Mattapoisett’s Bike Path Committee has spend over two decades working through requirements set by state and federal agencies, local bylaws, wetland concerns, easements and, of course, funding – a true labyrinth if ever there was. Now in March of 2017, all that hard work and persistence is very close to making the next phase of […] Read more »
Town counsel for the Marion Zoning Board of Appeals on March 9 was unable to give sound legal advice on how to handle an applicant’s request to deny the special permit request to convert to a two-family, with a subsequent request to approve a kitchen to be built in an addition built to be inhabited […] Read more »
Marion’s Master Plan sub-committee for open space collaboration is closing in on its mission and agenda of activities that founding members hope to accomplish by uniting the nine groups in town that hold and manage open space – even though the only elected committee, the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission, has not been as enthusiastic […] Read more »
It was standing room only at the Rochester Council on Aging when the March 7 meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission got underway. Drawing people out on a dark and dismal late winter’s night was the fate of Snows Pond that many believe is suffering a negative impact from construction activities at the adjacent property […] Read more »
Government officials from the Tri-Towns have pledged to support an Old Rochester Regional school district level-funded budget increase of $320,000 maximum for FY18. This amount, however, is not nearly enough to cover the ORR budget subcommittee’s level-funded budget increase of $704,516, let alone the budget that the subcommittee feels the school needs – $18,475,627 or […] Read more »
For a number of years, ORCTV has given Old Rochester Regional High School $74,000 each year to fund a teaching position for TV and video journalism production courses at ORR. That funding will stop for this fiscal year, and ORCTV Executive Director Robert Chiarito says ORCTV, which relocated back to ORR last year, will resume […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett School Committee began its meeting on March 6 with a robotics presentation by Associate Principal Kevin Tavares. Tavares, with a robot prototype resting on the table before him, explained to the committee the program begun at Old Hammondtown School for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. The program uses Lego Mindstorms robotics, with materials […] Read more »
During the March 6 meeting of the Mattapoisett Planning Board, the issue of whether or not to sponsor a Town Meeting article to impose a “temporary moratorium on marijuana establishments” wasn’t at all clear, especially to new member Janice Robbins. Planning Board Administrator Mary Crain explained that her recent attendance at an informational conference hosted […] Read more »
The Marion Planning Board on March 6 briefly went over a few details of the Buzzards Bay Coalition site plan review for a new field operations barn at 173 and 177 Spring Street. Ken Motta, the board’s peer review engineer, had submitted a detailed letter with his questions and recommendations only 30 minutes before the […] Read more »
The Marion Town House Building Committee was back before the Marion Board of Selectmen on March 7, this time to request the addition of an article on the Annual Town Meeting warrant that would authorize the expenditure of $34,300 for the existing Town House Building Committee to conduct its own feasibility study of a new […] Read more »