The Marion Art Center will close to the public for the season on Saturday, December 17 at 2:00 pm. The MAC reopens on Tuesday, January 3 in preparation for the Winter Members’ Show, the first gallery show of the year. Classes for both children and adults will resume mid-January. Two new eight-week sessions of […] Read more »
Frances P. Florindo, 90, of West Wareham, died Thursday, December 15, 2022 at Tremont Rehabilitation Center in Wareham. She was the wife of the late Edmund P. Florindo, Sr. Born in Rochester, she was the daughter of the late Ellen L. (Corse) and Walter Allen Pierce. Mrs. Florindo was instrumental in the opening of Ocean […] Read more »
Thank goodness it’s gone. When a recent essay of mine appeared here, my photo appeared with it. When asked if that would be all right, I agreed. Why not, after all, my face has appeared next to my columns before, so sure, what the heck. I now know that other contributors are obviously […] Read more »
The Rochester Board of Health on December 7 reviewed a draft letter that will request “slowing down” the implementation of proposed new and potentially expensive state septic-system installation regulations. Town Health Director Karen Walega said the Department of Environmental Protection is proposing to require nitrogen-reduction systems for even existing septic systems. This new […] Read more »
The Rochester Zoning Board of Appeals opened a public hearing on December 8 into a plan to build an 80×204-foot steel building with 10 separate bays and 16,320 square feet of floor space at 19 Country Road. But the board could not even come close to rendering a decision. Neighbors who are so […] Read more »
One of the hazards of reading through historical articles and news clippings is how easy it is to get sidetracked. Some interesting item pops up, and 20 minutes later, you are still engrossed in something totally unrelated to what you were planning to research. There’s a very thick book in our museum collection titled, […] Read more »
Having seen the Town of Rochester push back on the state’s winter-2023 timeframe to implement a new regulation requiring septic owners in designated nitrogen-sensitive areas to install expensive denitrification systems, Mattapoisett Board of Health Chairman Carmelo Nicolosi was eager to follow suit when the board met on December 8. A debate is growing […] Read more »
The December 12 meeting of the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission was one of those rare occasions when a municipal board gets to hear from the youth in the community. Coming before the commission on this night was Boy Scout Murray Copps to discuss his Eagle project. Copps has secured permission from various private-property owners, whose […] Read more »
Rep. Bill Straus (D-Mattapoisett) announced that the Town of Marion will be receiving an additional $250,000 from the Department of Environmental Protection for the Marion Lagoon Lining project. In 2018, Rep. Straus authored a targeted legislative earmark to the Environmental funding bill to secure funding for the lagoon relining. “This project in Marion is an […] Read more »
After Bernie Lynch of Community Paradigm Associates explained that “the numbers we used to see for these jobs have been cut by at least a third” and told the story of a recent search that yielded 13 candidates, only one of whom had been a town manager, the challenge facing a smaller town like Marion […] Read more »