The Rochester Conservation Commission on November 21 issued its approval for the Notice of Intent filed by Wellspring Farm, LLC of 42 Hiller Road to upgrade the existing driveway to satisfy Planning Board specifications. Engineer Brad Holmes said the requested improvements to the driveway would include, most notably, the paving of the existing gravel driveway, […] Read more »
Some Rochester parents aren’t ready to drop the subject of the firing of former Route 5 bus driver Ralph Stinson, pressing the Rochester School Committee and Superintendent Douglas White on November 16 for a resolution to their ongoing concerns about Stinson’s firing, as well as complaints about the replacement bus driver. Some parents also complained […] Read more »
It’s nearly the eve of Mattapoisett’s Fall Special Town Meeting scheduled for Monday, November 27 at 6:30 pm in the auditorium at Old Rochester Regional High School. On November 20, the Mattapoisett Finance Committee met to do a final review of the 17 articles on the warrant and discuss any remaining questions or concerns. Article […] Read more »
The small crowd that gathered at the Marion Planning Board meeting on November 20 spoke in favor of a redevelopment proposal for a property on Wareham Street that has been an eyesore for the neighborhood for years. The proponents were represented by David Davignon of N. Douglas Schneider & Associates, who methodically went through […] Read more »
On April 1, 2018, businesses may begin to apply for licenses to operate recreational marijuana establishments in cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. On November 20, 2017, a mere six months from that date, the Mattapoisett Planning Board along with Police Chief Mary Lyons, Public Health Nurse Amanda Stone, and Town Administrator Michael Gagne, as […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health has seen larger turnouts and received more correspondences from organizations outside Marion than it likely ever has, and it all pertains to the board’s pursuit to ban all flavored nicotine products, combustible and smokeless, including the sale of menthol cigarettes. On November 14, Nicholas John from R Street Institute maintained […] Read more »
Local teen Freemin Bauer has been dreaming about building a dog park in Mattapoisett for years. Now it looks as if that dream may just come true. Bauer has been working for the past several years towards this goal, even sponsoring a number of “doggie walk-a-thons,” with the intent to use the money raised to […] Read more »
Residents of Mendell Road and Rounseville Road living close to the location of a proposed large-scale solar farm still aren’t seeing the sunny side of approving such a project in their rural neighborhood. On November 14, the Rochester Planning Board allowed more time for residents to ask questions and voice their concerns, and Planning Board […] Read more »
As cold and raw as the evening was outside on November 13, it was the contrary – heated and heavy – inside the Mattapoisett Town Hall conference room when the continuation of Dennis Arsenault’s Notice of Intent filing for a subdivision at the end of Snow Fields Road was reopened. Conservation Agent Elizabeth Leidhold had […] Read more »
In a 3-1 vote with one abstention, the Marion Conservation Commission on November 8 voted to approve the Notice of Intent for Francis Jones to raise an existing house that sits within a velocity zone 209 Wareham Road. Conservation Commission member Jeffrey Doubrava had visited the site that day, but since the address was not […] Read more »