A driveway at 584 Delano Road was disused at the Marion Planning Board meeting on Monday evening. Minutes from a 1993 meeting stated that drainage was an issue at the site. Board member Patricia McArdle said that she researched the property at the Registry of Deeds and found no restristricion regarding drainage. Jon Kirk, owner […] Read more »
An Allens Point Road resident will have to find another way to pay his astronomical water bill of $72,227.62 after the Marion Board of Selectmen voted to deny the resident’s abatement request. The decision was made during a special meeting with the Selectmen and members of the Department of Public Works on Thursday morning. “In […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional School Committee granted the Junior High cheerleaders permission to travel to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida for a national cheerleading competition, as well as to fundraise for the trip, at their regular meeting on Wednesday, December 12. Members of the cheerleading team, which is largely composed of students from the […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission voted in favor of a project to eradicate the invasive phragmite plant at 32 Beach Street. The plant has taken over much of the land and is encroaching on an intermittent stream as well as a wetland line that was delineated in the mid 1990s. The applicants are Shay and Christine […] Read more »
Members of the Highway Department, Financial Committee and Board of Selectmen are looking into replacing the Highway Department’s loader in the near future after the current one suffered severe maintenance problems last week. The new loader was discussed at the Selectmen’s regular meeting on Tuesday, December 11. According to Highway Supervisor Barry Denham, the loader […] Read more »
The representatives for the Little Quittacas solar farm were back before the Rochester Planning Board on Tuesday night. At their last meeting on November 27, the Board and engineers discussed the independent peer review results conducted by Field Engineering. The engineers of the project were hesitant at the last meeting to accept the idea of […] Read more »
School Choice, a state program currently in place at the ORR Junior and Senior High Schools, was discussed as an option at the elementary school level at the Mattapoisett School Committee meeting on Monday evening. School Choice is a program whereby school districts can vote to allow out-of-town students to attend district schools for an […] Read more »
On December 26, it will have been five months since the ceiling collapsed at the Marion Natural History Museum. The accident, which happened in the middle of the night, left no one injured but damaged a significant portion of the interior of the museum. Since then, the Town of Marion had been in the process […] Read more »
Tempers flared at Monday night’s Conservation Commission meeting in Mattapoisett, as the Commissioners expressed their dissatisfaction with the apparent completion of a septic system repair project that was not permitted. Contractor Nathaniel Gomes began the work after receiving approval for the project from Dale Barrows at the Board of Health. Gomes did not receive any […] Read more »
The lack of use of the fields for both recess and sports at Rochester Memorial School was discussed at the Rochester School Committee meeting held on Thursday, December 6. With pride, Rochester built their elementary school under budget by approximately $900,000. Coming in under budget saves Rochester residents tax dollars. But, with any major building […] Read more »