The top candidate for the executive director position and the representatives of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District have yet to strike an employment contract deal, with negotiations now stretching into a seventh week. The CMWRRDD wasn’t sure last week if it was going to have a contract deal or if it was […] Read more »
On October 3, the Mattapoisett Planning Board did something they have been contemplating for months, calling in a $1.5 million surety for a housing development built on what the board believes were empty promises. Coming before the Planning Board on this night to discuss all matters related to Brandt Point Village, a single-family home subdivision […] Read more »
There was only one hearing on the agenda for the Rochester Planning Board on October 9. Continued from September 25 was the Special Residential Development proposed for Rounseville Road. The 22-duplex residential development planned for senior housing has been slowly processing through legal and regulatory entanglements associated with an existing conservation Order of Conditions, drainage […] Read more »
The Old Rochester school districts have a new Strategic Plan, with three main goal areas to strive towards over the next five years. The joint school committees of Old Rochester Regional and the three towns accepted the 2023 Strategic Plan on September 27, which addressed three areas: 21stCentury learning, social-emotional learning, and global citizenship. “We […] Read more »
There was one thing on the minds of the members of the Marion Planning Board Monday night: the zoning amendment put forth by Sherman Briggs. On September 18, the Marion Board of Selectmen allowed the last-minute addition to the Fall Special Town Meeting warrant of Briggs’ article proposing 10-foot setbacks in the Residence E zoning […] Read more »
It was late in the meeting when Michelle Kirby rose to address the commissioners during the October 2 meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission. Kirby is the newly-appointed president of the newly-organized Snow’s Pond Association whose goal is the preservation and protection of the historic fresh water kettle pond. Kirby explained that in recent years […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission had a full agenda on September 26 with a number of applications mostly dispensed without much fanfare, with the exception of the application for razing a house off Converse Road. Nick Dufresne of Farland Corp. presented the Notice of Intent on behalf of Mark Ross of 195c Converse Road. The proposal […] Read more »
The October 1 meeting of the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District Committee found the board still without a contract deal with Michele Bernier, the candidate the board selected as the new executive director of the regionalized trash district. The position was left vacant in February 2018 after the board fired then executive director […] Read more »
Chase Canopy, represented by Robert Field of Field Engineering, Inc., has been before several Mattapoisett governing bodies, including the Planning Board and the Conservation Commission, over the last month or so. The application presented before each board has been pretty straightforward; Chase Canopy is desirous of expanding their footprint at their current location on Route […] Read more »
Although Mark Pepin of 44 Bennett Road was granted a Variance to build an addition to his house and a new garage fewer than 40 feet from the side setback, it wasn’t without some criticism from the board and a Conservation Commission member who showed up to urge against the garage. Rochester Zoning Board of […] Read more »