Town Planner Gil Hilario told the Marion Planning Board at its March 2 meeting that the report on the Route 6 Corridor Study Draft from the Southeastern Regional Planning Economic and Development District (SRPEDD) has been updated on the town website, MarionMA.gov. Comments are due by March 17 and can be mailed to SRPEDD Project Manager […] Read more »
On February 28, before the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee opened its meeting, Town Administrator Mike Gagne said the town had been awarded several grants. The town received a much sought-after U.S. Economic Development Administration grant, totaling $735,000. Gagne said he had been learned of the award on February 28. The grant is earmarked for infrastructure […] Read more »
Jed Cornock, principal and comprehensive planner with Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD), presented the organization’s Route 6 Corridor Study Results and offered the Marion Board of Selectmen options for the town to consider during its March 3 meeting at the Town House. Route 6 has been discussed frequently as a sore subject […] Read more »
Just after 10am on Friday the Mattapoisett Fire Department responded to a house fire on Route 6 near the Mattapoisett Line. Upon arrive the first police officers reported the fire as being well involved and that all occupants of the building are safe. The fire appeared to have started near the rear of the building […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional Assistant Superintendent Mike Nelson was selected as the next ORR superintendent of schools in a vote taken by the combined school committees on Thursday night at Old Rochester Junior High School in Mattapoisett. ORR’s 10-year Superintendent of Schools, Doug White, will retire from the position at the expiration of his contract on […] Read more »
The good news and bad news of Marion’s education budget came out during the February 26 joint session to review and discuss the draft budgets for Fiscal Year 2021 with the Board of Selectmen, the Finance Committee and Old Rochester Regional and Sippican School Committees at the Town House. Marion’s contribution of 82.5 percent for […] Read more »
ORR Superintendent, Douglas R. White, issued this notification with regard to a group of students asked to stay home after travel in Italy to comply with guidelines issued by the CDC surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak. Dear Old Rochester families, This letter is to inform you that a group of students and staff from Old Rochester […] Read more »
With just over $1-million in energy upgrades identified throughout Rochester’s municipal buildings, Facilities Manager Andrew Daniel said, “We’re getting the biggest band for our buck.” Daniel told the Rochester Board of Selectmen on March 2 that the $135,960 grant received from the Massachusetts Green Communities Program has been utilized to improve various municipal buildings in […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Planning Board has begun in earnest to draft a bylaw that would regulate the construction of large solar arrays in Mattapoisett. The undertaking will prove to be no small task indeed, with a plethora of material to wade through from state and federal agencies as well as reviewing bylaws already in place in […] Read more »
Having formally interviewed the three finalists to replace Doug White as superintendent of schools, the ORR District School Committee, Superintendency Union No. 55 and the Tri-Town school committees are facing a decision that may come down to which kind of experience they most trust to lead the next generation of Tri-Town students: the most or […] Read more »