Following Monday night’s public hearing of and unanimous vote to recommend the proposed $7,646,778 Mattapoisett Schools operating budget for Fiscal Year 2023, three Mattapoisett School Committee members used the floor to “denounce” critical comments quoted from the March 24 Finance Committee meeting in an article that appeared on Page 12 of the March 31 […] Read more »
Old Landing is an attractive little park and draws new interest for varying usage, but recent conversation with Demi Barros and Helen Westergard led Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail to propose the installation of a plaque commemorating the Veterans Memorial at the Front Street site. In meeting with Barros and Westerguard, two members […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Select Board Chairman Jordan Collyer told the other board members and the public that discussions with Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Mike Nelson had taken place. Included in that discussion was Finance Committee Chairman Pat Donoghue, who had previously urged her committee not to support the FY23 local school budget as drafted […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission on Tuesday night approved a commission member’s project to construct a driveway on Gerrish Road near cranberry bogs. Commissioner Ben Bailey recused himself for the hearing that endorsed the Order of Conditions for the plan to place the driveway within the 100-foot buffer zone to a bordering, vegetative wetlands to […] Read more »
Energy Management Committee member Tom Friedman could have been Ray Kinsella looking out at his financially endangered Iowa cornfield, calling Marion “a Field of Dreams situation. If we build it, they will come,” he said, provoking laughter during Monday’s meeting of the members who are otherwise dead serious in their pursuit of green energy. […] Read more »
There is a combined total of 99 School Choice students attending the Old Rochester Regional High School and Junior High, and that’s the way it will stay after the ORR School Committee voted at its March 23 public meeting to retain the current parameters, policies and practices. The committee held a Public Hearing […] Read more »
Since first being permitted some years ago, the Brandt Point Village subdivision has been plagued by fits and starts, not the least of which have occurred due to changes in ownership. But for about a year now, Christian Farland, Farland Corporation, New Bedford, who now owns portions of the development, has expressed his desire […] Read more »
The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals is close to deciding on approving a special permit for a 190-foot-tall, monopole-style telecommunications tower facility on High Street in the face of a roomful of abutters airing their objections and concerns. Industrial Tower and Wireless LLC seek a special permit to reduce the required setback distance […] Read more »
Dr. Ed Hoffer’s circumstantial need to depart early from the March 24 meeting of the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals set off a substantial discussion in part because it foreshadowed his potential permanent departure. Hoffer’s bid for a seat on the Select Board would truncate his availability to follow through as a voting […] Read more »
On March 24 as the Mattapoisett Finance Committee neared the end of this latest round of FY23 budget reviews, Chairman Pat Donoghue commented that the local schools’ administration (Center and Old Hammondtown Elementary schools) had not provided full disclosure on enrollment numbers and had not taken any steps to trim the annually increasing bottom […] Read more »