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 »
Reviewing the warrant for the May 13 Annual Town Meeting, Rochester’s Select Board Monday paused longest over the one article it voted against recommending. That article proposes approving a $12,000,000 debt exclusion for the Old Rochester Regional School District to make capital improvements around the school campus. Select Board member Brad Morse […] Read more »
A smaller crowd of concerned residents left the April 17 meeting of the Marion Select Board feeling better about the town’s cemetery regulations after member Randy Parker recommended during the continued public hearing that the fourth and fifth items be dropped from the Cemetery Commission’s revised proposal and Chairman Toby Burr agreed. The […] Read more »
James Jr. and Laura Ryan Shachoy filed a Notice of Intent heard by the Marion Conservation Commission on April 10 to remove and replace the stone armor located landward of their seawall at 1 Water Street. In a 7:10 pm public hearing, Dave Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & Leone, Inc., represented the Shachoys’ […] Read more »