Just when Fred Underhill felt as though Rochester’s Water Commission was being left out of an important water-related decision, Rochester Board of Selectmen member Woody Hartley assured him that the opposite was the case. “I was hoping you would open this as a meeting and vote on this as Water Commissioners,” said Hartley. […] Read more »
Marion Finance Director Judy Mooney and Town Administrator Jay McGrail gave the Board of Selectmen an overview of the town’s budget for Fiscal Year 2022 during the February 2 selectmen’s meeting via Zoom. McGrail said he asked the department heads in December to present level-services budgets with additional requests made separately and reported […] Read more »
The Town of Marion held its second quarterly meeting of the Water/Sewer Commissioners on January 28. The commissioners are made up of the Board of Selectmen: Randy Parker, Norm Hills, and John Waterman. Considering the staggering costs the town is facing to repair, replace, upgrade, and update its antiquated water and sewer facilities […] Read more »
During the February 1 meeting of the Mattapoisett Planning Board, board member Nathan Ketchel reported on the Mattapoisett Neck Road Resiliency Project. This study program is being funded by a grant the town received from the state’s Coastal Zone Management division of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The town received $74,981 […] Read more »
The state has approved the Town of Marion to receive 100 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination for those eligible through Phase 2 of the state’s vaccination distribution plan, according to the Town’s latest press release. “The big problem,” said Marion Board of Health Chairman Dr. Edward Hoffer on February 2, “is there […] Read more »
Even household budgets require data to be effective in managing expenses and how those expenses will be funded. Now consider the monumental task of building a budget for a town, any town, with its various cost centers, revenue streams, and, of course, contingency for the unexpected. Data is king in drilling down and in […] Read more »
The January 25 meeting of the Marion Energy Management Committee came with some encouraging news where it concerns the town’s progress in energy savings. MRC member Bill Saltonstall submitted Marion’s Annual Report to Green Communities two months ago on time and heard back. The town thus far has achieved 16.5 percent of the […] Read more »
The Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission briefly met on January 25 to approve the revised version of the Conservation Restriction for the Hoff Property. At the Board of Selectmen’s January 19 meeting, Selectmen Norm Hills and John Waterman voted to remove a sentence in the document connecting the Conservation Restriction to the denitrification of […] Read more »
After a lengthy review process that began over a year ago, the Cranberry Highway 40R Development received unanimous approval from the Rochester Planning Board in their meeting held on January 26. The project’s applicant, Ken Steen, explained that the language in the most recent decision is agreeable to both the development’s needs and […] Read more »
Carmine and Beth Martignetti’s twice-continued public hearing for shoreline improvements at 71 Moorings Road gained traction at the January 13 meeting of the Marion Conservation Commission. The Notice of Intent, which included removing a vertical stone/concrete wall, expanding on an existing coastal beach into an upland area, and reconstructing a stone jetty, was […] Read more »