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 »
The numbers don’t lie, as the saying goes. And the numbers of students enrolling in Mattapoisett’s local schools – Center School and Old Hammondtown School – continues to trend downward. This fact has been discussed at many school committee and other Town board meetings for the last several years. Bolstered by census numbers and projections […] Read more »
As Marion Town Administrator Paul Dawson gave his report after a long March 19 evening of plowing through a packed agenda, he said a project he’s been working on “has been the most difficult project in my career.” He was speaking of the town’s need to find a solution to what has become its curbside […] Read more »
Like those of surrounding towns, Rochester residents may soon start paying less for electricity; however, Town Meeting voters must first approve joining the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District (SRPEDD) Community Electricity Aggregation, the largest in Massachusetts and the second-largest in the country. What is a community electricity aggregation (CEA)? As explained by John […] Read more »
Coming before the Mattapoisett Planning Board on March 18 was David McIntire and Attorney Phil Silverman with a business proposal for a marijuana cultivation facility in the industrial zone off North Street – a business with the potential to provide 30 new jobs and from $150,000 to $225,000 annually for the town. Town Administrator Michael […] Read more »
Marion Town Clerk Ray Pickles has been indicted by a statewide grand jury for allegations that he stole over $610,000 during his last six years serving as the executive director for the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District. Pickles was fired from his 45-year position as executive director in January 2018 when the District’s […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health is still complaining about pipes, but this time it isn’t about Elizabeth Taber’s smoking pipe– it’s about Elizabeth Dunn’s water pipe. Dunn, a Board of Health member, wasn’t at the March 12 meeting, so she sent it a letter via Health Agent Karen Walega to ask the board to investigate […] Read more »
Two former top officials of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District (District) have been indicted on larceny charges in connection with stealing more than $675,000 in District funds, Attorney General Maura Healey and Inspector General Glenn Cunha announced today. Former District Executive Director, Ray Pickles, 85, of Marion, and former District Board Chairman […] Read more »