The four candidates vying for the two open seats on the Marion Planning Board answered to the voters on May 2 at the Marion Music Hall during the annual League of Women Voters’ Candidates’ Night, a forum for a discussion of all things Marion ahead of the May 17 Annual Election.             “Here comes trouble,” said […] Read more »

            On May 6 David Davignon of N. Douglas Schneider & Associates stood before the Marion Planning Board in a continued hearing on the merits of a three-lot subdivision proposed for a 3.6-acre lot wedged between Converse Road, Zora Road, and Beach Street.             Davignon was asked by Chairman Bill Saltonstall to give a shorthand version of […] Read more »

            Mattapoisett’s Annual Town Meeting is only a few days away and it should prove to be a meeting that will go down in the town’s history.             Voters will be facing warrant articles that ask for $9.275 million to fund the construction of a new fire station, and their share of another $2 million for athletic […] Read more »

            During the May 7 Marion Board of Selectmen meeting, the board voted to classify a dog  belonging to Michael and Kate Devoll as “dangerous” during a dog hearing pertaining to an alleged attack on March 3, during which the Devolls’ dog was reported to have attacked two dogs and their owner in the Olde Knoll […] Read more »

            Firefighters of all ranks from Rochester and other area towns lined the perimeter of the Rochester Town Hall in formal dress on May 6 to witness a moment of Rochester history.             During the Rochester Board of Selectmen meeting that evening, the selectmen signed the employment contract appointing current Fire Chief Scott Weigel as the town’s […] Read more »

On May 1, the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee (CPC) met to prioritize its list of projects priced over $10,000 to be advanced at Town Meeting. The year-long process of receiving requests from town departments including the two schools, Center and Old Hammondtown, takes into consideration the town’s ability to afford the projects without increasing taxes. […] Read more »

            On May 2, the Mattapoisett Finance Committee began its town meeting warrant article review, but only after Chairman Pat Donoghue questioned her most recent water bill.             Donoghue said that she did not recall Water and Sewer Superintendent Henri Renauld ever discussing an increase in water rates when he met with the committee during previous months; […] Read more »

            If you’re a resident from one of the towns belonging to the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District (CMWRRDD) – or any other town for that matter – and you have been sneaking into any one of the District’s three transfer stations without a sticker or with prohibited materials, prepare to change your ways. […] Read more »

            On April 24 during the Marion Finance Committee’s first television performance, the committee continued its Town Meeting Warrant article recommendations, beginning where they left off: Article 23 to appropriate $30,000 to replace the tank on the Fire Department’s brush breaker, which it voted to recommend.             Article 26 would appropriate $582,090 to buy a new front-loading […] Read more »

            The lack of a quorum during the Marion Conservation Commission’s April 24 meeting forced a continuance for the Notice of Intent for the proposed subdivision on Beach Street known as “22 Cove Street, LLC.” In the absence of Chairman Jeff Doubrava and Cynthia Callow and the recusal of commission member Marc Bellanger, engineer David Davignon […] Read more »