By Beth David, Editor The Fairhaven Select Board held a marathon meeting on Monday, 1/13/25 with a long agenda that included more than an hour talking about wind turbines; an hour or more on a tree removal, and more than an hour in executive session. About 20 residents showed up to voice their opposition to the… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on 12/23/24, the Fairhaven Select Board chose George G. Samia, a former Town Adminis­trator and Town Accountant, to be the Interim Town Administrator until a permanent TA can be chosen. The board had expected to inter­view three candidates that night, but Leilani Dalpe, the Assistant TA in Wey­mouth, dropped… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor Patrick Carr, an appointed member and chairperson of the Fairhaven Zoning Board of Appeals, failed in his bid to get the Select Board to allow him to chair a hearing involving the Fairhaven School Department, which is a customer of his container busi­ness, Seaspray Container Company, that he owns with his daughter…. [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Fairhaven Select Board will interview three finalists for Interim Town Administrator at its next meet­ing. On 12/16/24, the board received three names from the Interim TA screen­ing committee (TA Committee). The TA Committee chairperson, Jeff Osuch, told the SB that they received 10 applications, and they interviewed five. The SB… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on 12/2/24, the Fairhaven Select Board set the tax rate for FY 2025 resulting in a small rate increase. On the recommenda­tion of the board of Assessors and Principal Assessor Joanne Correia, the board voted to approve a residential rate of $9.32 per thousand, and a Commercial, Industrial &… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Fairhaven Select Board began its meeting on Monday, 11/25/24, with a moment of silence for Heidi Hacking, a former Board of Health member and active member of several nonprofits, who died on 11/19/24, after a year long battle with brain cancer. SB member Andrew Roman read a quote from her… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on Monday, 11/4/24, the Fairhaven Select Board discussed the procedure for filling the Town Administrator position on an interim basis and permanently. Assistant Town Administrator of Finance/Town Accountant, Anne Carreiro, is the acting TA in the absence of the TA, but Ms. Carreiro is going on vacation from… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor The Fairhaven Select Board held a meeting on 10/15/24 that can only be described as bizarre at times, even by Fairhaven standards, featuring the return of a former Select Board member to chastise the current board about a subject he voted on when he was on the board, and the total… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor After a lengthy discussion at the 9/23/24 Fairhaven Select Board meet­ing, members voted to approve the restructuring of the Planning Depart­ment, Conservation Department, and Tree Department, essentially appoint­ing Bruce Webb to run all three departments. Mr. Webb is the town’s Conserva­tion Agent, but he has been acting as the town’s Director… [Read More]

By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on 9/9/24, the Fairhaven Select Board dis­cussed a possible change to the 40R Smart Growth Overlay District (SGOD) bylaw that has been the subject of an ongoing public hearing with the Planning Board (see page 4). At the PB public hearing, the possibility of splitting the article in… [Read More]