On Thursday March 6 at 1:54pm the Rochester Police were called to the site of a former mill at Hartley’s Pond near Lloyds Market for a group of people stealing metal from the property. Officer Sean Crook arrived on scene and found two males and two females in the cargo area of a U-Haul truck loading […] Read more »
Rochester Police have brought charges against the driver involved in a serious crash on Neck Road Tuesday evening. Police filed charges today in Wareham District Court against 20-year-old Joshua A. Demoranville of Wareham Street in Middleboro for speeding, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for police, and failure to stay in marked […] Read more »
The Community Preservation Committee has spent the last year working on updating procedural documents, site visits to proposed projects, and developing improved application forms with a new scoring system. But nothing is more important to the residents of the town than the projects that their tax dollars help to support. In past years the CPC, […] Read more »
Mattapoisett’s Planning Board has reviewed and modified language on several by-laws as part of an overall plan to make zoning by-laws more user friendly and in line with master planning which they undertook last fall. The updated by-laws that will be sent to town meeting for the voters to accept or deny are signs, screening, […] Read more »
The Town Clerk’s Office budget will reflect a salary decrease for the elected office position, a notion suggested by Town Administrator Michael Gagne, who pointed out that the candidates who have submitted papers for the position have little experience and none of the certifications held by current Town Clerk Barbara Sullivan. The salary will be […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Police Department has filed for criminal charges against Fire Inspector Lieutenant Patrick Saltmarsh for allegedly stealing $1,345.76 from the Firefighter’s Association, and Saltmarsh could possibly face six counts of embezzlement from an association. According to a February 28 press release written by Police Chief Mary Lyons, newly-elected association members in January spotted what […] Read more »
Residents from Inland Road came before the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday night asking for a by-law allowing private roads to have snow plow services. “We have trash pickup, postal delivery, water and sewer, newspaper delivery, UPS delivery, utility maintenance, but no snow plowing because we are a private road,” said Al Caron, a resident […] Read more »
At just after 6pm on Tuesday, March 4, the Rochester Police and Fire Department’s responded to a motor vehicle crash on Neck Road near the causeway at Snipatuit Pond. Initially there were three person’s injured in the crash of a vehicle that had hit a telephone pole with one of the parties being ejected from […] Read more »
Lee Carr was appointed to the fill the vacant seat on the Planning Board during a March 3 joint meeting between selectmen and members of the Planning Board. Carr had written a letter expressing his interest in serving on the Planning Board; however, it was a couple days too late to submit nomination papers before […] Read more »
Rochester might be in for more solar power in the near future. According to Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman Richard Cutler, the Board recently received correspondence from Building Commissioner Jim Buckles notifying them of the potential for a 250-kilowatt solar array on Theodore Brillon’s property at 287 Snipatuit Road. “My guess is he’s going to […] Read more »