Rochester’s Conservation Commission Tuesday agreed to keep pursuing the town’s rights to the water on Red Brick Farm East land that is part of a 241-acre Conservation Restriction giving Rochester no rights to the groundwater that the property might produce.             Commission Chairman Christopher Gerrior told the board Tuesday that he expected the issue to […] Read more »

            The Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library needs an up-to-date, easier-to-use website and to make its lower-level entrance more accessible to people with disabilities. Both concerns were the feature of the Library Board of Trustees’ meeting Monday.             The January 22 Special Town Meeting will be asking voters to spend $3,000 from Capital Improvement Funds […] Read more »

            As it faced a roomful of abutters concerned about the installation’s effect on their neighborhood, Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday continued until February its public hearing on the Special Permit and Site Plan Review application for BWC Snows Pond LLC’s plan to build a solar-energy array on 12.55 acres of a 31-acre parcel at 0 […] Read more »

The January 8 meeting of the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee found the members reviewing the needs of the Mattapoisett Fire Department as presented by Chief Andrew Murray for FY25. The list of needs totals a mere $37,000, small potatoes when contrasted against previous years’ needs, as well as needs on the 10-year capital plan.             […] Read more »

            Former Marion Harbormaster Isaac Perry, now serving the Town of Mattapoisett, will be sought out by the Marion Marine Resources Commission for his help.             The dock is no longer in service at Old Landing after the last storm tore it away from the pilings. As of Monday, the Harbormaster Department was in the […] Read more »

            The Point Road Bike Path will take shape this spring, but it is a matter of carefully stacked layers of materials designed to hold the grade and also properly process drainage.             Deb Ewing, Chairman John Rockwell and Marc Sylvia represented the Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission at its January 4 Zoom meeting.             […] Read more »

            Deep into a long night of meeting with the Tri-Town Select Board and then holding their regular meeting, the members of the Mattapoisett Select Board heard from Sandy Hering, chairman of the Mattapoisett Tree Committee.             Hering once again stated her concerns that residents didn’t have the information needed to make an informed decision […] Read more »

            With the assistance of two consultants, the Marion Historic District Study Committee created a working list of over 250 Marion properties covering three and potentially five historic districts.             So reported Will Tifft to the Marion Select Board during its January 3 public meeting at the Town House.             One of several residents appointed […] Read more »

            The Town of Rochester would like to replace its aged main fire station on Pine Street with something like what the Town of Mattapoisett built along Route 6 before the COVID-19 pandemic, but post-COVID construction costs and supply-chain issues are straining the building industry at large.             Nonetheless, Rochester officials were quite interested in […] Read more »

Having had time to digest Albin Johnson’s objections to Marion’s septic bylaw requiring an upgrade to denitrification technology in any new construction, Marion Board of Health Chairman Dr. Ed Hoffer had his say when the board met on December 28 at the Town House.             “There is no justification for us narrowing or making our […] Read more »