It will take at least one more meeting of the Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester Select Boards together with representatives from both Old Rochester Regional School District and ORCTV before they will vote to support contractual agreements and take them to their respective town meetings. Based on an agreed-upon arrangement initiated by Marion Town […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett School Committee met on July 1 by Zoom, went into executive session, and emerged to vote to accept a memorandum of agreement with the Mattapoisett Educators Association. The one-year agreement includes a 2.25-percent pay increase. Mattapoisett Town Administrator Mike Lorenco also attended the meeting and voted in the affirmative, along with […] Read more »
In the July 1 meeting of the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission at the Police Station, Chair John Rockwell characterized progress on various projects as “slow,” but said, “The wheels are turning.” MOSAC is involved in several areas around Marion, and the nature of that involvement seems to change with every location. […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health on July 6 considered adding some dumpster regulations to the town’s Health Code to combat an increasing issue with pests, particularly raccoons, causing problems at the dumpsters of area establishments. Health Agent Anna Wimmer told the board that she and Public Health Nurse Lori Desmarais researched the regulations […] Read more »
Coming before the Rochester Conservation Commission on July 6 was Tess Paganelli of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority with a Request for Determination of Applicability for the installation of two tracks with bumping posts located in the back of an existing building to the edge of a fenced area located at 45 Kings Highway. […] Read more »
The Marion Planning Board is unanimous in two beliefs – one belief that the board says does matter, and one that its members admit does not. The belief that mattered in a July 6 decision to grant applicant Shawn Lynch, 428 Wareham Road, a special permit to operate a food truck in a […] Read more »
In response to the Marion Planning Board’s request for comment on the case of Steve Lynch, 428 Wareham Street, who seeks a special permit to place a food truck on the location where a barber shop sits at the intersection of Spring Street and Route 6, the Zoning Board of Appeals gave a thumbs up […] Read more »
Effective July 1, Marion Public Health Nurse Lori Desmarais will also officially begin in an expanded role as the town’s public health director/nurse after a vote by the Marion Board of Health on June 23. During a brief Zoom meeting, the board also voted to approve an expanded job description that will allow […] Read more »
It could have been a long day’s journey into night on June 28 when the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission gathered for its first hybrid meeting, a combination of in-person and remote-access attendance. Instead, some 16 cases were quickly handled. Attending in-person in the Town Hall’s conference room were commissioners David Lawrence, John Jacobsen, Chapman […] Read more »
During the June 23 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Health, members Ken Dawicki, Russell Bailey, and Chairman Carmelo Nicolosi quickly approved what had previously been a contentious septic system design when representative David Davignon presented them with an amended plan. Property owner Robert Malm, Aucoot Road, had first asked for several waivers […] Read more »