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 »
On January 21, the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals heard an application for a Special Permit filed by Rene and Sheila Macie for property located at 3 Pinebrook Lane within a small subdivision. The applicants sought permission to construct a third garage bay to an existing attached garage where the pavement had already been placed. […] Read more »
Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail and Department of Public Works Director Dave Willett updated the Marion Finance Committee on January 20 with the latest on the wastewater treatment plant lagoon lining project. According to town representatives, engineering firm CDM Smith originally estimated that 350 dry tons of sludge needed to be removed, but […] Read more »
The Rochester School Committee unanimously voted to reopen the school on a full-time basis to Grades K-2 during the committee’s January 21 Zoom meeting. The pivot will be effective on Tuesday, February 2. “I’m pleased for everyone, especially our children,” said Committee Chairman Sharon Hartley. “We do the best we can in our […] Read more »
It took years of legal actions and an Enforcement Order issued by the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission, which was ultimately upheld in court, but on January 25, most commissioners were ready to call the Seabreeze case officially closed. Daniel Craig’s 4 Seabreeze Lane property was deemed in compliance with an Enforcement Order that required […] Read more »
Thrilled with the January 13-14 COVID-19 vaccination clinic’s success for first responders from Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester, and Wareham, and with the state’s green light to schedule the prescribed second round, the Town of Marion doesn’t want to get ahead of itself. “The consensus is just trying to deal with Marion going forward,” said […] Read more »