The Marion School Committee on February 8 voted to reopen Sippican School to full-time in-person learning for Kindergarten and Grades 1 and 2 beginning after the winter break on Monday, February 22. The committee approved an action plan to prepare the school building for educating its early learners last month, and Sippican School […] Read more »
Robert Ferreira of ILC Development LLC came before the Rochester Planning Board on February 9 to begin an informal discussion on his plans for a potential expansion of his business. According to Ferreira, new regulations in place due to COVID-19 have resulted in a need for increased office space at his place of business. […] Read more »
Monday night’s Zoom meeting of the Marion Marine Resources Commission removed any doubt that the applications received by the town for the aquaculture grants forfeited last year by Shea Doonan will not yield a grant in time to farm in 2021. “I already feel it’s too late for this year. It was [too […] Read more »
The day after Town Administrator Jay McGrail presented Marion’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget to the Board of Selectman, he met with the Finance Committee on February 3 to do the same, and the message was consistent. Department heads were asked to present a level-services budget. “This is not where we started. A lot […] Read more »
Now that the preliminary meetings have concluded and with eight separate sections of the outdated 2000 Master Plan to review, study and update, Mattapoisett’s Master Plan Committee began the real work of identifying issues and making recommendations on Land Use, Housing, Economic Development, and Climate Resiliency during its February 3 meeting. The members […] Read more »
The news that cars were pulling into the recently improved parking area at Grassi Bog was inspiring to Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission Chairman John Rockwell, who shook off Vice Chairman Alan Harris’s report that the area “is getting a little muddy and dug up.” Harris told MOSAC members during their February 4 […] Read more »
On February 4, during the meeting of the Mattapoisett Finance Committee, Highway Surveyor Barry Denham announced he would not be running for reelection. Denham has been the go-to-person at the Highway Department for the last 15 years. Prior to his current position at the Highway Department, Denham was a selectman for six years […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission faces a $1 million decision on how to update its water-treatment facility, and the increasing sense is that its members have already decided it makes no sense to save that million knowing it will likely lead to much greater spending later. Koch Separation Systems can either […] Read more »
Two parcels located along the barrier beach at Cove Street adjacent to Pine Island Pond cleared at least one hurdle in the process of being approved for development when the application for an Abbreviated Notice of Resource Area Delineation was accepted during the February 8 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission. Representing Pam […] Read more »
The much anticipated new Mattapoisett bike path Phase 1b with a bridge spanning from Reservation Road to Goodspeed Island will not open in time for the warmer seasons, it was announced at the February 9 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen. Town Administrator Mike Lorenco told the board that during a recent […] Read more »