Rochester’s Public Safety Building Committee Monday approved hiring Yarmouth Port-based Catalyst Architecture to design plans for a new main Fire Station on Pine Street, utilizing $28,000 of unused funds from the town’s Feasibility Study account. A Feasibility Study Committee organized last year by the Select Board looked into a potentially three-pronged upgrade to the […] Read more »
Old Rochester Regional Superintendent of Schools Mike Nelson said Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning Dr. Shari Fedorowicz had to move quickly to prepare a presentation to the June 12 public meeting of the ORR School Committee. The resultant FY24 vote enacted approval of a $105,000 grant for investment in the Amplify Desmos Math […] Read more »
Asked during Tuesday’s public meeting by Mattapoisett River Valley Water District Commission member Nick Nicholson to characterize the overall progress of the long-awaited filtering-systems upgrade at the Mattapoisett Water Treatment Plant, Tata & Howard engineer Jon Gregory indicated that the MRV is waiting on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. “As soon as we […] Read more »
Coming before the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission on July 9 was Brian Grady of G.A.F. Engineering, representing applicant Daniel McCarthy for a Notice of Intent filing. The continued public meeting brought out several property owners. The scope of the project located at 12, 14, 16 and 18 Ocean View Avenue is rather straightforward, to replace […] Read more »
In recognition of retiring Old Hammondtown School Principal Kevin Tavares, Mattapoisett School Committee Chairperson Carly Lavin prepared the following remarks publicly read during the June 13 meeting of the committee: “As you approach the culmination of what can only be described as an illustrious, three-decade journey in the Mattapoisett School District, I find […] Read more »
The July 9 meeting of the Mattapoisett Select Board was a bit bumpy, as discussion resumed in the matter of selecting residents to be seated on the new village roadway committee. When the agenda item was heard, Select Board member Jodi Bauer said that no more than three people should be appointed to the […] Read more »
Rochester’s Planning Board Tuesday began reviewing Eversource’s proposal for an electrical substation on 6.26 acres at 297 Rounseville Road. The informal discussion of the plan started with Eversource representative Dan Hagen describing the project as an upgrade of electrical services in Rochester. Two larger transformers will quadruple power to the area, he said. […] Read more »
The Marion Select Board held a special, one-agenda item, public meeting on July 3 in which its three members heard from Jared Duval and Fran Conroy of TEC, a company the town hired to analyze its 28 miles of public roadway and propose a maintenance plan. Most notably, Select Board member Randy Parker struggled […] Read more »
Derek Saltzman is expanding his physical-therapy business to a third location after the Marion Planning Board granted him a Special Permit to occupy space in the former Lockheed Martin property. Presently, Fusion Physical Therapy has offices in New Bedford and in Mattapoisett, the latter location along Route 6 on the Marion side of North […] Read more »
Rochester’s Zoning Bylaw Review Committee on June 27 approved forwarding to Town Counsel a new bylaw that would regulate short-term rentals within private residences. The new bylaw, if passed at the October 21 Special Town Meeting, would restrict owners of private homes to offering short-term rentals of space within their properties for no more […] Read more »