As far as town meetings go, the Mattapoisett Special Fall Town Meeting held on Monday night saw little resistance to the 11 articles brought to the voters for consideration. That is, except for Article 7. Article 7 asked the voters to grant authority to the town for the taking of some easements and […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health didn’t disagree during its October 19 public meeting about the definition of a bedroom as much as whether the town should be increasing its involvement beyond the application of state regulations that already exist. For Board of Health purposes, a bedroom is defined to help establish what is […] Read more »
A request for a Certificate of Compliance filed by Laurence E. Reinhart (East Avenue Trust) for work done at 17 East Avenue brought concern to the Marion Conservation Commission after four of its members visited the site on October 21 and found four discrepancies, one of which was considered a deal breaker. During […] Read more »
The Marion Planning Board has approved the site plan for the town’s new Department of Public Works operations center to be built off Benson Brook Road and off Mill Street. Ken Motta, a senior project manager with Field Engineering, was on hand for the continued public hearing and opened by telling the board […] Read more »
Old Rochester is participating in a pilot program at the junior high level that will allow students to keep cell phones on their persons, so long as they remain in a locked pouch that will be distributed by the school. On October 12, the ORR School Committee voted to accept the program after […] Read more »
On October 24, the members of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission found themselves questioning which permitting entity in Mattapoisett goes first when an applicant is seeking to perform construction activities on their property. Is it the Zoning Board of Appeals or the Conservation Commission? On the agenda for the evening’s meeting was a Notice […] Read more »
Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday reviewed more details of the Site Plan Review application for a 15-acre, self-storage facility at Kings Highway and Route 28 and learned the project’s biggest problem may be what public water will be available for it. The petitioner, JPF Development’s engineer William Madden, told the board that along with […] Read more »
The dissolution of the Country Fair has left a void in the community life of Rochester residents and town employees. One of those town employees, Executive Assistant Amanda Baptiste, did some recent fact-finding and on Tuesday night brought a proposal to the Rochester Select Board. She wants to form a Town Event Committee. […] Read more »
During the October 24 meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board, the members met with Jamie Pisano of the engineering firm VHB, which has been charged with creating village-street, roadway-improvement plans for approximately two years. In September, when VHB’s representatives came before the board, they brought the troubling news that some 36 trees would need […] Read more »
The pivotal appropriation of $1,202,688 was approved by an overwhelming majority at Marion’s Special Fall Town Meeting held Monday night at Sippican Elementary School, green-lighting construction of a new Maritime Center that will upgrade and centralize Harbormaster Department operations at Island Wharf. Added to $1,603,000 in previously awarded grant funding from the state’s […] Read more »