Coming before the Planning Board with completely new plans for 14 Barstow Street, Bruce Rocha with his architect, Anthi Frangiadis displayed detailed plans including a concept drawing of the completed building. Prior to hearing, noting the applicant’s rationale for coming back before the board, Chairman Tucker reminded the public attendees that the board would not […] Read more »
Future planning for the town of Marion dominated the agenda at the Monday evening meeting of the Marion Planning Board. “We are looking at the 2015 survey,” said member Ted North. “What do the people of Marion want the town to look like in twenty years,” he asked. Board member Rico Ferrari spoke and said […] Read more »
The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning for the Tri-town area as a large storm front is expected to move through overnight and into Wednesday. Winds of 30 to 40 mph are expected with gusts up to 60 mph. Trees and power lines may be damaged and power outages my occur. The […] Read more »
Rochester Police were called to the scene of a serious head on crash on New Bedford Road in the area of Cushman Road at 6:50pm. Responding officers found two heavily damaged vehicles in the roadway. The operator of one vehicle was ejected and suffered serious injuries requiring him to be flown by helicopter to Rhode […] Read more »
Voters packed the Rochester Memorial School on Monday night to decide the fate of 12 articles, but a majority of those voters – a vast majority, in fact – made it clear that they were in attendance mainly to stop the Community Preservation Act from making it to the spring election ballot. They succeeded. Article […] Read more »
Once again, the members of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission met with Shepard Johnson, an attorney representing Robert Ringuette of Leisure Shores Marina. This third meeting, which is a continuation from two previous meetings, produced little in the way of detailed information from the applicant. Instead, the board received a flow of questions, many of which […] Read more »
Rochester’s search for a new Town Planner is under way, three months after John Charbonneau left to take a position with Raynham. The search committee will include Planning Board Chairman Arnie Johnson and member Ben Bailey, in addition to Town Administrator Richard LaCamera and Selectman Bradford Morse. “We’ll meet the week after next to whittle […] Read more »
Rochester Police, Fire and EMS were called to a motor vehicle accident on North Road at just after 4pm today. They received multiple reports of a minivan, which struck a telephone pole. At the scene they found a single vehicle that had struck a pole, knocking it into the street. A portion of North Avenue […] Read more »
Calling all three projects before them good for the town, the members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, with Building Inspector Andy Bobola on hand providing his expert opinion, moved swiftly through the public hearings on Thursday night’s agenda. First up were Jordan and Jessica Collyer, of 5 Hillside Ave., coming before the board requesting […] Read more »
While Fall Town Meeting was under way down the street, the Mattapoisett School Committee conducted a brisk meeting highlighted by community improvements, a revamped kindergarten assessment program, and budget transfers. Among the four transfers presented by Old Rochester Regional School District Superintendent Doug White and approved by the Mattapoisett School Committee were $43,171 for an […] Read more »