On September 8, Marion’s Planning Board held informal discussions with David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon, and Leone, Inc. for a two-lot subdivision proposed by Todd Zell for property he owns off County Road. The concept includes two residential parcels of approximately 5 acres each with a shared private roadway off County Road. Zell also owns […] Read more »
What do you get when the weather is super fine for boating and you are the harbormasters of very popular seaside locations – oh, and toss in a summertime holiday weekend? You get busy. As summer winds down in fine weather style, Isaac Perry, Marion harbormaster, and Jamie McIntosh, Mattapoisett harbormaster, found their departments in […] Read more »
A proud Fire Chief Scott Wiegel and Grant Writer Marcia Kessler met with the Rochester Board of Selectmen on September 8 to discuss the $120,155 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant funding awarded in August. This grant acquisition is a part of the larger FEMA $41,300,000 nationwide “SAFER” program, which is designed to improve […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission began its meeting held on September 1 by addressing a request for determination of applicability on a new solar array project. Their review primarily centered around whether or not the proposed project fell under the commission’s jurisdiction. Eric Las of Beals and Thomas Inc., representing the applicant, shared his screen over […] Read more »
On August 27, Mattapoisett Harbormaster Jamie McIntosh proposed a number of changes to the Harbormaster’s department, including but not limited to an examination of waterway fees with an eye toward increases. McIntosh explained in his written proposal a necessity to offset the 21-percent increase in salaries now in place with a full-time harbormaster and more […] Read more »
Public Health Nurse Kathleen Downey was so impressed with the job that Tabor Academy did in bringing its students back to campus last weekend, that she wanted to make sure Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail and Assistant Town Administrator Judy Mooney were there to see it, too. “I had Judy and Jay come in Monday […] Read more »
The Town of Marion Department of Public Works has filed a Notice of Intent to furnish and install 7,400 linear feet of one-foot diameter ductile iron water main under Point Road and Delano Road from the intersection of those roads to the Great Hill Tank Transmission Main connection on Delano Road. The matter was discussed […] Read more »
With schools getting a great deal of attention in today’s news, it seemed like a good time to look back at some of Rochester’s education history. Not too many years after the incorporation of the town in 1686, Rochester had established a town center that encompassed the same area as it does today. As early […] Read more »
The drafting of an updated Master Plan has begun in earnest under the guidance of Mattapoisett’s Planning Board and the Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD). Three two-hour sessions of what were described as Discovery Workshops were remotely held. Attendees were asked to share their thoughts, ideas, hopes, opinions, and long-range growth expectations for […] Read more »
In a stunning plot twist, the Rochester Board of Selectmen came out of executive session 14 minutes into its September 1 public meeting and eventually announced that the two-acre parcel of land adjacent to Town Hall, for which it had unsuccessfully offered First Congregational Church of Rochester $150,000, is no longer of interest. Board of […] Read more »