The first time Daniel and Carrie Costa, 173 Pierce Street, came before the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals, they said a variance was necessary to allow the couple to convert their house into a multi-family residence for important personal reasons. The Costas, who moved to Rochester in June, suffered the loss of Mrs. […] Read more »
With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise in Marion, Board of Health Chairperson Dr. Edward Hoffer is concerned about the consequences facing Marion if the coronavirus maintains its ascending trajectory. “Our numbers, which were pleasantly low in the spring and early part of the summer, have now skyrocketed [and] we are now in the […] Read more »
Ben Bailey, a member of Rochester’s Planning Board, and Arnie Johnson, the chairman of that board, provided the only substantial discussion from the floor during Monday night’s November 16 Special Town Meeting at Rochester Memorial School. Both men’s comments aimed to ensure that the $15,000 recommended by the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee […] Read more »
Parents of children in Old Rochester Regional District schools can now access COVID-19 information via a dashboard that Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson has made a regular part of the district website. He also spent time during the November 5 meeting of the Rochester School Committee discussing the challenges that come with consideration of […] Read more »
Commission member Jeff Doubrava would recuse himself twice during the Marion Conservation Commission’s November 4 meeting, being involved on the applicant side of two public hearings. As a Planting Island resident and member of the Island Associates board of governors, Doubrava was on that side of filing a Notice of Intent for storm drainage […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission hopes to become the first in Massachusetts to use Koch Membrane Systems’ Puron technology. A 2016 report by sciencedirect.com said that Koch had announced the full operation of the largest membrane bioreactor plant in Europe. It is treating 100 percent of its incoming capacity with Puron […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board addressed updates to the Cranberry Highway Development in their meeting held on November 10 after most other public hearings set to come before the board were continued into December. Phil Cordeiro, representing the developer, continued his discussion on the proposed bussing routes that will be involved with the site. […] Read more »
During the November 10 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen, the board discussed with Town Administrator Mike Lorenco grant opportunities. The catch: the 25-percent matching funds needed to secure most government grants. A Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management grant for as much as $75,000 could be used for improvements and repairs to a […] Read more »
With legal fees still mounting, years of legal wrangling, and an enforcement order that just might finally be upheld by the property owner, Mattapoisett’s Conservation Commission discussed a request by Daniel Craig of 4 Seabreeze Lane to lift the enforcement order. Coming before the commission during its November 9 meeting was town counsel, […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission met November 4 on a Wednesday night instead of its usual Tuesday due to the previous day’s presidential election, and two projects that hired Wareham-based G.A.F. Engineering, Inc. made substantial progress. Cranberry Highway, LLC, received a Certificate of Compliance for work completed at 15 Cranberry Highway that redeveloped an existing […] Read more »