A working meeting between the Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen and the Marine Advisory Board focused on three areas of the waterfront enterprise fund: coastal zone management, fees, and wharf improvements. MAB Chairman John Cornish presented the selectmen with a draft that was not offered for public discussion at the time. The MAB members had taken […] Read more »
A call came into the Mattapoisett Police Department at 9:39 am on November 15 for a man overboard who was pulled from the cold waters of Mattapoisett Harbor after he fell out of his kayak. The kayak was modified to accept a motor and was fitted with homemade outriggers made out of crutches. Mattapoisett Harbormaster […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Selectmen is now considering the Marion Energy Management’s recommendation that the town lease a few fully electric cars with the help of a hefty grant. The board also executed the contracts for the two new emergency response vehicles approved by Town Meeting, and also authorized the Shea Doonan aquaculture farm to […] Read more »
Two more new solar energy facility projects came before the Rochester Planning Board on the long night of November 9, when the meeting went roughly three hours into the night. Rochester is becoming familiar with the nature of the solar project proposal process, and residents, one by one, are becoming more knowledgeable on the subject, […] Read more »
The topic for many residents in Marion has been what to do and how much to spend on bringing the town house into the 21st century and beyond. The need has been demonstrated, a committee has done research and held months of study and public meetings, and numerous options have been explored – but in […] Read more »
With an agenda full of promising energy economies and alternative energy opportunities, Marion Energy Management Committee member Jennifer Francis presented another intriguing idea: electric cars for municipal use. What Francis had discovered was a state program that provides incentives for eligible public and private entities to acquire electric vehicles, as well as the installation of […] Read more »
In response to some parental concern over how sixth grade novels are chosen, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Dr. Elise Frangos on November 4 presented information on the reasoning and judgment of appropriateness behind selecting assigned literature, giving Marion School Committee members reassurance of the process. In the past, said Frangos, “Teachers selected books they loved […] Read more »
Mattapoisett School Committee Chairman James Higgins is adamantly against adding further School Choice slots as a way to supplement the budget as a source of revenue – but on November 9, Superintendent Doug White told the School Committee that it is going to have to decide whether School Choice will be an option to address […] Read more »
The Rochester Memorial School received a generous $3,000 donation from an anonymous donor to purchase a commercial blender for the new RMS breakfast program, and Principal Derek Medeiros says he could not possibly be more grateful. “With this commercial [blender] they will be able to make fifteen smoothies in one shot,” said Medeiros on November […] Read more »
Marion businesses will soon be issued a Marion Board of Health order to keep a lid on their dumpsters and keep those lids tightly closed after a string of incidents of coyotes breaking into commercial trash receptacles. “There is a very bad problem with coyotes,” said Health Director Karen Walega on November 10. “There is […] Read more »