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 »
Police Chief John Garcia reports that the Marion Police Department is investigating an armed home invasion in which the victims appeared to be targeted by a group of suspects. Police do not believe there is a general danger to the public. On Friday, January 3, at 11:48 pm, Marion Police received a 911 call requesting […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen has scheduled another Special Town Meeting for January 14 in order to amend the language of one part of a warrant article adopted at the October 21, 2019 Special Town Meeting. Article 20 as a whole authorized the town to borrow $2,535,000 for various the Public Works project. The part […] Read more »
Former executive director of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District and Marion’s former executive secretary, town clerk, assessor, and building commissioner Ray Pickles died on December 20 just two days after turning 86, according to an obituary posted by Bartlett Funeral Home. Pickles was facing criminal charges that stemmed from his role as […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Conservation Commission Chairman Mike King got his wish on December 23: a short meeting. Stepping off at 6:30 pm, the three cases that were heard or reviewed sped along, allowing King to say what he claims are his favorite words: “I’ll take a motion to adjourn.” After a year that saw many meetings lasting […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals approved a special permit for the new construction of a single-family house that lacks public way frontage during a 10-minute pre-holiday meeting on December 19. Nicholas Christy sought a special permit to construct a single-family house in conformance with FEMA regulations at 20 Howard Beach, a 7.5-acre parcel that […] Read more »
Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail appeared before the Old Rochester Regional School Committee on December 11 with a prepared written statement to address a comment he made during a November 20 Marion Finance Committee meeting, when he called School Superintendent Doug White “a lame-duck superintendent that’s got six months left until he’s gone.” White is […] Read more »