As requested by the Rochester Board of Selectmen, the Planning Board on May 8 held a public hearing for an Annual Town Meeting warrant article to amend the temporary marijuana retail sale moratorium by extending the moratorium until June 30, 2019. The moratorium, like similar ones adopted in the Tri-Town, includes temporary bans on recreational […] Read more »
Marion voters on May 3 met the candidates for the 2018 Annual Town Election during the League of Women Voters annual candidates’ night at the Marion Music Hall. Two races are contested this year – one for a seat on the Board of Assessors with an emphasis on transparency, and the other for a seat […] Read more »
Robert Biehl, English teacher at Old Rochester Regional High School, announced a new field trip the English Department will offer next April vacation that will take students to England and Scotland. The Old Rochester Regional School Committee approved the proposed trip during its meeting on April 25. Biehl said the tentative dates for the trip […] Read more »
As the clock ticks down toward the May 14 Annual Town Meeting, members of the Mattapoisett Finance Committee got a preview of the warrant on April 25. Town Administrator Michael Gagne presented a draft of the warrant articles and cautioned the board that the numbering sequence might change, but the titles are ready to go. […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Selectmen held a brief special meeting last Thursday, April 26, to appoint two Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School District School Committee members and handle a few small agenda items. The selectmen, during the joint meeting with the Old Colony R.V.T.H.S. District Committee, re-appointed Shirley Bourque as a committee member […] Read more »
On May 1, after years of appeals and one last review of relevant documents, the owners of the planned Kings Highway bituminous plant received an extension to an expired Order of Conditions from the Rochester Conservation Commission. The proposed project is planned for a five-acre site on Kings Highway with the regulated area being construction […] Read more »
Three men, three awards. The Marion Board of Selectmen on May 1 honored three men in Town and presented them with awards, as Selectmen Chairman Jody Dickerson acknowledged that this was his final meeting as a selectman. Dickerson started by presenting longtime Council on Aging employee Paul Garib with the board’s first ever Chairman Award. […] Read more »
Ever heard of ‘gaga ball?’ If not, you’re not alone because neither had the Marion Conservation Commission until aspiring Eagle Scout Jackson Saint Don on April 25 proposed installing a gaga ball pit at Silvershell Beach for his Eagle Scout project. “Is Lady Gaga gonna come play?” asked Conservation Commission Chairman Cynthia Callow. “No? Never […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health wants to regulate and require a permit for private residents to grow recreational marijuana at home, and it approved the draft regulation during its April 24 meeting. The board has been under the advisement of its casual consultant, Cheryl Sbarra from the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards, on possible municipal […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board has some upgrades it wants to add to the Town’s solar bylaw, and on April 24 board members discussed the best ways to go about bolstering the bylaw and making it a bit more restrictive. At the top of the list, the board wants to impose a 300-foot setback from any […] Read more »