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By Justin GraeBer, Clipper editor [email protected]

The number of employees in Duxbury making six figures in gross compensation (which

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ing to information obtained from employees W2 and 1099 forms through a public records request.

The top earner, police sergeant Dennis Symmonds, made $148,689 this year.

However, new school super-intendent Benedict Tantillo

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Top 5 Town salaries

Dennis symmonds Police Sergeant $148,689

richard MacDonald Town Manager $135,424.87

Brian Johnson Police Sergeant $131,917.87

edwin walsh Asst. Superintendent $128,524

James Tougas Police Officer $125,981.59

Special Report

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By BeCCa manninG, Clipper staff [email protected]

Residents concerned about how the Blairhaven property may be used if Town Meeting votes to purchase the land are invited to attend a public forum Wednesday evening.

The Blairhaven Study Committee, a 12-member group formed early last week to explore possible uses for the five-acre oceanfront prop-erty, will hold a public forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Senior Center. Members of

Residents concerned about proposed purchase

about 30 residents showed up for the Community preservation Committee’s public forum held Thursday, March 3 at Town Hall. Most of the people were interested in one of the seven proposed Community preservation act projects: the purchase of the ocean-front Blairhaven property.

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By Justin GraeBer, Clipper editor [email protected]

Friend Weiler Sr. will take the podium as town moderator for the first time at Town Meet-ing on Saturday, and he has quite a full plate.

With three large tax-increasing projects on the docket, as well as controversial land purchases and disputed zoning issues, it’s sure to be a lively meeting.

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See our special section and article-by-article breakdown on page 7IT’S TOWN MEETING TIME!

By susanna sheehan, Clipper staff [email protected]

Thinking spring? Depart-ment of Public Works officials are still worried about winter, and so they are preparing for two more snow storms by re-questing a transfer of money into the snow and ice budget.

In special Town Meeting article 1, voters will be asked to approve seven transfers of funds to cover shortfalls in certain town department bud-gets including $140,000 to the current fiscal year FY11 snow and ice budget.

Special Town Meeting

will take place at the very be-ginning of the annual Town Meeting this Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Performing Arts Center on St. George Street.

According to Finance Di-rector John Madden, the trans-fer is needed to cover a short-fall in this budget and to shore up the account so if – or when – more snow falls, the high-way workers can get paid and there won’t be another deficit.

“This transfer will fund two more storms,” said Mad-den.

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the committee were appointed by the town manager, and the group also includes three ex-officio members: the harbor-master and directors of the De-partment of Public Works and Recreation Department.

“We felt it was very im-portant, because we know of your concerns, that we have a public forum, an opportunity for anyone to come and tell us what their concerns are about this property,” said Pat Loring, Community Preservation Com-mittee vice-chairwoman and a member of the Blairhaven Study Committee.

About 30 people attended the Community Preservation Committee’s general public forum last Thursday morning, most of them concerned about just one out of seven proposed Community Preservation Act-funded projects: the Blairhaven purchase.

Community Preservation Act Chairwoman Holly Morris said Duxbury had considered purchasing the Blairhaven Re-treat Center on Standish Shore many times over the years, with references to the property appearing in several town re-ports.

She said the town had been in executive-session negotia-tions with the property owner for several months and that it was only after an agreement was reached that the intent to purchase could be publicized, which happened in December. Morris said the committee had not had much time to meet and discuss plans for the property but that, if Town Meeting ap-proved the vote, the study committee would develop a plan with community input.

Plans also would have to go through various boards in town, Loring said, adding more opportunities for the public to weigh in on the use of the land.

Loring said after attend-ing the first Blairhaven Study Committee meeting she felt the group intended to preserve the area as a small park.

Residents’ concerns ranged from the effects additional foot traffic could have on the shore-line environment to the cost of long-term maintenance.

Pam Elamine of Crescent Street worried about having a parking lot in her backyard, plus the problem of increased traffic, parties and litter that a park might attract.

Kate Eldredge of Goose Point Lane asked how long-term maintenance of the prop-erty would be funded, saying the town “hasn’t shown a great success rate in maintaining the small sliver we have now [Howland’s Landing Road].”

Standish Street resident Peter Dimatteo said he felt the committee should consider the impact that attracting “hun-dreds of people” to the area would have on delicate beach grasses and the rest of the shoreline environment.

Cindy Reed, also of Standish Street, said she felt the town should have a clearer plan in place before approving the land purchase.

“Would you sign a contract without reading it which would entail spending $3 million of your own money? Because this is essentially what we’re being asked to do,” Reed said.

Though she said she felt comfortable with some of the ideas that have been raised, Reed said she was not okay with other possible uses.

“At the very least, let us vote on an authentic proposal, and if you cannot decide how you want to use the land by March 12, I feel it would pro-mote goodwill if you agreed to postpone the purchase,” she said. “I know your inten-tions are sincere, but there’s no telling what’s going to happen

with this once you pass it.”Conservation Administra-

tor Joe Grady, who also sits on the Study Committee, said the town had followed a simi-lar process for other parcels — with Town Meeting ap-proving the purchase and the details being ironed out in the following months.

“It’s how we’ve been do-ing it since we’ve purchased over 1,000 acres of land in Duxbury,” he said.

Grady asked residents to trust the committee to create a project that would make ev-eryone comfortable.

“We have a really good track record,” he said.

The Blairhaven Study Committee will continue the discussion of the possible uses of the Blairhaven property dur-ing a public forum scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 at the Senior Center.

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name position 2010 salary 2010 rank 2009 salary 2009 rank

Dennis Symmonds Police Sergeant $148,689 1 $147,195.17 3

Richard MacDonald Town Manager $135,424.87 2 $134,607.63 5

Brian Johnson Police Sergeant $131,917.87 3 $135,052.28 4

Edwin Walsh Asst. Superintendent $128,524 4 $131,051.49 7

James Tougas Police Officer $125,981.59 5 $125,981.59 8

Andrew Stephens DHS Principal $117,146.16 6 $120,042.38 10

Dennis McKenney Police Detective $115,242.13 7 $121,643.72 9

Bruce Cole Sp. Ed. Administrator $113,615.40 8 N/A N/A

Thomas Johnson Police Officer $112,880.59 9 $108,535.19 15

PJ Hussey Firefighter/Paramedic $112,851.41 10 $96,749.36 34

Peter Goggin Fire Captain $112,410.26 11 $97,203.33 33

Christopher Coppage Police Officer $109,538.89 12 $95,512.42 38

Susan James Police Lieutenant $108,479.68 13 $150,086.95 2

John Thomas Firefighter/EMT $108,162.23 14 $99,257.26 24

Ryan Cavicchi K9 Officer $107,079.14 15 $108,510.19 16

Kevin Nord Fire Chief $106,755.03 16 $108,919.39 14

Christopher Mori Police Sergeant $103,430.76 17 $116,178.89 12

Dennis Pearse Police Officer $102,479.72 18 $98,916.58 26

Robert Reardon Firefighter/Paramedic $102,276.30 19 $99,017.94 25

Mark Dunn Math Teacher/Coach $101,811.07 20 $96,068.96 37

John Madden Finance Director $101,187.50 21 $98,194.69 29

Michael Carbone Prosecution Sgt. $101,087.51 22 $106.249.60 18

Daniel Brown Police Officer $100,660.74 23 $119,808.55 11

Roger Banfil Police Lieutenant $100,617.96 24 $105,159.59 19

Michael Roberts Police Sergeant $99,855.40 25 $92,304.38 44

Steven Amado Police Officer $99,091.56 26 $110,039.38 13

Elizabeth Fitzgerald School Department $99,052.66 27 $84,647.85 77

Lewis Chubb Police Lieutenant $98,628.38 28 $98,388.15 28

Robert Tripp Firefighter/EMT $98,437.21 29 $93,160.21 43

Donald Beers Harbormaster $98,219.99 30 N/A N/A

Christopher Trombly Alden Principal $98,090 31 $100,834.55 21

Gordon Cushing Recreation Director $98,024.51 32 N/A N/A

Friend Weiler Juv. Detective/SRO $97,277.74 33 $98,141.85 30

Richard Madru School/Music $96,952.60 34 $87,839.86 59

John Kennedy School Department $96,703.21 35 $94,301.21 41

Guy Montosi Firefighter/Paramedic $96,122.84 36 $86,885.52 65

Timothy Geary Firefighter/Paramedic $95,894.41 37 $82,737.75 88

Karen Fruzzetti School Department $95,367 38 $97,512.80 31

Raymond Chandler Fire Captain $95,304.56 39 $94,330.35 40

Peter Buttkus DPW Director $95,274.61 40 $96,575.83 35

Gail Callahan Schools/Technology $95,013.26 41 $97,369.01 32

Suzanne Billingham Chandler Principal $94,895.44 42 $96,529.2 36

Lisa Dembowski School/Guidance $94,801.28 43 $91,484.07 47

Harry Mathews Firefighter/Paramedic $94,556.93 44 $85,979.91 70

John Guilderson Fire Captain $94,127.48 45 $87,124.43 62

Patricia Weatherlow School Department $94,061.17 46 $90,579.96 48

John Stoddard, Jr. School Department $93,428.28 47 $92,258.92 45

Kathleen Davis-McDonough DHS Asst. Principal $92,829.82 48 $95,132.85 39

David Maimaron School Department $92,798.72 49 $92,153 46

Thomas Brown Police Officer $92,640 50 $88,193.50 56

Blake Dalton DMS Principal $92,553.92 51 $93,946.12 42

Karen Hendrickson School Department $92,189.34 52 $86,058 69

Francis McTernan Police Officer $92,095.57 53 $99,405.84 23

Joe Grady Conservation Officer $91,913.03 54 N/A N/A

Donna Holt School Department $91,688.35 55 $90,546.12 49

Susan Nauman School Business Mgr. $91,453.80 56 N/A N/A

Bruce Hamilton School/Guidance $90,837.51 57 $89,740.9 53

Donna Theodossiou DMS Asst. Principal $90,383.55 58 N/A N/A

Kristin Golden Police Sergeant $90,306.88 59 $101,663.34 20

Timothy McPhillips School Department $89,512.30 60 N/A N/A*Source: Figures as reported on town employees’ W-2 forms.

Top 60 Town salariesThe following is a list of the 60 highest paid employees in Duxbury, obtained through a public records request, and where they ranked on the list last year. The figures are collected from W2 and 1099 forms from the year 2010. -Ed.

Top Five salaries By Town For 2010

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Zachary Potrykus –– Police officer $174,753.15Robert Wells –– Police officer $165,448.40Thomas Kelley –– Police officer $127,533.94Michael Lanatra –– Police officer $127,315.17

Joseph Rebello –– Police chief $118,897.50

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Susan Martin –– School superintendent $156,132.26Patricia Vinchesi –– Town administrator $133,018.49Kenneth Bates –– Police officer $123,817.87James Gilmartin –– Police officer $123,007.35Donna NuzzoMuller –– High school principal $122,050.74

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Donald Beaudette ––School superintendent $190,047Shane McMahon –– Fire Department $124,075Matthew Keegan –– High School Principal $122,969James Boudreau –– Town Administrator $119,566Garry Pelletier –– Cole School Principal $114,977

is not on the list because he was hired mid-year. His sal-ary is $175,000, which would have made him the highest paid town employee. (Tantillo made $220,000 at his previous job in New Jersey).

The top 10 earners, if you include Tantillo’s numbers, made $1,129,421.61 in 2010. In 2009, the top 10 earners made $1,362,170.81. The fig-ures are for calendar years rather than fiscal years, and last year’s numbers were slightly inflated because two extra pay periods were included.

Out of the employees earn-ing six figures, again includ-ing Tantillo, 13 were from the police department, five from the schools, five from the fire department and two from the town administration. The big-gest change is in the Fire De-partment. Last year, only Fire Chief Kevin Nord earned 100k or more.

Another major differ-ence between 2010 and 2009 is the handful of employees that were owed back com-pensation due to being in the

now-decertified manager’s union. Several years ago, the town commissioned a study of the existing personnel plan and found that a number of employees in Duxbury were being underpaid compared to their colleagues in similar communities.

However, at the same time, a number of town employees in managerial positions formed a union, initially led by then po-lice chief Mark DeLuca (who was later excluded from the union). While the town was in negotiations with the union, the updated personnel plan was tabled.

The updated personnel plan will be voted on at this year’s annual Town Meeting on March 12. As part of being covered under this new plan, a number of employees are owed retroactive pay. In the top 100 salaries, this applies to Harbormaster Donald Beers, Conservation Agent Joseph Grady, Director of Inspection-al Services Scott Lambiase and Recreation Director Gor-don Cushing (whose salary numbers here also reflect two additional part-time positions.

Salary report: 24 over six figures

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So far, the town has spent $313,831 on snow removal this year. That includes $97,621 for salaries and $216,210 for ex-penses. The expense line item includes $128,595 for salt and $31,939 for sand.

“That’s a lot of salt and sand,” Madden said.

By state law, towns are al-lowed to overspend on their snow and ice budgets, paying out more than they have in their accounts. This is the only budget line item where over-spending is permitted. The law also states that if a town in-creases their snow and ice bud-gets but don’t use all the funds in a year, they are not allowed to decrease that budget amount the next year. So towns histori-cally keep their snow and ice budget totals below what they know will be needed so they don’t get caught with a high budget in a year with a warm winter.

But due to rising costs of supplies, Madden has decided to increase the FY12 snow and ice budget by $20,800 to $170,000.

That amount will be voted on during the annual Town Meeting article 5, operating budget.

Duxbury selectmen unani-mously voted to support the

snow and ice budget transfer as well as the other transfers listed in special Town Meeting article 1. (See Town Meeting guide in this week’s Clipper for complete listing.)

In other business, select-men:

• Announced that when the Annual Town Meeting con-tinues on Monday, and pos-sibly Tuesday, it will have a new start time. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. this year, not the usual 7:30 p.m. The time change is an attempt to get more done on weeknights to shorten the duration of the meeting.

• Learned that Town Man-ager Richard MacDonald has met with the architects who designed the Percy Walker pool renovation to iron out is-sues that still remained. Mac-Donald said that project can now be closed out.

• Were informed that the Chapter 40B housing develop-ment called Duxbury Crossing has a new name, The Reserve, and a new developer. The Zon-ing Board of Appeals met with the developer Monday night.

• Learned that the same anonymous donor who gave $5,000 to support the July 4th parade last year has again donated the same amount for 2011, according to MacDon-ald.

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The Duxbury Free Li-brary presents author Tara Masih, and her impressive debut collection of stories, “Where the Dog Star Never Glows,” on Sunday, March 27, at 2 p.m. Masih will share her ideas about writ-ing and read from the sto-ries. Set in places all over the world, Masih’s stories are magical and poetical. Tara Masih grew up in Long Island and spent much of her time on beaches. As a result, her writing is often set within the framework of nature and place. She has published fiction and po-etry in numerous antholo-gies and literary magazines, and her essays have been reprinted in textbooks and read on NPR. To reserve a free ticket for this event, call 781-934-2721x108 or stop by the library. Book will be for sale at the event.

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All nominees are hon-ored each year during a ceremony at the Village at Duxbury. Nomination forms are available at the Duxbury Free Library, The Village at Duxbury, Westwinds and the Senior Center. Forms are also available on the Clipper Web site. Can’t find a form? Just send a statement including your contact information, the contact information of your nominee (phone numbers

and addresses are important) plus in 150 words or less tell us the impact your nominee has made on others, their contributions to the commu-nity, and the lasting effect of your volunteer’s contribution of time and talent.

An advisory board made up of representatives from all different aspects of the community will review the nominations. The awards dinner will be held at The Village at Duxbury in April. Nomination forms must be sent to Duxbury Com-munity Volunteer Award, c/o The Village at Dux-bury, 290 Kingstown Way, Duxbury, MA 02332 or faxed to 781-582-2274. Any questions, please call Maureen Crowley at 781-585-2334 x 112 or e-mail [email protected].

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sisTers in CriMe: Duxbury Free library’s sunday salon presented “Cozies on a Cold winter Day,” a panel of mystery writers who discussed their process of writing and the distinguishing features of a cozy as part of the mystery genre. pictured are local authors Cynthia riggs, leslie Meier and susan Fleet. Photo by Julius A. Prince, Jr.

The Housing Trust Com-mittee, in conjunction with the Local Housing Partnership, are announces the first sale of a home under the Housing Assistance Program.

Under this program, through an assessment of qualifications and lottery a family can apply to seek assis-tance in purchasing a home in Duxbury which will buy down the price, be deed restricted in perpetuity and count on the Subsidized Housing Invento-ry. The first family has closed on a home in Duxbury.

The Housing Trust Com-mittee and the LHP have worked long and hard to meet all the approvals required by the Department of Housing and Community Develop-ment for our homes to qualify for their standing on the subsi-dized housing inventory list.

If you or someone you know that has an interest in applying for this program, contact the program admin-istrator, Dennis Falcione, at [email protected].

Applications are also available at Town Hall.

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Emily Hodgkinson Averna ➢and David Loring Handloss-Stern were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2010 semester at Washington university in St. Louis. Emily is a graduate of Duxbury High School and Da-vid is a graduate of Saint Mark’s School in Southborough. Both are enrolled in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Tyler Mehegan ➢ was named to the dean’s list at Bates Col-lege for the fall semester. Ty-ler is a member of the varsity soccer team and jazz band at Bates, and completed a summer internship at the McLean Hos-pital research lab. Tyler is the son of Dr. and Mrs. James E. Mehegan.

Kerin Eaton ➢ has been named to the dean’s list at Em-manuel College for the fall semester. Kerin is a junior studying communications and education.

Rush Hogan ➢ (Grade 8) and Eric Seewald (Grade 7) achieved first honors at Derby Academy for the fall semester. Second honors was awarded to Maura Woods (Grade 7).

Harry papp, will leese and anthony lyons are stuffing goody bags for Birthday wishes, an organization which hosts birthday parties for children in homeless shelters. along with all of their pack 62, Den 5 scoutmates, they stuffed over 20 goody bags for the children.

Duxbury fifth graders and team members, lars swensen, Michael Houghton, Max najarian and eli peters formed the team “The Cancer Killers” and plunged into the icy waters of plymouth Bay while par-ticipating in Jordan Hospital’s polar plunge, an annual fundraising event to help raise money for cancer research. Together they raised over $1,300 for the cause.

United states secretary of education, arne Duncan (Harvard basket-ball captain 1987) and his son ryan, 5, were in los angeles for the nBa all star weekend. There he met up for a shoot around with two 2010 Harvard basketball players, Jeremy lin (currently playing for the Golden state warriors) and pat Magnarelli (DHs ‘06).

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Absentee ballots for the town election

Absentee ballots for the Duxbury Town Election on March 26 will be available at the town clerk’s office in the next couple of weeks. Once the ballots are available, voters can fill out an absen-tee ballot application and vote in person from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Please call the office if you are coming between noon and 1 p.m. For questions, call 781-934-1100 x150.

Please note – there is no absentee voting for the Town Meeting on March 12, 2011. You must be a regis-tered voter and present at the meeting in order to vote.

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A plain-sense voter’s guide to the 2010 annual Town Meeting

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Article 1 APPoIntments

Article 1 is an annual article appointing non-elected of-ficials. These include various committees appointed by the town moderator, the selectmen and the town manager. Sup-ported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 2reADInG of rePorts

Article 2 is annual article that allows the reading of re-ports by town officers and town committees and also lets the town accept the official annual town report. At press time, no committees have been listed to give reports. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 3comPensAtIon of toWn offIcIALs

Article 3 is a routine article that sets the compensation of the following elected town officials: assessors, selectmen, town meeting moderator, and town clerk. The total amount requested is $84,040. This includes $74,000 for the town clerk’s salary, an additional $5,000, over last year’s figure of $69,000. Annual salaries for selectmen and assessors are $2,000 for chairmen and $1,500 for board members. The town moderator’s salary is $40. None of these have increased for many years. While this article includes these dollar figures, the actual money will be voted as part of Article 5, the town’s operating budget. Supported by Board of Selectmen.

Article 4hIGhWAy fUnDInG

Article 4 is the acceptance of state highway fund-ing, or Chapter 90 money, for FY2012. This annual article authorizes selectmen to temporarily borrow money for road maintenance and then accept the state reimbursement. The amount of state aid is expected to be $408,895, the same as the current fiscal year. Sup-ported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 5oPerAtInG BUDGet

Article 5 is the fiscal year 2012 operating budget for the town and schools totaling just over $54.95 million, which represents a 1.7 percent increase over the current FY11 bud-get of $54 million. This amount does not include the Water Department budget or the Percy Walker Pool revolving fund. For the first time in the last few years, many town department

By SUSANNA SHeeHAN ANd JUStiN GrAeBer

New Town Moderator Friend Weiler will have his hands full as he shepherds Dux-

bury voters through the 49 articles at this year’s Annual Town Meeting (and

the seven on the special Town Meeting warrant.) Town Meeting is one of the oldest

and purest forms of democracy –– but it can still be quite con-fusing if you aren’t familiar with the terminology, the policies and the procedures.

Since not everyone has time to sift through lengthier re-sources like “Town Meeting Time” or “Roberts Rules of Or-der,” The Clipper staff has prepared this article-by-article guide to Duxbury Town Meeting. The guide is an attempt to provide a plain-English explanation of each article, how much it will cost and who supports it. The figures and recommendations are up to day as of Tuesday. For the most up-to-date information and for breaking Town Meeting news, visit duxburyclipper.com.

What: duxbury town meeting

Where: Performing arts center

When: saturday, march 12 9 a.m.

Who: all registered voters

Where the money Goes

Position Salarymoderator $40selectmen - chairman $2,000selectmen - member $1,500assessors - chairman $2,000assessors - member $1,500town clerk $74,000ToTal $84,040

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budgets show increases, although others, such as the Water De-partment budget, have decreased.

Notable expenses include $2.19 million for general govern-ment (a 7 percent increase from FY11); $28.9 million for edu-cation, (3.57 percent increase); $6.1 million for public safety, (6.1 percent increase); $3.7 million for the Department of Public Works, (.49 percent increase); $1.33 million for library and rec-reation, (.73 percent increase); $565,597 for health and human services (11 percent increase); $2.5 million for the Water De-partment, (3.5 percent decrease); $371,981 for the Percy Walker Pool enterprise account (1.4 percent decrease) $11.9 million for town and school employee benefits and insurance and debt ser-vice (5 percent decrease).

Revenues come from these sources: 79 percent from the town’s property taxes revenue; 8.59 percent from state aid; 11.69 percent from local receipts; and .37 percent in available funds. These figures are current as of publication, although they may change at Town Meeting. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 6 cAPItAL BUDGet

Article 6 is the FY2012 capital budget totaling $1.3 million. This amount includes $434,275 for school capital needs, which breaks down into $124,075 for new lighting for the Alden El-ementary School, $83,200 for mobile class computer systems for all schools, $80,800 for a system-wide replacement of computers, $36,000 for new printers, $35,200 for smart-boards, $35,00 to create or renovate classrooms, $15,000 for system-wide network up-grades, $15,000 for imple-menting the second phase of wireless technology at DHS and $10,000 for white market boards.

Also in the capital budget: $140,895 for general govern-ment/information technology to buy new CAD/RMS soft-ware for the police and fire de-partments; $53,811 for public safety, including $20,000 to refurbish a 1992 rescue/dive truck and $33,811 to replace a 2004 harbormaster’s four-wheel drive truck; $487,500 for public works, including $35,000 to repair and repaint the exterior of town hall, $20,000 to organize town hall archives, $87,500 to replace lands and natural resources mowing equipment, $23,000 for a new pickup truck for the animal control officer, and two expenditures of $161,000

special town meeting 2011

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING ARTI-CLE 1 seeks to allow specific transfers of funds to and within different town budgets during the current fiscal year. It is expected there will be at least seven transfers total-ing $336,500. Notable transfers include $140,000 to the DPW snow and ice bud-get; $61,000 for legal services principally related to the North Hill golf course law-suit; $85,000 for Fire Department salaries including $7,200 for fire academy training and $36,800 for overtime for weather relat-ed emergencies; $41,000 for police salaries for overtime and unbudgeted holiday pay; $5,500 for police expenses for additional lock-up fees for female detainees at the sheriff’s department; and $4,000 for har-bormaster boat repairs. Money for these transfers will come from the town’s free cash account. Other transfers may also be included in this article. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 2 is an annual article for paying unpaid bills received by town hall after the close of the fiscal year on June 30. Cur-rently, town departments have submitted six bills totaling $13,938, however this amount could change at the meeting. All funds will be transferred from free cash. Voting on this issue within the special Town Meeting allows the town to pay the bills immediately. If the vote was taken at annual Town Meeting, the bills could not be paid until after the new budget year be-gins July 1. Passage of this article requires a nine-tenths majority vote, rather than the four-fifths majority vote required at An-nual Town Meeting. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 3 is an annual article for funding collective bargaining agreements from the unions in town. This article will fund pay raises for two contracts for the second year of three-year agreements. It includes $79,675 for the Fire Department union and $28,272 for the clerical union. These con-tracts were settled after the FY11 budget was approved. The third year costs will be included in the FY12 budget. There may be other union contracts in this article if any

agreements are reached by Town Meeting. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 4 proposes to add $150,000 from free cash to the unemployment trust fund in anticipation of additional unemployment costs the town must pay. Through January, the town has paid $91,901 in unemploy-ment claims, including $81,258 for school employees who have been laid off or fired, etc. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 5 seeks to deposit $150,000 in free cash to the pension reserve fund to cover the town’s share of the cost of paying for pensions for Plymouth County retirees. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fi-nance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 6 seeks approval to add $276,425 from the FY2012 health care trust fund ap-propriation to the salary reserve account to fund raises for town employees whose po-sitions were part of the recently completed town-wide compensation study. These em-ployees, who were part of two now-defunct managers and support unions, have not had a pay raise since 2008. They will receive a retroactive raise for 2010 and one for the current year but none for 2009. The aver-age increase is 2 percent. The town is able to take this money from its health care trust fund appropriation because that account is solvent. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AR-TICLE 7 requests a transfer of $300,000 from free cash to the stabilization fund to help the town maintain its triple-A bond rat-ing. The stabilization fund is a special re-serve account created for any purpose that the town might have. Placing money in this fund helps Duxbury build up its reserves, which, in turn, helps it receive favorable interest rates when borrowing money for larger projects. It takes a majority vote at Town Meeting to place money into the stabilization fund and a two-thirds major-ity take it out. With this addition, the sta-bilization fund will have balance of nearly $1.7 million. The town’s goal for this fund is $2.5-$2.7 million, or five percent of the total operating budget. This transfer is the same amount as last year. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Commit-tee.

Promptly at 9 a.m. on March 12, Duxbury’s newest Moderator Friend Weiler, Sr. will call the 2011 annual Town Meeting to order and then quickly ad-journ it for the purposes of beginning the special Town Meeting. Holding a

special Town Meeting allows the town to spend money immediately, before the new fiscal year begins in July. Once the special Town Meeting business is complete, the moderator will resume the annual Town Meeting.

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PUBliC SaFETYrefurbish fd dive truck ........... $20,000 replace Harbormaster truck ... $33,811 PUBliC SaFETY ToTal ....... $53,811

PUBliC WoRKSreplace 4Wd truck (aco) ....... $23,000 repair/Paint town Hall ............ $35,000 replace ‘00 dump truck ........ $161,000 PUBliC WoRKS ToTal ...... $487,500

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9Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Duxbury Clippereach to buy two new six-wheel dump trucks for the highway department; $7,000 for the Coun-cil on Aging to replace couches and chairs at the senior center; and $70,000 for library and recreation, including $15,000 to repair the ten-nis courts at the Tarkiln Community Center, $15,000 to repair the Wadsworth Field tennis courts, $15,000 to repair or replace the ladies tees at North Hill and $25,000 to repair the sand traps there. Funding for capital expenses will come out of the town’s free cash account.

The Water Department capital expenses equal $308,400, including $150,000 for the ongoing system-wide rehabilitation, $100,000 for PCE water pipe replacement, and two ex-penditures of $29,200 each to replace two half-ton pick up trucks, one from 2004 and the other from 2006. These items are funded through wa-ter rates. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 7PersonneL PLAn AnD

non-UnIon rAIsesArticle 7 is the Duxbury Personnel Plan

and Compensation Schedule, a routine article used to give pay raises to town managers and non-school and non-union town employees as well as part-time or temporary workers. Funded this year at $80,000, this article will also amend the Personnel Plan to replace it with a revised bylaw, which is on file at the town clerk’s of-fice. The 2012 Personnel By Law includes the following new or updated policies: background investigations, non-discriminatory and anti-ha-rassment rules, whistleblower, equal opportuni-ty and maternity leave policies. Also, the bylaw has new language regarding benefit eligibility for intermittent police officers if they regularly work more than 20 hours per week; clarifying language regarding vacation carryover and us-age; updated language regarding performance evaluations for Schedule A, B and R, part time and seasonal positions; new salary administra-tion guidelines; a revised grade scale 1-10; re-inclusion of positions from decertified profes-sional units; reclassification of some decertified professional unit positions and reclassification of call firefighter positions from schedule A to schedule R. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 8UnIon contrActs

Article 8 is an annual article for funding collective bargaining agreements from any of the nine unions in town, including police, fire-fighters, teachers, and school and government employees. Currently, there are no contracts to

be funded through this article, so it will likely be indefinitely postponed. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 9remoVe UnUseD DeBt

Article 9 seeks to rescind authorized and unused debt. This is a way for the town to clean up its books. When a project is approved by Town Meeting for a certain dollar amount, it often costs less to complete. This article allows the town to take back the amount of debt that has been authorized but is unused. This article calls for rescinding $640,000 in unused debt from the Chandler Elementary school roof project. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 10reVoLVInG fUnDs

Article 10 requests reauthorization of three revolving funds and the creation of a new fund.

They include accounts for the Council on Aging, the Assessing Department, the Conservation Commission and the new Fire Department fund for hazardous materials. Revolving funds are accounts set up to receive fees for ser-

vices that are used to pay for expenses incurred to offer the services. The Council on Aging revolving fund can hold up to $70,000 gener-ated from fees for senior center programs. The money in this account is used to pay instructors or buy supplies. This amount is the same as last year.

The Assessing Department’s geographic information system revolving fund request is $6,000. Duxbury’s GIS is a computer-based sys-tem contains, manages, and presents maps and information about town’s geographic features, infrastructure and other related land-based in-formation. The GIS revolving fund holds fees paid by users who request certain electronic data and/or plans from the town’s GIS sys-tem. This money provides a dedicated revenue source to upgrade and maintain the GIS system and is the same amount as last year.

The Conservation Commission’s revolving fund request is $20,000. This account contains money generated from the sale of Christmas trees on the town-owned Jaycox Christmas tree farm on West Street. A forester is hired to spray and shear the trees and mow the property. It re-mains unchanged from last year.

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Child care services for preschool (ages 3 and up/must be toilet trained) – school age children will be available at a reduced cost for Duxbury resi-dents attending Town Meeting on Saturday, March 12.

High school students will provide care in the extended day program classrooms at the Alden Elementary School. The service is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the ex-ception of the Town Meeting lunch break, when parents are asked to pick up their children. The cost is $12 per child per day, or $6 per child for the morning session or afternoon session. Families must register in advance for the child care service during Town Meeting. Please call the community ed-ucation office at 781-934-7633 by Thursday, March 10.

10 Wednesday, March 9, 2011Duxbury Clipperpend money for reimbursable incidents involv-ing hazardous materials releases. This account will be used to replace, repair or buy equipment and supplies used during hazardous material in-cidents and to pay firefighters who responded to these types of emergencies. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 11BeAch LeAse

Article 11 requests $400,000 for the town’s annual lease of Duxbury Beach from its owner, the non-profit, Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc. This amount is the same as previous years. The lease pays most of the Reservation’s costs of managing the part of the beach the town rents — the residents’ parking lot beach and the four-wheel drive-on section. Last year, it cost the Reservation approximately $434,319 to maintain this section. Additional funding comes from concession stand receipts on the public part of Duxbury Beach as well as from annual fundraising. From the lease money, the Reser-vation funds the salaries of the harbormaster’s endangered species officer and his assistant and also pays for piping plover monitors — summer workers who watch and protect these federally endangered shore birds, which nest annually on Duxbury beach. The lease also helps pay for dune repairs, new snow fence and cable fenc-ing, beach road maintenance, debris clean-up in the spring and fall, daily trash removal in the summer, geological studies and Audubon Soci-ety oversight of migratory birds. The town has been leasing the beach since 1919. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Commit-tee.

Article 12JULy 4th PArADe

Article 12 is an annual article asking for a $10,000 appropriation for the July 4th parade and celebration. The much-loved town parade and weekend bonfire and beach party costs over $40,000 annually with private donations total-ing almost $25,000, although fundraising has been down in recent years. The contribution from Article 12 allows the committee to book bands and acts early in the season, making for a fun, festive Fourth. Supported by Board of Se-lectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 13DAVID cUtLer forest

Sponsored by the Conservation Commis-sion, this is a proposal to name approximately five acres of open space off Mayflower Street after late Duxbury Clipper publisher David Cut-ler. Cutler, a Duxbury native, was an outspoken advocate of preserving open space and lobbied for the adoption of the Community Preserva-tion Act. The property, to be designated “David Cutler Forest,” is near the Round Pond open space parking area. Supported by Board of Se-lectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 14 fy12 hoUsInG ALLocAtIon PLAn

Article 14 is an annual article that seeks adoption of the FY2012 Housing Allocation Plan. This plan outlines how money in the Af-fordable Housing trust fund can be spent for affordable housing. The article states that that these funds can be used for a first-time home ownership program, or to convert existing prop-erties into affordable units or to acquire or build new affordable housing units. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 15 cemetery LAnD sWAP

Article 15 proposes a land swap between the town and the cemetery trustees. Two parcels of cemetery land totaling almost two acres adja-cent to the fire station on Mayflower Street will be given to the town so the fire department can build a new septic system as part of the station renovation plans. Another parcel of 2.5 acres abutting the transfer station will be given to the town to square off this property as the entrances and exits to the facility are on cemetery land. In return, the town will give the cemetery trustees almost 28 acres from five separate lots to make up for taking this land as well as the 3.4 acres of land taken from the cemetery in 1999 for the Senior Center. The trade will also provide for future cemetery expansion. The land being giv-en to the trustees is adjacent to the rear of the cemetery and with walking trails on the outer portion. Of the three largest lots, which equal 21.35 acres, only approximately 14 acres will be usable for future burials. The rest is steeply sloped or is wetlands. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 16fIre stAtIon rehABILItAtIonArticle 16 will ask voters to approve a debt

exclusion to pay for renovations to the main (Tremont Street) fire station. If voters approve the article, it will also have to pass at the gen-eral election.

Public Safety Buildings Committee Chair-man Andre Martecchini re-ported a few weeks ago that the total project cost will be $3,697,064, after the bids for the work came in slight-

ly lower than expected.The largest part of the project is the re-

placement of the existing crew quarters wing with a new 7,860 sq. ft. wing that will contain space for administration, crew quarters, opera-tions, maintenance and a three-bay garage for apparatus storage. The new wing will serve several purposes, including providing separate sleeping quarters for men and women, and it will allow the department’s administration of-

article 13 would designate publicly-owned land off Mayflower Street, near Round Pond, as the “David Cutler Forest” after the former Clipper publisher. Cutler was a steadfast proponent of open space and the Community Preservation act.

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chief kevin nord

Home value fy13 tax extra cost $400,000 $5,088 $47.99 $600,000 $7,632 $71.98 $800,000 $10,176 $95.98$1,000,000 $12,720 $119.97$2,000,000 $25,440 $239.94

debt exclusion amount: $3.7 million (est.)

What’s my bottom line?

Here’s how much the fire station renova-tion debt exclusion article would add to

your annual property tax bill at the assessed val-

ues listed below. the fy13 tax amount is based on

the rate of $12.60 per thousand.

These costs are for the first year. The length of the exclusion has not been determined.

fire station renovation


fice to be more accessible to the public, on the first floor (they’re currently up a flight of stairs, above the Emergency Operations Center.)

Last year’s Town Meeting voters approved a two-year debt exclusion for $292,000 to pay for the design of the station. However, this is only the latest round of attempt by Duxbury public safety officials to get a new building. Voters previously rejected bids to build a brand-new fire station and a more expen-sive rehab project. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fiscal Advisory. Finance Committee recommen-dation available at Town Meeting.

Article 17PoLIce stAtIon DesIGn

AnD constrUctIonArticle 17 will ask voters to approve a debt ex-

clusion of $6.27 million to fund the design and construction of a new police facility on Mayflower Street. The Board of Selectmen urged the Public Safety Building Committee to break from the usual Duxbury tradition of asking for design money and construction money separately, because of the urgent need for a new station.

The conceptual plans for a new police station show a one-story, 15,200 square foot building on 19 acres of town-owned land on Mayflower Street adja-cent to the transfer station. Police say having every-thing on one floor is optimal for police work. Also outlined on the plans is a separate 1,000 square foot outbuilding for police equipment.

The current building – built with residential con-struction standards rather than commercial –– has a number of glaring flaws in addition to decades of wear and tear. There are constant flooding and septic problems, victims of crime often have to trudge up to the second floor to be interviewed, and proper equip-ment storage is difficult. The size of the police force has also grown significantly since the original station was built.

Some Mayflower Street residents have expressed concerned about increased traffic and speeding ve-hicles, but police officials pointed out that unlike the fire station. the majority of police officer responding to calls come from their patrol areas, not the station itself.

If Town Meeting voters approve this article, it will head to the ballot box at the spring election. Sup-ported by Board of Selectmen and Fiscal Advisory. Finance Committee recommendation available at Town Meeting.

Article 18co-LocAteD hIGh/mIDDLe schooL

schemAtIc DesIGnArticle 18 is another debt exclusion request, this

one for $2,925,000 to pro-vide a schematic design for a new co-located high school/

middle school building. A co-located school is a facility that shares some common spaces like a library or gym but is es-sentially two separate

schools in the same building. The building would be built behind Duxbury Middle School and would be completed in phases. The existing high school land would be turned into parking and athletic fields.

The entire project is projected to cost about $130 million, however, after reimbursement from the state’s School Building Authority Duxbury taxpay-ers will be on the hook for about $74 million.

Participating in the model design program means that Duxbury’s architect will base the design off an existing facility. Current model school communities include Whitman-Hanson, Hudson and Ipswich –– which is a co-located school.

Proponents of the project point to the middle school roof, which has been leaking in some of this year’s storms, and other aging systems like HVAC and heating, as well as classrooms and equipment

read pro and con views on this article on page 22

Flooding, crowded office spaces, a leaky roof and inad-equate electrical systems are just some of the list of issues at the current police station on West Street. Town officials are seeking design and construction money at this year’s Town Meeting to build a new facility on Mayflower Street.

Participating in the model school program means the district would base their design off an existing school (like the ipswitch middle/high school, above.) The new building would be built in phases behind the existing middle school (see rendering below.)

Help make Town Meeting a plastic bottle free zone

S u s t a i n a b l e Duxbury has been working with the Selectmen and the Town of Duxbury to make this town meeting a “plas-tic water bottle free zone.” The group has co-ordinated with Tony Kelso at the PAC to sup-ply water pitchers and cups for the people at the head of the room. They encourage all at-tendees to bring their own reus-able water bottles and fill them with Duxbury water. Sustain-able Duxbury will be at Town Meeting with their own water bottles available for sale along with information about the use of plastic water bottles.


that aren’t designed to meet the current educational needs of students. Those skeptical of the project are concerned with the lack of maintenance that led to some of the problems, and the high price tag.

Project proponents also say that even if the new school is not approved, the school district will be back before taxpayers with a host of debt exclusions to fix the individual systems in the two schools – at a cost that could nearly equal Duxbury’s portion of the new construction. The MSBA sent a team out to in-spect the buildings and recommend rebuilding rather than renovating or repairing.

If Article 18 passes voters’ muster at Town Meet-ing and the election, a special Town Meeting would have to be called this fall to approve the construction funds, in order to meet the Mass. School Building Authority’s deadline for reimbursement. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fiscal Advisory. Finance Committee recommendation available at Town Meet-ing.

Article 19cPc ADmInIstrAtIon

Article 19 requests $80,500, or five percent of Community Preser-vation Act revenues, for the Com-munity Preservation Committee’s operating budget. Of this amount, $16,000 is for salaries. This is an annual article and historically, it only costs less than the full amount

to administer the CPA. Last year, the total cost was $64,500. These funds pay for the CPC’s administra-tor, consultants, engineering fees and legal costs. Any unused money is returned to the CPA general account. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fi-nance Committee.

Article 20ALLocAte cPc fUnDs

This article seeks to allocate the required 10 percent of the Community Preservation Act tax sur-charge to accounts for each of its three purposes: open space protection, historical preservation and afford-able housing. Duxbury residents pay a three percent surcharge on their real estate taxes to fund projects recommended by the Community Preservation Committee and approved by Town Meeting. This year, voters will be asked to approve $483,000 to be split three ways into $161,000 for each account. Last year, the amount was $152,810. With the anticipated 28 percent state match of $340,000 and $1,273,00 from the tax surcharge, the CPA 2012 revenue be-fore town meeting expenditures will be just over $1.6 million. For FY12, the total of CPC funds will be $3.9 million. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fi-nance Committee.

Article 21 oLD toWn hALL restorAtIon

This is a proposal to use $250,000 in CPA funds to restore the exterior of Old Town Hall. The original 1840 building that now houses offices for selectmen and Town Manager will receive a restoration of its

facade, re-pointing of the original granite foundation and a new roof. $130,000 will be spent to remove 100 plus years of paint, including lead paint, from the building. The CPC has decided this is a restoration project and not building maintenance, for which CPA money cannot be used. An application is pending to list the Old Town Hall on the National Register of Historic Places. Supported by Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Article 22 Keene mILL foUnDAtIon

restorAtIon Article 22 asks voters to spend $30,000 in CPA

historic preservation funds to restore the foundation of what used to be Keene Mill, located near the in-tersection of Temple and Keene Streets. The project consists of removing and resetting the granite blocks in the foundation. This “up and down” sawmill was used to cut logs into boards for manufacturing cran-

berry boxes for the 5C Cranberry Corporation. It came into the town’s possession when Dux-

bury purchased 97 acres from Crossroads for Kids in 2008. The money will also pay to clear brush away from the area and to install a guardrail. Supported by Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Article 23GrAVestone restorAtIon

A plan to restore historic gravestones is being proposed at a cost of $58,000 in CPA funds. In the Mayflower Cemetery on Tremont Street, 115 gravestones have been identified for repairs. At this cemetery, the earliest marker dates to 1787 in a sec-tion that is adjacent to the First Parish Church. In the Standish Cemetery, 100 gravestones are in need of repair or restoration. The oldest headstone there dates to 1697. Some of these ancient grave markers were capped with metal frames, which have done

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Shoring up the crumbling foundation of the former Keene Mill is one of the proposed Community Preservation act projects on the Town Meeting warrant this year.

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1697the date of the earliest

headstone in the standish burial Ground

RE-ELECT FRIEND S. WEILER, SR. MODERATOR

Friend S. Weiler, Sr. has lived in Duxbury for 33 years and

has been active in Town Government for 23 of those years.

As a banking professional, he has over 40 years of experi-

ence and has held numerous leadership roles, including

his current position as SVP of the Commercial Lending

Division at Harbor One Credit Union.

Resume

B.A. from Boston University 1968

MBA from Suffolk University 1973

Stonier Graduate School of Banking,

Rutgers University 1974

Banking Professional 1968 – present

Director, Old Colony YMCA

Trustee, South Shore Health &

Education Foundation

Member, Thorny Lea Golf Club

Personal

Friend and his wife of 43 years, Candy, have two grown

and married sons, Friend, Jr. and Eric. Friend and Candy

have lived at 7 Trout Farm Road since they moved to

Duxbury in 1978

Experience Counts!

1988 P.R.I.D.E. $1,000,000 Override

1989-92 Finance Committee-Chair ‘92

1992-98 Board of Selectman-Chair ‘94-‘95

1998-01 Conservation Commission-Chair ’02-‘04

2001 P.R.I.D.E. – Chair, $42,000,000

School Renovation

2003-04 Town Government Study Committee

2005 Town Manager Search

Committee-Chair

2006 - 2010 Fiscal Advisory Committee

2010 - present Town Moderator

The 2011 annual town meeting is scheduled for Saturday, March 12, 2011.There are over fifty articles for your consideration, including three major capital programs along with a $54million operating budget. Please use this opportunity to have your voice heard on the deliberations that will have a significant impact on our community.

Thank you,

VOTE: FRIEND S. WEILER, SR.

ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION

MARCH 26, 2011

DUXBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Paid for by Friend S. Weiler, Sr. 7 Trout Farm Rd. Duxbury MA 02332

13Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Duxbury Clippermore harm than good, further deteriorating the stones underneath. The project will start in May and should take one to two years. Supported by Board of Select-men, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Com-mittee.

Article 24PUrchAse BLAIrhAVen

Article 24 asks voters to use $3.15 million in Community Preservation Act funds to purchase Blairhaven, a five-acre waterfront property bordering Crescent Street and adjacent to Howland’s Landing, an active public boat launching area and 86-vessel capacity mooring field. The property is directly on Kingston Bay and it includes three parcels owned by the Massachusetts New Church Union. The purchase price is $3 million. The extra $150,000 is for addi-tional expenses related to the purchase and for either repairing or demolishing the three structures on the property. The CPC has been talking to the New Union Church about buying Blairhaven since 2003. The property was assessed at between $3.1 million to $3.5 million. Blairhaven would be used for either passive recreation or as open space and would create greater public access to the waterfront. Allowing public or resident-only parking on the site has been discussed. A study committee has been named to investigate and recommend the best way to use Blairhaven. Cur-

rently, it is used as a retreat and for functions. It used to be a children’s camp. CPA money is available to pay for most of the project although the town would have to borrow $800,000, which would be paid back from CPA funds within a year. Short-term borrow-ing is allowed under the CPA. Supported by Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Article 25sUmmer street oPen sPAce

Article 25 proposes to spend $447,097 in Com-munity Preservation Act funds to buy 29 acres of open space off Summer Street. The property consists of three adjacent parcels with 200 feet of frontage on the east side of Summer Street between Keene and Franklin Streets. The actual cost of the land is $427,500. The additional money is for associated purchase costs, such as a survey and bounding the land. Owned by Edward Koplovsky, the property contains upland, wetlands and two ponds, which to-tal approximately five acres. One of the lots is a 6.54-acre buildable lot appraised at $235,000. This land is adjacent to 155 acres of Duxbury conservation land, has a rare species habitat and is within the Western Greenbelt, an area targeted for land acquisition. Sup-ported by Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Article 26sheLVInG for toWn cLerK’s VAULt

Article 26 requests $9,549 in CPA funds for a compact rolling shelving system to better store the documents in the town clerk’s vault at town hall. The vault storage was recently analyzed by a profession-al who recommended the shelving. The town clerk keeps the vital records of the town, which include re-cords of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as town meeting reports, annual town reports, ZBA maps and cases, voter registration cards and bound street lists. Many of these records must be kept by the clerk in-

definitely. The vault measures 7 by 11 feet. The con-sultant also recommended that the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners monitor the envi-ronmental conditions in the vault for six months to see if it needs other upgrades. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Article 27 hoUsInG AssIstAnce ProJectArticle 27 seeks to deposit $330,000 in CPA

funds into the First Time Homeownership Assistance Program. This fund, which began with $500,000 in 2008, has awarded one $100,000 grant to an eligible participant. Two more grants will be awarded once the next two chosen applicants find homes that qual-ify for the program. $100,000 of the request will be taken from a house-moving project that wasn’t be-ing used. Supported by Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and Fiscal Advisory Committee.

The town clerk’s office is seeking CPa funds to purchase some shelving for the vault in which town documents are kept. By law, many of these documents have to be kept on the premises, but inadequate space is making things difficult.

Blairhaven brouhahaThe potential

Community Pres-ervation Act pur-chase of the fomer Blairhaven Retreat Center on Standish Shore has stirred up a passionate opposi-tion from neighbors. See the letters start-ing on page 23.

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Article 28PetItIon: rescInD toWn’s

AccePtAnce of cPAArticle 28 would ask Duxbury voters to repeal

Duxbury’s acceptance of the Community Preservation Act. The Act is a state law that al-lows towns in Massachusetts to attach a real estate sur-charge of up to three percent (Duxbury’s is the full three percent). That money is then matched by state funds, col-lected from fees at the Regis-

try of Deeds and can be used on projects that fit the bill of either historic preservation, open space or pas-sive recreation purchases, or affordable housing. The match was at 100 percent for the first couple of years (Duxbury adopted the Act in 2001) but has fallen off in recent years as more towns joined the program. This year’s match is estimated at 28 percent. Article sponsor Paul McCormack, who is also a candidate for the Planning Board, has said he wants to give vot-ers a choice and that he isn’t happy with some of the CPA’s expenditures. (See letter on page 29.) A simi-lar article on the warrant two years ago was defeated on Town Meeting floor. If article 28 passes, it would also have to be approved at the town election. Not supported by Board of Selectmen. Finance Commit-tee recommendation is available at Town Meeting.

Article 29eAsement off LIncoLn st.

Article 29 would authorize the Board of Select-men to grant access and utility easements to a ho-meowner on Lincoln Street. Conservation Agent Jo-eseph Grady told selectmen at a recent meeting that a resident informed him that her driveway and utilities have been located on town property for over 30 years.Her driveway runs over two parcels. One is owned by the Board of Selectmen and was taken for back taxes in 2003. The other parcel had been owned by the Water Department, but was recently transferred

to the Conservation Commission due to swapping of land near the Birch Street water tank. Town Meeting can grant an easement for the selectmen’s land, but it may require an act of the Legislature for an easement over the conservation land. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 30 BAy fArm fIeLD mAnAGement

Article 30 requests voter ap-proval of a management agree-ment to create hay fields at the Bay Farm open space area off of Loring Street on the Kingston border. The Duxbury Agricultural Commission recommends the town lease the field for hay production for up to

ten years because it will help to maintain the fields by getting rid of the invasive exotic plants. A 10-year lease is more desirable than a five-year lease because it will take time and money to convert the land to usable hay fields. Bay Farm consists of 80 acres that is jointly owned by Duxbury, Kingston and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Man-agement. Duxbury bought its 44 acres in 1973. It is under the care of the Board of Selectmen and is not considered conservation land. It is frequented by dog walkers, bird watchers and fishermen as it ends at the Kingston Bay shoreline. The walking trails would be maintained if the hay fields are created. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee.

Article 31hIstorIc ProtectIon DIstrIctsThis article is a long-time-coming follow up to

an attempt to create a historic protection district on High Street in the 90’s (that initiative failed at Town Meeting.) After two years of studying the issue from every angle, the Local Historic District Study Com-mittee is proposing a bylaw that would see Duxbury create three local historic districts.

The first proposed district, called the Winsor Lo-cal Historic District, includes the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society’s headquarters, the 1807 Nathan-

iel Winsor Jr. House on Washington Street as well as two other properties: the 1813 Seth Sprague Jr. House, which has been divided into condos, and the 1780 Fitzgibbon House at the corner of Mattakeeset Court.

The second district, the Bradford historic district, includes seven buildings at the Tremont end of Har-rison Street. It consists of the Society’s 1808 Ger-shom Bradford House at 931 Tremont St. and its sur-rounding ten acres, the 1847 Captain Freeman Soule House at 987 Tremont St., the 1831 Rev. Benjamin Kent House at 992 Tremont Street, also known as the Parish House, the 1807 Captain Gamaliel Bradford House at 942 Tremont St., the 1890 House at 907 Tremont St., the 1832 Daniel Loring House at 915 Tremont St., also known as the Parish House and the 1808 Captain Daniel Bradford House at 251 Harri-son St.

The third district consists of the First Parish Church at 842 Tremont St. built in 1840.

The three district contain 14 properties total.Taking a cue from the past failure, the study group

decided not to impose overly burdensome restrictions

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article 30 would allow a farmer to produce hay at Bay Farm Field. The lease would be for 10 years.

by tHe numbers

$9 milamount of taxpayer

money used towards cPa projects since 2001

Vice president abdul hamadeh, Police Chief Matthew Clancy and club President Steve Dubuque

rotary newsAt the last meeting held at the Senior Center, the Rotary

Club was privileged to hear from Chief of Police, Matthew Clancy who gave an update on the proposed police station to be voted on at the town meeting in March. the chief said the current station was intended for 12 officers whereas the new station will accommodate the current staff of officers plus employees which now numbers 60 people. The pending sta-tion represents a reduction in cost and size from last years request. Also, Fred L’Ecuyer made a report of the progress on the upcoming Chowder Fest.

“From Duxbury to Kabul” was the theme for the gath-ering at the Senior Center on Sunday, March 6 at 3 p.m. Former Duxbury resident and former president of the Rotary Club Razia Jan, founder of a girls school in Afghanistan was present. The first Annual amazing Women Award was pre-sented on this occasion.


on things such as paint color, fencing, landscape materials, the use of modern materials. They also are not recommending that work on homes in the district be limited to the use of historically appropriate materials. The districts will also only include hom-eowners who voluntarily participated.

Article 32fIre hyDrAnt ByLAW chAnGe

Duxbury Fire Chief Kevin Nord has pushed for a bylaw change after identifying several fire hydrants around town where access is blocked. Nord said he sent letters to the offend-ing homeowners but has re-ceived little cooperation.

The problem is that some homeowners are building fences or other structures so close to the hydrants that fire crews can’t access the bolts with a wrench, and therefore can’t turn the water on to fight fires.

Nord wants to add lan-guage to the bylaw clarifying what people can’t do next to a hydrant. He also wants to add a line about enforcement, saying that any plant, fence or other structure installed prior to March 12, 2011 shall be removed within 10 days of receiving written notice from the Fire Department. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Fi-nance Committee.

Article 33PetItIon: chAnGe Accessory strUctUre

DefInItIon In ZonInG ByLAWThis citizen’s petition article would amend the town’s zon-

ing bylaws, changing the definition of what constitutes an “ac-cessory structure.”

Much of this debate sprang out of a zoning enforcement ac-tion on River Lane last year. The Planning Board had taken issue with a “guest house” that had been built, and when the building

inspector ruled it OK they appealed to the Zoning Board of Appeals. The ZBA upheld the inspector’s decision, with some cave-ats.

One of the central issues in the debate was the idea of a “dwelling” versus a “dwell-

ing unit” when it came to the town’s bylaws. Planning Board members maintained that any building with “an accumulation of amenities” (the River Lane building in question had everything a house would need except a stove) counts as a dwelling and isn’t allowed under the town’s zoning rules.

Supporters of River Lane maintained a building could have living spaces and not be considered a dwelling –– and said their interpretation of the bylaw backed this view.

Petitioner Jessica Williams has framed the discussion as a homeowners’ rights issue. The proposed article would clarify that an accessory structure with finished living space is not a “dwelling unit.” Supported by the Board of Selectmen.

There are three proposed historic districts on the Town Meeting war-rant. The local historic District Study Committee decided to only include voluntary participants in the districts. an initia-tive to create such a dis-trict on high Street in the ‘90s ran into stiff opposi-tion from residents and was defeated at Town Meeting.

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Article 34Accessory strUctUre

DefInItIon chAnGeArticle 34 is the Planning Board’s answer to the

accessory building debate. The article would define an accessory structure as a building that is not used in whole or in part as a dwelling. It also ads the words “may include” to the list of acceptable buildings as to not limit accessory structures to garages, sheds, swimming pools, tennis courts, piers or greenhouses. This article is not supported by the Board of Select-men.

Article 35Accessory APArtments

This article cleans up some language in the ac-cessory apartment bylaw. The article, proposed by the Local Housing Partnership, adds an item to the list of reasons the ZBA may approve a special permit for an accessory apartment. The item gives the ZBA the ability to require an applicant to record a restric-tion verifying the apartment won’t be converted to a condominium. It also reduced the amount of time required between the last addition on a home and the special permit application to one year (from five.) This article is supported by the Board of Selectmen.

Article 36PetItIon: enDorse sInGLe DensIty

This petition also stems from issues in the River Lane case. One of the fears of some residents and town officials is that guest houses and accessory buildings will turn into rental properties or other permanent housing, thus creating “double

density” on a lot. Duxbury’s zoning rules only allow one single family dwelling on each lot. This article is a citizen’s petition to reaffirm the town’s com-mitment to single density, as outlined in Duxbury’s 1999 comprehensive plan. It would have little practi-cal implications. This article is not supported by the Board of Selectmen.

Article 37GUest hoUse DefInItIon

This article, proposed by the Planning Board, would change the definition of “guest house” to “Bed and Breakfast.” Duxbury’s zoning bylaws currently use the term “guest house” to refer to what most people would think of as a bed and breakfast, and this definition has caused some confusion as people look into building what most people would consider a “guest house” – a building where temporary guests can stay. This article is supported by the Board of Selectmen.


Don’t forGet to Vote!

The debt exclusion articles for the fire station renovation, the police station design and

construction, and the school building design funds –– if passed at Town Meet-ing –– will appear as questions on the ballot during the annual town election.

When: saturday, march 26

Where: Duxbury middle school

hours: 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

transfer and beach stickers will expire march 31

Don’t risk being turned away from the dump! While it might be hard to think about a nice day at the beach right now, you may be in the mood for spring cleaning. Applica-tions for 2011 transfer and beach stickers are available at Town Hall from 8 to 7 Mon-day; Tuesday thru Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to12:30 p.m. for more information go online at town.duxbury.ma.us

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

Applications must be post-marked no later than March 1 to receive a $20 discount on beach stickers. Discounts do not apply to walk-in purchases or senior rates. Senior rates are already discounted and you must be aged 62 at time of purchase.

evening caregiver Support Group

Are you caring for an elderly parent or a spouse? Would you like to talk with other caregivers? Learn about caregiver supports and senior services? The Duxbury Senior Center, in collaboration with “Norwell Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, Inc.” offers an evening Caregiver Support Group at the Senior Cen-ter. This group meets the third Thursday of the month 6:30-8 p.m. Call Joan Wright at 781-659-2342 or Donna Ciappina, at 781-934-5774 ext. 105 for more informa-tion or to register.


Article 38Lot coVerAGe

This article has been kicked around for several years, and a citizen’s petition to change the per-centage amounts was withdrawn from last year’s Town Meeting warrant at the 11th hour.

Duxbury’s rules currently state that 50 percent of the lot must be open space. This means only 50 percent of a business lot can be “cov-ered” by either a building or impermeable surface such as a paved parking lot. Business owners said these numbers were overly restrictive, and town of-ficials weren’t fond of the fact that they often led to parking problems.

The new language in the bylaw would change the percentage to 70 percent covered, 30 percent open space. However, the amount of the lot covered by a building could be no more than 20 percent. The next article in the warrant also changes the definition of open space so that it cannot be used for parking. The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to support this article.

Article 39oPen sPAce DefInItIon

This article clears up the definition of open space as it applies to lot coverage. Under the new rule, open space would be any portion of the lot composed of vegetative matter that is open and unobstructed. It

can’t be used by vehicles for travel or parking. The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to support this article.

Article 40PArKInG

reGULAtIonsThis article would

completely remove the part of the town’s Protective Bylaw that deals with parking and replace it with a new section. The new information outlines how much parking is required for each of the following catego-ries: residential, insti-tution and community, commercial, medical and office.

The new bylaw would also require all parking spaces in NB1 and NB2 business zones to be located on a bituminous concrete or cement concrete surface (although the special permit granting authority can make some exceptions if a better technology becomes widely available). Spaces would have to be 10 feet wide and 20 feet in length. Regulations on stormwa-ter management, curb cutting, “stacking” (cars lining up in places like drive-through windows or gas sta-tions), lighting and sight lines are also included in the bylaw. Parking lots with 25 or more space would

have to conform to a landscape plan. The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 not to support this article.

Article 41Use VArIAnces

This article would remove the language “use vari-ance” from the Protective Bylaw so that the Zoning Board of Appeals could not longer grant such vari-ances. In their recommendations, the Planning Board pointed out that most communities in Massachusetts do not allow use variances. The Board of Selectmen do not support this article.

Article 42reZone Lot

from WetLAnDs ProtectIon to

resIDentIALThis article is a citizen’s

petition to change the zoning of a portion of a 4-acre lot on Cape Verde Terrace off Franklin Street to residential from wetlands protec-tion. Town officials have said the zoning is incorrect and there are no wetlands on the property where the zoning map identifies them. Owners Bill and Doreen Driver sponsored this petition and they hope to split the lot into two properties after it is rezoned. The Board of Selectmen support this article.

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Article 43AccePt cUshInG DrIVe AnD IcehoUse LAne

Article 43 is a citizen’s petition asking voters to accept Cushing Drive and Ice House Road as public ways. The Plan-

ning Board is against this article, saying that there are still eleven houses in this residential subdivision yet to be built and that taking the roads as public ways means the town must pay for repairs if the roads are damaged when new homes are built. Selectmen have said that the town has protections in place for road repairs, such as permits and performance bonds. Both roads were built to the town’s speci-

fications for public roads and residents of the roads want them to be public ways. The Board of Selectmen support this article.

Article 44WeLL sIte off teAKettLe LAne

This is a plan to take 15 acres of the conservation land called the Crowell Bogs off Route 14 for use as a new well site. This ar-ticle will most likely be indefinitely postponed because there are issues with the property off Teakettle Lane that can’t be resolved before Town Meeting. The town needs to evaluate whether the potential well site is too close to wetlands and surface water. Also, there are access issues. The town wants to get to the land via Modoc Street but that may require land takings. Supported by Board of Selectmen.

Article 45nstAr eAsement Percy WALKer PooLArticle 45 seeks to grant a utility easement to NSTAR Elec-

tric Company at the Percy Walker Pool, 175 St. George Street. There is currently a temporary easement in place and this action will make it permanent. The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 to support this article.

Article 46nstAr/VerIZon eAsement mILLBrooK WeLL

Article 46 requests voters grant another utility easement to NSTAR Electric Company and Verizon New England at the Millbrook well pumping station. This location also has a tempo-rary easement and Town Meeting approval will make it perma-nent. Supported by Board of Selectmen.

Article 47PILGrIm nUcLeAr PLAnt reLIcensInG

Article 47 is sponsored by the Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee, which carefully watches conditions at the Pil-grim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. This article wants voter agreement that Pilgrim’s owner, Entergy, must complete the following four actions before

it can be relicensed to operate Pilgrim for another 20 years. 1) The company must show that a third-party will assume responsi-bility for a clean up after a severe nuclear reactor accident. 2) It

must make sure that all control rods have been inspected for cracking or other deterioration. 3) Entergy must also replace all submerged elec-tric cables and connectors that are not designed for wet environments and (4) it must develop a more comprehensive inspection system for its buried pipes, tanks and monitoring wells. The chemical tritium has been detected in the three monitoring wells near Pilgrim. Tritium is a ra-dioactive isotope of hydrogen and is a byprod-uct in nuclear reactors producing electricity. Tritium is dangerous if inhaled or ingested in drinking water and exposure to tritium can in-crease the risk of developing cancer. Supported by Board of Selectmen and Finance Commit-tee.

Article 48stABILIZAtIon fUnD

This is an annual article to transfer money into the town’s stabilization fund. This article

will be indefinitely postponed because a trans-fer of $300,000 from free cash to the Stabili-zation is requested in special Town Meeting Article 7.

Article 49free cAsh

Article 50 is a routine article that seeks to use certified free cash to reduce the tax amount. The free cash account balance stands at $3.6 million and the town is expecting to use $2.19 million to fund various article at town meeting. Since the town is no longer using its free cash to balance the operating budget, but uses it to pay for one-time expenses such as capital items, this article will be indefinitely postponed.


Blairhaven information meetingThe Blairhaven Committee invites the residents of Dux-

bury to attend its meeting on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 p.m. in the Ellison Room of the Duxbury Senior Center to discuss the proposed purchase of the Blairhaven Retreat Center (Ar-ticle 24 of the Annual Town Meeting) and the possible futures uses that may be made to this property if it is acquired by the Town. This is an opportunity for the public to learn about the project and to ask questions about the possible future uses of this property.

Visit the Clipper Web site for updated cover-age of Town Meeting starting on Saturday.


But don’t let Weiler’s pleasant-sounding moniker fool you –– he’s a savvy vet-eran of Duxbury politics, hav-ing served on boards including the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee, and he’s well prepared to shepherd vot-ers through the 49 articles on the warrant.

“I feel it’s important to be prepared,” Weiler said.

He’s been going over the warrant articles and motions, and has read “Town Meeting Time” –– sort of a town mod-erator’s Bible. He’s also par-ticipated in Mass. Moderators Association meetings.

“I think I know what au-thority I have and what re-sponsibilities I have,” he said.

He said he’s used to ad-dressing large crowds and working with groups of people at his job, so he’s not worried about running the meeting.

“I’m going to try to keep it moving. Keep it light,” he said. “Civility is going to be some-thing I’m going to stress.”

Weiler expects heated dis-cussion revolving around the three big projects –– the fire station renovation, the new police station and the schemat-ic design for a new co-located high school/middle school. He also thinks some of the land use issues and Community Preservation Act purchases

may spark some debate. One thing that probably won’t get a lot of discussion is the budget.

“There’s so little room in that, and it’s been so well vet-ted,” he said.

Weiler said that while he does want to put his stamp on Town Meeting after many years under Allen Bornheim-er’s watch, there’s a lot to like about the way Duxbury does it.

“The more I learn, the more I’m impressed with the tradition in Duxbury,” he said.

He said that if he does his job correctly, voters won’t know he’s there at all. He talk-ed about being “invisible.”

“I don’t want to be the fo-cus of the meeting. I just want to be the boatman,” he said. “My job is just to manage the

process.”Weiler said he’ll stick to

past rules limiting speakers to five minutes, although he’ll al-low presenters a little leeway. It’s also part of the moderator’s job, he said, to keep things moving along when speakers start saying the same things over and over again.

“It’s going to be up to me to say ... let’s move on with the vote,” he said.

One thing that can be tricky for moderators is when voters propose amendments to articles on the Town Meet-ing floor. Weiler said he’ll try to examine whether the amendment goes beyond the scope of the original article when deciding whether or not to allow it. For example, an amendment to an article that’s more restrictive than what was advertised wouldn’t be fair to voters, he said.

For the most part, howev-er, Weiler just wants Duxbury voters to come and participate in what is one of the purest forms of democracy –– Town Meeting.

“I hope we get a good turnout,” he said. “Come, pay attention, get involved and fill out the talent bank form.”

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children’s art at the AcmThe drop off time for The Art Complex Museum’s children’s

art exhibit has been extended to include the following times: March 16-17, 1-4 p.m. The exhibit is being held in celebration of its fortieth anniversary year. SPRING INTO ART is sched-uled for viewing at the museum’s Alden Studio on March 19 and 20 from 1-4 p.m. The program is open to all young artists, aged five to twelve. Art must be framed and ready to hang with no sawtooth hangers. One entry per child with a size limit of 9x12 inches. A reception for the artists is scheduled on Sunday, March 20, 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. All artwork may be picked up at the conclusion of the exhibit on Sunday, March 20, at 4 p.m. The program is free. Further information is available at artcomplex.org or by calling 781-934-6634, ext. 10.

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Three years ago, Town Meeting at-tendees were pre-

sented with the fire and police station projects at cost of $16 million. At the same meet-ing, residents were concerned because we were being asked to vote CPA monies for new turf fields. Questions arouse regarding the placement of the new fields and how they fit with the long-range school plans. A School Committee

member responded that “new schools were not even on the radar screen.”

Three short years later, we are being faced with a $130 million dollar project to build a new co-located high school and middle school. Wow ... from “not on the radar screen” to it has to be done now!

The voters are still being faced with new public safety buildings. However, the vot-ers have pushed back several times and the scope of these two buildings has come down from $16 million to just under $9 million. A 44 percent re-duction.

You have to wonder how much of the schools project is filled with “nice to haves” vs. “need to haves.” If the voters pushed back, like we have on the public safety buildings, maybe this project would come down in cost? Even if the state match fell a bit, might the project still cost us less? Is that a chance voters are will-ing to take to minimize the tax burden for all of our citizens?

Paula HarrisBayridge Lane

A vote for our schools

In a perfect world, our town buildings would last longer than they do. In a perfect world, we’d “get by” another five years and pay off our public safety buildings before

tackling a new school project. We don’t live in a perfect world. We live in Duxbury; it ain’t perfect, but it’s a great place to live and to raise a family. And our schools are near the top of the list of things that make it so.

Good schools are about more than fancy white boards and shiny new lockers, to be sure. Talented teachers and admin-istrators, dedicated support staff and, of course, bright stu-dents are what make a school. But learning doesn’t occur in a

vacuum. There are significant structural defi-

ciencies in both our middle school and high school that can’t be ignored. We have a science lab with-out proper ventilation, cafeterias that are over-crowded, roofs that are leaking, concrete foundations that are chipping, creaky windows that seep energy loss and a communications system designed before the age of micro-computers.

We can harp all we want about “deferred maintenance,” but blaming today’s school administrators for yesterday’s neglect is unfair. The bottom line is that our kids are the ones who’ll pay the price of inaction. But we’ll pay too, and that’s because the net cost of renovation is almost as high as new construction. Sinking more dollars into fixing up our existing high school and middle school is not the wisest use of our tax dollars over the long run.

No doubt that’s one of the reasons the school project article has been endorsed by the Fiscal Advisory Committee, which is tasked with managing the long-term fiscal health of the town.

Credit also to the members of the school project advocacy group, “Duxbury Cares,” who have run a positive, fact-based campaign, rather than the “Oh, won’t you support the children” style agitprop we sometimes see.

While we have no doubt the school plans will call for the appropriate bells and whistles, there is no indication of the extravagances that plagued the now infamous Newton North High School, which cost an excessive $197 million. By con-trast we are building two schools for a total of about $70 mil-lion less. Moreover, the last time Duxbury undertook a major school renovation (Chandler), the project was completed on time and under budget.

When it comes to taxes, there’s no sugar coating it. This school project will add another $750 per year to the median property tax bill and more for some. That’s no small change, especially for seniors and other who get by on fixed incomes. Perhaps a small consolation, but this increase would not be felt for another 3-4 years. But the bottom line is this: by any cost-benefit analysis this project is worth our investment.

(As an aside, the real culprit in our rising property tax bills is not education, but health insurance costs. That’s where we should focus attention and demand change.)

Saturday’s Town Meeting represents the first hurdle in a multi-step process. Article 18 on your warrant requires a two-thirds vote for passage and then a majority vote on the ballot two weeks later. If those efforts are successful, the plan calls for a special Town Meeting this fall to authorize the full cost of the project. If everything goes as planned, today’s seventh graders could graduate from a new Duxbury High School.

We’re not at the final step by any means. There are still op-portunities for input and residents still have a voice in the pro-cess. However, a no vote on Saturday will stop the project dead in its tracks. That would be a mistake. The Clipper is pleased to endorse and recommend passage of Article 18.

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Vote against new schools may be best long term

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” is an

expression of wisdom that has served thoughtful people well

through the years. Let’s bear this

wisdom in mind when consid-ering the future of CPA at this year’s Town Meeting.

The benefits of CPA to Duxbury have been justifiably well publicized. An extraordi-nary array of projects, subsi-dized in partnership with state and private funding, have pro-tected, preserved and enabled vital aspects of community life that we collectively have

said make Duxbury a special place.

From historic renovations and rehabilitations (Bluefish Fire House, Tarkiln, Wright Building), to open space pres-ervation (Camp Wing, O’Neil Farm, Delano land, North Hill cranberry bogs and ponds) to the enhancement of public fa-cilities (artificial turf fields) to the provision of housing op-portunities for lower income families that provide cultural diversity in town, CPA monies have enhanced every aspect of what is desirable in our com-munity.

We may and do disagree with what may be the virtues

of individual projects but the collective good the CPA has achieved is indisputable. Fur-ther, we get to voice our opin-ion and vote on CPA projects at Town Meeting, a demo-cratic privilege that allows each project’s potential value to be examined in public. To extinguish this program and our ability to utilize state and private monies to increase our return on these “investments” would be short-sighted folly.

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater; vote “no” on article 28.

Cap Kane and Annie EldridgeHarrison Street

Losing CPA investments would be folly –––––––


As a member of the Public Safety Building Commit-

tee, I urge all voters in Dux-bury to attend Town Meeting and hear first hand from our fire and police chiefs as well as members of our committee about the upcoming ar-ticles regarding the buildings.

It has been a long journey to ar-rive at the proposals before us, and one that has led to buildings that will be functional, cost effective, and allow both departments to do the jobs we all need them

to perform. We are blessed in Duxbury to have public offi-cials who have worked so hard for a number of years to exam-ine the requirements from stat-

utes, the function of how their jobs are

best performed, and what is ac-tually needed to achieve both. They’ve worked hard

to differentiate between those

objectives, and what we as taxpayers

have called “wants.” Both de-partments have exhaustively reduced the scope and size of

these projects, given up those “wants” to achieve savings and still maintain the performance we’ve come to expect now and in the foreseeable future.

The time to move forward is now, while construction rates remain favorable, we have asked both departments for years to function at a very high level and yet have given them substandard facilities within which to work. The cost, while not to be trivialized, is modest and the return for all of us can be tremendous.

Georgeann BlattermanSouth River Lane

The No Place for Hate Committee condemns the recent

drawings of swastikas in the rest rooms at Duxbury High School. It is an act of hatred. Signs of hate and violence will

not be tol-erated in our com-

munity. We applaud the quick response of the school admin-istration, especially Principal Andrew Stephens, and the ac-tions that have been taken to educate and inform the com-munity as to how hurtful signs

of hate can be. As Principal Stephens stated, the nature of the swastika in itself “is an in-sult to every one of us in the community.”

No Place for Hate is em-powered to promote respect for individual and group dif-ferences and to prevent hate crimes through education. Duxbury has been a No Place for Hate Community for 11 years after a hate crime was committed against a Jewish family in 2000. The residents of Duxbury have spoken out loudly in the past decrying any

actions of hate and violence. In the past year No Place for Hate have held an assembly on bullying at the Middle School, a Chalk One Up for Diversity Sidewalk Art day, a seminar on profiling and the pyramid of hate, and the Martin Luther King Prayer breakfast. We will continue our mission of pro-moting respect in Duxbury. We also encourage all to join us in taking a stand against all crimes of this nature.

Harry Katz, ChairmanNo Place for Hate

There’s no place for this in Duxbury

We believe that the time is now to act on the

School Building Committee’s recommendation to build a new co-located high school and middle school.

We’ve listened to and read the “renovation” vs. “build new” arguments. We have had children in DHS since 1998 and have witnessed the contin-ued decline and deficiencies in these school buildings. We are concerned about property val-

ues in a community that may not have an accredited high school and yes we are con-cerned about escalating taxes in a tumultuous economy.

However, to not vote for this project at this time when both buildings are well past the end of their useful lives, when DHS has already been put on warning for inadequate facilities, when bond and con-struction rates are favorable, and when the project has been approved at a reimbursement rate of 43 percent would be fiscally irresponsible.

Our schools are our future, and our community responsi-bility. Duxbury is ranked 17th in wealth in the state and yet we rank 277 out of 325 dis-tricts in per pupil spending,

Perhaps we’ve exacerbat-ed our problems by inadequate capital funding over the years. Let’s learn from our mistakes and take renewed pride in our schools by voting yes on this project at Town Meeting and again at the poll on March 26.

Ann & Kevin MullinsSurplus Street

A vote for school project is responsible choice

By Joanne Hopkins

Times are tough. Duxbury families are making decisions, prioritizing and “doing without.” On Saturday, the town will have to do the same.

The Community Preservation Committee is rec-ommending that voters support a $3.15 million dollar purchase of 5 acres of land on Howland’s Landing and Crescent Street. ($800,000 borrowed short-term) The CPC have cited the reasons for this recommendation as, “to improve access to the important deep water mooring field” and “improved access to the bay.”

You likely, know that the town of Duxbury already owns Howlands Landing and an additional 16 public coastal landings. There are plenty of places for residents

to launch their boats and access the bay. Howlands Landing is already actively used by boaters,

fishermen and people who just want to enjoy the scenery.Why, then, should we spend $3.15 million dollars pur-

chasing land next to Howlands Landing? It would be fabulous if we could have new school

buildings, a new Fire Department and police station and buy acres and acres of open space. There is certainly a time for all of this. Now, however, is not that time. Now is the time to be very careful with our precious tax dollars. It is time to separate our wants from our needs.

Do we need a $3.15 million dollar park for passive rec-reation? In what way would the purchase improve access to the bay when we already own the landing? Let’s save that CPA money to build usable playgrounds, fields and green space with these funds in conjunction with the previ-ously mentioned projects. Those are real recreational needs not wants. According to the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act, CPA funds can be used for recreation; including the use of land for community gardens, trails, and noncommercial youth and adult sports, and the use of land as a park, playground or athletic field.

When you cast your vote on this warrant, think about the young families in town and all of the expenses they incur raising their children; consider the retired citizens of Duxbury who have given so much to this community over the years; how can we burden them with higher taxes for our “want”?

Please be thoughtful with our tax dollars when you vote on Saturday. Now is the time to prioritize.

The $3.15 million dollar answer is to spend on needs, not wants.

The writer is a resident of Stoney Brook Circle

Blairhaven is a want, not a need

Saturday March 12 we will be asked to par-ticipate in our town’s

planning and future projects. Our interest is in shar-

ing with you our willingness to help Duxbury establish its first local historic districts. As many of you might remem-ber, it was tried before back in 1990 and did not pass, most-ly because homeowners in a “designated” district area were

asked to participate and one or two homeowners did not want to be included. The Duxbury LHD Study Committee, cre-ated in April 2009, decided to make a 180 degree turn from this previous experience and create districts based on the owners who wanted to start one!

In other words, no one is being forced to participate. Instead we have 14 property

owners who have wholeheart-edly volunteered to join in this effort to create Duxbury’s first local historic districts.

Please visit the Web site duxburylhd.org for further in-formation. We encourage you to vote yes and support Dux-bury’s first local historic dis-tricts.

James Hartford, chairmanDuxbury Local Historic

District Study Committee

Make history with this Town Meeting article

There’s no fluff in police & fire projects

School déja vu Not unlike this week, a hot topic in the Feb. 19,

1959 issue of the Clipper was the recommenda-tions and findings of the School Building and

Study Committee. The committee concluded that Dux-bury’s school building needs would best be met by con-structing a new junior/senior high school and alleviating overcrowded conditions at the elementary school by utiliz-ing the present high school (now the library) for grades four, five and six. The new school was scheduled to be ready by 1961. This plan led to the current middle school building, (sketch of planned building in 1959) which did open for the school year of 1961. The school was built to accommodate 600 students. Duxbury continued to grow. So in 1968, the current high school was built.

FroM The ArChiVeS

It has been demonstrated that our middle and high schools are no longer appropriate facilities for teaching or for learning – and, like it or not, Duxbury taxpayers will have

to spend significant money to fix these schools. While many of us feel pressured by that fact, it is a reality. Stubbornly dragging our feet – and thereby rejecting the state’s current offer of 43 percent reimbursement (an influx of more than $55 million!) – would be reckless. I respectfully request that you consider this financial decision and vote yes at Town Meeting to responsibly fund appropriate school buildings for our town.

Martha DennisonStandish Street


While I’m a fiscal conservative, I am voting yes

for the new, co-located schools. I believe the new building will pay for itself through home value gains.

Duxbury’s spartan ways are generally good, but in this case they have shortchanged our students, leaving us with inferior, outdated and unat-tractive schools. We live in one of the most beautiful towns in America and I would love to see buildings that complement (and compliment) the setting.

In 2010, our high school ranked 30th in the state. With increased investment and com-munity focus, I am confident that we could break into the top 15 schools. Other towns with similar demographics and household incomes, such as Wayland, Westwood and Sharon have all accomplished this feat. These towns invest roughly 35 percent more an-nually per pupil than Duxbury and stomach higher tax rates.

For example, Wayland and Sharon residents pay more than $19 per $1,000 in prop-erty value, compared to Dux-bury’s $12.60. While I’m not a fan of raising taxes, I believe failing to invest aggressively in a community’s schools is a worse crime.

Building the new, co-lo-cated schools is the first step towards improving our public school system. This commit-ment will revitalize the com-munity’s passion for educa-

tion and attract great new families to town. I am hopeful that it will also spur further investment in the academic programs and result in higher rated schools and more suc-cessful students.

Manchester-by-the-Sea is a good example of what is possible. While it is a smaller town than Duxbury, it has many similar characteristics, including household income.

In contrast, the Man-chester/Essex high school spends roughly $13,700 per student as compared to Dux-bury’s $10,600. The school is rated 13th in the state. Im-portantly, in 2010 the median home sales price in Manchester

was $750,250 versus $555,000 in Duxbury. While Duxbury’s housing prices have declined 10 percent since the peak year of 2005, Manchester’s prices have appreciated 3 percent. To think, if Duxbury had ben-efited from the same level of pricing increase, we would have already paid for the new schools and much more.

When you vote at Town Meeting and the ballot, please vote yes for the new, co-lo-cated schools as it will lead to better schools, higher real es-tate values, and a more vibrant town.

Stephen FitzgibbonsPartridge Road

By Morris LeLyveLd

While the many forums and presentations of infor-mation explaining the need for two new schools have been exuberant, they continue to be absent:

1) An itemized conceptual total project cost estimate to include hard, soft and all other project costs supported with documentation of source of cost data.

2) A plan for project cost containment.3) A correct and detailed understanding of the MSBA fund-

ing process, including unallowable costs. The fact that the 43.5 percent reimbursement rate requires going with a “model school” – and the 43.5 percent is applied to allowable vs. total

project costs.4) An understanding of the

MSBA maximum allowable project size and specifically the space we now have for art music and physical education significantly exceeds the spaced that will be cost reimbursable under MSBA project size cap(s).

5) A pro-active discussion of lessons learned relative to keeping any new facilities from falling into a state of disrepair.

6) An understanding that the renovation (total construc-tion) cost used in the 2010 feasibility study was $312 per gross square foot (GSF) where the new (total construction) cost used was $190 / MS and $220 / GSF. Thus building new is less expensive?

Why were $190 and $220 / GSF used when school projects under construction and recently completed cost considerably more per GSF (total construction costs?)

Why was an extrapolation of $312 / GSF used to back into the specific building systems renovation cost estimates instead of a “bottom up” estimate for each renovation option and a defined scope of work to total $312/GSF or whatever total would result?

What is in the schematic amount of $2.9 million when MSBA Web site information suggests an average design fee of 4.5 percent for a model high school?

Doesn’t the 2010 Feasibility Study already have a com-pleted schematic design? To what extent can the information in the recently completed reduce the work and cost of the further schematic design?

Who is preparing a real estate tax projection for the next say ten years and based on initial capital cost and operating costs of all capital projects in the pipeline and the financing of same? Another needed statistic is a projection of real estate tax impact of the town’s financial responsibility to the all past, cur-rent and future employee entitlement programs.

Who is the town point person responsible to meet the proj-ect budget and schedule?

How will public participation in project budget preparation, approval and design review and approval be achieved?

What can be done to provide additional resources to the many volunteers who may not know what questions to ask, rely on information provided by others or simply do not have the necessary time to verify and document information on which important decisions are being made.

Who is thinking about project cost? Should the above information be known and digested by

all townsfolk before spending $2.9 million on a “schematic design” procurement ... or do we “just do it”?

The writer is a resident of Ledgewood Drive

Get the details, or ‘just do it’?

The Community Preservation Fund is an irreplaceable

component in furthering Dux-bury’s long standing tradition of historic preservation and land stewardship.

Since it was established in 2002, the fund has allowed

the town to acquire hundreds

of acres of open space (includ-ing almost 100 acres along the South River corridor acquired from Camp Wing), balancing development and protecting our drinking water sources. The fund saved the Wright

Building, arguably the most historically significant pub-lic building in Duxbury and a structure that might otherwise still be in mothballs or pos-sibly slated for demolition. Now, the Wright building is revived as the home of the Drew Archival Library and the Duxbury Student Union. The fund has helped restore the Tarkiln School, the King Caesar House, the John Al-den House and the First Par-ish Church. The remarkable projects that have come out of the Community Preservation Fund are a point of pride for the entire community.

The Board of Trustees of the Duxbury Rural and Histor-ical Society voted to oppose the elimination of the CPA tax surcharge. We encourage resi-dents to vote against article 28 at Town Meeting on March 12. We acknowledge that these are difficult economic times. However, given the breadth of accomplishments made possi-ble by this proactive program, we feel the Community Pres-ervation surcharge should not be eliminated.

Kenneth JohnsonBoard of TrusteesDuxbury Rural &

Historical Society

A conservative vote for new school project

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Article 24 on the Town Meeting warrant proposes

spending $3 million of CPC funds to purchase the 5-acre Blairhaven land off of How-land’s Landing under the pro-vision of “recreational use.”

The use of CPC funds for the loosely defined provision of “recreational use” has pre-viously been limited to the Turf Field and the Island Creek Fish Ladders, two initiatives that had clear and definitive uses. There is no definitive use stated for the Blairhaven land. One option that continues to be raised by selectmen and the

CPC is additional parking. A $3 million parking lot?

Given the three property tax overrides on the warrant, this $3 million that the CPC has available to it should be used more responsibly. Instead of using the $3 million to pur-chase land that will further burden taxpayers with devel-opment and maintenance costs (since CPC funds cannot be used to maintain the land once purchased), let’s use that mon-ey in ways that will reduce the taxpayer burden.

There are legitimate uses that fall within the provi-sions of the law that would

reduce the increasing burden on taxpayers. One example is to develop the new play-ing fields associated with the new schools project, thereby reducing the cost of the new schools. The CPC funds could also be used to pay the lease of Duxbury Beach, thereby freeing up taxpayer money for more pressing uses.

Let’s use these CPC funds to lessen the burden on taxpay-ers, not increase it. Vote against Article 24, the Blairhaven Land purchase.

Toni and Tim BrennanPowder Point

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By kevin M. nord, Fire CHieF

I have recently read questions in the Clipper about the cost justification and the need for the fire station renovation. I also have had a

chance to visit with residents and have been asked some very good questions on the project, I would like to share with you some of the answers. I also want to thank those that do question the project as it allows me to share with you information about the fire service that I am proud to serve.

If not approved, then what? Good question. Changes need to be made. How you the taxpayers (my employer) deal with it is really up to you to decide. Many options have been fleshed out over the years and the Public Safety Building Committee has done a phenomenal job looking at all options and costs associated with the problem. I believe the solution is coming before you this upcoming Town Meeting. If this choice is not approved then money will be spent that I think would be waste-ful. This would include making changes and repairs to the building until a more permanent solution is eventually approved. Additionally, we would return annually for funding. The fact is that the Tremont Street Fire Station, Ashdod Fire station and Police station where all built in and around 1967. Station 2 (Ashdod) was completely rebuilt in 2000 and the Tremont Street Station had an addition and some modifications in 1980. The police station had some major modifications to the second floor as well. So, one could see that the two buildings are naturally aging to the point of needing major renovation or replacement.

If time stood still, perhaps we could renovate or replace these buildings with the existing size, but that is simply not the case. Our call volume, staff, equipment has grown with the Town’s growth, and, the fire service mission changed in several ways over the years. We do still put out fires, (21 last year with all of them confined to the building of origin), but, 70 percent of what we do now is Emer-gency Medical Services (EMS). This has been a natural evolvement and one that I would not change. The positive side of us providing EMS to the town is that it is reimbursable and, by having firefighters trained as paramedics and EMT’s, Duxbury has the best of both worlds.

Fire prevention and code enforcement has also evolved. Homes are using many new techniques in construction and naturally we are involved in that process along with the building department. Many codes have changed requiring our involvement as society tries to protect its population with new technologies in fire, carbon monoxide and natural

gas alarm systems, all needing to be approved and inspected. As budgets get smaller and with the de-mand for service increasing, we spend a lot of time seeking other funding sources and attempting to review older practices that may be not as efficient. Keeping our existing fleet of fire trucks has prob-ably become the most significant challenge for us. Change in automotive technology, on board comput-er systems, emission standards and the basic wear and tear of these trucks is daunting. Space is needed to work around these trucks to keep them ready.

What studies were done to determine need? In 2005, I submitted a list of issues that the Town’s insurance company listed as needing immediate attention, mechanics pit and floor drains, the cost being requested to fix ailing HVAC, electrical and plumbing were submitted to the town manager. The line item for station repairs was on the rise as well. We also discussed that the Department was prepar-ing to diversify the work force and concerns were raised to convert a male only building to a gender neutral building. This alone, if not corrected, may prevent future hiring of female firefighters and could mean expensive lawsuits if existing quarters were not altered. These facts and the fact that the Town needed to improve and increase space needs and improve working conditions for its ever grow-ing workforce in its living quarters. Additionally, unique technological advances in firefighting, EMS equipment and apparatus the town currently owns needed space to care for and maintain. A newly established Public Safety Committee was installed. In 2007 Town Meeting approved $30,000 to hire a consultant to study the existing Tremont Street Fire station and provide a detailed report and recommend options. The report is available for you to read at the fire station and town manager’s office.

On what basis were future needs for space, increased work force and equipment deter-mined? The study mentioned in question 1 ad-dressed this using National Fire Protection Associa-tion Standards 1500(NFPA), Industry Standards for fire station construction and needs associated with the Duxbury Fire Department and its mission.

Have future needs in terms of emergency and non-emergency responses been analyzed? Yes. This data is analyzed quarterly and annually as the budget is directly linked to the emergency and non-emergency responses. The proposed building reno-vation/replacement will meet the needs based on this data and allow for expansion of staff increase predictions, including equipment and apparatus. The original building design had future expansion needs built into it, such as: additional crews quar-

ter space, administration, equipment and apparatus space. This was removed to reduce costs and to be dealt with in the future by adding additional sub-stations as the town grows to that need following its Master Plan.

Will the responses decrease, increase or stay the same? There will be more houses, but better equipped with smoke detection and fire resistant materials.

Response for both emergency and non-emergen-cy calls will increase for several reasons. Emergen-cy response will see a 10 percent increase annually in overall response, due to homes protected by re-quired fire alarm systems, (many are determined to be false) carbon monoxide detectors (due to change in the law) hazardous materials incidents (as more products are being shipped and stored) and motor vehicle accidents (as the number of drivers in-crease). Cars today, due to advances in technology, are safer, but offer many new challenges due to this. Many hybrids have high voltage, as well as smaller vehicles using composite materials in their con-struction. This makes extrication very difficult and labor intensive. Brush fires are increasing as more people move into secluded and heavily wooded areas. Actual fires in structures are holding steady but have become increasingly dangerous to light-weight construction materials. Buildings are burning faster and collapsing quicker subjecting firefighters to incredible increased dangers of death and injury. Homes are built tighter and automatic fire alarms are bringing firefighters to your house more quickly subjecting them to flash over conditions and back draft explosions.

The mission of the Fire Department also in-cludes emergency management and emergency medical services. EMS is increasing 20 percent per year largely due to advances in medicine, a sig-nificant older adult population resides in Duxbury. Additionally, we have a very popular assisted living facility at present and another being proposed. I predict the department will need to add paramedics and a third ambulance in the near future. Non-emer-gency response, fire prevention and code enforce-ment is up 20 percent due to changes in the laws for smoke detection and carbon monoxide monitoring, along with other new fire codes for business which also adds to our non-emergency response. Admin-istratively, the fire service is seeing many changes, not only in the construction code, but oil spill re-sponse, under and above ground tank storage etc.

I invite you to come in to the station to see and to speak to the staff or call me with any questions or concerns.

Q&A on renovated fire station project


In various forums in the past I have asked our esteemed former Town

Moderator Allen Bornheimer, and a few candidates running for his office during several election seasons, what sug-gestions they might have for changing the format of Town Meeting to make it more “user friendly.” That is, I wanted to know if we could make it so that folks, who were at Town Meeting solely to vote on one “hot” issue, would need to or could be present for more than that one article. The answers I received from all candidates were very similar. Yes, we could randomize articles or group related articles together and randomize the groups of articles. We could change the scheduling of Town Meeting

to make it more convenient for parents of young children to attend. But, they all seemed to think that those solutions were not always ideal for different reasons.

The answer, though, that always struck me and always made sense, is that, this is a democratic system. And de-mocracy is not always pretty, but it’s the best system we have. If a person chooses to vote in the voting booth for only one candidate or one initiative, thank goodness no one is looking over his shoul-der to say “Hey, you need to check all the boxes” or “Don’t check that box, check the other one.”

There are issues that move certain groups of people. And believe me, I have not always

agreed with the votes certain groups have taken. Howev-er, just because you may not agree with their point of view, does not mean they do not have the right to express it (as, very coincidentally decided by the Supreme Court this very week).

The fact that they are par-ticipating at all should be com-mended, as there are way too many who do not even bother or take notice as to what the issues are. It is particularly important to realize the power we have with our vote, when we are watching people in so many countries across the world, including our own, sacrifice themselves for that privilege.

Linda L. GarrityWest Street

Special interests or just democracy? –––––––

Below is a letter I wrote to a neigh-borhood group that

is opposed to the purchase of the Blairhaven property. I wrote in response to several objections brought forth by the group. As it said in the Clipper, “it’s a good buy.” I am one of

the neigh-bors on S t a n d i s h

Shore (and I speak for many others) who does not agree with the position the group is taking. I very much do not want three more houses on this land.

Town loses potential $70K-$90K in annual prop-erty tax income if land were developed into three homes. We have enough homes lin-ing our shores allowing no egress to the other residents of

the town. I use the landing, as difficult as that may be, and I think it’s a fantastic idea to add on to this and make it a real landing area that everyone can enjoy. The town has wanted this land since the 1800s. This is a once in a lifetime oppor-tunity to add shorefront to our common properties in town. Everyone should enjoy this lovely area. It is for all of us. Your statements in your flyer use all the usual, fear inducing tactics, traffic flow being one of them.

Increased traffic.. in-crease in non-Duxbury resi-dents... increase in bottle, cans and litter... increase boat traffic... Everyone was so afraid that parking near the Cellar Hole would turn it into Coney Island (yes, they said that). Well, it certainly is not

Coney Island. I love to see people come and take walks and enjoy the view. It makes it more enjoyable for me to see a community share our won-derful, waterfront resources. We all pay taxes and deserve to share the view. And person-ally, I am not afraid of strang-ers. I embrace them because usually the strangers are my neighbors.

Night hangout for teen-agers. They don’t do that now? I trust the land will be handled in a smart manner that will be good for everyone. We will all have a chance to go to the planning meetings and help determine the future of this land. But let’s get the land before we can’t any more.

Janis Owens and Ilene Horvitz

Priscilla Lane

Not all neighbors oppose Blairhaven purchase

When I was first made aware of the town’s

interest in purchasing the Blairhaven site on Standish Point, I must admit that I was delighted. What a relief to know that the town was will-ing to step in and save a spe-cial waterfront property from development with the inten-tion of creating a lovely and natural park. And then as I was made aware of the details of the purchase as well as the po-tential intentions of those who would reconfigure the land for public use, I began to develop grave concerns about the pros-pect of town ownership.

The words “expanded park-ing lot” and “light recreation” used to describe possible de-velopment of the site crowded out the bucolic visions I had of “conservation” and “preserva-tion.” The unfortunately unre-alistic, mythic vision that I had briefly entertained of a park like green space on the bay began to fade into the mists of wishful thinking. Sadly and in reality, the costs associated with such a possibility would

seem to preclude such a noble and civic minded purpose.

As a resident of Standish Point as well as a taxpayer, I have come to the conclusion that the town’s acquisition of Blairhaven would not be a good investment for the town and could very well, in fact (and certainly unintentional-ly,) have a negative impact on the neighborhood.

First of all and regardless of partial CPC funding, the cost of the property at three million dollars is staggering. To increase our debt burden at this time for such dubious and limited public benefit would be irresponsible and frivolous. And even if the town stretch-es financially to purchase the property now, would Dux-bury residents be willing to designate the resources going forward to cultivate, beautify, maintain and manage the site in a responsible, safe and aes-thetically pleasing way? And if the will and the funds are not there to accomplish this objec-tive what will ultimately hap-pen to the property?

My fear is that we will

end up with a big paved park-ing lot to better convenience those individuals (not neces-sarily Duxbury residents) who launch their boats at How-land’s Landing and little else to contribute to the aesthetic value and enjoyment of the site. There is no beach on this property and, as it fronts a public landing and deep water anchorage, use of Blairhaven as a public swimming resource would not be practical or ad-visable, certainly from a safety standpoint.

In addition, five acres is a lot of property to develop and maintain and the costs associ-ated with “doing it right,” even if that was possible, would ultimately be a burden to the Duxbury taxpayers.

When considering voting on proposals that would des-ignate public monies to town infrastructure projects, one must always balance the po-tential gains against the poten-tial losses. In this case, and in my view, the scales are tipped much too dramatically towards the loss column.

Lyell Franke

Devil’s in the Blairhaven details ––––––––––––

Whenever an ar-ticle concerning over-budget ex-

penditures comes before Town Meeting, it is interesting to read the Clipper letters by sup-porters; reading at times like passages from Alice in Won-derland. A good example put forward in a letter to the Clip-per last week. It was implied that special interest groups, i.e. the voting bloc expected on Saturday to support the school study measure, will have, as always, an equal interest in all matters before the voters. I don’t know where the author of that letter was on March 17 when 333 voters were in at-tendance to vote on the Walker Pool renovation. It passed by a two-thirds majority. Forty

minutes later on the feasibil-ity study of wind power came up for discussion, 68 voters remained ... 265 voters having bolted. Or, on March 10, 2007 when article 16, the issue of Synthetic Athletic Fields, came up for vote, 627 voters were in attendance. Just one minute later on article 17, the Tarkiln Community Center appropria-tion measure, 233 voters re-mained ... 394 citizens having dashed for the exits. Let’s not call our current Town Meeting procedure anything other than what it is – an outmoded pro-cess for very small special in-terest groups to push forward their specific agendas.

John BrittenUpland Road

TM becomes one-issue audience

The Community Pres-ervation Act (CPA) should not be elimi-

nated because it’s more than a tax (currently $182 per me-dian household per year) – it’s an investment – and one that is generating a very attractive return on our money. Where else can we turn $9 million of our tax dollars into $21.4 mil-lion in value? The Community Preservation Act has been a catalyst to help fund and rally citizens around valuable proj-ects across our town over the last ten years with $9 million coming from taxpayer con-tributions, $7.4 million from state matching funds, and $5 million in private donations and grants. This represents a 138 percent return on our investment. Even assuming the current lower rate of state matching funds the return would have been 86 percent. These projects include pre-serving the O’Neil Farm, Del-ano Farm, Jaycox Christmas Tree Farm, Berrybrook fields,

Wright Building (home to our kids’ student union), creation of turf fields and a Town Green and the restoration of Tarkiln. The CPA is also an investment because all of these projects increase our property values, lower future taxes by reduc-ing the amount of developable land and growth, and preserve the quality of life we enjoy in Duxbury. I could understand eliminating the CPA if Dux-bury were to never buy an-other land parcel, save another historical structure, create another recreational field, or want to create more affordable housing. If the past is a guide, surely these kinds of projects will continue and therefore we should take full advantage of the CPA for as long as it exists. To do otherwise will mean we pay more for these items than necessary while losing an important catalyst for valu-able projects that improve our town.

David HinesScreenhouse Lane

CPA investment pays dividends

As a graduate of DHS Class of 2004 and Masters De-gree Candidate (May ’11) at North Carolina State Universi-ty, I am able to see with clarity and certainty how significant-ly an upbringing in Duxbury positively impacted my life. This letter is to express pride and appreciation towards my hometown; but mostly to offer the same for the family who raised me there.

Duxbury is special because of the numerous individuals who take pride in protecting its integrity and history. I’m humbled by the commitment of service to the town that my parents as well as my grand-parents have shown over the years and can only hope to continue their legacies long into the future. Oftentimes, it is easy to provide service and support for causes that are un-disputed. It is far more difficult to stand for what is right in the

face of opposition. Over the years, I have seen each mem-ber of my family navigate sev-eral challenging situations in town with poise, morality and a great respect for both the in-tegrity of the town and its resi-dents. It is in the spirit of their wisdom, foresight and leader-ship that I believe the future of Duxbury is bright and will not be overshadowed by a mis-guided few.

Thanks to the character of my family, friends and neigh-bors in the town I will always call home, I know that if you must fall seven times; stand up eight, that courage is not the absence of fear; rather it is do-ing what is necessary despite the fear, and that to quit is the only way to guarantee failure.

Jennifer MacNabRaleigh, N.C.

Duxbury impacted my life


The decision of which to choose for Dux-bury’s middle and

high school finds supporters on both sides of the argument. Interestingly, cost is the key consideration for proponents on either side.

Determining which so-lution is most cost effective

seems to tie to what is one’s

vision of the future. When we speak of creating a learn-ing environment that prepares students for the 21st century, do we as a community believe that we can do so by upgrad-ing what exists? If so, then

renovation would be most cost effective. On the other hand, if we as a community believe that an appropriate learning environment for proper prepa-ration of what lies ahead re-quires mastery of state-of-the-art scientific and technological tools, then new construction is the most cost effective.

Tablets, currently led by the iPad, are projected to re-place computers as the must have tool for business. How soon will these and other mo-bile devices become as neces-sary in the school environment as a pen is today? Can anyone dispute the fact that technolog-ical advances are accelerating

the pace in which the unfore-seeable becomes reality? That children in Chandler and Al-den will likely face challenges and opportunities not currently known to the high schoolers? Duxbury doesn’t need schools that can support what we can see today. Duxbury needs schools poised to support what is beyond what we can imagine. Renovate the past or build for the future. Our Town Meeting, beginning March 12, and our vote on March 26 will speak to our collective vision of how best to educate Dux-bury students for decades.

Rhoda AuSouth Street

renovation or new construction? ––––––––––

I commend the authors of the Duxbury Public Schools annual report.

It is extremely well done, lay-ing out the history and current issues in a very reader friendly manner. Years ago an educa-tion tax override vote was proposed and successfully supported by the town. Then, as now, a group of citizens worked tirelessly to get the measure passed. Their efforts also resulted in the creation of the Duxbury Education Foun-

dation (still thriving today.) Duxbury has always valued education and our youth –– recognizing our responsibility to provide a quality education for our children. A quality ed-ucation today requires that the facilities equal or exceed our educator’s talents. I encourage everyone to vote in favor of moving forward to allow Dux-bury students to continue to re-ceive the best public education available. I also acknowledge and am grateful for the School

Building Committee members giving so much of their time to make this happen as well as the duxburycares.org Web site and the great information available there. Keep up the good work! We are very fortu-nate to have a superintendent, School Committee, educators, town government and citizens all working together on this essential priority for Duxbury.

Linda ShropshireTrout Farm Lane

Appreciates effort of school officials, volunteers

I am writing with regard to the proposed article to rescind the Commu-

nity Preservation Act for our town. I fully understand the concern the proponent has in proposing this article, espe-cially with the economic times which are upon our nation, our state, and our community. However, I do not believe this is the culprit we should focus on.

The underlying concern, I believe, is the excessive spending being proposed by several committees including the School Committee. I think we need to prioritize and dis-tinguish our needs from our wants. A new school may be something the School Com-mittee wants and believes is needed, but I am not con-vinced, along with many, many others, that at this time it is a true need or the right deci-sion in the economic situation facing our community.

The expansion of the Fire Department has raised con-cerns relative to square foot cost being excessive and that should be explored in more depth before moving forward with this project, unless by Town Meeting clear concise answers can be forthcoming as to why the square foot cost is excessively high. (see let-ter to editor from Mr. Oktay Feb. 26) The police station truly does need to be replaced, given the condition and space constraints within the present building.

When you consider the needs of those in town making less than $75,000 a year, of which there are approximately 1,750 families and the needs of the senior citizens, which

represents nearly a third of the population and who live on fixed incomes, proposing these expensive projects all at once is totally unreasonable. Senior citizen contribute a large por-tion of the their taxes to the schools while not benefiting directly but doing so willingly. The excessive spending will re-sult in harm to this population, they will be making a choice between food, prescriptions or some other item in order to pay the extra taxes. Is this re-ally what we should be doing? Oil prices along with food and prescription prices are rais-ing rapidly and one wonders where the end is, adding an additional tax burden for all of this spending at this time is to-tally unreasonable.

With all that said, the is-sue of the Community Pres-ervation Act being rescinded impacts many areas of our community. The historical preservation of buildings has retained things that might oth-erwise have been destroyed or lost forever (Tarklin). The

open space purchases have augmented protection of our water supply as well as land to be enjoyed for years to come for the residents of Duxbury and lastly the third leg of the Community Preservation Act is affordable housing.

Since the inception of the Local Housing Partnership (LHP) in 2004, under the lead-ership of Bill Campbell, Island Creek was proposed for ex-pansion. This expansion only serves to increase tax revenue for the town and move the town closer to the 10 percent mark for affordable housing by going from 3.5 percent to over 8 percent in affordable housing in our town in a very short number of years.

With the funding from the Community Preservation Act, the present LHP committee has several projects it is work-ing on for additional housing to add to the subsidize housing inventory, ever so slowly gain-ing on the 10 percent require-ment.

Once we attain 10 percent affordable housing in Dux-bury, the town is in the driver’s seat, so to speak, regarding new 40B projects. The ZBA will have the ability to refuse to hear 40B projects. This is no small change for our town, but we are not there yet, and we need to keep the Commu-nity Preservation Act in place for Duxbury in order to com-plete the LHP work and that of Open Space and Historical Preservation. This is taxpayer money well spent.

Vote to keep the Commu-nity Preservation Act for Dux-bury at Town Meeting.

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I am writing in an effort to inform, and to share information I found

reading the Feasibility Study, Massachusetts General Law, attending some School Build-ing Committee meetings and speaking with the SBC.

1. The new classroom siz-es being quoted are “for deter-mining the maximum size and costs related to new construc-tion, and should not be used for assessing educational ad-equacy” according to the Mas-sachusetts School Building Authority. The Dore & Whit-tier Architects, Inc. feasibility study states, “What the Space Summaries do show is why the MSBA favors renovation in many cases; as District keeps its “larger” spaces and yet the cost/square foot of renovation can be less.”

2. Reimbursement rates for MSBA approved, eligible school construction and reno-vation projects are calculated pursuant to a formula that is established in MGL, Chapter 70B section 10. The statutory formula starts all districts at a Base Rate of 31 percent. The MSBA may allocate up to five incentive percentage points (5 percent) for renovation or reuse of an existing facility - the same as the model school program. Therefore, our repair or renovation reimbursement could be the same as new con-struction.

3. By choosing the model school program, not only do we receive up to an additional 5 percent reimbursement rate, we jump right into the sche-matic design process, and we do not have to do a MSBA supported Feasibility Study.

This, on the surface, appears to be a good choice, but fol-lowing the process established by the MSBA ensures all op-tions are considered including “a detailed and itemized cost estimate for each alternative;” there are more checks and bal-ances along the road, and peo-ple have a clear understanding of all the choices and their as-sociated costs.

4. Costs associated with modular units (trailers) may be reimbursed if the MSBA deems it is the most cost effi-cient option. According to the MSBA, the Feasibility Study shall include ... an analysis of available space in other school facilities in the district. The reason we have been told the MSBA won’t reimburse for trailers, is because there is available space at Chandler El-ementary that could be used.

5. If we choose to not sup-port this choice, we do not go to the end of some line. First, the school district explains why the vote failed, the plan to remedy and suggested time-line. The MSBA will review the plan and determine wheth-er it can continue. Projects are selected on the basis of need and urgency as compared to other communities.

6. Next year we will need to address the school’s operat-ing budget deficit due to disap-pearing federal grants, it will cost an additional $1.5 mil-lion to replace them. There is also concern over the per pupil spending, and additional funds may be requested, requiring an override in the $3-5 million range. There haven’t been any reports stating what the ad-ditional costs and/or savings

would be for new construction vs. renovation, as would be required as part of the MSBA supported feasibility study.

7. The proposed funding of this project is irregular in an attempt to make it more at-tractive; which unfortunately makes it more expensive. Normally capital projects are funded using level principal payment which means over time the payment decreases which frees up capital for ad-ditional projects, and less in-terest is paid over time. In the proposed scenario we are be-ing asked for a level debt pay-ment – like a mortgage – the payment stays the same over the life of the loan – which means for 25 years we will be paying this without any capi-tal freeing up for new projects; initial payments are mostly in-terest, which means a higher interest cost over the life of the loan; and this moves the burden of the project to long-term or future residents. To those who are thinking what other capital projects could exist? We are beginning to dis-cuss the Powder Point Bridge and DPW storage facility; and over the course of 25 years, I would anticipate a fire engine and more.

This process, one of the most expensive decisions we will have to make, and the voters need clear choices with clear complete costs. I urge all citizens to be sure they have all the information they need in order to make an informed vote, if not, get it.

Colleen BrayerTobey Garden Street

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Duxbury residents are in danger of losing property rights they have had for decades. The Planning Board thinks accessory structures (outbuildings)

with living spaces are bad for the town. They don’t want you to get a permit without going through hoops to have a play-room above your garage, move your aging parents onsite to a guest cottage so you can care for them in their golden years, or work out of a home office above a garage. They have found a loophole in the current language and begun the process of appealing building permits for such structures. They have also proposed more restrictive language in Article 34 to ensure that the process will become even more confusing and costly

should it pass. Article 33, however, simply clarifies the language we’ve had in place for many decades, clos-

ing the loophole back up. It gives the building inspector back the right to do the job you hired him to do and has the backing of the Board of Selectmen. It assures you the same rights – no more, no less – that Duxbury families have enjoyed for genera-tions. Article 33 protects your rights as a landowner.

The citizen’s petition is a response to the Planning Board’s recent actions to appeal two building permits for accessory structures that were issued by the building inspector consistent with other permits his predecessor issued for decades. Only af-ter the citizen’s petition did the Planning Board submit Article 34 presented as a means to avoid what they deem is inevitable double-density (two families on one lot). The citizen’s petition maintains that permits for accessory structures will continue, as before, to have the restriction that they cannot create a multi-family property because they cannot contain a “dwelling unit.” For decades, this law has been followed without creating “double density.”

The Planning Boards’ article 34 is flawed. No policy should not be set by any board presuming Duxbury citizens will break the law in the future, as the Planning Board contends is the basis for their article. Furthermore, Article 34 creates new am-biguity as even members of the Planning Board disagree what is/is not allowed in their own article.

As a rural town, accessory structures (outbuildings) with living space are common and part of Duxbury’s history and character. They have provided options for decades for hom-eowners: whether it’s accommodating aging parents or recent college graduates as some residents now have multiple genera-tions of family housing together; or, providing accommoda-tions for the influx of visitors needing guest quarters, especially during the summer months; or, providing a teenager-hangout space or offices above the garage. Accessory structures help meet the complex needs of modern families.

To protect your rights, the current bylaw must change. Without change the Planning Board could continue to damage the town with unnecessary appeals. The recent ZBA decision of the River Lane appeal, for example, has now moved to Supe-rior Court. Unclear language in our bylaws can have damaging and costly consequences. Here’s the real question: what dam-age is caused by accessory structures, or, how is a backyard guest house harming Duxbury? We benefit from the added tax revenue, our stores might have a few more visitors and it does not add more kids to the school system. Support Article 33 to protect your property rights.

The writer is the sponsor of Article 33.

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Under the headline: “Alternative to alternative energy” in the Clipper Feb. 23 Mr. John Tortorella argues

that it is better to invest in a high efficient and green school building than in “a trendy and vis-ible” wind turbine. I do not disagree with Mr. Totorella that a new school building should be built as green as possible.

The Alternative Energy Committee held a kick off meeting on Jan. 18 for a wind turbine feasibility study. A site study report published in October 2009 was not a feasibility study as Mr. Tortorella referred to. So at this time there are no facts that the project is “a marginally economic project” as he also suggests.

Let me put the wind turbine cost in pro-spective and in relation to the school project estimated to cost about $135 million. A wind turbine in Duxbury is estimated to cost about $2 million or less for a 1 MW turbine. This is a little more than one and one half percent of the school project.

Here are some other facts about a wind tur-bine vs. a green new school building.

• Even the most green school building will not generate electricity, but continue to use electricity. A wind turbine will generate renew-able electricity, may be even enough to cover the new schools total electricity consumption and other municipal buildings. Now the school will be really “green.”

• A wind turbine will indirectly on a con-tinued basis reduce the release of C02 into the atmosphere by reducing the use of fossil fuel in power plants.

• The school building construction is al-ready obligated to comply to the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) green community act in Massachusetts. The DOER requirements

require that all new construction shall utilize energy efficiency, water conservation and other renewable or alternative energy technologies. The school program will have to comply to this act (known as the stretch code) in order to get state funding.

• Wind turbine feasibility studies have al-ready been done in neighboring towns as an ex-ample Kingston (June 2008, Duxbury is three years behind). This reports shows that the pro-jected wind turbine would operate with an esti-mated 23 percent efficiency or more. Duxbury is assumed to have better wind conditions than Kingston. Modern wind turbines produce even with a low level wind velocity on average more than 30 percent of the rated capacity, an inter-nationally accepted economic feasibility rating for wind turbine projects.

• A wind turbine project in connection with a green school building will be a valuable edu-cational experience as already demonstrated in Medford and Hull school systems.

• Finally, the feasibility study will determine the most economical size of the planned wind turbine. It is a known fact that different turbine manufactures have different capacity factors for the same hub height depending on specific technology and the blade-length-to-generator-capacity ratio. Higher hub height will normally mean higher wind speed thus higher efficiency. Double wind speed as an example will produce eight times more electricity or the cube of any increase in wind speed.

The new school building project is not the alternative to a wind turbine for alternative en-ergy, which should continue its path without delays.

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It should be hard to spend taxpayersʼ money. Town officials

have a duty and responsibil-ity to ensure that hard-earned taxpayer funds are well spent. Proposition 2 1/2 requires that any increases in taxes over the allowed 2.5 receive a 2/3 vote at Town Meeting and a major-ity of votes at a general elec-tion.

Generally, if the town needs to bor-row funds, a 2/3 vote at Town Meeting and a major-ity of votes at a general election are required. Unfortu-nately, Duxburyʼs acceptance of the Community Preserva-tion Act (CPA) has made it too easy to spend the taxpayersʼ money.

In 2001, by agreeing to the CPA, Duxbury has bur-dened it taxpayers with a per-manent 3 percent surcharge. The spending of this money is too easy, allowing special interest groups to get fund-ing for projects which would not be possible if subject to the more rigorous scrutiny of other spending. The lead ar-ticle of the Feb. 23 issue of the Duxbury Clipper, perhaps inadvertently, referenced this lack of fiscal responsibility: “the Community Preservation Act has $3,950,500 to play with at this yearʼs Town Meet-ing.” The townʼs hard-earned tax dollars should not be con-sidered playthings and should be treated with the utmost re-sponsibility and seriousness.

In 2010, on a Monday eve-ning, with a total of 125 vot-ers approving, the Town spent $90,000 of public money to renovate a privately-owned barn. While I applaud the work done by Crossroads for Kids, I question the use of public dollars to renovate the property of this private orga-nization. At the same, sparsely attended meeting, the town

spent $55,000 of public mon-ey to fix the exterior windows of a privately-owned building. Again, I question the use of public money for such private entities.

From 2003 thru 2007, the town received a 100 percent match from the state. For many people, this large match made up for the occasional ap-

proval of marginal projects. Recently, the match has

fallen below 30 per-cent and even the

C o m m u n i t y Preservation Coalition, a pro CPA group, sees little chance of the match exceeding this level for the next several years. At this level, the relaxation of fiscal prudence is not worth the price.

Since Duxbury voted to impose the 3 percent CPA sur-charge in 2001, the average single-family tax bill has risen by over 50 percent. If you add the 3 percent surcharge, the bill has risen by over 55 percent during this 10 year period.

The town is being asked to fund a number of capital projects. If approved, the aver-age single-family tax bill will rise a large (undetermined) percentage over the next two years. The average taxpayer can no longer afford the CPA with its low state match and associated “costs.”

Of the 49 articles in this yearʼs annual Town Meeting warrant, 24 are revenue neu-tral, 24 will cost the taxpayer and only one, Article 28, will result in a tax savings. Please attend Town Meeting and vote yes on Article 28. Say no to the CPA surcharge –– Vote yes to article 28.

Paul McCormackPartridge Road

We can no longer afford CPA

Duxbury parents with school-aged children have his-

torically been under-represent-ed at Town Meeting. This year, their presence or lack of it will determine the direction of edu-cation in Duxbury.

At issue is the proposed construction of a co-located high school and middle school. A yes vote on article 18 will begin the process of design-ing a modern, efficient, 21st-century education setting for sixth- through twelfth-graders. A no vote will relegate fu-ture generations to the tired, outmoded, 1960s-era school buildings most other towns have demolished.

Moving forward with the co-located school will ensure that Duxbury captures a 43-percent reimbursement from the state School Building Au-

thority. To reject such a sig-nificant reimbursement would be a form of municipal mal-practice. The school building committee, after thoroughly studying all options, rejected moving forward with reno-vations or repairs, for good reason. Renovations will cost more than SBA-reimbursed new construction, and repairs and renovations will do little to nothing to improve the edu-cation experience for our stu-dents.

Passage of Article 18 requires a two-thirds vote. Backers of the new co-located school could doom its future if they skip Town Meeting.

I, like most other hom-eowners, am not thrilled about property tax increases. But if increases are coming anyway, as is the case here, I want the best bang for my buck. New

construction, with the spe-cial—and guaranteed—mod-el-school reimbursement rate, provides it.

It is my great hope that everyone who cares about education, who cares about home values, who cares about smart fiscal choices, and who cares about Duxbury keeping pace with school systems like Plymouth, Pembroke, Kings-ton, Whitman-Hanson, Rock-land, Hanover and so many others, attends Town Meeting on March 12 and votes yes on article 18.

It is also my great hope that new Town Meeting voters will recognize the significance of this storied New England tradition and see fit to become regular attendees.

Jim BorghesaniClearwater Drive

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The Duxbury Bay Management Com-mission (DBMC) wishes to express its support for the Duxbury Com-

munity Preservation Committee’s (CPC) rec-ommendation for purchase of the Blairhaven Property on Standish Shore that will be voted on at Town Meeting this Saturday, March 12. Acquisition of this parcel of land has long been a priority for the Town of Duxbury. Public ac-cess to the bay is a mandate for the DBMC but access has diminished for numerous reasons, including residential encroachment. This pur-chase provides the town with a unique oppor-tunity to acquire an unusually large area of wa-terfront property adjacent to a town landing that sustains residential access to the bay for both

recreational and commercial purposes. This acquisition causes no tax impact: the property is currently exempt from taxation. Further-more, existing Community Preservation Act funds will be used to purchase the parcel. No general town funds are required. Duxbury has a long history of initiatives to create open space and there is no more important public access to provide than to our bay. This is a one-time op-portunity. If the land converts to private use it is nearly certain the public will never have this chance again.

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Article 18 requests $2.9 million to fund schematic design for a new, co-located middle school and high

school. Based on the town’s 2010 feasibility study, numerous options were studied to ad-dress the deteriorating conditions and ineffec-tive layouts of the two schools. The options ranged from basic repairs to renovation to new construction. The School Building Commit-tee (SBC), made up of professional architects, engineers, builders and educators, considered many factors in evaluating the options: cost-effectiveness; educationally sound in design and operation; flexible and functional for the long-term; displacement of students; disrup-tion to the schools and community; minimal project duration and optimal cost-efficiency for both buildings; improvement in the de-livery of education; improvement in building operations and efficiencies; preserving open space of Train Field.

The SBC also reviewed cost estimates for repairs, renovation and new construction and the possible reimbursement points for each category.

• Repairs are estimated to cost $68 mil-lion (does not include additional cost for code upgrades). Because the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) has not approved Duxbury for a repair project, the reimburse-ment rate is unknown. The base rate for Dux-bury is 31 percent.

• Renovation is estimated at $117 mil-lion. Because the MSBA has not approved Duxbury for a renovation project, the reim-bursement rate is unknown. The base rate for Duxbury is 31 percent.

• New construction is estimated at $130 million. In 2010, the Massa-chusetts School Building Au-thority invited Duxbury into its Model School Program for a new building project eligible for 43.42 percent reimbursement, putting the cost to the town at an estimated $74 million.

After careful consideration, the SBC unanimously voted for the new, co-located school op-tion. The MSBA reviewed the options in the town’s study and validated the existing conditions of both schools through a senior study team of architects and en-gineers. MSBA concurred that the new, co-located school op-tion is the most cost-effective, educationally sound solution.

Building a new, co-located school will have a positive im-pact on Duxbury education in integrated curriculum and su-pervision in grades 6-12, access to technology, science teach-ing and learning, flexibility for team-teaching, small group and interdisciplinary instruction, student transition, and teacher

recruitment. The new middle school and high school would remain distinct schools but would operate more efficiently with a shared kitchen, mechanical plant, technology infrastructure, communications and security systems and cen-tral library services.

MSBA has invited Duxbury to participate in its Model School Program. Model school designs generate millions of dollars in savings with plans that are adapted from recently con-structed schools, reduced design time, green building elements and significantly reduced change orders for construction as well as five additional points for reimbursement. If ap-proved at Town Meeting and on the ballot, the selected model design will be adapted to fit Duxbury’s space and program requirements. Funding for final construction dollars would be voted at a fall 2011 special Town Meeting.

The town is recommending at this time that the total project be funded through a 25-year, level debt service bond issue, adding $1.53 to the tax rate. For a median-priced home, the tax impact of the total project would average $737 per year, beginning in 2014.

Article 18 is supported unanimously by the School Committee and the Board of Select-men. The Fiscal Advisory Committee also rec-ommends this Article. We welcome your ques-tions and comments. Please visit duxbury.k12.ma.us and MassSchoolBuildings.org for more information. Thank you for taking the time to be informed with the facts. We appreciate your support of the Duxbury Public Schools.

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7:44 p.m. Motor vehicle acci-dent on Enterprise Street. Ve-hicle off road, but no injury.

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Images of enchanted islands run deep in the European soul. King Arthur, mortally wounded,

is carried off by three queens to the Isle of Avalon. Riane Eisler makes a convincing argument that tales of enchanted islands populated by women may stem from the real cultures of Aegean islands like Crete, where the later male-dominated, blade-swinging, spear-throwing cultures we know so

well had not yet taken hold. In her book, “The Chalice and the Blade,” she paints the Minoan picture of feminine wisdom running the show, later defeated by marauding, male-

dominated Aegean sailor-warriors messing it all up. She points to the gentle art of Minos, and the battle art of the Aegean, to prove her point.

I checked it out years ago at the Duxbury Free Library. There’s only one problem. The metalwork reliefs that tell the story are so similar that they could have been the work of the same artist. They were clearly produced by the same culture. Their only distinction is in their subject matter, and as I recall, the locations of their discovery. Women

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I guess we can call them The Little Engine That Could. Coming within one goal of failing to make the MIAA Division I tournament, the Duxbury boys’ hockey team wouldn’t give up, tying Ar-lington Catholic in their final game of the Cape Cod Classic and ending their regular sea-son with a 7-7-8 record.

There was only one team with a worse record in the Divi-sion I South Sectional Tourna-ment, so not much was expect-ed of a young Duxbury team when they were pitted against No. 4 Bridgewater-Raynham (14-5-1) in last Wednesday’s first-round play.

Having lost to the Trojans (2-1) during the regular sea-son, Coach John Blake’s team knew what to expect and they were ready. Despite trailing 1-0 early on a goal by John Connolly, Duxbury would tie the game five minutes later on a Mitch Barrington blast. The teams remained tied en-tering the third period, but the Dragons were having plenty of trouble moving the puck out of their own end, as the Trojans continued to pressure goalten-der Tim Matthews.

Finally Duxbury was able to get their offense in gear with the clock winding down. With five and a half minutes to go, senior captain Nick Buonvi-cino came down the left wing and went around the defender, firing his shot on goaltender Craig Pantano and watching

it break through his pads for the game-winner with 5:23 re-maining.

Despite being outshot, 24-22, the Dragons made their chances count and moved on to face No. 5-seeded Wellesley (13-5-2) on Saturday night in Brockton.

Any team that plays in the Bay State League is battle tested during the regular sea-son and will make you work extra hard to earn your goals. No one worked harder in the first period than Matthews, who faced the Raiders on three power plays in the first seven minutes and was finally beaten on the third one when Peter Crane poked at a rebound that dribbled across the goal line for a 1-0 lead with 7:52 left in the first period.

The Raiders were domi-

nating first-period play, as the penalties were killing any chance the Dragons had of getting their offense going.

Penalties continued to plague both teams, but Welles-ley continued to control the action and make Matthews work. A scoring bid by Andrew Docktor at the 8:10 mark and a break-away by Sam Lawrence two minutes later were foiled by Matthews, but the buzzing of the Duxbury net continued and they made it pay at the 5:25 mark when Ryan Cassidy came out from behind the net and stuffed the puck inside the post for a 2-0 lead.

A two-goal deficit looked like a huge mountain to climb for the low-scoring Dragons, but there is a reason Bryan Barry is the team’s captain. Less than two minutes later,

the senior dazzled the Welles-ley defense and the crowd by circling out of the corner and around three defenders before lifting his shot into the top left corner to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Barry’s play seemed to ignite his teammates, as Will Siefert had a serious scoring bid with 2:15 to go and then tied the game with 26 seconds left in the second period when he knocked home a rebound with assists going to Tim Har-rison and Evan Jackson.

With renewed confidence, it was expected Duxbury would come out battling at the start of the final 15 minutes. Instead, the Raiders continued to pressure Matthews, forcing him to continue to stand on his head.

Finally the Dragons were

Dragons shock Wellesley in shootoutMatthews spectacular in net as team moves on to semifinals

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JUMPING FOR JOY: Duxbury players celebrate by jumping toward their fans after Bobby O’Brien’s shootout goal beat No. 5 seeded Wellesley on Saturday night in Brockton. Photo by Mike Halloran

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Thursday March 10Duxbury Caregiver Support Groups. Anyone caring for an elderly parent or spouse and would like to share experiences with other caregivers, The Duxbury Senior Center offers a support group the second Thursday of each month from 1:30–3 p.m. Call Donna Ciappina, at 781-934-5774, ext. 105, for additional information or to join the group.

Free movie matinee. The movie matinee at 1 p.m. will be “The Social Network” (2010, PG-13) at the Duxbury Senior Center.

Book Lecture. At 6:30 p.m., the 1699 Winslow House and the Ventress Library team up to host a lecture by University of Memphis professor Aram Goudsouzian who will discuss his book “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” at the Ventress Library, 15 Library Plaza, Marshfield. Admission is $5 per person.

Market. Winter-into-Spring Market indoors at Plimoth Plantation, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Gather with local farmers, food-makers and artisans. Free and open to all. For more info, visit plymouthfarmersmarket.org.

Friday March 11Gather ‘Round. A storytime for preschoolers with an adult, is held every Friday at 10:30 a.m. all year round in the picture book room. For more information, check the children’s pages on the library Website, duxburyfreelibrary.org or call 781-934-2721 x115.

“Crimes of the Heart.” 8 p.m. at the Cornerstone Lodge, 585 Washington St. Performed by the Bay Players. Tickets are $17 general admission and $15 student/senior. For ticket reservations call 781-361-2453 or visit bayplayers.org.

saTurday March 12Driftwood Folk Cafe. Kendall Hall at First Parish Church, 19 Town Square, Plymouth. Mary Gauthier with Tania Elizabeth at 8 p.m. A café style seating serving home-baked goods, tea, soft drinks, and coffee (alcohol-free and non-smoking). Volunteer-run, not-for-profit corporation. Shows sell out quickly, so please order tickets

in advance at 508-224-7024, email [email protected] or visit driftwoodfolkcafe.com.

“Crimes of the Heart” play. At 8 p.m. at the Cornerstone Lodge, 585 Washington St. Performed by the Bay Players. Tickets are $17 general admission and $15 student/senior. For ticket reservations call 781-361-2453 or visit bayplayers.org.

Learn to Skate. Spaces still available Saturdays from 12:30-1:20 p.m. with the Pilgrim Skating Club at Hobomock Arena in Pembroke. Session runs through April 16 and costs $120 (plus annual $15 fee for new students). Helmets mandatory. For more information visit pilgrimskatingclub.com or call 781-294-7575.

sunday March 13Sunday Salon Series. The Manomet Center for Conservation Science: the Widewater Journals, is the topic for the presentation to be held at the Duxbury Free Library at 2 p.m. For free tickets, call the library at 781-934-2721 x108.

Soccer Training Sessions for Fifth Grade Girls. Soccer training sessions will be held every Sunday through March 20 from 1:30-3 p.m. in the Chandler gym. The sessions are open to all fifth grade girls and will focus on fun games to improve skills.

Tuesday March 15Speaker Series. In The Parish Center of Holy Family Church at 7 p.m. Sister Nancy Kehoe will present “Wrestling With Our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness and the Journey to Wholeness.”

Special needs screening. The Duxbury Integrated Preschool will be conducting a special needs screening for three and four year old children at the Chandler School. To schedule a time, please call Bridget or Gail at 781-934-7672.

College Funding 101. 7 p.m. at the Duxbury Free Library. Come learn about the options and strategies to create a sound, effective plan for a college education.

ROOTS Genealogy Club. Meets every Tuesday from 1-2:30 p.m. at the

Duxbury Senior Center. Newcomers are welcome.

Neuropathy Support Group. Meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. at the Duxbury Senior Center. Newcomers welcome.

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

Wednesday March 16Farm presentation and senior breakfast. Breakfast at the Senior Center at 8:30 a.m., $4. Please register at 781-934-5774, ext. 100. At 9 a.m. there will be a presentation on potentially putting Community Supported Agriculture at the O’Neil Farm. A CSA could mean the public could go once a week to get milk, organic vegetables, eggs, and meat, and pet and feed various animals.

Computer Training. At the Duxbury Senior Center from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.. This is Part II of learning how to work with your digital pictures. Class runs for two hours and the cost is $15 per class. Please register in advance by calling 781-934-5774, ext. 100.

Low Vision Support Group. Meets on the third Wednesday of the month at the Senior Center from 10-11:30 a.m. Newcomers welcome.

Mom/Dad and New Baby Drop In. Continues March 16, 23, 30 April 6 & 13 from 9:30-10:15 a.m. at Chandler Elementary School, Canty Wing room 316. Join other moms, dads and caregivers with your baby or baby belly for some floor time, guest speakers, baby music and baby signing. Free, no registration necessary.

Thursday March 17St. Paddy’s Day Luncheon Celebration. Lunch at the Duxbury Senior Center with traditional instrumental Irish music. Call in advance to make a reservation by calling 781-934-5774, ext. 100. Cost for lunch is $5 for seniors and $6 for non-seniors and non-residents.

Free movie matinee. The movie matinee at 1 p.m. will be “The Boys and Girls from county Clare” (2005, R) at the Duxbury Senior Center.

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

Friday March 18Marriage Enrichment Weekend. From 7-9:30 p.m. and March 19, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarene with speaker Reverend Willie Batson of Family Builders Ministries. Cost is $25. For more information or to register, call 781-585-3419.

Planning for “The Mortal Instruments” party. Teen fans of Cassandra Clare’s fantasy thriller trilogy are invited to a planning meeting at 3 p.m. in the Resource Room at the Duxbury Free Library for a gala bash in the spring. Contact

First Baptistfbcd.org

781-934-6095Dr. Kevin Cassidy

Pastor Brent Van Wyke, Youth Asst.Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

with Adult and Youth Bible Fel-lowships following. Childcare is provided during the morning service with age appropriate classes for young children. First Baptist offers many opportuni-ties for youth, men and women. Check the Web site for details or call the office today. Good Shepherd Christian Academy is a ministry of First Baptist Church.

Holy Family Churchholyfamilyduxbury.org Rev. Robert J. Deehan

Rev. Seán Maher781-934-5055

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

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

781-934-6591Sunday Worship Service at

10 a.m. Church office hours, Monday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tues-day-Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Pilgrim childcare and preschool, Monday-Friday, 7 a.m-6 p.m. Tuesdays, ladies Bible study at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Bible study at 10 a.m., and evening Bible study at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays during Lent, Lenten Taize ser-vice, 7 p.m.

United Methodisthighstreetumc.org

Rev. Dr. Alex K. Musoke781-585-9863

Office hours are Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Sunday worship service and Sunday school, 10 a.m., fol-lowed by fellowship, adult choir rehearsal, 8:45 a.m. with coffee hour following. Third Friday of each month we serve dinner at Mainspring Shelter, Brockton. Last Wednesday of the month is ladies’ luncheon at 12 p.m.

St. John the Evangelist Episcopal

www.stjohnsduxbury.org 781-934-6523

Sunday services 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Wednesday: Men’s Bible study 6:30 a.m., Coffee and con-versation 9 a.m., Holy Eucharist with healing 10 a.m., Adult Ed 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Children’s choir rehearsal 6 p.m., Youth choir rehearsal at 7 p.m. Thurs-

day: Adult choir rehearsal 7 p.m. Friday: AA meeting at 7:30 p.m.

First Parish Churchduxburyuu.org

Rev. Catherine Cullen781-934-6532

Sunday Worship Service and Church School at 10:30 a.m. Buddhist meditation, Sundays at 7 p.m. Thursdays, book group at 9 a.m., sewing group at 10 a.m. Wednesdays, quilting class at 7 p.m. (requires advance sign-up).

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

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

Bible Quiz practice at 9 a.m., Sunday school classes and Bible study, 9:45 a.m. Nursery is pro-vided for all services. Fridays, Sacred Youth Ministry at the teen center at 6:30 p.m. Tues-days, women’s Bible Study at 6:30 p.m. March 10, financial Peace University at 7 p.m., March 11, all church bowling night 6:30 p.m. March 18-19, Marriage Enrichment Weekend. Wednesdays during Lent, Soup and the Word at 6 p.m.

First Church of Christ, Scientist

781-934-6434Sunday worship service and

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

Christian Science Sentinel Radio on WATD 95.9 FM Sun-day mornings at 9 a.m.

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E Underground Teen Open Mic Night. At the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George St. Middle School session will be held between 7-8:30 p.m., and a High School session will be held from 8:30-10:30 p.m. Teen performers are free with registration, and audience admission is $10. Snacks and soda are available. To register or for more information, call 781-934-2731 x11 or email Anne Smith at [email protected] or visit sscmusic.org.

saTurday March 19Children’s Art Exhibit. Spring into Art exhibit at the Art Complex Museum for it’s 40th anniversary. Free. Further information is available at artcomplex.org or 781-934-6634, ext. 10.

sunday March 20Children’s Art Exhibit. Spring into Art exhibit at the Art Complex Museum for it’s 40th anniversary. A reception for the artists will be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free art drop off extended until March 17. Further information is available at artcomplex.org or (781) 934-6634, ext. 10.

Birdie for Books Mini Golf Event. Sunday, March 20 at the Duxbury Free Library, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. An afternoon featuring 18 holes of mini golf, carnival games, raffle items and refreshments. For further details and to purchase tickets at $5 each or 5 for $20, visit duxfol.org or contact Katy Horgan at 781-934-0997.

upcoMingSunday Salon Series . The Duxbury Free Library presents author Tara Masih, and her impressive debut collection of stories, “Where the Dog Star Never Glows” on Sunday, March 27 at 2 p.m. To reserve a free ticket for this event, call 781-934-2721x108 or stop by the library. Book will be for sale at the event.

Ladies financial seminar. Presentation at the Duxbury Senior Center on Thursday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m. with Paula Harris, co-founder and principal of WH Cornerstone Investments. Please call to reserve your spot at 781-934-5774, ext 100.

Antique Show. The 30th Annual Duxbury Spring Antique Show will be held at Duxbury High School on Saturday, March 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 27, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appraisals will be offered on Sunday, March 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. $5 per item or 3 for $10.

Admission is $7 or $6 with a card available at many local businesses or downloaded from duxburyboosters.org. Please contact Joanne Williams at 781-934-0111 for more information.

Family Fun Fitness Fair. March 26 from 8:30-11 a.m. at Chandler School. Resource tables, try fun new exercises, 5K run. Fair is free, to participate in the 5K run, the cost is $20 per runner, or $10 per runner under age 12. Benefits local early childhood programs.

Blooms at the Complex. The Duxbury Community Garden Club’s upcoming “Blooms at the Complex,” a collaboration of art and floral design, takes place at The Art Complex Museum on Saturday and Sunday, March 26 and 27, from 1-4 p.m. Free.

Schoolhouse Rock. The Friends of the Tarkiln Community Center are planning a fundraiser at the Tarkiln Community Center on April 2, from 7-10:30 p.m. featuring Despite Dwight. The committee is currently collecting items for their silent auction. Tickets are $30 and are available at Duxbury Wine and Spirits, Folk Art Antiques, The Studio and Westwinds Bookshop. For more information, call 781-934-6943 or e-mail Tarkiln [email protected].

Art Complex concert. Canadian pianist Jason Cutmore returns to The Art Complex Museum on Sunday, April 3, at 4 p.m. for the first concert to be held during the museum’s fortieth anniversary year.

Speaker Series. In The Parish Center of Holy Family Church at 7 p.m. Father Walter Cuenin will speak on April 12 on “Whatever Happened to Vatican Two.”

Science Fair. The 2011 Elementary School Science Fair for Duxbury students in grades K-5 will take place on Saturday, April 2 at Alden School. To participate, children need to fill out a registration form and return it to your their teacher no later than Friday, March 18. For more information, e-mail Erin Wiesehahn at [email protected].

ongoingMom/Dad and New Baby Drop In. March 2,9,16,23,30 April 6 & 13 from 9:30-10:15 a.m. at Chandler Elementary School, Canty Wing room 316. Join other moms, dads and caregivers with your baby or baby belly for some floor time,

guest speakers, baby music and baby signing. Free, no registration necessary.

Free Bring Your Own Bags (BYOBs). The Duxbury Senior Center Outreach Program is helping seniors to be prepared in the event of an unexpected or even planned trip to the hospital by offering a free “Bring Your Own Bags” (BYOBs) on a first come, first serve basis. This is a free carry bag with emergency preparedness items. Seniors wishing to receive one may schedule an introductory office or home visit at 781-934-5774, ext. 105 or 106.

Beginner and Intermediate Oil Painting. At the Art Complex Museum from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays, March 2-March 30 for adults and also on Wednesdays, 4-6:30 p.m. March 2-April 6 for teens. The cost for the workshop is $165 plus a $20 supply fee.

Soccer Training Sessions for Fifth Grade Girls. Soccer training

sessions will be held every Sunday through March 20 from 1:30-3 p.m. in the Chandler gym. The sessions are open to all fifth grade girls and will focus on fun games to improve skills.

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

Valentines and wedding gowns. Come to Duxbury Free Library second floor Historic Clothing Exhibit. The current exhibit is entitled “Valentine Romances May Lead to June Weddings.” From February to June, four different wedding gowns from the DRHS collection will be featured in the museum-quality display case constructed by local artist Craig Bloodgood in the library’s reference area.

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About an 8; I try to recycle every-thing I can but I don’t compost.

kathy Fortini Mayflower Street

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9.5! I’m pretty big on recycling. I recycle everything and I com-

post too.Roger Grant

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8! I don’t have my composter put together yet.catherine Dyroff elderberry Lane

10! Because we always put plastic with plastic, paper with

paper and we have bins for everything.

Michael Dyroff Age 7 1/2

9.5! We have been composting for 20 years. We separate the trash. We redeem our bottles

and we rarely use plastic water bottles. I think we do a good job

recycling.Ling Wong

Meetinghouse Road

On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate your personal recycling efforts?

Bay Players is performing “Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley on March 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. Scandal rocks a small Southern town, and the lives of three

dysfunctional sisters. Shows will be at the Cornerstone Lodge at 585 Washington St. Tickets are $17 general admission and $15 student/senior. For ticket reservations call 781-361-2453 or bayplayers.org.

‘Crimes of the Heart’

Matt Brady of Duxbury and Allison hutchinson of Plymouth are rehearsing for Bay Players production of crimes of the heart by Beth henley.

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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.

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Betty Wilde Geor-gas, 82, of Fall River, died Monday, Feb. 28 at her residence. She was the wife of John L. Georgas of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida for the past 21 years. She was also wife of the late Wil-son O. Smith and former

wife of Dr. Richard Fitton.Born in Fairhaven, a daughter of the late

Webster and Jane (Holmstrom) Wilde, she lived in Fairhaven, Swansea, Duxbury, and Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., before moving to Fall River four years ago.

A graduate of Fairhaven High School, class of 1946, Mrs. Georgas attended the former Swain School of Design, and received her As-sociates Degree in merchandising from Endi-cott College. She was a member of the Dux-bury Yacht Club and was an avid golfer having

belonged to the Rhode Island Country Club, the Ponte Vedra Club, Marsh Landing, Sawgrass, T.P.C. and Plantation. She also enjoyed travel-ing extensively all over the world.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Georgas leaves her three daughters, Betsy Cummings and her husband John B. Cummings III of Westport, Susan Roth and her husband Byron of Corona Del Mar, Cal., and Polly Culbreth of Westport; two sisters, Sally Hayward of Fairhaven, Fran-ces Boynton and her husband Reverend Bob of Dartmouth; one brother, Webster Wilde Jr. and his wife Rosemarie of Swansea; and thirteen grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 19 at 1p.m. in the Unitarian Memorial Church, 102 Green St. Fairhaven. Contribu-tions in her honor may be made to the Alzheim-er’s Association 311 Arsenal St. Watertown, MA 02472. Burial will be private. For tributes, visit waring-sullivan.com.

Betty Wilde Georgas, 82, DYC member

Charles A. “Al” Krahmer, 84, long-time resident of Duxbury, died March 2 at Mass General Hospital. Mr. Krahmer was born in Maplewood, N.J. in 1926 to Charles and Adele Krahmer. He married Sarah H. New-bold of Boston in 1957

who died in 1962. They had one child together Frances Penelope (Penny). Mr. Krahmer then married Jane Hohmann of Holland, Mich. and had two sons Charles (Chad) and Karl (San-dy).

Mr. Krahmer grew up in Maplewood enjoy-ing hunting and fishing. He graduated from Co-lumbia High School in 1944 and immediately joined the Naval Flight School. Upon discharge he graduated from Rutgers University. In 1962 he began a 25 year career with Honeywell Inc. Computer Division, where he became a senior marketing manager.

Mr. Krahmer was a lifelong avid sailor and enjoyed both racing and cruising. As a family

they spent many summers along the New Eng-land Coast and braved several ocean passages. Aboard their last boat, Reality, he and his wife cruised for more than 40,000 miles. As an ac-tive community member he managed the op-erations of Duxbury Beach including the mas-sive restorations following both the Blizzard of 1978 and the No Name storm of 1991. He was a Trustee of Duxbury Beach, active member of Duxbury Beach Preservation Society, Duxbury Ex-Navos, community men’s club and Saint John’s Church.

Mr. Krahmer leaves his wife of 46 years, Jane; his daughter Penny of Duxbury; his two sons, Chad and wife Nancy of Duxbury and Karl of Melbourne, Fla.; his sister, Doris; and six grandchildren. A memorial service was celebrated at St. John’s Church in Duxbury on March 8. In lieu of gifts please make a dona-tion to the Wounded Warriors Project http://woundedwarriorproject.org/, 7020 AC Skin-ner Pkwy, Suite 100 Jacksonville, FL 32256 or Duxbury Beach Preservation Society P.O. Box 1364, Duxbury, MA 02332. Arrangements by the Shepherd Funeral Home.

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Linda Brackett, 59 of Newberg, Ore., died recently of pan-creatic cancer surrounded by her family and friends.

Ms. Brackett grew up in Duxbury, graduating from Duxbury High School in 1969 and summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1973. She spent most of her adult life as a mar-keting and corporate strategy consultant in the field of medical technology. She enjoyed living in the Willamette Valley wine county with her husband, Frank Bakanau, and visiting Duxbury Beach.

Ms. Brackett leaves her husband of 27 years, Frank Baka-nau; her mother and stepfather, Shirley and Champe Fisher; her brothers, Dana and Christian Brackett; her sister, Wendy Fran-co; and their families.

A private family gathering will take place at Duxbury Beach at a later date in her memory.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her name may be made to the American Cancer Society, the Sierra Club, or any other charity of your choice.

Mary H. (Columbus) Lovejoy, 82, died Feb. 27 surround-ed by family. She was born April 1, 1928 in Otter River and moved to Duxbury in 1954, where she lived until 2001. She enjoyed the last ten years of her life at Wingate at Silver Lake in Kingston. She leaves her son, Michael Lovejoy and his wife Debra; her brother, James Columbus and his wife Julie; and her four grandchildren, Michelle, Chandra, Tyler and Mark. She was preceded in death by her two children, Kathleen and Mark, and by her brother, John. A memorial Mass will be held April 12, 2011 at 11 a.m. at Holy Family Church, Tremont St. Dux-bury. Burial will follow at Mayflower Cemetery.

John Robert Taft, a resident of Duxbury for over 50 years, died Feb. 26. Mr. Taft was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he attended local schools and The Storm King School. He was an alumnus of MIT, Class of 1944, and had a long career as a professional engineer, includ-ing working on the design of the earliest nuclear powered submarines and atomic power plants. Mr. Taft was an officer in the US Navy for both World War ll and the Korean Conflict. He was aboard the USS Iowa in Tokyo Bay where it was moored adjacent to the USS Missouri when the Japanese surrender ceremony took place. He served in the Naval Research Reserve for thirty years.

He also served on many local Duxbury boards and committees, including the Capital Budget Committee, the Council of Churches, the Bike Path Committee, and the Republican Town Committee. He was an active member of the MIT Alumni Association, the Duxbury ExNavos and the Military Order of the Loyal Le-gion, a group of descendants of Civil War Union Officers dedi-cated to preserving the history of that period. Mr. Taft was an accomplished sailor who served as Commandore of the MIT Sailing Club. Through the years, he spent many hours sail-ing in Duxbury Bay and along

the New England Coast. Mr. Taft was married for 49 years to the

late Mary Malvina Hopkins Taft. He leaves his children, Georgia Taft Pye and her husband James Taylor Pye of Duxbury, Marjorie Taft of Stratham, N.H., Arthur T. Taft and his wife Linda Frech Taft of Greensboro, N.C, John K. Taft and his wife Lori Nazar Taft of Chapel Hill, N.C, and Roberta Taft Putney and her husband Andrew T. Putney of Plympton; ten grandchil-dren and five nieces and nephews.

Burial will be private and a Memorial Ser-vice is planned for May 21 at Pilgrim Church in Duxbury.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in his mem-ory may be made to the Trustees of Partridge Academy, PO Box 2552, Duxbury, MA 02331, for the Molly Hopkins Taft Scholarship, or to Duxbury Bay Maritime School, P.O. Box 263A, Duxbury, MA 02331.

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The Duxbury girls’ hockey team got spectacular goalten-ding from freshman Rachel Myette, while classmate for-ward Jackie Nolan’s first-peri-od goal proved to be the game-winner in the Lady Dragons’ 7-0 blanking of No. 10-seed Canton on Sunday afternoon at the Foxboro Sports Center.

Second-seeded Duxbury had beaten the Bulldogs dur-

ing the regular season, 5-1, but they knew Canton could be a tough draw and they proved it throughout the afternoon, test-ing Duxbury’s freshman net-minder, while being denied on every occasion.

At the 12:53 mark it was pure hustle on the part of No-lan, as she outraced a pair of Canton defenders to a clearing pass and beat goaltender Sarah Healey for a 1-0 lead.

Duxbury would kill off a Canton power-play shortly after the goal and the game remained tight over the next seven minutes until the ever-hustling Briana Connolly went

flying into the right corner and centered a pass out front to Hannah Murphy, who beat Healey with 4:38 left in the pe-riod for a two-goal advantage.

It was the Rachel Myette Show in the second period, as she singlehandedly kept her team out front with save after save: the big one coming with 12:20 on the clock when she stuffed a Bulldog breakaway.

Six minutes later the Bull-dogs tried it again after strip-ping the Dragons defense of the puck. But this time the skater tried to go high on My-ette, who flashed out her glove and saved her team from a di-sastrous turnover.

Twenty seconds later, the Bulldogs were on the power-play when Martha Findley went off for hooking. On this team, playing a man short can sometimes be an advantage, as the forwards can skate and chase down a lot of clearing passes.

This time it was Lily Con-nolly who went flying into the zone and got possession, centering the puck out front to Briana Connolly who beat Healey for a more comfortable 3-0 lead.

Briana was at it again at the 3:59 mark, racing after a puck at her own blue line and beating the Canton defenders down ice, going in alone on Healey to register her second of the game for a 4-0 lead.

In a desperation move with five seconds left in the period, Canton pulled its goalie for an extra skater and it almost worked, as the drawer went past Myette and through the crease as the buzzer sounded.

Myette’s performance

made the third period far more enjoyable, as the Lady Drag-ons continued to attack with Lily Connolly and net two third period goals in a three-minute span to put the game away.

“We got off to a fast start and that Nolan goal got us rolling,” said Coach Friend Weiler. “The kids worked hard and they were flying out there. Our intensity level was there tonight and you could see they

were moving their feet. But in the second period it seemed the ice was slanted in Canton’s favor and Rachel continued to keep the game out of reach for Canton.”

The Lady Dragons will now take on Concord-Carlisle in the semifinals, date and time to be determined. A win by the Lady Dragons will send them to their first Division II title game in the program’s history.

Lady Dragons continue to march toward titleMyette stymies Canton in 7-0 shutout win as girls’ hockey advances

GeTTING The BALL ROLLING: Jackie Nolan celebrates her team’s first goal that got the Lady Dragons off to a great start.

NOT MUch ROOM TO SPARe: Briana connolly beats three canton defenders and puts her shot inside the right post for a Duxbury score.

A cLeAR VIeW: Lily connolly scores for Duxbury while players from both teams screen goalie Sarah healey (30).

GIRLS hOckeYDuxbury 7Canton 0

Photos by Jim Tarbox


able to penetrate deep into the Wellesley zone with Siefert getting the puck in the right corner. Extricating himself from the Raider defense, he went toward the net and fired on goaltender Zach Herbert-Burns. The puck squeezed be-tween the netminder and the post to give Duxbury a 3-2 lead with 10:22 left in the game.

Midway through the peri-od the Raiders knew they had their work cut out for them and were relentless on Matthews for a full minute, as the Drag-ons were unable to clear the zone, forcing their goaltender to make a save and tie up the puck for a whistle with 5:44 to go.

With a face-off to Mat-thews right, Wellesley won the draw as Docktor and Cassidy combined on the face-off for a shot on net. Brendan Baker was in perfect position and knocked home the rebound to tie the game at 3-3.

Although the Raiders dominated the first 10 minutes of the final period, it was Dux-bury who had the best chance at winning it in the last five minutes when Jackson was in the slot and fired a shot headed for the top left corner before Herbert-Burns flashed out his glove for the save with 19 sec-onds to go.

The first overtime was highlighted by a pair of Mat-thews saves in the first 60 seconds, as the Dragons con-tinued to have trouble getting the puck out of their own zone. When they finally made it over the Wellesley blue line the Raider defense made life dif-ficult, blocking the Duxbury shots and rarely letting them get through on net.

When OT ended at 3-3, the outcome and advancement in the tournament now came down to a shootout with both teams getting five attempts to start.

Duxbury was up first and missed on their first two at-tempts, while Wellesley was stopped before Trent Kapinos delivered a 1-0 lead on a con-troversial score. The Dragons trailed 1-0 when Barry came to center ice for Duxbury’s final attempt. As he wove to-ward the Wellesley net, the se-nior got in close and lifted his shot into the top left corner to keep the Dragons alive.

Matthews came up big once again, as he sent Cassi-dy’s potential game-winner up and over the net. Now into their extra skaters, neither team could tickle the twine un-til sophomore Bobby O’Brien (skater No. 7) went in on net and fired his shot up and over Herbert-Burns’ left shoulder

for a 2-1 lead.The pressure was now on

Baker to keep his team in the playoffs, but Matthews rose to the occasion once again and smothered the junior for-ward’s shot and Wellesley’s chances, as the Dragons exited the bench to mob Matthews.

“They were doing differ-ent things with different lines and we weren’t prepared for that,” said Blake. “I thought we were very shaky in the first period and the penalties were disrupting us. Once we scored those goals there became a flow to the game and we could roll out the lines the way we wanted to. The big problem in the first period was we were undisciplined and took some bad penalties.”

As for the overtime and shootout it came down on the shoulders of Matthews.

“He made five or six huge saves in the shootout alone and he has developed into one of the leaders of this team. The second half of the season the guys loved playing in front of him and he’s one of the big reasons we are here.”

The magical ride contin-ues for the Dragons on Friday night, when they take on No. 1 seeded Springfield Cathedral in the Division I South Sec-tional semifinals. The time and site has yet to be determined.


Boys hockey in semifinals COLLEGE CORNERBy mike Halloran, sports editor

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UMass senior swimmer Max Butler (DHS ’06) was named the UMass Athlete of The Week. Butler helped the UMass men’s swimming and diving team to their record-tying fifth straight Atlantic-10 title, thir-teenth overall. The Duxbury native did his part by winning four gold medals (two indi-vidual and two relay). He was crowned A-10 Champion and set per-sonal best times in both the 100-yard backstroke

posting a 49.75 and the 200-yard backstroke with a 1:47.14. Butler was also a part of the A-10 Champion 200 medley relay team, who posted a time of 1:30.18 (new school record)

and the A-10 Champ 400 medley relay team who notched a time of 3:19.71. This is But-ler’s first UMass honor of the year… Junior Mark Murphy (DHS ’08) had two ground-balls in Bates’ 8-1 season-opening lacrosse win over Lasell last week… Babson College senior Terry Woods (DHS ’06) and his Bea-ver hockey team lost to

Norwich, 3-2 in OT, in the ECAC East finals last week in Vermont… Senior wrestler An-drew Knapp (DHS ’06) finished 6th in the heavyweight division at the Eastern Intercol-

legiate Wrestling Cham-pionships in Lewisburg, Penn. last week… De-spite a career-high 27 points and a school-record 23 rebounds from senior forward Sam Herrick (DHS ’06), the Albertus Magnus College men’s basketball team edged Wentworth, 96-95, in double overtime. The Eastern College Athletic Confer-ence (ECAC) quarterfi-

nal game was a thriller to the end, as Went-worth missed a shot as the buzzer sounded to preserve the Falcon victory… Senior Grant Bowen (DHS ’06) went 1 for 5 in Carleton’s season-opening 5-3 loss to Cen-

tral College… Senior Nick Violandi (DHS ’07) scored 4 goals in Assumption’s season-opening 12-6 lacrosse win over Clark last Friday… Senior defend-er Sam McMahon (Groton ’07) recorded a groundball in Harvard’s 18-17 season-open-ing ;loss to Stanford in CA… Junior Trish Babson (DHS ’08) had 2 goals and 3 assists in the Beavers’ 20-4 sea-

son-opening win over Eastern CT… Junior Scott Austin (DHS ’08) is starting at attack for the No. 6-ranked Cornell lacrosse team that lost to Army, 11-9, on Saturday at West

Point… Junior midfield-er Gus Quinzani (DHS ’08) had a goal for St. Joseph’s in their season-opening loss to Lehigh, 16-7… Junior Matt Landry (DHS ’08) had a goal and junior Dane Molina (DHS ’08) had an assist in Hartwick’s 24-4 win over Mt. St. Mary last month… Junior Erin Levesque (DHS ’08) is a defender on the UNH

lacrosse team. She had two groundballs in their 8-5 win over Holy Cross… Sopho-more Derek Sweet (DHS ’09) had a goal and an assist in Lynchburg’s 13-5 season-opening loss to Salisbury. He followed that with three assists in Lynchburg’s next three straight wins…

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What would it be like to find yourself rowing in a 2,000-meter indoor race along-side Olympic medalists, World Champions, college standouts and other competitors from around the globe? It happened for many of the Duxbury Bay Maritime Rowers at the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints in Bos-ton on Sunday, February 20 at Boston University’s Agganis Arena.

The C.R.A.S.H.-B.’s are recognized as the premier in-door rowing regatta in the world with more than 2,100 rowers from as far as China, Russia and New Zealand vy-ing for the famed “Hammer” trophy in front of approxi-mately 10,000 spectators. Lo-cal DBMS rowers, coaches

and alumni, as well as a large contingent from the Duxbury High School racing team, were on hand to test their limits and cheer on their teammates.

Master rowers and coach-es were Bill Miller (a former Olympian himself), Mary Fran Grossman (who placed third in her category), Bill Boyd, and Laura Carleton all of Dux-bury, Ginny Davis of Plym-outh, Karen Shusterman of Hingham, and Hugh Spurway of Norwell. DBMS and high school team alumni, Ali Di-Matteo and Amanda Doolin, both of UMASS women’s row-ing, came in from Amherst to compete in the largest race of the day (Women’s Open), and Ben Potash of MIT men’s row-ing crossed the Charles River to compete in the Open Men’s Lightweight division.

Eight of the Duxbury High School rowers went up against other students from all over the country. Captain Davis Muller, Kyle Archambault and Steven Kravitz, all of the boys’ varsity team, beat their own personal records in the grueling 2000m race with Kravitz breaking the elusive seven-minute bar-rier. Captain Kate Connolly, Brighid Davis, and Veronica McCarthy lead the girls’ var-sity with Garrett Davis and Rebecca Gooley rounding out the Novice team.

The Duxbury High School rowers will be starting their spring season at the end of March. If any high school stu-dents are interested in trying this highly competitive sport, please contact DBMS for de-tails about the upcoming sea-son.

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With a packed gymnasium and a student body ready to explode with every Duxbury basket, it couldn’t have started any better for the Dragons, as Justin Marino gave Duxbury a 5-0 lead. After that, the dream fell apart, as the No. 5-seeded Oliver Ames Tigers went on a 26-2 run over the next seven minutes to put the game away in a 69-53 win over the Drag-ons.

Duxbury knew what they were up against, having played Oliver Ames just last week in the IAABO at Bridgewater State. In that game they led by five points in the third quarter, then watched the Tigers out-score them 26-6 over the final eight minutes for a 64-38 loss.

This game very much mir-rored their prior match-up, but this time the Tigers put them out of their misery early by racing to a 26-7 first quarter lead. Poor ball movement and shot selection by Duxbury led to their demise, while Oliver

Ames was effective with Nick Bruha (9 first quarter points) in charge and Mason Pires do-ing the job inside.

While the Dragons were able to cut OA’s point total in half in the second period, they still lost ground by scoring just nine points and trailing at half-time, 39-16.

Duxbury came out fired up in the second half and reeled off 10 straight points to get the crowd back in the game at 39-26, only to see their momen-tum squashed when St. Clair Ryan buried a three-pointer from deep in the corner.

No matter how hard the Dragons tried to fight their way back into the game, they couldn’t contain Pires under-neath or the three-point shoot-ing of Duane Johnson who put the visitors ahead 50-30 with 2:30 left in the third quarter.

With eight minutes re-maining in the Dragons’ sea-son, they trailed 54-38 with the crowd exhorting them on.

A pair of baskets by Jason Marino and two free throws from Curtis Owen cut the lead to 56-44 with 5:40 remain-ing and the crowd was cheer-ing for a miracle comeback. Johnson made sure that didn’t

happen, as he swished another three from deep in the corner.

Duxbury would cut into the lead slightly at 65-53, but Coach Gordon Cushing saw the handwriting on the wall, as he sent in seniors Dave Don-ovan, Wesley Dow, and Pat Fahy with 1:31 remaining and the end of Duxbury’s basket-ball season in sight.

“We just shot ourselves in the foot at the beginning with too many turnovers,” said Cushing. “We dug a big hole and it was tough to climb out of it. We got down by so much we decided to take a chance and double-team the point guard, but the other kids hit the threes. Other than that I thought we did a good job this year. We won the league in a rebuilding year, made the tour-nament after losing our best player to transfer, and got two home games in the playoffs. We’ll be back next year. We’re very young and our future is bright, and I’m very proud of our guys on how hard they played in the second half.”

Owen led the Dragons with 18 points, while Justin Marino contributed 13 and Jason Ma-rino chipped in with 10.

IMPReSSIVe FINISh: The Duxbury girls cheerleading squad finished fifth at this weekends South Sectionals championships. Pictured are, back: caroline corbett, Ally Bentsen-Bush, kelsey Davidson, Sammy carley and Shannon conway.Front: Allie Barrett, kelley Mackin, Frankie Arana, Zoe Moriarty, kenzie Reale, Lauren MacDonald and Sarah hansman.

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in power aren’t an automatic insulation that protects against warfare. In modern times, women routinely lead their nations into battle: Golda Meir (Israel), Indira Gandhi (India), Margaret Thatcher (Great Britain).

Rossini’s “Armida” makes a similar point, a man’s portrayal of the feminine viewpoint. It’s a man’s portrayal, so of course, Armida is a fabulously beautiful and powerful sorceress. I saw it this weekend in New York. Renée Fleming sang the title role. Yes, she is enchanting. Rossini’s story sets Armida as the queen of her own enchanted isle, in league with the powers of love, revenge, and darkness against the button-downed oppressive militarism of a band of crusaders – you know the type. All tenors. Unfortunately, she falls in love with one of them. She sweeps him off to her island to live forever in bliss with her. He is “rescued” by a pair of army buddies, and Armida faces the greatest choice in her life: love, or revenge. Unlike the great majority of powerful women in opera, she doesn’t die in the end. Neither does she choose love – bad girl! She chooses revenge. All Hell breaks loose, and the final curtain falls.

No one said it would be easy. Riane Eisler makes it look too simple, suggesting that lifting women out of oppression leads inevitably to peace. Razia Jan, raising awareness and funds for her school for girls in Deh Sabz, Afghanistan, has never made it look simple either.

I was in New York this weekend, not at Razia’s scheduled presentation at the Senior Center. As I write, I don’t know what Razia said, or even if the event took place. God willing, all is well, Razia is safe, and the Zabuli Education Center is on its way to a splendid spring. I don’t know, I was away.

But I know Razia. I know, too, that Afghans (or anyone else) know that the way to peace runs through careful education for all, including women. At the same time, current history also shows that cultures with apparent roles of power, education, and influence for women are fully capable of raining fire and destruction from the skies, sometimes invoking the name of God as they do it.

I saw a second opera this weekend, Iphigénie en Tauride, with Susan Graham (Iphigénie) and Plácido Domingo (Oreste). Iphigénie and Oreste were brother and sister, the children of Agamemnon, members of a cursed ruling family wracked with family murder, both driven and punished by divine direction.

In a nutshell, the story ends with the two united as brother and sister when the goddess Diana relents, forgives them, and sends them on their way. It was the ending that was challenging and complex – not the final result. As played by Graham and Domingo, the two royals find their forgiveness of each other, despite their divine release, to be harder than they expected. Oreste, after all, had killed their mother, the woman who had killed their father in vengeance after he had sacrificed Iphigénie for the sake of a wind to carry him to war. She was saved only by Diana’s intervention. Now she was faced with hardest miracle of all, a miracle that only she could perform. She forgave her brother. I think Razia would understand.

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Maguire, Sahlberg compete in MSTCA Pentathlon

Duxbury’s Denis Maguire and Brett Sahlberg were two of 82 athletes that competed in the 2011 MSTCA Pentathlon held at the Reggie Lewis Center on February 28.

Maguire placed 17th with 2,870 points with his 8.68 in the 55m hurdles, 5’9.75” in the high jump, 18’3” in the long jump, 36’1” in the shot put and 3:12.48 in the 1000m run.

Brett Sahlberg placed 22nd with 2,756 points with his 9.06 in the 55m hurdles, 5”3.75” in the high jump, 18’11.25” long jump, 37’2.5” in the shot put and 3:08.92 in the 1000m run.

SeMGhL ALL STARS: goalie Rachael Myette, forward hannah Murphy, forward Briana connolly, defenseman Martha Findley and forward Lily connolly.

Relive your football memories

WATD Sports Director Bill Wilhelm is trying to organize an alumni football game between Duxbury and Marshfield High Schools. The game is tentatively scheduled for May 7 in Duxbury. Any former Dux-bury HS football players that are at least 30-years old by kick-off time and have graduated prior to 1999 are invited to par-ticipate. If interested, please contact for-mer DHS football coach Don Dellorco at 781-826-8460 or via email at [email protected].

Congrats to track membersThe girls’ 4 x 400m relay team of junior Emily Doyle, se-

nior Elizabeth Runci, sophomore Laura Nee, and senior cap-tain Julia Nee has qualified for the New Balance National In-door Track Meet at The Armory in New York City this Friday at 5:10 p.m. after qualifying with a time of 4:01.3. The girls have been breaking the school record for indoor 4 x 400m since last year when they also went to Nationals and finished with a 4:10.

Senior captain Jonathan McKinley also will be joining the girls in NYC after qualifying for the mile run in a time of 4:22. McKinley’s starting gun will go off at 4 p.m.

Duxbury boys varsi-ty basketball team headed by Gordon

Cushing, prepares food for the Brockton Soup Kitchen at the Girl Scout House. All members of the team, includ-ing team managers prepared sandwiches, fruit and des-sert and brought them over to Brockton. Food and supplies were provided by the players families.

Varsity boys basketball volunteers at Brockton Soup Kitchen

Joe Guilfoile packs the lunch bags to take to Brockton.

Gordon Acha at the head of the assembly line makes sure all is going smoothly.

Wes Dow, Justin Marino and Rob kosharek checks out the PB&J sandwiches piled high.

Jason Marino and Sam ederle polishing the apples.

Donna Owen provides supplies to the sandwich makers.

One side of the

table its PB&J,

while the other side

makes the meat

sandwich-es.

Photos courtesy of David Gabrielli

Brian MolisseCell: [email protected]

Molisse Realty Group, LLC18 Snow Road, Marsh�eldPhone: 781-837-5600 636 Middle Street, WeymouthPhone: 781-331-3900www.molisserealty.com


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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT

PLYMOUTHPROBATE AND

FAMILY COURT52 Obery Street

Suite 1130Plymouth, MA 02360

(508) 747-6204

NOTICE OFPETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL

Docket No. PL10P0776EA

To all persons interested in the Estate of David S Cutler, late of Duxbury, in the County of Plymouth.

A petition has been pre-sented to said Court by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. of Boston in the County of Suffolk, prays that Robert E. Fierman of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex as Executor of the Estate of David S Cutler, be ordered to retain liquid assets valued at $550,000.00 until such time as the loan by the Petitioner to the Decedent is paid in full.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appear-ance in said Court at Ply-mouth before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the twenty-ninth day of March 2011, the return day of this ci-tation.

Witness, Hon, Catherine P Sabaitis, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this first day of March 2011.

Robert E. McCarthyRegister

1DNM - March 9, ‘11

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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTSTHE TRIAL COURT

PLYMOUTHPROBATE AND


Suite 1130 Plymouth, MA 02360

(508) 747-6204

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL

Docket No. PL11P0247EAIn the Estate of: E Jane SangerLate of: Duxbury, MA

02332Date of Death: 1/26/2011to all persons interested in

the above captioned estate, a

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TOWN OF DUXBURY

BOARDOF APPEALS

NOTICE OFPUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing in the Mural Room at Town Hall, 878 Tremont Street, on March 24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. to con-sider the application of Verc Realty Trust for an amend-ment to special permit 1997-18 under Article(s) 400, 600 and 900, Section(s) 401.2, 420, 422, 601 and 906.2 of the Duxbury Protec-tive Bylaw. The property is located at 5 Chestnut Street, Duxbury, MA, Parcel No. 190-772-045 of the Duxbury Assessors Map, consisting of 17,860 sq ft. in the Neighbor-hood Business District 2 and owned by Paul L. & Leo M. Vercollone TT, Duxbury, MA 02332. Special permit 1997-18 is the most recent amendment to the original special permit, 1981-1, which was further amended by 1982-5, 1992-19, and 1995-11. Applicant proposes to replace existing awnings with new color and wording. 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.

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TOWN OF DUXBURYBOARD OFAPPEALS


The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing in the Mural Room at Town Hall, 878 Tremont Street, on March 24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. to con-sider the application of Town of Duxbury Fire Department for a variance under Article(s) 400, 410 and 900, Section(s) 410.4 and 906.3 of the Dux-bury Protective Bylaw. The property is located at 668 Tre-mont Street, Parcel No. 150-503-040 of the Duxbury Assessors Map, consisting of 1.828 acres in the Residential Compatibility district and owned by Town of Duxbury, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332. The applicant proposes to remove an exist-ing 65 ft' radio tower and re-place it with a new 100' mi-crowave radio tower in an-other location on the property. A variance from the 35 ft. height limit is required. The application may be viewed in the Inspectional Services De-partment between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., or by appointment.

Any person wishing to comment on the applicant's proposal should appear at public hearing at the time and place noted above. Written comments may be submitted to the Board of Appeals, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332 no later than 7:30 p.m., March 24, 2011. Any individual with a disability may request accommodation in order to participate in the

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public hearing and may re-quest the application and any accompanying materials in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to partici-pate in the public hearing should be made at least three business days in advance by contacting Danielle Brandon at (781) 934-1100, ext. 122.

Judith A. Barrett,Chair

Board of Appeals

Adv: 3/9/11 - 3/16/11Case #11-03

petition has been presented requesting that a document purporting to be the last will and codicil of said decedent be proved and allowed and that

Noel S. Gearhart of Well-esley Hills, MA

Jodee P Bishop of North Falmouth, MA

be appointed executor/trix named in the will to serve Without Surety

IF YOU DESIRE TO OB-JECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN AP-PEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Plymouth ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORN-ING (10:00 AM) ON: 03/25/2011

In addition, you must file a written affidavit of objections to the petition, stating specific facts and grounds upon which the objection is based, within (30) days after the return day (or such other time as the court, on motion with notice to the petitioner, may allow) in accordance with Probate Rule 16.

WITNESS, Hon, Catherine P Sabaitis, First Justice of this Court.

Date: February 28, 2011

Robert E. McCarthyRegister of Probate

1D - March 9, ‘11

Any person wishing to comment on the applicant's proposal should appear at public hearing at the time and place noted above. Written comments may be submitted to the Board of Appeals, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332 no later than 7:30 p.m. on March 24, 2011. Any individual with a disability may request accommodation in order to participate in the public hearing and may re-quest the application and any accompanying materials in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to partici-pate in the public hearing should be made at least three business days in advance by contacting Danielle Brandon at (781) 934-1100, ext. 122.


Board of Appeals

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2D - March 9, 16, ‘11

NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S

SALE OFREAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale con-tained in a certain mortgage given by Cheryl Ann Crag-well and Melbourne E. Crag-well, II a/k/a Melbourne E. Cragwell to First Residential Mortgage--Louisville, dated June 20, 2003 and recorded with the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds at Book 25864, Page 105, of which


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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT

PLYMOUTHPROBATE AND


Suite 1130Plymouth, MA 02360

(508) 747-6204

NOTICE OFPETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL

Docket No. PL10P0776EA

To all persons interested in the Estate of David S Cutler, late of Duxbury, in the County of Plymouth.

A petition has been pre-sented to said Court by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. of Boston in the County of Suffolk, prays that Robert E. Fierman of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex as Executor of the Estate of David S Cutler, be ordered to retain liquid assets valued at $550,000.00 until such time as the loan by the Petitioner to the Decedent is paid in full.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appear-ance in said Court at Ply-mouth before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the twenty-ninth day of March 2011, the return day of this ci-tation.

Witness, Hon, Catherine P Sabaitis, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this first day of March 2011.

Robert E. McCarthyRegister

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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTSTHE TRIAL COURT

PLYMOUTHPROBATE AND


Suite 1130 Plymouth, MA 02360

(508) 747-6204

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR

PROBATE OF WILL

Docket No. PL11P0247EAIn the Estate of: E Jane SangerLate of: Duxbury, MA

02332Date of Death: 1/26/2011to all persons interested in

the above captioned estate, a

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TOWN OF DUXBURY

BOARDOF APPEALS


The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing in the Mural Room at Town Hall, 878 Tremont Street, on March 24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. to con-sider the application of Verc Realty Trust for an amend-ment to special permit 1997-18 under Article(s) 400, 600 and 900, Section(s) 401.2, 420, 422, 601 and 906.2 of the Duxbury Protec-tive Bylaw. The property is located at 5 Chestnut Street, Duxbury, MA, Parcel No. 190-772-045 of the Duxbury Assessors Map, consisting of 17,860 sq ft. in the Neighbor-hood Business District 2 and owned by Paul L. & Leo M. Vercollone TT, Duxbury, MA 02332. Special permit 1997-18 is the most recent amendment to the original special permit, 1981-1, which was further amended by 1982-5, 1992-19, and 1995-11. Applicant proposes to replace existing awnings with new color and wording. 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.

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TOWN OF DUXBURYBOARD OFAPPEALS


The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing in the Mural Room at Town Hall, 878 Tremont Street, on March 24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. to con-sider the application of Town of Duxbury Fire Department for a variance under Article(s) 400, 410 and 900, Section(s) 410.4 and 906.3 of the Dux-bury Protective Bylaw. The property is located at 668 Tre-mont Street, Parcel No. 150-503-040 of the Duxbury Assessors Map, consisting of 1.828 acres in the Residential Compatibility district and owned by Town of Duxbury, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332. The applicant proposes to remove an exist-ing 65 ft' radio tower and re-place it with a new 100' mi-crowave radio tower in an-other location on the property. A variance from the 35 ft. height limit is required. The application may be viewed in the Inspectional Services De-partment between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., or by appointment.

Any person wishing to comment on the applicant's proposal should appear at public hearing at the time and place noted above. Written comments may be submitted to the Board of Appeals, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332 no later than 7:30 p.m., March 24, 2011. Any individual with a disability may request accommodation in order to participate in the

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public hearing and may re-quest the application and any accompanying materials in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to partici-pate in the public hearing should be made at least three business days in advance by contacting Danielle Brandon at (781) 934-1100, ext. 122.


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petition has been presented requesting that a document purporting to be the last will and codicil of said decedent be proved and allowed and that

Noel S. Gearhart of Well-esley Hills, MA

Jodee P Bishop of North Falmouth, MA

be appointed executor/trix named in the will to serve Without Surety

IF YOU DESIRE TO OB-JECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN AP-PEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT: Plymouth ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORN-ING (10:00 AM) ON: 03/25/2011

In addition, you must file a written affidavit of objections to the petition, stating specific facts and grounds upon which the objection is based, within (30) days after the return day (or such other time as the court, on motion with notice to the petitioner, may allow) in accordance with Probate Rule 16.

WITNESS, Hon, Catherine P Sabaitis, First Justice of this Court.

Date: February 28, 2011

Robert E. McCarthyRegister of Probate

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Any person wishing to comment on the applicant's proposal should appear at public hearing at the time and place noted above. Written comments may be submitted to the Board of Appeals, 878 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA 02332 no later than 7:30 p.m. on March 24, 2011. Any individual with a disability may request accommodation in order to participate in the public hearing and may re-quest the application and any accompanying materials in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to partici-pate in the public hearing should be made at least three business days in advance by contacting Danielle Brandon at (781) 934-1100, ext. 122.


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NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S

SALE OFREAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale con-tained in a certain mortgage given by Cheryl Ann Crag-well and Melbourne E. Crag-well, II a/k/a Melbourne E. Cragwell to First Residential Mortgage--Louisville, dated June 20, 2003 and recorded with the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds at Book 25864, Page 105, of which

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mortgage CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the pur-pose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:00 a.m. on March 30, 2011, on the mortgaged prem-ises located at 6 Duxborough Trail, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises de-scribed in said mortgage,

TO WIT:A certain parcel of land

with improvements thereon known as 6 Duxborough Trail, situated in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachu-

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setts, bounded as follows: BEGINNING Southerly by

Temple Street, one hundred seventy eight and 23/100 (178.23) feet;

WESTERLY by Lot #6 on plan of land hereinafter men-tioned, two hundred one and 46/100 (201.46) feet,

NORTHEASTERLY by Halifax Country Club, Inc., two hundred ninety five and 76/100 (295.76) feet;

EASTERLY by Halifax Country Club, Inc., one hun-dred twelve (112) feet; and

SOUTHEASTERLY by the arc of a circle and in line of land of said Halifax Coun-try Club, Inc., forty three and 30/100 (43.30) feet;

Containing 40,094 square feet, more or less.

For mortgagor's(s') title see deed recorded with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 17790, Page 106.

These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restric-tions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all un-paid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encum-brances of record which are in force and are applicable, hav-ing priority over said mort-gage, whether or not refer-ence to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is

made in the deed.TERMS OF SALE:A deposit of Five Thou-

sand ($5,000.00 ) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Of-fices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachu-setts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the pur-chase price. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in

the event of an error in this publication.

Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.

CITIMORTGAGE,INC.

SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO ABN AMRO

MORTGAGE GROUP, INC.

Present holder of said mortgage

By itsAttorneys,

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