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By SuSanna Sheehan, Clipper ContriButor

This week, Duxbury se-lectmen urged the Public Safe-ty Building Committee to seek both design and construction funds — a total of $6.45 mil-lion — for a new police sta-tion at March’s annual Town Meeting instead of only design funds as the committee had planned.

The committee told select-men Monday they were pre-

pared to ask Town Meeting voters for $390,000 to design a new police station. Also, the committee said it has decided to locate the new station on Mayflower Street adjacent to the town’s transfer station.

The majority of selectmen felt the committee must recon-sider asking only for design money, because they said the town urgently needs a new sta-tion.

By JuStin GraeBer, Clipper editor [email protected]

Superintendent of Dux-bury Schools Benedict Tan-tillo made his case for a new $135 million combined mid-dle school/high school at the School Committee meeting Wednesday night, calling the current facilities inadequate and outdated.

“The students are being shortchanged by the facilities

that we have now,” Tantillo said.

The presentation was giv-en by Tantillo but was the final official recommendation of the School Building Committee, which decided to recommend a new combined, or “co-located” middle school and high school over new separate buildings or renovations.

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Schools make their pitchSuperintendent outlines plan for new $135 million school

Protecting the ploversDuxbury resident leading the fight to protect threatened shore birds from off-road vehicles


They may be small birds, but Piping Plovers can have a big impact on their local eco-system. And Duxbury resident and Executive Director of the Goldenrod Foundation Scott Hecker has spent years fight-ing to protect them and other threatened shorebirds.

The theme of Hecker’s talk on Sunday, part of the Sunday Salon series at the Duxbury Free Library was “The Piping

The Piping Plover is a “threatened” species and when it roosts, its nests need to be given a wide berth, as the young birds can’t fly and must walk to food. This can lead to large parts of Duxbury Beach being roped off.

WARM SMILES ON A COLD DAY: Despite a blast of subfreezing temperatures Emma and Christian Sundstrom are all smiles as they head home from school. More snow and freezing rain was forecast for this week in a season that has already delivered quite a load of the white stuff. Photo by Deni Johnson

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TIDES High High Low LowThurs. Jan. 27 5:00 a.m. 5:39 p.m. 11:51 a.m. --Fri. Jan. 28 6:03 a.m. 6:46 p.m. 12:07 a.m. 12:57 p.m.Sat. Jan. 29 7:07 a.m. 7:53 p.m. 1:10 a.m. 2:03 p.m.Sun. Jan. 30 8:09 a.m. 8:54 p.m. 2:12 a.m. 3:04 p.m.Mon. Jan. 31 9:07 a.m. 9:48 p.m. 3:10 a.m. 3:59 p.m.Tues. Feb. 1 9:58 a.m. 10:35 p.m. 4:03 a.m. 4:46 p.m.Wed. Feb. 2 10:43 a.m. 11:15 p.m. 4:51 a.m. 5:28 p.m.Thurs. Feb. 3 11:24 a.m. 11:53 p.m. 5:34 a.m. 6:06 p.m.Fri. Feb. 4 12:02 p.m. -- 6:16 a.m. 6:43 p.m.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET Sunrise SunsetThurs. Jan. 27 7:00 a.m. 4:50 p.m.Fri. Jan. 28 6:59 a.m. 4:51 p.m.Sat. Jan. 29 6:58 a.m. 4:53 p.m.Sun. Jan. 30 6:57 a.m. 4:54 p.m.Mon. Jan. 31 6:56 a.m. 4:55 p.m.Tues. Feb. 1 6:55 a.m. 4:57 p.m.Wed. Feb. 2 6:54 a.m. 4:58 p.m.Thurs. Feb. 3 6:53 a.m. 4:59 p.m.Fri. Feb. 4 6:52 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

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Please note these changes: Transfer Stickers (no limit) go on the Driver’s windshield left bottom inside corner. An enve-lope is requested for returning all of your processed mail-in stickers.

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There was little movement on the ballot this week, as only one candidate returned his nomination papers and no new

candidates took them out.Brian Glennon, who was

appointed earlier this year to fill the unexpired term of Har-old Moody, returned his pa-pers to seek the remainder of Moody’s term, for two years.

Both incumbents on the School Committee, Anne Ward and Maureen Connolly, have taken out papers to retain their seats (Connolly has re-turned hers.) So far, there are

no challengers.Paul McCormack took

out papers to run for the full term (five year) position on the Planning Board. He is run-ning for the open seat created when Brendan Halligan said he would not seek re-election.

Ted Flynn has taken out and returned papers to run for the Board of Selectmen, a term of three years. Betsy Sullivan announced earlier that she would not seek re-election, and so far there are no other challengers for this seat.

Friend Weiler, Sr., has also taken out papers to keep his position as town moderator, a year-to-year office.

Flynn stepped down from

his seat on the library board of trustees to run for selectman, and Lamont Healy has taken out papers to run for the unex-pired term of two years. Donna Ryan has also taken out papers to run for one of two three-year terms on the trustee board, as has Brooke McDonough.

June Albritton has taken out papers to run for a three-year term on the Board of As-sessors. There are two open five-year terms on the Dux-bury Housing Authority.

Goodrich building auction postponed

The auction of the former Goodrich Lumber building in the Millbrook neighborhood has been postponed to Feb. 4, according to the company running the auction, Paul E. Saper-stein, Co. It was originally scheduled for Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 a.m.

The property, which consists of the parcels of land at 11, 30 and 50 Railroad Ave. and 277 and 293 St. George St., was being sold in a foreclosure auction.

The sale of the property comes with all the mortgagor’s rights, including any development rights, according to a no-tice of sale of real estate published by the law firm Riemer & Braunstein LLP, for the mortgage holder, Bank of Canton.

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SAVE THE DATE: The 30th annual Duxbury spring antique show will be held on Saturday, March 26 and Sunday, March 27 at DHS sponsored by the Boosters to benefit the Duxbury High School athletic pro-gram. The kick-off meeting was held recently at Foodie’s. Front Row: Angela Sinnott, Margaret Brook, Christine Coakley, Corinne Poore and Pat Cook. Back Row: Joanne Williams (Co-Chairwoman), Susie Caliendo, Nancy Brooks, Ginny Ederle (Co-Chairwoman) Lisa Webber (Co-Chairwoman) and Ashley Mohrman. Call Joanne Williams at 781-934-0111 or visit the Web site duxburyboosters.org for more information or to volunteer.

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By dave palana, Clipper Staff

The public debate on “ac-cessory structures” in Dux-bury’s zoning bylaws will be continued.

The Planning Board held their first public hearing on the changes to the zoning bylaws proposed for Town Meeting at the senior center Monday night, and several residents called for more clarity in the proposed changes to the guest house bylaw.

The board submitted an ar-ticle that would amend the def-inition of an accessory struc-ture as “a detached structure that is not used in the whole or in part as a Dwelling.” Mem-bers of the board argued that a second structure on a single lot that has the potential for year-round living could lead to “double density,” to dwellings on the same lot, which would be a violation of the zoning bylaws.

However, several towns-people felt that the language in the board’s proposed changes was too vague and too restric-tive. They argued that the phrase “may include” made the list of acceptable accessory structures finite.

“If you are going to be ex-clusive why not say so?” Paul Driscoll said. “The language used is only going to lead to more confusion ... We’d all like a bylaw that is clear for obvious practical reasons.”

Other speakers echoed Driscoll’s statements, saying that the board’s changes would prohibit the building of a true guest house, which they felt was going too far.

“I’m not sure we totally need to get rid of guest hous-es,” Sara Wilson said. “We need dimensional constraints … to make sure it is not used as a living space.”

Jessica Williams called on the board to withdraw their article and adopt her citizens’ petition article for changes to the same bylaw, which was similar in language, but al-lowed “finished living space that is not a ‘dwelling unit.’” While Williams said she felt her petition cleared up the confusion in language and al-lowed for the traditional guest house, Planning Board chair-

man Amy MacNab said the citizen petition could have “unintended consequences.”

“If someone has the by-right ability to build multiple structures on one lot minus a finished kitchen, those are motor lodges or motels,” she said.

MacNab also said that the board’s proposed changes to the bylaw would not prevent people from building things such as offices and playrooms, which was suggested by sev-eral speakers. Planning Board member John Bear also de-fended the language of the board’s article, saying that an all-encompassing bylaw is im-possible.

“If it was a perfect bylaw, you wouldn’t need a zoning board,” Bear said. “You have to recognize that there is going to have to be some judgment. You can’t just give them a nice checklist.”

MacNab also denied alle-gations made by several speak-ers that the Planning Board was trying to change the intent of the bylaw in response to the problems with the guest house at 21 River Lane that was taken to the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Planning Board felt the building permit is-sued for a guest house at River Lane made the new building a dwelling, however building inspector and zoning enforce-ment officer Scott Lambiase denied the board’s appeal for zoning enforcement. The ZBA upheld the building permit, but placed deed restrictions on the property that it could never be used as a permanent dwell-ing and had the dishwasher, washing machine and dryer removed.

MacNab defended the board’s decision to take the issue to the ZBA and said the decision did not constitute a

change in the traditional read-ing of the bylaw’s intent.

“I’m not going to apolo-gize for that,” MacNab said. “… The goal is not to change anything, but to clarify any concerns.”

Scott Cassagrandre said he felt the crux of the issue was in the definitions of “dwell-ing” and “dwelling unit” and suggested the board take their article back to a subcommit-tee to further clarify. Driscoll suggested that Duxbury adopt the definitions used in the state building code, which MacNab said she would be open to but felt would likely not happen in time for this year’s Town Meet-ing. Board member George Wadsworth called Driscoll’s demands for clarity “spot on” and asked the townspeople to continue contributing ideas to clarify the bylaw.

“All of you see the dif-ficulty in producing a bright line,” he said. “We hope those of you continue to feed into us to produce that bright line.”

Also at the meeting: The board closed and •

approved the article to change the definition of “guest house” to “Bed and Breakfast” in the special permit bylaw.

The board contin-• ued the hearing on an article amending the open space and

building coverage require-ments in the neighborhood business district bylaw.

The board closed the • hearing on an article adding a definition of “open space” to the bylaw.

The board closed an • article to update parking regu-lations .

The board closed the • hearing on an article removing use variances from allowed variances in the variance by-law.

The board closed the •

hearing on an article amending the accessory apartment bylaw to change the limit of addition or alterations or to create ad-ditional living space from five years to one year.

The board continued • the hearing on an article to re-zone the Wetlands Protection Overlay to change a portion of land so that then entire parcel is zoned as a residential com-patibility district.

The board will hold the con-tinued hearings at the senior center on Jan. 31 at 7:05 p.m.

Planning Board public forum to be continued... Board will continue discussion on accessory structure bylaw

Planning Board members Josh Cutler, George Wadsworth, Amy MacNab and Brian Glennon listen to con-cerns from townspeople about articles to change the zoning bylaws at Town Meeting during the board's public forum Monday night.


Around Town HallCommunity Preservation Com-

mittee: Thursday, Jan. 27, 8 a.m. in the Mural Room at Town Hall.

Zoning Board of Appeals: Thurs-day, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. in the Mural Room. T-Mobile, Wildlands Trust, 21 River Lane.

Planning Board: Monday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m. at the Senior Center. Continued public hearing on zoning articles for Town Meeting.

Board of Selectmen: Monday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m. in the Mural Room.

Sidewalk and Bike Path Committee: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center.

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next Leaders’ Meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Girl Scout House. There are several important decisions to be made with regard to the dance and our potential100th anniver-sary service project. With this important anniversary approach-ing quickly there is lots to discuss. Please plan to have your troop represented.

Cookies For the Troops: Cadette Girl Scout Troop 80331 is once again offering everyone the opportunity to purchase Girl Scout cookies, to be shipped by the VFW in Plymouth to men and women serving in the military in the Middle East. Whether you wish to donate a dollar toward a box of cookies or purchase a box or two, you can call 934-5427 to arrange for your dona-tion. For the last two years the troop has shipped 30 cases of cookies to the military.

Troop Happenings: As they arrived at Venezia’s restau-rant last week, the girls in Cadette Troops 80331 and 80485 were welcomed by head chef Peter who answered their many questions before taking them on a tour of the restaurant and the kitchens. The girls were then his guests and enjoyed a lunch that consisted of a selection of gourmet pizzas and drinks, along with the beautiful view across the water to Boston. The girls are working on the Creative Cooking Interest Project. The troops are grateful to Jan and Perry Bruno, owners of Venezia’s, who arranged for their visit.

Members of Cadette Troops 80331 and 80485 enjoyed a tour, includ-ing the kitchens, of Venezia’s Restaurant in Boston on the MLK holiday.

Sunday Salon Series Presents: Author Lisa Genova

Harvard-trained neurosci-entist and author phenom will discuss her newest book, “Left Neglected,” on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library. Her first novel, “Still Alice,” winner of the 2008 Bronte Prize, was released on Jan. 6, and debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best-seller list. “Left Neglected” is about a young high powered mom who is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. Gen-ova says about the book, “The universe gives Sarah Nicker-son an unmistakable wake-up call in the form of a traumatic brain injury. In her journey of recovery, she not only pays at-tention to everything her mind wants her to ignore, she learns to pay attention to her heart’s truest desires. This is a story about learning to live simpler and deeper, about paying at-tention to and nourishing what matters, about healing and be-coming whole.”

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New Superintendent of Schools Benedict Tantillo is hoping his report card from the School Committee comes back with high marks.

The school board heard an update from Tantillo, who was hired earlier this year from New Jersey to replace out-going superintendent Susan Skeiber, on his goals for the year.

The top goal on his list was to facilitate a new strategic plan for the district. Duxbury just wrapped up a five-year strategic plan. Tantillo said he’s been meeting with admin-istrators and teachers and has received some proposals from consultants like the Mass. As-sociation of School Commit-tees.

“I have the proposals in hand, it’s going to be up to the school committee to de-cide what direction we go,” he said.

School Committee mem-bers, however, were split on whether or not the district should firm up a new strategic plan until they know what will be happening with the school buildings.

“That has to be our num-ber one focus right now,” said Maureen Connolly, talking about the new building. “That

will determine where we go ... Our buildings and technology would be a good part of the strategic plan.”

Connolly wanted to put off coming up with a new plan until the fall. However, School Committee member Gary Magnuson said he thought the district would be wise to have the plan in place first.

“I’d like to see us define what we want to be and what we think success is,” he said.

School Committee Chair-woman Anne Ward agreed.

“It’s putting us out in space without a road map,” she said. “We have tough decisions to make every year.”

John Heinstadt, however, agreed with Connolly.

“I think it’s too premature to start anything before Town Meeting and the town elec-tion,” he said.

The debate over the new buildings tied in with the sec-ond goal for the superinten-dent, which was to work with the School Building Commit-tee. Tantillo said he has at-tended all the meetings and has done other outreach on the building project.

The third bullet point on the list of goals was to update the district’s policies. Tantillo said he has contracted with the Mass. Association of School Committees to do this, and the

School Committee will be vot-ing on the policies in the fall.

Tantillo also said he had some other, more unofficial goals he is working on. These include developing a five-year maintenance plan, revamping the district Web site (a new site will launch on July 1) and tightening up the district’s professional development procedures. Tantillo said he is working on this with Assistant Superintendent Edwin Walsh.

Tantillo also said he wants to make a change to the School Committee’s policy of having an inflexible order to the agen-da items. He has been trying to include more student and fac-ulty presentations at the meet-ing, and would like to be able to move these up in the agenda so students can go home.

“It just gives us flexibility. We’re not going to lose any items ... I just think it makes sense,” he said.

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LifeLong Learning programThis program offers college level learning for all interested

adults from the South Shore – beginning on Jan. 31. What challenges your mind? –perhaps a course discussing the

causes that led to World War II –the “Necessary War” – or maybe you want to learn more about the Revolutionary War – or study the way scholars have approached getting to the history and back-ground of the Book of the Gospels. If you like to stay local, we will again be offering a course on the history of the South Shore.

If your interest lies in literature, you can join our group read-ing The Merchant of Venice or a Great Books course to test your analytical skills!

Are you more interested in current events? Then you can join the Great Decisions session as well as the group that gets very lively regarding the Hot Political Issues facing our state and local communities (with your local representatives) –– you can also enjoy the spirited discussions based on articles in the New Yorker (don’t forget the cartoons!)

Other options include Opera for Everyone, Classical Music Hits from one Era to Another, Sociology101- a survey course, and In The Courtroom – an Artist’s Point of View.

Registration will take place at the Senior Center through Jan. 27 from 9 a.m.-12 noon.

South Shore Conservatory hosts E Underground Teen Open Mic Night

Teens take the stage or listen in to an eclectic blend of per-formances! “E Underground”, South Shore Conservatory’s popular monthly open mic series for teenagers will be held on Friday, Jan. 28 from 7-8:30 p.m. at South Shore Conservatory, The Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George St.

Teenagers are welcome to entertain with vocal, instru-mental or theatrical performances. A sound system, key-board, drums, accompanist (keys or guitar) will be provided. Performers call ahead to register. Limited admission will be available at the door.

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Students are talented performers

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On Jan. 7, a group of talented Duxbury High School musicians and chorus members, along with students from the district, spent two days rehearsing for the

53rd Southeastern Senior District Concert. This annual concert was held on Jan. 8 at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. These district students participated in a competitive audition process with more than 100 schools. Duxbury High had a 50 percent acceptance rate which is way above the norm. Duxbury had 31 students represented. Students performed in the jazz band, orchestra, chorus or concert band.

Each group is led by a professional conductor often at the collegiate level. This is a wonderful experience for young musi-cians. And, for the Duxbury students to work with students of similar caliber, but from different schools, creates a whole new challenging environment. “Playing at districts is a fun experi-ence because you not only get to play with fantastic musicians from around the area, you also get to meet some really awesome kids, and work with great conductors,” said Anna Taylor, a trom-bonist in the Duxbury Wind Ensemble.

At Saturday’s festival, all groups performed at one of two concerts. The first concert featured the jazz band and the chorus. The jazz band played tunes varying from bop to gospel and was led by Jeffrey Holmes, Jazz Studies Director at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The choral performance was excel-lent, and they were led by Mallorie Chernin, Choral Director at Amherst College.

The second concert consisted of orchestra and band. The orchestra played many famous pieces, including Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” conducted by John Eells, Director of the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra. The band concluded the outstanding performances with several challenging pieces including Frank Ticheli’s “Nitro.”

Congratulations to the following Duxbury High School students who participated in this year’s festival:

Duxbury had 30 kids involved in the festival, more than any other town. They were, Chorus: Tori Clough, Linsin Smith, Cameron Draper, William Jewell, and Dylan Kornberg; Orches-tra: Carson Lloyd, Arthur Su, Deanna Ronne, Patrick Gearin, Megan Glatstein, Emily Hansman, Alexander Stewart, Michelle Puopolo, Greyson Butler, Alenni Davis, Christine Doherty, Tucker Gino, John Murphy, Nora Serres, and Anna Taylor; Band: Samantha Shally, Michelle Kelly, Olivia Rosenfeld, Ni-cole Hanrahan, Greg Bray, Pat Maclennan, Hana Phelan, Aaron Klein, Robbie Johnson, Sally Jernigan-Smith, Christian Dow, Alec Hovey, and Trevor Barrington. Every student accepted should be proud of his/her work.

Coming this February, Duxbury residents can look forward to hearing these students and others at All Band, All String, and All Choral Concert. 1,200 Duxbury musicians perform in at one of the three concerts. Students, families and friends have an opportunity to hear the full range of talent that Duxbury has to offer. Mark your calendar! The concerts are on three separate dates: All Band Night on Feb. 3 at 6:30-8 p.m., All String Night on Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m., and All Choral Night on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. All performances are held at the Performing Arts Center and are free of charge.

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Holy Family Women’s club presents: “For The love of Fashion’’ set for Feb. 11

Holy Family Women’s Club will host an evening of Choco-late and Couture featuring fashions from CAbi and Jennifer Re-ale Designs. Come and join them on Friday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Holy Family Church Parish Center. The evening will include refreshments, a raffle, a silent auction and door prizes. Tickets are $25 per person and may be purchased at the store ONE or by contacting Kelly Hartnett at [email protected]. Proceeds from the event will benefit local women’s charities.

Relay For Life kicks off

On Thursday Jan. 27, Re-lay For Life of Marshfield, Duxbury, Hanover, Norwell, and Pembroke will kick off the 2011 season. The football-theme party will take place at the Elks Hall (1321 Ocean Street – Route 139, Marshfield) from 7-8:30 p.m. Building on results achieved during an award-winning 2010 season, the event will energize past or future team captains with tailgate-party food and infor-mation about new activities, incentives, and fund-raising tools for the season. The 2011 Relay For Life will take place on June 24-25 at Marshfield High School and welcomes teams from any town.For more information about Relay For Life or the Kick-Off party, or to volunteer to join us in plan-ning the June event, e-mail [email protected] or call 617-901-3483 or 339-933-1913.


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promotions and other life milestones to [email protected].

Alexandra Watts ➢ , a fresh-man majoring in general busi-ness, was named to the dean’s list at Western New England College for the fall semester.

Brian Byrne, Connor ➢Croteau, Daniella DiCarlo, Bridget Duffy, Heidi Nich-ols and Blair Peterson were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2010 semester at Quinnipiac University.

Steven J. Dennett ➢ was named to the dean’s list at Fitch-burg State University for the fall semester.

Amanda Hunter ➢ has been on the dean’s list at Bridge-water State University for the past three semesters including fall 2009, spring 2009 and fall 2010. She is a mathematics ma-jor with a physics minor.

Connor Inglis ➢ , DHS ‘10, made the dean’s list for the fall term at the University of Cin-cinnati. Connor is a freshman studying trumpet performance.

As part of their Girl Scout Challenge Project, as they work on their Silver Award, Maddy Buchanan, Megan Roy and Lauren Roy presented a recy-cling container to MariClaire Glova, Supervisor at the Percy Walker Pool. The girls are striving to increase recycling in town buildings.

Gretchen and Lake McCarthy and Savannah Blanch make the most of all the recent snowfall by build-ing a snow fort at the corner of Stagecoach Road and Surrey Lane.

Tayler Kent of Rogers Way recently participated in the New Hampshire Regional Alpine Racing Series for the J3 age group in the Eastern Division. Tayler placed second and fourth in slalom and giant slalom qualifying her for the Eastern New Hampshire Regional Team. Tayler will now enter a series of races competing against the other region’s top skiers from the state of New Hampshire.

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Duxbury camera club to present visual journey to Europe

Duxbury Camera Club’s monthly meeting, Wednesday Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the library Merry Room, is the time to escape from New England’s winter hold and join four of our members on a visual journey to Europe. These four members are advanced photographers, having between them many awards and acco-lades.

Rain Rodolph will be showing images of her trip to the gen-teel Provencal countryside. Jeanne McKenna will share her trip to the ancient city of Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Judy Pollock will be sharing her images of the sumptuous foods and vistas of Tuscany. Glenn and Judy Pollock will present a joint show on their recent visit to the majestic cliff top city of Ronda Spain and the Pueblo Blancos of Andalucía.

Members are reminded that the current monthly shooting theme is “fire.” Popular voting will determine the winner. Janu-ary’s winner for the theme of ‘keys” was Camille Neville. Her photograph may be viewed on the club Web site, duxburyca-meraclub.org. Also on the website are photographs from the club’s monthly field trips, including a recent Bay Farm visit in the snow.

Later in the month, on Feb. 19, Lynne Ford will present the monthly members’ workshop: Photo Editing – Basic Tools and Techniques. Sign up for this and all workshops through the web-site.

Camera Club meets the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9:30 p.m. in the library’s Merry Room. Monthly meetings are open to both members and prospective members while work-shops, field trips and critiques are for members only. For more information contact [email protected] or visit the web-site.

Webelo Scouts from Pack 62, the “Blue Fire,” won this year’s Camp Squanto Klondike Cup. Out of 48 teams competing from all across the state, Pack 62 Webelos got the highest combined score in the fol-lowing categories: fire building, naturalist, first aid, cooking, campsite, knots, compass and maps, and first class. Proudly showing their cup are (back row) Jack Champagne, Russell Sotiropoulos, Stephen Buchanan, Kyle Chin, Piers Klein, Martin Gandt, Jared Zak; (front row) Peter Rusinak and Kevin Wargo. Team members not pictured are Nick Kania, Sam Messina and Webelo leader, Amy Rusinak.


Pack 62, Den 5 made their own pizzas together in early January. The second graders learned about the food pyramid, then compiled a list of healthy ingredients and veggies to top their pizzas. Each scout came up with their own personal pizza, baked it and ate it for dinner. Pictured, clockwise from the head of the table are Henry Kent, Matthew NeJame, Brett Bossi, Harry Papp, Colby Sheehan, Joey NeJame, Dominic King, Anthony Lyons, Andy Braithwaite and Will Leese

It’s a pizza party! news from Duxbury School Building committee

The School Building Committee invites all to attend an open house at Duxbury Middle School and Duxbury High School to see for yourself why a building project is being developed.

Tours of DMS and DHS – Jan. 29, 9 a.m. to noonSBC will also visit some of the model schools that feature

designs that will be considered for Duxbury’s project. The pub-lic is invited to attend. Please contact Ginny Whoriskey in the superintendent’s office at 781-934-7600 or [email protected] if you would like to attend.

Ipswich High and Middle School Thursday, Jan. 27, 11 a.m.134 High St.Ipswich, MA 01938

Ashland High School Friday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m.65 East Union St.Ashland, MA 01721

Hudson High School Fri. Jan. 28, 1p.m.69 Brigham St.Hudson, MA 01749

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School Monday, Jan. 31 10:30 a.m.600 Franklin St. (Rte 27)Whitman, MA 02382

School Building Committee meetings: Room 106 at DHSWednesday, Jan. 26, 5 p.m.Tuesday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m.Monday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m. Update to Board of Selectmen,

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Religious ServicesDuxbury Houses of WorshipFirst Baptist Church of DuxburyDr. Kevin Cassidy2 Tremont St.Phone: 934-6095Website: www.fbcd.org, email: [email protected]

Holy Family ChurchChurch and CCD Center, Tremont StRev. Msgr. William Glynn, PastorRev. Francis Chase, Parochial VicarPhone: 934-5055 Fax: 781-934-5796Mass Schedule: Saturdays, 5 pm; Sundays, 7, 8:30,10, and 11:30 am, with babysitting available at 8:30and 10 Masses. Daily Mass: Monday-Saturday, 8:15.

Pilgrim Church United Church of Christ404 Washington St.Rev. Kenneth C. Landall, Sr. PastorPhone: 934-6591Email: [email protected]. Pilgrim Childcare and Preschool. Sunday worshipand Church school at 9 am.

New Covenant FellowshipTarkiln Community Center, Rte 53, Summer StDavid Woods, PastorPhone: 585-8628Sundays: Contemporary praise and worship at 10. Sundayschool and youth group after opening worship. Communionfirst Sun. of the month. Women’s Discovery and men ofPromise homegroups.

Church of St. John the EvangelistEpiscopal410 Washington St. Box 2893The Rev. William Eddy, Interim PriestPhone: 934-6523Service at 8 and 10 am.

First Church of Christ Scientist243 Parks St.Phone: 934-6434Sun.: Service at 10:30. Sunday school for youth to 20 at 10:30.Wed.: Service at 8 pm, readings from the Bible and Science andHealth. Childcare provided. Reading Room: 17 Standish St.,Hours: Tue. through Fri., 10-1; Sat., 9-3.

First Parish ChurchUnitarian Universalist842 Tremont StRev. Catherine Cullen, MinisterPhone: 934-6532Sundays: Worship service at 10:30, nursery and childcareavailable.

St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarene136 Summer St.Phone: 585-3419Monday-Friday: Noah’s Ark Day School for ages 2 yrs 9months to kindergarten. Call for information, 582-1778.Nursery is provided for all services.

High St. United Methodist ChurchHigh and Taylor Sts.Rev. Barbara Kszystyniak, PastorPhone: 585-9863Sundays: Worship service and Sunday School at 10,nursery care available.

South Shore Worship

Zion Lutheran Church386 Court St., No. Plymouth, Rev. C. Robert Stott, Phone: 508-746-3041

Congregation Beth JacobSynagogue: 8 Pleasant St. Plymouth, Community Center, Court/Brewster St. LawrenceSilverman, Rabbi, Phone: 508-746-1575.

South Shore QuakerPhone: 781-749-4383, Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, (off Rte. 228 at the library/town hallcomplex off Levitt St., up the hill to Turkey Hill Lane).

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)379 Gardner St., So. Hingham, Bishop John Howe, Phone: 781-293-2520, Sundaysyear round: Family worship at 10 am.

St. Mark of Epheseus Orthodox Mission261 Main St., Kingston, Rev. Terrence McGillicuddy, Phone: 781-585-8907

Islamic Center of New England Mosques470 South St., Quincy, 671-479-8341, 74 Chase Dr., Sharon, 781-784-0434

Safe Harbor Church52 Main St., Marshfield, Pastor Mark Eagling, 781-837-9903

MacDonald Funeral Home1755 Ocean St. Marshfield

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Congregation Shirat Hayam, P.O. Box 2727, Duxbury 02331, Phone: 781-582-2700

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Rosalind Ann Braun Wildes, noted watercol-orist, died in Plymouth on Saturday, Jan. 15 at the age of 87. She was born on Jan. 7, 1924, in New York City to Rosa-lind Elizabeth Braun and Frank F. Braun. Raised in New York with her

twin sister, Marie Williams and younger sister Patricia Felter, she developed an interest in the arts and attended the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, New York. In 1944, she married Syd-ney G. Vickers. Their three sons and daughter, Sydney, Jeffrey, Peter and Carole, were born in New York, before the family moved to Massa-chusetts in 1956. Mrs. Wildes pursued a career in fashion illustration, as well as her own paint-ing, while raising her children.

In 1964, she married Eugene A. Wildes, Jr.,

and the couple shared 35 years together, liv-ing in recent years in North Palm Beach, Fla. Throughout this time she exhibited her art at several galleries and in exhibitions on Cape Cod and in Florida. She taught at the Light-house Gallery and School of Art in Tequesta, Fla. until 2004. Mr. Wildes predeceased his wife in 1999.

Mrs. Wildes leaves her children, Syd-ney G. Vickers of Florida, Carole V. White of San Francisco, Jeffrey P. Vickers of Duxbury and Peter C. Vickers of Florida; six grandchil-dren; six great-grandchildren; and her son and daughters-in-law, Robert White, Nina Vickers and Sandra M. Vickers. A memorial service will be held in the spring. Please call a fam-ily member for time and location. Donations may be made in memory of Mrs. Wildes to the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable at capecodartassoc.org.

Richard F. Hansen of Arlington, formerly of Duxbury, died Jan 17 at the age of 69. He was the husband of Nadia B. (Shallah) Hansen. He was born in Plymouth, grew up in Duxbury and graduated from Duxbury High School class of 1959. He was a self employed chef.

Mr. Hansen leaves his children, Christopher Hansen of Attleboro, Kristina Hansen of East Bridgewater and Jaime Caruso and her hus-band Roberto of Lexington; his parents, Pansy Hansen of Duxbury and the late Luther A. Han-sen Jr.; his brothers, Steven Hansen of Ariz.,

Gerald Hansen of Cal., and Thomas Hansen of Cal. ; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. A Funeral Mass was celebrated on Monday, Jan. 24 at the Holy Family Church. A private burial will be held at a later date. Contri-butions in Mr. Hansen’s memory may be made to the Boston Health Care Services C/O West Roxbury VA Hospital Volunteer Services, 1400 VFW Parkway West Roxbury, MA. 02132. Fu-neral arrangements by the MacDonald Funeral Home, Marshfield.

Mary Evelyn (Meuse) Murphy of Duxbury, formerly of Roslindale, died Jan. 21, at the age of 93. Mrs. Murphy was born in Boston. She was retired from the NE Telephone Co. and was an active member of Sacred Heart Church, Roslindale and St. John’s Church, West Rox-bury.

She was the wife of the late Edward G. Mur-phy. She leaves her children, Edward Murphy of Marshfield, Deborah Fallon and her husband Robert of Duxbury and her late son, George Murphy; l0 grandchildren and nine great grand-children. ; and a nephew and nieces. A Funeral Mass will be held in the Holy Family Church,

60l Tremont St., Duxbury on Friday, Jan. 28 at ll a.m. A visiting hour will be held at the Mac-Donald Funeral Home, l755 Ocean St., Rte.l39, Marshfield on Friday from 9:30 to l0:30 a.m. preceding the Mass. Burial will be in the Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree. For online guest-book and di-rections please visit macdon-a l d f u n e r a l -home.com.

Alberta C. (Crimmins) Whitley of Dux-bury, 80, died at home on Jan. 19. She grew up in South Boston and graduated from South Boston High School. She worked for the Dux-bury School Department as a cafeteria worker for many years and at the Colonial Candle Company in Plymouth as a packer and shipper. Mrs. Whitley was a member of the Duxbury American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the Evening Alliance at the Duxbury Unitarian Church. She loved going to the beach and was an avid bingo player.

Mrs. Whitley was the wife of the late John E. Whitley. She leaves her children, Kathleen and her husband Thomas, Karen and her hus-

band George, and John and his wife Cathy M.; six grandchildren, three great grandchildren and an aunt, Roberta Lange. Visiting hours will be held at the Richard Davis Funeral Home 373 Court St. (Rte 3A) N. Plymouth on Thursday, Jan. 27 from 10 a.m. to noon with a funeral service to follow at the Zion Lutheran Church, 384 Court St. in Plymouth at 1 p.m. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Shriner’s Burn Center, 51 Blossom St, Boston, MA 02114, or St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital Memo-rial and Honor Program F. 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905.

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Audio books availableA collection of 34 young adult (teen) interest titles in the

Playaway format is available at the library. These are indi-vidually packaged mp3 devices that have a single title loaded on them for listening while you walk, ride, sit. They come with ear phones and an extra AAA battery if you need it. Lis-ten to a popular current teen title or some of the books on the high school reading list while you do other things. To browse the collection, go to the teen lounge on the upper level of the Duxbury Free Library and look under the window. They can be checked out for two weeks.


By Jamie therrien, Clipper ContriButor

Last Thursday, The Parent Connection presented a panel discussion about the preven-tion, identification, treatment and management of concus-sions. Three experts on con-cussions presented the latest research, provided an overview of the signs and symptoms, and showed how families, medical professionals and schools can work together when a student has a concussion. The experts also discussed how to know when students can return to school, athletics and day-to-day activities.

The panelists were Chris-topher Nowinski, Dr. Janet Kent and nurse Marge Rossi. Nowinski is a former Harvard football player and WWE pro-fessional wrestler. He is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephal-opathy at Boston University. Nowinski talked about his personal experiences as well as what the Center is learn-ing about how to prevent and manage concussions. Kent, who is the Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services and the Sports Concussion Clinic at South Shore Hospital, and Rossi, the lead school nurse on the South Shore, discussed what adults need to know when

children get a concussion and why parents, students, teach-ers and coaches all need to be on the same team when man-aging a concussion.

The panelists discussed how a concussion can occur any time there is contact to the head. And, while concus-sions in kids are often associ-ated with sports, they can also happen during every day play. Symptoms of a concussion in-clude: headache, nausea, bal-ance problems, double vision, sensitivity to light, sluggish-ness, a feeling of fogginess, changes in sleep and cognitive changes. On-the-field signs that a player may have suf-fered a concussion include the player feeling dazed or con-fused about the play, personal-ity changes, amnesia or loss of consciousness.

Early identification and treatment of a concussion is especially crucial for children and adolescents because re-petitive concussions are much more serious for the develop-ing brain. The panel urged all coaches to participate in an online training program to identify concussions and to follow the three Rs: recognize the signs, remove from play and refer to a medical profes-sional. Changes in the brain will most likely revert to nor-

mal with time if the students has the proper amount of rest. If the student comes back too soon the concussion worsens and the student may get Sec-ond Impact Syndrome and/or Post Concussion Syndrome. The panel members stressed that full recovery requires communication, involvement and cooperation from parents, medical staff, teachers, guid-ance counselors and coaches. They also discussed how CT and MRI scans are not only unreliable diagnostic tools, but also potentially harmful in other ways for students.

Nowinski talked about proactive ways to reduce and manage concussion incidents. First he urged youth sports programs to look at not al-lowing full-contact practices. Second he urged parents of kids 11 and older to have com-puterized tests to set a base-line prior to any head injury. Duxbury High School trainer Tim McPhillips will admin-ister IMPACT test to students over the age of 11 for $20. Future test dates will be pub-licized in the Clipper. The Par-ent Connections Web site will also post the dates as well as a “Top Ten” of takeaway points from this event. Information is at theparentconnection.org.

confronting concussions: What adults should know

Mining for research goldResearch isn’t being done the same way it was when

you were in the eighth grade. The Duxbury Free Library is offering a class designed for parents to learn about the elec-tronic and print resources available through the Library. In the Mining for Research Gold we will demonstrate where to look and where not to look for information so that you can guide your researcher. There is a lot of material to be sifted through to get the information your eighth grader needs and part of our class focuses on how to be an effi-cient researcher. The class will be offered two more times: Thursday mornings from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. Call the Reference Desk to register at 781-934-2721 ext 100.


Plover as an umbrella species for the barrier beach ecosys-tem.” Hecker argued that the state and federal protections granted to the plovers could protect other birds and the en-tire beach ecosystem as well.

Hecker knows his birds. He helped develop the coastal bird preservation for Mass. Audubon, and he has worked for that group’s national or-ganization. His first day of post-grad school employ-ment was as a tern warden on Plymouth Beach. (He’s lived in Duxbury since 1989.) He’s also developed a nonprofit in the gulf region that is helping birds affected by the BP oil spill. The Goldenrod Founda-tion was established in 2000.

Hecker said the Plymouth and Duxbury Bay areas are designated as an “important bird area.”

“It’s one of the most im-portant in Massachusetts,” he said.

Duxbury Beach is home to Piping Plovers, which breed here from March to August and then fly south as early as July. Plovers like to nest on open sand, which leaves their eggs exposed to the weather, predators and human interfer-ence.

“It’s one of the most en-dangered shorebirds,” Hecker said. He said there is a plover population of 3,500 in the United States and Canada, which is 1/10th the number of Bald Eagles.

Plovers have a distinctive four-egg pattern to their nest.

“They don’t really make a nest,” Hecker said. “They lay their eggs on the bare, open beach.”

Plover eggs hatch by Me-morial Day, and that’s where the preservation is needed most.

“The biggest problem in trying to protect the Piping Plover is trying to protect the chicks,” he said. “Because they can’t fly, plover chicks need to walk to food, and they can walk as much as a mile shortly after they’re born.”

In the 80s, there was little restriction on driving onto

beaches and most of the pro-tections in place were for terns, not plovers. Hecker worked with various groups to in-crease protection for plovers, starting with simple “predator enclosures.” Now there are watchers who will monitor plover nests and protect them from cars and people.

“There are almost as many Piping Plover monitors as there are plovers,” Hecker joked.

In Hecker’s mind, the big-gest threat to the plovers are off-road vehicles. He was involved in a landmark legal case in Orleans where the use of vehicles on the beach was limited. In the first nine years that restrictions were placed on off-road vehicles, the num-ber of recorded plover pairs in Massachusetts went from 160 to 501, an event that Mass. Audubon refers to as the “Massachusetts Miracle.”

It hasn’t always been suc-cessful, however. Hecker said in 1996, the Plymouth Board of Selectmen refused to close a section of the beach to pro-tect a plover nest, and a chick was run over by a car.

Hecker said the reason the plovers’ habitat is so fragile is that the birds need a place to rest as they breed and prepare to fly south. This area needs to be above the tide line but below the dunes and vegeta-tion. In beaches that allow off-road vehicles, this is precisely where the cars drive.

“Migratory shore birds need to use tidal areas on beaches,” he said. “They also need to rest or sleep when the tide is high.”

If the birds are disturbed by humans, they can have difficulty accumulating the fat reserves necessary for the long trip south. Some species fly non-stop from Cape Cod to Venezuela.

There are some differenc-es between the Duxbury and Plymouth beaches, Hecker said. Plymouth only has one crossover site for vehicles, so when that is closed because of a nest the entire beach is closed off. (Duxbury has three crossovers, so a nest can be protected without blocking

access to the beach.) He also said that Plymouth is a more important beach for the birds.

“It’s a national-level im-portant site,” he said.

Hecker said that the Gold-enrod Foundation is taking a more aggressive legal stance towards protecting the birds, often engaging in legal battles with the town of Plymouth.

“We’re trying to protect the birds in the way they need to be protected,” he said. “It’s all based on what the birds need.”

The ultimate goal, Hecker said, is to get the birds off the threatened species list. To do that, they need to hit a target of 2,000 pairs of plovers over-all. But even more important is the rate of breeding, and the target rate is 1.5 chicks per pair per year.

“Numbers in Duxbury have dropped quite a bit,” he said. “In order for the birds to recover they have to continue to go up.”

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Plovers spend the summer months as far north as Canada, but in the winter fly down to the Carolinas, the Bahamas and Cuba.

Goldenrod Foundation Executive Director Scott Hecker spoke at the Duxbury Free Library on Sunday about the Piping Plover and the threats off-road vehicles pose to local birds and beaches.


Black Tie Bingo in honor of Senior center

Sheila and George Perry smile nicely while their fun friends, Mary Moylin and Claire Harrington make silly faces behind.

Event organizers and COA board members gather for a photo: Marilyn Greenstein (organizing committee), Matt Walsh (COA Board), Anne Antonellis (COA Board), Betsy Stevens (COA Board), Joanne Moore (Senior Center Executive Director), Pam Smith (COA Board President), Harry Katz (Interfaith Council President), Kay Drake (Interfaith Council Outreach Director).

Selectman Chris Donato and his wife Paddi with School Committee member Maureen Connolly and her husband Patrick.

Bill Wilhelm and Anne Antonellis were the second bingo callers.

Former Selectwoman, Maggie Kearney and her husband Bill with Donna and Ted Flynn. Mr. Flynn is a candidate for selectman.

Good friends Deb and Steve Bowen enjoy the evening with Alan and

Faith DiBona. Alan DiBona was one of the bingo winners.

Julius Prince was on hand to take photos of the gala for the COA.

Wendy and her husband Harry Katz the President of the Duxbury Interfaith Council with the Treasurer of the Interfaith Council Jeff Feidler and his wife Karen.

Bill Campbell, Paul Caperaro, Kathy and Peter Muncey (event sponsor), and Peter Smith (event sponsor).

As a gift to the Town of Duxbury, The Duxbury Coun-cil on Aging in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the Duxbury Senior Center on Mayflower Street hosted

Black Tie Bingo. All proceeds will go to the Duxbury Interfaith Council’s efforts in providing fuel assistance.

Photos by Karen Wong


newcomers’ club newsAdult Social and Beer Tasting: Saturday, Jan. 29 from

7-11 p.m. at the Mayflower Brewing Company, 12 Resnick Road, in Plymouth. Tickets are $25 per person and include beer samples, wine, hearty appetizers, live music and a tour of the brewery. Visit duxburynewcomers.com to purchase tickets. For further information, contact Alison Estabrooks at [email protected] or Tina Courtier at [email protected]. This event is open to the public.

Ladies Night Out: Please join us for a Beauty Enhance-ment Evening, hosted by: Duxbury Newcomers’ Club and Rodan & Fields Dermatologist. Thursday, Jan. 27, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Bay Farm Montessori School, middle school building, 145 Loring St. This event is unlike any other we have hosted. They will be offering free skin analysis as well as showcasing their patented breakthrough at home medical device which acts as an alternative to injectables and fillers producing the same results at a lower cost. You can check it out at bestspentminute.com. Please RSVP to Deb Blanch at [email protected].

Playgroups: There will be an open playgroup at My Gym in Kingston on Wednesday, Feb. 2 from 4-5 p.m. In addition to playgroups by age, everyone can join a monthly get together at My Gym in Kingston. The event will be open gym on the first Wednesday of each month. 182 Summer Street, Kings-ton. Cost is $5 for each walking or active crawling child. To sign up, e-mail in advance to [email protected].

Family Social: Looking for a fun night out with your family? Join us for a Valentine’s pool and pizza party on Sat-urday, Feb. 12, from 4-6 p.m. at the Kingsbury Club pool. RSVP as soon as possible so we can secure appropriate life-guards. Volunteers are also welcome. $10 per family. Contact Amy Flynn to RSVP and with questions at [email protected].

Ladies Meet and Greet at The Sun Tavern: Please stop by Thursday, Feb. 10, between 7-9:30 p.m. for a chance to socialize and spend a night out with the ladies.

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The Public Safety Build-ing Committee announced this week that it expects the final cost of the renovated fire station to total just under $4 million.

Committee chairman Andre Martecchini told Duxbury selectmen Monday night that the price of a reno-vated station is estimated to be $3.953 million.

This amount is less than the preliminary estimate of $4.48 million Martecchini presented to selectmen in November.

Renovation plans call for demolishing the north wing that holds the current firefighters crew quarters and replacing it with a new 6,170-square-foot two-story addition with administrative offices on the first floor and crew living space above.

The first floor will house offices, meeting rooms, a first aid room, a decontami-nation room and a gear turn-out area. The crew quarters will have four bunkrooms, male and female bathrooms,

a day room, fitness area and kitchen.

The plans also show a new three-bay 1,690-square-foot garage attached to the rear of the new addition for storage of the department’s smaller equipment.

The total of new space is 7,860 square feet.

The emergency opera-tions wing and central fire truck garage bays will re-main and will be upgraded with new lighting, heating and a fire alarm system. The current inspection pit will be removed and the apparatus bay will receive required seismic upgrades. There will also be site work for a new septic system and improved parking, drainage and land-scaping.

According to Martec-chini, the proposed tax im-pact of a renovated fire sta-tion will be eight cents per $1,000 of value.

This translates to an extra $47.15 more in taxes for the average home in Duxbury as-sessed at $584,600. It means paying $38.81 more in taxes for the median home valued

at $481,100. For a million dollar home, an owner can expect their tax bill to rise by an extra $80.66.

These figures are based on the town borrowing $3.953 million for 25 years at a 4.75 percent interest rate.

Martecchini said the plans for the fire station ad-dition went out to bid re-cently and currently 25 sets of drawings have been re-quested. Bids are due back on Feb. 17. Then, Martec-chini said the town will know how much the station will actually cost. This proj-ect is carrying a 10 percent contingency, he said.

Approving the fire sta-tion addition will require both an affirmative vote at the annual Town Meeting on March 12 and approval of a debt exclusion ballot ques-tion at the March 26 town election. A debt exclusion is a temporary property tax increase for a limited period of time in order to fund spe-cific projects. An override is a permanent tax hike.

Duxbury Fire Station to cost under $4 million


Superintendent plugs new schools

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“The buildings are fail-ing,” Tantillo said. “We are at a crossroads. We have to de-cide, do you want to start put-ting new roofs on old build-ings? ... This is our chance to replace both buildings at the same time.”

He said one only needed to check the recent weather re-port to see the problems at the schools, starting off his pre-sentation by showing photo-graphs of leaks and flooding.

“If you were in the middle school the last couple of days you’d realize it needs a new roof.”

Because of the leaks, mu-sic and spanish classes at DMS had to be moved out, and a new $23,000 copier/printer was damaged by leaking roof.

The leaks, Tantillo said, were just the latest problems with a building that is falling apart and not designed for the way education works today.

“All the mechanics need to be replaced,” he said. “They’ve all run their course.”

He pointed to a chart that showed how enrollment at the two schools had doubled since they were built.

“More students means more wear and tear,” he said.

Tantillo also talked about a 2002 report from the New England Association of Schools and College’s accred-itation team, which called the facilities “at risk.” He said that another accreditation team is scheduled to visit next year.

“We could risk losing our accreditation because of our building,” he said.

Tantillo said some resi-dents may be wondering why the school district hasn’t kept up with the maintenance, let-ting the buildings fall into their current state.

“The answer is, There has been no money forthcoming,” he said, pointing out that in re-cent years there has been little or no money from the town for capital projects. “Sometimes we’re penny smart and pound foolish in some of these ar-eas.”

He also addressed ques-tions about why the district is seeking new buildings rather than renovations. He said that just to repair the basic systems in the two schools –– things like HVAC and electrical sys-tems, and sealing and repairing roofs and windows –– would cost $68.2 million.

“If we go over a certain percentage for renovation we have to bring the entire build-ing up to code,” Tantillo add-ed.

The total cost to renovate the two buildings would be $117.4 million, compared to $135 million for brand-new facilities.

He also said the reimburse-ment from the Massachusetts School Building Authority would be 43 percent, similar to what they’d get for new construction, according to the

presentation. However, that would only be for one school.

“They have the money in hand now,” he said.

Students during a renova-tion would have to be housed in trailers for at least three years, and that Duxbury wouldn’t be reimbursed for those costs.

“That’s money out the window,” Tantillo said.

“We need to make people understand a renovation is re-ally a gut renovation, not just updating windows and wir-ing,” added School Commit-tee member Gary Magnuson. “You’re essentially building new schools anyway,”

School officials also said that a renovation would still not solve some of the pro-gramming problems the cur-rent buildings create.

“Rebuilding we deal with the physical system and the academic needs that renova-tion doesn’t,” Tantillo said. “The schools were added onto without forethought when they were built. The systems are all over the place.”

“We still can’t move the steel,” added School Commit-tee Chairwoman Anne Ward. “We’re going to wind up with a building that doesn’t meet our educational needs.”

The plan recommended by the School Building Com-mittee is a co-located middle school and high school behind where the middle school is now (not on Train Field, as was being discussed earlier in the process) at a cost of $125-130 million. The cost could be less because of the district’s par-ticipation in the model school program, which adds 5 percent to the reimbursement from the state and can reduce construc-tion costs by 5-10 percent.

Tantillo also said that with the model school program, there is no “scope creep” where more things are added to the cost of the project as the design process moves along.

“There really isn’t a mech-anism where we’ll be allowed to overspend,” he said.

The construction would be done in phases. The mid-dle school portion of the new

school would be built behind the existing Duxbury Middle School. Then DMS would be demolished to make way for the new high school section of the co-located building. Final-ly, the current Duxbury High School would be razed and an athletic field and parking lot put in its place.

The impact on the Dux-bury taxpayers could vary. If, after the reimbursement from the state, the town borrows $73,125,000 over 25 years, the impact on the average tax bill could range from $679-725, depending on how the money is borrowed, but it could be as much as $918.

In terms of a timeline, there will be an article on the March Town Meeting warrant seeking $3.5-4 million to come up with a schematic through the model school program. That would then have to be approved by voters at the annual election.

The full construction funds would then have to be approved at a special Town Meeting in the fall. If that is approved, construction would begin in the spring of 2012, and the entire project would be done by the fall of 2015.

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Chase away the winter bluesJoin us on Saturday, Jan. 29 from 6:30 p.m.–midnight at

South Shore Conservatory, One Conservatory Drive, Hingham for the Conservatory’s biggest fundraising event of the year.

Enjoy some of the best music on the South Shore with live music in three venues, from the Latin Blues Lounge, Guitar Bar and Copa Cabana Nightclub, to the back by popular de-mand, Heavyweights rhythm and blues band.

Place bids on fantastic auction items including vacations, shimmering gems, sports memorabilia, art, unique experienc-es, concert tickets and more. Have a chance to win auction items that only the Conservatory can offer like being a guest conductor of the Evenings Under the Stars Festival Orches-tra or singing with a popular Rhythm and Blues Band during Duxbury Music Festival.

Tickets are $85 per person, including open bar and com-plimentary valet parking (amount of ticket purchase in excess of $50 per ticket represents a tax-deductible gift to the Con-servatory). All proceeds benefit financial aid and educational programming. Contact Amy Schomp at 781-749-7565 ext. 19 for tickets, or visit the Web site at sscmusic.org. Find out all the latest by following the South Shore Conservatory on Fa-cebook.


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upcoming library story timesRegistration for the winter/spring stay alone story times

for ages 4, 5, or in kindergarten is currently underway in the children’s department of the Duxbury Free Library. Spaces are filled on a first come basis. Registration must be done in per-son, no phone registrations are accepted.

Children may be registered for one of two sessions. The of-ferings are: Session I: Tuesdays, 10:15-11 a.m., through March 1 or Session II: Tuesdays, 10:15-11 a.m., March 8 through April 5.

Drop in story times will begin this week. Drop in programs do not require registration and are designed for participation by an adult with a child. These programs include: Toddler Tales, ages 2 and under, Tuesdays, 10 a.m., repeated at 10:30 a.m., through March 29 in the lower level Resource Room; Drop In Storytime for ages 3 and under, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., Jan. 26 to April 6 in the lower level Resource Room.

Gather ‘Round, a storytime for preschoolers with an adult, is held every Friday at 10:30 all year round in the picture book room. For more information, check the children’s pages on the library Web site: duxburyfreelibrary.org or call 781-934-2721 extension 115.

Democratic Town Committee to hold annual caucus Feb. 12

Duxbury Democratic Town Committee will hold its an-nual Caucus on Saturday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., on the lower level.

The purpose of the meeting is to elect delegates to the 2011 Mass. Democratic Convention to be held on June 4 in Lowell.

The caucus is open to all registered Democrats in the Town of Duxbury. For caucus information please contact Chairman David O’Connell at 781-934-0994.

Calling the current police station on West Street “a fire trap,” Selectman Betsy Sulli-van said, “I am deeply troubled by this. It’s almost irrespon-sible for us to not move this building forward as fast as we can.”

Sullivan said that waiting another year to ask Town Meet-ing for construction funding could lead to higher construc-tion costs and interest rates.

Public Safety Building Committee chairman Andre Martecchini said the commit-tee was hesitant to ask for both construction and design mon-ey because this project needs a two-part approval for funding, and he didn’t want to lose mo-mentum.

First, the new police sta-tion must receive voter support at the annual Town Meeting on March 12, where it will require a two-thirds majority vote. Then voters must pass a debt exclusion ballot question at the town election on March 26 to fund the project. A debt exclu-sion is a property tax increase for a limited period of time in order to fund specific projects. An override is a permanent tax hike.

“We’re leery of putting all our eggs in one basket and coming up with nothing,” Mar-tecchini said. “Every time we have lost at the polls we then have nothing to work with.”

Martecchini outlined the potential impact a new station would have on residents’ tax bills.

The estimated increase to the tax rate would be 13 cents per $1,000. For the average home assessed at $584,600, the station project would increase a homeowner’s taxes by $76.93. For the median home valued at $481,100, taxes would go up $63.31. For a house worth $1 million, the project would hike taxes by $131.59, he said.

Martecchini said these tax increases were based on a plan to borrow $6.449 million using a 25-year bond at a 4.75 per-cent interest rate.

Selectman Chairman Shawn Dahlen said the com-mittee should not be concerned when people ask how the town can move forward with a proj-ect when they don’t know the exact price tag. He said if the debt exclusion passes at a

specified amount then that is all the money the town has to spend and no more.

Architect Greg Carrel has been working on plans for a new police station for the past few years. He said his com-pany recently completed plans for a new police station in an-other town that was similar in size and price to Duxbury’s proposed station. He said he would get a professional esti-mate done on the current sche-matic drawings.

The committee’s con-ceptual plans for a new po-lice station show a one-story, 15,200-square-foot building on 19 acres of town-owned land on Mayflower Street on the same side as the transfer station before the Cranberry Hill neighborhood. Also out-lined on the plans is a separate 1,000-square-foot outbuild-ing for police equipment. At a well-attended December meet-ing on the new police station, residents worried about road conditions if the police sta-tion were built on Mayflower Street, which is a winding, wooded country road.

Monday night, Police Lieu-tenant Chip Chubb addressed concerns that Mayflower Street was not optimal for po-lice responses. He said that the majority of the police officers’ emergency responses do not originate from the police sta-tion; instead, a cruiser out on patrol would be responding to

them. Also, Chubb noted that

cruisers would respond to in-cidents around town more quickly by using Tremont Street, instead of Mayflower Street, unless the emergency happened between the round-about and the state DPW barn on East Street. He said police officers trained in crash inves-tigation traveled these roads and calculated their response times and sight distances. They found that a cruiser trav-eling the speed limit and using Tremont Street and Tobey Gar-den arrived at the state DPW barn ahead of a cruiser using Mayflower Street.

The crash investigators also discovered that it might be beneficial to reconfigure the Mayflower/East Street intersection because it lacks adequate visibility for motor-ists traveling on East Street to stop safely before reaching the intersection. Chubb said Dux-bury’s DPW could possibly reconfigure this intersection “in-house.”

The police and the DPW are referring the intersection to the highway safety committee for further investigation.

Martecchini said his com-mittee will meet and discuss whether they want to go for-ward with plans to ask Town Meeting for construction funds and then report back to select-men.

New Mayflower Street police station projected to cost $6.45M


Community Garden Club offers scholarships

Duxbury High School Senior: A $500 scholarship will be available to a member of this year’s graduating class. The purpose of this award is to recognize any graduating senior who has demonstrated a commitment to beautifying Duxbury and/or to protecting its environment. The deadline for apply-ing is April 1. Further information may be obtained in the high school guidance office.

Duxbury Resident Scholarship: The second scholarship is available to a Duxbury resident of any age enrolled in a course of study focusing on horticulture, landscape design, city planning, land management, botany, environmental stud-ies, earth sciences, forestry or allied subjects. The applicant may have completed part of his/her coursework and need not be enrolled in a four year program.

Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to beautify-ing Duxbury and/or protecting the environment by submitting a letter describing past accomplishments and future goals. For further details; [email protected]

Letters should be sent by March 1 to:The Duxbury Community Garden ClubAttn: Scholarship CommitteeBox 1713Duxbury, MA 02331

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The DMS Drama club Presents “The Greek Mythology olympiaganza” by Don Zolidis

Dawson O’Brien and Louis Nejame were in charge of the spot lights.

Sam Bettencourt (Jason) takes

a risk and gets cozy with Avery Pisani (Medea)

in “Jason and the Argonauts.”

Kristin Smith and Sarah Caso are the feisty narrators in “Jason and the Argonauts.”

Working the lighting board are Elizabeth Vitaro and Madison Hadley.

Emily Grace does her best to counsel the demonic father Cody

Smith and his frustrated wife Hannah McEachern.

Cameron Anello (Hercules) gets a reac-tion from Madison Moitoso (Woman) in “Labors of Hercules: Intern God.”Playing an unconventional housewife is

Anna Olson as Pandora in “Pandora’s Box. The Feminist Version.”

Kristen Murray, as one of the nar-rators in “Pandora’s Box.”

Xavier Martinez as Zeus in “The Birth of Zeus. Parenting Greek Style.”

Michael Gill, a 6th grader introduces the play.

Photos by Karen Wong


Senior center newsLunch: Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Cost for Duxbury seniors, $5; non-seniors and non-residents, $6. Our daily congregate lunch consists of an ever-changing menu prepared by Chef Peter Dewey, including dessert, coffee, tea and water. Reservations must be made by 2 p.m. the previous day. Please call the front desk at 781-934-5774, x100 to make reservations. The menu is published monthly in the “Duxbury Doings” newsletter. The newsletter, as well as the lunch menu calendar, are available on-line at town.duxbury.ma.us. Simply follow the Department tab to the Council on Aging page.

Senior Breakfast: Thursday, Jan. 27 at 8:30 a.m. Special guest will be Rich Wokoske, the Pharmacy Manager from CVS in Kingston. Rich will talk about prescription management, common medication problems, reasons for some medications and over-the-counter alternatives. Bring your prescription list for an individual “bag” check and any questions for the pharma-cist. Please call to make a reservation at 781-934-5774, ext. 100. The cost for breakfast is $4.

Arthritis Presentation: Do you have rheumatoid arthritis or care for somebody who does? Come to a presentation with Rheumatologist, Dr Philip Molloy on Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 9 a.m. in the Duxbury Senior Center.

Art Matters Presentation: On Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. This month’s presentation will be on Music and Dance in Art; the images that let us hear and dance and connect to the world and our own lives. The monthly Art Matters one-hour presenta-tions are scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month and are free of charge (though donations are welcome to help expand this program).

2010 Tax Assistance: John Madden will once again be pro-viding free federal and state tax preparation services for seniors and special needs individuals under the AARP/IRS tax assis-tance program through the Duxbury Senior Center. Contact Peg-gy Murphy at 781-934-5774, ext. 104 to arrange a date to drop off your tax documents for processing.

Meet with Your Representatives: Come in and talk to Representative Daniel Webster at the Duxbury Senior Center. Appointments are available on the first Friday of the month between 11 a.m.-12 noon. Call his office at 617-722-2487 to schedule time with Rep. Webster on Feb. 4. Representative Tom Calter stops by the Duxbury Senior Center for drop-in meetings on the third Friday of the month. He will be available to speak to residents on Feb. 18 between 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call Peggy at 781-934-5774, ext. 104 to schedule an appointment for this time.

Town Meeting and election infoThe Town Meeting will take place on Saturday, March 12 at

9 a.m. at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center at 73 Alden St.If you have not yet registered in Duxbury you must be reg-

istered by Friday, Feb. 18 in order to qualify for both the Annual Town Meeting and town election. The town election will take place on Saturday, March 26, from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at the Duxbury Middle School, Herrick Gymnasium at 71 Alden St.

Papers for the election may be taken out for the following offices at the town clerk’s office and must be returned by 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 7.

• One selectman for 3 years• One assessor for 3 years• One moderator for 1 year• Two School Committee members for 3 years• One Planning Board member for 5 years• One Planning Board member for the unexpired term of 2

years• Two library trustees for a term of 3 years• One library trustee for the unexpired term of 2 years• Two Duxbury Housing Authority members for a term of

5 yearsAt least 50 signatures must be collected and we advise that

you get at least 10 more. If you are unable to pick the papers up yourself it is necessary to send a person presenting the signed authorization of a candidate to secure said forms on his/her be-half.

A Mazing A Cappella

The Paul S. For-tini Founda-tion announc-

es the second annual A Mazing A Cappella Cel-ebration to be held on Feb. 5.

Again this year, the a cappella concert will be held at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. The show will feature Boston’s own Firedrill!, a recent winner of the CARA award to best pop/rock album. Tal-ented collegiate groups from Boston College, Suffolk University, Tufts, and Trinity along with Duxbury High’s PACMEN will also perform. The foundation truly believes this will be a wonderful event for the entire town to enjoy and will be of great assistance in helping us reach our goals.

The Paul S. Fortini Foundation for Music and Drama is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all volun-teer organization with a mission of fulfilling the vision set forth by Paul’s family. This vision is to provide alternative monetary support to the Duxbury Schools’ performing arts, something which was very dear to Paul.

Our goal is directed at providing tangible assets to the Music and Drama departments which may be outside of school budgets. We want every student to continue to have the best opportuni-ties, tools, and environment to continue the excellence which has been established within these departments.

The PACmen at last year’s performance.

Display case open to the publicAre you a person who is so interested in some type of item,

that you can’t get enough? Perhaps you collect buttons, or bird ornaments, or glass paperweights. Or maybe you inherited Aunt Millie’s international yo-yo collection. Would you like to show off your collectibles to the community? The Duxbury Free Li-brary provides a display case for this purpose. Past case collec-tions have included mermaids, baskets, teddy bears, Red Sox memorabilia, Duxbury photos, tiny boxes, a crow collection, postcards, and record albums from the 60’s and 70’s. Call the library at 781-934-2721 x108, or stop by the circulation desk and reserve the case now.


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Thoughts while digging out ... It seems like Duxbury’s been hit with a major

snowstorm every couple of days over the past few weeks. Once again, Duxbury DPW crews have done

a phenomenal job keeping up with clearing roads of snow and ice. Driving around town could have been much more treacherous if not for their hard work. Now, if the electric utilities only did an equal job keeping the power on ...

• The school building project is getting more focused, and it looks like there will be an article to debate at Town Meeting. The schools should take a lesson from the public safety project in making every effort to make the project as cost effective as possible. A few years ago, a voter at Town Meeting, speaking of the public safety buildings, said he didn’t want to pay for the “Taj Mahal.” Now of course, the fire and police departments never asked for anything they didn’t need. But the point is, taxpayers want to know that public departments – whether police, fire or schools – have made some sacrifices and compromises in designing their new facilities. The schools took a good step in this direction by choosing to participate in the model school project. They’ll be getting cost effective and modern facilities that won’t be tailored to Duxbury, but will save taxpayers millions. That’s the message votes will need to hear if they’re going to dig deep into their wallets to support any new public projects in this economy.

• Congratulations to DMS student Chris Leaverton for participating in Governor Patrick’s Project 351. The project is a great idea in and of itself, planting the seeds of volunteerism in every city and town in the Commonwealth. But if Mr. Leaverton is any indication, Duxbury is well on its way toward creating the leaders of tomorrow. And speaking of leaders ...

• There’s still time to sign up to run for office. So far, there aren’t a lot of contested races on the ballot. While we have nothing against the people running unchallenged for such important seats as Board of Selectmen and School Committee, the community always benefits from a choice. Voters are always better off when there’s debate, and different ideas are brought out in the open. So give back to your town, and run for office.

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We have been bombarded with the concept of a 40 percent reimburse-ment from state aid for the new

school. If you think about it, it’s just another shell game that encourages irresponsible spending be-cause you mistakenly think you are spending other people’s money that you never have to pay-back. Here’s a bulletin: State money comes from our tax dollars. State money will never turn a bad idea into a good idea. You have also heard that now is the time to build because companies are looking for work and will build for less. That in-formation is erroneous at best because the state’s the prevailing wage law mandates that munici-palities must pay the prevailing wage of unions. In other words, whatever the current union wage is, it has to be paid to the construction worker even if they are not in a union. That leaves the building materials, site work, and of course the profit margin for the general contractor. The ma-terials and site work will go to the lowest bidder so that’s pretty much fixed and the profit margin, well you get the idea. This illusion offers little or no savings.

In the next Town Meeting you will be asked to pony-up funding for architectural and engi-neering fees for the new school. Is that putting the cart before the proverbial horse? It’s not a foregone conclusion that the school is going to be built like the tax and spend people would have us believe. Shouldn’t we first be talking about the funding stream, and then let us make a knowledgeable decision at the polls? Also, this

important vote should not be taken in the depths of winter when many people are away. We all know it’s a strategy the tax and spend proponents use and depend on because it’s highly likely that the minority favoring the new school position will have their way. We have seen it too many times when a vote on a contentious article is tak-en and then we see half of the people leave town meeting once that vote is taken. These people only care about themselves and their viewpoint. Shame on you! Its transparent and its political manipulation at its worst!

Because the issue is so important to all of us in the long term, 20 years or more for an out of sight tax bill, I propose that we put any and all questions about the building of a new school on a ballot and let all the voters have a say. I for one do not want my future tax bill left to a voice vote or a show of hands vote at a stacked March Town Meeting. Why are we even thinking of spending $3.5 to $4 million on architectural and engineer-ing fees before the future override vote? In a past ballot vote the town voted no to a tax increase for the proposed police and fire station yet we are going forward with a request that will increase the current tax rate of $12.60 to over $15 for the next 20 to 25 years: help me understand this!

Let’s be realistic about the new school proj-ect and not go on the assumption that need and want trumps affordability and hardship.

Richard Brennen Myrtle Street

The Coldwell Banker Residential Bro-kerage office in Duxbury would like to thank the entire community for par-

ticipating in the annual gift drive to assist The Home for Little Wanderers (The Home) during this holiday season. As a result of everyone’s generosity, two moving trucks filled with do-nated toys and other gifts were delivered to The Home’s Jamaica Plain toy room in December. Miss Massachusetts 2011 Alida D’Angona and Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 2011 Kay Tet-reault joined Rick Loughlin, president of Cold-well Banker Residential Brokerage in New Eng-land, to unload the toys.

The sales associates of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage encouraged neighbors throughout the community to drop off new, un-wrapped toys at the local Coldwell Banker Resi-

dential Brokerage office located at 15 Depot St.“I would like to express a heartfelt thank

you to all of the friends, neighbors and com-munity members who donated to this year’s toy drive,” said Dorrie Arnold, sales manager of the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Duxbury. “Because of their generosity, many children were able to experience a happier and more memorable holiday.

“We are grateful for everyone’s efforts and support. The donations truly made the holidays much brighter for the thousands of children and families that The Home’s programs serve throughout the state,” said Bob Sherburne, se-nior corporate relations manager for The Home for Little Wanderers.

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Pastel art exhibit at Bumpus

An exhibit entitled “Simple Notes” by pastel artist Christine Bodnar is on display at the Helen Bumpus Gallery at the Duxbury Free Library during the months of January and February. The artist dem-onstrated her technique at a recent reception held at the gallery.

Photos by Julius A. Prince Jr.

From the Archives

A robbery at a Penny Lane residence on Jan. 25, 1991, lead to an intense manhunt that ran for seven hours ending in the apprehen-sion of two suspects. Over 30 law enforcement personnel joined state police and the K-9 unit in the search for the suspects. An additional suspect escaped after being apprehended on Route 3. A Clipper cartoonist captured the essence of the events in this illustration.

Letter to the Editor:

I received a telephone call from a concerned resident who was curious about emergency shelter in Duxbury. Since we have had a cold and snowy winter, I wanted to make

sure that in extreme cold and sporadic power outages that every-one knows that the Senior Center (10 Mayflower St.) is open to provide warmth during regular business hours, please call 781-934-5774 x 100 for information.

If the emergency happens after hours or on the weekend, the Office of Emergency Management will work with the COA, Po-lice and Fire Department should the shelter need to be opened. If you need assistance, please call 781-934-5656.

Additionally, the Town will always put out a Mass Notifica-tion any time a shelter is opened. You also may arrange for trans-portation if unable to drive. Please note that the shelter can accom-modate small pets.

To ensure that you receive the mass notification, please add or update information on the mass notification system by going to the Town or Fire Department website and click on the orange con-nect CTY icon and follow those instructions.

Chief Kevin NordDuxbury Fire Department

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Artist Christine Bodnar demonstrated her tech-nique at an exhibit of her work at the Helen Bumpus Gallery.

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Brush burning permits availableBrush burning permits are available for purchase during nor-

mal business hours from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., as well as Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The cost of the burning permit is $10 for the season. The Duxbury Fire Department only ac-cepts checks. Cash will not be accepted. Burning permits will be sold only at the Central Fire Station located at 668 Tremont St.

The last day of burning season will be May 1. Residents are strongly encouraged to get their burning done early because burning will be very limited if we have a dry spring.

Cranberry Hospice volunteer opportunitiesCranberry Hospice, a nonprofit organization that has pro-

vided support for people with life-limiting illnesses for nearly 30 years, is recruiting for volunteers to work with patients and their families.

Hospice volunteers provide companionship and support to patients and their families, provide vigil visits at the time of death, and help with daily activities such as running errands and providing local transportation. Clerical and fundraising volun-teers are needed as well.

Cranberry Hospice is seeking veterans who are interested in volunteering to support a new Veterans Program, placing a veteran volunteer with a veteran patient.

The Pediatric Palliative Care Program “Fragile Footprints” is in need of volunteers. Fragile Footprints is sponsored by Jor-dan Hospital and Cranberry Hospice, and provides services to medically fragile children and their families.

The Cranberry Hospice team and families rely on the dedi-cation and commitment of volunteers to provide the extra care and open hearts that they bring with them on each visit and ev-ery phone call.

Volunteer training begins on March 21 and continues every Monday for nine weeks. Training takes place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Cranberry Hospice, 36 Cordage Park Circle in Plymouth. For more information and to register, call Cranberry Hospice Volun-teer Coordinator Karen Foster at 508-830-2762.


DHSMonday: Chicken chow mein, oriental fried rice, oriental vegetable blend, dinner roll.Tuesday: Chicken and cheese quesadilla, fiesta rice, Mexican corn, fresh orange.Wednesday: Italian pasta bar, choice of marinara, Italian meat or alfredo sauce.Thursday: Chinese New Year: Sweet and sour Asian rice bowl, breaded popcorn chicken, Orien-tal fried rice, steamed Oriental veggies.Friday: Roasted chicken, cheddar mashed po-tatoes, Cajun barbecue beans, seasoned peas, homemade corn bread.All lunches served with choice of milk.Cold fruit and vegetable bar, fresh food grab-n-go specials daily.

DMSMonday: Chicken chow mein, oriental fried rice, oriental vegetable blend, dinner roll.Tuesday: Chicken and cheese quesadilla, fiesta rice, Mexican corn, fresh orange.Wednesday: Italian pasta bar, choice of marinara, Italian meat or alfredo sauce.Thursday: Chinese New Year: Sweet and sour Asian rice bowl, breaded popcorn chicken, Oriental fried rice, steamed Oriental veggies.Friday: Roasted chicken, cheddar mashed potatoes, Cajun barbecue beans, seasoned peas, homemade corn bread.All lunches served with choice of milk.Cold fruit and vegetable bar, fresh food grab-n-go specials daily.

Alden and Chandler SchoolsMonday: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potato, broccoli with cheese sauce, whole wheat dinner roll.Tuesday: Baked macaroni and cheese, dinner roll, carrot fries, fresh apple.Wednesday: Homemade fresh baked pizza, spinach strawberry salad, applesauce.Thursday: Chinese New Year: Chicken nuggets with duck sauce, Oriental fried rice, peas, mixed fruit. Friday: Mini cheeseburger sliders, orange rice pilaf, seasoned peas, chilled peaches.Assorted fruit and veggie selection daily.All lunches served with choice of milk.

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Tuesday Feb. 18th Gr. Course Info Night 7 p.m. DHS Auditorium

Wednesday Feb. 2DMS School Council 4 p.m.

School Committee 7 p.m.Thursday Feb. 3

DHS School Council 5 p.m.Saturday Feb. 5

Amazing A Cappella 7 p.m. PAC Magic Dragon Open House 10-11:30 a.m. Chandler School

Monday Feb. 7SEPAC meeting 7 p.m.

Chandler School Council 4 p.m.Wednesday Feb. 9

Alden PTA meeting 9:30 a.m.Thursday Feb. 10

DEF Spelling Bee PACFriday Feb. 11-Sun. Feb. 13

DMS ski tripMonday Feb. 14

Alden School Council 3:45 p.m.Monday Feb. 21-Friday Feb. 25

February break - no school

Congratulations to seventh Grader Charlie Ryan for winning the DMS National Geographic Geo Bee. Charlie won by answering the question “Carthage, one of the most populous cities in the world under the Roman Empire, is located in which present-day North African country?”

FUTURE LEADER TRAINING: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick poses for a photo with Duxbury Middle School eighth grader Christopher Leaverton, who participated in Project 351, a day of community service that involved one student from every city and town in the state. Courtesy photo

Art Boosters meeting

An Art Boosters organiza-tion is being formed and the group is looking for volun-teers to serve in many differ-ent roles including board of directors, fundraising, event support, etc. The first organi-zational meeting will be held at Linda Garrity’s home at 750 West St. on Wednesday, Jan. 26 from 7-9 p.m. Parents, community members, and lo-cal art community members are cordially invited to attend. Feel free to bring a friend. The group will be discussing the process of forming a 501c3 organization and selecting a board of directors. Anyone in-terested can RSVP to Linda at 781-837-6194.

The Magic Dragon Children’s Center is hosting an Open House at its location in the early childhood wing at the Chandler Elementary School in Duxbury on Saturday, Feb. 5. The Open House will be from 10-11:30 a.m. and families will have the opportunity to stop by and tour an infant, toddler, and preschool classroom and meet the Director and staff. The Magic Dragon program provides care for infant through preschool age children from Duxbury and surrounding communities in a developmen-tally appropriate program. Full time, full day, school day, and a five-hour half day program are offered. Established in 1985, the Magic Dragon Children’s Center is accredited by NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) and offers a high quality early childhood experience for students. Enrollment for new families begins in February. To learn more about the Open House on Feb. 5 or the Magic Dragon program, call the office at 781-934-7671.

Preschool sign upThe Duxbury Integrated

Preschool is now accepting applications for the 2011-2012 school year. Parents interested in learning more about the program are invited to a par-ents-only information session on Wednesday, Jan. 12, from 9:15-10 a.m.

During the open house, you can visit a preschool class-room at the Chandler School and meet staff.

Program information and applications will be available. Call Bridget or Gail with any questions at 781-934-7672. The program is located at the Chandler School – enter via the Ray Coppens Field en-trance.

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Duxbury Beach Preservation’s “Ed Night” set for Feb. 16

On Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duxbury Bay Maritime School, the Duxbury Beach Preservation Society, a subcommittee of the Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc., launches another exciting year of events. This year for their “Ed Night,” they will host Norman Smith, Director of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum and the Norman Smith Environ-mental Education Center. Norm will speak about his work with snowy owls and other shore birds.

Did you know that the snowy owls seen on Duxbury Beach have been moved from Boston’s Logan International Airport, and that Norman is the one who traps them and transports them to our beach? Come learn about these beautiful creatures from an expert who has spent countless days and nights, in all weather conditions, observing, capturing, banding, and color marking the owls. For the last several years, Norm has also been banding ospreys in Duxbury and other towns.

As a self-taught naturalist and member of the Massachu-setts Audubon Society for the last 35 years, Norman has stud-ied birds of prey, rehabilitated the injured, and successfully fostered over 1,000 orphaned hawk and owl chicks into adop-tive nests. In addition to his work with owls at Logan Airport, he has traveled to Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra habitat. His research work has been published in Na-tional Geographic, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Yankee, Massachusetts Wildlife, Bird Observer, Birding, Sanctuary, Geo, Nature, Grolier Encyclopedia, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere, and Owls of the World.

Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served. For further information, call 781-934-2907.

Eagle Scout clothing and equipment drive

As part of his Eagle Scout Project, Brendan Meehan of Boy Scout Troop 62 will be conducting a clothing and equipment drive to benefit Cradles to Crayons, a non-profit organization located in Brighton. He will collect new items for children including clothing (size 0-20), shoes, sneakers boots, books, arts and crafts supplies, baby equip-ment, coats, socks, underwear, hygiene supplies for ages 0-12, and any baby supplies includ-ing crib sheets.

On Sunday, Feb. 6, Bren-dan and fellow scouts from Troop 62 will be at Holy Fam-ily Church collecting donated items from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. following each Mass. In addi-tion, items can be dropped off at the office of Holy Family Church or at 31 Pilgrim-By-Way between Feb. 7 and Feb. 13.


Friday Jan. 147:28 a.m. Wires down on Har-vest Drive. Verizon notified.11:15 a.m. Officer to assist DPW truck broken down on West Street.11:22 a.m. Fire department re-ported low wire on Union Street, unable to pass. Verizon contact-ed. DPW to cordon off street un-til arrival.10:30 a.m. Drug violation on St. George Street. Civil citation is-sued.1:23 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on West Street lead to arrest of one party for operating a motor vehicle after license suspension for operating under the influence. Motor vehicle plates seized.2:01 p.m. Harbormaster report-ed hit and run of motor vehicle with damage on Duxbury Beach Road.4:59 p.m. Disabled motor ve-hicle reported on Route 14, by Route 3 southbound on ramp. Services rendered.6:40 p.m. State Police reported domestic call on Bolas Road.6:44 p.m. Caller on Tremont Street reported hitting a deer.

Saturday Jan. 153:11 a.m. Commercial breaking and entering reported on Trem-ont Street. Kingston K-9 at the scene.6:00 a.m. Commercial breaking and entering reported on Tremont Street. Investigator on the scene.1:38 p.m. Officer out with motor vehicle crash on Tremont Street. No injuries reported. Both ve-hicles towed.3:19 p.m. All cars responded to 911 call from Congress Street. Officer reported verbal argument.4:40 p.m. Caller on Flintlocke

Drive reported horses in road. Owner notified.6:18 p.m. Caller on Vine Street reported suspicious motor vehi-cle in driveway when wife came home. Area search negative.

Sunday Jan. 169:37 a.m. 911 call for heart prob-lem on Pine Point Road. Party transported by ambulance to Jor-dan Hospital.9:54 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle traveling by house on Oak Street and yelling profanities out the window. Area search nega-tive.11:46 p.m. Party from Elm Street into station to report stolen ring.

Monday Jan. 178:28 a.m. 911 call from Frank-lin Street for party with trouble breathing. Ambulance transport-ed to South Shore Hospital.9:12 a.m. Kingston police re-ported erratic operator crossing yellow lines heading north on Route 3A. Patrols notified.9:24 a.m. Caller on Meeting-house Road reported coyote in area. Animal control officer noti-fied. Area search negative.11:09 a.m. Employee on Chest-nut Street fell. Head injury re-ported. Ambulance transported to South Shore Hospital.11:47 a.m. Caller on Gardner Road reported injured coyote. Animal control officer notified.4:00 p.m. Caller on Templewood Drive reported seeing elderly man walking in woods with dog, and dog came out without owner. Officer contacted owner and dog

took off on him. All okay.4:47 p.m. Caller reported low hanging wire on St. George Street. Comcast notified.

Tuesday Jan. 186:00 a.m. Caller on Tremont Street reported no water at resi-dence. Water department noti-fied.8:22 a.m. Cable down on St. George Street at Washington Street. Comcast notified.8:37 a.m. Motor vehicle acci-dent on Congress Street. Vehicle off the road. Vehicle towed and driver transported to station. No injuries.10:49 a.m. Pembroke police report motor vehicle accident on Congress Street with minor in-jury. Party transported to Jordan Hospital.11:16 a.m. Roof fire on Chan-dler Street. Marshfield and Kings-ton fire departments also on the scene. Fire down chase in attic. All clear at 1:46 p.m.9:41 p.m. Caller on Tremont Street reported possibly someone outside her house. Area search negative. Officer stated snow fall-ing causing noise.

Wednesday Jan. 194:38 a.m. Unresponsive female reported on Keene Street. Para-medics on the scene.10:15 a.m. 911 caller on Wash-ington Street reported party fell and has head injury. Party trans-ported to South Shore Hospital.11:18 p.m. Caller on Forest Street reported child with irregu-lar heartbeat. Ambulance trans-ported to South Shore Hospital.

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Sunday Salon Series Presents: The Sinister Minister

The Duxbury Free Library and Westwinds Bookshop are pleased to present mystery author Judith Campbell on Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. in the library’s Merry Room. Discussing her first novel, “A Deadly Mission,” this self described “sinister minister” will share her writing journey and her penchant for mystery, suspense and the sanctity of the religious profession. Campbell is an or-dained minister in the Unitarian Universalist faith, and the book does address sensitive issues of religious hypocrisy and cults. After a series of murders, the protagonist of the novel, a rever-end and professor at a small women’s college, begins to suspect a local religious organization of cult-like behavior. Campbell is also known for her wit and humor, and her engaging presenta-tions. This program is sure to be fun for readers of the mystery genre and beyond. For free ticket information, call the library at 781-934-2721 x108 or stop by Westwinds Bookshop.

Family dance party at the PACSouth Shore Conservatory and Duxbury Performing Arts

Center will present a family dance party featuring Notorious, on Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3 p.m. in the cafeteria of the PAC, 73 Alden St.

Young and “not-so-young” family members will dance to-gether to the fun fiddling of Eden Macadam-Somer, with guitar-ist Larry Unger. As caller Sue Rosen teaches the steps at this family event, dancers will be swinging their partners and en-joying the duo’s rollicking American, Celtic, and Eastern Euro-pean fiddle tunes. Participants should wear comfortable dancing shoes so they won’t have to “sit out” a single moment.

Tickets to this party are $5 per child and $15 per adult, and may be purchased online at sscmusic.org or through the PAC Box Office at 781-934-7612.

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MagnificatBoston, an Anglican choir in the Boston area, came to

Duxbury this past Sunday to sing a Choral Evensong at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Washington Street. In the interest of full disclosure, I go to church there, I married one of the singers – not in that order – and I make the coffee as a rule on Sunday mornings. I’ve even started singing

with the choir.My point is not about this church or

that congregation. It’s about the deep roots of art for everyone, including sacred music. Religious art and music

were once the only means for a poor family to experience the heights of artistic expression. Homes filled with art and fine music were the province of the rich until the industrial age made art replicas and machine-carved furniture accessible to the common folk. The ornate wood carvings of authentic Victorian furniture are rare today, perhaps, but they were not hand carved. (As Victoria’s century wore on, they became increasingly elaborate, to the point that small children and dogs

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Dragons back in win columnBy mike Halloran, sports editor

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It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the boys’ hockey team after losses to B-R, St. John’s, and Marshfield, along with a tie against Sandwich. That dreary stretch came to an end on Saturday afternoon, as the Dragons recovered with a convincing 5-1 win over Whit-man-Hanson.

The victory over the Pan-thers brings Duxbury’s record to 3-4-5, as they strive to get to the .500 mark and qualify for post-season play.

The one thing that Coach John Blake preaches to his team is that they must be dis-ciplined if they hope to make it to the play-offs. Those words seemed to fall on deaf ears on Saturday, as his Dragons were whistled for eight penalties to the Panthers one.

“We got a little undis-ciplined here tonight,” said Blake. “What we are trying to do is establish an identity that we are going to play hard and in-your-face hockey for 45 minutes and I think today was a good step toward that.”

After both sides had failed

power-play opportunities mid-way through the first period, the Dragons finally struck for the game’s first goal when ju-nior forward Tim Harrison took passes from Will Siefert and Evan Jackson as he came out of the left corner and bur-ied his shot past W-H goal-tender Tom Leonard for a 1-0 lead with 3:22 left in the first period.

The tight game suddenly

opened up at the beginning of the second period and it took Duxbury just seven seconds to get a 2-0 lead, as senior cap-tain Nick Buonvicino took the opening face-off and rushed into the Panther zone, going to his left and rattling a shot off the post past Leonard.

The Dragon offense was now in full stride, as Harrison had a great solo bid two min-utes later and was stopped, fol-lowed shortly thereafter by a two-on-one breakout with Kane Haffey and Bobby Barry. After battling along the right boards, Haffey took the puck over the blue line and blasted a shot past Leonard for a 3-0 lead.

Rather than play conser-vative and nurse a three-goal lead, the penalties started to mount for the Dragons midway through the second period and two of them coincided, giving the Panthers a 5 on 3 for 1:07. After doing a good job for

most of the man shortage, W-H’s Chris Boussy finally beat Derek Williams after the first penalty ended to cut the deficit to 3-1.

Whatever momentum the Panthers hoped to gain quickly disappeared 53 seconds later when Cam Daley took a pass across the crease from Jeff Gaitta and Hunter Banville, burying a backhander past Leonard for a 4-1 lead with seven minutes left in the sec-ond period.

Duxbury would spend most of the final 15 minutes killing off four W-H penalties sandwiched around a Fenton McCall goal with an assist to senior captain Stephan Krall.

“Our offense seems to be turning around,” said Blake. “We’ve been snake-bitten in a few games, but we’re going to keep working hard and try to get to that .500 mark with a little cushion.”

THE NET RESULT: Duxbury defenseman Seth Nichols takes a hit from Whitman-Hanson’s Phil Boussy during Saturday’s 5-1 won over the Panthers.

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SToPPED IN HIS TRAckS: Duxbury’s ken Jacobson can’t beat W-H goal-tender Tom Leonard.


Thursday Jan. 27Senior Breakfast. At 8:30 a.m. at the Duxbury Senior Center with special guest Rich Wokoske, the Pharmacy Manager from CVS in Kingston. Bring your prescription list for an individual “bag” check and any questions for the pharmacist. Call to make a reservation at 781-934-5774, x100. Cost for breakfast is $4.

Movie Matinee. Free movie at 1 p.m. will be “A Lion in Winter” (1968, Classic) with Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins. These weekly matinees are shown at the Duxbury Senior Center.

Social Day Program for persons with memory loss. The Duxbury Senior Center offers a program for persons with Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease or related Dementia on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. For more information about the program or admission requirements contact Lucille Brogna, Intermissions Program Coordinator at 781-934-5774 x107 or Donna Ciappina, Outreach Coordinator at x105.

Mining for Research Gold. A program for the parents and guardians of eighth graders to learn about electronic and print resources available through the Library. To be held from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Duxbury Free Library reference area. Call 781-934-2721 ext. 100 to reserve a seat.

Friday Jan. 28Gather ‘Round. A storytime for preschoolers with an adult, is held every Friday at 10:30 a.m. all year round in the picture book room. For more information, check the children’s pages on the library Website, duxburyfreelibrary.org or call 781-934-2721 x115.

saTurday Jan. 29Chase Away the Winter Blues 2011. From 6:30 p.m. to midnight at South Shore Conservatory, One Conservatory Dr., Hingham to benefit financial aid and educational programming of the SSC. Latin cocktails, delectable food, silent auction, and live music in three venues. Contact Amy Schomp at 781-749-7565 ext. 19 for tickets, or visit sscmusic.org.

sunday Jan. 30Sunday Salon Series Presents: Author Lisa Genova. Neuroscientist and author will discuss her newest book, “Left Neglected,” on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library. Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Westwinds Bookshop. Free tickets will be required for this event.

Monday Jan. 31Parenting 911. Workshops with parenting expert and author Lynne Griffin, MEd. Three workshops, Tuesday, Jan 25, 7-8:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 31, 9:30-11 a.m., and Thursday, Feb. 3, 9:30-11 a.m., all at the Duxbury Free Library. SIgn up for all three for $25, two for $20 or one for $15. Space is limited to 50 people. For more information or to buy tickets, visit theparentconnection.org.

Tuesday Feb. 1Alzheimer’s support group. Duxbury House Alzheimer’s Care Center will be hosting a monthly Alzheimer’s support group in the tavern at Bay Path Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 308 Kingstown Way. The group meets from 7-8:30 p.m. and is open to all families, friends, and caregivers who have a loved one affected by Alzheimer’s disease. For more information, contact Sandi Wright or Eilish Broderick-Murphy, at 781-585-2397 or call Bay Path at 781-585-5561.

Arthritis Presentation. Hosted at the Duxbury Senior Center at 9 a.m. with Rheumatologist, Dr Philip Molloy.

Art Matters Presentation. at 10:00 AM. This month’s presentation will be on Music and Dance in Art. The monthly Art Matters one-hour presentations are scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. in the Duxbury Senior Center and are free of charge(donations welcome).

Wednesday Feb. 2AARP Driver Safety Program. Back by popular demand from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (with an hour for lunch). Space is limited so please register in advance by calling the Duxbury

Senior Center at 781-934-5774, x100.

Sustainable Duxbury. Meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at the Senior Center. For more information, call Judi Vose at 781-934-3283 or Jim Savicki at 781-585-8041.

Duxbury Camera Club. Meets the first Wednesday of each month, from 7-9:30 p.m. in the Merry Room of the Duxbury Free Library. This month will showcase a visual journey to Europe with four advanced photographers. Guests are always welcome at the regular meetings. For more information, visit duxburycameraclub.org.

Lasagna sale. Order handmade lasagnas for delivery on Feb. 4 and 5 to support the Pilgrim Church Youth Mission Trip to Jackson, Miss. Vegetarian lasagnas are $17 and lasagnas with meat are $20. All orders must be received by Wednesday, Feb. 2. Place your order by filling out the order form online at Pilgrimchurchofduxbury.org, under “programs & events” and emailing it to [email protected], or call 781-934-6591.

Montessori open house. Elements Montessori School in Duxbury is hosting an open house from 3:30–7:30 p.m. Elements serves children ages 2 through Kindergarten and is now accepting enrollment applications for Sept., 2011. Early enrollment incentives are available during the month of February. Space is limited.

Thursday Feb. 3Finance Peace University preview. This preview class of a DVD based program that helps people learn how to decrease their debt and wisely handle their finances will be held at St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarene, 136 Summer St. at 7 p.m. Preview is free, 13 week class costs $100. Call 781-585-3419 for information or to register.

Tax exemption presentation. The Duxbury Assessor’s Department will speak about senior real estate tax exemptions at 9:30 a.m. at the Duxbury Senior Center.

Girl Scout Cookie Creations. The area’s top chefs use Girl Scout cookies to create a delicious dessert. Attendees may taste the treats, mingle with local celebrities, participate in an auction and help pick the favorite. From 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Hills Golf Club, 54 Clubhouse Dr., Plymouth. Tickets are $30 each or two for $50. To purchase tickets, visit girlscoutseasternmass.com. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 857-453-5336.

Movie Matinee. Free movie at 1 p.m. will be “Eat, Pray, Love” (2010, PG-13) with Julia Roberts. These weekly matinees are shown at the Duxbury Senior Center.

Friday Feb. 4Friday Night Entertainment. From 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m., at the Winsor House on Washington Street, featuring Sean McLaughlin, Irish folk guitarist and vocalist.

saTurday Feb. 5Amazing A Cappella. Collegiate a cappella groups and DHS Pacmen perform to benefit the Paul Fortini Foundation on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. General admission tickets online at ticketalternative.com for $10 (plus handling) or sold at The Studio, Westwinds Bookstore or The PAC box office for $15.

First Baptistfbcd.org

781-934-6095Dr. Kevin Cassidy

Pastor Brent Van Wyke, Youth Assistant

Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. with Adult and Youth Bible Fel-lowships following. Childcare is provided during the morning service with age appropriate classes for young children. First Baptist offers many opportuni-ties for youth, men and women. Check the website for details or call the office today. Good Shepherd Christian Academy is a ministry of First Baptist Church. GSCA Open House, Feb. 5 from 1-3 p.m.

Holy Family Churchholyfamilyduxbury.org Rev. Robert J. Deehan

Rev. Seán Maher781-934-5055

Weekend Mass: Saturday, 5 p.m., Sunday, 7 a.m., 8:30 a.m. (family Mass), 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Babysitting available at the 8:30 and 10 a.m. Masses. The rosary is prayed after daily Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Fridays at 9 a.m. Daytime bible study, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. Evening prayer group Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Men’s prayer group Fridays at 6:45 a.m.

Pilgrim [email protected]. Todd Vetter, Senior PastorRev. Eloise Parks, Asst. Pastor

781-934-6591Sunday Worship Service at

10 a.m. Church office hours, Monday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tues-day-Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Pilgrim childcare and preschool, Monday-Friday, 7 a.m-6 p.m. Bible study, Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and evening study at 7 p.m. Lasagna sale Feb. 2.

United Methodist Church

highstreetumc.orgRev. Dr. Alex K. Musoke

781-585-9863 Office hours are Monday-

Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sunday worship service and Sunday school, 10 a.m., fol-lowed by fellowship, adult choir rehearsal, 8:45 a.m. with coffee hour following. Third Friday of each month we serve dinner at Mainspring Shelter, Brockton. Last Wednesday of the month is ladies’ luncheon at 12 p.m. Feb. 12, Blood Drive held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 13 is Scout Sunday (celebrating current and past members of Boy and Girl Scouts).

JourneyCommunity of Faith

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a.m.

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Church www.stjohnsduxbury.org

781-934-6523 Sunday services 8 a.m. and

10 a.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Wednesday: Men’s Bible study 6:30 a.m., Coffee and con-versation 9 a.m., Holy Eucharist with healing 10 a.m., Adult Ed 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Children’s choir rehearsal 6 p.m., Youth choir rehearsal at 7 p.m. Thurs-day: Adult choir rehearsal 7 p.m. Friday: AA meeting at 7:30 p.m.

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Rev. Catherine Cullen781-934-6532

Sunday Worship Service and Church School at 10:30 a.m. Buddhist meditation, Sundays at 7 p.m. Thursdays, book group at 9 a.m., sewing group at 10 a.m. Jan. 30, “You and your Ag-ing Parent” 7-8 p.m.

St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarenestpaulsnazarene.orgRev. David Troxler

781-585-3419 Sunday worship, 11 a.m.

Sunday school classes and Bible study, 9:45 a.m. Nursery is pro-vided for all services. Friday, Jan. 28, Sacred Youth Ministry at the teen center at 6:30 p.m. and Men’s Bible study at 7 p.m. DivorceCare for adults, Tues-days at 7 p.m. Financial Peace University preview class, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.

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781-934-6434Sunday worship service and

Sunday School for Ages 3-20, 10:30 a.m. Mid-week testimony meeting on Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Christian Science Reading Room open to all, 15 Standish St. Halls Corner, Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

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sunday Feb. 6Breakfast. All you can eat at the Cornerstone Lodge, 585 Washington St. from 8-11:30 a.m. The cost is $7 per adult, $6 for seniors, and $5 for children 12 and under. Please bring in can tabs to benefit Shriner’s Hospitals.

Sunday Salon Series. The sinister minister, author Judith Campbell discusses her novel “A Deadly Mission” at 2 p.m. in the Duxbury Free Library’s Merry Room. For free ticket information, call the library at 781-934-2721 x108 or stop by Westwinds Bookshop.

upcoMingDEF Spelling Bee. The Annual Duxbury Education Foundation Spelling Bee is coming on Thursday, Feb. 10 to the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. Teams of three will compete at the fourth and fifth grade, middle school, high school and adult levels. The winning middle school team can compete regionally. The cost to participate is $100 per person or $300 per team. Registration is now open. Registration information and the study list can be found at duxburyeducationfoundation.org.

Valentine’s Day Luncheon. On Thursday, Feb. 10 at 11:30 a.m.,

enjoy lunch and entertainment by Jerry Gottschalk, renowned pianist at the Duxbury Senior Center. Invite a friend and call ahead for lunch reservations 781-934-5774, ext 100. The cost is $5 for Duxbury seniors and $6 for non-residents and non-seniors.

Democratic Caucus. Duxbury Democratic Town Committee will hold its annual Caucus on Saturday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Duxbury Free Library on the lower level to elect delegates to the 2011 Mass. Democratic Convention to be held June 4 in Lowell. The caucus is open to all registered Democrats in Duxbury. For more information please contact David O’Connell at 781-934-0994.

ongoingMy Life, My Health. A new Chronic Disease Self-Management program offered at the Duxbury Senior Center. To be held on Thursdays from 1-3 p.m. for six weeks (Jan. 27 – March 10). Facilitated by trained leaders. There is no charge and space is limited; please sign up with the Senior Center front desk at 781-934-5774, ext. 100.

Soccer Training Sessions for Fifth Grade Girls. Soccer training sessions will be held every Sunday through March 20 from 1:30-3 p.m.

in the Chandler gym. The sessions are open to all fifth grade girls and will focus on fun games to improve skills.

2010 Tax Assistance. John Madden will provide free federal and state tax preparation services for seniors and special needs individuals under the AARP/IRS tax assistance program through the Duxbury Senior Center. Contact Peggy Murphy at 781-934-5774, ext. 104 to arrange a date to drop off your tax documents for processing.

Drop in storytimes. Drop in programs at the Duxbury Free Library do not require registration and are designed for participation by an adult with a child. Programs include: Toddler Tales, ages 2 and under, Tuesdays, 10 a.m, repeated at 10:30, through March 29 in the lower level Resource Room; Drop In Storytime for ages 3 and under, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. through April 6 in the lower level Resource Room.

Gather ‘Round. A storytime for preschoolers with an adult, is held every Friday at 10:30 a.m. all year round in the picture book room. For more information, check the children’s pages on the library Website, duxburyfreelibrary.org or call 781-934-2721 x115.

Duxbury Artist exhibit. Eija Heward of Duxbury has a sampling

of her stained glass art on display at Cravings in Kingston for the month of January.

BNI Business Alliance. The BNI Chapter in Kingston meets every Tuesday at 8:15 a.m. at the Beal House, 222 Main St., Kingston. During the month of January local businesses may join the meeting to learn about how referral and network marketing can help grow their business. Each business rep. may promote their business and hand out business cards. For more information, visit bniba.com.

ROOTS Genealogy Club. Meets every Tuesday from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Duxbury Senior Center. Newcomers are welcome.

Calling all collectors. Would you like to show off your collectibles to the community? The Duxbury Free Library provides a display case for this purpose. Call the library at 781-934-2721 x108, or stop by the circulation desk and reserve the case now.

Social Day Program for persons with memory loss. The Duxbury Senior Center offers a program for persons with Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease or related Dementia on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. For more information about the program or admission requirements contact Lucille Brogna, Intermissions Program Coordinator at 781-934-5774 x107 or Donna Ciappina, Outreach Coordinator at x105.

Duxbury Caregiver Support Groups. Anyone caring for an elderly

parent or spouse and would like to talk about and share experiences with other caregivers, The Duxbury Senior Center offers a support group the second Thursday of each month from 1:30 – 3 p.m. Call Donna Ciappina, at 781-934-5774, ext. 105, for additional information or to join the group. An evening Caregiver Support Group, in collaboration with the Norwell VNA and Hospice, Inc., also meets the third Thursday of the month from 6:30-8 p.m. Contact Joan Wright, Norwell VNA, at 781-659-2342, for additional information.

Bodner Exhibit. The Helen Bumpus Gallery will be showing an exhibit entitled “Simple Notes” by pastel artist Christine Bodnar during the months of January and February 2011. The Helen Bumpus Gallery is located on the main level of the Duxbury Free Library.

“Darkness, Darkness” exhibit. The work of a varied group of artists who explore the themes of night photography will be on view at the Art Complex Museum now through Feb. 13.

Friday Night Entertainment. From 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m., at the Winsor House on Washington Street, featuring Sean McLaughlin, Irish folk guitarist and vocalist.

Book a Librarian. The Duxbury Free Library reference department is offering 30 minute one-on-one sessions to assist patrons in using computers. Sessions will be tailor made to address individual needs. Please call 781-934-2721 x100 to book a Librarian.

Question of the Week

Yes! I am ready for summer.Laura Francoeur

Elm Street

by Mary Sarie Booy

No. I just love the snow!Norman Bennett

oak Street

I sure am! I have to go home now and dig some more.

cheryl Sullivan Priscilla Avenue

I just love pushing the snow around with my nose!

Annabella Tremont Street

No. This is New England. Winter is a beautiful time of the year!

John Rest Duckhill Road

Are you sick of the snow yet?

Save the date for spelling bee

The Annual Duxbury Education Founda-tion (DEF) Spelling

Bee is coming on Thursday, Feb. 10 to the Duxbury Per-forming Arts Center.

So put a team together, cre-ate a name and start studying!

Teams of three will com-pete at the fourth and fifth-grade, middle school, high school and adult levels. The winning middle school team can compete regionally. The cost to participate in the DEF Spelling Bee is $100 per per-son or $300 per team. Mulli-gans will be free for all fourth grade teams this year and will cost $30 per team for fifth grade through adult teams. Registration for the DEF Spelling Bee is now open. Registration information and the study list can be found online at www.duxburyeducationfoundation.org.

The annual red carpet team entry walk begins at 6:15 p.m., where each team will show off their costumes, the best of which will win an award. Special “BEE” headbands with pipe cleaner antennae will be on sale outside the event for spectators who want a costume.

Last year’s winners show off their trophy.


BoyS’ BASkETBALLDec. 10 Dux over Hanover 59-50 1-0Dec. 14 Dux over Nauset 52-43 2-0Dec. 17 Dux over Silver Lake 54-44 3-0Dec. 23 Dux over Marshfield 60-58 4-0Dec. 29 Marshfield over Dux 57-53 4-1Dec. 30 Scituate over Dux 59-55 4-2Jan. 4 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 52-50 4-3Jan. 7 Dux over North Quincy 60-46 5-3Jan. 11 Hingham over Dux 52-40 5-4Jan. 17 Dux over Scituate 63-37 6-4TBA Hanover Home 6:30Jan. 25 Middleboro Away 6:00Jan. 28 Quincy Home 6:30Feb. 1 Pembroke Away 6:30Feb. 4 Silver Lake Home 6:30Feb. 11 Whitman-Hanson Away 6:30Feb. 15 North Quincy Home 7:00Feb. 17 Hingham Home 6:30Feb. 20 IAABO Tournament at Bridgewater State TBAFeb. 21 IAABO Tournament at Bridgewater State TBA

GIRLS’ BASkETBALLDec. 17 Dux over Silver Lake 51-39 1-0Dec. 18 Dux over Martha’s Vineyard 54-31 2-0Dec. 22 New Bedford over Dux 55-45 2-1Dec. 30 Dux over Rockland 51-48 3-1Jan. 4 Dux over Whitman-Hanson 62-34 4-1Jan. 7 Dux over North Quincy 55-34 5-1Jan. 11 Dux over Hingham 57-42 6-1Jan. 13 Dux over Marshfield 69-57 7-1Jan. 17 Dux over Scituate 57-38 8-1TBA Hanover Away 6:30Jan. 24 Rockland Home 6:30Jan. 25 Middleboro Home 6:30Jan. 28 Quincy Away 6:30Jan. 31 New Bedford Home 6:30Feb. 1 Pembroke Home 6:30Feb. 4 Silver Lake Away 6:30Feb. 11 Whitman-Hanson Home 6:30Feb. 15 North Quincy Away 6:30Feb. 17 Hingham Away 6:30Feb. 21 Winter Classic Foxboro TBAFeb. 22 Winter Classic Foxboro TBA

BoyS SWIMMING & DIVINGDec. 14 Dux over Pembroke 98-75 1-0Dec. 16 Dux over Middleboro 99-75 2-0Jan. 4 Dux over Silver Lake 79-64 3-0Jan. 7 Dux over Hingham 94-89 4-0Jan. 11 Dux over Randolph 63-39 5-0Jan. 13 Dux over Quincy 86-63 6-0Jan. 25 Hanover Home 3:45Jan. 27 Scituate Home 3:45Jan. 27 Cohasset Home 3:45Feb. 1 Norwell Home 3:45Feb. 3 Barnstable Home 3:45

GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVINGDec. 14 Dux over Pembroke 94-74 1-0Dec. 16 Dux over Middleboro 82-50 2-0Jan. 4 Dux over Silver Lake 76-46 3-0Jan. 7 Dux over Hingham 93-84 4-0Jan. 11 Dux over Randolph 63-35 5-0Jan. 13 Dux over Quincy 93-85 6-0Jan. 25 Hanover Home 3:45Jan. 27 Scituate Home 3:45Jan. 27 Cohasset Home 3:45Feb. 1 Norwell Home 3:45Feb. 3 Barnstable Home 3:45

BoyS TRAckDec. 14 Whitman-Hanson over Dux R. Lewis 0-1Dec. 22 Silver Lake over Dux 51.5-48.5 0-2Jan. 5 Hingham over Dux 60-40 0-3Jan. 25 North Quincy R. Lewis 4:30Feb. 11 All League Meet R. Lewis 5:00

GIRLS TRAckDec. 14 Whitman-Hanson - -Dec. 22 Silver Lake R. Lewis 5:00Jan. 5 Hingham R. Lewis 5:00Jan. 25 North Quincy R. Lewis 4:30Feb. 11 All League Meet R. Lewis 5:00

BoyS IcE HockEyDec. 15 Dux ties Barnstable 5-5 0-0-1Dec. 18 St. Marys over Dux 4-2 0-1-1Dec. 22 Dux over coyle cassidy 4-1 1-1-1Dec. 27 Hingham ties Dux 2-2 1-1-2Dec. 29 Dux ties Marshfield 2-2 1-1-3Dec. 31 Dux over Hanover 3-2 2-1-3 Jan. 3 Dux ties Braintree 1-1 2-1-4Jan. 8 B-R over Dux 2-1 2-2-4Jan. 10 Dux ties Sandwich 3-3 2-2-5Jan. 15 St. John’s over Dux 2-1 2-3-5Jan. 17 Marshfield over Dux 4-2 2-4-5Jan. 22 Dux over Whitman-Hanson 5-1 3-4-5Jan. 26 Concord-Carlisle Home 5:10Jan. 29 St. Peter Marian Home 8:00 Feb. 2 Woburn Away 6:00Feb. 5 North Quincy Home 8:00Feb. 9 Xaverian Brothers Away 6:00Feb. 12 Scituate Home 5:15 Feb. 16 Pembroke Away TBAFeb. 19 Cape Cod Classic Falmouth TBAFeb. 21 Cape Cod Classic Falmouth TBAFeb. 23 Cape Cod Classic Falmouth TBA

GIRLS IcE HockEyDec. 11 Dux over Barnstable 4-1 1-0Dec. 15 St. Marys over Dux 3-1 1-1Dec. 18 Dux over WHP 3-0 2-1Dec. 22 Dux over Scituate 12-1 3-1Dec. 30 Dux over canton 5-1 4-1Jan. 5 Dux over Hingham 2-0 5-1 Jan. 8 Dux over Marshfield 6-0 6-1Jan. 15 Dux over Sandwich 4-1 7-1Jan. 17 Dux over Wellesley 4-3 8-1Jan. 22 Dux over Martha’s Vineyard 7-0 9-1Jan. 26 Whitman-Hanson Away 4:00 Jan. 29 Scituate Home 2:25Jan. 31 Falmouth Away 6:20Feb. 5 Falmouth Home 5:15Feb. 9 Barnstable Away 4:00Feb. 12 Martha’s Vineyard Home 2:25 Feb. 16 Sandwich Away 5:30Feb. 19 Marshfield Home 1:00Feb. 22 Cougar Classic Rockland TBAFeb. 24 Cougar Classic Rockland TBA

WRESTLINGDec. 11 king Phillip Tournament - -Dec. 18 Patriot League Tournament 4th -Dec. 22 Hanover over Dux - 0-1Dec. 28 Marshfield Tournament 16th/31 0-1Jan. 5 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 43-18 0-2Jan. 8 Whitman-Hanson Tournament 5th -Jan. 13 Hingham over Dux 48-22 0-3Jan. 15 Waltham Quad Meet - -Jan. 22 Milford Quad Meet - -Jan. 26 North Quincy Away 7 pmJan. 29 Duxbury Tournament Home 9 amFeb. 2 Silver Lake Home 7 pm

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might have found them frightening.)Before technology made it possible for ordinary folks to

enjoy the fine arts (store-bought style), church was the only place where they could hear beautiful and sophisticated music performed by experts. MagnificatBoston recaptures that pre-industrial wonder and art, and once again makes it accessible to all.

Founded in 2005 by Organist and Director Mark Engelhardt, the group performs monthly at a sequence of parishes of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

“But we’re not ticking off parishes by the numbers,” Engelhardt explained. “We want to glorify God by sharing the Office of the Anglican Choral Evensong in parishes that might not hear such music without us.”

Evensong, the group’s program explains, “has been sung every day by choirs in English Cathedrals and Collegiate Chapels” since the Reformation. That’s getting on to be about 500 years. The service includes plain song and chanting, sometimes joined by the congregation, and of course, the organ. The effect is enough to convince you that time travel is real, especially when they sing in Latin. Henry VIII may have broken the English Church away from Rome, but liturgical Latin has lingered to this day.

MagnificatBoston singers are all volunteers, though several are professional musicians elsewhere. They are all auditioned singers, and come from Episcopal parishes all around Boston, including one from Duxbury (my wife, not me). They rehearse once a month, and again before their monthly performances. It’s a little hard to believe that such music can come from so little rehearsal, but these are all musicians who can sight read music that I would never master.

The group has another Duxbury connection. Roy Kelley, Music Director at St. John’s and Director of the Snug Harbor Chorus studied under Mark Engelhardt for about three years. Roy played the Adagio molto from Guilmant’s Third Sonata for Organ for the opening voluntary, the meditative piece that starts the service, followed by a ripping processional, “We Sing of God.” We all had a go at that one – the congregation joins in with hymns and prayers – to a tune simply listed as “Magdalen College.”

Magdalen is one of the 38 colleges at Oxford University, and their chapel runs 15 services a week, seven with the choir. Their website says they are (naturally) Anglican services, but adds that they “bear the imprint of the Oxford Movement,” a 19th century revival movement sometimes called Anglo-Catholic. (One wag called it “using the smells and smoke without the Pope.) In other words, they know how to put on a sacred show.

MagnificatBoston, though, is all about the music as it serves the liturgy. The ancientness and beauty rang through our little church on Washington Street. Check their Web site at magnificatboston.org to see where they’re singing next, or watch their seven charming Youtube videos. You don’t have to be Episcopalian to hear them. Ancient musical faith can be beautiful to anyone.

When music gets faithcontinued from page one

Teen events at the libraryHigh School Book Group: Wednesday., 3-5 p.m., YA

lounge, upper level of Duxbury Free Library. Run as a week-ly Socrates Cafe, we review books we’ve recently read, talk about issues of pressing urgency such as vampires vs zombies what’s the cultural difference? Can a person be invisible to their peers? Why? How important is truth? What constitutes loyalty? We sponsor literacy-promoting activities as well.

Middle School Discussion Group: Tuesday, 3-5 p.m., YA lounge, upper level of Duxbury Free Library. Run in a similar manner to the high school group.

Anime Festival: 7 - 9 p.m., second Friday of the month, Merry Room. Focusing on the latest short Japanese imports we watch and discuss.

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eBooks are available for free downloads from the Duxbury Free Library to your Nook, Sony eReader and other open format devices; but not the Kindle because it is not open format. The Old Colony Li-brary Network has purchased hundreds of eBooks that Dux-bury card holders can down-load via Overdrive. Access to the eBooks is through our Library catalog, found in the header under: Download E-books and audio.


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The Duxbury girls’ basket-ball team traveled to Scituate on Monday afternoon to take on Scituate HS in what was billed as their biggest Patriot League challenge to date. Tak-ing along their 7-1 record, the Lady Dragons were ready to face an undefeated Sailor team that was 9-0 and the talk of the South Shore.

Once the game started the talk was all about Duxbury, as they raced to a 13-6 first period lead and never looked back, trouncing the unbeaten Sailors, 57-36.

Coach Mark Dunn mixed things up for his team defen-sively, and the strategy worked to perfection, as the Sailors were throwing up bricks in the first quarter and could never get their offense in gear.

“I was always a man-to-man person, but last year the girls played zone and it worked out pretty well so we stuck with it this year. Now they are really getting to play

the zone defense well. I didn’t think we were going to be able to press Scituate coming in, so we switched back to zone and I think we neutralized some of their top scorers.”

After the Duxbury defense limited Scituate to just two points in the first six minutes, sophomore Michaela North scored five straight points to give Duxbury a 7-2 lead with two minutes left in the quarter. Kelly Martin would cut the margin to three, only to see senior captain Maggie Norton unleash a pair of three-point-ers that had the visitors up by seven at the end of the period.

The Lady Dragons put their foot to the pedal starting the second period and went on a 12-2 run in the first four min-utes to grab a 25-8 lead before a stunned Scituate crowd.

A pair of baskets by North and two baskets by Shannon McLaughlin off the bench ig-nited the run.

After Dunn called a tim-eout with three minutes left in the half, his team came back on the floor and continued to add to its lead, as Katelyn Norton and sister Maggie buried bas-kets for a 31-11 halftime lead.

Knowing his team would

have to alter its game plan, Scituate Coach Brian Buckley unleashed a swarming defense to start the second half. It worked for the first four min-utes, as Duxbury had a pair of 30-second violations forc-ing Dunn to call a timeout and calm his troops down with the lead down to 33-22.

When Duxbury came out of the break, Devon Tsinzo and Maggie Norton buried

three-pointers to up the lead to 39-22. Norton continued with the hot hand and sank another trey a minute into the fourth quarter for a 46-27 lead, al-lowing Dunn to call a timeout and set his defense for the rest of the game.

The lead remained con-stant throughout the final six minutes, as the Lady Dragon defense continued to stop ev-ery Scituate attempt at getting

back in the game.It was a big night for the

Norton sisters , as senior Mag-gie scored 18 points, and soph-omore sister Katelyn pumped in 10. North was immense underneath with 10 points and plenty of rebounds and blocked shots.

The girls are back in action this Friday night when they travel to Hanover at 6:30 p.m.

Lady Dragons end Scituate win streak

GIRLS BASkETBALLDuxbury 57Scituate 36

oVER THE ToP: Duxbury’s Maggie Norton looks to pass during last week’s romp over undefeated Scituate. Norton lead the Lady Dragons with 18 points. Photo by Mike Halloran


No matter how far away the girls’ hockey team trav-els, road games don’t seem to faze Coach Friend Weiler’s squad.

Traveling to Babson College last week, the Lady Dragons faced one of their toughest games of the season, as they took on No. 5-ranked Wellesley HS in a MLK Day matinee.

Duxbury trailed in the first period for one of the few times this season, as they fell behind 1-0, but tied it at 1-1 before the period ended. De-spite grabbing a 2-1 lead in the second period, the Raiders came back and tied the game at 2-2 after two periods.

The Lady Dragons found themselves behind the eight

ball in the third period, as they trailed 3-2 with less than five minutes to go in the game. But Lily Connolly (4:30) and Briana Connolly (1:53) scored for a 4-3 win over the Raiders, lifting their record to 8-1.

On Saturday the team took the boat ride to Martha’s Vineyard when they manhan-dled the Islanders, 7-0.

Outshooting the hosts 54-6, the Lady Dragons sur-prising led by just a goal after the first period and exploded for five goals in the second stanza before finishing up with goal number seven in the final 15 minutes.

Hannah Murphy led the way with a hat-trick, while freshman defenseman Ally Hammell, freshman forward Liz Collins, Briana Connolly, and junior forward Colleen Leddie rounded out the Dux-bury scoring.

Sophomore Tori Sanchez saw action in goal in the third period and made a huge save to preserve the shutout win for Duxbury.

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GIRLS HockEyDuxbury 4Wellesley 3

GIRLS HockEyDuxbury 7Martha’s Vineyard 0


BoyS BASkETBALLDuxbury 53Marshfield 57

COLLEGE CORNERBy mike Halloran, sports editor

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Senior forward Sam Herrick (DHS ’06) of the Wentworth College men’s basketball team has been named the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week for the week ending Jan. 16, 2011. In a 2-0 week for the Leopards, Herrick averaged 13.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, 1.0 assists, and 1.5 blocks per game, while shooting 11-for-21 (.524) from the floor. He began the week with a 14-point, 10-rebound performance in an 80-

59 win at Eastern Nazarene after shooting 6-for-9 from the floor. Herrick followed that performance up with a 13-point, 13-rebound performance in a 64-46 win over Roger Wil-liams in a battle of undefeated conference foes. Herrick, who has recorded four con-secutive double-doubles, has started all 14

games for the Leopards, and is averaging 11.3 points, 9.9 rebounds, and 1.2 blocked shots per game. Wentworth (8-8 overall, 3-2 in The Commonwealth Coast Conference) had its five-game winning broken by Western N.E. despite Herrick’s 22 point/ 10 rebound effort on Wednesday night. On Saturday night he had a monster game with 25 points and 14 rebounds in a 75-71 loss to Endicott…

Senior Ben Bray (DHS ’07) finished second in the 1000-meter run at last week’s Reggie Poyau Memorial Track Meet in Waltham… Freshman Cam Crowell (DHS ’10) finished second in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke for Fordham U. in its 156-87 loss to LaSalle. He also placed 5th in the 400-yard freestyle

relay and 6th in the 400-yard medley relay…Senior Max Butler (DHS ’06) had a big day on Senior Night for the UMass swim team, as they demolished Boston College, 245-48. Butler finished first in the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard medley relay, while taking second in the 200-yard back-stroke… Holy Cross senior Ashley Buck-ley (DHS ’07) finished 9th in the high jump and

18th in the long jump at Saturday’s meet with UNH, Stonehill, and Worcester State… Senior Evan Novakowski (DHS ’07) fin-ished 4th in the 4 x 800 relay and 7th in the mile at Saturday’s Bucknell Heptagonal in Penn… It was a rough weekend for Mike Baran (Thayer ’06) and his Amherst Col-lege hockey team as they dropped games to Skidmore (3-2) and Castleton State (3-2 OT). Baran managed to score a goal against Skidmore and reg-ister an assist versus Castleton State… Sophomore Mark Brust (DHS ’09) and his Bates College basketball team split games with their Maine rivals over the weekend, losing to Colby, 75-69 in OT, and beating Bowdoin, 75-71. Brust had 11 points and 5 assist in the loss to Colby…

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When the Duxbury wres-tling team traveled to Milford High School on Saturday for a quad meet, they knew that they would have their hands full with No. 19-ranked Mil-ford and perennial powerhouse North Attleboro. Add Coven-try, RI to the mix, winners of an unprecedented 17 consecu-tive state championships, and it was going to be a long day for the Dragon grapplers.

As a team, Duxbury wit-nessed firsthand some quality wrestling programs, but also saw a few of their own wres-tlers rise to the occasion. One of those grapplers was sopho-more Jake Genereux, who be-gan the day by scoring a 15-0 technical fall over North Attle-boro’s Andrew McLoughlin. The Dragons’ senior captain Alec McKenzie won his match by forfeit at 189 and Nick Kates won by decision at 103.

Milford was next up for Duxbury, and senior captain Jamie Auer got the visitors on the board first with a second period pin of Milford junior Mark Brodeur in the 145 lb. weight class. Unfortunately for the Dragons, they would have to wait until the 215 lb. contest between Duxbury ju-nior Bobby Boyle and Milford sophomore Mike Shea to win their next match.

Boyle started the second period on top, and refused to let the underclassmen escape, repeatedly throwing him to the mat before pinning him half-way through the second pe-riod. Sophomore Owen Grey had his chance against Mil-ford’s Justin Strapponi in the heavyweight contest, but the Milford junior fought off his back, and returned the favor by pinning Grey. In similar fashion, freshman Jim Chap-puis had Milford senior Ryan Richard in leg scissors twice, but couldn’t get the pin. It was another opportunity lost for the Dragons as Milford showed their resilience, recording an-other pin after being on their backs.

The highlight match of the day came in the 130 lb. weight class with Jake Genereux fac-ing off against Milford senior Richie Santiago, who is one of the top wrestlers in the state in that weight class according to MA wrestling.

After falling victim to San-tiago’s quickness on his feet, Genereux cut the lead in half with a one-point escape, and then went on the offensive, scoring a critical take down of his own. However, a rever-sal by Santiago would again give him a one-point lead. The lead was short-lived when Ge-nereux rolled on bottom, earn-ing a two-point reversal for a 5-4 lead heading into the third period. After deferring to Mil-ford in the second period, Ge-nereux chose top to start the third. With both legs in, Santi-ago could not escape, but with 35 seconds left in the match the referee gave Genereux a

warning for stalling. The call seemed to rattle the Duxbury sophomore for a second, and Santiago took advantage, get-ting a reversal of his own with less than 30 seconds remaining in the period. Genereux did everything he could to tie the match up, but Santiago hung on for a 6-5 victory.

Fortunately for Genereux, he would have another shot at beating a top ranked wrestler, and he did just that when he earned a hard fought 5-4 de-cision over Coventry’s Dylan Dupree. Also winning for the second time on the day with pins were Alec McKenzie and Bobby Boyle.

The Dragon grapplers are hoping to have senior cap-tain Pat Donovan and junior Brendan Gillis back in the lineup when they travel to North Quincy on Wednesday for a Patriot League match at 7 p.m.

IF LookS coULD TELL: Milford senior Rich Santiago winces as Duxbury’s Jake Genereux works for back points in the 130 lb. weight class of Saturday’s quad meet. Santiago won the match with a late reversal.

Twice is Nice for Wrestlers

GAME FAcE: Junior Bobby Boyle is not letting go of Milford’s Mike Shea in the 215 lb. contest. Boyle would eventually earn the first of his two pins of the day.

crowell

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Butler

Novakowski


Boys bring home a win over Whitman-Hanson

captian Bobby Barry had a two-on-one break out

with teammate kane Haffey who scored for a 3-0

lead.

Senior captain Nick Buonvicino, works his way into the Panther zone to score a goal in the second period bringing the score to 2-0.

Goaltender Derek Williams did a good job shutting the Panthers down in Saturday night’s game.

The boys varsity team rushes the ice after their 5-1 victory over the Whitman-Hanson Panthers.

A Dragon forward looks for an open pass.

Duxbury grabs a puck during a face-off.

Duxbury forwards pressure the Panther defense to get a shot off on Whitman-Hanson goaltender Tom Leonard. .

All smiles for the Dragons as they take home the victory over the Panthers.

Photos by Jim Tarbox

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