After successful seasons and strong starts to their state tournament campaigns, both of Old Rochester Regional High School’s basketball teams saw their seasons come to an unfortunate end last week. After capping off the regular season as South Coast Conference champions, ORR’s boys’ and girls’ teams went into the MIAA Division 3 playoffs seeded 12th […] Read more »
In early 2020, the Mattapoisett Planning Board began working on a solar bylaw that would put in place regulations on various sized solar arrays. From studying solar bylaws in other communities to attending conferences on the topic to working with legal teams, former Planning Board administrator Mary Crain and Planning Board member Janice Robins […] Read more »
The Marion Finance Committee held its final department interview for the FY23 budget season on March 9, taking on the Department of Public Works. The DPW covers a lot of ground between water, sewer and highway, but Director Nathaniel Munafo’s more complex challenges come on the sewer side, where projects large and small […] Read more »
During the months of February and March, The Friends of the Council on Aging in Mattapoisett hold their annual membership drive. We are hoping that if you have been a member of the Friends, you will renew your membership. If you have never been a member, please considering joining. Throughout the year, the Friends […] Read more »
TTAR is excited to announce they are teaming up with the Mattapoisett Museum to celebrate diverse families in the Tri-Town with our Diverse Family Portrait Project. Portraits of diverse families in our community will be taken free of charge (however donations will be accepted and appreciated) by our amazing volunteer professional photographers, Maggie by […] Read more »
In appearing before the Rochester Planning Board during the latter’s March 8 public meeting, Brian Wallace of JC Engineering, Inc. formally requested a judgment of “substantial completion” for Units 1, 2, 21, 22, 43 and 44 of the Plumb Corner Village housing development. “Forty-four is a model home so it’s really five units […] Read more »
The former Leisure Shores Marina has undergone massive cleanup and improvements since being purchased by Buzzards Bay Management LLC, Ned and David Kaiser, sentiments expressed by Mattapoisett Conservation Commission Chairman Mike King on March 14. Representing the marina’s Notice of Intent filing was David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc. The proposed […] Read more »
The first sign of spring may be Turkey Vultures circling overhead to clean up carcasses killed by speeding cars that they can locate miles away worth their keen sense of smell. The flight of a Turkey Vulture is easy to recognize by its profile of a lazy circle overhead with the purpose to find dead […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Recreation will be opening online sign-up for the Seahorse Summer Explorer Program in two stages this year. Mattapoisett resident sign-up opens on April 1. Nonresident registration opens on April 5. Your favorite counselors will be returning, and we are all looking forward to another fun-filled summer. Please email us at mattrec@mattapoisett.net with any […] Read more »
Coming before a joint meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board and Finance Committee on March 10 were Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson and Howard Barber, ORR’s assistant superintendent of Finance and Operations, to review the FY23 school budgets. For the layperson, the complexities, the numerous moving parts of the process […] Read more »