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 »
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 »