With a short meeting agenda, the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen met on December 23, primarily to hold an executive session. As a result, the public portion of the proceedings was only long enough to include the following meaningful bits. Town Administrator Mike Lorenco advised the selectmen that the Finance Committee would soon begin […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission wrapped up a busy year with its December 23 featuring several public hearings and action items. Four public hearings were held and continued to the commission’s January 13 meeting. In Case SE041-1345, continued from December 9, Carmine and Beth Martignetti filed a Notice of Intent for shoreline site improvements, […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Selectmen was notified during its December 21 meeting that the Town of Freetown had joined the Bristol-Plymouth district, declining the October 27 invitation made by the Old Colony Regional School District. The notification, received on December 14, means that students from Freetown currently attending Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School […] Read more »
Last summer, August 3 to be exact, developer Ryan Correia came before the Mattapoisett Planning Board asking what type of development option the town would like to see on the 21 acres he owned at 3 Crystal Springs Road. As reported by The Wanderer in the August 8 edition, Correia discussed several subdivision possibilities. “The conceptual plans […] Read more »
It’s been seven years since Mattapoisett voters endorsed the establishment of a committee to review the needs of municipal departments facing projects costing at least $10,000 and to chart the course of those expenditures over a period of five to 10 years. No small task; yet, the effectiveness of the process has been proven. For […] Read more »
Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail simply has not had time to attend a string of recent Sippican Elementary School budget subcommittee meetings, so the Finance Committee sought to appoint a member to act as the town’s liaison to the subcommittee. The eventual appointment of FinCom member Karen Kevelson was only one of several made, as […] Read more »
One of Marion’s longtime families, landowners, and business owners has engaged in a complicated process to improve the Route 6 egress around his and family members’ properties, and his case was heard during the December 21 meeting of the Marion Planning Board. Bill Washburn, Warren Washburn, and Chris Washburn were among the Washburns on Monday […] Read more »
On December 21, the Marion Pathway Committee met after a few months off to take up the matter of when, where, and how the town will connect bike paths and bikeways to the neighboring towns of Mattapoisett and Wareham. Yet with the plans each of the neighbors are now pursuing, one off the beaten path […] Read more »
The proposed Cranberry Highway 40R development saw significant progress during the Rochester Conservation Commission meeting held on December 15. After a roughly yearlong process to receive commission approval, the Notice of Intent Application filed by Steen Realty was unanimously approved by the commission members. Phil Cordeiro, representing Steen Realty, came before the commission […] Read more »
Three public hearings were on the agenda for the Marion Conservation Commission at its December 9 Zoom meeting. In a 7:20 pm hearing, Carmine and Beth Martignetti filed a Notice of Intent to make shoreline site improvements, including removing a vertical stone/concrete seawall, expanding an existing coastal beach into an upland area, and […] Read more »