At approximately 1300hrs The Marion Harbormasters Office received a distress call for a person in the water with no life preserver off of Converse Point. The Marion Harbormaster as well as Marion Police and Marion Fire responded to the area. Other responding marine units included the Buzzards Bay Task Force, Harbormasters from Wareham, Bourne and […] Read more »
Due to the recent retirement of Jeff Chase as Chairman and regular member of the Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals, the board needed to fill several openings. Their goal during the June 19 meeting was solely for this purpose. They needed to select an alternate member to move up to a regular member position, choose […] Read more »
At the end of a very long evening of applications and hearings, Curtis Mello, a principal in the sub-division named Brandt Point Village, came before the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission to discuss the replication area required in their permit. After some discussion regarding the best season in which to begin the construction work, Mello received approval […] Read more »
Rochester’s Conservation Commission members arrived just in time for the start of their 7:00 pm meeting, after completing a site visit to 566 Snipatuit Road. This location and one other on Snipatuit Pond were the public hearings on the night’s agenda. Kei Lau of 566 Snipatuit Road and Rick Charon of Charon Associates came before […] Read more »
It was another packed house with residents coming out to hear and, if necessary, once again voice concerns and issues regarding the sub-division project on Appaloosa Lane. After several months of hearings with both the Mattapoisett Planning Board and the Conservation Commission, residents from River Road finally succeeded – along with the input from Highway […] Read more »
The River Road Improvement project will now be divided into two separate watershed areas to help eliminate continual flooding of the road during heavy rainfall and snowmelt. Shawn Syde and Matt Pitta of CDM Smith presented the revised plan to the Marion Conservation Commission at their June 11 evening meeting. “The north side of the […] Read more »
Legal counsel for the ORR School Committee recommended the school district not take further action to recover money that was stolen in the 2011 cyber-hacking incident resulting in the theft of $134,000. A letter dated June_2014 {sic} stated that, as requested by the Joint Tri-Town Selectmen, the school district send Unibank a demand letter regarding […] Read more »
Grant Writer Pamela Marean volunteered to change her employment conditions after the controversy surrounding her performance came up during budget season when the Finance Committee wanted to cut the position, citing less than favorable results from Marean. “I’ve never had someone question my ability as a grant writer,” said Marean. She proposed changing her salaried […] Read more »
After narrowing it down to two candidates, Rochester selectmen on June 16 held final interviews for the two finalists to replace Town Administrator Richard LaCamera, and then chose current Town of Avon Town Administrator Michael McCue over Newburyport’s Director of Policy and Administration Peter Lombardi. After concluding the interviews, Selectman Richard Nunes was first to […] Read more »
Once again, it was late into the evening’s agenda when Mattapoisett’s Conservation Commission tackled the issue of drainage problems at two residential sub-divisions, Appaloosa Lane and Brandt Point Village. Chairman Peter Newton made it clear that Planning Boards were ultimately responsible for the approval and oversight of engineered drainage systems. These boards can call for […] Read more »