After numerous meetings which have taken place over several years, the Mattapoisett Select Board was caught off guard as they met with VHB, the town’s village street planner. Coming before the board were Shawn Giatas and Jamie Pisano to discuss the massive roadway improvement project for the village streets Main Street, Water Street and […] Read more »
The Old Rochester Regional School District is engaging a grant program that would magnetize Junior High School students’ cell phones via a special pouch as a means of upgraded security and creating the potential of limited usage during school hours at select locations in the building. In its first public meeting of the […] Read more »
Engineer David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon & Leone, Inc., came before the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission on Monday night, requesting an Amended Order of Conditions. After acknowledging the sacrifices made on this date in 2001, which was preceded by the Pledge of Allegiance, Davignon explained to the commissioners the nature of the request. […] Read more »
Will Tifft of the recently formed Marion Historic District Study Committee appeared before the Marion Select Board during its September 6 public meeting to update the members and the town on the committee’s activities. Tifft said the committee was leaning toward a fairly “soft” set of requirements for recommendation regarding a potential Historic […] Read more »
The Marion Board of Health voted on August 24 to grant a variance to the owners of property at 458 Mill Street, allowing the construction of a bathroom inside the garage without denitrification technology in its septic system. When an accompanying house is built at a later date, the garage bathroom will tie […] Read more »
A backyard will get 50 feet deeper after the Marion Conservation Commission voted after an August 23 public hearing to issue a Negative Box 3 Determination of Applicability to Deer Run Lot 5 LLC, for land clearing for a residential house lot at 5 Deer Run. Project representative Matt Leone of Schneider, Davignon […] Read more »
There had been a great deal of speculation regarding what was below the surface of the Mattapoisett Harbor waters, just what was supporting Long Wharf. Comments on the materials that might have been used decades ago ran the gamut from poor-quality dirt from construction sites to sunken boats, cement, rocks and more. Documentation from […] Read more »
There is “no wiggle room” for the 13 acres of Rochester land – known as Red Brick Farm East – for the town to explore water usage or other options. The land in question can become a well site for neighboring Mattapoisett to explore for its own water use, per a regional agreement, […] Read more »
The Rochester Select Board met on Tuesday and awarded an Employee Citation to Joseph Bacchiocchi of the town’s Facilities Department for his work on Town Hall and Council on Aging Senior Center renovations. The board accepted a $3,000 award from the Annie Maxim House, which will be distributed to the Highway, Fire and […] Read more »
The Marion Capital Improvements Planning Committee has taken two big losses for the FY25 cycle about to commence, but its members were extremely impressed with the two candidates attending their public meeting on Tuesday night at the Police Station. Paul Naiman, who has chaired the CIPC for the past several years, has stepped […] Read more »