Town Administrator Paul Dawson and the Marion Board of Selectmen are pleased to announce that the Town of Marion was designated as a Green Community by the state late last month. “With so much conversation being made lately about the environment and our impact on it, this designation as a Green Community comes at just […] Read more »
Marion Town Administrator Paul Dawson advised the Board of Selectmen on January 8 to plan on attending the upcoming Old Rochester Regional School Committee meeting next week when the committee will discuss the ORR High School athletic complex renovation project proposal it will support advancing into the new year. “I think it’s important that we […] Read more »
Old Rochester Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment Dr. Elise Frangos will retire come the end of this school year, and the Rochester School Committee on January 3 had a brief discussion about the future of the position in the four school districts of Old Rochester. School Committee Chairman Sharon Hartley said there are […] Read more »
Town officials and residents of Rochester got acquainted on January 3 with the proposal for a 208-unit residential development on Cranberry Highway classified as a Chapter 40R high-density zoning development that would mix residential and commercial and set aside 20 percent of its units to affordable housing. Developer Ken Steen has built similar projects with […] Read more »
On January 7, the Mattapoisett Planning Board heard from local builder Scott Snow as he sought “relief from the Planning Board” for his application for a public hearing for a Form C Definitive Subdivision Plan. During the December 17 hearing, engineer Richard Rheaume of Prime Engineering had laid out an outline of the proposed project. […] Read more »
The January 8 meeting of the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen was swiftly handled in spite of the important projects that were discussed. In other words, things are moving along smoothly at this point in time for the proposed new fire house, roadway improvements in the village district, restrictions for the arched stone bridge, and […] Read more »
The large open farmland on Marion Road once slated for a farmers market and café will likely be lined with solar arrays and enclosed by a wooden stockade fence come this time next year. Craig Canning, owner of Rochester Farms, had Rochester Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals approval to construct a relatively large-scale […] Read more »
As the committee for the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District opened the December 27 meeting, Chairman Stephen Cushing, with relief in his voice announced, “We have a signed contract with Jeff Osuch!” After months of failed contract negotiations with its first pick for the position to head up the beleaguered multi-town agency, Jeffrey […] Read more »
What strengths, experience, and skills will the new town administrator have, preferable, and what are the challenges facing Marion that he or she must be ready to face? This was the jumping off point for the Marion Board of Selectmen on Wednesday, December 19, as it held a special meeting to get the town administrator […] Read more »
Even the best organizations have an ‘oops’ protocol, and so when the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen met on December 19 to vote on the tax reclassification for the town, it was the second time they had done so. During their regular meeting on December 4, the agenda included meeting with Principal Assessor Kathleen Costello for […] Read more »