May 14, 2021
Marion Planning Board candidates Jon Henry (top left), Tom Friedman (top center), Alanna Nelson (top right), Andrew Daniel (bottom left), Tucker Burr (bottom right)
MARION It’s Election Day in Marion!
Residents can vote in today’s Town Election from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center.
The five-way race for two spots on the Planning Board is the only contested election on the ballot.
Running for the two positions are incumbent Andrew Daniel, Alanna Nelson and Tom Friedman of the Energy Management Committee, former Selectman Jon Henry and lifelong resident Tucker Burr.
While Daniel is running for reelection to his position on the board, the second open position was left by the resignation of Kristen St. Don-Campbell.
May 10, 2021
Voters shot down a bylaw change which would have restricted the allowable density of housing in town, but passed all other items at the May 10 Annual Town Meeting. Photo by: Aidan Pollard
MARION A bylaw change which would restrict the density of housing allowed to be constructed in town was shot down at the May 10 Town Meeting.
The change, which did not receive a necessary two-thirds majority of voters at the meeting, would have cut the allowable number of housing units in land zoned for high-density housing from 12 units per acre to six.
Voters passed every other question at the meeting, including one to spend $2.7 million more on the wastewater lagoon lining project and another to change the name of the Board of Selectmen to a gender-inclusive moniker, Select Board.
Aidan Pollard May 4, 2021
MARION Town Election is on May 14, and voters will be able to cast their ballots from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Benjamin D. Cushing Community Center.
Early voting by mail is currently available to anyone who wishes to cast their ballot ahead of the election. Residents may request a ballot by printing the application found on marionma.gov, or by a signed, handwritten request.
Either must be returned to the town clerk’s office via email, mail or the drop box outside Town Hall before Monday, May 10, and the voted ballots must be returned to the town clerk by 7 p.m. on Friday, May 14.
The Marion Wastewater Treatment Plant. Photo by: Aidan Pollard
MARION Voters at May 10 Town Meeting will be asked to further fund the town’s wastewater treatment lagoon-lining project, change a bylaw for high-density housing and cast votes on 49 other issues.
The meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, May 10, at Sippican School. All registered Marion voters are eligible to attend and participate.
Those attending will be asked to approve $2.74 million in spending to complete the wastewater lagoon-lining project, needed to bring the sewage lagoons up to current standards designed to prevent wastewater from seeping into nearby Aucoot Cove and from there to Buzzards Bay.
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