Two cases that have made several appearances this year before the Rochester Conservation Commission turned a significant corner with approval of their respective Notices of Intent during the commission’s May 5, remote access meeting. Pedro Rodriguez of Solar MA Project Management LLC and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) both satisfied ConCom with updated presentations […] Read more »
The opening of the Silvershell Beach parking lot and the town docks and floats dominated discussion during the Board of Health meeting on May 5. Silvershell’s parking lot has not leaned itself toward safe-spacing practices, but the overhaul being performed by the Department of Public Works is trending toward a May 15 completion at the […] Read more »
What is your recycling IQ? Rochester is about to engage in a summer school of sorts to bring those grades up in an effort to purify what it considers an earnest effort on the part of its residents to do things the right way. To that end, Marcia Kessler, a consultant for the town and […] Read more »
It was another long night of debate when the Mattapoisett Planning Board reopened the site-plan review application for the Bowman Road solar array proposed by Next Grid., aka Next Grid Bowman LLC. Board members attending the remote meeting were acting chairman Nathan Ketchel and board administrator Mary Crain, along with members Karen Field, Arlene Figardo, […] Read more »
A Monday, June 22, Town Meeting and Friday, June 26, election are not yet official in Marion, but details for both events took shape during the Board of Selectmen’s May 5, remote-access meeting. After several weeks in which it seemed an alternate-format Town Meeting would only address budgetary articles, Tuesday’s meeting produced consideration of certain […] Read more »
A two-hour-long meeting of the Mattapoisett School Committee on May 4 was about to adjourn when member Shannon Finning felt compelled to share her concerns about racist content recently posted by a current Old Rochester Regional student on the social media app TikTok. “I’m gravely concerned… clearly there’s more that we need to be doing […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Selectman Paul Silva and Jordan Collyer voted on May 5 to reschedule town elections on Tuesday, June 16, and the annual town meeting on Monday, June 22. Silva noted that although the town clerk Catherine Heuberger was well prepared to conduct the elections as originally planned for May 19, lingering voter concerns over COVID-19 […] Read more »
Bill Madden of G.A.F. Engineering, representing the members of Antassawamock Club, Inc., questioned construction methods when a Conservation Commission hearing for Sandy Toes Realty Trust, Scott and Elizabeth Snow trustees, was reopened on April 27. The application was first opened in February, at which time the applicant’s representative was not available to explain the scope […] Read more »
Marion Conservation Commission Vice Chair Shaun Walsh told Brandon Lebrun that the commission could not issue a Certificate of Compliance (COC) for work being done at 20 Front Street during the commission’s April 22 meeting via remote access. “A Certificate of Compliance is intended to certify that the work permitted by the order of conditions […] Read more »
Rochester’s Planning Board opened a hearing for the Braley Hill Road North Star LLC. The proposed project is approximately 100-acres of which approximately 40 will be developed for a solar array. The board heard from peer-review consultant Ken Motta of Field Engineering and Eric Las of Beals and Thomas, Inc., the applicant’s representative during the […] Read more »