The Old Rochester Regional High School sports program will now offer girls’ co-op ice hockey now that the Old Rochester Regional School Committee has granted ORR Athletic Director Bill Tilden’s request he made the night of September 9. The team will be a cooperative with the Towns of Bourne, Mashpee, and Wareham, and when Tilden […] Read more »
On September 14, Mattapoisett Conservation Agent Elizabeth Leidhold brought before the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission a letter received from a local advisory group. That advisory group is the Mattapoisett River Valley Water Supply Protection Advisory Committee, a watchdog group with their eyes on the public water supply, protecting and enhancing this vital resource for the towns […] Read more »
The Marion Zoning Board of Appeals on September 10 granted Tabor Academy one last continuance pertaining to the unpermitted ball field and its setback-encroaching backstop and lighting which is still in use without a permit nearly three years after the very first public hearing. ZBA member Betsy Dunn took matters into her own hands when […] Read more »
In the multi-layered regulations written and managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), there are ways to change a property’s classification regarding whether or not it is considered part of a flood zone. Those processes are known as “Letter of Map Amendment” (LOMA), or “Letter of Map Revision – Based on Fill” (LOMR-F). A […] Read more »
Are expensive engineered plans required or would older engineered plans showing a septic layout and residential foundation be sufficient? That was the question the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals tackled during its September 10 meeting. Bryan and Robbi Reynolds of 269 High Street presented their application for a Special Permit to build an over-sized garage […] Read more »
The Town of Marion is hoping to secure a $200,000 grant from the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, and on September 15 during a special afternoon meeting, they signed the pre-proposal submittal with Buzzards Bay Coalition representative Rachel Jakuba present to assist in the application process. The BBC contacted the Town of Marion and alerted […] Read more »
Some tried, but members of the Marion Planning Board were unable to agree on a reasonable escrow amount for the decommissioning condition of a requested Special Permit for the Tucker Lane solar energy facility project. Chairman Rob Lane would not budge from his $75,000 number, forsaking the $50,000 estimate provided by the board’s engineering consultant […] Read more »
Rochester School Committee member Sharon Hartley expressed concern over the posting of a new kindergarten teacher position at Rochester Memorial School over the summer before the School Committee was contacted for approval. During the September 3 meeting, Hartley brought up a discussion about the district’s policy for hiring new positions, and Superintendent Doug White addressed […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Selectmen closed the Special Fall Town Meeting warrant on September 8 and approved the five articles, with one potential article to be taken off the following day. The Special Town Meeting is scheduled for October 26. One article, Article S5, according to Town Administrator Paul Dawson, will likely disappear from the […] Read more »
School Business Administrator Patrick Spencer told Marion School Committee members on September 2 that a report on area school bus inspection failures sounded worse than the situation actually was. State school bus inspections conducted back in August, said Spencer, resulted in a 50 percent failure rate for school transportation company Braga Transportation Cozy Bus Co., […] Read more »