pembroke express 10-30-2009

By Becca Manning, express staff [email protected]

Voters will determine where tattoo studios should be allowed, consider bringing lights to the high school foot-ball field and decide where to spend the town’s second round of Community Preservation Act funding at the Nov. 3 spe-cial Town Meeting.

And they’ll do it all under new leadership.

Town Moderator Stephen Dodge will bring his own style to the podium as he takes over for John Walsh, who stepped down this spring after 59 years in the role.

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Changing of the guardNew moderator to oversee Nov. 3 special Town Meeting

Special Town MeetingTues., Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.

at Pembroke High School, 80 Learning Lane

Meeting preview:• Full warrant, 0-11• Interview with Stephen Dodge, Page 7• Tattoo bylaw, Page 28• ‘Peeping Tom’ bylaw, Page 1• CPA projects, Page 5• Employee contracts, Page 10• Habitat property, Page 27

HOOKED ON HALLOWEEN: CJ Perry, 8, tries a little pumpkin fishing at First Church of Pembroke’s annual Halloween Festival held Saturday, Oct. 24. See more photos on page 12.

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A Center Street resident is hoping to pass a bylaw prohib-iting people from video taping another person’s property.

The so-called “Peeping Tom” law would allow resi-dents to report this type of surveil lance to police and give officers a “legal right to send the person on his way,” accord-ing to John Abusheery, who proposed the bylaw to Select-man Arthur Boyle.

Video bylaw on tableResident wants ‘Peeping Tom’ rule to pass

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In first grade, Taylor Armstrong rooted for players as a football

cheerleader. Three years later, she’s

scoring touchdowns.Taylor, 10, is currently the

sole female football player in the Pembroke Youth Football and Cheerleading program. After a year of cheering on the sidelines, she focused on her other sports — soccer, base-

ball and basketball — before convincing her parents to let her try football.

“I just wanted to try ev-erything,” Taylor said of her reason for joining the football team. “Most of my friends that are on my team go to my school, so they know that I play a lot of sports, and they already know what I’m like.”

Taylor is a fourth grader at Bryantville Elementary School.

From sideline to goal lineFormer cheerleader now playing football with Mites

Taylor Armstrong


Planned algae treatments on Oldham Pond are a “no go,” according to the latest word from the state.

The Natural Heritage and En-dangered Species Program issued a decision on Oct. 22 about how planned copper sulfate treatments would im-pact a rare species of mussel that had been found living in the pond.

The state found that the use of copper sulfate to elim-inate a blue-green algae on the surface of the pond would

“result in short- and long-term adverse ef-

fects to the Eastern Pond Mussel” [pic-

tured at left] by interfering with the

invertebrates’ feeding, breed-ing and migratory behavior.

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The Pembroke Express is now ac-cepting nominations for the 2009 Citizen of the Year.

The Citizen of the Year is a person who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to serve our town and the larger commu-nity. The Citizen of the Year need not be a Pembroke resident if their contributions largely occurred in Pembroke. Conversely, the Citizen of the Year may be a Pembroke resident whose greatest contribution might have occurred outside the town’s border.

Nominees will be accepted for the next three weeks. We will select three finalists

and then choose one Citizen of the Year from among them. Nominations should include your name, any connection to the nominee and reasons why this person is special. Please be as specific as you can and include as much information as you know.

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New Eagle Scout joins ranks

Troop 105 Boy Scout Nicholas Joseph O’Melia

received his Eagle Award during an Eagle Court of Honor held Saturday, Oct. 17 at First Church. He is the troop’s 34th Scout to receive his Eagle Award. For his project, O’Melia enhanced Tubbs Meadow Preserve by installing a welcome sign, kiosk, four trail markers and three benches. He is the first of three Scouts scheduled to receive their Eagle award this fall.

Nick O’Melia stands by as he is introduced as a new Eagle Scout.

ABOVE: Taylor O’Melia, who received his Eagle Award in 2005, leads his brother in the Eagle Promise.

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Board of Health clerk Gail McSweeney is back in the of-fice after a dispute over her al-leged “oral resignation” was resolved last Monday. But McSweeney said she is still concerned about the security of her job now that the board must deal with an estimated $150,000 deficit in the solid waste budget.

On Monday, the Board of Health met with Town Accoun-tant Mike Buckley to discuss the anticipated deficit. The is-sue must be dealt with by the Nov. 3 special Town Meeting in order to balance the town’s 2010 budget.

This is the second consec-utive year in which the solid waste budget is at a deficit, Buckley said. Last year, the deficit was about $75,000.

Board of Health chairman Lisa Cullity said part of the problem was that the amount of trash dumped had increased while the value of recyclables had gone down. Another issue is the number of delinquent accounts.

“They have to do some-thing about it [the deficit],” Buckley said. “They have basically two options: Take in more money by raising the rates or reduce the budget by making cuts.”

McSweeney said when she had heard this week that the Board of Health might have to cut personnel to make up the budget gap, “I assumed it would be me.”

No cuts have been made yet.

Board member Scott Ma-cInnes also said he felt Mc-Sweeney’s position was in jeopardy.

“To effectively serve the public, the office needs two employees,” he said. “It does appear that the effort to re-move Mrs. McSweeney has not ended.”

McSweeney returned to work last week after the Board of Health voted in an Oct. 19 executive session not to accept her “oral resignation.” She has since taken two weeks of fam-ily medical leave, given to her during the executive session, to help her parents. Her father is undergoing open heart sur-gery this week.

McSweeney had left the Board of Health office on Sept. 14 after a disagreement

with board secretary Carol Mirotta over how her hours had been logged in the pay-roll. McSweeney said she told MacInnes, Health Agent Fred Leary, her union representa-tives and selectmen’s office secretary Diane Tobin that she was leaving.

She received a letter from Town Administrator Ed Thorne on Sept. 16 accepting her “oral resignation.”

But McSweeney claimed she did not resign.

“I reported [my leaving for the day] to five different peo-ple … and the only one who took it as a resignation was the selectmen’s office,” she said.

Previously, both Mc-Sweeney and MacInnes had requested the town pay for a third-party audit of the health department, including a com-plete forensic audit of all three computers.

The health department underwent an audit earlier this year, shortly after former Board of Health employee Maureen E. Wolter pled guilty in December to stealing about $28,000 in recycling center re-ceipts and destroying town re-cord books during a previous audit in April 2007.

Both Town Administrator Ed Thorne and Cullity have said they do not believe an-other audit is needed.

McSweeney said that when she was hired shortly after Wolter left she began to notice that some office paper-work was not being filed prop-erly.

“I’ve been bringing these concerns forward for the past year and a half,” she said.

MacInnes said he believed an audit could help with the department’s deficit problem.

“Some time back I ap-peared before the selectmen and requested an audit, and

they have fought me all the way. They don’t want to do it,” he said. “If a proper foren-sic audit had been done for all the computers and everything else … the solid waste deficit might not be as bad as it ap-pears to be.”

MacInnes has brought his concerns to the Brockton Dis-trict Attorney’s office but as of Tuesday had not yet heard back.

MacInnes was removed from the Board of Health chairmanship on Sept. 28 after Cullity said he had gotten “too emotional” and had made it clear he would not stop press-ing his concerns as long as he was chairman.

The Board of Health will meet on Monday, Nov. 2 to discuss the deficit and develop a plan to bring to voters at the special Town Meeting.

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Voters approved the below solid waste operating budget at the April 28 Town Meeting, but with expenses outpacing revenues, the department is facing an estimated $150,000 deficit this year. The board will be meeting with the town accountant on Monday to come up with a plan to balance the 2010 budget and will bring it to voters at the Nov. 3 special Town Meeting. The fund ended fiscal year 2009 with a negative balance of $76,853.

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Matthew Lewis, 27, of Whitman, was ar-rested on June 8, 2008 around 2:33 a.m. after he ran his vehicle off Church Street/Route 139 in Pembroke, hitting the curb and knocking off his right front wheel, according to police reports.

On Oct. 21, Lewis pled guilty to OUI sec-ond offense and negligent operation and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, suspended for two years. He also lost his license for two years and was ordered to pay a $250 fine. He was found not responsible for a marked lanes violation.

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break-in at a commercial prop-erty on Church Street.

1:23 p.m. Caller reported hit and run motor vehicle crash on Oak and Church streets.

1:55 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle crash with damage over $1,000 on Mill and Hobo-mock streets.

5:52 p.m. Caller reported do-mestic dispute on Mill Street.

11:11 p.m. Caller reported recreational vehicle complaint on Wildwood Road. Vehicle not found.

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noise complaint on Redwood Circle. Police restored peace.

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6:51 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle crash with damage under $1,000 on Oak Street.

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suspicious activity on Washing-ton Street.

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4:48 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle crash with damage over $1,000 on Church Street.

5:01 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle crash with damage under $1,000 on Corporate Park Drive.

8:00 p.m. Caller reported fraud on Claremont Road.

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incident on Taylor Street.12:55 p.m. Caller reported

vandalism on Mattakeesett St.

2:38 p.m. Caller reported lar-ceny on Church Street.

2:45 p.m. Caller reported trespassing on Mattakeesett Street. Perpetrator gone when po-lice arrived.

3:47 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle crash with damage over $1,000 on Church Street.

4:03 p.m. Caller reported forgery or counterfeiting on Cen-ter Street. Police arrested Jennifer Holt, 22, of Mattakeesett Avenue for receiving stolen property un-der $250, forgery of a check and uttering a falsely endorsed prom-issory note.

4:10 p.m. Caller reported vandalism at home on Mattakee-sett Street.

7:00 p.m. Caller reported sus-picious activity on Wampatuck and Oldham streets.

8:28 p.m. Caller reported suspicious activity on Pilgrim Road. Call unfounded.

9:41 p.m. Police stopped ve-hicle on Washington Street and arrested Tricia J. Dunlap, 26, of Halifax for operating a vehicle with a suspended license and operating a vehicle that does not meet RMV safety standards.

10:18 p.m. Caller reported lost or stolen license plate on Bishops Path.

WEDNESDAY, OCt. 217:21 a.m. Caller reported

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8:17 a.m. Caller reported ve-hicle break-in on Standish Street.

8:33 a.m. Caller reported vandalism at home on Elm Street. No police service necessary.

9:33 a.m. Caller reported vandalism at business on Matta-keesett Street.

11:08 a.m. Caller reported suspicious vehicle on Old Oak St.

2:10 p.m. Caller reported sus-picious activity on Pleasant St.

3:10 p.m. Caller reported threatening on Oak Street. No police service necessary.

5:55 p.m. Caller reported do-mestic dispute on Schoosett St.

tHurSDAY, OCt. 226:06 a.m. Caller reported

vandalism on Fairwood Drive.10:05 a.m. Caller reported

OUI complaint on Center Street. Vehicle not found.

3:15 p.m. Caller reported lar-ceny on Indian Trail.

4:52 p.m. Caller reported lar-ceny on Mattakeesett Street.

6:13 p.m. Caller reported dis-turbance on Hobomock Street.

6:41 p.m. Caller reported ve-hicle break-in on Corporate Park Drive.

7:58 p.m. Caller reported dis-turbance on Valley Street.

“There’s no ‘Peeping Tom’ law in this town,” Abusheery said. “A sexual predator can just stand off your property with a camera or a pair of binoculars and you can’t do anything about it, or a neighbor could put a cam-

era on your house and you can’t do anything.”

A b u s h -eery said he p r o p o s e d

the bylaw to help protect the community, in particular women and children.

“We have Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders living in our town, right around the corner from the school,” he said. “We’re protecting ev-erybody.”

Abusheery suggested Boyle look at Marshfield’s

“peeping Tom” law to draw up a plan for Pembroke, which he did.

Boyle said he agreed that the bylaw would be a good idea for Pembroke.

“If you want to have sur-veillance on your own prop-erty, that’s your own right, but if you’re crowding in on somebody else’s property next door or you’re filming their comings and goings, that’s a problem,” Boyle said.

The bylaw would pro-hibit private surveillance equipment aimed to include a neighbor’s property as well as equipment used on a public street, exempting law enforcement officials and li-censed investigators. Anyone violating the law would be fined $50 per day.

“We’re giving the po-lice department more muscle

when it comes to people who are taping somebody or casing your house or your children,” Abusheery said. “We’re try-ing to protect people. We’re trying to make things more livable.”

Selectmen support this article, but the Advisory Committee had reservations about it.

The committee ques-tioned whether the law would limit video activity that could be positive — such as a good Samaritan catching criminal activity on tape.

We felt that the bylaw was just way too restrictive,” Advisory chairman Matt Mc-Neilly said. “Granted, we don’t want people peeping in each other’s windows with their surveillance equipment, but we didn’t feel good about this bylaw.”

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Deadline to register to vote in state primary is Nov. 18

Town Clerk Mary Ann Smith reminds residents that Wednesday, Nov. 18 is the last day to register to vote in the special state primary, which is scheduled for Dec. 8. The of-fice will be open until 8 p.m. that night for voter registration only. Also, the last day to register to vote in the Jan. 19 spe-cial state election is Dec. 30. Again, hours will be extended that day for voter registration. For more information, call the town clerk’s office at 781-293-7211.

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Residents can now pay their water bills online at pembroke-ma.gov/onlinepayments.html. The latest water bills are due Nov. 20, with a late fee of $5 added as of Nov. 21. Residents should have bank information and an e-mail address to re-ceive payment verification. For information, call the collector’s office at 781-293-2671.




Affordable housing pro-ponents hope voters have a change of heart the second time around.

Last fall, special Town Meeting voters rejected both of the affordable housing proj-

ects brought forward for Communi ty Preservation Act funding — a Hous-ing Authority

request of $35,000 to install automatic door operators at se-nior housing complexes and an Affordable Housing Commit-tee request of $20,000 for an affordable housing consultant.

Both projects are back this fall, along with a new slate of historical projects — which voters appeared to have no problems with last year.

“It was the first year that it was done, and there were a lot of people that were misin-formed as far as understanding what the CPA really does, the different categories,” Com-munity Preservation Commit-tee chairman Mark Ames said. “The way it was worded in the warrant, it came out as if it [the consultant] were a town position, and people reacted to that and rejected that, but also the electric door openers.”

CPA funding comes from a 1 percent surcharge on prop-erty taxes and comes with a state match — currently about 35 percent, Ames said. Of the money pulled in each year, 10 percent must go into each of three categories: histori-cal, open space and affordable housing. If the 10 percent is not spent one year, it is car-ried over to another year, but still must go toward that type of project.

On Nov. 3, the Housing Authority will be back re-questing $46,000 to install 17 automatic door operators in community areas and on a few handicapped senior apart-ments at MacDonald Way and Kilcommons Drive.

Housing Authority Board member Hank Daggett said the Housing Authority does its best to maintain its buildings with a limited budget, receiv-ing no state or local aid and a limited amount of federal funding. Most of its budget comes from its renters.

“Everybody else got ex-actly what they wanted, so it’s almost like they [voters] were prejudiced against housing,” Daggett said.

The Affordable Housing Committee is back requesting $20,000 for a contract consul-tant to document and track af-fordable housing units in Pem-broke. The consultant would help monitor existing units,

checking to make sure that apartments listed as “afford-able” are truly being rented out at affordable prices, com-mittee chairman Hilary Wil-son said.

Marshfield has two part-time people who do this kind of work and are paid for every year out of CPA funds, Wilson said. The people do not receive benefits and are not considered regular town employees.

The consultant would help “not only to maintain that which we have but also to grow it in a reasonable, sys-tematic approach — so we’re not slammed by these 40Bs,” he said.

Both projects are sup-ported by selectmen and by the Community Preservation Committee.

The Advisory Committee supports the consultant but does not support automatic door openers, concerned that some would be placed on pri-vate apartments rather than common areas, chairman Matt McNeilly said.

Also up for CPA funding on Nov. 3:

• $20,000 to continue ren-ovating The Friends Meeting House at the corner of Route 53 and 139. The building, which is maintained by the Pembroke Historical Society, received $30,000 last year. That project is a little over two-thirds done, trustee Libby Bates said. Money requested this year would be used to re-place the roof.

“That should pretty well bring the building back to where it was in 1988, when we did the last big restoration, and put it in good shape for years

to come,” Bates said.• $18,000 to purchase an

HVAC system with dehumidi-fier to protect artifacts and documents kept at the Histori-cal Society Museum

• $25,000 to remove vinyl siding and replace clapboard and other repairs at the Lydia Drake Library on High Street

• $25,000 to replace clap-board and paint the exterior of the Ladies Sewing Cir-cle building owned by First Church

• $7,500 to replace the roof and reflash the chimney on the East Pembroke Community Club building on Taylor Street

• And $10,000 to obtain a conservation deed restriction for the “Andruk Bog” property on Mattakeesett Street, which was previously purchased through a combination of CPA funds and grant money. The town will have to hire an out-side organization, such as the Wildlands Trust, to file the deed restriction and to inspect the property every year for perpetuity to be sure it is being kept in conservation.

Selectmen and the Com-munity Preservation Commit-tee have supported all five his-torical projects and the deed restriction (considered open space). Advisory supports all projects except for the build-ings owned by First Church and the community club.

“The committee felt that we shouldn’t be putting tax-payer funding into a building not owned by the town,” Mc-Neilly said.

As they were last year, the eight CPA recommendations are part of one article but will be voted on separately.

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Youth group raking leavesLeaves got you down? Get some help from a group of high

school students and adults from First Church raising money to help fund their mission trip to West Virginia next June. They will be raking yards during the month of November. Cost is $3 per bag. If they need to haul the leaves to the recycling center, there is an extra $10 charge. The group can rake a whole yard or residents can set a dollar limit. For more information or to reserve a spot, call Barbara at 781-826-0617.


That same Thursday, after ➢working a night shift, Teresa Walker came home, got a few hours of sleep, had her sched-uled flu shot and at 2 p.m. drove to New York to attend her son’s music recital. Teresa arrived at the John C. Border Auditorium, at the Manhattan School of Music, just minutes before the start of the performance at 7:30 p.m. Her son, Austin Walker, who plays the drums and other percussion instruments, is a member of the school’s con-cert jazz band and is a student in the master’s program there. Teresa stayed with her son overnight, but the next morning after breakfast she was up and on the road again so as not to miss work that day. I guess that is what you call motherly love.

The Mattakeesett Garden ➢Club of Pembroke welcomed a new member at the October meeting. Carol Metcalf was interested in the composition of the fall containers that were made that evening for the mem-bers of the garden club at the Gardeners’ Choice Nursery as part of the program. Carol vol-unteered on the spot to join the hospitality committee to help coordinate the refreshments for all of the club’s meetings throughout the year.

Scouting for Food 2009 ➢will be underway soon. Plastic bags will be placed on mailbox-es on Saturday, Nov. 7. Bags will be picked up on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to noon. For those of you who will be out and about on the 14th, you may drop your food donations off at the community center. Monetary donations are always welcome, and checks should be made payable to Pembroke Food Pantry. Scouts also will be collecting any worn, dam-aged, or dirty flags so they can be retired properly. Food drive participants include Girl Scouts of Pembroke, Cub Scouts Packs 43 and 105, Boy Scout Troops 43 and 105 and Venturing Crew 72. If you have any food drive-related questions, call David Shea at 781-248-7465 or e-mail [email protected].

On your next trip to the ➢Pembroke Public Library, be sure to ask about three spe-cial books. The book titles are: “Mayflower Grove” ($15);

“Bryantville” ($20); and “My Short Stories of Pembroke” ($10). All three books were written by local author Roger Anttila and are on sale at the library now. They would make wonderful Christmas gifts, and, with each book purchased, $5 will go to the library.

And talking about Christ- ➢mas, 350 Christmas trees will arrive from Quebec on Nov. 28, along with 100 double-sided balsam wreaths for the Kiwanis Club’s annual sale. Club presi-dent Bill Hussey is planning the event and said all proceeds go to the Pembroke Kiwanis

Scholarship Fund. Melissa Suckow, a member of the Key Club at Pembroke High School, is at work coordinating all of the students who will help with the sale. The sale will take place at Reed Hollow Barn weekends starting on Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and weekdays from 3-8 p.m. For information, call Jen Smith at 781-294-7063.

Private First Class ➢ Samuel G. Pomodoro and Private Mat-thew A. Callahan both graduat-ed from the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on Oct. 16. Pomodoro and Cal-lahan successfully completed 13 weeks of the intensive basic training at MCRD Parris Island as two of 65 recruits in Train-ing Platoon 1076. While in ba-sic training, Pomodoro earned rank from Private to Private First Class and Callahan earned Sharpshooter during firing drills. Following 10 days home on leave, both men will report to Camp Le Jeune for two months at Infantry Training Battalion. There they will receive their orders for a permanent duty sta-tion. Family and friends of both Marines are proud of their ac-complishments.

A week ago Thursday, John and I took the day off, something we don’t often do. We left early

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Get Out! doesn’t often suggest that you get out and do something important. Sometimes I recommend where to see a band or where to grab a bite to eat.

This week, however, I’m recommending you do something that can tangibly change the future of your town. Special Town

Meeting will be taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the high school auditorium. As the state and nation con-tinue to be mired in a woeful economic climate, tough decisions have to be made at all levels of government. For those who haven’t attended Town Meeting in the past, it is one of the most democratic processes still around. Essentially, you have several townspeople listening to the different articles on the meeting war-rant and voting on them. The Advisory Committee, which has spent months

reviewing the articles, gives their opinion as do the selectmen, but ultimately the town’s residents make the decision. Without actually attending the meeting, it’s impossible to understand what led to the decisions that were made. For many of the articles, there are opponents and proponents that offer up their reasoning before a final vote is taken.

A man that knows a thing or two about the importance of Town Meeting is our newly elected town moderator, Stephen Dodge. Dodge, who has been attending meetings for 40 years, is taking over for John Walsh, who was moderator for 59 years.

“I started going when I was 10 years old because my father was a member of the Finance Committee (now known as the Advisory Com-mittee) and I wanted to hear him talk,” Dodge says. Now, Dodge is replacing his friend Walsh and is looking forward to it. “There are big shoes to fill be-cause 59 years is a long run. I’m excited and a little anxious. I don’t think there will be any wholesale changes, but there will be some minor ones. It will be fairly similar to what they’ve seen in the past.”

As for why it’s important that people take part, Dodge of-fers up a number of reasons and says that watching democracy in action at town meetings reminds him of the Norman Rock-well painting titled “Freedom of Speech.”

“It’s really where the rubber hits the road and where all the major decisions in town are made. How much is being spent, bylaw changes, things that really impact the town. It is democ-racy in its purest form. It’s not a debating society or a forum

but a way to conduct business, and that can be a delicate balance as a mod-erator.”

One of the challenges that many towns face is finding ways to increase turnout. A quorum of 150 people is required and can be difficult to maintain after the town’s budget items are voted on. It’s especially hard to muster a quorum if the meet-ing rolls into a second night. A few years back, changes were made so that the articles were chosen by a lottery system to ensure that people would stay the duration. Dodge said that when he was running for moderator, his opponent, Paul Dwyer, proposed the idea of having high school students have a baby-sitting area set up so that parents with young ones could drop off their kids and attend. “I thought that was a good idea, and I’d like to see that adopted,” Dodge says.

Dodge also wants to stress that as long as there’s a quorum at 7:30 p.m., he will be starting right away with a recognition ceremony for five Eagle Scouts followed by the Pledge of Alle-giance. “We have a lot of business to attend to, and I want this run as efficiently as possible so that people will be more apt to attend future meetings,” he says.

Odds and Ends: Jimmy Burke, the owner and chef of Orta Ristorante will be hosting a fundraiser for the Scituate Animal Shelter called “Fresh from Italy” on Sunday, Nov. 1 from 1-4 p.m. The event will include hors d’oeuvres, Italian cuisine, fine wines and desserts as well as a silent auction, door prizes and a culinary Q&A session with Burke. Tickets for the event are $50. Orta is located at 75 Washington Street.

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Pembroke Youth Baseball registrationWalk-in registration for the Pembroke

Youth Baseball spring 2010 season, includ-ing the Babe Ruth Division, will take place on Nov. 17 and Nov. 19 from 7-9 p.m. at the commu-nity center. New players must show birth certificate at the reg-istration. 2010 fees and age/grade eligibilities include: T-Ball, $110, open to kids age 6 by April 30 or in kindergarten; Rookie-7, $110, open to kids age 7 by April 30 or in first grade; AA, $110,

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On the Mites team, made up mostly of fellow fourth grad-ers, she plays the position of running back.

“She’s been asking me for three years,” Taylor’s mom Sharla said, “and I didn’t want her playing. This year my hus-band said, ‘Just let her play for one year before she gets too old and they’re too big.’”

She agreed.Dad David is assistant

coach of Taylor’s Mites team. “I love it,” he said of

watching his daughter play football. “I wanted to see how well she could play and she’s probably one of the best on the team.”

Mites coach Bobby Brooks also calls Taylor a “solid” first-year football player. She is the first female player Brooks has coached during his four years of coaching that age level, and the second female player to participate in Pembroke Youth Football.

“At first it was a little dif-ferent for me because I was sort of keeping an eye on her,” said Brooks, who is the presi-dent of the Pembroke Youth Football and Cheerleading program. “But after the first week of practice she was just like any other football player. She’s not treated any differ-ently by her teammates or by her coaches. She does a really good job — she’s already made a couple of touchdowns.”

Getting a female foot-ball player is a little unusual, Brooks admits.

“But we don’t deter,” he said.

“When her parents came up to us during the sign-ups and asked us what we thought, I said ‘It’s not what we think; it’s up to you. If you think she can handle it, you make that determination,’” he said. “We really put it in the parents’ hands. Any kid can do it if

they’re physical enough, be-cause it is a contact sport, and she definitely fits that bill.”

Taylor’s efforts are already encouraging other girls to try out for the team, Brooks said.

“We’ve got an eight-year-old who has seen her play and has said she’s interested in playing next year,” he said.

The Mites are currently 3-4 on the season. They have one more regular season game scheduled next week in Hull and then will move on to the playoffs in early November.

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and Cheerleading is part of the Old Colony Youth Football League, which includes 22 South Shore towns.

If the Mites make it through the playoffs, they could com-pete in the Division IV youth football super bowl, which Pembroke will host this year.

As for whether Taylor will stay with football, both she and her parents say they’re not sure.

Mom’s a little worried about her daughter going up against bigger opponents.

“Next year would be dif-ferent because she’d be going into a different level where she’d be the youngest,” Sharla Armstrong said. “Next year she would be in fifth grade with the sixth graders, and the boys start getting bigger and wider and heavier.”

Taylor, too, isn’t sure about next year — but not necessar-ily because of her size. She’s just ready to try something new.

“I want to try out for the fifth grade girls travel soccer team,” she said, adding that la-crosse and ice hockey are also on her list of things to try.

Meanwhile, Taylor said she is enjoying her favorite part of playing football: Scor-ing touchdowns.

And so is her dad.“I love watching her,” Da-

vid Armstrong said, smiling. “She’s definitely an athlete.”

From sidelines to goal linecontinued from page one

Mites running back Taylor Armstrong, 10, carries the ball during a game earlier this season. Armstrong is the only female football player currently participating in Pembroke Youth Football and the second in the organization’s five-year history, according to presi-dent Bobby Brooks. Photos courtesy of Deborah Griffin

Taylor Armstrong hands the ball off to teammate Nick Lane at a game earlier this season.



By karen proctor, express coluMnist [email protected]

In keeping with this spooky season, I thought I might tell some tales from beyond the realm of our five senses — a kind of “Twilight Zone,” if you will, of

Pembroke’s historical past. Two of these stories come from my own experiences; the last comes from the prolific pen of Curt Norris, chronicler of South Shore history.

Like other ancient New England towns, Pembroke has its share of things that go bump in the night. There is one house in town where a ghostly being can be heard, usually when there are guests present, walking with a thump and a drag cadence.

Frequently, while sit-ting in the living room this odd gait can be heard in the room di-rectly overhead — but

always when there is no one else upstairs. While researching the history of the house and who the uninvited visitor might be, I came across a picture of the man who had built the house over 100 years ago. He was seated and behind him, against the wall, was a crutch — could this have something to do with the peculiar footsteps?

In another house in town, adult children reported seeing a ghostly figure standing by the window of one bedroom, look-ing up and outside. Again, I did some research and, again, I found a picture of one of the early inhabitants of the house in the exact same pose — coincidence? Perhaps.

Finally, Curt Norris writes of his experiences growing up on Brick Kiln Lane. Known to him as the “tapping apparition of Brick Kiln Lane,” he wrote that he was not exactly sure when he became aware of the strange presence. The being usu-ally appeared as a small shadow moving over the surface of the lane while making a series of loud taps, similar to those that would be made by a person with a wooden leg — tap (pause), tap (pause). The taps began at the end of the lane, near the river, faintly at first, then louder and louder until they began to fade away again. The story was that one ship builder in particu-lar — Barker Turner — had run the Brick Kiln Shipyard and he had a wooden leg.

It was many years after Mr. Norris had left Brick Kiln Lane that he mentioned the sounds to his sister, who quickly con-fessed that she had heard the sounds too and had spend many a night terrified. I wonder if these night sounds continue to this day.

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Congratulations to Dottie and Scott MacIness, Chuck Crossley, George Migre, Rick Wall, Fred Doyle, Carol Reed and Otis Hathon for correctly identifying this week’s picture as the Howland Tomb on Mattakeesett Street. It was recently restored by Patrick Wall of Bryantville Boy Scout Troop 43 as his Eagle Scout project. Today, the tomb is empty — so, you ask, are its former inhabitants still walking among us? Well. Maybe … but in reality, the remains were moved to the Center Cemetery because of a vandalism problem years ago. Photo courtesy of Pembroke Historical Society

Ghost townPACK MAC: Cub Scout Pack 105 [above] collected boxes of macaroni and cheese to donate to the Pembroke Food Pantry at their October meeting. Meanwhile, Pack 43 collected soap and shampoo at their meeting this month. Both packs are planning to collect items at each meeting this year to help out local residents. For Pack 105’s November meeting, they will be collecting Thanksgiving-related foods. The community will have a chance to help the Scouts help others through the collaborative Scouting for Food drive, coming up next month. Bags will be put out on Nov. 7 and will be collected on Nov. 14. Photo courtesy of Dave Shea

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The special Town Meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in

the auditorium at Pembroke High School, 80 Learning Lane. The warrant includes a total of 27 articles.

ArtiClE 1Article 1 authorizes the

town to borrow a total of $315,000 to pay for capital equipment purchases and up-grades, including: a heating system for the fire department headquarters ($35,000); two vehicles for the police de-partment ($75,000); repairs to the Town Hall portico roof ($15,000); a roof-top a/c unit and water heater for the li-brary ($20,000); and a road-side mower and street signs for the Department of Public Works ($170,000). This article requires a two-thirds vote. Se-lectmen support this article. Advisory Committee recom-mends it be discussed on Town Meeting floor because final numbers were not available at the time the warrant was printed.

ArtiClE 2Article 2 transfers money

to cover unpaid bills from previous fiscal years. There are currently no unpaid bills, according to Town Adminis-trator Ed Thorne. This article requires a nine-tenths vote. Se-lectmen recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advisory does not sup-port this article because there are no unpaid bills.


to pay for shortfalls within the current budget, including $23,063 for fire department overtime and $28,320 for elec-tions. The Dec. 8 state primary and Jan. 19 state election, re-quired as a result of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death, were not in-cluded in the town clerk’s bud-get for this year and require costs of hiring poll workers, registrars, office staff and po-lice details as well as equip-ment and other expenses, ac-cording to Town Clerk Mary Ann Smith. Selectmen and Advisory both support this ar-ticle.


within the current budget to fund new collective bargaining agreements for police, cleri-cal and Department of Pub-lic Works employee unions. See related story at top right. Selectmen recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advisory does not support this article.

ArtiClE 5Article 5 allows the town

to set the salaries and wages of town employees that are not part of the collective bargaining agreement or employed by the School Committee. It includes a 1.5 percent increase over last year’s salaries. Thorne said the town previously has approved anywhere from a 0 to 5 percent increase in employee salaries. Of the 1.5 percent recommen-dation, Thorne said, “It’s basi-cally what we could afford.” Selectmen support this article. Advisory does not support this article as they also do not sup-port a 1.5 percent raise for union employees.

ArtiClE 6Article 6 transfers

$157,775 (as of Monday) from the town’s “free cash” to fund separation pay benefits for town employee who retire or leave the service of the town. Selectmen recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advisory does not support this article be-cause final numbers were not available at the time the war-rant was printed.


from surplus revenue or other available funds — known as “free cash” — to allow the town to submit a balanced 2010 budget to the state for approval. Currently, areas within the budget are in defi-cit by a total of $746,224, in-cluding snow and ice expenses totaling $621,855 over what was budgeted for last winter, and a drop in estimated “new growth” tax revenue.

As of Monday, Thorne said he anticipated a total of

$1,240,000 in “free cash” for the town. Free cash also will be used to pay for the cut in state aid made in June and to fund other articles in the spe-cial Town Meeting warrant. Selectmen recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advisory sup-ports this article.

ArtiClE 8Article 8 transfers surplus

money into the town’s stabili-zation or “rainy day” fund to be saved for future uses. As of Monday, officials were recom-mending a total of $25,000 be transferred into this fund from free cash. Pembroke currently has about $616,000 in its sta-bilization fund, according to Town Accountant Mike Buck-ley. This article requires a two-thirds vote. Selectmen and Ad-visory both recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor.


town to borrow up to $200,000 through a program that fa-cilitates low-interest loans for residents to repair, replace or upgrade their septic systems to meet state and federal require-ments. Through the program, which is administered locally by the Old Colony Planning Council, homeowners can ob-tain loans from the state De-partment of Environmental Protection’s Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust to allow them to make necessary upgrades. Property owners are responsible for re-paying all project and financ-ing costs. The town has been participating in this program since about 1996. This article requires a two-thirds vote. Selectmen and Advisory both

support this article.

ArtiClE 10Article 10 authorizes

$7,900 to be spent on geo-graphic information system software for the town. Fund-ing would come from surplus money set aside by the Board of Assessors to grant abate-ments. The board is in the pro-cess of having the town’s par-cel maps digitized — they are currently only available in pa-per form. It is the final part of the digitization process; previ-ously, voters allocated about $30,000 for other aspects of the project.

“It allows me to go through all the properties in town in map format to review and check things for data quality

to try to maintain accurate re-cords,” Chief Assessor Cathy Salmon said. “If there’s any new growth out there, we can see that much easier.”

The digital maps show lot lines as well as a basic satel-lite view of properties, similar to Web sites such as Google Earth. The digital maps will be updated regularly to re-flect changes to the properties, Salmon said.

“There are thousands of properties in town,” she said. “We get to as many as we can, but this allows us to keep the data intact and identify things that we might not have time to get to physically but can see on the maps.”

The assessors’ office still will keep paper versions of the maps for people to review, Salmon said.

“Some towns have a lot more GIS capabilities than even this will have for us,” she said. “But it’s a start.”

Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.


$21,810.85 the town received through a class action law-suit against petroleum com-panies that used the chemical methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as a gasoline addi-tive into a special stabilization fund. Pembroke participated in the suit along with several other communities because MTBE was found in some local wells, though officials have said it is not currently a problem. The town previously received a total share of more than $760,000 from other set-tlements, with some suits still pending. The money could be used for future water issues, though it has not been desig-nated for a specific use.

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On Monday, selectmen approved three separate one-year contracts that included a 1.5 percent raise for town police officers, clerical staff and Department of Public Works em-ployees.

The contracts included other language changes, among them that employees would take on an additional 1 percent of their health insurance costs.

“There’s a short-term cost to the town, but there’s another long-term gain on the insurance,” Board of Selectmen chair-man Arthur Boyle said.

Negotiations had been underway for about a year. The town is still negotiating a contract with the local firefighters union.

Though selectmen unanimously supported the benefits laid out in these union contracts, the Advisory Committee has voted not to sup-port this article.

“It’s strictly finances,” Advisory chairman Matt McNeilly said.

The 1.5 percent increase would cost the town approximately $40,000 more in union

employee salaries. And because the percent-age increase set for unions is typically car-ried over to non-union town employees, this change would cost the town an additional $28,700, McNeilly said.

“Advisory was basically against giving any salary increase this year,” he said. “Our concern now is to preserve the present jobs knowing we’ve got a big cut coming from the

governor down the line.” Selectman Don Anderson said

Monday that the decision to ap-prove a 1.5 percent raise was not done without reservations but that it was an amount both the town and the union employees could live with.

“The town’s going to be affected [by the economy] and there’s going to be poten-tial layoffs going into the next year or two,” Anderson said. “We need to make sure that the people that are still here can afford their health insurance and can still afford to pay their mortgages and can continue to shoulder more and more services that we’re going to ask them to do.”

Selectmen OK 1.5 percent raise

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This article requires a two-thirds vote. Selectmen and Advisory both support this ar-ticle.


$10,947 from free cash to pay the salary of the assistant to the recreation director. Last spring, officials discovered the town could not use the recre-ation department’s revolving account to pay an employee’s salary directly, Thorne said. The current budget includes only $22,000 for the position from the general fund, so this transfer would allow the town to fully fund the salary.

However, this article may not be needed because of a change in recreation depart-ment staffing due to director Pam Rowell’s death, Advisory chairman Matt McNeilly said.

Selectmen support this ar-ticle. Advisory does not sup-port this article.


the town to take over main-tenance and care of Edward Road and Rebecca Road, part of the Cranberry Meadows residential development. Res-idents on unaccepted roads must maintain these streets (including snow and ice re-moval) by hiring a contractor or doing the work themselves. Each new project must meet Planning Board specifications before the board will recom-mend a roadway for accep-tance. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.


town to take over maintenance and care of Deerfield Lane and Great Rock Road, part of the Deerfield Farm residential development. See explanation for Article 13. Selectmen and Advisory both support this ar-ticle.


town to take over maintenance and care of Pratt Farm Lane. See explanation for Article 13. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.

ArtiClE 16Article 16 adds a section

to Pembroke’s zoning bylaws that regulates the location of body art establishments. See related story on page 28. Se-lectmen and Advisory both recommend this article be dis-cussed on Town Meeting floor.

ArtiClE 17Article 17 changes the

town’s zoning bylaws by au-thorizing building inspectors to grant permits for tempo-rary and permanent signs in town. Currently, applications are reviewed by the inspectors

and then passed on with the inspectors’ recommendation to the Board of Selectmen for final approval. This article is the first step in a plan to revise the town’s sign bylaws, with additional amendments pos-sibly coming before voters at the annual Town Meeting in May, according to Assistant Building Inspector Tony Ma-rino. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.

ArtiClE 18Article 18 appropriates

money raised through the town’s 1 percent Community Preservation Act surcharge on property taxes to fund a series of historical, affordable hous-ing and open space projects as recommended by the Com-munity Preservation Commit-tee. This article includes eight recommendations that will be discussed at the same time but voted on separately. This is the second time the town has approved a list of CPA proj-ects. See related story on 5. Selectmen support all eight recommendations. Advisory supports four of the recom-mendations and does not sup-port four others.


Board of Selectmen and the Conservation Commission to enter into a lease agreement with T-Mobile to build and operate a cell phone tower and fenced-in equipment pad on the Birch Street Park property, in the woods behind the base-ball field. The company has applied for a special permit from the Zoning Board of Ap-peals. The lease is for about $30,000 per year. Selectmen support this article. Advisory does not support this article because final numbers were not available at the time the warrant was printed.


$200,000 from water revenues to pay for repairs to the West Elm Street water tank. This project will return the tank’s exterior coating back to its original condition, according to DPW officials. Selectmen support this article. Advisory recommends this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor.


the town to borrow up to $120,000 to install six lights at the Pembroke High School turf field. The lights would al-low the PHS football team and others to play on the field at night and would allow more groups to schedule time on the field, bringing in money. The money would be bor-rowed initially and paid back with these revenues. The rec-reation department would take over management of the field, giving high school teams and

nonprofit youth sports first and second priority and would ensure the annual bond pay-ments (between $12,000 and $15,000 per year) were met, according to Recreation Com-mission chairman Greg Han-ley. The project would be a partnership between the town and local business people, who have agreed to do the work with reduced-cost and donated labor and materials. The School Committee and Recreation Commission have both approved this plan. This article requires a two-thirds vote. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.

ArtiClE 22Article 22 concerns the

town’s solid waste budget and will include a vote either to re-duce that budget or to transfer money from the general fund to cover solid waste expens-es. Currently, the solid waste budget is operating at about a $150,000 deficit, according to Town Accountant Mike Buck-ley. Last year, the fund ended with a negative balance of $76,853.

Late or delinquent pay-ments on trash bills are part of the problem, Buckley said. The money eventually comes in through property tax liens but until then leaves a gap in the budget.

In addition, the amount of trash the department has had to deal with has increased, along with expenses, and the value of some recyclables has decreased, Board of Health chairman Cullity said. Though the town receives money for some of its recyclables, there are still expenses associated with recycling, such as paying to have the materials shipped out and staffing the recycling center.

“We run this account very, very lean,” Cullity said. “We don’t add in anything. We keep it exactly to what we think the budget is going to be.”

But with rates set almost a year and a half in advance, officials did not anticipate the increase in use or the slow economy that has made it hard for some residents to pay their bills on time.

The solution to the solid waste budget problems could be a combination of steps, including a possible rate in-crease for residents next year, Cullity said. The Board of Health also could be looking at a change in service such as reducing recycling center hours, personnel or other cuts to help account for the chang-ing market and growing needs of the town.

The board will meet Nov. 2 to formulate a plan to bring to voters.

Selectmen and Advisory both recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor.

ArtiClE 23Article 23 amends the

town’s employee compensa-tion bylaw by increasing the amount of longevity benefits paid to full-time non-union employees and also allow-ing non-union part-time em-ployees who work 20 hours or more per week to be eli-gible for these benefits on a pro-rated basis. This change would affect 11 full-time and two part-time employees and bring these benefits in line with those offered to union employees. Selectmen recom-mend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advi-sory does not support this ar-ticle. “This is the not the time, we feel, to be giving compen-sation increases,” Advisory chairman Matt McNeilly said.

ArtiClE 24Article 24 allows the Board

of Selectmen to sell a one-acre parcel of town-owned land on Pelham Street to a non-profit organization, such as Habitat for Humanity, to construct one affordable home on this lot. Affordable Housing Commit-tee chairman Hilary Wilson has been working with Habitat to locate an appropriate area in Pembroke for one of their housing projects. See related story on page 27. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.

ArtiClE 25Article 25 adds a section

to the town bylaws regulating video surveillance of private property. See related story on 1. Selectmen recommend this article be discussed on Town Meeting floor. Advisory does not support this article.


town to borrow up to $806,342 to complete the baseball fields and recreational development on Mattakeesett Street with lighting, bleachers, a paved parking lot and driveway area, sidewalks and handicapped ac-cessibility. The authorization is required in order for the town to be eligible for a state grant, which Thorne applied for ear-lier this year. The grant could provide up to $500,000 for the project. Thorne has proposed that the remaining $300,000 for the project be paid for through a lease with T-Mobile to build and operate a cell phone tower on town-owned property next to Birch Street Park (see Arti-cle 19). Selectmen support this article. Advisory recommends it be discussed on Town Meet-ing floor because final numbers were not available at the time the warrant was printed.


town to transfer $95,000 left over from the renovation of Pembroke High School (mon-ey appropriated at the Dec. 1, 1998 special Town Meeting) for the final payment for con-struction of North Pembroke Elementary School. Selectmen and Advisory both support this article.

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ARTICLE 21 would authorize the town to borrow up to $120,000 to install six stadium lights at the Pembroke High School turf field. The project has sup-port from selectmen, Advisory, the School Committee and Recreation Commission as well as promises from businesses for donated and reduced-cost equipment and labor.


Halloween fest at First Church

Leah Twigg, Kimberly Hickey and Kristin Callahan, all nine years old, enjoy themselves at the Halloween Festival.

Three-year-old Grace York, 3, shows off her boo-tiful face paint and decorated bag at First Church’s annual Halloween Festival on Saturday, Oct. 24.

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Emma Lapierre, 2, of Plymouth is all dressed up in her Halloween costume at the church festival.

Jack Tosone, 4, works his way through a doughnut in one of the games at First Church’s annual Halloween Festival on Saturday, Oct. 24.

Shane Pike, 3, enjoys himself at the festival.

Peter Kulik, 4, tastes a Halloween cupcake he decorated at one of the tables.

Kristian Daws 9, pauses for a photo with his sisters, Julia Drummond, 3, and Ellie

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Catherine Ventura dressed up as a cheerleader for the Halloween Festival.

Hunter Logan, 4, stands behind brother Jack Logan, 2, who is fishing for pump-kins.



Friday, Oct. 30Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; card crafting class, 10:30 a.m. ($2 per class); games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

Halloween Story Time. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Children invited to dress in costumes, hear songs and stories about Halloween and enjoy a craft. Registration required. Stop by the youth services desk or call 781-293-6771.

Saturday, Oct. 31Class of 2011 Car Wash. 9 a.m.-noon, in front of community center. Fundraiser to benefit Pembroke High School Class of 2011. Rescheduled from last weekend.

Learn to Skate Registration. 9:45-11:30 a.m., at Hobomock Arena. Register for next eight-week session of skating lessons, which starts Nov. 4 from 5:30-6:20 p.m. Cost is $135 (plus $12 annual USFS registration fee for new students). Registration also available any Monday, Wednesday or Friday afternoon before the start date. For information, call 781-294-7575, or visit pilgrimskatingclub.com.

Irish Step Dancing Class. 10-11 a.m., at the community center, 128 Center St. Children in preschool up through high school are invited to join a local class taught by instructors from The Forbes School of Irish Step Dancing in Quincy. Call AnnMarie Hanley at 781-293-6543.

Sunday, nOv. 1North River Community Church. 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday services. Located at 334 Old Oak St., Pembroke.

Pastels for the Pantry. 1-3 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Bring an item for the Pembroke Food Pantry and celebrate the opening of a new art exhibit. 30 percent of all art sales benefit the food pantry.

MOnday, nOv. 2November Registration Begins. At the Pembroke Public Library. Sign up for story times and other activities planned in November. For information, visit pembrokepubliclibrary.org or call 781-293-6771.

Board of Selectmen Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, veterans’ hall.

DPW Commissioners Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Town Hall, DPW office.

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

Pembroke Youth Lacrosse Sign-ups. 6:30-8:30 p.m. at North Pembroke Elementary School, Pilgrim Road. For information and online registration, visit pembrokeyouthlacrosse.com.

tueSday, nOv. 3Sit and Be Fit Exercise Class. 10 a.m., at Council on Aging. $5 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Newcomers Orientation. 10:30 a.m., at The Wellness Community South Shore, 273 Hanover St./Route 139, Hanover. Tells people living with cancer and their caregivers, families and friends about the free programs and services TWC-MSS provides. Held every Tuesday. Drop-ins welcome, but RSVP is appreciated. Call 781-829-4823.

Seniors Living with Chronic Illness. 1-2 p.m., at Council on Aging building. Ruth Coleman,

MSW, a clinical social worker, leads this support group every Tuesday for seniors living with conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, MS, lupus, heart disease, COPD and others.

Exercise Class. 3-4 p.m., at Council on Aging. $3 per class. For information, call the senior center at 781-294-8220.

Youth Yoga. 4-4:45 p.m., at Hanson Holistic Center, 156 Liberty St., Hanson. Yoga for ages 4-7. Learn basic poses using stretching and breathing techniques combined with games, stories, songs and affirmations. $10 per class. For information or to register, call certified instructor Becky Paul at 781-293-2447.

School Committee Meeting. 6:30 p.m., at Pembroke High School. Prior to Town Meeting.

Author Talk/Book Signing. 7 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Frederick George, author of “Switched at Birth: My Life in Someone Else’s World,” will speak and sign copies of his book. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Fall Special Town Meeting. 7:30 p.m., at Pembroke High School.

WedneSday, nOv. 4Dull Men’s Group Meeting. 10 a.m., at senior center. Call 781-294-8220 for information.

Baby Lap Sit. 10:30 a.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Weekly story time with music and fingerplays to encourage literacy interaction with ages 6-24 months. No registration required.

Learn to Skate. 3:50-4:50 p.m., at Hobomock Arena. Pembroke Youth Hockey offers learn-to-skate lessons every Wednesday. Open to all ages. Walk-ins welcome. For information, visit pembrokepythons.com, call Joe DiPrizio at 781-294-7110 or e-mail [email protected].

Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico Movie. 4 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. In honor of Mexico’s Day of the Dead. No registration required. Snacks welcome. This film is not rated. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Start Your Own Business Work-shop. 6-8:30 p.m., at Town Hall. Sponsored by Jim Hayden and the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce. Part of a six-week series addressing all aspects of starting a business. This class will focus on marketing and advertising, led by Steve Dubin of PRWorks. Cost is $49 prepaid. E-mail Jim Hayden at [email protected] or call 781-248-4230.

thurSday, nOv. 5Teen Advisory Group Meeting. 5 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library. Ages 11 and up. For information, call 781-293-6771.

Start Your Own Business Work-shop. 6-8:30 p.m., at Town Hall. Sponsored by Jim Hayden and the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce. Part of a six-week series addressing all aspects of starting a business. This class will focus on writing a business plan, led by Michael Damon and

John Topham of Damon, Topham & Company LLC. Cost is $49 prepaid. E-mail Jim Hayden at [email protected] or call 781-248-4230.

Comedy Fundraiser. Thurs., Nov. 5. 7:30 p.m., at Knights of Columbus, Schoosett St. Fundraiser for the Pembroke Permanent Firefighter Association’s scholarship program and youth activities; features four comedians. Donations needed. For information or to donate, call the Fire Department at 781-293-2300.

Friday, nOv. 6Council on Aging Activities. Every Friday: Line dancing class, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; card crafting class, 10:30 a.m. ($2 per class); games, 12:30-3 p.m. For information, call the senior center at 781-293-8220.

upcOMingWHP Hockey Meat Raffle. Sat., Nov. 7. 2 p.m., at Damien’s in Hanson. Fundraiser to benefit Whitman-Hanson Pembroke Girls Varsity Hockey .

Friends’ Fall Book and Bake Extravaganza. Sat., Nov. 7. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library meeting room. Buy books, goodies and enjoy last chance to bid on basket raffle; drawing at 2 p.m. Sponsored by Friends of the Pembroke Public Library.

Start Your Own Business Workshop. Thurs., Nov. 12. 6-8:30 p.m., at Town Hall. Sponsored by Jim Hayden and the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce. Part of a six-week series addressing all aspects of starting a business. Subject TBD. Cost is $49 prepaid. E-mail Jim Hayden at [email protected] or call 781-248-4230.

Foxwoods Casino Trip. Sat., Nov. 14. Sponsored by the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce. To sign up,

call Ava Glaser at 617-733-7603 or e-mail [email protected].

Fall Craft Fair. Sat., Nov. 14. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at Abington VFW, 30 Central St. Support Hospice of the South Shore by shopping from 35 tables of hand-crafted merchandise and a children’s clothing consignment table. Raffle, bake sale, food and more. Tables available for hand-crafters (no jewelry). Clothing consignments needed. Call Carolann Killinger at 781-974-4852.

Adoption & Education Forum 2009. Sat., Nov. 14. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Pembroke Public Library, 142 Center St. Speakers will be Barbara Braun McDonald, RNCS, LMHC and Registered Attachment Therapist, and Lucy Blood, M.Div., M.Ed., minister, teacher, songwriter and adoptive parent. Workshops include: Concept Imagery and Language Comprehension; Neurofeedback and the Adopted Child; Introducing Adoption and Diversity Through Literature; Captive in the Classroom — The Nancy Thomas Approach; and The Parent Advocate. Registration is $30 general/$20 teachers. Lunch is provided. For information or to register, visit asapmass.org, e-mail

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Holiday Fashion Show. Sat., Nov. 14. 2 p.m., at Independence Mall, Kingston. Fashion Focus students will model in this show. For information, visit mariasfashionfocus.com.

Chanukah Bazaar. Sun., Nov. 15. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Congregation Shirat Hayam temple, 185 Plain St., Marshfield. Holiday shopping, raffles, bake sale.

Open Doors at Congregation Shirat Hayam. Sun., Nov. 15. 1-2 p.m., at 185 Plain St., Marshfield. An opportunity for non-Jews and others to be welcomed by Rabbi Rachel, tour the sanctuary and Torah and get an introduction to Judaism. For information, call 781-582-2700 or e-mail [email protected].

Seniors Thanksgiving Dinner. Wed., Nov. 21. Noon, at Pembroke Knights of Columbus Hall, Schoosett Street.

North Pembroke Holiday Craft Fair. Sun., Nov. 22. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at North Pembroke Elementary School. See Santa, shop from baked goods and crafts tables and kids-only Jingle Bell shop. For information, call Susan Gannon at 781-826-1463.

New York Holiday Shopping Trip. Thurs., Dec. 3. 6:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Leave from community center and travel to New York City, with stops at Rockefeller Center and Macy’s. Cost is $49. Deadline to register is Nov. 12. Call Recreation Department at 781-293-3249 to sign up.

Hobomock Holiday Extravaganza. Sat., Dec. 5. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at Hobomock Elementary School. Children’s shopping, food, local crafters and vendors, cake walk, pictures with Santa, raffles and more. All proceeds benefit Hobomock School.

Holiday Fashion Show. Sat., Dec. 5. 2 p.m., at Hanover Mall, Hanover. Fashion Focus students will model fabulous holiday looks. For information, visit mariasfashionfocus.com.

Dinner Theater. Sun., Dec. 6. 7 p.m., at Calvary Baptist Church, 429 Monponsett St., Hanson. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Advance tickets cost $12. Call the church at 781-293-6367.

Christmas Tree Lighting. Sun., Dec. 6. On the Town Green. Sponsored by the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce.

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Friday: Cheese pizza, car-rot and celery sticks with light ranch dip, cookie

Alternate lunch: Bologna and cheese on white bread, fruit or veggie, juice, baked Cheetos, dessert. Snack: Oreo Crisps.

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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTEES: The Pembroke High School National Honor Society held its annual induction ceremony on Monday, Oct. 26, welcoming seven new members to its ranks: Matthew Butler, Wesley Carroll, Michael Cummings, Brad Davison, Michael DiTocco, Richard Freitas and Kevin Kell. Established in 1921, The National Honor Society aims to recognize out-standing high school students who excel in scholarship, leadership, service and character.

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North Pembroke sixth grader Olivia Morris enjoys her schools’ annual Halloween party.

TOP: North Pembroke Elementary School fourth grad-ers Brendan Ron, Kyle Mosher, Quinn Kelly, Jared Marini and Jack Sousa pal around at the school’s annual Halloween party on Friday, Oct. 23.

ABOVE: Hobomock Elementary School student Jacqueline Rogers has her face painted at the school’s annual Monster Mash Bash on Oct. 23.

Emily MacFarlane and Sophia Antoniotti at Hobomock.

Friday, Oct. 30Monster Mash. 6:30-8:30 p.m. @ Bryantville cafeteria.

Monday, Nov. 2Hobomock Book Fair. Nov. 2-6.

Tuesday., Nov. 3PHS Musical Children’s Chorus Auditions. 3:30-5:30 p.m.

@ PHS. Grades 4-8. School Committee Meeting. 6:30 p.m. @ PHS.

P.A.P.A. Meeting. 7 p.m. @ PHS library. Special Town Meeting. 7:30 p.m. @ PHS auditorium.

Wednesday, Nov. 4PHS Musical Auditions. 2-5 p.m. @ PHS.

Senior District Festival Jazz Auditions. @ PHSFriday, Nov. 6

Military Support Stocking Stuffer. 6-8 p.m. @ Bryantville.PCMS Social. 7-9 p.m. @ PCMS. Sponsored by Best Buddies.

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Marguerite (Milne) Macdonald, 82Marguerite (Milne) Mac-

donald, 82, of Pembroke, died on Sunday, Oct. 25, at Renais-sance Gardens in Hingham, following a brief illness.

She was born in Kansas City, Mo. to the late Dr. Lindsay S. Milne and Marian (Young) Milne and was the wife of the late Robert B. Macdonald.

She lived and worked as a medical assistant in New York City and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. for several years before moving to Pembroke, where she resided for 48 years. She was well re-spected in her 40-year real es-tate career with Jack Conway Co., where she worked as a sales associate, manager of the Duxbury office for 13 years and company headquarters of-fice manager for the last 19 years. She retired in December

2008. During her career, she held

numerous professional des-ignations, including Gradu-ate Realtor Institute, Certified Residential Broker Manager and Conway Degree of Excel-lence. She was a member of the Plymouth Association of Realtors, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and the National Association of Real-tors for the past 40 years.

Marguerite is survived by her son, Robert L. Macdonald and his wife Wendy of Dux-bury; her daughter, Laurie (Macdonald) Litchfield and her husband Peter of Plymouth; and her granddaughter Sarah of Duxbury. She was the twin sister of the late Mary Ann (Milne) Moseley of Kansas City, Mo. and sister of the late

Stephen Milne of Denver, Colo. She also leaves many friends, cousins, nieces and nephews.

Marguerite was an excel-lent cook who enjoyed making holidays special for her family and enjoyed attending the the-ater with her friends, vacation-ing in Cancun and Aruba and watching the Red Sox.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 120 Wall St., New York, NY 10005-4001, or the charity of your choice.

Visiting hours will be at the Shepherd Funeral Home, Kingston on Friday, Oct. 30 from 4-8 p.m., with funeral services at the funeral home on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. Burial will be private at May-flower Cemetery in Duxbury.

FACE-OFF: Diana McLaughlin, Zach Johnston, Kate McAlear and Tyler Johnston make Halloween masks during pajama storytime at the Pembroke Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 15.

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U.S. Navy Capt. Christopher Mosher stands with his parents, Bud and Patricia Mosher of Pleasant Street, and his brother, Marine Col. Jeffrey Mosher, who emceed the promotion ceremony.

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Ken Burgess, president-elect of the Tri Town Rotary Club, hands a $2,000 donation to Pembroke Food Pantry volunteer Carol Demers on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

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local sailor promoted to captainChristopher Mosher, who grew up in Pembroke and gradu-

ated from Silver Lake Regional High School in 1984, was pro-moted to captain on Aug. 31 in a ceremony at the Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Va. Mosher is a 1988 graduate of the U.S. Na-val Academy at Annapolis, Md., where he played football for the Midshipmen. He is serving aboard the U.S.N.S. Robert E. Perry, which will deploy to the Gulf area in early January.

rotary Club answers the callThe Tri-Town Rotary Club, which serves the towns of Pem-

broke, Hanover and Norwell, raises money every year through the sale of paper Christmas trees to help out food pantries as well as buy gifts and assist families in each of the three towns. Funds also assist the Visiting Nurse Association. With the Pembroke Food Pantry running low on supplies going into the holiday sea-son, the club decided to donate some of the funds raised at their two annual flea markets. Beginning Thanksgiving week, Rotary Club members will be selling the Christmas trees outside Stop and Shop stores in Pembroke and Norwell and Shaw’s in Ha-nover. The trees also will be available for any desired donation at shops in all three towns.

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For years, Lindy’s has been a family-run convenience

store that has been thought of as more of a neighborhood than a business. Even though not as competitively priced as nearby Cumberland Farms or 7-Eleven, patronizing a mom and pop establishment seems very much in keeping with the small town value of Pem-broke; therefore, it becomes even more disturbing to see the owners of this store go against the majority of opinion in the

area in their quest to force a tattoo studio into a residential neighborhood filled with fami-lies and children — the very people who have supported Lindy’s in the past.

Please note that this is not a debate over free speech or of the nature of tattoos them-selves. This is a matter of a town that treasures its overall appearance and of a neighbor-hood that does not want to see their property values dimin-ished by an establishment with this type of negative attach-

ments. The people who own Lin-

dy’s don’t have similar con-cerns, as they do not live in this town. They see this as purely a business opportunity for their family. Since business seems to be their main concern, then I suggest that we boycott Lin-dy’s, and hopefully the impact to their business will get them to pay attention to our neighb-hood issues.

Janet PetersMattakeesett Street

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Foliage has peaked, boats have been hauled in, and birds have migrated. We clean our yards and plant spring bulbs while anticipating the end of daylight savings

and spending more time in our homes with another change of seasons.

Over on Silver Lake, Mark and Karen Ames report that there has been no sign lately of the Canada goose, dubbed Gwendo-lyn, who cannot fly because of an injured wing.

Last year, Gwendolyn somehow survived our snowy and oft times frigid winter. She disappeared for a couple of months and was thought to have likely succumbed to the elements, only to ap-pear fat and sassy in late February. She spent this summer right at home on Sil-ver Lake. Hopefully she’s found another home for this winter.

Home. Shelter. Housing. Something required by us to survive harsh New Eng-land winters. Housing is one of the three components of the Community Preserva-

tion Act, important to all of us, yet often treated like the intruder when it comes to funding. Some people seem to have the impression that the CPA is only for preserv-ing open space and historical buildings. Somehow the fact that housing is an equal component, and that the same percentage (10 percent) of available funds must be designated to it as to the open space and historical categories, escapes a lot of people. That’s 10 percent annually to all three.

There are guidelines set by the CPA Coalition that each town’s CPA Committee (CPC) must follow. Although some rules are spelled out that leave no question as to how they are to be followed, there are opportunities for special needs for legiti-mate funding that are within the realm of acceptability.

Each February, our CPC opens applications for people to apply for funding. A deadline date for submissions is set and subsequently each applicant is later invited to come before the CPC to present their requests in more detail. After all applicants are heard, the nine-person committee discusses them and, based on available funds and meeting guidelines, recommends certain ones to be voted on at the Special Town Meeting each fall. The decisions are often difficult as most applications are worthwhile and meet guidelines.

Hopefully, the townspeople will give equal consideration to the historical and housing projects that are on this year’s warrant on Nov. 3. The CPA funds are there to fund all that are proposed. And let’s all hope that Gwendolyn has found adequate housing for the cold months ahead over near the shores of Silver Lake. Too bad she can’t apply for CPA funding.

By Dottie Macinnes

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Youth Lacrosse signups Nov. 2

Pembroke Youth Lacrosse will hold walk-in registration on Monday, Nov. 2 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at North Pembroke Elementary School, Pilgrim Road. Lacrosse starts practic-ing in March with games on Sunday afternoons starting in April. Online registration will open on Nov. 1 for grades 3 through 8 for both boys and girls at pembrokeyouthla-crosse.com. There is limited availability, and coaches are needed.

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By Dave Palana, SPortS eDitor [email protected]

The boys cross country team didn’t lose a league meet this season on their way to a Patriot League banner, and they made short work of them all one last time on Tuesday.

Pembroke closed out the Patriot League portion of their schedule, taking the top three spots and placing all five scor-ers in the top 10 at All Patriot League in Silver Lake. The Titans won the race with 25 points, 36 fewer than second place Whitman-Hanson and 81 ahead of Duxbury and Sil-ver Lake, who tied for third.

“They ran fantastic,” head coach Greg Zopatti said. “We didn’t want to overstress; the first two miles played into their hands. We put cones out at the two-mile mark, and when they hit those cones, it was run like hell until the end and that was our speed workout for the

week.”Paul Cina, Ryan Kelley and

Brendan Adams ran as a pack from the start and moved past Whitman-Hanson’s Tyler Sul-livan and Duxbury’s Jonathan McKinley to take first, second and third place with times of 16:03, 16:04 and 16:05.

“The top three looked very relaxed over the first two miles,” Zopatti said. “I think they did that with the least stress possible.”

Ryan Moran and Joe Ver-collone tried to chase down Middleboro’s Zach Madigan on the final straight away, but Madigan edged them both by fractions of a second and the pair took ninth and 10th places respectively.

Wesley Gallagher and James Coner also finished in the top 20 of the 104-runner field, and Zopatti was happy with the runs from Robert La-Marre, Matt Rinidini and Eric

Karstunen. “I thought Ryan Moran

ran fantastic, and I was really happy with our 8 through 10 runners as well,” he said. “Put-ting 10 guys under 18:30 was exciting.”

The Titans will not compete

in the Coaches’ Invitational on Nov. 4 as are preparing for the Eastern Mass. Championships on Nov. 14, but the JV team has their annual, and highly competitive, Halloween mile at the high school on Friday afternoon.

“It’s a lot of fun and you win a big Viking helmet for it,” Zopatti said. “We’ve got a bunch of guys trying to break five minutes on the track. Hopefully, the lights [for the football game] won’t be in the first lane.”

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THREE’S COMPANY: Paul Cina, Ryan Kelley and Brendan Adams finish one, two and three at the All League meet Tuesday at Silver Lake.

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The field hockey team had a rough start to their season, but they are looking to finish on a high note.

The Lady Titans gave up an early goal to Taunton on the road Monday but scored three straight to beat the Tigers 3-1 for their fourth win of the sea-son.

Sam Flaherty tied the game before the half, and Chelsea Hooker put Pembroke on top in the second. Krystal Barnard added an insurance goal for the Titans later in the second half.

“It was a good win for us,” head coach Bill Flynn said. “We played very well in the second half.”

The win comes on the heels of a hard fought, 4-2 loss to Hingham at the high school

on Friday. “We played really well

against a good tournament team,” Flynn said. “It was good to see how well the girls played today.”

Hingham took the lead twice in the first half, but Flaherty and Hooker both an-swered to keep the score even at halftime. However, the Ti-tans struggled on offense in the second half while the Har-borwomen added two goals.

The Titans appeared to tie the game at three off a corner, but the officials ruled Hing-ham’s goalie knocked the ball

in herself without Pembroke getting a stick on it, negating the score.

“It was clear to me that Kelsey Daggett touched it,” Flynn said. “It bothered us, but we didn’t quit. That was nice to see.”

The Titans wrapped up their season with their senior night Oct. 28 against East Bridgewater. While the sea-son is over, Barnard and cap-tain Jen Halloran were named to the Patriot League All Star team. Flaherty, Hooker and Drew Tucker were also invited to participate in the game.

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BEST FORM OF FLAHERTY: The team congratulates Samantha Flaherty on her first-half goal against Hingham on Friday.

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The football team got some big plays on offense, but Rockland running backs Terrence Gibson and Mike Driscoll were too much for the defense.

Gibson caught one touch-down pass and rushed for two more while Driscoll picked up two on the ground in a 35-12 Pembroke loss to the Bulldogs in Rockland on Friday night.

“We just didn’t stop any-body and I’m in charge of

that,” Bancroft said. “Physi-cally, they just beat us up.”

The Titans grabbed an early lead on a 15-yard touch-down run by Ben Healy in the

first quarter that put Pembroke up six, but Gibson evened the scored on a 45-yard touch-down pass from D.J. Austin.

Gibson then put Rock-land up to stay with a 65-yard touchdown run before the quarter was out.

Pat Claflin pulled the Ti-tans back within two with a 25-yard touchdown run of his own in the second quarter. But Driscoll rushed for two touch-downs before halftime and Gibson rushed for a 36-yard touchdown on the first drive of the second half to put the game out of reach for Pembroke.

“We knew what plays we’re coming, but we just couldn’t stop it,” Bancroft said. “We don’t have great team speed, and when they went outside we just couldn’t match up with them.”

The Titans switched quar-terbacks for the game, giving sophomore Luke Nagle the ball under center. Bancroft

said Nagle made some errors but looked good for his first start.

“He made some mistakes, but it’s tough your first time and he did a good job,” he said of Nagle. “We showed some good signs offensively.”

The Titans’ defense will have another big challenge this Friday when they have to try to contain Hanover running

back Brett Wheeler, who is the focal point of the Indians’ of-fense.

“They’re a good team,” Bancroft said of Hanover. “We have a week to get ready and we did come out healthy overall against a hard-hitting team. We had a nice goal line stand at the end [against Rock-land], and we’ll build on little things.”

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Sophomore Luke Nagle drops back in the pocket for a pass during his first start of the season at quarterback for the Titans.

Lady Titans take twoGirls cross country finishes second at league meet


The girls cross country team closed out their league season on a high note Tues-day in Silver Lake by taking second place at the All Patriot League meet.

League champions Whit-man-Hanson ran away with the race, but the Titans put

three runners in the top 15 to finish 21 points ahead of third-place Hingham and 55 ahead of Duxbury.

“I was extremely happy,” head coach Greg Zopatti said. “They ran great.”

Heather Connick led the Titans with a third place finish and a 20:03 time. In her second race back from a stress frac-

ture, Zopatti let Connick push herself a little more than she did against Rockland. Though he said the race was tougher on his top runner, he said she con-tinued to show improvement.

“Heather did a great job in her first real race back,” Zopatti said. “She definitely looked a little stressed, and her foot was definitely a little sore, but almost clearing 20 minutes in her first race back was awe-some.”

Sophomore Chelsea Sav-age also came close to break-ing the 20-minute mark, finish-ing in 20:18 and taking seventh place. Senior Sara Cavalear cleared 21 minutes to finish third for Pembroke in 12th place, and Jess Leary outran Hingham’s Rachel Allen over the final straightaway to finish in 21st place by one second. Gabby Molignano finished off the scoring for the Titans with a 23rd place finish.

“I think they are starting to become believers,” Zopatti said. “We put five runners un-der 22 minutes; if we can do that at the D-III meet and Con-nick is feeling better, I’m ex-cited.”

Chelsea Savage outruns Whitman-Hanson’s Rachel Baker down the final straightaway at the All League meet.

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Given the tough economic times we live in, it is perfectly understandable not to want to shell out $50 for a Halloween costume. I understand

not everyone has an evil Facebook alter ego like me to dress up as, so people may be looking for a cheap way to come up with a nice costume.

As has become my yearly tradi-tion, I will once against dedicate this week’s Tale of the Tape to a few ideas for topical sports-related costume ideas for those who are either watching their wallets or, like me, feel like costumes are a waste of money.

Tom Brady: Dressing up like Tom Terrific is cliché, as everyone without a good idea throws on their Pats jersey and dons some eye black. But here is a better way to do it: buy a mullet wig and cut it to just above

the neckline of your shirt, put on a San Francisco Giants hat, and then spend the whole night standing next to the best looking girl you can find.

Daisuke Matsuzaka: Put on a Red Sox hat, do a really great job trick-or-treating at the first four houses you go to, and then run out of gas.

Nick Green: Put on a Red Sox hat and then proceed to drop every piece of candy that heads your way. If you are handing out the candy, just throw it in the dirt or five feet to the right of the trick-or-treaters. This costume also works well for Julio Lugo.

Michael Crabtree: When you go to a house with your friends, demand more candy than they get, and if you don’t get it, storm away. Three months later, show up to the same house and beg for the same amount of candy they were go-ing to give you in the first place.

Chad Johnson (I refuse to call him Ochocinco): Put on a Bengals jersey and then publish what kind of candy you get at every house on Twitter the second you leave.

Vince Wilfork: This is a pretty easy one: just eat all the candy.

If you do feel like spending a little bit of cash on some great sports costumes and do have a group of friends, you would endear yourself to me forever by dressing up as my favorite sports figures — the five

Milwaukee Brewers racing sausages. The person who dresses up as Brett Wurst the bratwurst will be the coolest person in town.

I hope this column was helpful to some people out there, and “Happy Halloween.”

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A visit with football captain Bob Gratzer

Gratzer is the lone senior captain of the football team and the anchor of their defensive line. As a junior, he advanced to the spring track and field All New England

meet as a discus thrower and expects big things in his final season of track. He shared his thoughts on…

... where he might go to college. I’m looking at Lafayette in Pennsylvania; I’m also looking at the University of Vermont and the University of New Hampshire. They’ve contacted me looking at me for track, and I looked into them and found out they have good engineering programs. I would like to go out of state, just to see other places and get out of Massachusetts.

… why he is interested in engineering. I en-joy the aspects of physics, figuring things out and making sure things fit right. I’m hoping to major in engineering and, if not, something in business.

… his freshman year of football. My fresh-man year, I came up to play with the big varsity kids at the time. I went up against some of the biggest kids, and they put me down but afterwards said I was doing great. They got me to go lift with them and get better.

… changes in the football team under Bob Ban-croft. There’s a big difference in the team, and we’re do-ing better than we have before. Coach Bancroft knows a lot and he’s teaching us everything he knows.

… his expectations for track this year. I feel like I’m going to be a lot better this year, and I can’t wait to start the season. I’m been practicing all offseason long.

… fun in the snow. I love going up to Maine and go-ing snowmobiling. I’ve been doing it about five or six years. My parents rented them from friends of ours, and we just ended up buying some. We go up to Jackman, [Maine] by Quebec, Canada. We started out closer by Bridgeton, but said ‘why not go up to the top?’

… graduating high school. I just want to get better at what I do, get a good job and get a good life going.

Ryan Kulik

Kulik shut out Middleboro in net for his sixth shutout in nine games since switching to goalie to keep the Titans’

playoff hopes alive.

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Boys still on the bubbleWin over Middleboro puts Titans one point from tournament


The future of the boys soc-cer team’s season is going to go down to the wire.

The Titans edged Middle-boro 1-0 at the high school on Tuesday afternoon to pin their hopes for returning to the MIAA tournament on the out-come of their final game.

Chris Savoia scored the lone goal against the Sachems when he headed in a corner kick in the first half. The Titans also had a goal taken away on a disputed offsides penalty. The offense was clicking for the Titans early, as they had 10 shots on goal before the half.

“It was a pretty good day for us overall,” head coach George Stagno said. “[Savoia] had a beautiful goal, and it was a pretty good day.”

It was the sixth shutout for

keeper Ryan Kulik since tak-ing over between the posts. Stagno said it was a risk taking his captain out of the midfield, but the gamble has paid off.

“He’s had six shutouts and

nine games, so I would say it’s working out,” he said. “It was chance, but it worked well.”

The win comes after the Titans lost a 1-0 game at the Hobomock School field to Ha-nover. The Titans kept the 10th ranked team in the state off balance all game, except for one miscue in the defensive end that led to the breakaway goal.

“It was a cheap goal where we didn’t even mark the guy on a header,” Stagno said. “It stings [to lose by a goal], but the way we let the goal in was even worse.”

Pembroke needed a win or a tie in Randolph against the Blue Devils on Oct. 29 in order to make the tournament. The teams played to a 2-2 on Sept. 29, but Stagno said the Titans have come a long way since then.

“We’ve got a very different team,” he said. “We’re much more aggressive, and we’ve gotten stronger in the middle.”

Chris Savoia scored Pembroke’s only goal Tuesday, but it was enough to get them past the Sachems.

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Midgets bash BourneThe Pembroke Pop Warner Jr. Midgets wrapped up a

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Pop Warner program also earned their 100th win as a program.

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A one-acre lot on Pelham Street could be a local family’s future home, but neighbors are concerned that any activity there could displace its cur-rent resident — an endangered turtle.

Mike and Agneta Do-maszewicz of Pelham Street appeared before selectmen on

Monday ask-ing them to take another look at the lot, part of a five-acre parcel of town-owned

land that could be sold or do-nated to a nonprofit group like Habitat for Humanity.

Agneta Domaszewicz said she had lived there since she was a child and had seen the endangered eastern box turtle living and laying eggs in the area.

The Domaszewiczes re-quested that the entire parcel be placed into conservation to preserve the turtle’s habitat.

In 2001, Town Meeting voted to place this parcel, along with a 19-acre parcel next-door and 21 other prop-erties into conservation “sub-ject to the Board of Selectmen releasing them.” However, the board never released the Pel-ham Street properties.

That fall, selectmen voted to retain a certain number of the larger parcels for future town use, said Hilary Wilson, who was then a selectmen.

“Once a property gets into conservation it takes an act of the legislature to get it out,” Wilson said. “If we needed that piece of land to build a school or a police station or anything, we would have to

go through the legislature to get it out.”

On Sept. 28, the board vot-ed to declare this one-acre lot as surplus to allow it to be used for a single-family affordable home. Article 24 on the special Town Meeting warrant would further clear the way for this type of development.

Wilson said he has re-viewed the state’s endangered species map of the area and that it shows the site is not habitat for any kind of endan-gered species.

“I hope Town Meeting will take the view that providing an opportunity for a family to move into Pembroke at a truly affordable rate is worth sacri-ficing one acre of open space,” he said.

Selectmen said they would request a determination from the Massaschusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife as to whether that one-acre lot was considered endangered spe-cies habitat.

Later Monday, the Do-maszewiczes met with the Conservation Commission to explain their concerns.

Commission member Car-ey Day said they had reviewed the residents’ concerns and

determined, based on a 2008 map from the Natural Species and Endangered Species Pro-gram, that the lot was not in that habitat area.

The Domaszewiczes also asked selectmen why they were not notified when an-other Pelham Street property, about seven acres, was put up for auction in 2006.

“We would have liked to have the opportunity to pur-chase the property and add it to our open space,” Mike Do-maszewicz said.

Town Administrator Ed Thorne said a list of abutters was drawn up and individu-als were notified of the sale, which was actually advertised twice when the first bids came in too low, but that the Do-maszewiczes were somehow overlooked. The property was later purchased by another resident.

“It was strictly an over-sight,” Selectman Don Ander-son said.

Though selectmen seemed sympathetic toward the Do-maszewiczes, they said the town was not legally required to notify all abutters in that case. The sale was announced in local papers.

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Aquatic Control then had to await further word from the state as to whether they could move forward with their treatment plan.

“What we’re planning to do at this point is to investi-gate some alternative prod-ucts and to certainly open up a dialogue with Natural Heritage to see what their specific concerns are and what modifications can be made to get something ap-proved,” said Keith Gazaille, senior biologist with Aquatic

Control.Unfortunately, other

treatments do tend to be more costly, he said.

“Copper sulfate is prob-ably the least expensive means of controlling the al-gae,” he said.

The Watershed Asso-ciation will hold onto the $12,660 for treatment ap-proved by Town Meeting voters in May until a new plan can be developed, PWA president Ray Holman said.

Furnace Pond also has had problems with algae and does not contain the rare mussel, so copper sulfate might be a possible treatment there; however, there are no definite plans on when either pond project might begin, Holman said.

“We’re waiting to see what’s going to happen with Oldham to see what it’s go-ing to cost now,” he said.


Should tattoo studios be required to follow the same rules as strip clubs?

A new zoning bylaw pro-posed by the Zoning Board of

Appeals would do just that by i d e n t i f y i n g body art es-tablishments as “adult use” and relegat-

ing them to Pembroke’s adult use zone, located in the north-eastern corner of town, east of Route 3.

ZBA chairman Greg Han-ley and Assistant Building Inspector Tony Marino have said the bylaw provides clear guidance on the issue of tat-too and body piercing studios where zoning bylaws currently do not.

If approved, the bylaw would require any body art es-tablishment to attain a special permit and to stay within the adult use zone. A tattoo studio could not be located within 800 feet of any other studio, nor within 500 feet of a heav-ily residential zone.

Studios also could not be located within a residence or where liquor is sold or con-sumed and would be limited to the hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Proponents of this by-law — and those who op-pose opening a tattoo studio on Mattakeesett Street, where one business is proposed — say they are concerned about having this type of business in a residential area.

Marino, who drew up the bylaw based on those in other towns, said he placed body art establishments in the adult use zone because it “seemed to be the best fit.” Other business zones in town are intermingled more with residential areas.

The proposed bylaw is similar to a bylaw adopted in

May by the town of Hanover, where Marino is a building commissioner. There, too, tattoo studios are considered “adult use” and limited to that zone (near the Hanover Mall), Marino said.

Officials have said that, if passed, the bylaw would not impact businessman Adam Worrall, who has applied for a special permit to open a tattoo studio on Mattakeesett Street. However, Worrall’s attorney, Robert Galvin Sr., said he believed his client would be forced to follow that bylaw be-cause his permit was pending.

Those against the bylaw say it puts too much restric-tion on a body art business, limiting potential studios to a small patch of land that is al-

ready heavily commercial. At a public hearing held Oct. 19, some people questioned why a tattoo studio should be lumped into the same category as other adult use businesses, such as strip clubs.

Neither the Board of Se-lectmen nor the Advisory Committee have voted for or against this bylaw but agreed to leave it up to discussion on Town Meeting floor.

Advisory chairman Matt McNeilly said the commit-tee had several questions and concerns about forcing these businesses into the “adult en-tertainment district.”

“The majority of the com-mittee feels it is too restrictive of a bylaw,” he said.


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ArtiClE 16: Bylaw would regulate tattoo studios

ARTICLE 16: A proposed zoning bylaw would regulate where body art establishments such as tattoo studios can be placed in Pembroke, limiting them to the “adult use” zone, located in the northeastern corner of town, east of Route 3.

Skate Park Committee plans Battle of Bands, football raffle

The Pembroke Skate Park Committee is planning to hold a Battle of the Bands fundraiser on Friday, Dec. 11 at the community center. To date, confirmed bands include Emma Ate the Lion and Romantic Airwaves. More bands will be added. Advance tickets will be $5 ($7 at the door). The com-mittee also will be raffling off a Tom Brady-autographed foot-ball with the Council on Aging. The winning name will be drawn at the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce tree-lighting ceremony on Dec. 6. Further details on both fundraisers will be announced shortly.

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