The pivotal appropriation of $1,202,688 was approved by an overwhelming margin at Marion’s Special Fall Town Meeting held Monday night at Sippican Elementary School, green-lighting construction of a new Maritime Center for Harbormaster Department operations at Island Wharf. The appropriation will come from the town’s Waterways Account, which is funded by harbor-related fees that were […] Read more »
An hour before Tuesday night’s Select Board meeting, the Town of Marion held an information session on the Maritime Center that will ask voters to appropriate $1,202,688 at the Monday, October 23, Special Town Meeting at Sippican Elementary School. Current funding for a new harbormaster headquarters is $1,603,000 via grant funding from the […] Read more »
The response of Old Hammondtown Elementary School students in neighboring Mattapoisett to an opportunity to participate in television production with Old Rochester Community Television caught ORCTV Executive Director Robert Chiarito off guard. “Every single fifth grader tried to sign up,” Chiarito told the Marion Select Board during Tuesday night’s public meeting at the […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Planning Board’s October 17 meeting was about 17 minutes long, a far cry from previous meetings lasting hours and chalk-a-block full of technical details. But the town’s business, whether massive or small, is noteworthy. Coming before the board on Tuesday night was developer Scott Snow to finalize a surety agreement for […] Read more »
Rochester’s Conservation Commission Tuesday approved the next step for a plan that will place a 15-acre, self-storage facility at Kings Highway and Route 28. The panel approved an Abbreviated Notice of Resource Area Delineation that reflagged the parcel’s 2,700 linear feet of bordering vegetated wetlands. The Concom approved the site’s first wetlands delineation […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Fall Special Town Meeting will take place on Monday, November 6, at 6:30 pm at Old Rochester Regional High School Auditorium. At that time, voters will be asked to transfer and spend revenue included in 11 warrant articles. On Monday, the Mattapoisett Select Board unanimously moved each article for voters’ consideration. […] Read more »
After a Classification Hearing held on October 12, the Rochester Select Board voted to maintain a residential factor of one, resulting in a continuation of the town’s practice of Residential and Commercial/Industrial properties being taxed at the same rate for FY24. Rochester’s estimated tax rate for FY24 is $11.06, down 6.82% from FY23. […] Read more »
At its opening public meeting of the 2023-24 academic year, the Old Rochester Regional Joint School Committee/Superintendent’s Union #55 heard from Dr. Ruth Gilbert-Whitner, whom Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson suggested the district employ as a facilitator for Vision 2028, ORR’s strategic plan for the next five years. “Finally, we’re here,” said Nelson, addressing […] Read more »
Marion Health Director Lori Desmarais brought to the Marion Board of Health’s October 5 public meeting attention a conversation she had with Marion Building Commissioner Bob Grillo, who has received recent requests to install bathrooms in garages to be used for office space (not a residence.) “Right now, we don’t currently have anything […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Water and Sewer Department Superintendent Henri Renauld has been largely assured that insurance will cover damage that the Water Treatment Plant sustained on August 8 when an EF-1 tornado ripped through a section of town north of Route 195. In his report to the Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission on Tuesday, Renauld […] Read more »