The Ocean Breeze subdivision has lingered incomplete for a decade. Now with the assistance of Town Administrator Michael Gagne, the Planning Board will have legal counsel to compel completion of the long overdue roadway paving. Attorney Matthew Thomas met with the Planning Board on December 7 for an informal discussion regarding contractual failures on the […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health has drafted new regulations that would ban the use of electronic nicotine delivery devices, or e-cigarettes, in public areas including municipal-owned parks, beaches, and all outdoor areas of restaurants, bars, and anywhere food and drink is served. The smoking of cigarettes and cigars is already prohibited from these areas in […] Read more »
School districts across the state had been bracing for a possible dip in test scores, given last school year’s transition from the MCAS to PARCC. But students at Sippican School overall remained steady in their performance on the test, which was a new format for students relative to the test format, online administration, and the […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Selectmen on December 7 ratified an agreement with SEMASS to receive $10,000 annually from the energy-from-waste facility as a gesture of “good corporate citizenship,” as Town Administrator Michael McCue put it, with an additional $10,000 gift to go towards the purchase of the town’s new fire truck. SEMASS, which is located […] Read more »
Rochester Town Administrator Michael McCue will remain in suspense as to whether or not he will be chosen by the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen as Fairhaven’s first official town administrator after selectmen refrained from taking a vote on Tuesday night, December 8. Fairhaven Selectmen Chairman Geoff Haworth preferred to wait until the board was unanimous […] Read more »
This was no “which came first, the chicken or the egg” question during the December 1 meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission. The commissioners concurred: lot lines come first before an Order of Conditions is rendered by the commission. John Churchill, Jr. of JC Engineering, representing Daniel and Deborah Clark of 272 Mary’s Pond Road, […] Read more »
Marion Town House Building Committee members and the Board of Selectmen regrettably agreed on December 1 that in order for the Town to reach an affordable option for the town house renovation project, the senior center and library expansion aspects must be removed from the equation entirely. The general initial reaction from the public, said […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional Junior High School Principal Kevin Brogioli and ORRHS Principal Michael Devoll gave a status update on their school improvement plans to the Old Rochester Regional School Committee on November 18, saying they are pleased overall with progress so far this school year. Brogioli said the new student advisory program, although still a […] Read more »
Not all of the PARCC exam results are out yet, but MCAS and the science portion of the 2015 PARCC results were discussed during the November 19 meeting of the Joint School Committee, with the principals from each of the five schools giving a brief overview of their school’s performance. Sippican School fifth graders scored […] Read more »
Rochester Town Administrator Michael McCue is currently one of three final candidates selected by a Fairhaven subcommittee to fill the position as Fairhaven’s very first town administrator. The Rochester Board of Selectmen hired McCue in August of 2014 after town administrator of seven plus years Richard LaCamera retired. McCue was the town administrator of the […] Read more »