The Mattapoisett School Committee voted during Tuesday night’s meeting to approve the two-year School Improvement Plan, making it four out of four districts. The next step will be to looking at data including MCAS testing results, but the emphasis on the October 26 meeting was on the synergy established between the Old Rochester […] Read more »
On October 21, the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals heard two cases for special permits, but it was the second of those two which found not only the applicant Wallace Duncan, 3 Pine Road, answering questions but also the contractor hired to work on his family home. Duncan applied for an amendment to […] Read more »
Continued from October 5, three separate public hearings for nearly identical, bordering residential construction projects reached conclusion with the Rochester Conservation Commission on October 19. Three Notices of Intent were filed by Lee Castignetti of Long-Built Homes for contiguous lots on Neck Road for the purpose of constructing single-family houses with septic systems and […] Read more »
The Marion Energy Management Committee is looking to establish an updated identity in accordance with its current focuses and efforts. For several months, a sense of need to make such a change has been brewing, and the membership agreed during Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting on a name change to propose to the Select […] Read more »
Attorney Cary Leblanc represented applicants Bernadette Kelly and L. Sheldon Daly in an opening discussion with the Marion Planning Board on October 18, as the prospective applicant seeks authorization to create a concierge service for their real estate clients when visiting the area. Currently permitted by-right for business use, Kelly and Daly hope […] Read more »
Jennifer Fulton will get her new pool, while a more involved Notice of Intent filed by John and Pamela Lees was continued with a sense of optimism during the Marion Conservation Commission’s October 13 meeting. The Lees filed their NOI for reconstruction of a single-family house, the construction of an in-ground swimming pool, […] Read more »
The October 25 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission got off to a bit of a fiery start when a Request for Determination of Applicability for property at 0 Marion Road, owned by David Nicolosi, was heard. Represented by Bill Madden of G.A.F. Engineering, Nicolosi’s application sought to determine if the 3-acre parcel is […] Read more »
While the Town of Mattapoisett was awaiting a financial reckoning from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue in the form of free-cash certification, the Select Board met on October 22 to give the November 8 Special Town Meeting warrant a final once-over and their signatures. When it got to the matter of free cash, […] Read more »
Longtime Marion-based developer Sherman Briggs called The Wanderer on October 21 to say he has pulled his application for a market-rate, residential development that he had been planning for Spring and Mill streets near the Brew Fish restaurant. “I just got tired of the innuendos,” said Briggs, asserting that Planning Board members “had […] Read more »
While the October 14 meeting of the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission did not offer updates on the Point Road multi-use path or open space maintenance, MOSAC Chairman John Rockwell took the opportunity to give listeners some backstory where it concerns certain aspects of the shared-use pathway that runs from Fairhaven into Mattapoisett and […] Read more »