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The field of volun-teers at this year’s Community Vol-

unteer Awards was so deserv-ing, the judges couldn’t pick a

single person as Volunteer of the Year.

Instead, a group of resi-dents were honored for their contributions to specific areas of town during the 13th an-nual award ceremony, held

Wednesday at the Village at Duxbury on Kingstown Way.

This year, 17 people were nominated for the award and brought a range of diverse backgrounds and areas of ex-pertise to the table.

“In these difficult fi-nancial times, volunteer-ism is even more valued as part of our national fabric,” said Carey Alexander of the Village to open the event.

This year’s Community Volunteer Awards honored 21 of Duxbury’s most dedicated volunteers during a ceremony at The Village at Duxbury Wednesday night. Picture are (back row) Jerry Nightingale, Frank Hogan, Thomas Hogan, Tom Chapman, Nancy O’Connor, Dan Hall, Emily Kelley, Chris Blake, Lydia Hart, Patricia Coulsey, Bill and Maggie Kearney, and James Sullivan. Front row: Kate Brewer, Carol Chapman, Angela Sanchez, Betts McGill, Peggy McLaughlin and Paul Arsenian.

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By Justin GraeBer, Clipper editor [email protected]

The Route 3 off-ramps at Exit 10 are traffic nightmares, and an expansion of the Island Creek 40B development is likely to make things worse.

That was the message sent by engineer Bob Houston at a public hearing Thursday night, as Duxbury’s Zoning Board of

Appeals continues to weigh the Island Creek project.

Houston, who is an engi-neer hired by the town to re-view the applicant’s proposal, also said the situation could be improved by adding a traffic signal at the entrance to Island Creek. A traffic light would be only the second in Duxbury, the only other light in town is

located at the intersection of Route 14 and Route 3A.

“The Route 3 ramps have some real operational issues,” Houston told the board of Thursday. He said the ramps have a higher crash rate than the state average. According to an intersection rating sys-tem used by MassHighway based on wait times, the off

ramps both get worse than an “F” rating with traffic from the planned expansion factored in.

“The model is unable to compute the delay because its so overcapacity,” Houston said.

He added that while Is-land Creek isn’t causing the

Traffic a concern for Island Creek

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Congestion at Route 3 off-ramps will be worse, says engineer

DPW drama

By susanna sheehan, Clipper staff [email protected]

Duxbury’s Department of Public Works suffers from shoddy recordkeeping, per-sonality conflicts, a lack of accountability, misuse of roadway funds and general mismanagement, according to a report by former DPW Di-rector Wally Tonaszuck.

“The department is dys-functional,” Tonaszuck told Selectmen Monday night while presenting his findings. “The department does not work the way it was intended.”

The report was commis-sioned by Town Manager Richard MacDonald, who said it was the first step in review-ing all departments for effi-ciency and management prac-tices. MacDonald chose to examine the DPW first, saying felt the management practices had become “a little relaxed.”

Tonaszuck interviewed DPW managers and employ-ees as well as other town of-ficials. He also reviewed de-partment records and spoke to experts in the field before crafting his final report. To-naszuck, who left Duxbury in 2001 after 12 years as DPW director, was hired in Decem-ber and paid $5,000.

Report paints picture of dysfunctional department

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Beach Reservation to refurbish guard shack

The directors of the Dux-bury Beach Reservation, Inc. recently voted to overhaul the present guard shack at the east end of the Powder Point Bridge. It will be the exact same dimensions but with an attractive overhang to provide some protection from the sun for the officers. The Reserva-tion has also created new signs for the beach, most of which have now been placed, and it is repairing and repainting the gates to the parking lot.

The Reservation will have a computer rendition of the refurbished guard shack on display at the Senior Center on Monday, May 4, from 7-8 p.m. Are all welcome to stop by and have a look.

Food drive ongoing at Rockland Trust

Rockland Trust is host-ing a “Food for Friends” food drive to collect non-perishable food products and other items of need for local food pantries, through May 31, 2009. In ad-dition to the food drive, Rock-land Trust will make a mon-etary contribution to a food pantry in each town the bank serves, and is encouraging their employees to volunteer at local food pantries.

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Actress, playwright, di-rector, and producer Robin Lane will be performing in her compelling one-woman dramatization of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: An American Original. This dinner theatre production will be held at The Duxbury Se-nior Center on Sunday eve-ning, May 17 at 5 p.m. to 8:30

p.m. and is sponsored by the Friends of the Duxbury COA and a grant from the Duxbury Cultural Council. Please join us for cocktails with a beer and wine cash bar at 5 p.m., formal dinner at 6 p.m., and the performance runs from 7-8:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the Duxbury Senior Center or Westwinds

Bookshop for $25 per person. There is limited seating so take advantage early of this wonderful opportunity for a nostalgic and enriching social evening to celebrate and ben-efit the Duxbury Council on Aging.

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Wildlands Trust community garden is underway

A few plots remain for the 2009 gardening season at the Wildlands Trust Philbrick Preserve Community Garden. The garden is located at 165 West Street in Duxbury. Wildlands Garden Coordinator Elaine Pollack plans to have approxi-mately 20 plots prepared for planting by mid May. Gardeners have their choice of two different plot sizes and the Trust will provide amended soil, water and perimeter fencing. To learn more about the Community Garden at the Philbrick Preserve, contact Elaine at [email protected]., or visit our Web site directly to download an application (www.wildlandstrust.org).

A community garden is a piece of land that is gardened by a group of individuals. These programs provide opportuni-ties for people to learn and interact while producing nutritious food, and supporting sustainable agriculture.

The Wildlands Trust is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of southeastern Massachu-setts. The Trust is headquartered in Duxbury and currently protects 6,000 acres of land throughout the region.

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Visitors to Duxbury Beach this summer may notice a new look.

The Beach Reservation has updated many of the signs along the beach. Maggie Kear-ney, a trustee of the Beach Reservation, said the group asked Norman Forgit, the de-signer of the Duxbury Beach Book, to help come up with a new design for the signs.

“We wanted to brand the beach,” Kearney said.

The idea to update origi-nated last fall, and most of the signs have now been installed.

“We felt the signs were too many, not nice ... our beach de-serves to be beautiful,” Kear-ney said. “We thought new signs were a long time com-ing, we’ve put a lot of effort and some money into it.”

The one sign that hasn’t been replaced yet is the main sign that welcomes visitors to Duxbury Beach. Kearney said the trustees wanted to replace the sign because of the promi-nence of the town seal. They feel the sign makes it look like the town owns the beach, when they actually lease it from the Preservation Society.

“We want people to real-ize that the reservation owns the beach and manages it in cooperation with the town of Duxbury,” she said.

Endangered Species Of-ficer Michael Phorr said he hopes the new signs will blend into the beach better, and that they will encourage people to be more respectful of the beach.

“If it looks cleaner, hope-fully people will want to treat it better,” he said.

The other major change will be an updating of the “shack,” the harbormaster’s building that sits at the end of the Powder Point Bridge. Last year, there was an effort to completely refurbish the building with money donated by a local family. However, the project ran into intense oppo-sition from residents, and the Preservation Society dropped the plans.

“The trustees didn’t want to do anything that would be controversial,” Kearney said. “It will be the exact same size and shape ... it’s just going to

look attractive.”The shack will get a new

coat of paint, Kearney said, and an overhang will be built to shade the police officers who staff the beach during the summer.

Also, the rusty gates at the other end of the beach, near Marshfield, will be repainted.

“The gates are a disgrace, we’re going to clean up those gates and repaint them,” Kear-ney said. The ramp over the dunes will also be replaced, al-though this is a town project.

Kearney hopes the signs will encourage people to keep the beach maintained, and will make the Preservation Trust’s connection to the beach more visible.

“We’re hoping that these new signs will encourage people to pick up after them-selves,” she said. “Nothing else is changing, our program is the same.”

Overall, Kearney hopes the changes will give the beach a cleaner look without chang-ing the time-honored Duxbury landmark.

“You’re going to see a nice, clean new look to the beach,” she said. “Everything should be finished in time for summer.”

Clipper Intern Julia Swem contributed to this report.

Visitors to Duxbury Beach will notice new signs dotted across the beach and parking areas. The signs were installed this year by the Beach Preservation Society to help “brand the beach.”

Beach Preservation trustee Maggie Kearney said the main sign will be updated to make the preservation society’s role more prominent.

The rusty gates at the Marshfield end of the beach will also get a fresh paint job.

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Tonaszuck told selectmen that the DPW organization is broken and must be fixed. Key staff members have publicly criticized the leadership ability of their boss and departments have become too autonomous and lacked supervision and ac-countability, he said.

His report began by stat-ing that the DPW was created almost 25 years ago to con-solidate separate departments in the town to offer better ser-vices at a better price. This or-ganizational model worked for many years but under former DPW director Tom Daley that

format changed, Tonaszuck said.

“Several departments have become distant and do not want oversight by the direc-tor,” Tonaszuck wrote in the report. “They have become empowered over time and rel-ish the freedom and autonomy they have acquired. This was encouraged and supported by the DPW director at that time but now a new director wants a traditionally structured or-ganization….Several depart-ment heads feel no need to be subordinated to the director or the overall needs of the DPW. They do not communicate ac-tivities of their departments for informational purposes, nor for feedback. Reasonable questions are seen as intru-sions and resentment can be viewed as personal.”

Tonaszuck said that the managers must be account-able for justifying their staff-ing levels and programs and documenting the results of their work.

“Documents that would demonstrate performance, par-ticularly in the water and sew-er department, simply don’t exist,” he wrote. “Glaring defi-ciencies of significant magni-tude are not being addressed. Some management staff do not share their department’s activities with the director, nor accept his comments or con-structive input. Some do not report to anyone.”

Accountability also means leading by example, being there first thing in the morning and keeping the director and office staff informed about their whereabouts when they leave the office or the job, To-naszuck said.

Tonaszuck recommend-

ed instituting periodic per-formance reviews every six months “to face differences and reinforce accomplish-ments between supervisors and the director.”

He also recommended that the DPW staff take part in some teambuilding workshops and/or counseling to begin

mending fences and building mutual respect.

Tonaszuck was critical of the position of DPW office manager, saying there was no job description for the posi-tion.

“The current office man-ager does not routinely report to nor receive assignments from the director,” stated To-

naszuck’s report. “The posi-tion needs to be redefined with a clearer line of authority and what responsibilities are in-volved.”

Tonaszuck also mentioned the DPW operations manager, and cited concerns about pos-sible violations of the wetlands bylaw and landfill capping regulations.

Selectman Christopher Donato interrupted Tonaszuck during his report to question him about his credentials and whether he alone had written the report.

Tonaszuck said he was a registered professional engi-neer and had been DPW direc-tor in Duxbury for 12 years. He had worked as a DPW director in five communities including Lexington and Win-chester and that Duxbury was the 16th town for which he worked as a DPW consultant. He is currently retired and liv-ing in Bourne. Tonaszuck said he wrote the report by himself and that he had one meeting with MacDonald and another with MacDonald and former selectman Andre Martecchini about the first draft of the re-port.

Selectmen Chairman Betsy Sullivan interrupted Donato’s questioning, asking him: “Where are you going with this?”

“I’m not trying to be of-fensive,” Donato said, “I’m

DPW report paints picture of a dysfunctional department

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The man who conducted the most recent survey of Dux-bury’s Department of Public Works was once on the other side of the table. In 2001, Wal-ter Tonaszuck was Duxbury’s DPW Director. At the time, a management study was conducted by William Albritton, who was the chair-man of the town’s personnel board. The 2001 study con-cluded that the DPW was “getting the job done,” but contained some criticism of Tonaszuck’s manage-ment style.

In his report, Albritton wrote that the Department had few complaints about equip-ment, and had a good level of productivity. Morale is a “mixed bag,” he wrote, “but is generally seen as fair.

However, the report was less positive about Tonaszuck’s leadership.

“Few people that I inter-

viewed had anything positive to say about the Director’s leadership style or his way of dealing with people,” Albrit-ton wrote.

Some DPW workers Al-britton interviewed were criti-cal of Tonaszuck’s treatment of employees.

Others, how-ever, said they had no problem with Tonaszuck’s man-agement.

“I like the man myself,” said one person quoted by Albritton. “He doesn’t put up with anyone’s

BS.”Albritton also wrote that

Tonaszuck seemed to be “aware of some of his own short-comings and was genu-inely trying to improve ...”

Tonaszuck left Duxbury in 2001 to take a job as DPW Director in Bourne where he worked until 2003.

Albritton was not avail-able for comment on the report at press time.

Author of DPW report once a subject, too

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just trying to understand it. It’s a very well done report but it’s very critical. It goes to de-scribe individuals but they are not able to defend themselves. There are a number of people here who are singled out.”

“This is not a morale build-er,” Donato concluded.

“It might be,” countered Tonaszuck.

Sullivan ended the discus-sion about the officer manager and other employees saying it was not the right forum to talk about individual town em-ployees.

Tonaszuck moved on to highlight more than two doz-en specific findings and rec-ommendations for improve-ment. He said the town must do a better job managing its roads with its state highway money and stop spending it on purposes other than paving and road construction. Since 2006, the DPW has spent al-most $300,000 of its highway funding on equipment. Dux-bury receives approximately $400,000 a year from the state for its road repaving and re-pair program. Tonaszuck said the town should be fixing eight miles of road per year to pre-vent them from deteriorating. According to Tonaszuck, there is a shortfall in the town’s road maintenance program; $800,000 is needed to keep up the town’s streets.

Tonaszuck listed inadequa-cies he found in the water and sewer department and offered ways to make it more efficient. These included reducing staff-ing and making better use of technology.

“The water department needs to do more,” said To-naszuck, referring to docu-menting work to “show that monies and effort are being well spent.”

Tonaszuck’s other recom-mendations included the fol-lowing:

• Create an engineer-ing department to support the DPW or recruit local profes-sionals for an engineering de-sign advisory committee;

• Re-institute an annual program in the water depart-ment for flushing the town’s water mains to ensure the best quality of drinking water;

• Develop a better wa-ter conservation program to prevent damaging the town’s aquifer;

• Conduct a water rate study to make sure residents are paying a fair amount as there is a $1.2 million surplus in the water account;

• Reduce overtime and save money at the transfer sta-tion by closing it at 3:30 p.m instead of 4 p.m.

• Replace the deteriorat-ing highway garage and Mill-brook water pumping station garage;

• Consolidate grounds maintenance services between the DPW and the school de-partment; and

• Consolidate vehicle maintenance between the DPW and police and fire de-partments.

The selectmen’s reaction to the report was mixed.

“This is going to be tough for a lot of people to swallow. It’s personal for sure and it’s a small town,” Donato said.

Sullivan said she was less concerned about personnel problems than that the lack of employee training.

“Human resources stuff is human resources stuff,” said Sullivan. “I’m concerned that

people aren’t getting the train-ing they need. That’s some-thing we really need to look at.”

Selectman Jon Witten said he felt that the report could be looked at as a blueprint for fu-ture action.

“I’m very interested in the substantive piece,” he said. “I’d like to hear a summary

of which of these issues the selectmen should now move forward with. Just what do we do with this?”

MacDonald viewed the report as a “tool” to be used to make “more efficient deci-sions.”

“It’s up to department heads to work with DPW di-rector Peter Buttkus so we can improve this department,” he said, adding: “It’s the task of the DPW director to sit with managers to create an action plan.”

It was the first of many town department reviews, he said.

Witten said he hoped for an update of the progress of improvement in the DPW at some future date.

DPW Director Peter Butt-kus was present at the Board of Selectmen’s meeting but did not comment on the study.

Reached on Tuesday, Wa-ter and Sewer Superintendent Paul Anderson said he was not

given a chance to review –– or rebut –– the document before it was given to selectmen.

“I’m shocked the study wasn’t reviewed internally to verify its accuracy,” Anderson said.

He also said he was origi-nally told the report was going to be presented, not discussed, at Monday’s meeting.

“The thing that bothers me the most is that there are

a number of residents who watched last night and are concerned about the operation of their water system,” he said. “It didn’t sound as if any credit was given for all the hard work the men and women of this de-partment have done.”

After reviewing a copy of the report Anderson said he felt there were inaccuracies, but that the DPW as a whole was going to be preparing a statement on Tonaszuck’s re-port and he would defer to Buttkus on that matter.

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Deni Johnson ➢ , owner of Tori Nicole, was featured in the Garden Gallery of the Art in Bloom exhibit last weekend, April 25-27, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She ex-hibited and sold beautiful silk wristlets adorned with photo-graphs of Duxbury flowers.

Dorrie Arnold ➢ of Christ-mas Tree Way, sales manager of the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Duxbury,

was recently awarded the prestigious President’s C o u n c i l award. The award rec-o g n i z e s those man-agers who demonstrate exemplary

leadership and management skills. Only 163 sales manag-ers nationwide qualified for this honor, placing Arnold among a premier group of real estate pro-fessionals.

Jessica Lowe ➢ , daughter of Jonathan and Lisa Lowe of Powder Point Avenue, has been accepted into the People to Peo-ple Student Ambassador Pro-gram, and education travel pro-gram founded by President Dwight Eisen-hower. Jes-sica, a seventh grader at Der-by Academy in Hingham, will explore Australia for 20 days this summer. She will take part in a variety of activi-ties including meetings with government officials, holding a koala bear, snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, enjoying a backstage pass to the Sydney Opera House and participating in a community service project.

Wava Doyle ➢ was named to the dean’s list at Roanoke Col-lege in Virginia for the fall 2008 semester. Wava is the daughter of David and Donna Doyle of Stoneybrook Circle.

Monica Yang ➢ was named to the dean’s list at Choate Rose-mary Hall secondary school in Wallingford Conn. Monica is the daughter of Shiu Fen Con-nie Chen.

Jack Snow ➢ , age 10, and Linsin Smith, 14, announce the birth of their baby brother, Tague Kennedy Smith, born April 2 at the Birth Place at the Jordan Hospital. Tague weighed in at 7.15 lbs and 20.5 inches tall. Proud parents are Stewart and Lauren Smith.

Megan Elizabeth Derosi- ➢er, daughter of Kristen (Fuller) and Michael Derosier recently celebrated her first birthday at her home in Nashua, N.H. Me-gan was born Feb. 12, 2008. At-tending the birthday party were grandparents Annette and Bill Fuller, of Duxbury, grandmoth-er Elaine Derosier, of South-bridge, great grandmother, Dor-othy Briand, of Kingston, and aunt and uncle Lauren (Fuller) Lamb and Patrick Lamb, of Carver. Uncle Kevin Fuller, of Duxbury, was unable to attend.

The Association for Re- ➢search in Vision and Ophthal-mology has named Harvard Pro-fessor of Ophthalmology Leo T. Chylack, Jr., M.D, of Bradford Road, as a distinguished Gold Fellow, the highest-ranking fel-lowship, determined by a rigor-ous point system.

Michael Roberts ➢ has been named a recipient of a Boston College High School Schol-arship. Scholarships were

awarded to students from a di-verse and highly competitive applicant pool to the BC High class of 2013. Roberts was se-

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Congratulations to Duxbury ➢Firefighter/Paramedic Timmy Geary for completing the Bos-ton Marathon in four hours 37 minutes and seven seconds. Watch for him to compete in the Marine Corps Marathon in October as well as some sprint triathlons on the way to his ul-timate goal of an Ironman com-petition!

Congratulations to ➢ Jes-sica A. Coonan who has been named to the dean’s list for the 2008 fall semester at Merrimack College.

Brian Cahill, ➢ 23, of Dux-bury looks dashing as he dances at the Pembroke Knights of Co-lumbus’ second annual special needs prom S a t u r d a y, April 25. About 150 s t u d e n t s from around the South Shore at-tended the dance. Ca-hill attends Duxbury High School.

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problem –– the ramps have been identified as issues by MassHighway for some time –– the planned expansion would compound delays, and could back up traffic onto Route 3 itself during peak traf-fic hours.

However, Houston be-lieves traffic lights would es-sentially fix the problem.

“We have a solution, which is signalization of the ramps,” he said.

Houston said there are two options: a light in front of the First Baptist Church, which is essentially directly across from the highway ramp, or a light to the left of the existing com-mercial building at 20 Trem-ont Street. There is currently a driveway there, but not a true entrance to the development.

Houston said the second option would work well with the idea of creating a “loop road,” an idea that the devel-opers say they are not inclined to build.

“I think a second entrance makes a lot of sense,” said Houston. “I’m hoping the loop road isn’t dead, I think it has a lot of merit to it.”

Houston also took issue with some parts of the traf-fic study, and suggested it be reworked. His office came up with some different numbers for peak traffic hours than the applicant’s engineer, who was not present at Thursday’s meeting.

Houston also said that the study assumed the commercial spaces in the Island Creek ex-pansion would be medical and office space, while his under-standing was that the project would include some retail. Re-tail spaces have a higher rate of customers than office space,

although some residents at the meeting pointed out that Island Creek residents could walk to the stores.

He also suggested that the developer add as many as 167 additional parking spaces, al-though he believes that num-ber would come down if the study is redone.

In addition to the traffic issues, the board and the ap-plicant discussed some archi-tectural changes to the devel-opment’s original plan.

Design review architect Keith Patterson pointed out that the condos and apart-ment buildings proposed in the expansion, at four stories, are two stories higher than the townhouses in the existing de-velopment. He also said that the buildings had an “urban” feel that was out of character with the other Island Creek buildings.

Patterson said that the cur-rent boulevard design was con-trary to the “village” design.

“It’s detrimental to the overall pedestrianization of the village,” he said, and sug-gested the developers look into the loop road concept.

However, representatives from Island Creek said that they wanted easy access from Tremont Street to the assisted living facility for visitors and emergency services.

The developer did agree to some aesthetic changes to the new buildings, removing a stone look from the front and making the entrances more noticeable, as well as reducing the buildings’ height.

Architect Andy Zaleski defended the project’s look.

“I’m quite confident in our product.”

The public hearing was continued until May 28.

Highway traffic a concern for Island Creek expansion


The bad traffic conditions cre-ated by the Exit 10 off ramps

from route 3 is a major concern for Zoning Board of Appeals members consider-ing the Island Creek expan-

sion. The congestion and dif-ficult traffic conditions were highlighted by this accident

Friday afternoon.


Miriam F. (Fleming) Conley, of Milton died April 25. She was the husband of the late Wil-liam D. Conley.

Mrs. Conley was a retired librarian from Boston College High School. She was a gradu-ate of Notre Dame Academy and Boston Busi-ness College. She also attended Northeastern University.

She leaves her daughter Anne Burgess and her husband Howard of Merrimack, NH; son Mark Conley and his wife Colleen of Clifton Park, NY; daughter Jane Foley and her husband Lt. Kevin Foley of Milton; daughter Eileen Gunderson and her husband Edward of Dux-

bury; son Matthew Conley and his wife Donna of Merrimack, NH; son John Conley and his wife Gail; and Robert Conley and his wife Gail of Plymouth. She also leaves her sister Eileen Gillis of Wayland, brother James Fleming of Dover and sister Jeanne Fleming of Quincy, as well as 20 grandchildren and one great-grand-child.

A funeral Mass was held at St. Agatha Church in Milton on April 29.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to My Brother’s Keeper, Inc., P.O. Box 338, Easton, 02356.

ObituariesSend obituary noticeS to [email protected]

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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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Linda Kandarian Ryan of Duxbury, 58, died on April 24 following a brief illness. She grew up in West Hartford, Conn. where she gradu-

ated from Hall High. She then graduated from Elmira Col-lege in upstate New York and received her Master’s Degree from the University of Hartford.

Mrs. Ryan be-gan her career as an elementary school teacher in upstate New York and moved to Bos-ton to teach at the Kennedy Hospital School for Children.

Shortly afterward she accepted a position in the publishing industry with D.C. Heath Co. In 1996 Houghton Mifflin Co. bought D.C. Heath, and she became a national consultant for the Elementary School Division, McDougall Lit-tell Co.

Mrs. Ryan joined The Junior League of Boston where she began many years of volun-teer service. She served on the League’s execu-tive committees and received both the Volunteer Recognition Award and the Sarah Lawrence Award for her contributions to the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington,

D.C. She also served on the board of the Bos-ton Junior League Garden Club. Her volunteer-ing for the arts extended to the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum School. Her club mem-berships included the Marshfield Country Club, the Green Harbor Yacht Club and The College Club of Boston. She was an organizer in Trinity Spirit at Trinity Church Copley Square, Boston, where she and her husband, Jim, were married in 1997. Her church membership extended to St. John The Evangelist in Hingham. Mrs. Ryan loved to travel, and ski with her husband, Jim, and daughter, Franci.

Mrs. Ryan leaves her husband Jim; her daughter, Franci; her parents, Albert and Lillian Kandarian of West Hartford, Conn.; a brother Steven, and his wife Stephanie of Summit, N.J.; two nieces, a nephew, and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

Visiting hours continue Wednesday, April 29 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the MacDonald Funeral Home 1755 Ocean St (Rte 139) Marshfield. A funeral service will be held at St. Johns Evan-gelist Church, 172 Main St, Hingham on Thurs-day April 30, at 11 a.m. There will also be a service held on Saturday May 2, at 10:30 a.m. in the Taylor and Modeen Funeral Home 136 South Main St, West Hartford, Conn.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to The American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St Framingham, MA. 01701 For on-line guestbook and directions please visit mac-donaldfuneralhome.com.

Sylvia Alexandria (Constantine) Vaz died Saturday, April 25 at Coyne Healthcare Center in Rockland after a long illness. She was 85. Born in New York City, she was the daughter of the late Alma and Osmond Constantine. Mrs. Vaz graduated from Holy Cross High School in Manhattan, N.Y. and Fairleigh Dickenson Uni-versity in Teaneck, N.J.

Mrs. Vaz was a nursery school teacher in Leonia New Jersey in the 1960’s. She also taught elementary school in Hackensack, New Jersey in the 1970’s. Her interest and research in holistic medicine led her to speak on tele-vision programs about the benefits of vitamins and health foods. She also taught classes to help people stop smoking. Mrs Vaz loved sewing and painting. Several of her oil paintings re-ceived awards in art shows. Before her move to Duxbury in 2002, she lived in Carolina Lakes, N.C. where she was a eucharistic minister and

communicant.Mrs. Vaz was the wife of the late Noel Vaz.

She leaves her son, Martin Vaz of Foster City, Cal.; three daughters, Maryanne Toale and her husband John, of Westwood, N.J., Diane Beres, and her husband John, of Galloway, N.J., and Barbara Lehman, and her husband Roger, of Duxbury; a brother, Morris Constantine of Ari-zona: nine grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Vin-cent Constantine, Oswald Constantine, Randolf Constantine, and Gladys Sinclair.

A funeral mass will be celebrated on Mon-day, May 4 at 9 a.m. at Holy Family Church in Rockland. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Residents Activity Fund at Coyne Healthcare Center, 56 Webster Street Rockland, MA 02370. To offer condo-lences please visit shepherdfuneralhome.com.

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The evening’s emcee, Jim Fagan, echoed that sentiment.

“We are recognizing to-night that each and every nom-inee in this room is an asset to the town of Duxbury.”

All 17 nominees were in-troduced, and the evening’s hosts described their accom-plishments. (See duxburyclip-per.com for a list of the nomi-nees and their contributions to the community.) The resumes of the nominees were impres-sive, ranging from those who traveled halfway around the world to help others, to those who found ways to give back here at home. Even those who couldn’t attend the evening weren’t on pleasure cruises –– Rev. Catherine Cullen was actually off building homes for the less fortunate.

For the first time, there was no single volunteer of the year –– the award was split among six categories.

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tee was completely over-whelmed,” said Alexander.

Paul Arsenian was given an award for his years of civic contributions to the town of Duxbury. Among his many accomplishments is cooking “thousands” of pancakes for the Mother’s Day breakfast. He has also served on the Fi-nance Committee and the Fis-cal Advisory Committee and has acted as chairman of Dux-bury’s School Building Com-mittee, Special Home Rule Committee and By-law Study Committee.

Lydia Hart of the Duxbury Thrift Shop was given the “Community Impact Award” for her work at the shop. In fact, many of the presenters and nominees took pride in pointing out, as the evening progressed, the various articles of clothes they’d purchased at the shop.

Fran Sullivan, who could not attend the dinner, was giv-en the “Youth Impact Award” for his work with Duxbury Boy Scouts.

Dan Hall and Chris Blake were jointly given the “Global Humanitarian Award” for their work with an orphanage in

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Peg McLaughlin was giv-en the “Duxbury Humanitar-ian Award” for working with the community’s senior popu-lation.

Bill and Maggie Kear-ney were given the “Lifetime Achievement Award” for their years of service to the town. Maggie is most recognized for her distinguished service as a selectman. She also serves as co-chair of the July 4th parade committee, and is president of the Duxbury Beach Reserva-tion. The couple is active with the Friends of the Duxbury Council on Aging; Bill also serves as a member of the Ca-ble Advisory Committee.

At the end of the evening, all the nominees were given citations from Duxbury’s leg-islative delegation.

“The contributions you’ve made are something I think we can all learn from,” said State Representative Tom Calter.

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ArT IN BLOOM: Blooms at the Complex, hosted recently by The Art Complex Museum, was a huge success. The annual event in which Community Garden Club members create floral arrangement for artwork in the Duxbury Art Association’s Annual Winter Juried Show brought in visitors from all over the area. Pictured: Community Garden Club members Lisa Pattinson and Sue Bradford chose architectural-like floral materials for their design for “Kom Ombo” by artist Mary Schiess.

Senior Club newsCome and enjoy our “Early Duxbury Memories” on

May 6. Frances Burns, Ann Reid, and Doris Prince will present their topic as it relates to them. We en-

courage you to add to these memories.The annual Senior Club luncheon was held at Carmela’s in

Kingston. The food choices and the company were worth the trip.

May is the time of year that the club members prepare for 2009-2010. The committees should be chosen for the executive board and the president will need help with the standing com-mittees. The executive board is voted for in June.

Trips to sign up for on May 6: White Mountain Hotel and Conway Scenic Railroad, North Conway, N.H. on Tuesday, May 19. The June lobster roll cruise is sold out. Monday, July 13 we have a trip that has been requested by all who have been to Cabbage Island. This is a one day trip that you just won’t forget. We will depart at 7:15 a.m. for Maine’s first and finest authentic Downeast Clambake. Cost is $121, and upon early sign up you must have a deposit of $61. Final payment is due no later than June 30 for a balance of $60. This is a true Maine vacation day for you. We are the only ones doing this trip. Make your vacation plans early.

Author Claire Cook returns to Duxbury to promote novel

The Duxbury Free Library and Westwinds Bookshop are ex-cited and honored to present national celebrity and acclaimed author Claire Cook. On Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. in the library’s Merry Meeting Room, Cook will read from her newest novel, “The Wildwater Walking Club,” and entertain us with her zany humor. In her charming new novel, Cook manages to perfect the blend of realistic lovable characters, remarkable insight, and laugh out loud situations. Dust off your pedometer and take a wildwater walk to the library! Free tickets for the event will be available beginning Sunday May 3. Tickets will be required for admission as previous Cook events have been “standing room only.” Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event, courtesy of the bookshop. For more information, visit www.duxburyfreelibrary.org and follow the Program Notes link, or call 781-934-2721 x108 to reserve tickets.

Book It at the Duxbury Free Library

Children in grades one and two can celebrate National Children’s Book Week at the Duxbury Free Library with a special pro-gram designed for them. Book It will be held on Tuesday, May 12 from 4:15 to 5 p.m. in the chil-dren’s program room. Af-ter listening to some terrif-ic stories, participants will create their own little book to take home. Advance registration is required and may be done online at www.duxburyfreelibrary.org, click on calendar, in person at the children’s reference desk, or by call-ing 781-934-2721 x115.


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DSU newsHigh School Coffeehouse/Open Mic: The Duxbury Student

Union is hosting another high school coffeehouse/open mic on Friday, May 1 from 7:30-10:30 p.m. All high school musicians are welcome to perform, especially all contestants in Duxbury Idol. This will be a great opportunity to perform your songs in front of an audience before the competition. Professional sound equipment and a sound engineer will be on hand, generously donated by the Musicians Development Institute in Plymouth. Cover charge $5 for non-DSU members, free for DSU members. If you are interested in performing or buying tickets, contact Bil-ly Jewell 781-934-9696. If you are on Facebook, you can also find details by searching for “DSU coffee house.”

Go Green at the Duxbury Student Union: On Saturday, May 2 from 9 a.m.–2 p.m., the DSU is hosting a green yard sale and market which includes a big yard sale to promote recy-cling, reusing and reducing our need for new stuff! This includes household items such as lamps, end tables, small appliances, furniture and kid’s games. Also available are hundreds of gently used books from the NY Times bestseller list at rock bottom prices. In addition, DSU board member Jamie McNab has built bat houses in the “green” spirit using left-over materials from his job sites. The design is in accordance with some plans specifical-ly for housing bats in the Northeast region. Housing, hibernation and raising a fam-ily are all accommo-dated by these bat houses. Orders can be placed in advance (call 781-934-2290) and picked up at the market. The bats eat their body weight in mosquitoes each night and they are the natural way to manage pest control without the use of chemicals. Sustain-able Duxbury will be in attendance shar-ing vital knowledge. This event promises to be a great morn-ing out for families with activities, food and beverages and great pre-loved items for sale. Wear an Earth-friendly shirt and receive a discount in The Blender Café. Bring your own coffee cup and receive a free cup of joe. Bring your pennies too. After all they are just taking up space in the coin jar!

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As brush fire season ap-proaches, the Duxbury Fire Department will be ready to respond in their newly-recon-ditioned brush fire truck.

The truck is one of two the department owns (the other was refurbished as well, last year.) The reconditioning cost the department $96,000, and a new truck would have cost over $400,000, according to Deputy Fire Chief Christopher West. He said the repairs cost about what the truck cost new in 1988.

There’s only one compa-ny that builds parts for these kinds of fire trucks, which are specifically designed to fight brush fires, West said.

“It’s a very tough truck,” he said.

The all-wheel drive ve-hicles can push their way into a fire, and firefighters basically use them to clear a path around a brush fire.

“When you’re battling these wood fires, they’re so unpredictable,” said West.

The trucks can hold 750 gallons of water, and differ from traditional fire engines in that they can pump water and drive at the same time. Other

engines have to stop, because the pumps and axles are con-nected to the same motor.

The brush fire trucks can also be used in heavy snow (it can be used to clear the way for an ambulance in a snow storm) or in high water caused by storms, West said. The de-partment’s other engines can be damaged by salt water.

They use the trucks to go to Gurnet for mutual aid calls. Although Gurnet is technically part of Plymouth, the neighbor-hood is connected to Duxbury by the Powder Point Bridge, so Duxbury firefighters are often the first to respond across the sandy roads.

Both trucks have about 10,000 miles on them, but West pointed out that those are “hard miles.” With the refit-ting, the department should get another 10 years out of both trucks, West said.

“When these trucks go into the woods, they’re taking a beating,” he said.

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St. John’s Guild will host Silver Tea

On Saturday May 2, from noon – 3 p.m., St. John’s Guild will host a Silver Tea in St. John’s Church at 410 Washington Street. The theme, “From the Heart,” will guide the afternoon’s festivities as women are encouraged to bring a friend or a special girl in their life to join in the tradition of afternoon tea. After enjoying tea, tea sandwiches and sweets together, patrons may visit the many tables filled with baked goods, jewelry, collect-ibles and homemade crafts for sale. In lieu of tickets, guests are asked to make a donation at the door. This annual fundrais-er of St. John’s Guild supports charities in Massachusetts and throughout the world.


Community volunteer awards

Senior Center worker Angela Sanchez makes her way through the applauding crowd in the Village at Duxbury’s banquet hall. Duxbury’s legislative delegation, state representatives Tom Calter and Daniel Webster

and State Senator robert Hedlund, were on hand to give the volunteers citations from the Statehouse.

Chris Blake and Dan Hall were nominated jointly for their work with an orphanage in Uganda.

Peggy McLaughlin, who gives her time to the Bay Path Nursing and rehabilitation Center, poses with the Village’s Carey Alexander after receiving her award.

Jim Fagan, the evening’s host, tells the crowd about the volunteers from the Special Education Parent Advisory Council, Jerry Nightingale, Nancy O’Connor and Kate Brewer.

James Sullivan, a volunteer with Duxbury Youth Soccer, is congratu-lated by emcee Jim Fagan.

Maggie and William Kearney pose with their nominator, Town Manager richard MacDonald, after the conclusion of the ceremony.

Patricia Coulsey, a volunteer for the Senior Center as well as the Odd Fellows and the rebekahs, accepts her award from Senior Center Director Joanne Moore and Carey Alexander.

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(Town Employee Health Fair) (No Bingo)Tuesday, May 5 – Guest Chef specialWednesday, May 6 – Vegetable stir fry, fresh fruitThursday, May 7 – Cheese omelet, tater tots, brownieFriday, May 8 – No lunch. Closed at 12 p.m.Free Movies…Thursdays at 1 p.m. Feature on April 30 will

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S.H.I.N.E. (Serving Health Information Needs of El-ders)…Your questions about Medicare (including Part D) and Medicaid insurances will be answered by meeting with our S.H.I.N.E. Counselors. A counselor will be available at the Se-nior Center on May 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29. Call Julie at x104 to schedule an appointment.

Men’s Breakfast…9 a.m., Tuesday, May 5. Enjoy a morn-ing out with old and new friends. Cost is $4. Call 781-934-5774, x101 for reservations.

Senior Breakfast…9 a.m., Tuesday, May 12. Our speak-er will be Jim Schulze, owner and president of List Well Real Estate Company who will talk about preparing your home for quicker selling success and the best possible experience in a tough market. Please call 24 hours in advance for reservations. Cost is $4.

Foot Care Clinic…Certified Nurse Jean Reardon will be at the Senior Center on May 12 and 26. Cost is $31 at the Senior Center ($45 for home visit). Call Julie at x104 for an appoint-ment.

Sadie Bus Trip…May 15 ..A recreational trip to Button-wood Park Zoo in New Bedford, a beautiful, modest-sized zoo that opened in 1894. The Zoo was closed for some years, then was renovated and reopened for touristers. Price for admission is $3.50. You’ll stop for lunch at 1 p.m., at Not your Average Joe’s’ on Rte. 6 in Dartmouth before the tour. The SADIE bus will take you there. Meet at the Duxbury Senior Center by 10 a.m. Call Joan at x113 now for your reservations.

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WhAt’S YourS? ShAre Your vieWS in our SounDing off SeCtion

It takes a special person to be a volunteer, and we wish we were one of them. We would be one heck-of-a volunteer! But there’s the time element.

Those 17 people nominated for the Duxbury Community Volunteer Award have so much time on their hands, they must know magic! How else do they squeeze so many hours in a day? If only we had more time … but TNT is showing episodes of Law and Order back to back, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday. USA is showing L&O: Special Victims’ Unit, to fill in any gaps, and Friday, of course, is family video night. Last Friday we rented “The Last Samurai.” It was very much about sacrifice, so we could relate to these community nominees who sacrifice so much of their lives; it made us feel like a nominee, ourselves, vicariously, until Tom Cruise got killed by so many arrows. Then comes the weekend, but Saturday the lawn needs mowing, and we have to pay close attention or else the neighbor boy who we pay $10 might run rampant through the ranunculus. Sunday is taken up by trying to relax, regroup and read the sales circulars stuffed into the newspaper, and there is no time left after circling the best deals that is not utilized driving to the store to take advantage of special one-day-only coupons.

Another advantage those nominees have is good genes, because helping comes naturally to them. Just as there are genes for blue eyes, there are genes for doing good. It’s not as if these volunteers sometimes have to force themselves to attend yet another youth softball meeting or pack turkeys in the Thanksgiving baskets. Because they were born with the right DNA, they would never rather just let someone else take care of the Fourth of July parade.

Unfortunately, our ancestors were lacking that generosity gene; they handed down to us the selfish genes. Oh, we can remember how the selfish genes of our parents ruled supreme; maybe they tried, but they couldn’t fight nature. They used to fry us fish sticks for dinner while reserving the T-bone for themselves, avec des pommes frites. Oh, they reserved the pommes frites, because they also reserved for themselves trips to the rive gauche while we got Disney World.

If only we had been born with better parents, we would be shoveling snow at the Senior Center or cross-stitching samplers or driving the bus to Tennessee for the Appalachian Service Program. If our parents had had higher caliber deoxyribonucleic acid we’d be at the PTA this very minute. We’d be chairman and we’d be organizing fundraisers.

What a whirlwind we would have been.

Teens take over the world ————————

School leaders are to blame for start time snafu

Recently our commu-nity has been forced to divide on school

start-time changes and our school leaders are to blame. They have disregarded their re-sponsibility to create a feasible solution for all 3,400 school children. Unfortunately, one population will be sacrificed, as we rob Peter to pay Paul. I am not alone at feeling shock and outrage that the needs of 859 students were ignored in favor of a “cost neutral flip.” With-out doing much research, one can foresee Alden children will suffer negative consequences with the proposed change. Grades 3-5 are learning vi-tal educational fundamentals. We can’t afford to experiment during these years. Districts switching to a later high school start did not jeopardize young-

er populations with an inappro-priate start time!

The Jan. 9, 2008 School Committee Minutes document discussing a later high school start to alleviate “tardiness rules and consequences.” The Dec. 10, 2008 minutes state “the school council has con-sidered four possible options” and “They have discussed the possible impact it would have on athletics, after-school pro-grams, busing routes and costs, as well as students on all lev-els.” However, neither options nor impacts are documented! At a recent school commit-tee meeting, it was admitted the decision did not have the proper amount of research! We must ask the Feasibility Study Committee, the School Com-mittee and the superintendent, what is feasible about sacrific-

ing grades 3-5?The first public communi-

cation of a High School/Alden flip was Jan. 14, 2009. On Feb. 4, the majority of school leaders voted on a dramatic change af-fecting many. Exceptions were Connolly and Heinstadt. The others acted without collecting proper documentation, without exploring various options and without community involve-ment! At what cost does a hastily, poorly researched de-cision stick? I challenge our leaders to go back to the draw-ing board. We must commit to work together to leave no stone unturned, instead of leaving children out in the dark and the cold, literally.

Elizabeth NightingaleHerring Weir Road

No excuses for these volunteers

There are times in print, when teens are heavily complained

about, worried over, and de-rided in general. This is not one of those occasions. On Satur-day, March 28, the Friends of the Duxbury Free Library held what was undoubtedly one of the most fun and elegant par-ties the town has seen in years. I could thank the board, the band, the attendees, and all the adults that got it off the ground, but what truly stood out to me that whole evening was the more than 25 teens who vol-unteered their services that

night, in every way. The foot-ball team came to move furni-ture. Joe Pondaco’s jazz musi-cians played beautifully. There were ticket takers, and casino dealers who treated the guests to a smooth, easy night. They were to a person, polite, poised, kind, dressed to kill, and sooo coooool. They are a credit to their parents, their teachers, and most of all themselves. We are all really impressed down here at the library, I can tell you, and terribly grateful to all of them and their parents.

They are: Brendan David-son, Chris Kimball, Duncan Ea-

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On Wednesday, 17 of Duxbury’s volunteer workers were feted at the Village at Duxbury. We thought this piece from the Clipper’s archives best expressed how we feel about these folks’ extraordinary dedication. – Ed.


I wanted to bring to your attention a certain in-dividual who is part of

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dad’s (Wilbur Stratton) beloved parrot Talulah got loose out-side our home. When my dad let our dog Bruin out, that was Talulah’s chance to spring to freedom. She flew right out the door. I received a frantic call from my father that the bird was loose and he did not know what to do. As I ran outside, I could see that they were calling out to Tallulah who happened to be in the highest tree in our neighbor’s yard.

After an hour of trying to coax her down, I took a chance and called the Duxbury Ani-mal Control. Thirty minutes later, our hero arrived in the form of Edward Ramos, along with his wife, ready to spring into action. After two hours of climbing trees with my brother-in-law in tow, Ed was able to coax Talulah into his hands and bring her back to us.

As Ed was climbing down, Talulah was fighting to escape. She was biting and grabbing his hand to free herself. Final-ly, he was able to contain her and hand her off to, and soon she was back home and safe.

I noticed as Ed came down from the tree, his hands were bleeding. What I did not know was he had just had skin graft-ing due to burns he suffered in an accident. We offered imme-diate assistance, but Ed insisted he was fine and declined our help.

Here is a man who unself-ishly interrupted grocery shop-ping with his wife and gave my

dad back his beloved parrot that he loves deeply. He was so happy! He cried with relief. My family and I would like you to know how grateful we all are for Eddy’s exceptional handling of this situation. We are and al-

ways will be eternally grateful. He deserves to be recognized as our hero and an outstanding human being.

A very grateful Stratton Family

The politics of paralysis

By Doug Friesen

In today’s extreme political polarization, both Democrats and Republicans have reached a point of paralysis, where neither side can focus on the

real issues as long as their brains are pre-occupied with demonizing the other. During a talk I gave last week about my recently published book, “Age of Entitlement – How greed and arrogance got us here” (Available from www.

AgeOfEntitlement.com), the questions were narrowly focused on partisan attacks, instead of the real meat of the matter, which was taxpayers bailing out negligent banks even while our own 401Ks are halved because of Wall Street’s greed.

The fact that the bailout under President Obama is unfolding seamlessly from the bailout first engineered by President Bush should be sign enough that the top

bankers have a stranglehold on both parties and all branches of government. I’m not suggesting a secret conspiracy with black helicopters and all. What I am suggesting is, what other outcome would you expect? After all, the key financial players in both administrations, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, are all alums of the Federal Reserve or Wall St. banks, and as such will protect their own. Not necessarily because they are bad people, but just because it’s the only world they know.

Nowhere in the bailout debate is the common sense, time-tested solution: Failing companies that have made huge mistakes must be allowed to fail. The excuse “too big to fail” is worse than just an excuse, it’s legalized extortion. The stock market has functioned many years through ups, downs, and severe depressions. It has done so by refreshing the free enterprise system with the blood of failed business models. Smaller banks that didn’t make stupid risks would gladly fill the void created by the fall of Citibank and others. Propping up zombie banks with taxpayer cash only serves to confuse investors as to where real value is. Ask Japan, who did the same with their banks in the 90’s and are now languishing with a stock market at a 25 year low.

It’s all about personal responsibility. Not one single official in charge during the economic meltdown has come forward to say “Sorry, we really screwed up.” Not that it would make us feel better, but acknowledgement of past mistakes is the only solid foundation on which a recovery can be built. No one, not politician nor voter, is taking responsibility for the crippling $11 trillion and mounting national debt on which we paid $451 billion in interest payments last year.

Democrats would have to admit that they have to stop spending the next generations’ money on government programs, whether or not they have merit. Republicans would have to admit that eight years of tax cuts without cuts to government spending have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. There is absolutely no difference between increasing government spending, and cutting taxes without cutting government. Either way, we are spending money we don’t have and have no hope of paying back in our generation.

In couples counseling, the counselor would say “It took both of you to screw this up and it’s going to take both of you to fix it.” The counselor would go on to point out that we could either endlessly blame each other, which will change nothing, or we can move forward from here, together.

The vindictiveness of the partisan attacks has another numbing effect. It numbs us to the fact that we are all Americans, all in this together, just with different viewpoints. Try this test: If the political speech you are using would be unprintable if you substituted an ethnic or religious group for the political group you are attacking, then the speech you are using is hate speech. Hate speech is not only cowardly, it is paralyzing. And it is paralyzing us to the huge task we all face to get the economy back to some point of common sense.

The writer is a West Street resident and author of the book “Age of Entitlement – How greed and arrogance got us here”

Cheers for animal control officer —————

May 5, 1977: Duxbury Firefighters Battle Manomet Blaze. Duxbury firefighters, along with firefighters from 14 other communities, aided in battling a forest fire in the Pine Hills section of Manomet in Plymouth which destroyed over 200 acres of private for-est. The fire was believed to have been set.

May 17, 1973: Six Dux-bury families appealed the de-cision of the Duxbury Board of Appeals that granted the Dux-bury Board of Health permis-sion to use land on the south-westerly side of Mayflower Street as a sanitary landfill. They said the present trans-fer station was a much better choice for waste disposal.

April 28, 1960 Styles keep coming back! These Keds advertised for about $5 back in 1960 look very

similar to the Converse All-Stars all the kids are wear-

ing today.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Duxbury Town Meeting met in March with the highest number of voters being only 629 (plus one mouse!) and the lowest 92. The number of voters, including

absentee voters, who voted in town elections was only 3152 out of 10,988 registered voters. Where is Town pride and sense of responsibility?

With the Town needing additional funds, a source of funds could be billing a fine on the non-voters! The following shows this was done in the past: In 1636 the General Court of Plym-outh Colony provided that “for default in case of appearance at the election without due excuse, each delinquent to be amerced 3 s. sterling.”

I do not know what the fine would be today, but it could be $30. The Town sure could use the fines from the 7836 non-voters that would amount to $235,080!

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DAA April vacation Island Camp

Katie Winter has fun making a striped t-shirt.

Maya Stahl holds down the shirt to put a bright yellow sun on her shirt.

Sophia Caslin ponders where to place her fern leaves to garner the best design.

DAA director Marybeth Brown, helps Olivia Szachta secure her flower onto the t-shirt. The wind made the the project quite challenging.

The colorful pastels made for an island look and Kelly Barr uses all of them.

Emma Szachta designs a shirt of yellow and green with a sponge brush.

Instructor Lynda MacDonald show Lucca Stringer how to put natural ferns on the shirt for a design enhanced by the sun.

Samantha Lovett and Peter McGill share the blue paint.Logan MacDonald designed a solid color shirt with flowers and ferns.

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Alden Roots: Major Judah Alden

John and Priscilla Alden had ten children—eight of whom had heirs. Their descendants have helped to build America for fourteen generations—and counting. An occasional series.

After Pilgrim John Alden himself, possibly the most celebrated Alden to spring directly from the Duxbury Alden family was Major Judah Alden

(1750-1845). Born in the old Alden house, the son of Briggs and Mercy Wadsworth Alden, Judah Alden was one of four brothers who answered his country’s call, on May 1, 1775. He had been an Ensign and clerk in Duxbury’s Minuteman Company since 1773. He served in Colonel Theophilus Cotton’s regiment and was present on Dorchester Heights in 1776 during the Siege of Boston. Judah Alden was commissioned ensign in Cotton’s regiment, May 27, 1775; made second lieutenant in July, 1775; lieutenant in Colonel Bailey’s regiment in 1776, and captain on January 1, 1777. He was confirmed as such by Congress, September 6, 1779. He was in the Continental service (Second Massachusetts Regiment) until November, 1783. At the close of the war he received the brevet of major. Major Alden served under General Washington and numerous examples of their congenial

correspondence survive today. He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of The

Cincinnati, of which he was vice-president from 1825 to 1829, and president from 1829 until his death.

On his return from service, Major Judah became a prosperous local merchant.

He built Duxbury’s first general store on the corner of Alden and Tremont streets in 1784,

and a new house (now owned by the Duxbury Art Complex) about 1790. The store building was later moved across Tremont Street and is now a private home.

The accompanying sketch was made by General Thaddeus Kosciusko at Valley Forge. There is a tradition that when General Lafayette, on his visit to Boston in 1825, first saw Major Alden, he exclaimed, “Alden, how are you? I know you by your nose!”

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Rep. Daniel Webster an-nounces that he will be avail-able to meet with residents at the Duxbury Senior Center. Webster will be available Fri-day, May 1, at 11 a.m,. Ap-pointments are not necessary and all residents are welcome to come speak with the Rep-

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Copies of the Massachu-setts Building code, seventh edition, effective Jan. 1 are available at the Duxbury Free Library. We have the one and

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Major Alden served under General Washington and numerous examples of their congenial correspondence survive today.


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Myths and factsAuthor Tony Horwitz recently visited Duxbury to talk about

his book “A Voyage Long and Strange.” Former Clipper books columnist Bob Hale reviewed the book when it was first pub-lished, that review is reprinted here. – Ed.

Tony Horwitz took us along when he retraced the voyages of Captain Cook in one of my all time favorite books, “Blue Latitudes,” made himself famous with

“Confederates in the Attic,” followed by “Baghdad Without a Map,” and now rediscovers the New World, in what may be his best book yet, A Voyage Long and Strange.”

To prepare us for the trip he provides quotations from James Joyce’s, “Ulysses,” “Mistakes….are the portals of discovery,” and Miguel de Cervantes’s, Don Quixote, “’Pray look better, sir,’ quoth Sancho, ‘those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.’”

Reading all forward material, ie quotations, prologues, prefaces, etc., before beginning a work of non-fiction is essential to

understanding what follows. In this instance, we learn that Horwitz “washed up in Plymouth……..It could have been Dedham or Braintree or some other pit stop on the highway near Boston.” Walking along the waterfront he came to “the rock” where he heard, “That’s it?” “We’ve got rocks bigger than that in our yard.” “The Pilgrims must have had small feet.”

Claire Olsen, the park ranger on duty, told him such questions were the least of it. Tourists want to know why 1492 isn’t carved into the rock. “Wasn’t that when Columbus arrived?” “Is this where the three ships landed?” (Meaning the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.) There is much confusion about Plymouth being where American history began. Some wonder why Pocahontas isn’t next to Squanto, “and….Hiawatha.”

Having graduated a history major from a private school and a university, Horwitz groaned at some people’s ignorance of their nation’s past, but then realized, “I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” That sent him off to find out what happened before the Mayflower passengers were greeted by an English-speaking native. Research included site inspections as well as archival research. It would be hard to say which is more fascinating, what he sees in the twenty-first century or what he finds in documents describing events long before 1620.

The oldest confirmed Norse settlement is L’Anse aux Meadows, dated around AD 1,000. Horwitz went to Newfoundland to explore The Viking Trail. Current inhabitants were neither friendly nor impressed by his pursuit. While describing what he finds, Horwitz gives us the story of the Sagas and Leif Eiriksson – to jog our memories in case we have forgotten.

Then he does the same with Giovanni da Verrazzano, Amerigo Vespucci and Christopher Columbus. Of the three Columbus caused the greatest stir and never gave up on his goal of reaching the Orient, not understanding “the immensity of what he’d done.” In 1508 Spanish colonists trickled into Puerto Rico and Cuba, and from there went on to Mexico and South America. Following tales of incredible riches, Spanish conquerors had by 1513, destroyed an “empire larger than Rome’s at its peak.” In Horwitz’s narrative Cortes, Pizarro, Balboa become flesh and blood figures – none bloodier than the conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who trudged thousands of miles across the Southwest seeking cities of gold.

If Coronado is the cruelest invader from Europe, the Zuni are the most enduring of the native tribes. Through guile and quiet strategy they survived the onslaught, and continue to survive with their language and spiritual lives relatively intact. “Though hit by the first wave of Spanish conquest, they nonetheless occupy the same territory they did when Europeans encountered them over 450 years ago.”

Horwitz takes us to Maine, Florida and Virginia. The Spanish came seeking gold, covering greed with the gloss of bringing The Church to savages. The French used that excuse also but shed less blood. The English needed land for an expanding population of undesirables and markets for their goods. Piety served their purpose.

Returning to Massachusetts, the author sees Plymouth, “not as the cornerstone of early America, but as its capstone, piled on a cairn erected by all those who came before.”

Spooning up succotash at the Old Colony Club, Peter Gomes tells him, “The story here may not be correct, but it transcends truth. It’s like religion – beyond facts. Myth trumps fact, always does, always has, always will.”

Traveling anywhere with Tony Horwitz is always an adventure, never more so than on “A Voyage Long and Strange.”

Fourth quarter real estate taxes are due on May 1. Resi-dents can pay in person at the Treasurer/Collector’s Office,

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Are 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 in-ternational yo-yo collection. Would you like to show off your collectibles to the com-munity? The Duxbury Free Library provides a display case for this purpose. Past case collections have included salt and pepper shakers, baskets, teddy bears, Red Sox memora-bilia, Duxbury photos, 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 re-serve the case now.

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Girl Scout newsRegistration for New Girl Scouts: Girls who are going to

be entering Kindergarten through grade 12, who are not current-ly registered in a Girl Scout troop, are invited to join us at one of the two up-coming registration events to be held at the Girl Scout House. The first will be tonight Wed., April 29 from 6-8 p.m. There will be a second opportunity to sign up, or to simply come to learn more about our organization, on Saturday, May 9, from 9-11 a.m. We are also accepting registrations from adults interested in assisting with the leadership of a troop or serving in a more limited way. This registration is only for girls who are not currently registered with the Duxbury Girl Scouts. Girls who are now in a troop will be registering with that troop in May. Girl Scouting is a noncompetitive organization that helps girls develop leadership skills, allows them to participate in commu-nity service activities and helps them to develop new skills while forming friendships with other girls their age. We invite you to stop by and learn what Girl Scouting has to offer your daughter. We look forward to meeting you! For more information please contact our Registrar Noreen Roy at 781-936-8148 or Joan Riser at 781-934-5427

Leaders’ Meeting: Registration packets for girls presently enrolled in a troop will be handed out at a meeting on Tuesday, May 5 at the Duxbury Free Library at 7 p.m. These forms will have the girls/adults names pre-printed on them. Please be sure to have a member of your troop’s leadership team attend to ob-tain the forms for your troop.

Community Preser-vation Committee: Thursday, April 30, 8 a.m. in the Mural Room at Town Hall.

4th of July Commit-tee: Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center

Conservation Com-mission: Tuesday, May 5, 7 p.m. in the Mural Room.

Economic Advisory Committee: Wednesday, May 6, 8 a.m. in the Mural Room.

School Committee: Wednesday, May 6, 7 p.m. at the Alden School

Board of Health: Thursday, May 7, 7:15 p.m. in the Mural Room.

Planning Board: Monday, May 11, 7 p.m. In the small conference room at Town Hall.

Board of Library Trustees: Tuesday, May 12, 8 a.m. in the Setter Room at the Library.

Alternative Energy Committee: Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center.

Historical Commission: Thursday, May 14, 7 p.m. in the small conference room at Town Hall.

Zoning Board of Appeals: Thursday, May 14, 7:30 p.m in the Mural Room. Carriage Lane, 1053 Tremont Street.

Local Housing Partnership: Thursday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center.

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Congressman Delahunt to hold office hours

Staff members from Congressman William Delahunt’s office will be available to answer ques-tions or concerns from con-stituents on Tuesday, May 5, from 12-1 p.m. in the Mural Room at Duxbury Town Hall. For more information, call Rep. Delahunt’s office at 800-794-9911.

Reception for Martecchini set for May 12

The public is invited to a reception for Andre Martec-chini in recognition of and appreciation for his 12 years of service as a Duxbury se-lectman.

The Board of Select-men invites you to join them on Tuesday, May 12 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Dux-bury Senior Center 10 May-flower St.

For further information contact the Selectmen’s of-fice at 781-934-1100; Ext. 149 or e-mail [email protected]


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THE dEAdLiNE is Monday at noon.

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School Lunch MenuDHS

Monday: Mozzarella mania with dipping sauce, caesar salad, garlic bread stick, assorted fruit, juice.Tuesday: Grilled cheese, pasta salad, red and green grapes, fruit punch.Wednesday: Nachos, corn, pineapples, grape juice.Thursday: Homemade pizza, garden salad, trail mix, apple juice.Friday: No School.Daily lunch options: Specialty sandwiches, dollar menu.

DMSMonday: Mozzarella mania with dipping sauce, caesar salad, garlic bread stick, assorted fruit, juice.Tuesday: Grilled cheese, pasta salad, red and green grapes, fruit punch.Wednesday: Nachos, corn, pineapples, grape juice.Thursday: Homemade pizza, garden salad, trail mix, apple juice. Friday: No School.Daily lunch options: Specialty sandwiches, dollar menu.

AldenMonday: Grilled cheese, crunchy puffs, green beans, peaches,juice.Tuesday: Oven baked chicken mashed potato, glazed carrots, apple-sauce, juice.Wednesday: Mac and cheese, sweet peas, wheat dinner roll, fresh green and red apples, juice Thursday: Pasta bar, fresh tossed salad, green beans, garlic bread,juice.Friday: No school.Daily lunch options: Monday, Wednesday, Friday – peanut butter and jelly Uncrustable, Tuesday, Thursday – pizza with salad, Tuesday, Thurs-day – warm bagel with yogurt. All meals served with milk.

Chandler

Monday: Chicken patty on a roll, pasta salad, corn, mixed fruit, juice.Tuesday: All beef hot dogs, mac and cheese, steamed broccoli, pears, juice.Wednesday: Pizza slice-cheese, garden salad, watermelon cubes, juice.Thursday: White meat chicken nuggets, pasta salad, corn, wheat roll, pineapple. Friday: No school.Daily lunch options: Pizza w/tossed salad or Dragon sack PB&J avail-able every day, Mon.: ham and cheese, salad w/tuna, bagel box, Tues.: BLT, salad w/chicken, dragon box - deli, W ed.: Turkey and cheese, chef’s salad, bagel box, Thurs.: Chicken wrap, chicken salad, Dragon box - deli, Fri.: Tuna roll, salad w/tuna, bagel box. All served with milk, juice and fruit.

Thursday April 30DHS School Council meeting 5 p.m.

High School Ensemble groups 7 p.m. PAC

Friday May 1Grade 3 Friday Night Frenzy -- 6-8:30 p.m. Alden School

DMS Variety Show 6-8 p.m. DMS Auditorium

Saturday May 2Duxbury Idol 7 p.m. PAC

Monday May 4 Alden PTA Book Fair

Tuesday May 5Alden PTA Book Fair

Grade 5 Boys Night OutAfter school activities team meeting 4 p.m. Alden School

Wednesday May 6Grade 5 Girls Night Out

Alden PTA board meeting 10 a.m.DMS School Council 4 p.m.

School Committee meeting 7 p.m.

Thursday May 7DHS School Council meeting 5 p.m.

7th and 8th Grade Concert 7 p.m. PAC

Friday May 8No school -- teacher professional development

Thursday May 14Chandler PTA meeting

The Duxbury High School Drama Troupe will be per-forming a three act play, “Ho-tel Paradiso,” on May 8-9 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. This play is being directed by Mrs. Weatherlow and student directed by Krista DeVellis.

Tickets cost $5 for students and seniors and $7 for adults. Concessions will be sold at the door.

There will also be a raffle for tickets to an Aerosmith

concert and backstage pass. Tickets are $5 each and a book of five tickets is $20. The win-ner will receive two hand-written notes from Billie Perry, stating the prize and informa-tion on the concert. Tickets are only available to residents of Duxbury and towns within a 20 minute drive from Dux-bury. Tickets will be sold both nights and the winner will be chosen on May 9 after the per-formance.

‘Poem in Your Pocket Day’

Thursday, April 30 is “Poem in Your Pocket Day” at Duxbury High School. Students and staff at DHS are joining many communi-ties across the United States on this fun day. People car-ry poems in their pockets and share them with anyone who asks. New York City has been celebrating Poem in the Pocket during April’s National Poetry Month since 2002. To learn more about how to celebrate po-etry, or access its mobile poetry archive, go to poets.org/page.php/prmID/406. Poem in Your Pocket Day is sponsored by the DHS English Department and the National Council of Teach-ers of English.

Massachusetts reflections State winners from Duxbury attended an award ceremony March 28 at the radisson Hotel in plymouth. pictured are Jake Foote (DMS-visual arts), J.p. o’Neil (DMS-literature), emily McDermott (Alden-musical composition), Makayla robillard (DMS-film/video), and Natalie Hines (Alden - film/video). State winners not pictured are Celia borghesani (literature) and Maggie Kearney (visual arts).

DHS presents ‘Hotel Paradiso’

Duxbury Idol is just around the corner. The performance

will be held at the PAC Satur-day, May 2, starting at 7 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale start-ing at 6 p.m. Get to the PAC early, a sold-out crowd is ex-pected. The nine finalists are: Kate Cameron,Vivie Doughty, Michelle Ducharme, Ike Fon-taine, Brian Greenwood, Tori Larusso, Kerri MacLennen, Kerry Turokand and Jessica Williams. Come to Duxbury Idol and vote for your favorite singer.

Showtime is 7 p.m. and ticket prices will go on sale at 6 p.m., at the door. Ticket prices are $5 for children/stu-dents and $10 for adults. Re-served seats are available, call Liz Holt, at 781-834-4490.The Duxbury Idol is an important fundraiser for the Duxbury Music Promoters which sup-ports the music program for the Duxbury public schools.

Duxbury Idol showcases students

This is a new avenue of communication for the Li-brary and we welcome your inquiries via IMming. To Instant Message us from the Duxbury Free Library’s home page, duxburyfreelibrary.org, click on “Ask a Librarian” at the top of the screen. A box will appear saying “Click

Here to Chat with Duxbury Reference.” Click on it and the next screen will say “type here…” write your ques-tion and hit the enter key on your keyboard to send it to the Reference Desk. We are looking forward to receiv-ing your questions via instant messages.

Instant messaging at the library


Thursday April 166:35 a.m. Caller requests well- being check on Lincoln Street. Officer reports party okay.

7:27 a.m. Officer looking for suspicious activity from previous incident on Clearwater Drive.

8:00 a.m. Accident on Congress Street.

10:35 a.m. Motor vehicle stop on High Street. Vehicle towed.

11:33 a.m. Advertising left in driveways on Powder Point Ave-nue. Small plastic bags with rock inside. Reported as littering.

1:08 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Church Street. Written warning issued.

2:31 p.m. Suspicious cars in area of Bay Road reported. Of-ficer reports father assisting son with disabled motor vehicle.

2:44 p.m. Car illegally parked on Apple Hill Association prop-erty on Chandler Street.

3:35 p.m. Minor motor vehicle accident on Cross street.

3:37 p.m. Assisted operator with keys locked in truck.

4:02 p.m. Caller complains of speeding motor vehicle on Soule Avenue. Area search negative.

5:03 p.m. Residential fire alarm sounded on Merry Avenue. Set off by food on stove.

5:20 p.m. Suspicious person so-liciting on Tremont Street. Offi-cer transported party to station.

8:38 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Lincoln Street. Citation issued.

9:18 p.m. Caller reports motor vehicle blocking road on Bow Street. Officer advised to move along.

10:06 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicle reported at Holy Family Church.

Friday April 179:56 a.m. Caller reports find-ing legal papers on the side of the road on Kingstown Way.

12:26 p.m. Caller reports tree service truck either removing or dumping water at bogs on Chan-dler Street. Advised to stop and speak to board of health.

12:46 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Lincoln Street. Written warn-ing issued.

1:09 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Lincoln Street. Written warning issued.

1:50 p.m. Caller reports motor vehicle crashed into building on Depot Street.

2:59 p.m. Party in station re-ports vandalism to pump station building on Church Street.

6:37 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Church Street. Written warning issued.

6:56 p.m. Caller from High Street reports rabid raccoon. Ani-mal control officer notified.

8:42 p.m. Caller complains of loud construction noise on Frank-lin Street. Officer reports work-ers finishing up.

9:11 p.m. Kingston Police re-ports erratic operator heading into Duxbury on Winter Street.

Area search negative.

9:16 p.m. Officers assisted Kingston police with motor ve-hicle accident on Duxbury Road in Kingston.

10:45 p.m. Caller reports play-ing with handcuffs, unable to remove from wrist. Officer as-sisted.

11:17 p.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle reported on Tremont Street.

Saturday April 187:08 a.m. Caller reports house on Otter Rock Road egged during the night.

9:56 a.m. Caller reports erratic operator on Lincoln Street. Driv-er got on Route 3 south. State po-lice notified.

10:17 a.m. Motor vehicle stop on West Street. Citation issued.

1:50 p.m. Officer assisted with motor vehicle lockout on Ship-yard Lane.

3:15 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Lincoln Street. Citation issued.

9:18 p.m. Caller reports motor vehicle parked in middle of Lin-coln Street. Party spoken to.

Sunday April 1912:07 a.m. Caller on Trem-ont Street reports altercation by Harrison Road. Officer reports verbal argument between family members.

1:08 a.m. Motor vehicle stop on Tremont Street. Citation issued.

7:29 a.m. Caller reports vandal-ism on Alden Street.

11:12 a.m. Party on Tobey Gar-den Street found bag of motor ve-hicle registrations belonging to a Marshfield resident. Message left on owner’s house.

4:20 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Depot Street. Citation issued.

4:47 p.m. Caller into station to report a motor vehicle hitting a mailbox on powder Point Av-enue.

6:04 p.m. Caller on Summer Street requests officer assistance with an unwanted person on resi-dence.

6:39 p.m. Caller reports kids running through yard looking at his car on King Caesar Road. Area search negative.

8:40 p.m. Caller from Plumfield Lane reports daughter uncon-scious. Patient transported by ambulance to Jordan Hospital.

9:08 p.m. Caller requests ambu-lance for employee that hit their head. Patient transported to Jor-dan Hospital.

9:33 p.m. Officer reports pos-sible disabled motor vehicle on Lincoln Street. Officer assisted operator.

10:20 p.m. Officer reported small fire on Duxbury Beach.

Monday April 201:24 a.m. Caller on Mayflower Lane reports dog on Wirt Way barking for about an hour. Animal control notified in the morning.

6:10 a.m. Missing property re-ported on Soule Avenue.

10:03 a.m. Caller on Duxbury Beach Road reports graffiti on wall of building.

10:52 a.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle reported on Carriage Lane.

11:10 a.m. Caller reports neigh-bors’ landscaper throwing leaves into his yard on Old Barn Road. Officer spoke to all parties.

12:26 p.m. Disabled motor ve-hicle on Congress Street. Assis-tance enroute.

2:08 p.m. Missing property re-ported on Priscilla Lane.

2:27 p.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle reported on Merry Avenue.

5:04 p.m. Motor vehicle stopped on Bay Road for speeding. Cita-tion issued.

5:29 p.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle parked at Blakeman’s. No one around.

5:44 p.m. Motor vehicle stopped on Tobey Garden Street. Citation issued.

9:35 p.m. Property check on Chandler Street. All secure.

Tuesday April 211:07 p.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle reported at Farfar’s.

10:35 a.m. Caller reports work truck illegally parked in bad spot on the corner of Homestead Place.

12:41 p.m. Accident reported on Depot Street. No injuries.

1:54 p.m. Caller reports front window broken on building on Tremont Street. Appears to be shot with BB gun.

4:07 p.m. Assisted with motor vehicle lockout on Kingstown Way.

4:37 p.m. Caller on St. George Street reports motor vehicle was struck.

5:41 p.m. Officer reports win-dow open in building on Con-gress Street. Left message with real estate company.

5:59 p.m. Disabled motor ve-hicle on Oak Street. Citation is-sued.

8:52 p.m. Harbormaster reports suspicious motor vehicle parked at Blakeman’s lot.

10:48 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Depot Street. Citation issued.

Wednesday April 225:16 a.m. Assisted Marshfield Police with track and accident.

9:10 a.m. Caller reports motor vehicle accident in parking lot on Bay Road. No injuries.

9:46 a.m. Caller on Mayflower Street reports person going door to door. Officer spoke to suspi-cious party.

12:28 p.m. Officer reports lane blocked on Elm Street by con-tractors. Party spoken to and ve-hicle moved.

1:47 p.m. Larceny reported on Tremont Street.

10:19 p.m. Suspicious person on a bicycle reported on Summer Street.

10:27 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicle reported at Duxbury Fix it Shop.

10:33 p.m. Caller on Bow Street reports trouble breathing. Patient taken to Jordan Hospital.

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By Bruce Barrett, clipper columnist [email protected]

Maura Buckley Troiano carved a nifty evening of fun out of three comic

one-acts set in Victorian times, or there about. Produced by Larry Loveridge for the Bay Players, the three vignettes gave the company a crisp, manageable and enjoyable evening’s worth of theater fun at a time when the troupe seems to be finding its footing for a new century.

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Theater’s single-level presentation (no raised stage or platform) challenges the small audience at times, but the drawing-room atmosphere makes up the difference. One has the feeling of enjoying the artistry of friends in a grand house. Small audience? Yes, but in an intimate place and packed together just enough for laughter to spread easily.

Maura’s direction clearly encouraged the players to connect, support and improvise, and so they did! The result was a tight little

By Julia swem, clipper intern

American Student Assistance em-ployees dedicated

two of their business day to help clean up Camp Wing for the summer. The idea of the Annual Employee Day in Duxbury was put together by Garret Ross of ASA, and has been very successful for three years now.

The volunteers work on projects that Deb Samuels, the head of Camp Wing, thought needed to get done. Because this year the days were held in April instead of May, there were different tasks that need-ed to be accomplished. These projects were mainly cleaning up from the wear and tear of the winter and included raking leaves, washing and sweeping cabins, picking up fallen brush, and getting the kitchen up and running. About 50 people vol-unteer each day, and the help means a lot to Samuels.

“Having these volunteer days are a huge help because without them our staff would have to do all this and would not have as much time to fo-cus on the kids,” Samuels said. She’s also thankful for dona-tions given during these hard times, like the power washers that were donated for the day.

American Student As-sistance is a financial orga-nization that handles student loans. They help students and parents understand how tak-ing out a student loan works as well as getting them the right information at the right time. Camp Wing is one of the host-ing spots for Crossroads for Kids, which runs many sum-

mer and year round camps for underprivileged children in Massachusetts. Its goal is to benefit disadvantaged chil-dren by giving them a fun, safe place to be a kid again. This program has run in Dux-bury for about 20 years and has been very successful. The Camp provides children with a home away from home and someone to support and mo-tivate them along the way.

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WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?

Bay Players make it light with one-acts

Camp Wing cleanupAmerican Student Assistance employees pitch in for third year

Volunteers from American Student Assistance pick up

brush at Camp Wing last week. The company’s employees dedicated two days to help

clean up the camp and prepare it for the spring and summer.

ASA employees take a break for lunch during the cleanup at Camp Wing.

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Religious ServicesFirst Baptist

fbcd.org 781- 934-6095

Dr. Kevin CassidySunday worship, 9:30 a.m.,

Sunday school class, children through adult, immediately fol-lowing morning worship; 5:30 p.m., junior and senior high youth groups; 6 p.m., devotion and prayer time; Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m., ladies’ Bible study, 6:30 p.m., Awana for children age 4 - 6th grade, 6:45 p.m., adult Bible study taught by Pas-tor Kevin.

Holy Family Churchholyfamilyduxbury.org

Rev. Bryan Parrish781-934-5055

Weekend Mass: Saturday, 5 p.m., Sunday, 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., family Mass, 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. babysitting avail-able at 8:30 and 10 a.m. Daily Mass: Monday-Saturday, 8:15 a.m. The rosary is prayed after daily Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Fridays, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Daytime Bible study Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. Eve-ning prayer group Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Men’s prayer group Fridays, 6:45 a.m.

Pilgrim [email protected]

Rev. Todd Vetter, Senior PastorRev. Eloise Parks, Associate Pastor

781-934-6591Sunday schedule: Worship

Service, 10 a.m., Kids Klub -- 2:30 p.m., Junior Youth Fel-lowship – 5 p.m. Church of-fice hours, Mon., 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tuesday - Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Pilgrim childcare and pre-school, Monday-Friday, 7 a.m-6 p.m. Ladies’ Bible Study is held on Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, at 9 a.m. Open Bible Study on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Confirmation retreat, May 1 and 2. Mission trip din-ner, May 2. May 3, Church school “breakfast at the beach” at 9:45 a.m.

United Methodist Church

highstreetumc.orgRev. Barbara Kszystyniak

781-585-9863 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. Church office hours are Mon-day - Thursday from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Church of St. John the Evangeliststjohnsduxbury.org

Rev. Roy Tripp781-934-6523

Sunday services, 8 a.m., with music 10 a.m. Wednes-days, men’s Bible study, 6:30

a.m., Holy Eucharist and Heal-ing, 10 a.m., children and youth choir rehearsal in the evening. Thursday evenings, adult choir rehearsal. Fridays, AA meeting, 7 p.m. First Monday of each month, God On Tap, 7 p.m., at the Tsang’s Cafe. Come for tea and shopping at St. John’s Sil-ver Tea, May 2 from 12-3 p.m.

First Parish Churchduxburyuu.org

Rev. Catherine Cullen781-934-6532

Sunday worship, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Church school classes meet downstairs in the Parish House at the same time. Junior Choir, 9:15 a.m., Senior Choir, 9:30 a.m., HIP youth group, 6 p.m., Buddhist group, first and third Sunday at 7 p.m. Book Group, Thursdays at 9 a.m., sewing group at 10 a.m. May 3, ordina-tion of Tim Temerson at 4 p.m. May 6, Alliance luncheon at Ce-dar Hill at 12 p.m.

St. Paul’s Church of the NazareneRev. David Troxler

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

Nursery is provided for all ser-vices. Sunday school meets Sunday morning from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. Bay Path Nursing Home Ministry held Sundays at 2 p.m. at 308 Kingstown Way. Wednesdays, the Sacred Youth Ministry will meet at the teen center at 6:30 p.m. Women’s Bible study is held on Fridays at 9:30 a.m. Men’s Bible Study is held Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Di-vorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids meets from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each Thursday through May 14 at the church.

First Church of Christ Scientist

781-934-6434Sunday, 10:30 a.m., service

and Sunday school for youth to age 20, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., service.

Journey Community of Faith

www.journeyduxbury.com Rev. David Woods

781-585-8295Service with Communion

on May 3 will be held at the Bay Farm Montessori School at 10 a.m.

Living Waters Community of Hope

LivingWatersCH.orgRev. Kendra Vaughan Hovey

[email protected] Box 1761 Duxbury, 02331

Worship services will be held at the Ford Center of the Miramar Retreat Center on Sun-day evenings at 7:30 p.m. be-ginning on May 10.

Thursday april 30High School ensemble concert. Duxbury High School musical ensemble groups will perform at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Relay team captain meeting. The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Marshfield is hosting a Team Captain meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Marshfield Elks Hall, 1321 Ocean St. Past team captains, new team captains and anyone wishing to learn more about the Relay For Life is encouraged to attend. The sixth annual Relay For Life of Marshfield will be held on June 26-27 at Marshfield High School.

Friday May 1DUXFARM application deadline. Duxbury Farmers & Artisans’ Regional Market is currently accepting applications for the first annual farmers’ and artisans’ market in Duxbury. The weekly market will be held outside the Tarkiln building on Rt. 53 on Wednesdays from 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. from July 1 - Oct. 14. Interested vendors need to submit an application to the selection committee. For applications or more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 781-738-1673. The deadline to submit an application is May 1. Accepted vendors will be notified by May 15.

Ladies, Love & Laughter. The Zone Theater presents the play at 822 Webster Street in Marshfield on at 8 p.m. For reservations call 800-290-6825.

saTurday May 2Duxbury Idol. Saturday, 7 p.m. at the PAC, come watch the talented young people of our town and vote for your favorite! Box office opens at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5 for children/students, $10 for adults. Reserved seats are available by calling Liz Holt 781-834-4490.

St. John’s Guild Silver Tea. St. John’s Guild Silver Tea will be held from 12 – 3 p.m. in St. John’s Church at 410 Washington St. Women are encouraged to bring a friend or a special girl in their life to join in the tradition of afternoon tea. Baked goods, jewelry, collectibles and home-made crafts will be for sale, also. In lieu of tickets, guests are asked to make a donation at the door.

This annual fundraiser of St. John’s Guild supports various charities.

Ladies, Love & Laughter. The Zone Theater presents the play at 822 Webster Street in Marshfield on at 8 p.m. For reservations call 800-290-6825.

sunday May 3Grand Ol’ Fish Fry. To be held from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., at Thomas Reading Memorial Herring Run Park, Route 14, Pembroke. Annual fundraiser for the Pembroke Historical Society features fish cake or hot dog meals for $5 each, duck races, music, face painting and cotton candy. Historical Society items on sale. Corporate sponsorships available. Call the society at 781-293-9083.

Breakfast at the Corner Stone Lodge. All you can eat buffet served from 8-11:30 a.m. Cost is $6 adults, $5 children and seniors. The Corner Stone lodge is located at 585 Washington St.

Final BaYS concert. South Shore Conservatory’s Bay Youth Symphony presents its final concert of the 2008-2009 season at 3 p.m. at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center.

Monday May 4Weight-loss Confidential for Teens Support Group. The first group meeting will be May 4 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Hope Floats Center, 4 Elm St. Kingston. This group will provide how to build and sustain a healthy relationship with food and appropriate ways for losing weight for a healthy weight. The cost is $15 per group session. Two groups per month. For more information visit hopefloatswellness.com or call 781-936-8068.

Tuesday May 5Totally Green Organic Bodycare. Come to this Duxbury Art Association workshop to learn how to pamper yourself with organic good-for-you bodycare products you can make right at home. Workshop from 6-8:30 p.m. Each student will bring home eight products. DAA members, $60, non-members $100. For information and to register call 781-934-2731.

Congressman Bill Delahunt. The Congressman invites you to an office hours visit with a representative from his staff to field questions of

individual or community concern from 12-1 p.m. in the Mural Room in Duxbury Town Hall. For details, call Rep. Delahunt’s office at 800-794-9911.

Gardening adventure program. A Springtime Garden along the North River, Marshfield, Tuesday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. through the South Shore Natural Science Center, Norwell. The cost is $5 members, $8 garden club members, and $10 non-members; please pre-register to assure space. Meet at the Science Center by 9:30 a.m. to carpool to the garden or get directions and meet the group. For more information and to pre-register, contact the South Shore Natural Science Center at 781-659-2559.

Wednesday May 6Yoga classes. The Art Complex Museum is offering yoga is scheduled for four weeks from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesdays. This popular program is taught by Kathleen Young who is certified to teach yoga and fitness and has more than fifteen years of experience. The cost for the four week session is $36.

Skating lessons. Pilgrim Skating Club offers lessons for the spring, Wednesdays from 5:35 - 6:30 p.m. at Hobomock Arenas in Pembroke. Cost is $110 for 7 remaining weeks, plus $7.50 registration fee. Call 781-294-7575 or visit pilgrimskatingclub.com for more information.

Thursday May 7The Art Complex Museum May classes. Stories and Art for Preschoolers and Toddlers will be held from 10 - 11:30 a.m. The program begins with a story, followed by a snack and art project. The cost is $5 per session. Preregistration is required at 781-934 -6634, x15. Yoga is scheduled for four weeks from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Thursdays. This popular program is taught by Kathleen Young who is certified to teach yoga and fitness and has more than fifteen years of experience. The cost for the four week session is $36.

Friday May 8Scenes of the North River. Three Duxbury residents will be featured in an invitational art show and sale at the James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell from 6 – 9 p.m. The Duxbury artists featured in the show are Gayle A. Loik, Lily Cleveland and Bettina Lesieur. Tickets are $25 and will be available at the door and in advance by calling 781-659-7100. The show will continue in the James Art Gallery through May.

saTurday May 9Girl Scout registration. Registration events will be held at the Girl Scout House from 9-11 a.m. for girls who are not currently registered with the Duxbury Girl Scouts. The cost is $12 per girl (please plan to pay by check). Adults interested in assisting in a leadership role or in a more limited way are also invited to attend. For more information contact Noreen Roy at 781-936-8148 or Joan Riser at 781-934-5427.

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Question of the Week

Do you see any signs that the economy is improving?

“No. More people are losing their jobs. I’m hopeful it will get better, but it might take awhile.”

Kathy Lewis Standish St.

By mary Beth Goldman

“No. My parents are telling me to be careful with my money!”

Brooke Withington Bay Rd.

“Yes, but it might be temporary. People seem to be spending

more than a few months ago.”Marie Buonagurio

Heritage St.

“No. Stores are emptier and more of them are going out of

business.”Donna Moniz

Center St.

“No. Prices are higher for gas and food and things around the house. Not so many went away

during April vacation.”Helen Fulmer

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Tuesday, May 12 from 4:15 to 5 p.m. in the children’s program room. After listening to stories, participants will create their own book. Advance registration is required and may be done online at duxburyfreelibrary.org ,click on calendar, in person at the children’s reference desk, or by calling 781-934-2721 x115.

The Emotional Impact of Food Allergies. Speakers Jan Hanson and Shelly Creager, food allergy educators, will present on May 12 from 7 – 9 p.m. at North Pembroke Elementary School, 72 Pilgrim Road, Pembroke. Free. For information, call 781-444-7778, or visit asthmaandallergies.org.

Antique appraisal. On Wednesday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library, Leila Dunbar, of Antiques Roadshow Fame will present a lively foray into the world of auctions, appraisals and antique values. Ms. Dunbar will select objects from the audience and quiz people about the possible origin and value before rendering her appraisal. Tickets are required for admission to this event. Each ticketholder will be allowed to bring one item only for possible appraisal. Ticket distribution will begin on Wednesday, April 29 from the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call 781-934-2721 x198.

Sidewalk Art Day. Chalk Up One for Diversity will be celebrated by the Duxbury No Place for Hate Committee in Foodies parking lot Sunday, May 17 from 2-4 p.m., rain date May 24. Draw some sidewalk art expressing diversity, tolerence and peace! After

all drawings are complete a picture will be taken from the top of the fire department ladder truck. Music and entertainment provided. For more information e-mail [email protected] or call 781-934-8388.

Claire Cook. Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. in Duxbury Free Library’s Merry Meeting Room, author Claire Cook will read from her newest novel, The Wildwater Walking Club, and entertain us with her zany humor! Free tickets for the event will be available beginning Sunday May 3. Tickets will be required for admission. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For more information, duxburyfreelibrary.org and follow the Program Notes link, or call 934-2721 x108 to reserve tickets.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: An American Original. Dinner Theatre production starring actress Robin Lane will be held at The Duxbury Senior Center on Sunday evening, May 17 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m., and the performance from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the Duxbury Senior Center or Westwinds Bookshop for $25.

Ancient Medium, N.E.W. Terrain (New England Wax). At the Art Complex Museum, Encaustic exhibit runs from May 17 through Sept. 6. Opening reception, May 17, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Plymouth Manomartian 5k Road Race/Fitness Walk. Sunday, May 17, registration from 8:15 to 9:50 a.m.

Race starts at 10 a.m. at Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant, 6 Plaza Way, Plymouth. The race course starts and ends on Plaza Way. Questions, contact Jeff Perryman 508-224-0979, or e-mail [email protected]

ongoingThe Art Complex Museum. Now registering for its May classes. Yoga is scheduled for four weeks from 8 -9 a.m. on Wednesdays or from 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. on Thursdays. The cost for each of the four week sessions is $36. Stories and Art for Preschoolers and Toddlers is held on the first Thursday of the month, May 7, from 10-11:30 a.m. The cost is $5, per session. Preregistration is required at 781-934 -6634, x15.

Dedham Pottery at The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury. The selection on view in a case in the museum’s lobby represents all of the various types of dinnerware in the museum’s Bunnyware collection. Joseph Linden Smith, once a director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston originated the rabbit pattern.

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.

Ballroom dance lessons. Casey from Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Plymouth Teaches ballroom dance at the Duxbury Senior Center on Friday mornings from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a discounted $12. Call Linda at 781-

934-5774, x103 at the Senior Center with questions or to register.

DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids. DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids (for children ages 5-12) will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each Thursday through May 14 at St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarene, 136 Summer St. Call 781-585-3419 for details and to register. Cost is $25 for the first member of each family and $12 for each additional family member.

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

The Council on Aging Zumba and other fitness classes. ZUMBA Latin Dance Aerobics at 12:15 on Wednesdays and 12:45 p.m. on Fridays ($5/free for Seniors); Strength Training on Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; Tai Chi on Tuesday at 9 a.m.; Stay Fit Multi-level class on Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m.; Yoga on Tuesday night at 7p.m. and Wednesday at 9 a.m. Call 781-934-5774, x103 for questions. Poetry Circle. Meets on the second Thursday of every month, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Duxbury Free Library. For more information, call 781-934-2721. Senior Citizens Club. Meets on the first Friday of each month, 9:30 a.m., at the Senior Center on Mayflower Street. For more information, call Lee at 781-585-9242.

Cooking with Emil Lundin. Meets from 1-3 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Senior Center. Cost $15 per person. Menus vary. Proper plating, kitchen equipment, entertaining ideas. For registration, call Linda at 781-934-5774 x112.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Meets at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month at the Duxbury Senior Center. For more information, call Barbara Lashley at 508-830-1630.

NIA Holistic Movement Class. Meets on Fridays at the Senior Center. Class is $6 per person. For more information, call Linda at 781-934-5774 x15.

A Course in Miracles. Meets from 7-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Village at Duxbury at 290 Kingstown Way. A weekly study group discussing the book that has attracted national

attention. For more information, call 781 585-6007.

God On Tap. Meets 7-9 p.m. on the first Monday of the month at the Winsor House on Washington Street. Sponsored by St. John The Evangelist Episcopal Church. For more information, visit the Website at stjohnsduxbury.org.

Buddhist Meditation Group. Meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Sunday of the month at First Parish Church, Tremont Street. For more information, call 781-934-6532.

Foreign Film Day. On the second Tuesday of each month, 3:30 p.m., at the Senior Center. No reservations required. Admission is free.

Stories and Art for Preschoolers and Toddlers. Meets from 10-11:30 a.m on the first Thursday of each month at the ACM . Cost is $5 per session. Pre-registration is required by calling 781-934-6634 x15.

Burnt Toast Bi-Weekly. Meets at 4 p.m. on Thursdays, at the Duxbury Free Library and produces a literary newspaper. For more information, call 781-934-2721 x115 or visit the library website at duxburyfreelibrary.com.

Book a Librarian. The Duxbury Free Library is offering 30-minute one-on-one sessions to assist patrons in their life long learning quests. Information or using computers, you name it we will help. For an appointment or for more information, call 781-934-2721 x131.

Rep. Calter Office Hours. Meets on the third Friday of each month, 9-10 a.m., at the Senior Center. For more information, call State Representative Thomas Calter’s office at 617-722-2305. Caregivers’ Support Group. Meets the third Tuesday of the month, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Duxbury Senior Center. Open to all South Shore residents caring for family or friends (non-disease specific.) Facilitated by Norwell VNA and Hospice. Call Renee McInnes, RN, or Joan Wright at 781-659-2342.

Teen Discussion Group. Meets at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Duxbury Free Library. For more information, call 781-934-2721 x106. Hospice Bereavement Group. Meets from 10-11:30 a.m. every other Thursday at Jordan Hospital. For more information on specific bereavement groups and times or to register call Kathleen McAleer at 508-746-0215.

South Shore Conservatory’s Bay Youth Symphony will present its final concert of the 2008-2009 sea-

son on Sunday, May 3, 3 p.m. at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center, 73 Alden Street in Duxbury. Included in the program are Schu-bert’s Rosamunde Overture, selections by the BaYS Honors Woodwind Quartet and Hon-ors String Quartet, and a finale, Grand March from Aida, performed by all three ensembles combined. BaYS includes students from Dux-bury, Hingham, Marshfield, Milton, Carver, Norwell, Scituate, Plymouth, Sandwich, Hanson, Cohasset, Kingston, Weymouth, Braintree, Pembroke, Somerset, Quincy, Ha-nover, North Easton and South Easton. Tick-

ets, which may be purchased at the door, are $7 for adults. Students are admitted free. BaYS is supported in part by a grant from the Pembroke, Marshfield and Carver Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by Massachusetts Cultural Council. For more information, visit www.sscmusic.org.

Bay Youth Symphony final concert


COLLEGE CORNER

Do you have a son or daughter who plays or coaches in college? We’d like to know about it. Just e-mail their name, school, and sport to: [email protected]. We’ll do the rest.

By mike halloran sports editor [email protected]

Freshman John Keating (DHS ’07) knocked in two runs and drew two walks in his first collegiate start, as Wheaton beat Keene State, 19-4… St. Anselm freshman Bret Bartlett (DHS ’08) gave up just one run in four innings of relief in the Hawk’s 4-1 loss to Southern CT… As-sumption sophomore Nick Violandi (DHS ’07) scored 4 goals in the Greyhounds’ 12-11 lacrosse win over Dominican (NY) on Wednesday… Babson freshman Trish Babson (DHS ’08) had

a goal and an assist for the Beavers in their 18-4 win over Wheaton, giving them an undefeated record in NEWMAC play… Bates senior Caitlin Murphy (DHS ’05) and her Bobcat Varsity-Eight boat finished second to Williams on Saturday in a five-school meet on Lake Onota in Pittsfield… Bentley senior Chris Woods (Sandwich ’05) scored a goal and junior Kevin Gould (DHS ’05) assisted on another, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Falcons from falling to #4 ranked Merrimack, 6-5, in 3 overtimes… Sophomore Leigh Tedeschi (DHS ’07) scored a goal in Bentley’s 23-8 loss to Stonehill. She followed that up three days later with a 2-goal effort in a 25-7 rout of St. Anselm… Bridgewater State se-

nior Rachael Sprague (DHS ’05) went 2 for 3 with a home run and 3 RBI to lead the Bears to a 16-5 win over the U. of Southern Maine in the first game of a doubleheader… Sophomore Evan Novakowski (DHS ’07) finished 10th out of 25 runners in the 800-meters at the Red Flesh Open over the weekend in PA… Sophomore Grant Bowen (DHS ’07) went 1 for 2 in Carleton’s 2-1 win over #7-ranked St. Thomas… Junior Max Quinzani (DHS ’06) was named to the All-ACC Lacrosse team for the second consecutive season by leading the league in goals with 35. Quinzani is currently riding a 40-game scoring streak for the Blue Devils and currently ranks 8th in Duke history with 120 goals and 21st in career points with 137… Duke University junior

Betsey Sauer (DHS ’06) was credited with 3 groundballs as the Blue Devils lost to Maryland, 12-11, in the finals of the ACC Tournament on Sunday in Blacksburg, VA… Senior Chris Ajemian (DHS ’05) scored 4 goals and assisted on another in his final college game, as Fairfield beat St. John’s, 17-5, on Saturday… Junior Chris Nixon (DHS ’06) as-sisted on one of Georgetown’s 15 goals in a 15-7 win over Rutgers… Senior Steve Caramello (DHS ’05) scored 3 goals in Hartwick’s 8-4 win over Alfred on Saturday… Sophomore Sam Lenhardt (DHS ’07) went 1 for 2 in Holy Cross’ 5-2 loss to Lehigh on Sunday in PA… Holy Cross senior Sam Hallowell (DHS ’05) scored a goal in her final collegiate game in the Crusaders’ 16-12 win over American University… Indiana

senior Peter Antons (DHS ’05) was the only winner for the Hoosiers in their 5-0 loss to Illinois in the Big 10 Tournament… Ithaca senior Alec Siefert (DHS ’05) scored a goal in the #4-ranked Bombers’ 11-10 win over #23-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology to wrap up the Empire 8 regular-season championship… Sophomore Kerri Connolly (DHS ’07) shot a three-round total of 242 to help Maryland to a 7th-place finish in the ACC girls’ golf championship last weekend in Greensboro, NC … Ju-nior Taylor Robarts (Thayer ’06) had an assist in Merrimack’s regular-season ending 13-3 win over Franklin Pierce. Merrimack ends its regular season at 13-1… Senior Lexie Marrocco (DHS ’05) assisted on one goal and sophomore Erica Marrocco (DHS ’06) made 8 saves, but it wasn’t

enough to prevent the U. of Richmond from losing to St. Joseph’s, 11-10, and being eliminated in the Atlantic-10 girls’ lacrosse tournament… Ju-nior Rian Kearney (DHS ’06) was credited with 5 groundballs in Roger Williams’ 16-2 win over Nichols on Thursday. He scooped up 3 in a 5-2 win over Gordon on Saturday… Senior Tom Levesque (DHS ’05) scored 2 goals and sophomore brother Matt Levesque (DHS ’07) scored 2 goals and added a pair of assists in Skidmore’s 16-10 win over Clarkson… Wesleyan junior catcher Jeff Bizinkauskas (DHS ’06) went 1 for 3 with an RBI single in a 10-5 loss to Williams. In the second game of the doubleheader he went 1 for 5 with a double and

2 RBI… Wheaton College sophomore Ben Cederberg (DHS ’07) scored 2 goals and added 2 assists, while senior Jeff Gomer (DHS ’05) scored a goal and also registered 2 assists in the Lyons’ 12-11 win over Babson to earn the #2 seed in this week’s Pilgrim Tournament…Bridgewater State College junior pitcher Jamie Ducinski (DHS ’06) upped her record to 6-1 with an 8-0 shutout win over Worcester State on Saturday. Teammate Rachel Sprague hit a two- run home run in the win… Bates freshman de-fender Mark Murphy (DHS ’08) was credited with a groundball in Bates’ 9-8 come-from-behind lacrosse win over Colby.

John Keating

Max Quinzani

Chris Ajemian

Tom Levesque

Ben Cederberg

Jamie Ducinski

evening of fun where even the glitches (I counted only two) gave an element of Mel Brooks comedy. There was a very funny telephone ring that just might have been intentional. As Stan Burgess once told me ages ago, it’s not supposed to be a professional theater. That’s why they call it “community theater!”

Stan played the General, late of the East India Army, in the third show, Colin Campbell Clements’ “Yesterday.” Stan’s foggy old man is a scream, and Judy McGoodwin’s Lady of Quality is a charming, priceless counterpoint to Stan’s bewildered gentleman. Judy’s grace reminds me of Eleanor Bron, a favorite English actress. Don’t be fooled by the old man’s long pauses – they’re in the script! I won’t spoil the ending, but the little gem of a play has more to say about love and hope than most writers can fit into three acts.

“Fourteen” opens the evening, a glittering drawing room comedy (dining room, I should say) by Alice Gerstenberg. The show fills the stage with characters while only three appear before you. Marie Miller plays the florid socialite, Lady Trevor, to a T. Her swirling set of the best (or worst) of the best guests of England never appear, yet fill the room with humor. Dunham, the butler, and Lady Trevor’s debutante daughter provide the double-edged foil for Lady Trevor’s comic flourishes. Nathaniel Budd and Tori Clough keep the action flying, Tori every bit the long-suffering debutante and Nathaniel a master of the comic “take” as Lady Trevor’s demands twist and fold through the night.

“A Matter of Husbands” by Ferenc Molnar comes next, with Marcie Herold as a fetching “Famous Actress” and Elizabeth Layman playing the Scorned Wife who comes to confront the actress in her dressing room. I won’t spoil the kicker for this one either, but be prepared to be sophisticated. Molnar was, after all, continental.

I’ll let the evening unfold for you, and let you see how Maura has subtly woven the three stories together with a little magical theater dust. The Zone Theater is at the downtown end of Webster Street in Marshfield (822), well marked by a sign and a couple of waving theater types (including Larry Loveridge the night I went). Call 800-290-6825 for reservation and other information. The show runs this weekend for a final two performances Friday and Saturday nights, May 1 and 2, at 8 p.m.

Be prepared – it’s not a proscenium stage. But it’s not bare bones either. It’s community theater, and you’ll be close enough to smell the grease paint and the charm. The evening runs quickly and fills you up with laughter, beauty, and an eyeful of grand Victorian splendor.


Bay Players make it light

The Duxbury Youth Soc-cer Association is now taking applications for scholarships for the year 2009. The awards are based upon your prior participation in the DYSA program as both a player and a referee. Applications are available at the guidance of-fice at the high school, and should also be available on

line at www.duxburyyouth-soccer.org. A copy can be re-quested by emailing [email protected]

Applications are due by Friday, May 15 and no late applications will be consid-ered. Please mail them to: DYSA Scholarships, C/O Rob Hendrickson, 128 Oak Street, Duxbury, MA 02332.

Soccer scholarships available for high school seniors

781.934.6682

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Dragons’ DenSports Editor Mike Halloran • [email protected]

By mike halloran sports editor [email protected]

It was a good vacation week for the DHS girls’ soft-ball team, as they took on an-nual South Shore League pow-erhouse Abington High School twice and rode the pitching and hitting of senior Casey Ducin-ski for a pair of wins.

The girls traveled to Abington last Monday and got Ducinski’s best performance of the year, as she struck out nine Green Waves on her way to a no-hitter in an 8-1 win

The Lady Dragons got all the runs they would need in the first inning, and it was the senior lefty who provided her own support by opening the

game with a single, stealing second, and coming home on a pair of infield outs.

Duxbury strung four sin-gles together in the top of the

second inning for two more runs, as Jacquie Cronin, Alan-na Rourke, Kayla McGillivray and Laura Walter reached safe-ly, with Cronin and Rourke

crossing the plate. The offense continued to

deliver in the fifth inning, when Rourke singled and scored on a triple by Laura Walter, who scored on a single by Madi Duddy for a 5-0 lead.

In the seventh inning Wal-ter singled, while Duddy and Kristen McHugh walked to load the bases. The trio would all cross the plate, as an error and a pair of walks cleared the bases

The only tarnish for the day was the fact that Abing-ton ruined Ducinski’s shutout by reaching on an error, steal-ing second base, moving to third on a fielders choice and scoring on a sacrifice fly

The two teams returned to Duxbury on Thursday, and the Lady Dragons jumped on Abington pitching in the first inning, exploding for four runs.

A Cronin double, and an error and a stolen base by Rourke, set the table for McGillivray’s single for a

quick 2-0 lead. Walter and McHugh walked, coming home on a Duddy double that ended the rally.

The Lady Dragons scored three more runs in the bot-tom of the second, as back-to-back triples by Ducinski and Cronin, along with singles by Rourke and McGillivray made it a commanding 7-0 lead.

Duxbury would add its fi-nal run of the game in the third inning, when Duddy walked and went to second on a single by Ducinski. Kim Bond fol-lowed with an RBI single to close out the Duxbury scor-ing.

After pitching 11 innings of no-hit ball over two games, Ducinski finally gave up a hit to Abington in the fifth inning for a run, and surrendered three more in the seventh for the 8-4 final.

Now sporting a 7-2 record (prior to this week’s action), the Lady Dragons will enter-tain Rockland on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.

SOFTBALLDuxbury 8Abington 1

SOFTBALLDuxbury 8Abington 4

HiTLeSS: Duxbury’s senior pitcher Casey Ducinski threw a no-hitter and struck out nine Abington batters in last week’s 8-1 win over the Green Wave. The Lady Dragons returned to Duxbury on Thursday and pinned Abington with an 8-4 defeat.

Duxbury’s American Le-gion Post 223 is ready to be-gin its 2009 summer baseball season after a year’s hiatus. Post 223 has a long-standing tradition of producing “dream teams,” combining the best young adult baseball talent from Marshfield and Duxbury. The team will play a vigorous 20-game schedule in June and July against District 10 oppo-nents such as Plymouth, Sand-wich, Brockton, Pembroke, Norwell, and Rockland.

The tryouts will be held on two dates: Sunday, May 24, and Sunday, May 31, from 9 a.m. until 12 noon. The try-outs will be held at Chandler Field in Duxbury for all seri-ous baseball players born on or after Jan. 1, 1990. This age group represents the best talent up to the age of 19 that attends Marshfield or Duxbury High School, residents of Marsh-field and Duxbury who attend private schools, and college age players.

Head Coach Ryan Kane has been observing eligible players for this year’s team at local games, and is thrilled with what he has seen.

“These combined towns produce an impressive talent pool from public and private high schools alike,” he said.

Coach Kane currently ser-vices as the hitting coach for the Brockton Rox, a minor league baseball team. Kane has been in professional base-ball since 1995, when the Ana-heim Angels selected him in the sixth round. He has played with the New York Yankees baseball organization, as well as several other professional baseball teams. Kane is a resi-dent of Pembroke, where he lives with his wife and twin boys.

The American Legion baseball programs are keenly observed by college and pro-fessional coaching staffs. The nominal fee of $50 per player includes all expenses includ-ing uniforms. The final roster will be limited to no more than 18 players.

For additional information, please contact General Man-ager Peter M. Bizinkauskas, at 781- 934-7700, or via email to [email protected]

Legion baseball back in business

OPENING OF THE BAY 2009

The Opening of The Bay 2009 sponsored by Duxbury Bay Maritime School will be-gin its festivities on Friday night May 22 from 6 p.m. un-til 11:30 p.m. and continue on Sunday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. This is the 12th Opening of the Bay for DBMS and the first event in its new facility.

Highlights of the weekend will include a visit of the tall ship “Shenandoah”, a dockside reception, a silent auction and a dinner dance under the stars on Friday evening. Family Day on Saturday will feature music, games, food, kids raffle, tours of the ship and more.

TryoutsDates: May 24 & 31

Times: 9 a.m.-12 noonLocation: Chandler Field

The DHS girls’ lacrosse team continues to run rough-shod over its opponents, scor-ing 18 goals in each game in wins over Sandwich (18-4) and Westborough (18-14) dur-ing spring vacation week.

Duxbury now stands at 7-0 with three away games on tap this week, and it appears the Lady Dragons have to be consid-ered serious contenders for the Division II State crown based on

their performance so far.Westborough is the Cen-

tral Mass. defending State champion and the Lady Drag-ons didn’t seem to have much of a problem with the Rangers on Saturday afternoon, as se-nior Meg Muncey scored sev-

en goals, while juniors Ginny Desmery and Katie Griffin scored four and three goals, respectively. Siobahn McCa-rthy (2), Caitlin Burke and Liz Desmond also scored for Dux-bury.

This week’s schedule looks like three more wins for Coach Sue Paull’s team, as they gear up for their biggest game of the year on May 8 in Westwood.

GiRL’S LACROSSeDuxbury 18Westborough 14

Lady Dragons handle Westborough lax

Ducinski no-hits Abington in sweep


BASeBALLApril 1 Plymouth North over Dux 7-2 0-1April 8 Dux over Scituate 16-0 1-1April 9 Dux over Silver Lake 9-0 2-1April 13 Dux over Whitman-Hanson 4-3 3-1April 15 Dux over Hanover 8-3 4-1April 16 Dux over Middleboro 6-5 5-1April 25 Marshfield over Dux 6-3 5-2April 27 Randolph Away 3:30April 29 Rockland Away 3:30April 30 Quincy Away 3:30May 1 North Quincy Home 4:00May 4 Pembroke Away 3:30May 6 Hingham Home 4:00May 7 Quincy Home 4:00May 11 Scituate Home 3:30May 13 Silver Lake Away 3:30May 15 Whitman-Hanson Home 6:00May 18 Hingham Away 3:30May 20 Marshfield Away 3:30May 21 Plymouth North Home 6:00

BOyS’ LACROSSeMarch 31 Dux over Cohasset 11-5 1-0April 2 Dux over Hanover 18-5 2-0April 6 Dux over Pembroke 21-0 5-0April 8 Dux over Quincy 14-4 5-0April 11 Dux over Xaverian 11-6 5-0April 13 Dux over Scituate 14-7 6-0April 18 Georgetown Prep over Dux 13-1 6-1April 20 Dux over B.C. High 7-3 7-1April 24 Dux over Christian Bros. 10-5 8-1April 25 Niskayuna over Dux 13-2 8-2April 27 Silver Lake Home 3:30April 30 North Quincy Home 4:00May 2 St. John’s Prep Home 4:00May 4 Whitman-Hanson Away 5:00May 11 Marshfield Home 4:00May 14 Hingham Away 4:00May 19 Needham Home 4:00May 21 Bishop Guertin Harvard 7:00

BOyS’ TeNNiSMarch 30 Dux over Norwell 4-1 1-0April 1 Dux over Sandwich 4-1 2-0April 7 Scituate over Dux 3-2 2-1April 9 Dux over Silver Lake 3-2 3-1April 13 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 3-2 3-2April 15 Dux over Hanover 5-0 4-2April 16 Dux over Middleboro 4-1 5-2April 27 Randolph Away 3:30April 29 Rockland Away 3:30May 1 North Quincy Home 4:00May 4 Pembroke Away 3:30May 5 Hingham Away 3:30May 6 Hingham Home 4:00May 7 Quincy Away 3:30May 11 Scituate Home 3:30May 12 Quincy Home 4:00May 13 Silver Lake Away 3:30May 15 Whitman-Hanson Home 3:30May 19 Sandwich Home 3:30May 20 Marshfield Away 3:30

GiRLS’ LACROSSeApril 2 Dux over Hanover 20-3 1-0 April 8 Dux over Quincy 21-0 2-0 April 9 Dux over Hingham 14-12 3-0 April 13 Dux over Scituate 19-10 4-0 April 16 Dux over Cohasset 18-6 5-0 April 23 Dux over Sandwich 18-4 6-0 April 25 Dux over Westborough 18-14 7-0 April 27 Silver Lake Away 3:30 April 29 Marshfield Away 3:30 May 1 North Quincy Away 3:30 May 4 Whitman-Hanson Home 3:30May 5 Pembroke Away 3:30 May 8 Westwood Away 4:00 May 9 Barrington (RI) Home 12:00May 11 Norwell Away 3:30 May 14 Hingham Home 4:00 May 18 Notre Dame-Hingham Away 3:30 May 21 Sandwich Home 3:30

GiRLS’ TeNNiSApril 1 Dux over Notre Dame 4-1 1-0April 7 Dux over Quincy 5-0 2-0April 8 Scituate over Dux 5-0 2-1April 9 Dux over Silver Lake 5-0 3-1April 13 Dux over Whitman-Hanson 5-0 4-1April 15 Dux over Hanover 4-1 5-1April 16 Dux over Middleboro 4-1 6-1April 27 Randolph Home 3:30April 29 Rockland Home 3:30May 1 North Quincy Away 3:30May 4 Pembroke Home 3:30May 6 Hingham Away 3:30May 7 Quincy Home 4:00May 11 Scituate Away 3:30 May 12 Hingham Home 4:00May 13 Silver Lake Home 3:30May 15 Whitman-Hanson Away 3:30May 20 Marshfield Home 3:30

SOFTBALL April 1 Dux over Plymouth North 9-5 1-0April 7 Dux over Quincy 4-0 2-0April 8 Dux over Scituate 10-5 3-0April 9 Dux over Silver Lake 6-5 4-0April 13 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 10-2 4-1April 15 Dux over Hanover 5-4 5-1April 16 Middleboro over Dux 10-0 5-2April 20 Dux over Abington 8-1 6-2April 23 Dux over Abington 8-4 7-2April 27 Randolph Home 3:30April 29 Rockland Home 3:30May 1 North Quincy Away 3:30May 4 Pembroke Home 3:30May 6 Hingham Away 3:30May 7 Quincy Away 3:30May 11 Scituate Away 3:30May 12 Hingham Home 3:30May 13 Silver Lake Home 3:30May 15 Whitman-Hanson Away 3:30May 18 Fontbonne Home 4:00May 21 Plymouth North Away 3:30

SAiLiNGMarch 29 Hotchkiss, Falmouth, Cape elizabeth – 1-0April 1 Dux over St. John’s Prep 4-0 2-0April 4 Dux over Portsmouth-Abbey 3-2 3-0 April 8 Dux over Manchester – 4-0April 14 Dux over Bishop Stang – 5-0 April 17 Dux over BB & N – 6-0 April 18 Dux over Tabor 3-2 7-0April 18 Dux over Milton Academy 3-0 8-0April 18 Dux over Manchester 5-0 9-0April 25 Fleet Race Clinic for Qualifiers Boston 9:00April 26 O’Day Fleet Race Sail Maine 9:00April 29 Barnstable Home 3:00April 30 BC High School Away 3:00May 9 National Fleet Race Champ St. P., FL 9:00 May 9 Wild Card Weekend TBD TBDMay 9 Herreshoff Champ (Women) TBD TBDMay 14 Falmouth Home 3:00 May 16 NE Team Race Champ TBD 9:00 May 23 Team Race Nationals Palo Alto 9:00 May 30 Mass State Champs TBD TBD

BOyS OuTDOOR TRACKMarch 31 Hingham over Dux 89-47 0-1April 7 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 114-22 0-2April 9 Dux over Rockland 79-57 1-2April 15 Dux over Scituate 86-50 2-2April 15 Middleboro over Dux 105-31 2-3April 28 Randolph & Hanover Hanover 3:30April 30 Silver Lake/Quincy/NQ/Pembroke Silver Lake 4:00May 2 Frosh-Soph Meet D-R TBAMay 5 Silver Lake Away 3:30May 9 Coaches Invitational Durfee TBAMay 16 State Relays Milton TBAMay 18 All League Meet Silver Lake TBAMay 23 Last Chance to Qualify ND TBAMay 30 Division 3 Sectional Meet Wayland TBAJune 6 MIAA All State Meet Fitchburg TBA

GiRLS OuTDOOR TRACKMarch 31 Hingham over Dux 100-36 0-1April 7 Whitman-Hanson over Dux 101-35 0-2April 9 Dux over Rockland 70-66 1-3April 14 Scituate & Middleboro Middleboro 3:30April 14 Scituate & Middleboro Middleboro 3:30April 18 Frosh-Soph Invitational Notre Dame TBAApril 28 Randolph & Hanover Hanover 3:30April 30 Silver Lake/Quincy/NQ/Pembroke Silver Lake 4:00May 2 Frosh-Soph Meet D-R TBAMay 5 Silver Lake Home 3:30May 9 Coaches Invitational Somerville TBAMay 16 State Relays Milton TBAMay 18 All League Meet Silver Lake TBAMay 23 Last Chance to Qualify Notre Dame TBAMay 30 Division 3 Sectional Meet Wayland TBAJune6 MIAA All State Meet Fitchburg TBA

GiRLS’ GOLFApril 9 Barnstable over Dux 4-2 0-1April 14 Dux over Silver Lake 6-0 1-1April 28 Nauset Away 3:30April 30 Falmouth Away 3:30May 4 State Championships TBA TBAMay 6 Barnstable Away 3:15May 7 Silver Lake Home 3:30May 11 Dennis-Yarmouth Away 3:30May 13 Nauset Home 3:30May 14 Falmouth Home 3:30May 18 Mass Bay League Championships TBA TBAMay 20 Dennis-Yarmouth Home 3:30

DHS Athletic Department • 781-934-7668

Dragons Spring Sports ScheduleRevised schedule as of April 27

The Massachusetts Ama-teur Sports Foundation an-nounced that registration for the 2009 Bay State Summer Games is now open. The an-nual Olympic-style amateur sports festival features 24 sports for athletes of all ages and ability levels.

The 2009 Bay State Sum-mer Games are scheduled for July 6-19. Regional quali-fiers and tryouts will be held throughout June. Competitions will be held at top notch sport-ing venues including Bentley University, Harvard Univer-sity, MIT, Reggie Lewis Track

and Athletic Center, Univer-sity of Massachusetts Boston, and the New England Sports Center.

Competitions are offered in archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, baton twirling, div-ing, fencing, field hockey, ice hockey, judo, juniors basket-ball, lacrosse, pistol shooting, rifle shooting, trap shooting, soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, 6 vs 6 field hockey, and 7 vs 7 soccer.

Some distinguishing char-acteristics of the Bay State

Games include giving T-shirts to all participants, medals and award jackets to top finishers, affordable participation fees, and providing athletes with valuable exposure to college scouts.

High school students who are in 11th grade during the 2008-09 academic year and tryout for the 2009 Summer Games are also eligible for the Verizon Future Leaders Schol-arship Program. The scholar-ship program, which awards six $2,000 college scholarships to Bay State Games participants each summer, aims to identify

young men and women who will be tomorrow’s leaders.

New for 2009, the Bay State Games have added an initiative to award high schools across the commonwealth for their students’ participation in the Summer Games. The High School Spirit Program was cre-ated to recognize those schools that have the highest number of athletes in the 2009 Sum-mer Games. Every high school in Massachusetts is eligible to win a portion of the $5,200 in grants that will be awarded. Schools have been separated into three categories by size to

give everyone an opportunity to win the much-needed funds for their athletic department.

Registration forms and sport specific information can be found at the Bay State Games’ web site. For updated information about tryout dates, sport specific information, scholarship forms, volunteer information, and registration deadlines, visit www.baystat-egames.org, call the Bay State Games’ office at 781-932-6555, or e-mail [email protected].

Bay State Summer Games registration


Cheerleading registration

Duxbury Youth Cheer-leading will hold its annual registration on Saturday, May 2 from 9 a.m. To 12 p.m. at the Duxbury Student Union. Any child entering grades 2 through 8 in the fall is welcome to reg-ister. There are no tryouts or cuts in our program as every child cheers regardless of ex-perience or ability. All of our coaches are safety certified, and will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. Please contact Susan Law-rence at 781-582-0405 or Gail Lydon at 781-585-1636 with any questions related to regis-tration.

Join the fun, learn a new skill or improve your rowing this spring by rowing at Dux-bury Bay Maritime School. Rowing offers a full-body workout for people of all ages and sizes. The chance to tour Duxbury Bay by boat is unique and offers a beautiful perspec-tive in addition to exercise.

Novice rowers learn to row in touring Hudson shells that are both stable and lively, and all rowers are placed with oth-er rowers of like abilities and experience. Adult classes for novice and more experienced rowers start Friday, May 1 and continue through Saturday, June 20, once or twice a week,

for 90 minutes for each class. Registration is now open, but spaces are filling up, so don’t delay.

Please check the DBMS Web site (DBMS.org) or call the office for further details 781-934-7555.

Spring Rowing starts at Bay Maritime School

COA golf tournament

The Friends of the Dux-bury Council on Aging will hold it’s tenth annual golf tournament on June 1. We will hold the tournament in honor of and memory of Ralph Sarro, our member-ship handicapper and good friend who passed away in March. the event will be held at the Duxbury Yacht Club course teeing off at 1 p.m. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. and a recep-tion will be held at the Duxbury Senior Center at 5:30 p.m. There will be prizes and an auction.

The Duxbury Legion Auxiliary has one $400 schol-arship available. The high school senior must be an off-spring of a Duxbury Legion Auxiliary member or a mem-ber of the Duxbury Legion-naire. The senior need not

attend Duxbury High School. Applications are available in the Duxbury High School guidance office or contact Mrs. Reid, president of the Duxbury Legion Auxiliary at 781-585-3784.

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Congratulations to the Girls u12A team who took home the South Shore Conference Championship with an 1-0 overtime victory against Hingham. Front row: Haley Tileston-Connolly, Colleen Fallon, Katie Daley (goalie), Kaley Rudicus, Kathleen Donato (goalie), Jane Dudley, Logan Snelling, eliza Hartford, Nicole Quinlan. Back row: Olivia Crowley, emily Weimer, KC Williams, Caroline Hocking, Montana Sullivan. Missing from picture: erin O’Brien.

Bay Farm Montessori Academy will partner with The Duxbury Community Partnership for Children to host the 4th Annual 5K Run by the Bay and Kid’s Run for Fun. Proceeds from this year’s event will fund Bay Farm’s innovative educational pro-gramming for children ages 12 months to 14 years and CPC’s scholarship and professional development support for pre-school students and educators throughout Duxbury.

The 4th Annual 5K Run

by the Bay and Kid’s Run for Fun will take place on Sun-day, May 31 in Duxbury with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. The Children’s Fun Run will begin at 9:30 a.m, and the 5K Run/Walk will begin at 10 a.m. An awards ceremony will follow the races.

This event is open to run-ners, joggers, and walkers of all ages. The 5K Run will be-gin on Bay Farm’s campus in Duxbury where competitors will travel on a 3.1-mile course down Loring Street and along

Bay Road. The registration fee is $20 if registered by May 28; the fee is $25 if registering the day of the event. The fee is $10 for the Children’s Run for Fun and for children ages 13 and under who run the 5K. Registration forms are avail-able online at: www.bfarm.org. If you would like to receive more information or learn about sponsorship opportuni-ties, contact Barbara Hayes at [email protected].

Bay Farm Montessori to host 5K ‘Run by the Bay’

The 2009 April Vacation Camp was a great success. Dwayne Follette and staff of Gorilla Baseball & Softball kept those campers engaged, challenged and happy. They commented on how easy it was to work with this great bunch of girls. Thank you to all DyS Board Member volunteers. These girls are primed for Duxbury youth Softball’s 2009 Opening Week!

Beach Reservation to refurbish guard shack

The directors of the Dux-bury Beach Reservation, Inc. recently voted to overhaul the present guard shack at the east end of the Powder Point Bridge. It will be the exact same dimensions but with an attractive overhang to provide some protection from the sun for the officers. The Reserva-tion has also created new signs for the beach, most of which have now been placed, and it is repairing and repainting the gates to the parking lot.

The Reservation will have a computer rendition of the refurbished guard shack on display at the Senior Center on Monday, May 4, from 7-8 p.m. Are all welcome to stop by and have a look.


Not only do they provide for them for a week or so in the summer, they also check up on them throughout the year. One of their main goals is to let kids know that they have the capability to go to college and should try to take advantage of it. This is exactly why teaming up with American Student As-sistance is such a perfect idea, said Samuels.

Overall these days are well worthwhile, and inspire a wonderful sense of teamwork and community, Garret Ross said.

“This experience is great for the employees as well be-cause you have vice presidents and all other levels all working together who may not even get to see each other during the day,” he said.

Sweeping out the cabins was just one of the many tasks that had to be done to prepare Camp Wing for opening.


Camp Wing clean up

A worker uses a power washer to clean off the side of a cabin.

Try something new this Spring with a Before and After

Dark class. Interested in learn-ing more about the fundamen-

tals of gardening? Join us for a two-part series, Gardening with Jeanette, as you learn how to make compost, test the soil pH, and choose nursery plants,

and transplant. During the garden visit, instructor Jean-nette Mackenzie will demon-strate how to make compost, divide perennials, prune, and grow vegetables. Expand your horizons with a French Cinema in Conversation class, a seven-week class that allows students to explore two popu-lar French films and experi-ence the magic of French cine-ma as you expand your French language skills. On Monday, May 18, a one night workshop entitled Introduction to Dows-ing will be offered. Partici-pants will learn the basics of dowsing and tap into univer-

sal energy for healing. You can also experience Duxbury Outdoors with instructor Paul Bruce through adult classes on Clamming, Fly Fishing, and Bass and Blues Fishing as well as family classes such as Tree Swallow Sunday, Family Bea-ver Hunt, Turtles, Frogs and Minnow Catching, and Fining Fossils and Crystals on Dux-bury Bay.

Complete course informa-tion and tuition and registra-tion details can be found on the Before and After Dark Web site at www.duxbury.k12.ma.us, or by calling our office at 781-934-7633.

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“Chalk Up One for Diver-sity” will be celebrated by the

No Place for Hate Committee. Come to the Foodie’s park-ing lot to draw some sidewalk art expressing diversity. This is open to all who can hold a stick of chalk. After all draw-ings are complete a picture will be taken from the top of the fire department ladder truck. Children will be enter-tained by clowns, the police canine unit, and horse units. Police patrol cars and motor-cycles along with a fire truck will be available for up front investigations. Child ID’ing will be available by the Sher-iff’s Department. Music for all and free to all! Hot Dogs and other refreshments will be available for minimal cost. Sunday, May 17 from 2-4 p.m. Rain Date is May 24. For more information e-mail [email protected] or call 781-934-8388.

Summer Fun Arts Program dates and themes

The Duxbury Art As-sociation announces new themes for its highly success-ful and original Summer Fun program. Summer Fun is a visual arts program where children can stretch their imaginations, learn new skills and make new friends. Don’t confuse this program with others! This visual arts pro-gram incorporates art, crafts and creative activities includ-ing songs, games and stories.

This year the themes are:By the Sea: July 6-10Down on the Farm: July 13-17Rainforest Roundup: July 20-24Animal Expedition: July 27-31Mexican Madness: Aug. 3-7Knights & Princesses: Aug. 10-14Dude Ranch Disco: Aug. 17-21Under the Sea: August 24-28

Each week students ex-plore the theme by creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional art projects using an assortment of materials in the studio with the supervi-sion and support of an art teacher and a teaching assis-tant. Students learn about the animals, environment, history and culture relevant for each theme. The program focuses on the creative process and learning experience.

Summer Fun begins the week of July 6 and runs throughout the summer; ending the week of August 24. Parents can choose the themes and dates that most interest their children by en-rolling in one or all weeks. Summer Fun runs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The highlight of each week is the art show at noon on Friday when parents, relatives and friends are in-vited to view the art created by the students during week. The program offers specific activities and projects best suited for 2 age groups: 4-5 year olds or 6-9 year olds. An art instructor and teaching as-sistant work with a maximum of 12 students per session. Students are asked to dress for mess, bring a snack and a beach towel.

Tuition for members is $180 per week with a dis-counted tuition of $160 for an additional sibling in the same. The same price as last year! Non-members tuition is $220. Students may be-come members at the time of registration. Tuition assis-tance is available; a scholar-ship application is available at the DAA Web site: www.duxburyart.org.

For more information or to register, call the Dux-bury Art Association at 781-934.2731, ext. 4.

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May 4-15 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday thru Friday only. There will be a Thursday night registration on May 7 from 6-8 p.m., a Saturday registra-tion on May 9 from 9-11 a.m., and a $10 late fee charged for all registrations taken after May 15.

Please note: Only a parent/guardan can sign up a child for rec programs. You cannot sign up a friend’s child for our pro-grams. No exceptions.

20th Annual Basketball Camp: The boys basketball camp will be offered for boys ages 8-10, June 29-July 3. Boys ages 11-13, July 6-July 10. The girls camp will be offered for girls ages 8-13 and will run July 13-July 17. Hours for the camp are 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Fee for this program is $195.

NEW PROGRAMSSkills + Will (For High

School Boys): This clinic if for high school boys, taking place on Tuesday evenings from 5-7 p.m. at the DHS gym beginning June 2 through July 28 (No camp on June 22). This is a weekly clinic designed to work on basketball funda-mentals, functional training, and game time performance. Structured games will be a part of each session to allow the player to build upon newly developed skills. All campers receive t-shirt and water bottle. Fee for this program is $300.

Skills + Will (For High School Girls): This clinic if for high school girls, taking place on Wednesday evenings from 5-7 p.m. at the DHS gym beginning June 3 through July 29. This is a weekly clinic designed to work on basket-ball fundamentals, functional training, and game time per-formance. Structured games will be a part of each session to allow the player to build upon newly developed skills. All campers receive t-shirt and water bottle. Fee for this pro-gram is $300.

Small Ball: This program is for boys and girls entering 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade, ages 6-9. This one week program will be held July 28 through July 30 (Tues – Thurs) from 9 a.m.-12 noon at DMS. Small Ball is a fun introduction to the game of basketball. Children will par-ticipate in drills that will teach them about footwork, passing, dribbling and shooting in ad-dition to playing games. All campers receive t-shirt and water bottle. Fee for this pro-gram is $135.

Adult Tennis: A summer evening tennis program will be offered to Duxbury adults who are at the beginner, advanced beginner and intermediate lev-

els. Lessons are held twice a week during the month of July. Fee for this program is $80.

14th Annual Soccer Camp: A soccer camp for boys and girls ages 6-10 is once again offered this sum-mer. The camp will run June 24th – June 27 (Wed – Sat), 8 a.m.-11 a.m. each day at the Lower Alden Fields. Empha-sis on the camp will be skill development and the fun of soccer. Camp coordinators will be Matthew Cushing and Mike Coven who bring im-pressive soccer resumes to the camp. Coach Cushing is currently the men’s head soc-cer coach at Wheaton College, where he has led the Lions to their most wins in school his-tory. Mike Coven finishes his 36th year as men’s head soccer at Brandeis University. Coach Coven has brought Brandeis University a Division 3 Na-tional and an ECAC Champi-onship. We are truly fortunate to be able to bring such talent to Duxbury to instruct our youth. Counselors include many lo-cal college stars. Space in this camp is limited. Fee for this program is $85.

Kids Tennis: Six weeks of lessons will be available to boys and girls ages 8-14. Classes are organized by abil-ity; Beginner through Ad-vanced. One hour lessons are held twice a week at two different locations, Alden and Tarkiln. (Parents choose time and location at time of regis-tration). Classes begin the week of July 6th and continue through the week of August 13th. Fee for this program is $65.

Kids Camp: The ever popular Kids Camp is for boys and girls ages 6-12. Camp runs for seven weeks, June 29 through Aug. 14. Days of camp are: Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday camp (Beach Day) hours are 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Camp highlights include field trips, arts and crafts and games among many other exciting activities. Children bring their lunch and beverage daily. The camp is for boys and girls ages 6-12. Space is limited to 130 kids! Fee for this program is $695. Tuition includes cost of field trips with transportation.

Karate Kids: This one week program is offered to children in grades K thru 5. This program will take place Monday thru Thursday, (June 23-27), 4:30-5:20 p.m., at the Whidden School of Fitness in Marshfield. The instructor, Roger Whidden has a black belt in karate, BS and MA in Education and Counseling, as well as being a local, National and World Tai Chi Champion. Class focus is on basic self-protection skills, discipline and athletic conditioning in a fun and creative atmosphere.

Fee for this program is $45. (Uniform required, purchase at WSF for $30.)

Over 18 Pick Up Basket-ball League: The Recreation Department offers a two night per week pick up style bas-ketball program for Duxbury residents 18 and over. This program will start on June 30 and run through Aug. 20. This program takes place at the out-side courts behind DMS on Tuesday and Thursday eve-nings starting at 6 p.m. No pre-registration is required.

There is no fee for this program.

Summer Acting Work-shop: This program will be available to children ages 6-15. There are two sessions offered:

Session I: July 27-31 (High School Musical 3)

Session II: Aug. 3-7 (Han-nah Montana)

The workshop will be conducted by the South Shore School of Performing Arts in which participants will receive acting instruction and direc-tion during an intense six hour a day workshop, finishing the week with a full-scale pro-duction of. The program will be conducted at the Duxbury High School Auditorium from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fee for this pro-gram is $160.

Baseball Camp: This program is available for chil-dren ages 7 to 12. This camp will be held at the Keene St. fields Monday, July 27 through Thursday July 30 from 8 a.m.-11 a.m. Emphasis on the camp will be a combination of skill development and fun. Coaching staff will include

Steve Studley, Asst. Recre-ation Director, Head coach for Wentworth College baseball team, as well as local college and high school players. (All campers receive a t-shirt).

Fee for this program is $80.

Cooking for Kids: This 6-week program will be of-fered once again for the sum-mer season for children ages 7-12. The program will be held Tuesday evenings from 5:45-7:15 p.m. beginning June 30 thru Aug. 4. Class is limit-ed to 12 students. Fee for this program is $85.

Tennis Camp: This pro-gram will be offered to chil-dren ages 8-14 and take place at the DHS tennis courts. This is a 1-week camp and will take place Monday June 29 thru Friday, July 3 from 8 a.m.-12 noon. Emphasis will be on conditioning, individual ball skills and fun! (All campers receive a t-shirt). Fee for this program is $110.

Cheerleading Camp: This program will be offered to girls ages 5-7 who are at beginner level, or want to improve their cheerleading skills. The program will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning July 14 and ending Aug. 6. Classes meet at the DMS Lower Gym from 9-10 a.m. Focus of the camp will be on fundamentals, motion technique, jumps and warm up dancing. Class is limited to 14 students. Fee for this program is $65.

Horsemanship Camp: This camp is for boys and girls ages six and up and will be held at Timber Hill Stables in

Kingston. Participants learn horsemanship skills such as feeding, cleaning, and groom-ing of horses as well as daily care of the animals. Camp also includes a daily riding lesson. State of the art facil-ity and professional, licensed riding instructors offer a won-derful, kid-friendly, safe envi-ronment. Camp hours are: 9 a.m.-12 noon.

4 Day Camp: $265 each session

June 23 - June 26July 28 – July 31Aug. 18 - Aug. 215 Day Camp: $325 each

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Youth football clinic

Duxbury Youth Football coaches and DHS football players will run a youth foot-ball clinic on June 22 through 26 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Any child from Duxbury who is entering the second through eighth grade in the fall of 2009 is eligible to attend. Pre-registration is required. Go to duxburyyouthfootball.com for registration information. If you have any questions about the clinic, please e-mail Rick Davis at [email protected]. In addition, registration for DYF is ongoing.

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Duxbury Music Festival are now on sale. The Festival returns on July 10 for three weeks of beautiful music and festive community events.

Co-Chairs Judy Gagnon and Mary Steinke are pleased to announce this summer’s Festival concert schedule which opens at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center on July 10, with the Evenings Under the Stars Festival Or-chestra, Nicholas Palmer con-ducting, featuring Tian Lu, the winner of last year’s Duxbury Music Festival Solo Competi-tion. The Festival faculty will perform in several chamber concerts, including two in pri-vate homes on the Duxbury waterfront. Salsa by the Sea, under the tent on the Duxbury Town Green on July 18, fea-tures a reception and music by the Black Sea Salsa Band, which features “six horns, five rhythm, four vocals and one

great sound!” This year’s Fes-tival includes something for even the youngest music fans: a musical performance of Lit-tle Red Riding Hood on July 19, followed that afternoon by the return of Sunday in the Park, a free recital featuring Festival students and faculty. The final performance, at the Ellison Center for the Arts on July 31, features the winners of this year’s Duxbury Music Festival Solo and Chamber Competitions.

Ticket subscriptions are available online at www.dux-burymusicfestival.org. To purchase tickets by phone, to request additional information or to volunteer, call or email Laura Carleton at 781-749-7565 ext.14, [email protected].

The Duxbury Music Fes-tival is a program of South Shore Conservatory, a non-profit organization which pro-vides quality education in the arts for all ages, abilities and interests.

By christopher haraden, clipper columnist [email protected]

It’s not unusual for publishers to adapt successful books about current events for younger readers, and the election

of President Barack Obama predictably led to a number of such titles to be issued in the past few months.

“Obama: The Historic Journey,” compiled by the editors of The New York Times, was published simultaneously in both an adult edition and one for young readers, and both versions have been well received by the public.

But a parallel trend has developed that expands this idea

far beyond explaining issues and significant historic events to kids. New books, in fiction and non-fiction, are being adapted for middle-grade readers, and in some cases, for those much younger.

Probably the most visible use of this new marketing technique is what has become the Marley & Me franchise. Newspaper columnist John Grogan’s book about life with his dog, Marley, was a runaway bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, and the film version, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, is now available on DVD.

The film is being promoted as a family film, although some might argue that the movie itself is more about adult relationships and Grogan’s self-discovery than it is about the adventures of a fun-loving dog. But Marley is central to the story, and the images of the cute puppy drew audiences to the theaters, in much the same way that the dog photos on the covers of a number of books are designed to attract the eyes of younger readers.

The original book, “Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog,” has been adapted into “Marley: A Dog Like No Other,” which is aimed at ages 8-12, and “Marley & Me: Meet Marley,” which is for beginning readers as part of the “I Can Read!” series. Finally, there’s the Bad Dog, Marley! for ages 4-6. Each is based on Grogan’s original memoir, although the perspective has been altered to fit the target audience. It’s hard to imagine that all of this material grew out of a series of newspaper columns that Grogan admitted he sometimes resisted writing because he thought they weren’t interesting enough to capture his readers’ attention.

Another book that attracted considerable attention of local readers was Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea,” a memoir that chronicled how the help he received during a hiking trip in Pakistan inspired him to follow through on a

pledge to build schools in poor villages. The original subtitle of the book – “One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time” – was changed slightly in the young readers’ edition that was published in January. “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time” is targeted toward middle-grade readers and has been updated with new photos, maps, and illustrations, as well as a section written by Mortenson’s 12-year-old daughter. She has traveled overseas with her father as an ambassador as the Pennies for Peace program, and her perspective helps this category of readers identify with why this cause is so important.

Another adaptation, the picture book entitled “Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea,” is currently number-one on the New York Times Bestseller List for Children, making this true story truly accessible to all age groups.

An interesting result of this phenomenon is that adults can now share their love of reading with children in a way that wasn’t always possible. For example, if your book club is

reading “Three Cups of Tea” [as many area book groups are] you now can discuss this same story with your kids.

Another book following this trend is “Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.” An adapted version – “The Mayflower and the Pilgrims’ New World” – for ages 9-11

allows younger readers to experience the kind of storytelling that kept Philbrick’s book on the bestseller list for weeks, and introduced the “real” story of the Pilgrims to generations

who thought they learned everything about Plymouth Colony in grade school.

A more recent example grew from an unlikely place. The cover of the just-released book “Christian the Lion” notes that it is “The Story Behind the YouTube Sensation” – an unlikely launch pad for a successful book in any category. Authors Anthony Bourke and John Rendall have updated and republished their 1971 book “A Lion Called Christian,” which recounts the story of how they purchased a lion cub in a London department store and raised him for a year, then released him into the Kenyan jungle.

A video of the joyful reunion of the lion and his caretakers [shot decades ago] recently surfaced on YouTube, the Internet

video-sharing site, and reignited interest in the lion’s tale.

So in addition to expanding the original book with new photos and other material, the authors developed “Christian the Lion” for ages 8-10, and even included a 16-page color insert with photos of the lion and facts about wildlife.

The growing demand for this book – and the millions of hits the video has received on the Internet – demonstrates that good stories

endure no matter how much time has passed or in what format it is rediscovered.

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Christopher Haraden and his wife, Marilyn, own and operate Westwinds Bookshop at 45 Depot Street in Duxbury.

PRe-GAMe RiTuAL: Members of the girls junior varisty lacrosse team met at the Mcelduffs’ home for bagels and other treats before walking to school on April 15.

DuXBuRy MuSiC FeSTiVAL PReVieW CONCeRT: South Shore Conservatory President Kathy Czerny, Duxbury Music Festival Director Stephen Deitz and Festival Co-Chair Judy Gagnon with Preview Concert hosts Rick and Sharon Fownes.

Performing in the Duxbury Music Festival Preview Concert were Patrick Owen, cello, Beth MacLeod, mezzo-soprano, Regina yung, piano, Katherine Roussopoulos, violin, and Stephen Deitz, piano.


Junior goaltender Micky Zaverucha looks to pass the ball.

Senior Will Shields has anchored a solid Duxbury defense.

Senior Hakeem Lecky is an offensive threat in the Dragon’s midfield.

Senior captain Quinn Cully hopes to lead Duxbury to their sixth

straight state title.

Senior Steve Ripley evades a BC High defender.

Sophomore Kane Haffey has a become a major force at attack.

The 2009 DHS boys’ lacrosse team currently stands with a 9-2 record.

Senior captains Kyle Gavoni, Jake Harvey, and Quinn Cully are flanked by Assistant Coach Tony Fisher and Head Coach Chris Sweet.

Senior Andy Puopolo moves the ball up the

field.

Senior Matt Hetherington tries to put a move on his BC High defender.

Dragons prepare title defense

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Store ClosingSave 25% to 75%. Oriental Express regrets that we are forced to close due to economic times. We’ll be selling over 5000 rugs at unbelievable prices. Don’t miss this chance to own a one of a kind high quality authentic handmade rug. We’ll still be cleaning and repairing rugs. Oriental Express 45 Depot ST. Duxbury MA 781-934-5100 or 781-640-5100

For Sale4-poster mahogany double bed, $350; Service for 8 sterling silver including knives, forks, salad forks, teaspoons, soup spoons, Fairfax, $1600 - Valued at $2500 plus. 781-934-7515.

Captain's Bed with bookcase head board. Full-size, Storage drawers, 2 years old. Perfect condition - $400 or best offer. Call 339-236-0173.

Oriental Rugs, Etc. Made in Pakistan, 100% wool. Bacara design. Reds and browns. 9’x12’. $1200 or best offer. Also, cherry wood queen-size headboard, $125 firm. Two sets of four chairs, $100/set. Good condition. Accent table, $35 firm. Call 781-834-3890.

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White WickerWashed white wicker three seat sofa, club chair, wing chair, ottoman and lamp table; all with bright, sun resistant, off white floral decorator pattern. Like new condition. Purchase price exceeded $6000, Asking $2,700. Call 781-934-2779.

Kitchen Table and ChairsSolid birch table top on decorative steel pewter base with four solid birch matching chairs. Your price, $280; Jordan’s Furniture price, $1150. Good shape. Call 617-875-1990.

Antique Furniture for SaleSpool bed 56” wide, header 42” high, footer 32” high. Angled joints, $250. Hepplewhite bowfront bureau with bone teardrop keyholes, 36 1/2”high, 43” wide, bow is 22 1/2” deepest, 18” at sides. Asking $1750. Both pieces c. 1800s. Family heirlooms. Call 508-747-0524.

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Summer NannyLooking for a fun, energetic, part-time summer nanny from 6/30/09 - 8/20/09 for our 11 year old. Hours: Tues thru Thurs 8-3. Must have own transportation, excellent driving record and excellent local references. 781-934-9150.

Receptionist/Office Support for Duxbury Insurance Agency. Part time/full time possibilities. Send cover letter and resume to [email protected]

DJ Helper WantedMale or female wanted to help DJ set up and take down DJ equipment. $50/60 per night. Call for more information, 774-826-5000.

Help with Yard Clean Up No experience necessary. Just raking, light weeding and light yard cleanup. Hiring immediately. $12/hour. 2 1/2 days per week in May. One day per week throughout summer. E-mail [email protected] if interested, or call 339-933-4227.

Be A Process ServerEarn up to $50/hour. Serve papers for lawyers, full or part-time from home, in your own business. Must be over 18 years old and have own transportation. No risk-the courts are busy. Call 617-365-2646 (24 hrs).

Home Care Companion WantedLooking for home care companion(s) for friendly 50 year old man recovering from illness while wife at work - mostly afternoons and a few days/week, Tuesday through Thursday. Call Sidney, 781-934-6767.


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Duxbury 1 BR CondoWalk to stores and beach. Minutes to Rte. 3 and commuter train. $1200/month plus utilities. Call 781-690-0188.

Summer RentalDuxbury. Some weeks left. 2 BR on the ocean, private setting. Glassed in porch, large deck, W/D, cable/internet, BBQ. Beautiful ocean views. $1295/week. Call 978-407-3300.

House For RentDuxbury. 3 BR close to schools. Recently renovated. Dining room, front porch, hardwood floors, fireplace, W/D hookup, 1 car ga-rage. No pets. Available now. $1875/mo. Call 508-747-3814.Lake Winnipesaukee WaterfrontWeekly rentals available from June thru October. 4 BR, 3 bath home with covered dock, kayaks, diving dock, jet ski racks, tennis courts, private sandy beach. Sleeps 10. Glorious sunsets. Call 781-771-3548.

Summer in HawaiiSmall cottage, big enough for two (and possibly one child) for weekly rental from June 24 to July 21. $500/week. Located in a beautiful valley with a deck as big as the house with ocean and mountain views. Orchids, ferns, fountain, and huge pots of papyrus. All the conveniences – washer-dryer, high speed internet, cable, etc. Floor covered with mats from the South Pacific, Hawaiian quilts and art….Ten minutes from good beaches. 808-332-7668 or 808-651-5395.

Duxbury Townhouse For RentEnd unit with two bedrooms, 2.5 baths, eat-in kitchen, FP, sliders to private patio, A/C, washer/dryer, and garage. Includes use of tennis courts, pool, exercise room, racquetball court, and walking trails. Available now. $1950/mo. plus utilities. 781-910-5434.

Commercial Office SpaceFirst floor commercial office space and office suites available. 33 Enterprise St. (Rte 3A) Duxbury. 781-934-5900

4-Season Vacation Waterville Valley, NH. Deluxe new 3 BR, 3 full bath condo. Two master suites (one with Jacuzzi), loft also. Sleeps 7 max. Gas fireplace, walk to town square and athletic center, golf on site, boating, fishing, skiing. No smoking/animals please. 2 night minimum. Call Joe, 781-934-2002 for rates.

New ConstructionNew Colonial can be seen at RonMcGann.com Ron McGann, Inc. 781-789-1717.

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Cottage For RentDelightful cottage for rent in highly desirable, low traffic neighborhood near the water. 2.5 BRs, 2 baths, screened porch, outdoor shower. Sleeps 7-8. $1600/wk or $6000/month. Available June 29-July 31. Call 617-547-7009 or e-mail [email protected].

Duxbury Cottage for RentTwo bedrooms, 1 bath, ample parking, marsh views, gorgeous sunsets and access to private area of Duxbury Beach. Prime weeks available. 2-week stays $1500. Call 1-617-827-8650.

Green Harbor Furn. RentalsFamily visiting the area for a week, month or year? Have them stay at one of our beautifully furnished contemporary or antique Capes in Green Harbor. See www.homeaway.com/184284 or www.vrbo.com/98748 for details, or call Tom Crumlish or Donna Lee Kennedy, 617-576-9470.

Office Space for RentDuxbury, Millbrook area. Second floor, 300 sq. ft. Call 781-934-0809.

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Standish Shore RentalWaterfront home directly on bay with boat ramp and swimming area. Ample living space with skylights, decks, terrace and large yard. 4/5 bedrooms. 4 bathrooms. Rented furnished. Available for school year and summer weeks. Please contact [email protected].

NH Vacation RentalFour season, five bedroom home, close to ski areas, indoor/outdoor pools, hot tubs, fitness room, lake, tennis, basketball, game room, fully equipped. 781-837-5840 or e-mail [email protected].

Transitional/Short TermMarshfield apt. 1 BR, 1 bath, all utilities. Kitchen/living room combo, W/D, A/C. Completely furnished. No smoking, no pets. Owner occupied. Separate entrance. View homeaway.com #322866. Call 781-834-0035.

Vacation House Rental: Block Island, R.I. 4 BR house and 2 BR apartment rental. Ocean views and close to downtown. Call for availability. 781-378-1486.

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Downtown 651 sq ft office space in newly renovated building. Two offices plus large reception/conference area. High visibility, ample parking $750/month plus utilities. Call Colleen 508-747-4462.

Summer RentalOne prime week left. 4 BR, 2 bath oceanfront home on Duxbury beach. Fully appointed, including cable and internet, gas grill, washer and dryer, sand chairs. Multi decks. No smoking, no pets. Time also available after August 29, including Labor Day weekend. Booking Sept-May rentals, shorter terms considered. Call Jim for details, 508-651-2740.

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House for RentTwo BR w/loft, walk to beach, quiet side street, fenced in back yard w/shed & garage. Visit www.hometownrealtorsandauctioneers.com for more info & pics. $1500+, 1st, last & security. Please call Brian, 781-789-9443.

Summer House SwapSeeking 3-4 BR home in Duxbury- July 4 week. 7-10 days.Daughter of Susan/Tony Harris, sister of Jim/Lisa Badeau, niece of Jim/Sid McClure. We own 4BR/2 bath modern home on golf course/waterview, 25 minutes north of San Francisco, 45 min. from Napa and 1/2 hour from the coast. Had successful Duxbury swap last 2 years. Please e-mail: [email protected] or call 415-457-5918.

Summer RentalSteps to sandy Shipyard Beach, 4BR, 1 1/2 bath, screened porch. $1,750/wk July & August. Longer stays and June negotiable. [email protected]

Beautiful Bungalow For Rent528 Congress St. $1,700. 3BR, 2BA, Washer/dryer, dramatic great room with oversized windows. Conveniently located. Oak/granite kitchen. Lovely landscaping, mature perennials. Large open lot, plenty of sun and play area, surrounding woods provide privacy. Call 617-694-5161.

Southern Island ParadiseExperience private island vacationing on beautiful Kiawah Island, SC. A spectacular beach, 5 championship golf courses, 2 tennis villages, fine dining and more...2 BR condo with picturesque views of lake and island wildlife. Across the street from the beach. Available year round by calling 781-585-6203 or 781-331-5654.

Retail/Office Space AvailableFirst floor location in Duxbury, 570 sq. ft. Independent HVAC unit. Existing space is available as is or with modifications. $1000/mo. plus utilities. Please call 781-934-2186.

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B&B FenceAll types of installations. Wood, vinyl, chain link, ornamental. Also install mailboxes and clotheslines. Free estimates, local references, prompt service. Call B & B Fence, 781-291-9684.

Piano TuningMartin Snow, RPT, Craftsman Member Piano Technicians Guild, plus complete piano rebuilding service, sales. 781-837-6531. www.martinsnowpianos.com.

A1 Top to Bottom HousecleaningWeekly – bi-weekly – monthly. One-time cleanings our specialty. Over 10 yrs. experience. Duxbury refs. Michelle (508) 291-1864.

Need Computer Help?Does your computer run slowly? Do you need a wireless network setup? Memory upgrade? I’ll install, configure, optimize your computer, trouble-shoot application problems, educate you on surfing the web and help you buy your next computer. Scott, 781-626-2638.

Investigate the AlternativeTherapeutic Massage, Paraffin Hand Therapy, 15 to 30 Minute Sessions, Eat For Your Blood Type, Herbal & Aroma Therapies, Chemical Free Products, Resource Library, Astrological Charts / Reports. CHI Associates. Call 781-834-0035.

Let Us Do Your Dirty WorkSpring cleanups, beds edged, weeded & mulched. Pruning & planting shrubs. Seeding, sodwork and clean-cut lawn service. Over 15 years in business. Call Tom, 781-934-5023 or e-mail [email protected]

Carpentry Services Former carpentry teacher experienced in all phases of building construction available for home repairs, additions, kitchens, windows, bathrooms, playrooms, decks and doors, custom built-in cabinets, and home building projects. Have a home building project and questions? Call Jerry Morse at 508-353-7350 for a free estimate or energy-saving ideas.

Cleaning ServiceResidential and commercial. Free estimates. Insured. Call Maria Rizzo, 781-775-6237.

Teacher Seeking Summer JobExperienced nanny / early childhood teacher available for childcare starting June 29. Call Bridget, 781-291-1162.


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Math TutorDuxbury High School senior available for math tutoring after school or weekends. 781-248-3149.

High School/College StudentsWeekly lawn care, plantings - mulch, trimming, Spring - Fall cleanups. Reasonable rates. Call 781-294-4776.

Summer Babysitter AvailableMature, responsible, college junior seeking full time summer babysitting position. Own transportation and lots of experience. Call Meghan, 339-832-2275.

Painting PlusSpecializing in interior/exterior painting, power washing, gutters, carpentry, dump runs, and window washing. Free estimates, best prices guaranteed. Save 50% on interior painting booked this winter. Fast and reliable service. Please call Mike, 781-789-3612.

Custom Interior WoodworkingSeamless creative design from conceptual drawings and elevations to completion. Alterations, historic restoration, customized living spaces, interior finish. Call Dave Drew, 781-545-4246 or cell, 617-835-9044.

Handyman On Call30+ years in building trade. Small jobs - I will either do the job for you, or guide you through it. All types of projects and repairs. Free estimates. Also offering housecleaning services. Matt Lopes, 508-830-0082.

Gerard Connolly ConstructionRoofing, siding, replacement windows. Licensed and insured, free estimates. Call Gerry, 781-934-2642 or cell: 617-584-9183.

Tree Pruning & RemovalDeschenes Tree Service. Over 20 years experience, UMass degrees in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. Free estimates. Call 781-733-0429.

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Kleer Vu Window Cleaning Local, family-owned and operated. Residential and commercial window cleaning, power washing, glazing, repair windows and doors, clean chandeliers, light fixtures, and gutters. References, free estimates, fully insured, competitive rates. Call 781-585-2970 - all calls returned.

Babysitter/Nanny AvailableExperienced babysitter/nanny looking for single or multiple families to share child care. Available days, nights and weekends, own transportation. CPR certified. Please call Jennifer, 508-813-3071.

A Couple of CleanersResidential, commercial and one-time cleaning. Experienced, thorough and dependable. Free estimates, excellent references. Call SueAnn or David, 781-582-2167.

The Paint SaintProfessional interior/exterior painting, gutter cleaning, power washing and window washing. Best prices and service always with a smile. Will paint your home like it was our own. Call Andrew for your free estimate. 781-264-3628.

Lawn MowingReliable professional adult seeking additional income. Reasonable rates and reliable service. Call for a free estimate. Not a landscape company. (781) 608-7357.

Summer Tennis LessonsFormer DHS tennis captain with 5 years’ teaching experience would love to teach you/your kids how to play tennis this summer! Works with players of all abilities/ages, in group or private lessons. Call Emily at 339-788-1384.

Certified Nurses AideWill help care for your loved one in their home. Experienced in special needs. Reliable and competent in sole\charge nursing. Available week-ends and overnights also. References available. Hours and rates negotiable. Please call 1-978-793-1382.

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BabysitterMature and reliable college sophomore looking for a babysitting job from May to August. Available M-F and weekends if needed. Call Michelle, 339-832-0146.

Concrete WorkDriveways, pool patios, floors, walkways, water-proofing, and general repair work. 30 years ex-perience. Free estimates. Call John at 781-447-9913 or 508- 826-5907.

Snug Harbor DetailingMobile auto & boat detailing service. Now a division of Jesse's Marine in Plymouth. Schedule your auto or boat and receive a free auto ozone purification or 10% off a boat detailing. Insured and competitive pricing. Call 617-571-3679.

Seasonal Lawn MowingMay Landscape has made many upgrades; commercial mowers and other equipment. We offer the lowest prices in the area and will offer 25% off your current provider’s price. Visit www.maylandscape.com or call Scott May, 617-966-5875.

BabysitterExperienced, responsible 21 year old female looking to babysit/nanny this summer. Has transportation and references. Call Chrissy, 781-264-8015.

Handyman ServicesBig jobs, small jobs, odd jobs.

Experienced in carpentry, paint-ing, small electric and plumbing jobs. Installing storm doors, win-dows, decks, home repairs. Com-pleting to do lists. Positive atti-tude, easy to talk to. Call Rick Shea. 774-454-7548 or 508-224-9036

Gutter and Yard Cleanup We specialize in raking and removing leaves, small trees, branches and yard debris. Any and all junk removed, inside and out. We also clean gutters, install gutter guards, and wash windows. Please call Mike at 781-789-3612.

Tennis Anyone?Private, semi-private, group lessons. Experienced college student/instructor. Boys DHS tennis captain, Division I semi-finalist. Flexible hours and rates. Available beginning May 2. Call Stefan, 781-452-7188.

Expert Tutor 2009 SAT/PSAT preparation: Individual and/or small group study/practice for reading comprehension, critical thinking, and persuasive essay writing skills development. Also, MCAS, ACT, and AP History and English tutorials, including college essay and research paper set-up and completion. Maurice B. Conway, Ph.D., 781-834-8790.

Have Truck! College students have truck and will help move or dispose of household items. Need help cleaning out basement, attic, garage, bedroom? How about dump runs, stacking wood, cleaning yard or interior painting? Call Shawn. 339-933-0804, 781-934-9449.

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Kleer Vu Cleaning ServicesLocal family-owned and operated, we specialize in residential cleaning. Experienced, professional, honest, and reliable. If you want attention to detail, you want to call us! References, free estimates, fully insured, competitive rates. Call Tina, 781-585-2970.

Start Your Spring RightResidential window cleaning. Lowest price guaranteed. $4.50/window to start. Let a trusted and reliable firefighter wash your windows. Awesome gift idea. All calls returned same day. Don’t wait, call me now, 781-799-4865. Free estimates.

The Lady GardenerHow do your shrubs look? Do they need a trim or a shearing? Hand pruning is my specialty. Shrubs need fertilizing in the spring. Call for help with your spring cleanup or any gardening projects. $20/hour. 781-293-9240.

Housekeeping in DuxburyResidential. Spring, summer opening cleanings. Safe, secure, reliable. I will fulfill your cleaning needs by the job, not by the hour. Your home will look great and smell terrific! Excellent Duxbury references provided. Call Cindy, 508-574-8330.

Experienced PainterThirty years experience. Average size ceilings, $90; 10’x12’ room, $200. Wallpapering and custom finishes. Senior discounts. Inte-rior and exterior painting. Excel-lent references and free esti-mates. Call Matt, 508-746-8115.

Spring Clean-UpsMay Landscape is still offering the lowest prices in the area for all your landscape needs! Visit www.maylandscape.com or call Scott May, 617-966-5875.

Expert Stump Grinding40 years experience. 12” below grade. Stump cutting specialist. Free estimates. Call 781-826-4774 or cell phone 617-694-7233.

Fishing ChartersOutstanding, half-day, fishing charters for striped bass and blues. Fly fishing, light tackle, & bait trips. All tackle provided. Celebrating our tenth season chartering the Massachusetts coast. Capt. David Bitters, U.S.C.G. Licensed. BAYMEN Guide Service, Inc. PO Box 366, Duxbury, 02331. 781-934-2838 www.baymenoutfitters.com

Home ImprovementSemi-retired remodeler with 25 plus years experience. Design and build. Bath, kitchen, tiling, family room etc. Your problems, our solution. Call Larry McCarthy, 508-746-7829.

At Home BabysittingDuxbury mom (23 years experience) available to babysit daily or weekly, mornings or afternoons. Drive to or from preschool, activities etc. Please call Sandy, 781-635-8103 or at home 781-934-5440. References available.

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Michael’s Windows & Gutter Cleaning

A local service. Windows start at $5 each. Also, repair loose and leaking gutters, and can install gutter screens. Also, repair window and door screens. (A great gift idea!) I answer my phone. Cell 508-523-9927.

Piano/Keyboard LessonsThere’s no better time than today! Just for fun or improve your skills. Theory, rhythm - great foundation for other instruments. BA. All ages. 20+ years experience. House calls. Linda Robinson, 781-789-6140.

Summer Nanny14 years babysitting experience with children of all ages. Have Masters in Elementary Ed, and have worked with grades K-5. Looking to nanny (part or full-time) during the summer months. Own car and references. Call 781-291-9259.

Boat DetailingBottom painting, compound & waxing, washing, and teak work all done at your location. Shattuck Dockside Detailing. Call 508-833-0211. We come to you and provide professional boat detailing services.

Wallpapering/Interior PaintingCeiling, walls, woodwork, drywall repairs, touch-ups, cleanouts done at low, reasonable prices. Call Debbie, MC/VISA accepted. 781-585-8043.

Lene’s CleaningWill clean your house, office, or place of business. Reliable and efficient. Good local references. Please call anytime to set up an appointment. 774-269-2177 or 508-317-7753.

ElectricianIs your home up to code? “Make safety your first priority.” Free safety inspections, free estimates. Residential/commercial. No job too small. Licensed and insured. Gordon Electric. Lic. #11865-B. Call 339-933-1974.

Leaf and Lawn Landscaping20 years of quality service at affordable prices. Spring cleanups, mowing, mulching and more. Please call Bob, 508-846-2621. All calls returned.

Home & Office CleaningAffordable home and office cleaning. NO job too small, 15 years experience cleaning on the south shore. Reasonable rates and free estimates! Let us do your dirty work! call 781-754-0322.

C&M Painting DuxburyInterior painting. No job too small. Call Conor, 781-834-9709.

Experienced NannyDuxbury mom available for child care days, evenings, weekends and overnights. Excellent references available. Please call 617-909-5316 (cell) or 781-837-6820.

Nanny/Babysitting College student available to care for and entertain your children May 25th thru the end of August. Contact Erin, 781-934-2533.


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Summer Nanny21 year old Occupational Therapy student interested in pediatrics. Available May ‘til Labor Day. Currently teacher's aide at a preschool, 10 years babysitting experience, and love children. Drive reliable vehicle. Great references. Call Kelsey 781-789-6930.

Clarke Construction Co.Roofing, siding, framing, decks, doors, windows, kitchens and baths, hardwood, tile and linoleum, custom carpentry, stairs moldings, etc. Full service home improvement contractor. Licensed and insured, HIC#148350. Call today for free estimate, 617-678-9313.

Lawn MowingPrompt professional service, attention to detail. We clean up leaves, trim trees, and bushes. Weekly cuttings are available on Friday, or every other week . Call Steven Shaevel, 508-889-1198.

Window & Gutter CleaningA pair of full-time firefighters, part-time window washers will professionally clean windows, storms, screens, and sills $5. and up. Free estimates. French Connection Window Cleaning Co. Chris 781-826-0958.

O’Grady LandscapeNow scheduling spring cleanups, full lawn maintenance programs, dethatching, spring lime, overseeding, shrub trimming and pruning, lawn mowing and trimming, mulch and edging, gutter cleaning, plantings, stone renovation. Call for free estimate 781-447-3757.

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I’ll care for your family member with love and dignity. Experienced in dealing with Alzheimer’s or people in need of rehab services. I live locally and have excellent references. Very reasonable rates. 781-585-8005 / 781-223-5239 (cell).

Trial Music LessonBerklee College of Music graduate offering personalized drum or guitar lessons in the convenience of your own home. First lesson is free of charge. Reasonable rates, references available upon request. Call 508-583-8503, email: [email protected]

Advanced LandscapingLandscape services include: Pristine lawn maintenance, Immaculate Spring Cleanups, Chainsaw work and brush disposal, Pruning and hedge trimming, Contoured edging, Mulch and stone, organic and chemical fertilizing, and compost top-dressing. Dependable and professional service, excellent communication, and competitive prices, all with a smile! Call Paul and ask about our all-inclusive seasonal maintenance program. Fully insured, free estimates. 617-877-7524

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�Pet Sitting/Dog Walking

Reliable and loving pet sitter/dog walker. Over eight years experience in Duxbury. References available. Please call 781-733-4327.

The Write StuffDo writing assignments lead to frustration and procrastination for your child? Would you like him to be able to write with confidence and ease? Private individualized instruction in writing will strengthen your child’s skill set and raise his overall achievement in school. For more info, call 781-834-3340.

Junque RemovalClean-outs, appliances, furniture. Ask about our yard debris specials. Same day service. Book for Tuesdays and receive a 10% discount. Call Chuck Teravainen at 781-582-9512.

Professional TutorIs your child struggling in school? Hire an experienced tutor to help your child achieve academic success. MA certified educator. Specializes in middle school children. Reasonable rates. References available. Call 774-454-6005.

Landscape ServicesWorking too much? Kids keeping you busy? It's hard to keep your yard looking good. I know what its like, I can help! I'll provide yard clean up, mowing, raking, mulching, edging. Free estimates. Call Mike at 781-307-3204.

Professional Window CleaningPrices start at $5.00 We are fully insured. No job too big or small. 10% off when you mention this ad. Please call for free estimate. Mike 781-789-3612

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Specializing in cleanouts of basements, garages, attics, yard debris, and odds and ends. We also specialize in carpentry, painting, gutter work, and window washing. Best prices, free estimates. Please call or leave a message for Mike, 781-789-3612.

Furniture RepairFrom family heirlooms to Ethan Allen ... tables, chairs, cabinets, bookcases to kitchen cabinets. If it is broken - we can fix it. Call Ken, 781-585-7541.

Cash For Your NotesPrivate individual is interested in buying all kinds of notes - mortgage, auto, motorcycle, etc. Call 781-585-2132. SPD Funding, www.cash4cashflows. com/sdevaux.

Summer BabysittingCurrent school teacher and recent college graduate looking for summer babysitting job. Please call 781-837-4098.

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2004 Pursuit 2270 Center console. Low hours, T-Top, 225 Yamaha 4-stroke, color fishfinder, GPS, live bait well, brand new aluminum Ven-ture tandem trailer with disc brakes. $38,500. Call George, 781-603-5640.

1989 Catalina 27 18 hp inboard, wing keel with 3.5' draft. Much much more. $20,000. For more info, go to www.sailboatlistings.com/view/10329 or call 781- 585-8041.

1996 Saab 9000 CS4 Cyl. 2.3L Turbo, automatic, 144K miles, leather interior. Power seats/windows/locks, A/C, cruise control, new battery. Good condition. Great student car! $2585 or b/o. Call Peter, 781-934-0055.

2000 Cadillac Seville STSTouring edition. Two owners. Florida car. 78,000 miles. Excellent condition. Five months extended warranty remaining (AAA). 20-24 mpg. Original sticker price, $52,682. Detailed 100% on April 6, 2009. See it in Duxbury. $7300. 781-424-5821.

2006 Jeep LibertyMint condition. Inferno red. Limited edition. All factory options. 30K miles, leather, moonroof, etc. Great price at $13,600 or best offer. Call 781-934-2037 or 617-240-3181.

2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Special Edition. Fully loaded, including tow pkg., heated seats, 10-disc CD, moonroof. Dark metallic gray w/dark leather interior. V8 with 78.7K miles. One owner. Great condition. $11K. For more information, call 781-424-5834.

Window And Gutter CleaningLet local firefighters brighten your day! Residential and storefront. Pressure washing - house, patio, deck, etc. Spring clean up. Free gutter cleaning with every full house window job. Reasonable rates. References available. Fully insured. Keith McWalter. 781-340-5183 or cell-781-690-2000.


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Answers1. Rabat-Morocco; Tripoli-Libya; Pretoria-SouthAfrica; Nairobi-Kenya2. American Civil Liberties Union3. William Henry Harrison4. A belief in more than one god5. Birmingham

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2008 Carmate TrailerBrand new - never used. Carmate enclosed 6’x12’ cargo trailer. Single torflex axle, spring assisted ramp, vent, electrical outlet, LED lighting, jackstands, radial tires. Great for landscapers, builders, toy haulers. Kingston. $3900. Greg, 339-832-1986.

Inflatable For Sale2008 West Marine inflatable boat. Ridged bottom. Length 10’2”, beam 4’11”. 4 person capacity. Well maintained, very good condition. $500 firm. Call Capt. Roger Jarvis, 781-582-2160.

2002 Chevy Trailblazer92,000 miles. 4WD. New brakes, new battery, new sticker. Excellent condition. All power. CD, A/C. Tow package. $7800 or best offer. Call John, 617-827-3984 (cell) or 781-934-9138 (home).

2001 Chrysler MinivanTown and Country model. In excellent condition, despite the mileage of 192,000. All power, A/C, heated seats. Has January 2009 inspection sticker. $2500 or best offer. Call Debbie, 617-429-9955.

10’ Pram With Trailer1993 10’ white fiberglass Blue Fin dinghy with trailer. $1090 or best offer. Call 781-585-4648.

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2000 Mazda Millenia SMillenium Edition. 6-cyl., power everything. 127K miles, 18-22 mpg. Great driving car. Good condition. New tires, brakes, timing belt. All records. Small dent in trunk lid, CD changer needs repair. Kelly value approx. $4900, selling for $4300. 781-585-8886.

2000 Jeep Grand CherokeeFully loaded, including leather interior, 10-disc CD, sunroof, power everything, 140K miles. Good condition. Kelly value approx. $5900, selling for $5500. 781-834-6431.

2004 Infiniti G35XFully loaded, Bose radio, sunroof, heated seats, AWD. 56K miles, very good condition. Navy blue w/ black leather interior. $15,000. Call 617-697-1079 after 5pm.

2008 Smart Car Cabriolet 7,800 miles perfect condition. Silver with black interior. $17,500. OR 2009 Smart car cabriolet, 100 miles. Silver w/ red interior. $20,900. Full warranties on both. Call 781-934-0531.

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TOWN OF DUXBURY

CONSERVATION COMMISSION

PUBLIC MEETING

The Duxbury Conservation Commission will hold a Public Meeting in the Mural Meeting Room, Lower Level, Town Hall, under the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw, Chapter 9 and Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL, Ch. 131, Section 40, on Tuesday evening, May 5, 2009 at 7:15 p.m. on the request of Doug and Kim Allen to determine the applicability of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw relative to a project described in a Request for Determination filed with the Conservation Commission on April 22, 2009. Said project is the removal of trees for safety reasons and is located at 234 Washington Street, lot 192-813-103 of the Duxbury Assessors Map.

JOSEPH MESSINAChairman

TOWN OF DUXBURY

CONSERVATION COMMISSION

PUBLIC MEETING

The Duxbury Conservation Commission will hold a Public Meeting in the Mural Meeting Room, Lower Level, Town Hall, under the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw, Chapter 9 and Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL, Ch. 131, Section 40, on Tuesday evening, May 5, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. on the request of Kerin and Louis Caieiro to determine the applicability of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw relative to a project described in a Request for Determination filed with the Conservation Commission on April 23, 2009. Said project is the installation of an above-ground pool and shed and is located at 70 Cranberry Drive, lot 030-954-010 of the Duxbury Assessors Map.

JOSEPH MESSINAChairman

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SUPERIOR COURT DEPARTMENT OF

THE TRIAL COURT

CIVIL ACTION PLCV2009-0503-BPLYMOUTH, ss

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TOWN OF DUXBURY

BOARD OF APPEALS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Town Hall, Mural Room, on May 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. to consider the application of Paula and Matthew Dacey for a special permit under Articles 400 and 900, Sections 404, 404.8, 404.9 and 906.2 of the Duxbury Protective Bylaw.

The project is located at 1053 Tremont Street, Parcel No. 180-002-002 of the Duxbury Assessors’ Map, consists of 40,000 sq. ft , is zoned for Residential Compatibility, Wetlands Protection and is owned by Paula and Matthew Dacey, 1053 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332.

The applicant proposes to construct a new single family dwelling in Wetlands Protection District. A Special Permit is required. Also, applicant must subdivide the lot with ANR from the Planning Board.

The application may be viewed in the Inspectional Services Department between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. or by appointment.

The Board of Appeals will accept written comments on this application.

Dennis A. Murphy, ChairBoard of Appeals

Adv. 04/29/09–05/06/09Case #09-05

TOWN OF DUXBURY

BOARD OF APPEALS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Town Hall, Mural Room, on May 14, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. to consider the application of Duxbury Estates for an amendment to a special permit #08-03 under Articles 400, 700 and 900, Sections 704 and 906.2 of the Duxbury Protective Bylaw.

The project is located at Carriage Lane, off Summer Street, Parcel No. 090-013-000 of the Duxbury Assessors’ Map, consists of 25.98 acres, zoned for Residential Compatibility, Planned Development 1 and Aquifer Protection Overlay District and is owned by Giacchetto Duxbury, LLC, 55 North Road, Suite 220, Bedford, MA 01730.

The applicant is requesting approval of a modification to a Special Permit to change four duplex buildings to eight single buildings including location of said units.

The application may be viewed in the Inspectional Services Department between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. or by appointment.

The Board of Appeals will accept written comments on this application.

Dennis A. Murphy, ChairBoard of Appeals

Adv: 4/29/09-05/06/09Case#09-04

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88 Jeep Wrangler4.2L 6-cyl 5-spd manual 1988 Wrangler 4x4. Green w/tan. Three tops. 149k. Lots of updates. $2200. 781-834-2066, Chris.


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To: Frances M. Lynch and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act as amended.

Cambridge Trust Company claiming to be the holder of a mortgage covering real property situated in Duxbury

in said County of Plymouth on Cedar Street and numbered 28, given by Frances M. Lynch to Cambridge Trust Company dated November 24, 1998 and recorded with Plymouth County Deeds, Book 16923, Page 309 and also a confirmatory mortgage dated December 23, 1998, and recorded at said Registry

in Book 16980, Page 346 has filed with said court a complaint for authority to foreclose said mortgage in the following manner, to wit: by entry and possession and by the exercise of a power of sale contained in said mortgage.

If you are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief

Act and amendments thereto and you object to the foreclosure of said mortgage, you or your attorney should file a written appearance and answer in said court at Plymouth on or before June 1, 2009, or you may be forever barred from claiming that such foreclosure made under such authority is invalid under

said act. Witness, Barbara J. Rouse,

Chief Justice of our Superior Court, the 17th day of April in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Nine.

Attest:Robert W. Creedon, Jr.

Clerk of Courts


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