The Marion Finance Committee made a few tweaks to a letter addressed to the Board of Selectmen on January 29 and is preparing it to inform the selectmen that the committee is interested in reconstituting a Town personnel committee. “There are some personnel decisions we should be involved in,” said Finance Committee Chairman Peter Winters. […] Read more »
The Marion Zoning Board of Appeals made quick business of their meeting on January 24. Scheduled before the board this evening was the case of Mark Ross and Margot Mims of 195c Converse Road. Once the required quorum was achieved, Chairman Marc Leblanc called the meeting to order. He read a letter from the applicant’s […] Read more »
Two continued public hearings before the Marion Conservation Commission on January 23 hinged on the vexing question of the distance the Department of Marine Fisheries recommended between the bottom of a float structure and the substrate of Wings Cove. David Davignon of N. Douglas Schneider & Associates presented the two similar Notices of Intent, located […] Read more »
On January 28, as three members of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission prepared to hear two cases, it was clear from the agenda that it could have been a long meeting. But with eight cases on the agenda being continued until February 11, those two remaining cases were quickly dispatched. The two cases in question had […] Read more »
The January 22 meeting of the Rochester Planning Board proved to be a long night’s journey under a fading Blood Moon, as three solar array projects came before the members. First up with an informal presentation and discussion of a proposed solar array field on Marion Road located on property owned by Craig Canning, Rochester […] Read more »
No one attending the Old Rochester Regional School Committee meeting on January 17 disagreed that the athletic fields at ORR are in need of improvement, and a facilities subcommittee that night presented its revised and downsized $2 million plan to the ORR School Committee and the public. But the School Committee will hold off on […] Read more »
Fees for recreational boaters in Marion are going up this fiscal year in order to fund a long-range 10-13-year plan to replace the harbormaster’s main patrol boat. Harbormaster Isaac Perry presented his proposed fee hikes to the Marion Board of Selectmen on January 22, which resulted in approval of the fees that will result in […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Town Administrator Michael Gagne explained to the Board of Selectmen on January 22 the Bike/Ped Committee’s approach to the Tier 2 Complete Streets process. The committee has scheduled two dates for public input workshops to help prioritize the projects proposed for the Complete Streets grant funding. Mattapoisett recently was accepted as a Tier 1 […] Read more »
Mattapoisett residents are being asked to improve their recycling practices ahead of a new program that entails a curbside visual inspection of residents’ recycling bins on recycling day. But don’t start calling them the “recycling police” just yet. Mattapoisett Health Agent Dale Barrows intends on soliciting the services of some active seniors who sign up […] Read more »
Over the past three years, the Marion Board of Health has banned ‘vaping’ in addition to smoking in public spaces and raised the minimum age to buy cigarettes and nicotine products to 21 before the state mandate. And even today, the board is still bent on pursuing a town-wide prohibition of flavored nicotine and tobacco […] Read more »