Mattapoisett’s Conservation Agent Elizabeth Leidhold presented the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission with shocking photographic evidence that construction now taking place at The Preserve subdivision, part of the Bay Club, was not following Conservation Commission conditions. During the April 11 meeting, Jeff Youngquist of Outback Engineering, Inc. came before the commission with three Notice of Intent applications […] Read more »
In the absence of the chairman and against the wishes of one of the two selectmen present, the Rochester Board of Selectmen took no action on April 11 towards setting a special town meeting to bond the town’s share of $224,000 of the Old Rochester Regional School District’s $600,000 five-year capital plan. The consensus among […] Read more »
Town administrators and the Rochester School Committee have finally agreed on a number for the Rochester Memorial School fiscal year 2017 budget, which was approved on April 7 after a short presentation of the FY17 budget. The budget is up roughly $140,000 from last year to about $5.8 million, a 2.4 percent increase. “We’ve been […] Read more »
Parents, school staff, and Marion School Committee members alike are troubled by a reduction in physical education slated for the next school year at Sippican School that will bring two phys ed sessions per week down to just one. On April 6, school administration presented the mostly level-service $5.86 million fiscal year 2017 Sippican School […] Read more »
With the lush, verdant days of spring and summer advancing and as the evening sky cleared and then filled with the purple haze of sunset, the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen met on April 12 to discuss trees and trails. Coming before the selectmen was Tree Committee Chairman Sandy Herring and Tree Warden Roland Cote to […] Read more »
Should members be able to attend meetings remotely? That was the question on April 4 during the Marion Planning Board meeting that became heated at times. Chairman Robert Lane suggested that the Planning Board petition the Board of Selectmen to approve the use of remote attendance by Planning Board members who cannot make it to […] Read more »
On April 6, members of the Mattapoisett Community Preservation Committee met with the Finance Committee and Town Administrator Michael Gagne to present the list of applications approved by the CPC for funding. With the blessing of the Finance Committee and the selectmen, these grant requests will head to the voters when the annual town meeting […] Read more »
Phony Threat Sends ORR into Lockdown At 11:55 am Thursday, April 13, police were called to Old Rochester Regional Junior High and High School in response to a call the Mattapoisett Police Department received warning of a person with a gun at the schoo During a press conference at the Mattapoisett police station Thursday afternoon, Mattapoisett […] Read more »
Selectman Brad Morse won the race for re-election to the Rochester Board of Selectmen on April 13, beating his opponent Michael Murphy, a former selectman and current member of the Planning Board. “I’d like to thank the voters for supporting me for another term as a selectman,” said Morse Wednesday night. “As a whole, I’m […] Read more »
The Rochester Planning Board continued the public hearing for Renewable Energy LLC, developers of a large-scale solar farm slated for the historic center of Rochester, after the state ordered an archeological exploration of the property before approval of the project. The Massachusetts Historic Commission, in a letter to the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental […] Read more »