Old Rochester Regional District Business Manager Katie Isernio thanked the Marion School Committee and said goodbye to them at their meeting held on Wednesday, May 2 at Marion Town House. Isernio will be leaving the district to take the helm of a brand new district, the Monomoy District, which oversees Harwich and Chatham. “I just […] Read more »
Rochester Police responded to a suspicious motor vehicle call on Braley Hill Road around 2:52pm On Tuesday May 1. When Officer Donald Kemmett arrived he found two men in the back yard of a home along with a rented box truck that was stuck in the home’s septic system. Both men stated they were just […] Read more »
A recent survey conducted to assess Marion residents’ outdoor recreational preferences further supported the interest in installing a bike path connector from Mattapoisett, but the project still has many hurdles to jump. Marion Selectmen met with the Marion Open Space Action Committee on May 1 to hear about the survey, in which 152 residents expressed […] Read more »
The Rochester Conservation Commission gave the Massachusetts Department of Transportation the green light to spray herbicides along the small portion of Interstate 495 that runs through Rochester. The approval was given at their meeting on the evening of Tuesday, May 1 at the Rochester Town Hall. The herbicides will also be sprayed in other towns […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Planning Board held a special public hearing on the evening of Monday, April 30 to address questions about the new zoning bylaws for the floodplain district. The meeting marked the second and final hearing to be held on the matter before it is addressed at the Mattapoisett Annual Town Meeting on Monday, May […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Monday evening to sign the warrant for the 2012 Town Meeting. Selectmen Paul Silva, Jordan Collyer and Tyler Macallister met with Town Administrator Michael Gagne very briefly to discuss any opposition to the articles on this year’s warrant. Seeing none, Collyer made a motion to both sign the […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Police Department participated in their first National Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28. The event was organized so that local residents could turn in old and unused prescription medications and syringes. The program has been running across the US for the last four years. According to the police, the program is […] Read more »
After months of applications, hearings, and quite a bit of contention from local residents, Nils Johnson and Andrea Perry were granted entertainment and victualler licenses for the Inn At Shipyard Park, formerly the Kinsale Inn. The original public hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, but due to the crowd of concerned residents, which approached 100 people, […] Read more »
The Marion Conservation Commission met on the evening of Wednesday, April 25 for their regular meeting. During the session, they voted in favor of an RFD to pave the driveway at 114 Allens Point Road, with the condition that the homeowners do not use salt during the winter so as to minimize negative ecological impact […] Read more »
Shellfishing has been closed in Nasketucket Bay due to a fuel spill. The area affected is all of Nasketucket Bay from Brandt Beach Avenue Westward. The cause of the spill is from a boat, which sank on Sunday night. The two people on board the vessel were rescued by the Coast Guard and air lifted […] Read more »