The Rochester Planning Board met for their regular meeting on Tuesday, October 9 in Rochester Town Hall. The only public hearing on the agenda for the night was in regard to the site plan review for the proposed ground-mounted solar panel array for the Little Quittacas Pond region of town off North Avenue. Last week, […] Read more »
Rochester Memorial School PTO has cancelled all after school activities for the autumn, with no guarantee that they will resume for the spring semester. When asked during the public comments portion of the October 5 meeting of the Rochester School Committee, White deferred until after the meeting to answer questions. According to White, the PTO […] Read more »
A random drug search is underway Friday morning at Old Rochester Regional High School. More than a half dozen cruisers and K9 units from Mattapoisett, Stoughton, Weymouth, Yarmouth and Plymouth County Sheriff aided in the search. The search is one of a few scheduled each year in order to ensure the school and students are […] Read more »
The Rochester School Committee met at the Town Hall on Thursday night for their monthly meeting. Superintendent Doug White began the meeting with his report. He highlighted newly released information from the state regarding MCAS. According to the new numbers, the entire Old Rochester district has consistently scored above the state […] Read more »
The Marion School Committee met on Wednesday, October 3 for a regular meeting followed by an executive session. Elise Frangos, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, presented an MCAS update in which she explained Massachusetts’ switch from using Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) to the Progress and Performance Index (PPI) for school assessment. Her presentation demonstrated the […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Selectmen held their first meeting of the month on Tuesday, October 2. They began by hearing from Lt. John Garcia of the Marion Police Department, who requested the appointment of Robert Hoey and Scott Cowan as Special Police Officers. Their appointment would be for a one-year probationary period. “These are just […] Read more »
The regular meeting of the Marion Planning Board on Monday, October 1 was the shortest meeting on record at only 11 minutes. The celerity resulted from the postponement of the only public hearing for the evening, which was the continuation of a hearing for the River Road definitive subdivision plan represented by Gregory Morse of […] Read more »
Industrial Wireless requested an indefinite continuance of their plan to build a cell tower off the end of Jane Lane in Mattapoisett. “That’s what Town Council said they were going to have to do,” said Chairman Thomas Tucker. Construction of the tower would require a special permit, which would normally fall under the jurisdiction of […] Read more »
The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals met for a brief meeting on Thursday, September 27,2012. The first hearing of the night was for Peter and Lynne Arruda of 10 Union Church Terrace who were seeking to drop a non-transferrable clause from a permit from the year 2000 for the creation of an in-law apartment at […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission began Wednesday night’s meeting with a hearing continued from September 12. Susan Domolky of 85 Moorings Road has filed a Notice of Intent to trim and cut downed trees, brush and Japanese knotweed in order to create a wetland restoration planting area. The hearing was continued because the project did not […] Read more »