It may not be a true eleventh-hour revelation, but pretty close, as the Mattapoisett Planning Board voted on April 5 to withdraw a new Solar Bylaw Article from the Annual Town Meeting Warrant after learning that legal edits are needed. For over a year, the board and its members, especially Janice Robbins, have […] Read more »
With Marion set to host the town’s first body art and tattoo establishment, the Marion Board of Health on April 6 set its sights on May to hold a public hearing to adopt a set of body art establishment regulations. Marion’s regulations will be based primarily on the state’s own set of model […] Read more »
The elephant in the kitchen proved too big not to talk about when the Marion Planning Board met via Zoom on April 5. In a public hearing opened to entertain applicant Matt Zuker’s request for a zoning reclassification of 30 acres of land on Bournhurst Road and Wareham Street (Route 6) from single-family […] Read more »
Times they are a-changing, or so the song goes. But change is inevitable as the push and pull of surrounding events, or in this case big-ticket municipal projects, have the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee ready to dig deeper and more expansively into requests than ever before. On March 31, committee Chairman Chuck McCullough […] Read more »
Town Administrator Jay McGrail and Finance Director Judy Mooney appeared before the Finance Committee at its March 31 Zoom meeting to explain changes to two articles for the Spring Town Meeting warrant. The committee members voted to approve the changes to Articles 2 and 20, part of their meeting including votes to approve warrant […] Read more »
In a Zoom meeting held on April 6, the Rochester Conservation Commission continued a discussion related to extending a previously issued Order of Conditions for the construction of a bituminous concrete (asphalt) processing facility along King’s Highway. Stephen Meltzer of Edgewood Development Company, LLC, representing the project, explained that he conducted a successful […] Read more »
The April 6 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen may have been a brief 25 minutes, but the two items on the agenda represented opportunities to improve lives, both everyday life and, for some, the quality of a life being lived in the shadow of medical issues. One day motorists may be […] Read more »
The Town of Rochester will lose two key employees at the end of Fiscal Year 2021, Conservation Agent Laurell Farinon and Town Planner Steven Starrett. Both employees’ resignation letters were officially accepted by the Board of Selectmen during its April 5 meeting. Farinon was recognized for her 27 years of service to the […] Read more »
Evidence was unearthed supporting the belief that Cross Neck Road is at least partly a public way, but arguments and data presented at the April 6 meeting of the Marion Board of Selectmen fell short of concluding that the entire road is public. Marion resident David Gulley appeared before the selectmen seeking an […] Read more »
Just before 1:30 pm on April 6, the Mattapoisett Fire Department was called out to 18 Ned’s Point Road for a reported fire in the attic. Before even arriving on scene, the police dispatchers reported multiple calls about the fire. Chief Andrew Murray was the first on the scene and reported heavy fire […] Read more »