There was no hesitation for the Marion Board of Selectmen in selecting the town’s next superintendent of the Department of Public Works – David Willett, with his “been there, done that” experience, as Chairman Norm Hills put it, in leading a department exactly where Marion hopes to go with its own DPW. It sounded uncanny, […] Read more »
Mattapoisett’s Board of Selectmen discussed the need to try and find new ways to offset expenses associated with providing specific services – services that, by and large, benefit individuals or business entities versus the community. On March 26, the selectmen and Town Administrator Michael Gagne began a conversation on fees currently collected for services rendered […] Read more »
Scott Snow, represented by G. deJesus of Prime Engineering, came before the Mattapoisett Conversation Commission March 25 meeting with a Notice of Intent application for a five-lot subdivision located at 6 and 8 Prospect Road and the construction of a private way named Parsons Lane. The scope of the proposed subdivision includes the movement of […] Read more »
Some Rochester Conservation Commission members think Jose Arujo is just trying to save money, while another commented that Arujo’s plan to make good for illegally clearing trees at the old Boy Scout camp is disingenuous. Still, if you set aside the initial aversion to Arujo’s proposal to put 5.3 acres under a conservation easement in […] Read more »
On March 21, the members of the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals heard from property owners seeking a variance based on the hardship of high property taxes. Members of the Blake-Whitney family, longtime owners of a large two-family waterfront summer residence at 2 Ship Street, were seeking a variance to change the use of the […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board meant it on February 26 when it said it was done beating around the fallen bushes and voted to revoke the landscaping surety for incomplete work at the solar farm on Snipatuit Road. Exactly one month later on March 26, the board took that vote and rescinded it, satisfied that solar […] Read more »
Rochester voters will decide whether there will be a new Constable in town or if longtime Constable David Hughes will keep his paper-serving, town meeting-posting, car-repossessing position in the town’s one and only contested race in the April 10 Rochester Annual Election. But there’s room enough in this small town for two constables, and there […] Read more »
Marion’s pool of town administrator candidates continues to evaporate and the heat is now on for the town to find a successor as the current town administrator prolongs his stay past his March 15 retirement date. Interviews for the two candidates for town administrator were canceled on March 25 after one of the two finalists […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission issued two permits on March 13 for infrastructure projects to improve drainage and water flow within the Town of Marion. The commission listened as Mass Department of Transportation Highway Division District 5 Environmental Engineer Andrea Coates described the Request for Determination of Applicability application for the proposed solution to a longstanding […] Read more »
The developer of the 40B housing development off Route 105 in Marion is now looking to construct a second 40B project on a lot located off Wareham Street – a lot made controversial recently with the Marion Planning Board’s denial of a large-scale solar farm once slated for the site. During the Marion Planning Board […] Read more »