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Bueller? As enrollment declines in the Old Rochester Regional School District, Tri-Town officials at a July 13 joint meeting of Marion and Mattapoisett’s Select Boards and Rochester’s Board of Selectmen called for an enrollment study on the OR high school and junior high. Marion Select Board member John Waterman said that a study could help the towns and district “to manage or better control” the cost of schooling long-term. Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail noted that he and Superintendent Mike Nelson are already working on it, and that he has a call with the UMass Boston Collins...

Hilltown police forces in transition "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department. He is the town’s first full-time chief. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town, which voted to make his position full time. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS ...

“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation "> Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides. The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11. Now, every meeting must have a quorum of town board members in-person at a publicly accessible venu...

Two hilltowns explore combining police depts. FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO Published: 6/28/2021 7:37:59 PM CHESTERFIELD — The town is exploring regionalizing its police force with Goshen, with the Select Boards of both communities having discussed this possibility earlier this month. “I don’t know what will come from it,” said Chesterfield Select Board Chairman Roger Fuller. “It’s definitely worth a conversation, for sure.” Fuller said the Goshen and Chesterfield select boards met over Zoom this month and discussed regionalizing the two town’s departments, although he noted that “i...

Voters in Camden, Rockport and Thomaston have the opportunity on June 8 to get the ball rolling for high speed broadband service for their towns, with universal access and fiber to the premises for all homes and businesses, and local legislators are...