Town Administrator Jay McGrail could not state strongly enough that, while the Town of Marion is thrilled to open the Benson Brook Transfer Station to its residents on January 2, it is absolutely incumbent upon them to follow guidelines.             “No wood and debris in bags … just [household] trash,” said McGrail on December […] Read more »

            The Old Rochester Regional School Committee on December 9 reviewed the results of a Back-to-School Feedback Survey the ORR district sent out to parents and caregivers on November 20. The survey yielded a roughly 50-percent response rate from parents and guardians of junior high and high school students, giving the district a parents’ perspective […] Read more »

            Eric Medeiros, property owner of four lots located along the private way known as Selha Way, and Steve Gioiosa, vice president of SITEC Engineering, came before the Mattapoisett Planning Board on December 7 with what they believed was a simple request to modify a Form C subdivision.             Gioiosa explained that the request was […] Read more »

Given the last couple of years’ turnover in the memberships of the Mattapoisett River Valley Water Supply Protection Advisory Committee and District Commission, the commission thought it best to ask Koch representatives to reboot its presentation on the water treatment plant project when they visit the committee/commission on Tuesday, January 12.             Addressing the commission […] Read more »

Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson and Craig Davidson, the district’s director of Student Services, reported to the Rochester School Committee during its December 3 Zoom meeting on preliminary findings of a survey of questions to parents and guardians geared toward helping Central Office take what Nelson called “an important first step in […] Read more »

            In his Reopening Update to the Marion School Committee’s December 2 Zoom meeting, Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson said, “I cannot believe we’re in the first week of December already.”             Nelson reported that, as of the December 2 meeting, Sippican Elementary School had 326 students in the hybrid learning model […] Read more »

Marion Planning Board member Andrew Daniel poked fun at the blemish on Gil Hilario’s 2020 record-seeking grant funding, but he did so in the context of a huge compliment during the board’s Zoom meeting on Monday night.             “It would have been nice to go five for five,” said Daniel, calling Hilario’s appointment to a […] Read more »

            After approving multiple vouchers relating to the peer review of plan sets for ongoing projects, the Rochester Planning Board continued the discussion on the public hearing relating to the Cranberry Highway development.             In the meeting held on December 8, Phil Cordeiro of Allen and Major explained to board members that the review process […] Read more »

            Governor Baker’s expanded executive orders have been in place since September 15, orders that mandate the wearing of masks whenever someone is out in public, including taking a walk in one’s neighborhood. The Governor’s updated mandate, viewable at mass.gov, requires that masks be worn at all times when people are not in their homes, […] Read more »

            The Rochester Board of Selectmen agreed to sign off on the inter-municipal agreement with the Town of Marion to use its Benson Brook Transfer Station during the former’s December 7 Zoom meeting.             As Selectman Brad Morse explained, with Marion having left the disbanding Carver-Marion-Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District, Marion invited Rochester to use […] Read more »