The Rochester Planning Board was introduced to the plans for the largest solar array farm ever proposed in Rochester during an informal meeting held on January 14, and will soon entertain another four informal sessions for four additional related solar array projects all by the same developer, SunRaise Investment. Joe Harrison of SunRaise Investment said […] Read more »
Following the January 14 Special Town Meeting, the Board of Selectmen held its regular meeting. The agenda included a meeting with John DeCosta and Bruce Rocha regarding Mattapoisett’s Boston Cane. The Boston Cane was the brainchild of the publisher of now-defunct The Boston Post newspaper, Edwin Grozier, who distributed 700 elegant canes throughout New England with the […] Read more »
On January 14, Mattapoisett voters gathered as town officials called a Special Town Meeting to order to consider one warrant article: modifying Article 20 of the October Special Town Meeting that collectively pulled together various infrastructure projects and specific funding sources. That warrant article noted that the town would not move forward on any of […] Read more »
On January 6, members of the Villages at Mattapoisett condominium association Board of Directors once again came before the Planning Board to request the return of a $50,000 surety the town holds. This is part of their Special Permit granted a number of years ago and listed as permit condition number 11. In the early […] Read more »
Looking at a possible uptick in affordable housing in Marion, Planning Board members are now examining the future of the town’s affordable housing bylaw. The current bylaw requires developers to add affordable housing into their plans when building in Marion. While the bylaw has been effective in bringing affordable housing to Marion, some citizens and […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health has for some time hoped to reduce the number of tobacco retail sales licenses in Marion for 2020; however, on January 7, the board learned that placing a cap on tobacco licenses is no longer that simple. The board was optimistic that one tobacco retailer in Marion was going to […] Read more »
Marion’s Finance Director Judy Mooney has earned a new title: assistant town administrator. Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail announced the new position at the January 7 meeting of the Marion Board of Selectmen. Mooney will not be giving up her position as finance director; her new title, according to McGrail, will be “finance director and […] Read more »
If you ask any police chief from any municipality across the nation if their police department is having increased difficulty recruiting and retaining police officers, they will likely echo the same emphatic response of Marion Police Chief John Garcia: “Oh yeah.” The Marion Board of Selectmen held a special meeting on January 3 to allow […] Read more »
“We’re getting off to a bumpy start,” Melody Pacheco, secretary to the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen, commented with a chuckle at the start of the January 2 meeting of the Finance Committee. Earlier in the week, leaking pipes in Town Hall caused Town Administrator Michael Gagne to work from home while awaiting completion of remediation […] Read more »
Marion residents got their first glimpse of possible alterations to Route 6 on January 6, when the Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD) brought the results of a long-term study to the public eye. SRPEDD planner Jed Cornock began by explaining some of the biggest concerns that SRPEDD planners found within the Route […] Read more »