After substantial discussions over recent weeks, Marion’s Community Preservation Committee voted on March 5 to finalize its Fiscal Year 2022 recommendations of applications received for town and state-matching funds under the state’s Community Preservation Act. Nine applications will be recommended for CPA funding at Spring Town Meeting. Ten applications had originally been presented […] Read more »
In the Marion Finance Committee’s only order of business in its March 3 meeting, its members voted to approve a transfer from the reserve fund in order to solve a personnel dispute involving a union member who left Marion employment during Fiscal Year 2021. Per terms of an agreement to remain confidential, the […] Read more »
The Marion Affordable Housing Trust is taking steps to assess its progress since 2015 on procuring opportunities for affordable housing in town. On March 9, the trust met with Eric Arbeene from the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District (SRPEDD) to review the 2015 Marion Housing Plan and learned that, despite having accomplished […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission apparently has settled on a plan of attack in its ongoing effort to calculate the cost and determine the optimum timing for the borrowing it will take to make the long-awaited upgrade to its water treatment facility. The nearly obsolete Targa II water-treating system presently used […] Read more »
It was a busy week for Chuck McCullough, chairman of both the Mattapoisett Capital Planning and Community Preservation Committees. But that’s to be expected as the town’s budget-focused committees continue their review and recommendation processes in a lead-up to the Annual Spring Town Meeting. On March 3, McCullough met with the CPC to […] Read more »
Coming before the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen on March 9 was Lions Club president Ross Kessler to discuss plans for the return of the popular Lions Club Harbor Days and triathlon, annual summertime events sidelined in 2020 due to COVID-19. July 10 through 18 may just find the village streets full of visitors again. […] Read more »
The Marion Zoning Board of Appeals learned on February 25 that Heron Cove Estates developer Steen Realty Development Corporation plans to increase the size of its proposed Wareham Road 40B development after purchasing a number of abutting properties. The developer’s attorney, Mark Bobrowski, informed the ZBA in a letter dated February 19 that the […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission continued its discussion from prior meetings relating to the Makepeace Enforcement Order. Bill Madden of G.A.F. Engineering, representing the response to the Enforcement Order, provided an update to commission members on March 2 on the progress being made before a formal Notice of Intent filing. Madden explained that he […] Read more »
Mattapoisett’s Planning Board discussed the important work of updating the town’s Master Plan during its meeting on March 1. Chairman Tom Tucker spoke to the discussions that have already taken place on chapters of the document, such as housing and economic development. Looking forward, he said that on March 2, the chapters on […] Read more »
W. Dale Jones made an unusual filing with the Marion Conservation Commission during its February 24 Zoom meeting that led to some education for the meetings’ viewers. In a public hearing, Jones filed an Abbreviated Notice of Resource Area Delineation (ANRAD) to review and confirm the wetland resource area (BVW) boundaries at the […] Read more »