The Mattapoisett School Committee voted on Monday night to approve a full, in-person return of school children in Grades K-2 effective at a date to be determined in January, 2021. The proposal and approval came late in a lengthy meeting of the committee that included heated public comments by frustrated parents. “The concern […] Read more »
An unrelenting theme of COVID-19 has been the necessity of strict adherence to safety precautions. At the local level, no town board is more involved with the pandemic than the Board of Health. Media coverage and minutes of the BOH December 2 meeting memorialize that the BOH tabled a request made in a […] Read more »
Eric Las of Beals and Thomas, Inc. came before the Rochester Conservation Commission during its December 1 meeting to discuss an ambitious new solar project off of Cushman Road. The project in question would result in a 3.9-megawatt solar array and has drawn a considerable amount of criticism from abutters and community members. […] Read more »
Dr. Ed Hoffer, chairman of the Marion Board of Health, and Health Agent Dave Flaherty will visit 464 Front Street in the near future to take a first-hand look at the work being done on what has been a troublesome site. The Board of Health voted during Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting to grant […] Read more »
During the November 24 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen, a brief but important session before closing Town Hall for the Thanksgiving holiday, selectmen approved an appropriation of $24,973 from the Capital Stabilization Fund, the required sum that the town is required to contribute in order to receive $100,000 from the state’s Coast […] Read more »
The sight of drawings illustrating color options was welcomed by the Mattapoisett Fire Station Building Committee during its November 24 meeting at the Mattapoisett Public Library. Unwelcome was a $127,000 excavation bill based on change orders from general contractor Rubicon. Estimating extra excavation of 327 cubic yards on the site where work was […] Read more »
As the November 19 joint meeting of the Old Rochester Regional School Committee and Massachusetts School Superintendency Union #55 proved, an agreement is hard to come by where it concerns the reopening of district schools, namely whether the students should be back on campuses on a full-time basis. But what administration and committee members […] Read more »
A meeting of the Marion’s Capital Improvement Planning Committee became a breakthrough event, as representatives from Mattapoisett, Rochester, and the Old Rochester Regional School District participated in a report meant to open new doors between Tri-Town officials. The rubber met the road as Howie Barber, ORR’s assistant superintendent of finance and operations, discussed […] Read more »
During the Marion Marine Resources Commission’s meeting held on November 23, Deputy Harbormaster and Shellfish Officer Adam Murphy came before the members to discuss his ongoing work relating to the cleanup of the site where Shea Doonan had operated with an aquaculture license since revoked. Reported mismanagement of the equipment on the site led […] Read more »
Thanks to the Town of Marion’s generosity and the benevolence of the Conservation Commission, one less osprey family will be forced to live talon-to-beak and homeless on the streets of Marion. Personifying the plight of the osprey is perhaps a tad overly dramatic, but the raptors’ rebound from nearly threatened to now thriving is […] Read more »