidation study had the local School Committee on high alert during its public meeting Monday night. In explaining the study […] Read more »
David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc. met with the Rochester Conservation Commission on March 1 to discuss and address any further questions or comments regarding a Notice of Intent filing at 0 Clapp Road by William Clapp, Clapp Nominee Trust. The 6-acre parcel is proposed for development of a single-family home by […] Read more »
The Marion Finance Committee’s February 9 public meeting saw Police Chief Richard Nighelli and Fire Chief Brian Jackvony present respective FY23 department budgets. In explaining his proposed budget increase for FY23, Nighelli pointed to 129 pages of legislation on police reform including 23 action items with delivery dates and policy changes, training requirements, and increase […] Read more »
Rochester’s Fire and Police departments are looking at significant increases for the next fiscal year, both leveraged by common and unique factors. In Tuesday night’s FY23 budget presentation to the scheduled public meeting of the Rochester Finance Committee, Police Chief Robert Small said his bottom line of $1,515,370 is affected by the impending […] Read more »
Before the issue took a timeout of sorts, the Marion Energy Management Committee had extensively debated over the course of several public meetings the merits of including the word “climate” in its proposed new moniker. No doubt, climate issues have been at the forefront of the EMC’s mission the past couple of years, […] Read more »
Developer Matt Zuker hopes that voters at Marion’s May 9 Spring Town Meeting will respond more favorably than they did last year when they voted down his application for a zoning change that would have allowed him to pursue construction of a multifamily, residential development on Route 6 next to the much larger Heron […] Read more »
Rochester residents could be looking at Spring Town Meeting warrant articles of $110,000 and $20,000 for feasibility studies aimed at two, potential three major construction projects that were in the cross hairs of the Rochester Public Safety Committee in its February 16 meeting with the Select Board at Town Hall. Both the Fire […] Read more »