Abutters were again heard from on Monday night at the Music Hall, where the Marion Select Board’s continued public hearing for the entertainment license sought by the Mary Celeste restaurant was reopened. This time, the hearing was closed, and the Select Board members voted to award the license to applicant Mike Achilles, who […] Read more »
During the July 20 meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board, Chairman Jordan Collyer asked for the public’s understanding as the town works through the weekend arrest of Chief of Police Mary Lyons. Reading from prepared notes, Collyer called it “an unfortunate matter. [Chief Lyons] has been placed on administrative leave with pay effective […] Read more »
Dr. Shannon Finning has tendered a letter of resignation from the Mattapoisett School Committee effective July 13. The resignation also ends her membership on the Old Rochester Regional Joint School Committee / Superintendency Union #55, for which she had served as union-side chair. In her letter to the Town of Mattapoisett, Finning cited […] Read more »
It came at the end of a long Planning Board meeting – troubling revelations that the planking on Mattapoisett’s heralded bike path Phase 1b was failing. Planning Board Administrator Mike Gagne advised the board members of discussions that have taken place with state agencies involved in the design and construction oversight of what […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Police Chief Mary R. Lyons pleaded not guilty to the charge of Operating Under the Influence during an arraignment held on Monday, July 19, in Falmouth District Court. The charge stems from a weekend incident in which Lyons was driving northbound on Route 28 in Bourne and was pulled over by Massachusetts […] Read more »
With so much to consider from every corner of the community, the Mattapoisett Master Plan Committee, a body of some 20 volunteers, has discussed a wide variety of topics since the beginning of the year. From the needs of senior citizens to the needs of school-age children, from street improvement projects to climate resiliency […] Read more »
Although he spoke respectfully of abutters’ concerns over stormwater flooding on two undeveloped adjoining lots on Starboard Way near Molly’s Cove, Mattapoisett Conservation Commission Chairman Mike King was also very clear: “You should engage an engineer to help you with drainage issues on your property,” he told the abutters, invoking that comment five times […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission voted at its July 13 meeting to move forward with the preliminary design agreement for the Koch Separation filter upgrade to its water treatment plant. After Jon Gregory of Tata & Howard told the commission that the preliminary design engineering agreements were set last month for filter […] Read more »
Mentorship played a key role in keeping first-year Old Rochester Regional School Superintendent Mike Nelson and his Central Office staff on an even keel through the tumultuous 2020-21 academic year that saw ORR District students begin the year mainly in a hybrid learning format and eventually return to school on a full-time, in-person basis. […] Read more »
Rochester Planning Board members were once again accused of favoritism regarding their review of a Definitive Subdivision Plan known as Longbow Lane filed by Planning Board member Ben Bailey, who had recused himself from the proceedings. Represented by Bill Madden of G.A.F. Engineering Inc., the Gerrish Road project would feature a single residential […] Read more »