Marion’s Select Board Tuesday received a $625,000 check from the Plymouth County Commission that will allow the town to replace all of its back-up generators at the Front Street waterworks pumping station. Plymouth County Commission Chairman Jared Valanzola and state Senator Marc Pacheco delivered the check to the board, noting these are ARPA […] Read more »
The house lots in Mattapoisett’s village district predate all zoning bylaws. That said, it’s not unusual for a resident to step outside their door and be standing, technically speaking, in their neighbor’s yard. Such is the case with a two homes owned by family members on Water Street. Coming before the Mattapoisett Zoning Board […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett School Committee on September 12 moved the Old Rochester Regional School District one step closer to committee approval of all of the district’s 2024-2025 School Improvement plans by endorsing the plan for the Center School and Old Hammondtown School. Over the next two years, Center School and Old Hammondtown School will be […] Read more »
On September 23, the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission met with Ken Motta of Field Engineering to hear an RDA (Request for Determination of Applicability) for work planned on subterrain stormwater systems at the intersection of Pearl and Church streets. Motta explained that Massachusetts EPA regulations require discharged waters (water discharging into coastal waters) be free […] Read more »
The Marion School Committee on September 19 made Sippican Elementary School the last of the district’s six schools to approve its own 2024-2025 School Improvement Plan. “This is our last stop,” Superintendent Michael Nelson said as he led the Marion committee to the approval vote. He noted that five of the six schools in […] Read more »
The meeting of the Marion Marine Resources Commission originally envisioned with the Select Board will probably take place in November, so its September 17 public meeting became the commission’s forum to prepare to address the Select Board. “I told them in general we want to discuss Island Wharf management and that we had many […] Read more »
Addressing a need that had been on the town’s capital-funding priority list for years, Rochester’s Select Board Monday spent $245,150 of the town’s $312,000 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds on new equipment for the Highway Department. Select Board member Adam Murphy noted the new Cat 930 Wheel loader being requested by Highway Surveyor […] Read more »
In the wake of reported unpermitted activity at 290 Delano Road, the Marion Conservation Commission was pleased to hear from property owner David R. Hooke during its September 11 public meeting and assured him that the town has no problem with his replacement of a deteriorated wall. This was in response to concern expressed […] Read more »
Three projects in different vetting stages made up the bulk of the agenda at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Marion Planning Board: a Pre-Submission Conference for Papa’s Real Estate on Luce Avenue, a continued public hearing for 78 Wareham Road and a public hearing for a project proposed by FSJ Marion Realty at 207-215 Wareham […] Read more »
Faced with terrain that will result in a concentrated area of drainage from the Point Road Bike Path, Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission Chairman John Rockwell pointed to two options during MOSAC’s September 5 Zoom meeting: Use forced infiltration to lose some of the stormwater between the path and the road, and another strategy […] Read more »