The backside abutters living on Olde Sheepfield Road came out to Monday night’s Marion Planning Board meeting to weigh in on Arnie Johnson’s expansion proposal for Fieldstone Market on Route 6. Given the floor during the public hearing, some abutters rejected elements of the expansion plan itself, but more abutters seemed to be primarily […] Read more »
Rochester’s Select Board Monday rejected Public Safety Building Committee Chairman Arnold Johnson’s request to hire an owner project manager with $140,000 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, preferring to learn first what exactly an OPM would accomplish for them at this stage of the project to combine, replace or rehab the town’s space-challenged police […] Read more »
On March 4, the Mattapoisett Capital Planning Committee, chaired by Mike Dahill, presented the Select Board with the town’s FY25 plan. Dahill began his presentation by first stating that the biggest expense the town is facing is the upgrades project required at the Fairhaven Sewer Plant. While final cost estimates are still being […] Read more »
The Marion Select Board is rearranging the lists of FY25 capital requests as recently presented by the Capital Improvements Planning Committee. On Tuesday night, Town Administrator Geoff Gorman told the Select Board that the requests presented in two basic categories – those relating to the Department of Public Works versus anything else – […] Read more »
The Marion Select Board called a special meeting held Monday afternoon to discuss a dog complaint filed by Fairhaven resident Miles Grant regarding a December 21, 2023, incident at Silvershell Beach in which his dog was bitten by an off-leash St. Bernard owned by Marion resident Verena Hultsch. Hultsch was unable to attend […] Read more »
Josiah Hatch will be allowed to fill the sinkholes behind the seawall on his property that were worsened by the December 21, 2023, storm. On February 14, the Marion Conservation Commission heard from Hatch, who filed a Request for Determination of Applicability to fill approximately eight sinkholes with aggregate and clean fill behind […] Read more »
In response to public feedback received during a February 6 Select Board meeting, the Marion Cemetery Commission met on Tuesday morning to review revisions to its proposed changes in the town’s Cemetery Regulations. The revisions were crafted for the commission’s consumption by Select Board member Norm Hills, working off a summary of feedback […] Read more »
Aiming for a level-service budget for the next fiscal year, Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson told the Marion School Committee during its February 8 meeting that he had met with the Marion Finance Committee and Finance Director Heather O’Brien. “We are at a place where the cost of doing business […] Read more »
The February 26 meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board found its members not only reviewing several departmental budgets but also topics with far-reaching implications for the town and its residents. Towards the end of the agenda, Town Administrator Mike Lorenco mentioned ongoing attempts to partner with the Town of Acushnet to hire a […] Read more »
In presenting the FY25 Draft Budget to the Marion Select Board during its February 21 meeting, Town Administrator Geoff Gorman said the goal has been a level-services budget, the only increases of which would be related to the cost of doing business. “Any additional services, requests, if we wanted to hire somebody, if […] Read more »