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By Becca Manning, express staff Becca@peMBrokexpress.coM

After three years on the Board of Se-lectmen, Don Anderson has decided to take a break, opting not to run for

re-election on Saturday. Anderson, who also is a member of the Energy Committee and a former member of the Pembroke Media Broadcasting Board of Directors, owns Defense Investigators Group, a Hanson-based insurance investigation firm. Turning his focus on work and family, An-derson said he plans to take at least a year off from town politics, though he will remain an interested citizen. He also hinted that he will be back on the ballot again before too long.

Why did you become a selectman? I be-came a selectman to facilitate some change and become part of the process, to kind of roll up my sleeves and see what it was all about. I ran initially against Bob DeMarzo and lost and then

Beautiful weather, a host of activities from baseball games

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in one of the low-est voter turnouts in recent history on Saturday, with only 6.2 percent showing up to the polls.

The 736 people voting in the town election picked Paul Whitman as Pembroke’s new

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DPW officials may find it easier to move 4,000 cubic yards of broken asphalt than to sway the opinions of the more than 78 neighbors who turned out Monday in opposition to a plan to crush the materials nearby.

Department of Public Works Commissioners Jim Kilcommons and Paul Whit-man (who was elected to the seat on Saturday) appeared before the Zoning Board of Appeals Monday requesting

an extension of the existing non-conforming use for the 2.6-acre town property at the corner of School and Monroe streets.

The site, which is located in a residential zoning district, has been used for more than 30 years as a place to store ma-terials from roadway projects as well as street sweepings and materials cleaned out of catch basins around town. The use would not be allowed today because of zoning laws, but

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GO, DUCKS, GO! A group of young Fish Fry attendees cheer on their ducks as they race to the finish line in the Herring Run. The duck races, officiated by Captain Quack, are among the sig-nature events at the Pembroke Historical Society’s annual Grand Ol’ Fish Fry, held Sunday at the Thomas Reading Memorial Park. See more photos from the fry on pages 14-15.

Photo by Becca Manning

Light turnout at town pollsWhitman, Driscoll win races

continued on page 7

VOTER TURNOUT

Only about 6.2 percent of the 11,842 registered Pembroke voters showed up to vote on Saturday, the lowest number in recent history. Below is a breakdown of voters by pre-cinct, including absentee:

# of votersPRECINCT 1 139PRECINCT 2 142PRECINCT 3 164PRECINCT 4 161PRECINCT 5 130

TOWNWIDE 736continued on page 10

Visit with Don AndersonSelectman taking time off

STEPPING BACK: Don Anderson, at his office desk, decided not to run for re-election to the Board of Selectmen this year after serving one three-year term. Though he hopes to focus on work and family, he has not ruled out a return to town politics in the near future. Photo by Becca Manningcontinued on page 8

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The crossword puz-zles are paying off for several Pem-

broke residents after they placed in the final round of the Pembroke Public Library’s fifth annual spelling bee on Saturday.

With words like carcino-gen, residents, luminosity, racketeer and scissors, several dozen participants vied for certificates and Borders gift cards as winners of the bee.

The age groups ranged from first grade through adult during an hour of spirited competition.

The Tripp family was heavily represented, with all three children coming in first through third in two different categories.

Amy Tripp, mother of Max and twins Caroline and Jacqui, also participated in the adult round. She gave her kids a quick, enthusiastic thumbs up after several rounds, but lost to Mark Frano, who coyly smiled at being called the win-ner of the adult category.

Youth Services Librarian Jessica Lamarre commended ninth grader Zach Johnston, who was the only student for the high school event and par-ticipated in the adult category. He placed runner up.

“He did very well,” she said.Skye Stanton, winner of the sixth grade

round, attends the Bay Farm Montessori School. His parents also participated in the spelling bee for adults.

Before being restarted five years ago, the annual spelling bee had a 10-year history at the Council on Aging building, which is the former public library. A giant golden bee symbolizing the event still decorates the rooftop of that build-ing.

The spelling bee is a free and fun event, and many look forward to it every year, Lamarre said.

“It went very well, and some of the words I don’t think I could spell. More than 100 chairs were full and the audience was enthusiastic and cooperative,” she said.

“We got a few murmurs to assist judging and there was no crying,” Lamarre added.

She also noted that it was nice to see the adults participate — and the kids seemed to enjoy see-ing their parents in the “hot seat.”

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Congratulations to this year’s Spelling Bee winners:Grades 1 & 2: Caroline Tripp, second grade, BryantvilleGrades 3 & 4: Joey Wolongevicz, fourth grade, homeschooledGrades 5 & 6: Abigail Nugent, sixth grade, North PembrokeGrades 7 & 8: Skye Stanton, sixth grade, Bay Farm MontessoriAdult: Mark Frano

EN ESPANOL? Carmen Hudson was a good sport after she spelled “liturgy” wrong but asked if she could spell it in Spanish instead during the adult round.

STAR SPELLER: Joey Wolongevicz was all smiles after he won first place in the third and fourth grade category.

WE ARE F-A-M-I-L-Y: Max Tripp placed sec-ond in the fifth grade category, while his sisters Caroline and Jacqui placed first and third, respectively, in the second grade group. Mom Amy participated in the adult category.

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The School Committee chose Paul Bosworth as their new leader Tuesday night, giv-ing him the chairman seat and Suzanne Scroggins the role of vice chairman.

Former chairman Ginny Wandell was named secretary.

The board also appointed members to various subcom-mittees.

Also Tuesday, the School Committee approved first readings of three new positions and authorized the superinten-dent to advertise the jobs.

The director of teaching and learning will replace the position of director of literacy, a new role filled this year by former principal Cathy Ma-cLeod. MacLeod is leaving at the end of this year to take the assistant superintendent job in Easton.

Superintendent Frank Hackett said he always intend-ed for the literacy position to be temporary and that the new position would help move the district forward.

The director of teaching and learning will work with teachers in the classroom to help track student data, target instruction, integrate library

r e s o u r c e s into the cur-riculum and facilitate the Title I pro-gram, Hack-ett said.

The com-mittee also approved a math special-

ist, who will work with teach-ers on math instruction, and a building and grounds man-ager, who will supervise and provide training and support for school custodians.

Also Tuesday, the com-mittee authorized Director of Fine and Performing Arts Gw-ynne Sousa to expand the pri-vate music lesson program of-fered over the summer. Along with the one-on-one private lessons that were offered last year, the program will feature opportunities for students to get music instruction in pairs or as a chamber group.

“Private lessons can be a little intimidating to a begin-ning student, and it’s quite a financial obligation on the part of the parents,” Sousa said. “We feel we might get a little more interest if the stu-dent can buddy up with some-one. It’s kind of a confidence

booster.”Semi-private lessons are

geared toward students in grades 5-8 and would allow students to pair up to share the cost — $22 per half-hour les-son, or $11 each. The lessons will be offered over six weeks starting July 5.

The program also is ex-panding to give students in grades 9-12 the opportunity to work in a chamber music set-ting, such as with a brass or woodwind quintet, percussion ensemble or voice class. Each class will have a minimum of four students and will cost $13 per student.

Sousa said as the music program grows there is more of a need for chamber music experience, particularly for those students who plan to study music in college.

In other business, the school district currently is un-dergoing a search to replace Director of Operations and Ac-countability Steven Lamarche, who has accepted the superin-tendent job in Bourne. Direc-tor of Personnel and Student Services Kathy McGerigle said the screening committee had received 20 applications and would be setting up initial interviews next week.

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Alleged Lake Ave. shooter indicted on federal charge

A Connecticut man who was allegedly paid money to kill a Pembroke woman was formally indicted on a federal charge of murder for hire on April 22.

Dorian J. Membreno, 25, of Bridgeport, Conn., remains in custo-dy with the U.S. Marshals after agreeing to deten-tion without prejudice at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Boston on April 8, according to Christina DiIorio-Sterling, spokes-person for the U.S. At-torney’s office, District of Massachusetts.

Membreno is accused of shooting Marybeth Banks, 31, several times

outside her Lake Avenue home in Pembroke on March 23. Banks survived the attack and was treated at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Her family is not releasing information about her condition.

After his arrest, about 20 minutes after the shooting, Membreno allegedly told investiga-tors that he had met Banks’ former boyfriend, later identified as Anthony DeJoseph III, 32, of Wolcott, Conn., at a Bridgeport bar a few days before the incident. The man told Membreno he would pay him $7,000 to $10,000 to kill Banks, according to an affidavit filed by an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Membreno also said Banks’ former boy-friend provided him with a .38-caliber revolver, photographs of Banks and her family, her home address and the type of car she drives, accord-ing to the affidavit.

DeJoseph has not been charged in the case involving Banks, though he was arrested the

same week of the shooting on unrelated charges stemming from an incident in Waterbury, Conn.

The shooting remains under investigation.Membreno’s case in Plymouth District

Court, where he was charged with attempted murder and assault and battery with a danger-ous weapon, remains open. He has a status hearing scheduled for May 14.

Membreno is due back in U.S. District Court on June 7 for a status conference, DiIo-rio-Sterling said.

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A Pembroke man accused of walking out on a $100 bill at a Halifax restaurant failed to appear in court Monday when summonsed.

A warrant was issued for his arrest.Esau Cooper III, 31, of Washington Street

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On March 7, Cooper and three friends al-legedly walked out of Hawaii Gardens in Hali-fax without paying for a bill totaling $112.10. When the restaurant owner confronted Cooper, he told the owner he would be right back to pay after smoking a cigarette. He then drove off in a white truck, according to reports.

The restaurant owner called police but told them he wanted to give Cooper time to pay his bill. When the bill went unpaid, the owner filed charges on March 17.

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10:59 a.m. Suspicious activ-ity reported on School Street.

11:48 a.m. Animal complaint reported on Elm Street.

3:38 p.m. Animal complaint reported on Station Street.

3:48 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Church Street.

4:42 p.m. Animal complaint reported on Dwelley Street.

6:14 p.m. Recreational vehi-cle complaint reported on Chapel Street.

10:22 p.m. Motor vehicle complaint reported on Mattakee-sett Street. Area search negative.

10:29 p.m. Hit and run crash reported on Mattakeesett Street. Area search negative.

11:24 p.m. Disturbance re-ported on Standish Street. Peace restored.

SAturDAY, APriL 241:38 a.m. Suspicious vehicle

reported on Church and Old Oak streets. Area search negative.

8:45 a.m. Suspicious activity reported on Country Club Circle.

10:09 a.m. Vehicle break-in reported on Alice Avenue.

10:49 a.m. Fire incident re-ported on Christina Marie Drive. Referred to Fire Department.

10:50 a.m. Animal complaint reported on Mill Street.

1:31 p.m. Hazardous waste spill reported on School Street. Referred to Fire Department.

1:34 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with under $1,000 in damage re-ported on Church Street.

3:04 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on High Street.

4:57 p.m. Dog complaint re-ported on Washington Street.

5:01 p.m. Animal complaint reported on Dwelley Street.

6:41 p.m. Fire incident report-ed on Harvard Street. Referred to Fire Department.

7:48 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Center Street.

10:06 p.m. Disturbance re-ported on Washington Street.

10:29 p.m. Suspicious vehi-cle reported on Dean Drive. Area search negative.

SuNDAY, APriL 251:37 a.m. Suspicious vehicle

reported on West Street. Vehicle towed/impounded.

4:17 a.m. Missing person re-ported on Pine Mill Drive.

10:46 a.m. Animal complaint reported on Learning Lane. Area search negative.

12:33 p.m. Domestic incident reported on Mattakeesett Street.

1:35 p.m. Disturbance report-ed on Church Street.

4:56 p.m. Fire incident re-ported on Schoosett Street. Re-ferred to Fire Department.

8:35 p.m. Noise complaint reported on Pembroke Woods Drive. Peace restored.

9:36 p.m. Disturbance report-ed on Ferndale Avenue.

10:48 p.m. Larceny reported on Champion Way.

MoNDAY, APriL 26 8:10 a.m. Suspicious activity

reported on Edgewater Drive.

2:00 p.m. Domestic abuse reported on Pembroke Woods Drive.

2:45 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Old Pelham Street. Departmental action taken.

4:30 p.m. Animal bite report-ed on Valley Street.

6:56 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on Taylor Street.

7:32 p.m. Disturbance report-ed on Mill Street.

7:42 p.m. Suspicious activ-ity reported at Pembroke Center Cemetery. No police service nec-essary.

9:14 p.m. Domestic incident reported on Montclair Avenue. Peace restored.

tueSDAY, APriL 277:10 a.m. Suspicious activ-

ity reported on Lake Street and School Street.

9:08 a.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Forest Street. Area search negative.

10:55 a.m. Animal complaint reported on Dwelley Street. Area search negative.

12:20 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with over $1,000 in damag-es reported on Washington Street.

3:55 p.m. Domestic incident reported on Deerfield Lane. Re-straining order placed on file.

7:04 p.m. Motor vehicle crash with over $1,000 in damages re-ported on Church Street.

7:31 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on School Street.

10:37 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Reservoir Road.

WeDNeSDAY, APriL 286:03 a.m. Motor vehicle crash

with under $1,000 in damages re-ported on Church Street.

8:05 a.m. Suspicious activity reported on Woodbine Avenue.

9:20 a.m. Fraud reported on Old Church Street.

9:30 a.m. Suspicious activity reported on Reservoir Road.

11:38 a.m. Fire incident re-ported on Mattakeesett Street. Re-ferred to Fire Department.

4:41 p.m. Residential break-in reported on Packet Landing.

8:40 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on Center Street.

9:48 p.m. Domestic issue re-ported on Pine Mill Drive.

tHurSDAY, APriL 291:01 p.m. Highway/Water/

Tree department call reported on Plymouth Street. Referred inci-dent to Pembroke DPW.

1:40 p.m. Highway/Water/Tree department call reported on West Elm and Old West Elm streets.

3:36 p.m. Highway/Water/Tree department call reported on High Street.

3:41 p.m. Fire incident re-ported on Schoosett and Wash-ington streets. Referred to Fire Department.

4:20 p.m. Miscellaneous break-in reported on Church Street.

4:52 p.m. Suspicious vehicle reported on Plymouth Street.

6:51 p.m. Suspicious activity reported on Center Street. Area search negative.

8:01 p.m. Vehicle break-in re-ported on Mattakeesett Street.

9:58 p.m. Noise complaint reported on Sandy Lane. Area search negative.

11:24 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicle reported on Sandy Lane.

Boy Scout Troop 43 will hold a recycling fund-raiser on Saturday, May 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lowe’s parking lot on Route 139. Residents are invited to drop off these items for the Scouts to dis-pose of for a small cost: refrigerators, freezers, de-humidifiers and air con-ditioners, $15; televisions and computer monitors, $10; stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers and water heaters, $5; mi-crowaves, $3. Donations are encouraged for disposal of the following items: lap-tops, CPUs, servers, CD-ROM/DVD drives, speak-ers, mice, keyboards, plugs, wires, computer parts and accessories, copiers, fax machines, scanners, print-ers, phones of any kind, phone systems, computer battery back-up systems, camera/video/audio equip-ment, DVD players, ste-reos, VCRs, Walkmans, iPods and accessories. For information, call Kris at 781-293-3692.

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Selectmen welcomed a new member Monday night — Greg Hanley, who was elected to the seat Saturday in an uncontested race — and also picked a new chairman to lead the board over the next year.

Selectman Bill Boulter was chosen as the board’s new c h a i r m a n , replacing Ar-thur Boyle at the head of the table, while Dan Trabucco was elected vice

chairman and Lew Stone was elected clerk.

Hanley replaces former selectman Don Anderson, who opted not to run for re-election after one three-year term on the board.

In a speech outlining his leadership philosophy, Hanley talked about the importance of community action and volun-teerism but also the need for town officials to respect the efforts of the committee mem-bers they appointed to exam-ine town issues.

“I have sat on too many

committees where the good work of the committee has fallen on deaf ears at Town Meeting,” Hanley said. “The Charter Commission, Com-munity Center Task Force, Waterways Committee and Government Studies Commit-tee are all groups who in recent history have started out with noble intentions just to have their action items crushed at Town Meeting because we as elected officials have either remained silent or have been

critical of a solution without having been part of the pro-cess.”

Hanley also outlined his goals as a selectman, which include:

• Restoration of the Wage and Personnel Board as an independent governing body charged with impartially im-plementing town policy in areas where human resource policy can be disputed, medi-ated and resolved by making recommendations to select-

men that are in the best inter-est of the town;

• Creation of an informa-tion technology department either through reorganization of existing resources or cre-ation of a new department that would be charged with cen-tralizing resident data to pro-vide more efficient customer service and better working conditions for employees;

• Hiring a town planner by contract or other means to ad-dress the town’s capital needs,

identify sources of funding such as grants and assist with revamping town bylaws to protect the town against litiga-tion and to meet Pembroke’s ever-changing needs;

• And explore the cre-ation of a purchasing depart-ment that would consolidate professional service contracts (lawyers, surveyors, plumb-ers, etc.) for all departments to eliminate duplication and improve the town’s purchas-ing power.

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OATH OF OFFICE: Town Clerk Mary Ann Smith swears in new selectman Greg Hanley on Saturday night at Town Hall, shortly after announcing the election results. Hanley ran uncontested for the open selectman seat and sat in on his first meeting Monday.

In Board of Selectmen business Monday:

• The board authorized Council on Aging Director Mary Willis to replace her transportation coor-dinator. The former coordinator was hired to fill the senior aide position. Willis said the position was budgeted for $11,831 this year.

• The board discussed set-ting up a Pond Bylaw Review Committee. Though the group’s size, mission and schedule were not established, selectmen encouraged interested citizens to contact the selectmen’s office by letter or by calling 781-293-3844. Bill Boulter said he felt the committee should have a representative from the Board

of Selectmen and Recreation Commission as well as several community members.

• The board granted a 30-day extension for a trailer permit on Bonney Street to allow the property owner to meet with Building Inspector George Verry to develop a plan. Verry said he had discussed the issue briefly with the owner, Holly Weinreich, and said he understood she was dealing with a “long, compli-cated legal issue” regarding her contractor.

• The board approved a roadside stand permit for David Nash of 47 Mattakeesett Street to sell fruits and vegetables by the road between June 1 and Oct. 31.

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normal life. His family has been through a lot as two of Mark’s siblings have succumbed to the disease. Mark’s aunt, Diane Tobin, and friend Julie Caruso will be holding a yard sale on May 22 at 23 Fairwood Drive in Pembroke. If anyone around town would like to help, you may donate items for the yard sale, craft items and/or baked goods. Drop them off at 23 Fairwood Drive or 189 Queens-brook Drive; if no one is home, please leave name and address attached to the donations so they can be acknowledged. There is another way you good folks can help. The family will be living in Ohio for three months and could use any Marriott Points you are willing to share. For more information on how you may help, please contact Julie at julie_m_caruso@yahoo.com.

The Mattakeesett Garden ➢Club of Pembroke is thinking about spring and their upcom-ing Annual Plant Sale to be held June 5 on the Town Green. The garden club has several projects in town such as maintaining the flag pole garden at the Pem-broke Public Library, planting and watering the center island

barrels, and the replanting and upkeep of the gardens at the se-nior center. The funds for these projects come from the pro-ceeds realized from this sale. This year, garden club Presi-dent Jeana Homola is looking for your help. If anyone around town has perennial plants they will be separating and potting this spring, please think about donating some of them to the garden club for the sale. For more information, call Jeana at 781-826-4032.

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I don’t know anyone who enjoys celebrating his birthday more than my 10-year-old grandson, Kian.

He would start celebrating his next birth-day the day after his current birthday ends at midnight if you let him. His par-ents, however, have a rule: Kian can-not mention his birthday until the first day of April each year. This gives him about a three-week period in which to celebrate his upcoming event. This also gives the rest of the family an op-portunity to celebrate their own. This year, I took Kian out for a birthday breakfast and then shopping for his birthday gift. We were gone so long his parents thought we had run away from home. It is great to be young and fun-loving. It is also great to be around so much enthusiasm. It cer-tainly does keep you young. And now let’s see what’s going on around town.

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because the activity predated zoning, it is allowed to con-tinue with ZBA approval.

For many years, materials were crushed down to gravel size on an annual basis and recycled for various projects around town, Kilcommons said. But grinding has not been done for three to four years, and the material has accumu-lated to more than twice the usual amount.

Now, DPW commission-ers are hoping to get permis-sion to crush the materials one last time and clear out the site completely to turn it over to the town.

“The DPW’s goal is to take care of this material, crush it on site in a one-time crushing operation. That material would then be hauled out to the Mat-takeesett Street garage where it would be stored and then used for future roadway proj-ects,” said Carter Fahy, project manager with Environmental Partners Group Inc., which was hired to develop the plan.

Initially, DPW commis-sioners requested a use vari-ance to allow the materials to be crushed annually and to keep about 1,500 cubic yards stored there in the future. But Whitman said he proposed a new plan Monday night after hearing so much opposition.

Whitman also proposed that the ground-up materials be used to improve the park-ing areas at the Mattakeesett Street ball fields.

“I don’t think that [the Monroe Street lot] is the right spot for it to be,” Whitman said. “I want to get this done as quickly as possible, clean up the site and remove it and take the DPW out of using that lot. I think it’s the right way to go about it.”

Fahy said the grinding would take one to two weeks.

While residents agreed the site should be cleaned up, many were concerned about the noise, traffic and dust from the temporary grinding opera-tion.

“To me, there’s no justi-fication whatsoever that the DPW should be given a permit to crush asphalt in a residen-tial zoned lot,” Monroe Street resident Gary Fine said. “This is a commercial activity, and there’s really no place for it in our neighborhood. Just be-cause it was done over the last 35 years, that doesn’t mean it should be done in the future.”

School Street resident Jeff Kinsherf held up photographs of the site and argued that the DPW had let it turn into a dump.

“Nonconforming use to me doesn’t mean piles of trash, empty propane tanks, signs that were taken from the streets and dumped in that lot. It doesn’t mean a water main pipe that quite possibly could be an asbestos cement pipe

that is decaying, abutting my property,” he said.

Kinsherf also was con-cerned about the health haz-ards of grinding asphalt so close to houses.

“I lost my wife to cancer in October of last year, so my kids and myself are just petri-fied of any continued use of this lot [in this way],” he said.

Fahy said the Mass. De-partment of Environmental Protection would require the DPW to control dust by spray-ing down materials and testing the air regularly.

But neighbors still had concerns.

“The carcinogens that are in the asphalt are known to be cancer-causing. Why are we even talking about it? We’re putting our own health at risk, and our kids’,” said School Street resident Sue Connall, who is asthmatic along with her son. “We should just truck it out of there and do it some-where else where we’re not in harm’s way, because who’s go-ing to pay the health costs?”

School Street resident Eric Williams said it wasn’t just the dust he was worried about but the materials leaching back into the ground.

“Who knows how bad that ground is to begin with?” he said. “Everything over the years has gone into that earth.”

Though the DPW has not requested bids for the project, Whitman said it would cost about $5 per cubic yard to crush the materials on site, plus the cost of hauling it away.

Officials did not know the cost of transporting the materi-als to be crushed off-site. ZBA members asked them to put to-

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Department of Public Works Commissioner Jim Kilcommons talks to a packed room at the Zoning Board of Appeals hearing Monday night. The DPW commissioners want to crush gravel where it is stored on a town lot on the corner of School and Monroe Streets and clear out the lot for good.

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A map shows the layout of the DPW gravel pit at the corner of Monroe and School streets, where materials left over from road-way projects have been stored for more than 30 years.

came back around three years later and got a term. Running against someone who was so well known and had already participated a lot in town for many years was actually a good thing for me. It gave me exposure, but it also made me aware of a lot of things that I was still ignorant about as far as issues and some of the me-chanics of the job.

Did you have an oppo-nent the second time? I did not. Bob announced early that he wasn’t going to run; I an-nounced early that I was, and I had the benefit of being unop-posed.

You were the first can-didate to pull papers to run again this year but then de-cided not to. How come? I wanted to be relevant up until the last day, where my votes and my actions counted for the town. There also were some family things — my oldest son is looking at colleges and there are some time constraints to being a selectman; it takes up a lot more time than just the meetings on Mondays. Lately, I had been the opposing vote for many things, most of them fiscally related. Early on, I felt I had some sway being the dissenting vote; occasionally I’d win one. It wasn’t about winning, but I felt my argu-ment was just by rote and it wasn’t really persuasive any-more. Some time needs to go by before maybe my view will change or my reasons will ei-ther be more substantiated or watered down as we move forward. I’m certainly consid-ering coming back, but I just need to sit back and let others take control for a while.

Do you feel you were rel-evant up to the last day? I do. There was an article on the Town Meeting for $8,000 for emergency signage. That got indefinitely postponed because, at the last second [right before the meeting], the board voted at my request that we take money from the Camp Pembroke fund to pay for that signage. With the water flooding that we’ve had; even with the bottled wa-ter that we gave out a year and a half ago, signage is impor-tant, both for safety and just so

people can get the information they need. So right up to the end, I felt like this was an idea I had and the rest of the board supported it. It wasn’t always me voting one way and four voting the other; we saw eye to eye as a group many times. It wasn’t that I took my ball and went home, that I didn’t want to play anymore — not at all. I enjoyed working with all four of the other members.

There was a lot of debate over the town-wide hiring freeze, which remained in place despite the board ap-proving every hiring request that came before them. Do you feel it was a waste of time? It kept the topic right out front. There are so many things we deal with that get pushed aside by other more timely issues. The hiring freeze kept that dis-cussion— that we’re going to run into problems, we’re going to have to have layoffs, we’re going to have some economi-cally tough times — in the forefront almost weekly.

Do you feel there were positions that shouldn’t have been filled? Yes. I don’t have the exact numbers but, ball-park, if we didn’t hire many of the positions that we did hire, and we didn’t vote to pave Furnace Colony, we’re looking at almost $250,000 we would have saved. One of the things that concerns me is that we’re $5 million in the hole with cap-ital items. We should set aside money every spring. That was talked about, that we should set aside 1 percent — well, 1 percent would be about half a million dollars. We have ve-hicles and furnaces and roofs that need replaced. Department heads have done a great job of keeping stuff going, but you can only do that for so long.

Looking back over your three years on the board, what accomplishments stand out? The people that I helped recruit — or stayed out of the way of — are probably my biggest achievements. Anne Stanton on Advisory, I recruit-ed her right after I got on the board. Nick Zechello on the Energy Committee. Knowing when to get out of the way of talented people. Sometimes

it’s not what you do; it’s what you don’t do. You don’t always need to be the guy at the front to make something happen.

Do you think you’ll run again for selectman or any other board? I think I’ll run again as a selectman. I’m tak-ing a year off; that’s all I’ll go on record as saying. Obvious-ly, you’ve got to run against someone if somebody hasn’t stepped down, but it would be for the position and not to try to knock somebody out. I’m stepping down from the execu-tive branch and becoming part of the legislative branch for a while; I’m going to be one of the voters at Town Meeting and still try to impact the town that way.

Do you have any plans for your ‘retirement’? Work, family. I hope to pursue a few interests that I’ve had to shelve for a while. I am trying to get that second novel finished at some point. [Anderson pub-lished his first detective novel, “Led Astray,” through amazon.com in 2007.] I’ve got one I haven’t had time to do a re-write on — it’s a mystery crime drama. The next one won’t fol-low in a series. It’s set up so I could do a sequel, but I wanted to change gears.

Do you have any advice for the selectmen? My final words of wisdom would be to save money; you can always spend it later. Spend it now and you won’t have it no mat-ter what kind of change may come. If we’d saved the mon-ey from some of these hiring freezes and we didn’t need the money, all you’d have to do is say, OK you can hire them now. What are you out? For the most part, I would have to say some of my votes were even against my own self-interest. There were friends either in Town Hall or in the commu-nity that I didn’t think it was in the best interest overall [to fill their positions]. That’s hard. That’d almost be what I need a break from. I’ll miss the hu-mor, the jokes, just the absur-dity of what we had to do deal with sometimes — those times where no matter what we were going to vote, it wasn’t going to be popular.

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Author Michael Tougias will appear at the Pembroke Public Library on Monday, May 24 at 7 p.m. to give a slide presentation on his new book “Overboard! A True Bluewa-ter Odyssey of Disaster and Survival.” The program is spon-sored by the Friends of the Pembroke Public Library and is free and open to the public; it is suitable for all ages.

This true story begins in early May 2005 when Captain Tom Tighe and first mate Loch Reidy of the sailboat Almei-san welcome three new crew members for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. Tighe has made this bluewa-ter trip 48 times, and Reidy has joined him 20 times. Each year, they take three additional passengers who seek to learn about offshore sailing and are looking for adventure. Four days into their voyage, a massive storm strikes and Tighe and Reidy are swept from the boat during a knockdown and are carried away by huge seas. The three new crew members somehow remain on the vessel as it is torn apart by the seas. “Overboard” follows the desperate struggles of both the crew on the boat and the captain and first mate in the sea.

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Department of Public Works Commissioner and Tommy Driscoll for the Board of Health.

Whitman beat out long-time DPW Commissioner Hank Daggett, taking 444 votes to Daggett’s 261. Mean-while, Driscoll took the lead in the Board of Health race with 388 votes to opponent Vincent Flaherty’s 289.

“It feels good to win, and it also feels sad that Hank had to lose his spot,” Whitman said shortly before being sworn into his new position. “It’s sad to have to knock him out, but that’s how it works.”

Daggett was one of the first commissioners elected to the DPW board shortly after the department was created in 1991. He has served as a com-missioner ever since.

Daggett said he was sur-prised by the upset and thought perhaps many of his constitu-ents didn’t show up to vote, assuming he would just get re-elected.

“But I don’t want to use excuses,” he said. “Paul Whit-man’s a good man. He’ll be good on the board. I’ve got nothing bad to say about him. And if things don’t go right, maybe in a year I’ll run again.”

Daggett said he did not know who would fill the third DPW seat, left open just before the election by the resignation of Kevin Crowley, though he did express interest.

“Twenty-two years and ev-ery Monday night, and I didn’t miss too many of [the meet-ings],” Daggett said. “I did my civic duty, and I feel very comfortable with what I did. I saved the taxpayers an awful lot of money.”

Whitman, who was chair-man of the Planning Board, said he was not sure if he would be stepping down from that board but that it was likely.

Also having a winning night was Driscoll, who said he is eager to begin his first term as a town official.

“It feels great,” he said of the win. “I look forward to getting involved in Board of Health issues, and I look for-ward to working with Liz and Lisa. I wish Mr. Flaherty the best in all of his endeavors. I just can’t wait to get started.”

Flaherty said he was “dis-heartened” by the results but that perhaps he needed to get his name out more.

“The Boyle machine is tough to beat,” Flaherty said, referring to Driscoll’s father-in-law, Selectman Arthur Boyle, whom he said helped the new board member with his campaign.

“I really didn’t know what

to expect. I thought I explained to the people my position enough that they understood I was truly interested in the health issues, not political is-sues.”

Flaherty is a former Board of Health member and the cur-rent health agent in Hanson. He said he plans to run again.

“The issues are too pro-found to neglect,” he said. “I am going to run again — against whom, I don’t know.”

Though turnout was low, Smith said the election ran smoothly.

“The only problem we had was people trying to get signa-tures right outside the build-ings, and we had to remind them to be 150 feet back,” she said. “Other than that it was a smooth ride.”

By 12:30 p.m., only 64 people had turned out to cast their votes for Precinct 5 at

North Pembroke Elementary School. Among them was Scott Nichols.

“My stepson served over in Afghanistan and Iraq, so I figured the least I could do was come out and vote,” Nich-ols said. “Plus I think town politics is important, no matter what. I think it’s important that everyone come out and sup-port [the candidates].”

At Bryantville Elementary School, Paul and Brenda Smith brought the Precinct 3 tally to just over 75 voters at about 1 p.m. They said they try to come to every election, but also had a particular candidate in mind when casting their votes.

“We have a right to vote, so we should exercise it,” Paul Smith said.

“And it’s local, and you should get involved in local politics,” Brenda Smith added. “That’s the only voice you have, so you might as well use it.”

Voting at Pembroke Com-munity Middle School’s Pre-cinct 2, Ted Paul said he was disappointed to see so many uncontested races.

“I’m tempted to run my-self, but I have so many other things going on,” Paul said.

Though there were plenty of campaign signs greeting those who did show up to the polls, most were simply plant-ed in the ground, and only a few featured local names.

Candidates running in the state election this fall had their signs up at all five precincts.

Outside Precinct 1 at Town Hall, friends of Tommy Driscoll sat in lawn chairs and held signs on opposite sides of the roadway. One was Mike Phillips of Kingston, who had been sitting there since the polls opened at 9 a.m.

“It’s a little warm, but it’s not bad,” Phillips said, smiling as he held a sign in the midday sun. “It’s been pretty slow, but I don’t really have anything to compare it to.”

Across the way, Pembroke resident Frank Hughes had been out holding a Driscoll sign for about an hour, saying he’d agreed to help out as a favor to friend Arthur Boyle, Driscoll’s father-in-law.

“It is getting a positive re-action,” he said, as passersby honked and waved.

Inside, poll workers passed the time between checking in voters with magazines, books, crossword puzzles and con-versation.

“We knew it was going to be quiet. It’s an awful long day if you don’t have something to take up your time,” Precinct 3 warden Jan Ford said.

In the end, despite the low numbers, it was business as usual.

As police officer Paul Trostel put it: “You have to do the same amount of work no matter how many turn up.”

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Total voters including absentee: 736

Precinct: 1 2 3 4 5 TotalTOWN MODERATOR — ONE-YEAR TERM4Stephen C. Dodge 118 123 140 140 108 629Blanks 21 15 23 20 21 100Total (7 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

SELECTMAN — THREE-YEAR TERM4Gregory Hanley 100 91 122 106 85 504Blanks 37 41 33 41 39 191Total (41 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

ASSESSOR — THREE-YEAR TERM4Cynthia long 103 109 134 125 92 563Blanks 36 31 29 36 37 169Total (4 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

BOARD OF HEALTH — ONE-YEAR TERM4Elizabeth Cytrynowski 90 99 119 109 81 498Blanks 48 38 44 50 47 227Total (11 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

BOARD OF HEALTH — THREE- YEAR TERM4Thomas Driscoll 77 75 99 87 50 388Vincent Flaherty 50 58 58 55 68 289Blanks 12 9 7 19 12 59Total (0 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

HOUSING AUTHORITY — FIVE-YEAR TERM4Valerie Kroon 92 107 132 114 88 533Blanks 46 32 32 47 41 198Total (5 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

HOUSING AUTHORITY — ONE YEAR TERM4Greg Hanley 86 80 113 91 74 444Blanks 51 55 46 65 53 270Total (22 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

LIBRARY TRUSTEE — THREE-YEAR TERM4Kathleen Catano 86 104 118 115 70 4934Mary Beth Courtright 84 97 122 105 80 4884Karen Wry 78 88 112 101 69 448Blanks 169 135 137 0 1 442Total (337 write-ins) 417 426 492 483 390 2208

PLANNING BOARD — ONE-YEAR TERM4Daniel Taylor 86 99 120 105 75 485Blanks 53 42 44 56 54 249Total (2 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

PLANNING BOARD — THREE-YEAR TERM4Thomas Irving 90 101 121 106 80 498Blanks 49 40 43 55 49 236Total (2 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

PLANNING BOARD — FIVE-YEAR TERM4Brian K. VanRiper 89 98 121 102 88 498Blanks 49 40 42 57 41 229Total (9 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

CONSTABLE — THREE-YEAR TERM4Mark Hickey 89 103 120 105 82 499Blanks 49 38 43 54 47 431Total (6 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

SCHOOL COMMITTEE — THREE-YEAR TERM4Patrick Chilcott 85 105 114 113 82 499Blanks 53 34 48 46 46 227Total (10 write-ins) 139 142 164 161 130 736

DPW COMMISSIONER — THREE-YEAR TERM4Paul Whitman 107 78 81 94 84 444Henry Daggett 26 61 74 59 41 261Blanks 6 3 8 8 5 30Total (1 write-in) 139 142 164 161 130 736

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FAIR WEATHER FRIEND: Mike Phillips didn’t

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said he had been sitting

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Not only does Pembroke have a wonderful legacy of historic events and antique homes, it also has some particularly interesting people in its past. One such

character was the Rev. Dr. Gad Hitchcock. The Rev. Hitchcock was the first minister of the West Parish, which in 1820 became the town of Hanson.

The West Parish had been incorporated in 1746 from parts of Pembroke, Halifax, Hanover, Abington and Bridgewater. It was formed to give the residents of those areas better access

to town and church meet-ings. A meetinghouse was built and, in 1748, the Rev. Hitchcock was called. His ordination took place on

the first Wednesday in October of that year. He was a native of Springfield, where his ancestors had settled as early as 1644. He was born in 1719, graduated from Harvard College in 1743 and eventually received his Doctor of Divinity from Harvard in 1787. He was married to Dorothy Angier of Cambridge, who was connected with many old Cambridge families. Their only son, Dr. Gad Hitchcock, also a graduate of Harvard College, became the first medical doctor to settle in the parish.

The Rev. Hitchcock is probably best known for an election sermon that he was invited to give before Gov-ernor Gage and the House of Representatives on May 25, 1774. The text of his sermon came from Proverbs 29:2; his theme was “The Reign of the Wicked.” He had not planned for Governor Gage to actu-ally be in attendance, but he was. His friends begged him to change his sermon, but Rev. Hitchcock refused. Needless to say, the governor was not pleased, but apparently many of the members of the House of Representatives were sympathetic to the colonial cause, for they sent him a thank you document along with a request for a copy of the sermon, which would be given to the press. It is also believed that he was sent the gift of a suit of clothes from the House clerk, Samuel Adams.

The Rev. Hitchcock sometimes served as chaplain during the American Revolution and is said to have served with great bravery. He also was a member of the convention that framed the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780.

The Rev. Hitchcock ministered to the people of the West Parish for more than 55 years. In november 1802, the Rev. George Barstow was called to carry on the work of Hitchcock’s ministry, as Gad had become too infirm to preach to the people. Gad Hitchcock Sr. died in August 1803.

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Grand ol’ timeSofia Rosas, 5, Hannah Jenkins, 6, and Kalie Walker, 5, relax in the shade with their balloons at the Pembroke Historical Society’s Grand Ol’ Fish Fry on Sunday at Thomas Reading Memorial Park.

Pembroke High School senior Nick DiPrizio plays harmoni-ca during a performance with bandmate CJ Gallopo.

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Two-year-old Delaney Krause watches the duck race from the bridge over the Herring Run.

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Having already taken advantage of the face painting table, best friends Allie Conway, 10, and Kallyope Weinreich, 11, get ready to try out the cotton candy.

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Grade 11High Honor Roll: Michael

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Honor Roll: Christi Bon-neau, Jenna Bostwick, Lindsey Brown, Shane Budd, Wesley Carroll, Orlando Cavallo, Jes-sica Cesario, Matthew Chahi-ne, Caroline Claflin, Michelle Coate, James Coner, Heather Connick, Noelle Cormier, Alexandra Davis, Michael DiTocco, Elise Famiglietti, Kayla-Paige Flynn, Leah Gransaull, Meagan Hall, James Harty, Emily Ip, Kelly Jochems, Stephanie Jones, Kevin Kell, Ryan Kelley, Lisa Kelliher, Luke Leavitt, Victo-ria Lo, Brenda McAlear, Vic-toria Pace, Mark Petrie, John Reardon, Nathaniel Richard, Kelli Ann Richards, Kevin Riley, John Ritchie, Michael Romero, Jessica Rose, Jordyn Rourke, Nicholas Sassorossi, Jacob Schissel, Kylie Sis-son, Jacob Skolnick, Rebecca Stoyle, Jake Sullivan, Stepha-nie Sullivan, Abigail Thomp-son, Renee Trudeau, Brittney Tworig, Christopher Water-field, Victoria Yanovich

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Honor Roll: Caroline Bet-tle, Derek Brinkmann, Lauren Bulger, David Bustin, Emily Callahan, Peter Camerlengo, Jeffrey Christie, Karly Cina, Catherine Colantuone, Brenna Coughlin, Kerrie Cronin, Anna Crosby, Steven Cullity, Brian-na Decina, Daniel DellaValle,

Anthony Delmonaco, Megan Fallon, Cullan Fitzgerald, Aar-on Fowle, Matthew Furlong, Shannon Gallagher, Zachary Girard, Wendy Griffin, Kelsey Hackett, Nicole Harris, Ryan Johnson, Jameson Kidder, Thomas Kroon, Joseph Leb-edew, Rachael Leung, Kath-leen Lowe, Rachel Martin, Amanda Mazzola, Heather McLaughlin, Jessica Mitchell, Rachel Muriph, Daniel Mur-phy, Jennifer Neacy, Michaela ng, Taylor nicholaw, Shayna Nolan, Conor Noonan, Leon-ard P. Rowe Jr., Justin Ryan, Erik Schoumaker, Michael Stockdale, Matthew Suckow, Stephen Taylor, Kristina Tom, Lauren Tressel, Ryan Tres-sel, Elizabeth Turcotte, Emily Turnbull, Joseph Vercollone, Thomas Warren, John Zogra-fos

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Honor Roll: Scott Allen, Alana Atchison, Kevin Beane, Colleen Burns, Tyler Case, Vincent Cesario, Erin Connell, Peter Crossman, Scott Davi-son, Rachelle Egan, Stephen Galandzi, Erin Haley, Sara Harland, Victoria Hughes, Na-than Indelicato, Brendan John-son, Thomas Johnson, Aaron Kaplowitz, Soumya Karra, Tessa Kell, Kayla Kenney, Kimberly Leonard, Alexander Lyons, Lauren Mariano, Alli-son Marx, Robert McElligott, Dylan Moe, Michael Muzyka, Daniel Negus, Jonathan Nel-son, Matthew Nguyen, Leah Norton, Maura O’Brien, Justin Ogilvie, Kerrick Pierce, Nich-olas Pizzella, Marco Pulselli, Kyle Richard, Alicia Rosen, Rachel Teevens, Kara Venuto, Brittany Yanovich

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GIVING PEACE A CHANCE: Middle school students Cameron Coulstring and Fred Padula hold up the peace flags they made on April 29 during a visit from Pembroke Public Library Youth Services Librarian Jessica Lamarre as part of the town-wide Pembroke Reads program. Lamarre and PCMS teachers Jen Cunningham and Crystal White helped the students make peace flags and tea cup cards to go along with the book “Three Cups of Tea.” Students shared their wishes of what everyone in the world should have on flags that will be hung at PCMS, and they created cards to share tea with a friend or family member.

Photo courtesy of Maggie Glynn

Monday, May 10Pembroke SEPAC Meeting. 6:30 p.m. @ Hobomock.

Wednesday, May 12Bryantville Math Night. 6:30-8 p.m. @ Bryantville.

PHS Spring Concert. 7 p.m. @ PHS.Upcoming

Sixth Grade Car Wash Fundraiser. Sat., May 15. 9 a.m.-noon @ community center. Proceeds to benefit Bryantville sixth

grade class. Rain date is Sunday, May 16.School Committee Meeting. Tues., May 18. 7:30 p.m.

@ North Pembroke library.North Pembroke PTO Meeting. Wed., May 19. 7 p.m.

@ North Pembroke.Bryantville PTO Meeting. Wed., May 19. 7 p.m.

@ Bryantville.High Honors Celebration. Thurs., May 20. 6-7:30 p.m.

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Friday, May 7Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Soft-shoe line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; $2 card crafting class, 10:30 a.m.; playing cards, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

Saturday, May 8Introduction to Birding. 8-9:30 a.m., at the South Shore Natural Science Center in Norwell. Learn about the birding hobby, choosing gear and guides and get tips on identifying birds in the area. Registration required; $5 members, $8 nonmembers per session. Call 781-659-2559 or visit ssnsc.org.

Learn to Skate. 8:30-9:20 a.m., at Hobomock Arenas, Pembroke. Sign up for Saturday group lessons. Learn to Skate session started May 1 and runs through June 19. Eight-week session costs $135 per skater plus $12 annual registration fee for U.S. Figure Skating membership through the Pilgrim Skating Club. For information, visit pilgrimskatingclub.com or call 781-294-7575.

Legion Baseball Try-outs. 9 a.m.-noon, at Mattakeesett Street ball fields. Boys ages 14-19 invited to try out to play on one of two American Legion Post 143 Baseball teams this summer. For info, visit pembrokelegionbaseball.com.

Eagle Scout Car Wash Fundraiser. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Hatch Building in Pembroke Center (across from First Church). $5 per car; $8 for vans and SUVs. All proceeds will go to help Troop 43 Boy Scout Chris Campbell with his Eagle Scout project.

Pet Microchip Clinic. 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at Marshfield Fairgrounds. Sponsored by the South Shore Kennel Club. Register ahead of time for $30 per pet; $35 per pet for walk-ins. For information, call Dianne Daley at 508-559-6532.

Sunday, May 9North River Community Church Services. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday services. Located at 334 Old Oak St., Pembroke.

Legion Baseball Try-outs. 9 a.m.-noon, at Mattakeesett Street ball fields. Boys ages 14-19 invited to try out to play on one of two American Legion Post 143 Baseball teams this summer. For info, visit pembrokelegionbaseball.com.

Vacation Bible School Registration. After Masses (at 7:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.), at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Hanson. “Hero Headquarters: Where Kids Join Forces with God!” will be offered on July 12-16 from 9 a.m. to noon each day and is open to children ages 4 through fifth grade. $40 per child with $20 nonrefundable deposit made at registration. For more information, call the rectory at 781-293-3581.

Monday, May 10Drop-in Story Time. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. For ages 2 and up. No registration required. For info, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Creative Writing Club Meeting. 4:30 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Grades 4 and up invited to participate in Aspiring Authors writing group. For info, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Board of Selectmen Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, Veterans Hall.

Board of Health Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, health office.

Planning Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall, planning office.

tueSday, May 11Sit and Be Fit Exercise Class. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. $5 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Dora the Explorer Story Time. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Meet Dora and hear stories about her. Sponsored by the UFund Start U Read series. Tickets required. Sign up at the youth services desk. For info, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Seniors Living with Chronic Illness. 1-2 p.m., at Council on Aging building. Ruth Coleman, MSW, a clinical social worker, leads this support group every Tuesday for seniors living with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, MS, lupus, heart disease, COPD and others.

Yoga for Tweens. 4-5 p.m., at Hanson Holistic Center, 156 Liberty St., Hanson. Beginners welcome. Led by certified instructor Becky Paul. Eight-week session costs $80. Drop-ins welcome at $12/class. Register by calling 781-293-2774 or e-mailing beccapaul@msn.com.

WedneSday, May 12Dull Men Meeting. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. Always open to new members. Stop by the senior center, 144 Center St.

Beginners Knitting with Mary Leydon. 1 p.m., at senior center, 144 Center St. Every Wednesday. Call 781-294-8220 for information.

thurSday, May 13Teen Advisory Group Meeting. 5 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Ages 11 and up. Group will be making their annual summer reading commerical. Wear green. For info, call the library at 781-293-6771.

Drop-in Adult Volleyball. 7-9:30 p.m., at Pembroke Community Middle School gym. Adult Pembroke residents of all playing levels are invited to stop by for free, fun volleyball every Thursday through June 17. no game on May 27. Teams will be created on a weekly basis depending on turnout. For information, call Sue Scroggins at 781-294-4366 or e-mail sscrogg@comcast.net.

Library Trustees Meeting. 7 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library.

Community Preservation Committee Meeting. 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall.

Friday, May 14Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Soft-shoe line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

upcoMingTroop 43 Recycling Fundraiser. Sat., May 15. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Lowe’s parking lot on Route 139. Drop off appliances, computer equipment and other items for disposal for a small fee or donation; proceeds benefit Boy Scout Troop 43.

Legion Baseball Try-outs. Sat., May 15-Sun., May 16. 9 a.m.-noon, at Mattakeesett Street ball fields. Boys ages 14-19 invited to try out to play on one of two American Legion Post 143 Baseball teams this summer.

Car Wash Fundraiser. Sat., May 15. 9 a.m.-noon, in front of the community center. Fundraiser for Bryantville Elementary School sixth grade. Rain date is Sunday, May 16.

Youth Soccer Sign-ups. Sun., May 16. 7-9 p.m., at Town Hall. Open to children entering kindergarten or age 5 by Aug. 1 up through high school age. Online registration available after May 25 for returning players only. Late fee of $25 charged for registrations after July 1. For info, visit pembrokesoccer.org, call Mike Tropeano at 781-293-5489 or e-mail pysregistrar@gmail.com.

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Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown criticized Salazar’s decision, saying it was “misguided.” He said further, “With unemployment hovering near 10 percent in Massachusetts, the Cape Wind project will jeopardize industries that are vital to the Cape’s economy, such as tourism and fishing, and will also impact aviation safety and the rights of the Native American tribes in the area. I am also skeptical about the cost-savings and job number predictions [Salazar predicts 1,000] we have heard from proponents of the project.”

This whole project from the beginning was misguided in the belief that eliminating atmospheric greenhouse gases is the singularly most important issue, without an awareness that the sea and its very delicate ecology is equally important.

Despite what any environmental impact study might con-clude, the construction of a wind farm covering 24 square miles with 130 turbines, 440 feet tall, with its conduit embedded six feet under the sea floor to facilitate electricity to the mainland will — for some species it may displace — destroy a very deli-cate ecosystem and its abiotic constituents. It can take thousands of years for ecological processes to mature, and yet they can be hastily destroyed with projects like Cape Wind. Furthermore, any claim that Cape Wind will ensure that natural sites could be restored if the wind farms were ever shut down would be preposterous.

Beyond the ecology, it is easy for folks like Salazar — who may have never experienced simple things like fishing or boat-ing or who may have never seen the breathtaking and unusual beauty of Nantucket Sound or its beaches — to perceive, as Ken Burns has expressed, that written descriptions are sometimes assumed to be works of fiction.

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I am writing in response to Brian Krause’s letter to the editor regarding

the town manager article [April 30]. I am the town employee that spoke at the meeting, and I feel that Mr. Krause did not fully understand what I said. I questioned whether one person could successfully manage not only each Town Hall depart-ment but also the recreation center and the library. I feel very strongly that this is an impossible feat. No one person could handle the hiring, firing, day-to-day activities, etc. of the more than 10 departments in the Town Hall, let alone includ-ing recreation and the library. I think that the elected boards of each department have a much better understanding of what actually happens in their of-fices. Each board should make the decisions for the hiring and firing in the offices, as opposed to someone who is not familiar with what goes on there.

What I took exception to in Mr. Krause’s letter was his comment that I would “cover the phones of an office that would otherwise have to close

… with such a poor attitude that the office would be better off closed.” Mr. Krause’s letter was affirmed by a gentleman who spoke at the selectmen’s meeting Monday night who referred to me as “the woman who wouldn’t go to another department to help.” This was not at all what I said at Town Meeting.

After reading the letter to the editor, I watched the replay of the televised Town Meeting, to be sure that what I thought I said was actually what I said. I stated that I could be put into another office, but I would have to answer most questions with “I don’t know, you’ll have to call back tomorrow.” The offices in the Town Hall each have different jobs, different computer programs and differ-ent passwords to each comput-er. It is virtually impossible to pull someone out of one office and expect them to perform the same duties as an absent em-ployee. The town administra-tor already has the capability

of transferring people from one office to the other if necessary. Due to the ineffectiveness of this, it doesn’t often happen.

I take my job as a town employee seriously and al-ways attempt to help the public in whatever way I can. To have someone who has never dealt with me in the office say oth-erwise, seemingly due to the fact that I spoke out against their opinion at Town Meeting, truly upsets me. I found it dif-ficult enough to speak at Town Meeting, let alone as a town employee speaking against something that obviously many of the selectmen were in favor of.

It seems as if I was singled out as to why the town manag-er article was defeated. There were several people who spoke out against the article, yet I was the only one mentioned in a letter or at the selectmen’s meeting. I just hope that in the future this does not stop some-one from speaking their mind at Town Meeting for fear of re-percussion.

Jeanne Gigliotti Mountain Avenue

Oh Patrick, Patrick! There ya go again! Doncha just love

pickin’ on us Democrats. If folks were to believe you, we Democrats should be classified as a subversive group. “No Re-treat — Reload” headlines your recent op-ed [April 16]. The headline has a slight ring of ag-gression to it. Yet you complain that some of us consider that incendiary. Ya think?? Reload makes me think of guns and, considering the current climate of the country, that scares me just a bit.

I guess I kind of wonder where you and your Tea Party comrades were when the prior administration pushed through a supplemental budget to pay for the Iraq War and then funded that very same war with money borrowed from China. Huh? Where were you then? Never mind that the above mentioned war was contrived by the men behind the Dubya throne; Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Paul Wol-fovitz, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft. Talk about your back room deals. Good grief! And guess what? No WMDs. All of that spending left this country with a trillion dollar deficit long before President

Obama even took office. I also wonder where you and your Tea Party comrades were when, starting under the Republican administration of Ronald Rea-gan and culminating under the presidency of George W. Bush, the financial markets were de-regulated to the point that just about anything goes. And, boy oh boy, did it! Don’t blame the current administration for the financial collapse of the Amer-ican economy.

By the way, in case you are interested, the largest tax in-crease in American history was passed in 1984, in the second year of the Reagan administra-tion, the purpose of which was to pay for the largest defense buildup since World War II. And, that’s a fact, Jack!

One last reminder, Patrick: Next time you drive down the street, remember how the street got there. Next time you send a child to school, remem-ber how the schools are paid for. The next time a fire truck or police car goes to the aid of someone, remember how those services are funded. The next time you wrap yourself in

the flag and cry out how you “support the troops,” remem-ber how we fund those troops. Taxes! Death and taxes, they are a fact of life. They pay for the quality and the quantity of our lives. And, while none of us like paying taxes, we do it so that we can live in a safe and secure nation protected by the greatest military in the world. We live in a democracy that allows everyone the right to speak their mind even if they have lost it.

I support President Obama and his efforts to get this coun-try back on track. I am not a communist and I am not a so-cialist and neither is he. But there are social programs that I support like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Shall we get rid of those, Patrick? I don’t think that is going to happen anytime soon. I even bet there is a Tea Party mem-ber out there that actually col-lects one of these. OMG. Time to get a grip, boyo! I can’t even imagine where this country would be right now if John McCain and Sarah Palin actu-ally got elected. Now that’s a truly scary thought!

Elizabeth Bates Washington Street

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Michael C. Brown (Belcher), 27, of Pembroke and formerly of Plympton, died Saturday, May 1.

He was the son of Phillip and Donna (Cobb) Belcher of Plympton and the late Lin-vil Brown and also leaves his newly wed wife Melinda (Davenport) Brown of Pem-broke.

He was the brother of Phil-lip Belcher Jr. and his wife Kristen of Plympton, Lind-say Belcher of Plympton and Shane Belcher of Plympton; grandson of Jeanne and Ger-ald Cobb of Halifax, Henry and Ann Belcher of Halifax and Midge and the late Fran-

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Frances Corkery of Pem-broke and Lake Ossipee, N.H. died Wednesday, April 28 at her daughter’s home, sur-rounded by her family, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

She was the wife of the late John F. Corkery Sr.; mother of Paul Corkery of Somerset, N.J., Janice Corkery of Nas-sau, Jeanne Corkery Hingham, Lorraine Johnson of Marsh-field, Joanne Ripatrazone of

Pembroke, David Corkery of Kingston and the late John F. Corkery Jr. and Patricia Erland; sister of Doris Prudhomme of New Hampshire; grandmother of Andy Spinella of Houston, Jason Spinella USMC, Steven, Michelle, and Andrea Erland of Port Jefferson, Andre Elnakhle of Hingham, Brian, Peter, Alex and Katie Johnson of Marsh-field, Joel, Zach and Emma Ripatrazone of Pembroke and

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The softball team’s strug-gles this season look gargan-tuan on paper, but head coach Tony Pina said it boils down to two fundamental problems: errors and intensity.

The Titans lost another mercy rule-shortened game at the high school 13-1 to North Quincy on Monday in which unearned runs again put the Titans behind the eight ball early.

“All we have proven is that if you give teams extra outs they will score lots of runs,” Pina said. “If you give teams lots of extra outs, they can level you. We need more opportunities for these kids to have a chance to do some-thing. When we commit er-rors early, and find ourselves down by two touchdowns in the third inning, it’s tough for young kids to respond.”

The Titans were down 12-0 after three innings, prompt-ing Pina to mix up the lineup. Bella Ready took advantage of her playing time by knock-

ing a base hit in the fifth in-ning and then coming around to score Pembroke’s run on a single by freshman Michelle Muriph.

“The last two innings we made some changes defen-sively and that gave us a lift,” Pina said. “We’re coming around in the sense that we’re fighting through our mistakes and trying to move on. Things that veteran teams can do right away, we’re still learning how to do those things.”

Jen Ruffini also came off the bench in the fourth inning, taking over on the mound and allowing one unearned run in two innings of work. Pina said Ruffini and the other bench players who came on later in the game woke the team up and will get a chance to earn a starting spot as the season progresses.

“[Jen Ruffini] has herself a start,” Pina said, adding that her start against Hingham will be step one toward a stronger 2011 season. “Since we’re not going to make the tournament, that’s a playoff game for us. We thought we let that game get away last time, and we need to be up for that. Let’s play seven innings, and we’ll go from there.”

softballPembroke 1North Quincy 13

WHEElIN’ aND DEalIN’: Jen Ruffini pitches a scoreless fifth inning on Monday against the Red Raiders. Ruffini’s perfor-mance in relief earned her a start when the titans meet the Harborwomen.

Now that I am in my mid-20s, the family outing is pretty much a thing of the past. The whole family piling into one car for a trip is some-

thing now reserved for Christmas, Thanksgiving and, on my Irish-Catholic side, the annual christening or commu-nion for someone. But when the folks offer to pay for you to see the Tim Burton exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you don’t say no. However, we unwittingly

planned our trip to the Big Apple two weeks ago on the same day NFL fans from across the country descended on Manhattan for the NFL Draft.

It took at least half an hour of walking before I realized it was draft day. I was trying to cross the street in Time Square when a guy pushed past me with the Green Bay Packers logo meticulously shaved into the side of his head. This simple bump may as well have been a flash on the road to Damascus, because everything changed. What a second earlier I had taken for an

average Thursday’s load of grumpy pedestrians I now re-alized was heavily sprinkled with people in various NFL jerseys and white draft day caps like badly concealed secret service agents. This must have been what it was like in “Men in Black” when Will Smith started to see all the aliens in plain sight for the first time.

It was still a good four or five hours until draft time, so the event crew was setting up the red carpet when we walked past Radio City. The super crazies were probably indoors working on their signs and face paint and trying to remember how many e’s in Jets — but the draft day crowd was up and about. I was taking in Picasso’s “Three Musicians” at the MoMA when a father and his two sons momentarily blinded me with their Kansas City Chiefs jerseys. Maybe I never realized how red the Chiefs’ jerseys are, or maybe I was just in a white room full of dark paintings, but this family, who behaved much better in an art museum than anyone else in the room, stood out more than a rational thought in a Sarah Palin book. Here we all were surrounded by some of the greatest works of 20th century art, but everyone in the room was at least momentarily captivated by three Reebok shirts on dudes from Missouri.

Driving across town to dinner, one last shock to my system drove even the thought of jagerschnitzel from my brain. Two kindergarten-age boys in New Orleans Saints jerseys too small to use as pillowcases skipped gleefully in front of who I assume was their father, also decked out in Saints garb, as they headed toward Radio City.

I have seen the draft on TV several times; I have seen the sad, sad fans that dress up to sit in a large auditorium as if it were the Meadowlands. But never in a million years had I assumed that people, especially young fami-lies, travel halfway across the country and plan vacations around the NFL Draft.

I’m all for family trips, seeing the sights of New York City and sharing those moments with the people closest to you. But coming all that way to see one player put on your team’s hat for the first time? If that is what it takes to be a football fan, I will never be one.

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Maggie Harrington

Harrington came back from a 1-6 loss in the second set of her match against North Quincy to win the third 6-4 and give the Lady Titans a

3-2 win.

girls tennis

Track teams soak up tri meet

Kris Horn breaks his own school record in the high jump to take second place.

brianna larkin (left) hands off to Vanessa Pham in the 4x400 relay. Pham then hands off to sarah Cavalear (right) for the anchor leg.

ominous skies don’t prevent becky stoyle from taking first in the long jump and later taking first in the triple jumps at the tri meet held tuesday at the high school.

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Wesley Gallagher takes second in the 800 meters by a fraction of a second.

april Davenport leads the titans in the shot put.

Mike Romero opens the meet with second place in the 400 high hurdles.

Ryan Kelley, Ryan Moran, Joe Vercollone and brendan adams jump out in front right off the gun in the mile run. adams finished the race in front as the four titans took the top four places.

freshman Katie Wandell bends over the high jump bar and into second place.

Captain Katherine spaulding winds up a discus throw.

Randolph’s domination of the boys track team is going to continue for one more year. The Blue Devils thwarted Pembroke’s hopes for league and state championships dur-ing the indoor season and dealt Pembroke another loss Tues-day at the high school.

“We knew going in that Randolph was going to be the team to beat this year,” head coach Jim Rooney said. “Hats off to them; they put a lot of kids on the track that can score points.”

The Titans were able to come away with a win against the combined Quincy/North Quincy team to keep their re-cord at .500.

Senior Andrew Chapman anchored the team of himself, Pat Speck, Kris Horn and Tim Cullity to victory in the 4x100-meter relay and then edged the Blue Devils’ jumpers for an-other win in the triple jump.

The Titans also got a good performance out of Kris

Horn, who won the high jump and broke his own school re-cord in the long jump to take second place. Ryan Kelley also returned to the oval for the Titans after missing the

Whitman-Hanson meet with an ankle injury and was a part of a four-man pack with Bren-dan Adams, Ryan Moran and Joe Vercollone that finished one after the other in the mile.

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Panthers just pack more punchGirls lacrosse can’t get going vs. Whitman-Hanson

CaGE fIGHtER: Goalie Monica bettle swats away a Panther shot on Monday. bettle had one of her best games of the season, but the titans could not get going offensively.

Every time the girls la-crosse team looked like they were getting going offensive-ly on Monday, the Whitman-Hanson Panthers seemed to have an answer.

Some clutch saves by goalie Panther Meghan Ma-honey and three goals in the final two minutes of the first half was enough for Whitman-Hanson to keep Pembroke at bay and hand the Titans a 16-10 loss at the high school.

The Panthers jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first half,

but the Titans fought back to within two on goals by cap-tains Cara Cahill and Jenna Bostwick. However, the last two minutes before halftime belonged to the Panthers with Kristy Kennedy, Jackie Sulli-van and Amanda Lombardi all scoring to run Whitman-Han-son’s lead to 8-3 at the break.

“That may be a little im-maturity,” head coach George Stagno said. “As much time as we practice on defense, they are still a little tentative proba-bly because they are so young. It is still a work in progress.”

Pembroke matched Whit-man-Hanson goal for goal in the second half, but unfortu-nately for the Titans, the dam-age was already done.

“We just didn’t have ag-

gressive play in the first half,” Stagno said. “We were even in the second half — that’s the sad part, because we could have stayed with this team.”

Bostwick led the team with four goals in the game with fellow junior Krystal Barnard adding two. Alex Da-vis and Brittney Tworig also found the back of the cage in addition to Cahill. Stagno was also happy with the play of senior goalie Monica Bettle, whom he said kept the Titans in the game.

“I thought she had a great game,” Stagno said. “This is a brand new goalie, and she did outstanding. She was the best player on the field for us.”

The Titans fell to 2-6 with the loss.

Boys track even Stevens

YoU staY ClassY, PEMbRoKE: anchorman andrew Chapman runs Pembroke to victory in the 4x100 relay.

Titans split with Randolph and Quincy to stay at .500

It took everything third singles Maggie Harrington and first doubles Lisa Hig-gins and Laura McConarty had left to help Pembroke avoid losing two straight matches Monday afternoon — but they delivered.

Harrington and the dou-bles team both bounced back from one-sided losses in the second set to come out on top in long third sets and hand Pembroke a 3-2 over the North Quincy Red Raiders at the high school.

Harrington breezed through the first set, as did Higgins and McConarty. But the Raiders rallied to take both seconds sets 6-1. Hig-gins and McConarty fought back to take their final set

6-4 and placed the outcome of the match on Harrington’s shoulders. The Titan junior responded with a 6-4 win of her own to deliver the vic-tory.

“Their first and second singles are really outstanding players, so we knew we were going to have to take all the other matches to win,” head coach Meredith Fogarty said. “The kids just toughed it out and squeaked out the wins in really tough matches.”

The Titans’ other win was far less dramatic, as Kim Higgins and Elise Famiglietti had an easy straight-set win in second doubles.

“They complement each other well,” Fogarty said. “They have been there as partners all season and make a pretty good doubles team.”

Marathon win for tennis

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Photos by Dave Palana

Local golfers trying to squeeze in a round at Pem-broke Country Club before the thunderstorms rolled in on Tuesday were rewarded with an appearance on the links from the club’s celebrity own-er, Jeremy Roenick.

The nine-time NHL all-star and 500-goal scorer was out early Tuesday morning play-ing a round, greeting golfers and checking in on the prog-ress of the course’s facelift.

“This is the first time I’ve been out here this year, and I am so impressed with how far this golf course has come,” Roenick said. “The fairways are in great condition, the greens are in great condition, and the tee boxes are in great condition. When you play this golf course, it’s as good as you can get for a public course, and it’s the most unbelievable piece of property on the South Shore.”

Roenick and his business partner Steve Vazza bought the club when it went into foreclo-sure last spring. The partners have been working to renovate the course and are planning to redo the cart paths this year.

“There isn’t a thing we are not on top of,” Vazza said.

Roenick also has bigger plans for the club than sim-ple restoration. As he played through the course Tuesday, the Marshfield native said he hopes to change the landscape of the holes to make the course a challenging one for higher-level golfers.

“We want to continue to make it better and make it good for all types of golfers,” he said. “Obviously, you have a lot of high handicappers that you can make easy provisions for them to enjoy the round, but you also have some quali-fying people and some low handicappers who need a chal-lenge, and I don’t think there is a golf course out there that can challenge them the way we can make this.”

When the club renova-tion is completed, Roenick said he has no plans to stop being a hands-on owner and hopes he can bring a celebrity golf tournament to the South Shore.

“Eventually we are going to have one out here for sure,” he said. “We’ll probably give it another year of production, allow everything to grow in and do some more work. Then we’ll have something out here in the next year to the next year and a half.”

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ClUb PRo: former NHl all-star and Pembroke Country Club owner Jeremy Roenick, left, shoots the breeze with golfers as he plays through the course for the first time this year on tuesday.

Worth the wait for girlsLady Titans sweep Randolph, Quincy at tri meet

For the second week in a row, the girls track team had to battle the elements as well as their opponents with rain, thunder and lightning delay-ing their meet with Randolph and Quincy at the high school on Tuesday.

However, this week, head coach Greg Zopatti liked the way his team responded.

The Titans dominated the tri meet by blowing out the Blue Devils 104-25 and the Presidents 100-27 to rebound from their first loss of the sea-son.

“The girls performed pret-ty well for having to go out after a delay,” Zopatti said. “I think the girls really respond-ed well, not just at the meet, but in the practice as well. Ev-erybody was here; everybody was working hard. I think when we talk about being at a crossroads, we are heading in the right direction.”

Junior Becky Stoyle bounced back from getting edged out of first place in the 100-meter dash to win both the long and triple jumps when the meet resumed to lead Pembroke in scoring. The Titans also got good perfor-mance in the field from Bri-anna Larkin and Teresa Fate-mi, who cleared 30 feet in the triple jump along with Stoyle, and from Chelsea Savage and

Katie Wandell, who took first and second in the high jump.

Zopatti also moved Sav-age, Michaela Ng and Mary Scanlan down into the 200 meters. Scanlan then came back to cruise to victory in the 400 in less than a minute, with Savage and sophomore Van-essa Pham each setting new personal records behind her.

Captain Sarah Cavalear also got a nice win for the Ti-tans in the 800 meters as she continues to battle back from some nagging injuries.

The Titans also saw the return of Heather Connick to

the track with a 6:03.9 time in the mile run. The All State distance runner is still battling back from a stress fracture that derailed her cross-country sea-son last fall, and Zopatti wants to ease his superstar back into competition.

“It was a little quiet, easy mile,” he said. “She was prob-ably not that happy with it, but it was just nice to see her in a uniform again.”

The Titans will take part in the first national meet of the season on Saturday when they head to Connecticut for the Hartford Public Invitational.

RaIN DaNCE: team captain teresa fatemi skips through the rain during the triple jump on tuesday.

tEEING off: Roenick drives off the tee on the ninth hole, which he plans to alter for lower handicap golfers. Photos by Dave Palana

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