A packed house came to a public hearing on Marion’s proposed solar bylaw at the Marion Planning Board’s meeting on Tuesday evening. The bylaw was a proposal hammered out between the Planning Board and the Marion Energy Management Committee. The deadline for putting the proposal on the town warrant for fall town meeting – to […] Read more »
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) announced Friday that West Nile Virus (WNV) has been detected in mosquitoes collected from the Town of Rochester. WNV is most commonly transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. The mosquitoes that carry this virus are common throughout the state, and are found in urban […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission recently walked the hiking trails at Washburn Park and found that the trail was twelve to fifteen feet wide in some sections and it appeared that vehicles had been riding on it. Their discussion on Wednesday evening ended with a decision to request that the Board of Selectmen ask the Department […] Read more »
The Planning Board unanimously granted RGS Energy, the firm responsible for the solar site at 33 North Avenue in Rochester, permission to work on two Sundays in late September due to a shipping delay. According to Jim Mellors, the site superintendent, there has been a delay in the shipping of 10,000 solar modules. He said […] Read more »
During a quickly called and quickly conducted meeting on the eve of the first day of school, representatives for Rochester Memorial School, the Old Rochester Regional School District, and the town of Rochester approved several maneuvers meant to free up funds in various areas of the budget. The Rochester School Committee transferred $5,787.91 from the […] Read more »
Town Administrator Richard LaCamera said that because the State Legislature has not approved Governor Deval Patrick’s recent budget proposal, the assessment for the minimum amount the town of Rochester would be responsible for would decrease for fiscal year 2014. Though disapproval of the budget and subsequent reformulations benefitted Rochester, Marion and Mattapoisett will have increased […] Read more »
Dianne Tsitsos and Marylou Armstrong have submitted letters of interest and resumes rich with environmental expertise and governmental oversight processes for the commission’s consideration for the empty seat they are seeking to fill. Tsitsos said that the subject matter handled by the commission is of interest to her as well as wetland issues. Her background […] Read more »
“The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter,” said then-Sen. John F. Kennedy in an April 27, 1957, address to Congress With that guiding light as the beginning of his presentation, David Giannotti, Chief, Public Education and Communication Division, State Ethics Commission, […] Read more »
After a false start, officials on Thursday night gave Bay Watch Realty Trust the go-ahead on a modified site plan for its Chapter 40B development off of Front Street. Though the Zoning Board of Appeals initially expressed reluctance at signing off on the modification – which moves an access road to land acquired from the […] Read more »
There was great disappointment expressed when the handful of Mattapoisett residents arrived thinking they would be meeting with Congressman Bill Keating, only to find one of his aides was sent in his stead. Apparently a misreading of the notice from his office, which was read during a recent Board of Selectmen meeting, led residents to […] Read more »