The home that sustained fire damage at 91 Sarah Sherman Road will be reconstructed with the support of the Rochester Conservation Commission. The Commission met on November 5 with property owner Ryan Correia, who was represented by Nyles Zager of Zenith Consulting Engineers of Lakeville. The applicant filed a Notice of Intent for the reconstruction […] Read more »
Rochester property values have increased, which means the tax rate will go down for fiscal year 2020. The Rochester Board of Selectmen on November 4 met with the Board of Assessors for the annual tax rate classification hearing, and adhered to the assessors’ recommendation that Rochester keep a single rate rather than a split rate. […] Read more »
The November 4 Fall Special Town Meeting in Mattapoisett was set after a citizen’s petition was submitted proposing amendments to the Medical Marijuana Bylaws already in place. The amendments, if carried, would have allowed the cultivation of marijuana destined not only for medical use, but also for recreational adult use. The zoning bylaw amendments would […] Read more »
Rochester is preparing for its next solar array farm, this time on 32 acres of land off Old Middleboro Road and Walnut Plain Road. The project proposed by Solar MA Project Management, LLC would be the eighth solar energy development in Rochester, and the largest so far with an energy generating capacity of five megawatts […] Read more »
Marion residents, what would you be willing to pay for a transfer station sticker? Forty dollars, $50, or more? This was the question on the minds of the selectmen during the November 5, Marion Board of Selectmen meeting as they face the pressure of putting a price on the transfer station stickers before they go […] Read more »
Director of Student Services Michael Nelson, the head of the Special Education Department, was appointed to the new position of assistant superintendent of teaching, learning, and student services on October 23 during the joint meeting of the Old Rochester Regional School Committee and Superintendency Union #55. Nelson will assume the vacancy left by Elise Frangos, […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional High School Principal Mike Devoll was pleased to present the school’s 2019 MCAS results to the ORR School Committee on October 23, scores that reflect significant improvement over last year’s scores. “I think we hit a homerun this year, as we thought we would,” Devoll said. “I’m very proud of the work […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission on October 23 granted approval for an elevated single-family house with garage and an accompanying extension of a boulder embankment, but not after a continuation from the previous hearing that had neighbors voicing their concerns about stormwater management and over-eradication of vegetation bordering the beach and an adjacent path. On behalf […] Read more »
The agenda was nearly three and a half pages long as the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission gathered at Town Hall on October 28 to hear 14 filings. Many in attendance and a couple in the commission believed it would be a very long night indeed, with nearly every chair in the conference room filled and another […] Read more »
No one could argue that, of all the Snow’s Pond Road variance requests to ever come before the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals, Jake Goyette’s has been the most controversial. But on October 24 with town counsel on hand, the ZBA granted Goyette his variance to build his single-family house on the unaccepted town road, […] Read more »