These have certainly been trying times for the Rochester Country Fair, a 20-years-long tradition to which its success rests solely on the right atmospheric conditions to draw the big crowds to the all-outdoor event. After this year’s country fair was cut short due to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis threat and a curfew restricting events on […] Read more »
The Carver Marion Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District will continue on in some form, board members made clear at the most recent meeting on November 20. The question members are facing now is, exactly what will the district look like? “Stop calling it a dissolution,” said board member and Marion Selectman Norm Hills. “There will […] Read more »
Residents of the Bowman Road neighborhood were few in number, but strong in their objections to a proposed solar farm planned on property owned by NextGrid, LLC, a California-based alternative energy developer, for acreage located off Bowman Road in undeveloped pine forest. Coming before the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals on November 21 were Daniel […] Read more »
There was no shortage of criticism and hyperbole targeting the Old Rochester Regional School District during the Marion Finance Committee meeting on November 22. At one point, FinCom Chairman Peter Winters suggested his big idea about Marion withdrawing from the regional school district altogether, while Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail expressed his big hopes about […] Read more »
A recent multi-agency meeting was held at the site of Phase 1B of the Mattapoisett bike path currently under construction along the barrier beach between Reservation Road and Goodspeed Island Road, which included members of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Department of Environmental Protection, and contractor D. W. White, said Mattapoisett Conservation Commission Chairman Mike […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health has decided to move forward with its idea to cap tobacco sales licenses in town and bring that number down from six to five. During the November 19 meeting, Health Director Karen Walega said that one of the six current tobacco permit holders has suggested that it would not be […] Read more »
Abutters were out in force on November 18 when the Mattapoisett Planning Board held the Site Plan Review for Mattapoisett’s new fire station planned for 64 County Road next to the existing police station. Engineer Katie Enright, architect and project manager Chris Logan, and the Mattapoisett Fire Station Building Committee Chairman Michael Hickey presented the […] Read more »
It was a long night for the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals on November 14, but it managed to wrap up its agenda in under three hours and granted approval for all five applications. First up was Alcoza Graubrey, LLC seeking a special permit to allow the operation of an auto repair shop at 15 […] Read more »
Plans for a multi-family housing development off Spring Street in Marion hit a speed bump at the Marion Planning Board’s initial public forum on November 18. Faced with a possible objection to the submitted plan, site owner Sherman Briggs dug in his heels and threatened to pull the entire development plan. Briggs and Bill Curley […] Read more »
At their meeting on November 19, the Rochester Conservation Commission wrapped up the three Abbreviated Notices of Resource Delineation filed by Joe Harrison on behalf of Sunraise Investments, LLC for three properties: 0 Featherbed Lane, 0 Cushman Road, and 0 Snipatuit Road. Over the course of the last couple months, Conservation Agent Laurell Farinon and […] Read more »