Action on Article 31 of the warrant for the May 13 Annual Town Meeting asking Marion voters if the town should opt out of the state’s Stretch (building) Code and effectively resign from its membership in the state’s Green Communities program will be postponed indefinitely after the Select Board determined Tuesday night that there is […] Read more »
In addressing the Old Rochester School Committee on April 11, Old Rochester Regional Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Dr. Shari Fedorowicz was careful to explain that the Student Opportunity Act is not to be confused with ORR’s School Improvement plan, otherwise known as Vision 2028. Nonetheless, Fedorowicz was enthused to recommend that the […] Read more »
Roughly one year after settling in as Rochester’s new town administrator, the Select Board will launch a search for its next town administrator after the members accepted Glenn Cannon’s letter of resignation during Monday’s public meeting at the Senior Center. Cannon’s resignation is effective on Monday, May 13, the date of Rochester’s Annual […] Read more »
There is disagreement between elected officials in the Tri-Towns as to the efficiency with which the Old Rochester Regional School District has explained its request for a $12,000,000 debt exclusion for the purpose of capital expenditures on school buildings over the next two decades. The warrant article common to Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester annual […] Read more »
The Rochester Finance Committee has doubled down on the Select Board’s rejection of the Old Rochester School District’s $12,000,000 debt-exclusion request that will appear on the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting to be held on Monday, May 13, at Rochester Memorial School. In the previous hour before the Finance Committee’s public meeting on […] Read more »
On April 25, a joint meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board and Finance Committee was held. Taking each of the 23 articles now officially to be presented at the Annual Town Meeting on May 13 at 6:30 pm in the Old Rochester Regional High School auditorium, the two boards reviewed each article, determining whether or […] Read more »
Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday voted to recommend the five zoning bylaw amendments proposed for the May 13 Annual Town Meeting after a public hearing and some minor tweaking of their language. The board approved “as written” a bylaw language change mandating that the location of any site with any historical significance must be identified […] Read more »
Dr. Shari Fedorowicz, the Old Rochester Regional School District’s assistant superintendent of Teaching and Learning, explained the difference between the Student Opportunity Act and ORR’s School Improvement Plan during the April 4 meeting of the Rochester School Committee. The slice of money that will come into Rochester for this program ($15,000) is relatively […] Read more »
The agenda for the April 18 Mattapoisett Zoning Board of Appeals meeting listed two hearings for special permits, but only one was heard. An application filed by Robert and Lisa Barboza, 5 and 7 Shoreview Avenue, for the construction of a three-story, single-family dwelling and represented by David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & […] Read more »
The Marion Finance Committee voted on April 10 to rescind a prior recommendation that taxpayers vote at the May 13 Annual Town Meeting to split the financing of the town’s new patrol boat between $400,000 from debt and $400,000 from free cash. The committee then voted to recommend that the $800,000 boat be purchased […] Read more »