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The issue of school start times has been divisive –– not only within the community, but among School Commit-tee members. After listening to over an hour of testimony from parents, both in favor and against changing start times, the School Committee voted 3-2 to make the change.

Duxbury High School and Duxbury Middle School will now begin at 8:15 a.m. rather than 7:30 a.m., and the Alden School will now begin the school day at 7:30 a.m. rather than 8:15 a.m.

Committee members George Cipolletti, Karen Wong and Anne Ward voted

The Duxbury Clipper took home six awards –– five of them first place honors –– at

this weekend’s New England Press As-sociation’s Better Newspaper banquet.

Columnist Bruce Barrett won first place in the category of coverage of a racial or ethnic issue for his story,

“Road to Zabuli,” about the efforts of the Duxbury Rotary Club and local tai-lor (and Afghan native) Razia Jan to build a school for girls in Afghanistan. The story also garnered a second place prize in the special award category.

Clipper takes honorsSix awards, five top prizes at NEPA banquet

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After the School Commit-tee approved the change of the high school and middle school start times to 8:15 a.m., reac-tion among affected students was mixed.

Outside the high school on Monday afternoon, some students were looking forward to the extra sleep (this year, both schools began the day at 7:30 a.m.) but others were

concerned about after school sports or jobs.

“I think it’s great because we can stay up later and sleep in,” said Scott Whear, a sev-enth grader.

Whear’s brother, Matt, said that he plays youth hock-ey, the games and practices of which can run late. He thinks with the new start times, he won’t be as tired at school in the morning.

Student reaction to change mixed

School Committee splits on vote

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Do you know a neighbor who makes time every day to help out at the senior center? A co-worker who serves on town boards without asking for thanks or recognition? Or a friend who selflessly gives back to his or her community time and time again? Then you

may have a nominee for the 2009 Duxbury Community Volunteer Award.

This year’s award will be held in April at the Village at Duxbury. Nomination forms are available on the Clipper Web site as well as the Village, the Library, Town Hall and Westwinds Bookshop.

This year, the award cer-

emony will coincide with Na-tional Volunteer Week.

“This is coming off the na-tional movement of recogniz-ing volunteers,” said Joanna Dow, who works at the Village and is helping coordinate the event.

The Duxbury award has

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FROZEN IN TIME: Kristen Brennan of Myrtle Street stands with her piece “Outside In” at the recep-tion for the Duxbury Art Associations’s Winter Juried Show winners on Saturday. The reception hosted 13 winners from Duxbury. Brennan’s piece celebrates a 200-year-old tree. Photo by Elena Gormley

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WEATHER REFLECTIONS

Blue Hills Observatory reported this January’s average tempera-ture as four degrees below normal. Note our nearly 18” January snowfall this year pales in comparison with that of 2005 when we received over 55” largely due to the weekend storm of the 22nd-23-rd when we were belted with 22” of snow.

WEATHER OBSERvATIONS High Low Rainfall Snowfall 6AM Sky ConditionsSaturday 28 17 -- -- ClearSunday 45 17 -- -- Broken CloudsMonday 47 32 -- -- Partially Obscured-FogTuesday 36 25 -- 4.2” OvercastWednesday 35 15 -- 1.0” Broken CloudsThursday 18 08 -- -- ClearFriday 26 05 -- -- Scattered Clouds Total: 5.2”

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The 28th annual spring antique show

The 28th annual Duxbury spring antique show will be held on Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 at DHS to benefit the Duxbury High School athletic program. Vol-unteers are still needed for the show. Call Joanne Williams at 781-934-0111 for more infor-mation.

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Program featuring re-sources from Plymouth’s Ca-reer Center and Duxbury Free Library will be held on Thurs-day Feb. 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Merry Room of the Duxbury Free Library. Learn about the State’s Career In-formation System, computer classes, educational opportu-nities, job fairs, resume work-shops, veteran services, career collections, lists of businesses, vocational interest tests, net-working opportunities avail-able to job seekers. Free of charge, but registration is re-quired; call 781-934-2721 ext 100 to sign up.

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The upcoming election season will be chock full of contested races, thanks to some last minute action at the town clerk’s office.

On Monday, the last day to return nomination papers to seek elected office, Robert Mustard of Myles View Drive took out and returned papers to challenge incumbent Town Moderator Allen Bornheimer of Upland Road.

All the races are now set. Glenn Listernick of Carr Road will challenge incumbent John Heinstadt of Blodgett Avenue for a seat on the School Com-mittee. Colleen Brayer of To-bey Garden Street had returned her paperwork but withdrew from the race, according to the town clerk’s office.

Listernick is a 30-year veteran of the public school system, having been a teacher and later an administrator. He now works in the adult educa-tion field.

“I entered into the profes-sion right before Proposition 2 1/2 and saw the effects,” List-ernick said about his reason

for running.“I saw this as an oppor-

tunity to work to better the school system,” he said.

Christopher Donato of Chandler Street will challenge incumbent selectman Andre Martecchini of Heritage Lane for his seat.

There will be a three-way race for two seats on the Plan-ning Board. George Wads-worth of Elm Street is the in-cumbent, and Josh Cutler of Vine Street and John Murdock of Otter Rock Road are also seeking a five-year term on the board.

The race for library trustee will also have three residents competing for two seats. Paula Harris of Bayridge Road, Kate Sturgis of Myles View Drive and Laney Mutkoski of Carr Road will all seek a position on that board.

In the only uncontested race on the ballot, incumbent Linda Collari of Summer Street will retain her seat on the Board of Assessors.

There will also be six bal-lot questions at the town elec-tion on Saturday, March 28. All ask voters to approve Proposi-

tion 2 1/2 debt exclusions, or a property tax override to pay for specific projects. Ques-tion 1 seeks to fund the Percy Walker pool renovation. Ques-tion 2 asks for funding for the proposed combined police and fire facility on cemetery land on Tremont Street. Question 3 is for a new police station on Mayflower Street. Question 4 is for renovating the existing fire station on Tremont Street. Which question is on the bal-lot depends on the outcome of Town Meeting. Residents will vote for either Question 2, or the will decide between Ques-tions 3 and 4. Question 5 is the $200,000 for a feasibility study of the middle and high schools. Question 6 is $1.54 million for a new roof at the Chandler School.

Selectmen, School Committee, Planning Board and library trustee races all contested

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Town Meeting: March 14 at the Performing Arts Center.

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Sweetheart Dance: Be sure to set aside Saturday, March 7 from 7-9 p.m. for our annual Sweetheart Dance. This is one of the girl’s favorite events (their escorts LOVE it too!) and one they won’t want to miss. Bob Butler is back by popular demand to lead the girls and escorts through an evening of square danc-ing. Never square danced? Not to worry, Bob will teach you how! The cost is just $2/person or $5/family and a non-perish-able food item from each attendee to be donated to the Interfaith Council’s Easter Food Baskets. Make-your-own Sundaes will be available for $2, Sweetheart Patches and Sweetheart Necklaces will also be for sale for $1 each. Please watch the Clipper the week of Feb. 22 for the location of the dance. Leaders will also receive an email to forward to their girls.

Easter Community Service Project: We will once again be filling cellophane bags with little gifts for the children whose parents receive the Easter Food Baskets from the Interfaith Council. We have 150 bags arriving in a few weeks, which we will need to fill. We provide the bags and a list of items to in-clude in each one. If your troop can assist with this please let Joan Riser know. The girls really enjoy doing these projects and it is a great way for them to help other children enjoy an extra treat on Easter Sunday!

Girl Scout Week: Girl Scout Week is the week of March 8 and begins with Girl Scout Sunday being recognized in area churches. We are in need of someone from each church to ar-range for the girls in their church to be recognized and to serve perhaps as greeters or participants in the service that day. At Holy Family Church we are in need of at least 15 girls to partici-pate in the 8:30 a.m. Mass. Please contact Joan Riser if you can co-ordinate this event at your church or if your daughter wishes to participate at Holy Family.

New Daisy Troop: We want to welcome our new Daisy Troop for girls in kindergarten! The good news is that there is still room for a few more girls. The Daisy program now runs for two years, right through first grade, so your daughter will have plenty of time to complete the Petal program and to begin work-ing in the new Journey program. By joining now you are assured of troop placement in the fall and can take part in our Service Unit activities this spring. Please call Rosemary Tufankjian at 781-934-9754 for more information or to sign up. The troop will be meeting the second and fourth Thursday of the month at the Girl Scout House.

Troop Happenings: Members of Cadette Troop 80331 and Junior Troop 80437 traveled to E. Madison, NH a week ago for a day of skiing at King Pine. The weather was perfect: cold, with bright blue skies as the non-skiers headed for their lessons, and the skiers joined the chaperones to head up the chair lift. Once the lessons were over the Cadettes joined instructor Tricia Ja-cobson who reviewed safety on the slopes, equipment they were using and told them about her position as an instructor, to cover some of the requirements for the Sports For Life Interest Proj-ect. After lunch and a few practice runs down the Bunny Slope, the former non-skiers headed up the mountain on the chair lift accompanied by their chaperones and more experienced troop members. It wasn’t long before they were all skiing confidently down from the top of King Pine and thoroughly enjoying their newly acquired skills!

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“There are so many volun-teers in town,” said Dow. “Re-ally to me we’re recognizing everyone ... that’s what this is about.”

The nomination forms are due March 7. An advisory board of community leaders will review the nominations and pick the most deserving nominee to be the Duxbury Community Volunteer of 2009.

The nomination form should include a statement describing the contributions of the nominee and how they have impacted the quality of

life in Duxbury.Last year’s winner was

Dick Whitney, a retired Naval officer who has served on the Finance Committee, Council

on Aging board, and the stra-tegic planning committee, and is involved with the Duxbury Beach Preservation Society.

Whitney said he was “stunned” and honored to be last year’s recipient.

“I was listening to the oth-er folks who have done really significant things,” he said of last year’s banquet.

“It’s a great honor to get something like this, especially in a community where there are so many volunteers.”

Dow stressed that the award is open to all, not just those who help seniors. A de-serving town official, business leader, youth leader or school volunteer can be nominated for the award.

Anyone with questions about the award can call 781-585-2334 or e-mail Joanna Dow at [email protected]

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Dick Whitney, a veteran of many town boards, was the 2008 Community volunteer. Who will be this year’s award winner? Nominate a deserving resident by downloading the form from duxburyclipper.com

Water dept. employee fired

A Water Department employee facing OUI charges has been fired, according to Town Manager Richard MacDonald.

Robert Crowley, of Sandwich, was coming to work in a town-owned vehicle during the snowstorm of Jan. 9 when he struck another car, according to Duxbury Police. The other driver was not injured, but Crowley was transported to Jordan Hospital, where he was treated and released.

Crowley had originally been placed on unpaid leave pend-ing an investigation by the town, but MacDonald confirmed that he had been sent a letter terminating his employment with Duxbury.

“I’m disappointed,” said MacDonald this week, however he declined to comment further on the matter.

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Around Town HallConservation Commission: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m. in the Mu-ral Room at Town Hall.

Historical Commission: Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m. in the small conference room at Town Hall.

Board of Health: Thursday, Feb. 19, 7:15 p.m. in the Mural Room at Town Hall.

Planning Board: Monday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m. in the small conference room at Town Hall.

Board of Selectmen: Monday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m. in the Mural Room at Town Hall.

Community Preservation Committee: Thursday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. in the Mural Room at Town Hall. Public information session.

School Committee: Wednesday, March 4, 7 p.m. at the Alden School, Room 104.


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Den 4 members Storme Felty, Griffin Brayer, Charlie Siegener, Brendan McCarthy, Tyler Winterbottom, Jared Divasta (not pictured Jared Neprund.)

Paula Harris of Bayridge Lane announces her candidacy for Duxbury Library Trustee. Harris is excited about the opportu-nity. “For me, there are two things that really stand out about Duxbury –– our open spaces and the Duxbury Free Library. I have been a member of the Open Space and Recreation Com-mittee for five years and now feel it’s time to serve the library. The Duxbury Free Library serves all of our residents with the

materials, resources and the many creative programs that are offered. I’ve especially been a huge fan of the Fourth Friday Fringe Film series since it started.”

Harris and her husband, Bill, have their own business, WH Cornerstone Investments based in Duxbury, where they have owned their home since 1993. In addition to her work with the firm, Paula is active in her com-munity. She is president of the board of directors for the Plymouth Phil-

harmonic Orchestra and sits on the Executive Committee of the board of directors for the South Shore Chamber of Com-merce. She also serves on Bridgewater State College’s School of Business Advisory Council and is the founding Director of the Boston-based Downtown Women’s Club’s South Shore Chapter. She is the past chair of the Duxbury Open Space & Recreation Committee. She is a member of The Community Garden Club of Duxbury and Plymouth Yacht Club.

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DBMS registration eventsDuxbury Bay Maritime School is holding registration for

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Selectmen voted 2-1 this week not to endorse a citizen’s petition Town Meeting article that will reduce the Communi-ty Preservation Act surcharge to 0.25 percent.

Selectman Andre Martec-chini voted in favor of sup-porting Article 13, while Se-lectmen Chairman Jon Witten and Selectman Betsy Sullivan voted against it.

Article 13 seeks to rollback the Community Preservation Act surcharge from three per-cent to 0.25 percent. The CPA surcharge funds projects such as purchasing open space, pre-serving historical assets and creating affordable housing. Three percent is the maximum a community can choose when approving the CPA. Duxbury adopted the CPA via initiative petition in 2001.

Article 13 was placed on the annual Town Meeting war-rant by citizen’s petition, an action spearheaded by Trem-ont Street resident Jim Sul-livan. The motivation behind the article was to alleviate some of the property tax bur-den on residents.

In supporting Article 13, Martecchini said it made sense to reduce the CPA surcharge to help those residents who were struggling to pay their bills due to the poor economy and in order to pay for the town’s

upcoming necessary capital projects, such as a new police and fire station.

“A lot of people are hurt-ing right now,” said Martec-chini. “I really struggle to make my taxes every quarter. Looking at this, we have other critical projects that we, as a town, have a responsibility to tax payers to get done.”

Among the projects Mar-tecchini cited are the $14.5 million proposal for a com-bined police and fire station, the $2.2 million proposal to renovate the town pool, $1.5 million for a new roof at Chan-dler elementary school, and a $200,000 feasibility study of the middle and high school buildings and systems. All of these are debt exclusions, a type of Proposition 2 1/2 over-ride that increases property tax increases. They must be de-cided by voters at the annual Town Meeting and at the vot-ing booth.

According to Martecchini, who has been a selectmen for twelve years and is running

for another three-year term, the town can “no longer afford to keep putting off these proj-ects” despite “the tremendous financial burden” they will place on residents.

Martecchini said he re-searched how reducing the CPA surcharge and how pass-ing the capital projects would

affect a resident’s taxes. Using an average property

tax bill of $7,500 for FY2011, Martecchini calculated that the CPA surcharge of three percent would be $225. If that surcharge is cut to .25 per-cent, it would generate only $19, a $206 savings. If voters approved the ballot override questions for the schools and the combined police and fire facility, then the taxes on this average tax bill would go up by $308, said Martecchini. If the CPA reduction passes and voters approve the projects, then this tax increase is re-duced to $102.

“Is this much?” asked Martecchini. “It’s a couple of dinners out, but in these diffi-cult economic times, it may be time to take a break from CPA

and come back in a year or two to revisit it.”

Selectman Betsy Sullivan said she could not support Ar-ticle 13.

“The extreme measure of going from three percent to 0.25 percent practically elimi-nates the CPA,” said Sullivan. “I prefer we keep the CPA in-tact.”

She said the town has done so many good things using CPA funds and that there is still much more work to be done, especially in the area of bring-ing more affordable housing to Duxbury, one of the CPA’s three main purposes.

Sullivan said that if there were not exemptions to paying the CPA tax surcharge for the elderly, low income and the disabled, she might be more inclined to support Article 13.

Additionally, this is one program in which Duxbury residents see the money they pay to the state come back to them, she said because the state matches the town’s con-tribution. Up until this year,

the state match has been 100 percent. This year, it was re-duced to 73 percent and next year the match is projected to decline to 35 percent, because of the depressed economy.

Witten said the Communi-ty Preservation Act money has been a valuable tool in pre-serving open space, building

affordable housing and invest-ing in recreational fields.

“Duxbury has used its money wisely,” said Witten. “It has not squandered it.”

If voters roll back the sur-charge, Witten argued that the town would never increase it again, because “the level of ef-fort in getting the CPA passed was extraordinary,” he said.

Betsy Sullivan noted that if Article 13 passes town meeting, residents would not see a difference in their taxes for some time. The CPA law requires 35 days to pass be-tween Town Meeting action and a town election, and since Duxbury’s town election is two weeks after Town Meet-ing, the rollback would not be on the ballot until the spring of 2010, and therefore the earli-est taxpayers would see any relief is the 2011 fiscal year. The act does allow changes to the surcharge to be voted on at a state election, but there is no state election scheduled until the fall of 2010. The act does not permit changes via a spe-cial town election.

According to state CPA experts, another alternative for proponents of the surcharge reduction would be to seek a change via the initiative peti-tion process rather than Town Meeting. That would require signatures of five percent of the town voters.

Roll back proponent Jim Sullivan said it was time to take a break from the three percent surcharge and “redi-rect the income flow,” which will enhance the chances of passing the big-ticket projects such as the police/fire station.

“There is a financial crisis that requires action,” he said.

Selectmen split over CPA surcharge cut

Looking at this, we have other criti-cal projects that we, as a town, have a responsibility to tax payers to get

done.” –– Andre Martecchini

“The extreme measure of going from three percent to 0.25 percent practically eliminates the CPA... I prefer we keep the CPA intact.”

–– Betsy Sullivan

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Congratulations to the ➢following students that were named to the honor roll at Thay-er Academy Middle School: Margaret Barry, grade 6, ef-fort; Sean Barry, grade 7, academic achievement; Caro-line Finnegan, grade 7, effort; Matthew Quinlisk, grade 7, academic achievement; Con-nor Rayfield, grade 7, aca-demic achievement; and Taylor Thorbahn, grade 6, academic achievement.

The following students ➢made the honor roll for the first term and semester at Thayer Academy High School; Lauren Baker, Grade 9, honors; Caitlin Chase, grade 10, high honors; Charles Finnegan, grade 10, honors; and Jonathan Woods, grade 9, honors. Congratula-tions!

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Colby Badeau, a sopho- ➢more at Boston College High School, along with 18 other members of the BC High Con-cert Choir, continued his globe-trotting ways with a concert tour of Rome over the Thanks-giving holiday. The choir, under the leadership of director Dr. Marina Rozenberg, performed a friendship concert with the sing-ers of Coro Primo Levi, thrilling their hosts with their renditions of “Ave Maria,” “Come Back to Sorrento,” “The Prayer,” and “O, Sole Mio”.

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This week, Selectmen Chairman Jon Witten said he could not accept a gift worth over $800,000 from the group in charge of building an ar-tificial turf field at the high school, because he did not have a written opinion from Town Manager Richard Mac-Donald on using Community Preservation Act funds for field improvements.

Witten cast the dis-senting vote against ac-cepting the gift only b e c a u s e he felt the selectmen were not

following the correct proce-dures at their meeting Monday night. MacDonald did not at-tend due to illness, so he could not clarify his position on a re-cent legal opinion from Town Counsel Robert Troy that casts him as the decision maker for using CPA funds to prepare the field for artificial turf.

“I am opposed,” said Wit-ten on the 2-1 vote. “I don’t think we are doing this in the right order.”

Witten was not against PRIDE, which stands for Pro-moting Recreation Investment to Develop Excellence, giving the gift and the selectmen left the meeting with a check.

Currently, the gift to the town totals $837,682. This in-cludes $205,100 paid by the booster group to engineers to design the plans for the field, $379,471 that they paid to the company Sportexe for turf and installation costs, and $253,111 for the balance of the field construction costs.

Construction on the new turf football field should be-gin in March and will be ready for play by Sept. 1, said Kevin Mullins.

In 2007, annual Town Meeting approved using $500,000 in Community Pres-ervation Act funds for drain-age and site work improve-ments to the Duxbury High School field in preparation for artificial turf. After the 2007 annual Town Meeting action, there was concern that the CPA funds could not be used to help build the turf field because of a legal case in Newton in which the court rejected the use of

CPA funds for upgrading rec-reational parks and fields.

However, the court ruled that CPA funds can be used to “preserve” pre-existing recre-ational land, and Troy felt that due to the persistent drainage problems at the DHS football field, it was acceptable to use CPA money for new drainage plans that would preserve the field, which was built on a wetland and landfill, and ulti-mately ready it for turf.

Witten wanted a written opinion from MacDonald say-ing that he would release the CPA funds for the site work be-cause Troy stated in a January 21 memo that the town man-ager is the person responsible for allowing this expenditure. Troy said MacDonald must determine that spending this money meets the standards set by the Supreme Judicial Court and the state Department of Revenue “for ‘preservation’ of municipal recreational prop-erty not originally acquired with Community Preservation Funds and if the expenditure is limited solely to drainage and related site improvement work.”

Selectman Andre Martec-chini voted to accept the gift saying he felt confident in Troy’s interpretation of the laws regarding using CPA funds for this type of prepara-tion work on existing fields.

“I’ve talked extensively to Bob Troy about this and I’m fine with it,” said Martecchini,

adding that MacDonald could produce a written decision “to complete the paper trail.”

Mullins said that the next step is for the town to sign a contract with the Heimlich Construction company to build the turf field. Heimlich Con-struction was the high bidder when the town bid the project.

Mullins said his group is continuing to fundraise be-cause it needs approximately $200,000 for new field lights.

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At their meeting Monday night, Duxbury selectmen took the fol-lowing action:

• They voted 2-1 in favor of supporting annual Town Meeting article 36 for $200,000 for a feasibility study of the existing systems, such as electrical, plumbing, etc, at the Duxbury middle and high schools. Selectman Betsy Sullivan voted against supporting the article because she said that such a study should be done after there is an upgrade plan in place for these schools. Article 36 is being proposed as a debt exclusion to Proposition 2 1/2 and is a ballot question at the March election.

• They voted to support Article 37, a debt exclusion proposal for $1.54 million for a new roof for the Chandler elementary school. Like Article 36, this will need Town Meeting approval and will also be a ballot question. Skeiber said that when the Chandler school was being renovated, the roof was deemed acceptable at that time. A $620,000 reimbursement is expected from the school building assistance fund, said Skeiber.

• They supported Article 6, the town’s capital budget in the amount of $728,740. This amount includes $400,668 for school capital needs; $83,456 for public safety items; $184,640 for public works; $5,931 for the Council on Aging; and $21,000 for library and recre-ation. Money for capital expenses will come out of the town’s free cash account, which, in previous years, has been used to balance the operating budget. In addition, the water department capital expenses equal $600,000.

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Mrs. Barbara A. (Barry) Kelley, 76, of Hanover died Sunday, Feb. 8 at home sur-rounded by her family. She was born in Malden and was raised and educated there, graduating from Malden Catholic High

School. In 1954, she graduated from Salem State with a BA in English. She had been a vol-unteer at South Shore Hospital in the 1990’s, and also volun-teered at the Brockton VA and Brockton Catholic Charities.

Wife of the late Atty. Rob-ert W. Kelley, she leaves one son, Atty Robert E. Kelley and his wife Wendy of Milton; four daughters, Sara Finocchiaro and her husband, Edward, of Duxbury, Andrea W. Hard-ing and her husband, James of Lexington, Paula K. Mc-Namara and her husband, Pat-rick, of Conn., and Katherine E. Detmer and her husband,

Koy, of Texas. She also leaves 13 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late David R. Barry.

A Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 11 a.m. in St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Church, 392 Hanover St., Rt. 139, Hanover. Burial will be in Hanover Center Cemetery. Visiting hours in the Sullivan Funeral Home, 551 Washing-ton St., Rte. 53, in Hanover on Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. Me-morial donations may be made to the Norwell VNA-Hospice, 91 Longwater Circle, Norwell MA 02061.

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The user fee for high school athletics won’t increase, but sports families may still pay more under the new family cap rules.

The School Committee voted on Wednesday to change the cap on athletic fees to five sports per family, meaning that once a family has paid the $210 athletic user fee five times, they won’t have to pay it again if their son or daugh-ter plays another sport. The old cap was $800 rather than a per-sport figure.

Duxbury High School Ath-letic Director Thom Holdgate told the committee that the fees collected this year did not match revenue projections.

“The number of families that went over the cap was more than expected,” he said.

Last year, the district in-creased the sports user fee to

$210 and separated bus fees and athletic fees under the cap, but the numbers still fell short this year.

“A lot of families are hit-ting that cap very early,” Hold-gate said. “If you play four sports you’re already over the cap.”

He said he has taken to sending some fees back be-fore a family even hits the cap, knowing a refund will be in-evitable.

“$800 is too small a num-ber for me to run the athletic department, based on that $210 fee,” said Holdgate. He said his budget projections were about $10,000 short.

Raising the fee to five sports would bring in about 50 more fees, Holdgate said, making up the $10,000 budget gap.

School Committee mem-ber John Heinstadt asked how many families would hit that

five sport cap, Holdgate said about 20.

The Committee also vot-ed to increase the one-time co-curricular fee at the high school and middle school to $110. The middle school fee had been $75, the high school fee had been $100.

Department Business Manager Peter Etzel said that even with the increase, there will still be a $3,500-4,000 shortfall in the co-curricular budget.

“That becomes a much more managable situation than what they’re faced with most years,” said Etzel, pointing out that some years the deficit was as much as $10,000.

“Without fees, we’ve got to cut sports, we’ve got to cut co-curricular,” said Super-intendent of Schools Susan Skeiber. “That’s the reality of it.”

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Dorothy Gunborg Berardi, 93, of Duxbury, formerly of

Marshfield, died on Sun-day, Feb. 1. Born in Bos-ton, she was the daughter of Mathilda and Sven Nelson. She

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lio Berardi. They raised two children in Dorchester, then moved to Marshfield full-time in the 1970’s.

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several nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Pauline Stevens.

A memorial celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 1 at St. John the Evangelist Church, 410 Washington St. Duxbury. Donations in her name may be made to the Alzheimer’s As-sociation Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter.

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The Duxbury Police De-partment is reviving a commit-tee designed to increase com-munication between the police and citizens of Duxbury.

The Citizen’s Action Team first started two years ago, said Duxbury Police Chief Mark DeLuca. Participation had lapsed, but the group has start-ed meeting again in earnest.

“It’s been a useful tool,” said DeLuca. “It helps us to alleviate a lot of misconcep-tions.”

The team is composed of a member from each voting dis-trict in Duxbury, one from the business community, one from the senior citizen community, and one clergy member. The group meets once a month.

DeLuca said that the action team serves several purposes. One is to better communica-tion between the department and the town overall.

“I think communication’s huge,” he said. “The whole reason is to lower the barri-ers.”

There may be some in-stances where a citizen is more comfortable approaching a member of the action team rather than the police depart-ment directly, DeLuca said.

There is also an emergen-cy component to the group. About a year and a half ago, a registered sex offender moved into a Duxbury neighborhood. Residents wanted to make sure their neighbors were informed, but they wanted to stay on the right side of the law. That’s when someone contacted a representative of the Citizen’s Action Team.

“We had an emergency meeting to discuss what you can and can’t do,” DeLuca

said.Other issues that have

come to the police depart-ment’s attention through the action team are chronic speed-ing in Snug Harbor and other areas in town, and a suspected drug house.

“Nothing is too insignifi-cant to bring to us,” DeLuca said.

Jackson Kent of Bayside Marine has been the business community liason since the ac-tion team’s inception. He said he was approached by Chief DeLuca to help bring the busi-ness community’s concerns to the police department.

“I think that any commu-

nication between the town and the community is a good thing,” Kent said.

Through the Citizen’s Ac-tion Team, he’s been able to bring concerns about parking and speeding in the Snug Har-bor area to the police. He said he’s seen other people with concerns bring them to the team –– even if they weren’t comfortable approaching the police department directly.

“The police seem very re-sponsive,” Kent said, “I think it’s good to have conversa-tion”

DeLuca said he feels the Citizens’ Action Team is simi-lar to the PAL program or hav-ing the school resource officer at the school –– it breaks down the walls between police and the public.

“A lot of police depart-ments try to police a com-munity without involving the community,” he said. “I don’t think you can do that.”

A link to the action team can be found on the depart-ment’s Web site at duxburypo-lice.org.

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for the change, and Maureen Connolly and John Heinstadt voted against it.

The issue of changing school start times has been a hot topic in Duxbury over the past several weeks. First broached six years ago by the high school council, the idea of pushing back the start of the school day for older students was tabled as Duxbury High School went through some ad-ministrative changes, but re-surfaced this year.

Parents on both sides of the issue gave passionate tes-timony at Wednesday’s School Committee meeting, and at a public forum held two weeks ago at the middle school. Those in support of the change pointed to mountains of scien-tific evidence that says teen-agers have difficulty falling asleep at earlier hours. They also pointed to the positive re-

sults at other school districts that have made the change. Hingham, which several years ago changed their high school start time without affecting lower grades, has seen in-

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After the split vote flipping the start times of the Alden School with the high school and middle school, School Com-mittee members felt the need to explain their votes to the pub-lic.

Maureen Connolly, who voted no, was visibly angry when explaining her decision.

“The plan was literally driven by the buses, and the budget .. or I should say lack thereof,” she said.

Connolly also agreed with parents concerned about the move’s impact on Duxbury’s younger students.

“There was not as much homework done on the impact to our Alden students,” she said. “As a school committee mem-ber, I needed to look out not just for our older students.”

Connolly pointed out the early start time at Alden would have students waiting for the bus in the dark, and may have kids wandering unsupervised after school.

“I don’t want the school system to have any more liability. We have spent enough in legal fees,” she said.

George Cipolletti said he felt there was a measurable posi-tive benefit for high school students at the later start time, and only possible negative for the younger students, therefore he had to vote for the change.

“If I tallied up the e-mails it would come out to 50/50, so I supposed half of you think I listened and half of you think I didn’t,” he said.

said he felt the after school issues could be addressed by the district after the change was approved.

However, he was upset about the tone of some of the e-mails and phone calls he received.

“To be accused of being a puppet of the administration is as insulting as it is absurd,” he said.

Karen Wong agreed, saying she had received some mes-sages with a “threatening” tone.

She also pointed to the Wilton example as a reason to make the change in Duxbury, calling it “a success in every way.”

John Heinstadt said he felt there was no new information since the issue was tabled six years ago, and couldn’t see a compelling reason to make the change.

“I didn’t think that enough study was done of the effect of the change on the Alden School,” he said. “The reason we tabled it [six years ago] was because of the Alden School.”

New start for schoolscontinued from page one

“If I tallied up the e-mails it would come out to 50/50, so I supposed half of you think I listened and half of you

think I didn’t.” –– George Cipolletti

Superintendent of Schools Susan Skeiber and Mary Lynn Carson of the Sleep Time Study Committee explain the rationale behind moving back the high school and middle school start times at Wednesday’s School Committee meeting.


not be disputed,” said Greg Chandler, a member of the high school council. He said that high school teachers have reported they can’t teach much in the first block because the students are so sleepy.

Local author Brian Lies, the parent of an eighth grader, said he felt the benefits to the older students should be the primary motivation for the change.

“My feeling is that it makes sense to arrange schedules in a way that prepares our students for college,” he said. “We want to send our young people out into the world with as many advantages as we can.”

Glenn Listernick, a for-mer high school teacher and administrator, pointed out that before education reform laws were passed, many Massachu-setts high schools began at 8 or 8:15 a.m.

“There wasn’t any sleep study research during this time,” he said. “15 years ago, that wasn’t considered.”

Parents opposed to the change said it would hurt Al-den students, making them wait in the dark for the bus for at least part of the school year. Many parents said the switch would disrupt child care ar-rangements, and some said de-spite the increased test scores at the high school in Wilton, the elementary scores have suffered.

“Do not use Alden stu-dents as guinea pigs,” said one parent.

Cathy Savery of Pine Lake Road said she felt the schools did not involve the community enough, and said other com-munities that have made the change did more extensive parent surveys.

“I believe good sleeping habits cannot be legislated,” said Ann Mullins of Surplus Street. “Leave some of this to the families and students in-volved.”

Mullins pointed out that the later start times may force some sports to practice before school, negating any benefits of additional sleep.

Selden Tearse of Bay Road reiterated the idea that the switch would create extra child care costs.

“It would not be cost neu-

tral to working parents, of Al-den students in particular,” she said.

Now that the matter has been approved by the School Committee, it will take effect in the fall.

Superintendent of Schools Susan Skeiber said she has been in contact with the Dux-bury Student Union about the possibility of that organization providing after school options for Alden School students. Since the middle school forum, Skeiber said she has also spo-ken with a fifth grade teacher at Alden about creating some after school programs.

Mary Lynn Carson of the Sleep Time Study Committee also suggested the district look into allowing Alden students to take the bus home with their middle school or high school sibling. She said that although finding schools districts with a similar situation to Duxbury was difficult, no one who has made the change regrets it.

“The thing I heard over and over again is, no one wants to go back,” she said.

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High School students also thought the change would af-fect sports, but in a negative way.

“It will interfere with sports,” said Drew Husted. Husted swims with both the high school team and a club team called the Kingfish. The practices are one after anoth-er, after school, so they will be affected by the later start time. He is afraid he won’t be able to participate in the club team, which meets later in the afternoon, as well as the high school rowing team because of the change.

“It’s probably good for some people,” said Husted. “Everyone likes to sleep.”

Although some school dis-tricts have reported a decrease in tardiness after changing their start times, Hingham’s Principal Paula Girouard-Mc-Cann said the change has had more of an effect on academ-ics.

“There’s a certain group that is just late all the time,” she said. “Anyone who thinks

this is going to solve the tardy problem is wrong.”

That view was backed up by one high school student who described himself as “chronically late.”

“I don’t think I’d get to school any earlier,” said James Auer.

Auer also pointed out that many students go to after school help before heading off to their sport of choice, and they may now have to go di-rectly to the sport.

“We’re just going to go to bed later,” said Annie White, disputing what time change proponents have said about students utilizing the extra sleep time.

She also pointed out that in the winter, high schoolers will only have an hour or so of daylight after they get out of school.

Some students, however, were optimistic about the change.

“When we get to school, we won’t be tired and we’ll get better grades,” said Brett Stuhr, a seventh grader.

Sophomore Carly Tillotson put it even more succinctly.

“I’m happy about it,” she said. “I need the sleep.”


High schools students seem to be mixed about the time change. Sophomore Annie White (left) thought it would be a bad idea, saying teens would just say up later and wouldn’t get the benefits of extra sleep. Classmate Carly Tillotson said she could use the extra sleep.

A group of Duxbury Middle School students interviewed Monday said they were looking forward to the time change, believing it would allow students with late sports like youth hockey to get more sleep.

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Free movies...Thursdays at 1 p.m. Feature on Feb. 12 will be “Ghost Town.”

Valentine’s lunch and show...Thursday, Feb. 12, with the return of pianist Gerry Gottschalk, courtesy of the Kingston/Duxbury Kiwanis. Don’t miss this rare treat to hear from a true professional playing our Big Band favorites…and more. Come and enjoy! Be sure to call early for your lunch reservations!

Sadie bus trip...Friday, Feb. 13 to a Cohasset South Shore Art Gallery exhibit of local artists regarding the making of prints and a variety of other art works. Exhibit is free. ($5 donation suggested.) Stop for lunch on the way home at the Fairview Restaurant at Brant Rock.

Free hearing screenings...Miracle Ear’s licensed specialist, David Totman will be at the Senior Center from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, Feb. 19. Also, hearing aid batteries may be replaced for the cost of the batteries. Call Julie ext. 104 for an appointment.

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Foot care clinic...Certified Nurse Jean Reardon will be at the Senior Center on March 10. Cost is $31 at the Senior Center ($45 for home visit). Call Julie at ext. 104 for an appointment.

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Publisher Josh Cutler won first place in the editorial writ-ing category for a series of ed-itorials on town government. Editor Justin Graeber won first place in the category of health reporting for his story “Hot Spot” on the high incidence of Lyme Disease in the Standish Shore area of Duxbury. The Clipper staff also won first place in the category of best idea for generating ad sales for the Duxbury Year in Photos, and first place in the category of Web convergence for the Lyme Disease story.

Columnist Bruce Barrett’s chronicling of his journey to the Zabuli School for Girls in Afghanistan earned two awards.

“For a small newspaper, this was a hugely ambitious and well-executed project,” wrote the NEPA judges of “The Road to Zabuli.” “The community made a significant investment in an international humanitarian mission, and the newspaper was there every step of the way to watch it pay off.”

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I have been following with interest the po-tential financial prob-

lems the town faces. Need for new fire and police stations, roof(s) for schools, pool refur-bishment, etc. I hear rumors of extinguished streetlights and worse to solve the problem. Reduction in state aid seems inevitable.

I look at my kid’s 529(s), my IRA and that is not a pretty picture either. The town and I have similar financial issues.

This brings me to the CPA issue. I fully supported the CPA

and think it has done a lot of good, although, lately, we seem to be a little casual in spending that money ”because it’s there.” But it is time to revisit this issue. I would be entirely supportive of voting for fire and/or police station, school roof and pool refurbishment if the town meet-ing gives taxpayers a break via tax relief by temporarily reduc-ing the CPA. I know the devil is in the details but I am sure it is a devil we can conquer if we have the will. If the town is not willing to make some modi-fications in the tax structure, I

cannot see voting for any new capital expenditures or support-ing those who insist more taxes is the only solution.

I also hope our selectmen look ahead to what is coming down the road or rather what is not coming down the road in terms of financial assistance. I am sure they will see we need to hunker down for a bit.

A couple of more recent comments: “If Duxbury sus-pends the CPA we will never get it back.” To that I say if it was worthwhile in the first place and voted in, why not again. And if the voters do not want it again, so be it. That is what democracy is all about.

CPA is for the “common good. What is more “common good” than our police, fire, pool and school?

The only way for either CPA proponents or opponents to voice there opinions in a meaningful way is to attend Town Meeting. Lets hope we have a good turnout!

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Pool arguments are all wet

The supporters of the Percy Walker Pool have mounted a fierce campaign in recent weeks, spurred on by a town proposal to shutter the pool for a year

as a cost-saving measure if the Town Meeting renovation article does not pass.

We have to question some of the figures being thrown around. The pool supporters have repeatedly said 100,000 people use the pool. Just as a comparison, the entire population of Plymouth County is 493,623, according to the US Census bureau. Unless 1/5 of the county is traveling to Duxbury to get a few laps in, those numbers can’t be accurate. If those figures include the same person using the pool multiple times that’s all well and good, but the figure loses its shock value.

The pool is certainly a resource used by many local residents, students and seniors. However, we are in the middle of a crushing fiscal crisis in Massachusetts, and it’s time to prioritize.

Some letter writers have lamented, “where will our fourth graders learn to swim if the pool is closed?” Such lessons are a luxury. They’re fine when the community has the money. But when times are tight, swimming lessons shouldn’t be protected from the chopping block. The state recently reneged on a promise to provide education funding to Duxbury, creating a budget gap. This is the time to protect core services, not luxuries that have nothing to do with education.

If temporarily closing the pool will save money, it is an option the town should seriously consider. And Duxbury as a community needs to take a step back and consider what’s really important.

–– J. Graeber

The staff of the Clipper had the good fortune to be honored with six awards –– five of them first place –– at this weekend’s New England Press

Association Better Newspaper awards. We’re not usually big on tooting our own horn, but I’ve always believed that a good newspaper is a reflection of the community. It was fun to be in the ballroom at the NEPA convention with a group of people who represent the best community journalism has to offer. Seeing our work up there on display is a nice feeling, too. But I know it’s the folks that write letters, send in pictures of Girl Scout meetings, and call in with story ideas that make the Clipper what it is. So thank you people of Duxbury, and raise a glass, because these are your awards too.

–– J. Graeber

A moment shared

I agree with your editori-al last week to keep the Community Preserva-

tion Act intact. During an eco-nomic downturn when the State is reducing aid to towns, where else can we continue to obtain this level of matching funds? To turn off the projected $400,000 per year ($2 million over five years) in matching funds we

will receive right now would be shortsighted. In the future, the Town will buy strategic land parcels to balance growth and reduce infrastructure costs and taxes. Why should we pay a lot more for this land than we have to?

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Today I left the Alden School with a huge smile on my face

and tears in my eyes. You see, I was honored to visit the Pilgrim Area Collaborative classroom to meet one of my son’s friends. What’s so special about that? Everything. The students in the PAC classroom have Down Syndrome and are housed two doors away from a mainstream or “traditional” classroom. The staff is top notch; friendly, pro-fessional, and most important-

ly, compassionate. Each teach-er came up to greet both my daughter and me to tell us what a wonderful experience it has been for both my son and his pal to be able to lunch together and grow a friendship. I have been heartened and humbled by my son’s enthusiasm at being enabled to make a close friend in this program. I am thrilled Alden operates in this manner, housing all types of learners in one location, enabling our stu-dents to meet a diverse group

of children. MCAS will never have the ability to measure an experience like this. Duxbury Schools should be proud of this program and the fact that it al-lows students to feed their souls as well as their minds. I thank the parents, DPS, and my son’s teacher, Rachel Stadelmann, for granting this wonderful oppor-tunity to my son and our family. We are truly blessed.

Kellie BresnehanPine Lake Road

The Jan. 28 issue of the Clipper carried an article entitled

“No layoffs planned for Town Employees.” If the article to renovate Percy Walker Pool is not carried at Town Meeting March 14, 30 people will lose their jobs. Three of these are full time supervisory positions, and the remaining number are lifeguard slots filled by high school students, young people working their way through col-lege, or others working another job and needing to add to their income. Such a position is

frequently the first employ-ment, giving the worker an opportunity to list it as a reference for the next posi-tion, or to list it on an ap-plication for school.

These employees be-come role models for the children they teach, and they are befriended by the families of the young swim-mers. Some of the supervi-

sors have worked at the pool 10-20 years and have taught two generations, with students who credit life savings classes as the reason they pursued ca-reers as physicians, biologists, EMTs, etc. Mentoring situa-tions developed which have allowed them to help with Eas-ter Seal children on the South Shore.

The actual operating cost of the pool for high school prac-tices and meets is “floated” at a similar figure to the $30-40,000 deficit for this year. How user fees are determined and wheth-er these fees are allocated to the pool budget should be studied. If the pool closes and a swim team is to continue through the high school, these monies will have to be paid to use another facility in another town, and an additional $15,000 for trans-portation will be needed. The deficit might also be reduced by a charge for some 250 fourth grade students who use the pool

for the learn-to-swim program five days a week for six weeks each Spring. Other high school teams also pay to use the pool for their meets during swim season, and some private clubs have meets year round. A ren-ovated pool might command higher charges.

For 10 cents a day per voter, passage of this article will keep the building from becoming an eyesore here in the center of our education and arts area. Chemicals would have to be stored elsewhere, the pool itself still attended to, memberships refunded, and the building pro-tected from curious intruders.

When would we be able to overhaul PWP and open it once again? Where would we find quality staff and members? I agree with Selectman Martec-chini who stated, “I am not so sure that closing Percy Walker Pool is the wisest thing to do.”

Janie ArkemaOnion Hill Rd.

Layoffs at pool would have ripple effect

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We believe we speak for many residents when

we express our disappointment regarding the School Com-mittee’s recent vote to change school start times. Personally, however, we are even more dis-appointed with the process that preceded the vote.

The National Sleep Foun-dation sets out a plan for school districts considering delayed start times. One tip advises, “Start early to educate the community and all parties in-volved.” Another states, “Com-munity engagement is key and this means involving parents, students, teachers, as well as transportation, cafeteria, and extracurricular personnel, coaches, employers and others impacted by this issue.”

The superintendent pre-sented a timeline at the Feb. 4 School Committee meeting that purported to comply with these guidelines. Unfortunate-ly, however, the general popu-lation of Duxbury was unaware that the events on the timeline were occurring until the admin-istration announced its plans in early January. Prime examples of how Duxbury should have proceeded are abundant and easily accessible (see Shrews-bury report for an excellent model). Actual surveys used by towns are available online, and reports show that public in-volvement usually spans at least several months, as opposed to the one month period given to Duxbury residents to digest this proposal. This administration

knowingly ignored some of the most important tenets of public involvement.

We commend School Com-mittee members Heinstadt and Connolly because they rec-ognized the shortcomings in this process. School Commit-tee members are elected and given their authority to vote by the residents of Duxbury. The committee does not exist as a rubber stamp for agendas proposed by the superintendent or any other group, but is com-pelled to act based upon the will of the voters.

The process for considering this change should have been more open and transparent and a true effort should have been made to determine the willing-ness of the residents to adopt this change.

In summary, the process used to change the school start times was fatally flawed and represented the adoption of the agenda of a few rather than a mandate of many. This process may very well have sacrificed the sleep needs of the Alden

students for the benefit of the DMS/DHS students. The ad-ministration and majority of School Committee members chose to ignore this risk; but what if this risk becomes a re-ality? We can never recapture these formative years. Re-search shows that many Alden students will experience the effects of circadian rhythms. These children will be sleep deprived, even if they experi-ence these biological and phys-iological changes more slowly than the older adolescents. Residents repeatedly suggested alternatives and were willing to work with the administration to develop a more acceptable plan regarding start times - they were denied the opportunity to do so at every turn. We hope that the administration and School Committee maintain an open mind when assessing how these changes are working, as they may have to revisit start times – especially that of Alden – in the near future.

Kyle and Jim Donohue and Cathy Savery

By Karen Barry

The question was asked: Is the development of two new unions in town the best thing for the townspeople and taxpayers of Duxbury? I fear, long

term, that it will not be. We pay the bills and are the recipients of the services but in this scenario we are the only party to not have a say. It has been reported that Police Chief Deluca and Library Director Elaine Winquist, an effective activist instrumental in organizing unions for her employees on at least two other occasions, lead the Duxbury Professional Employees Association. The personal interest and the activities of the members of the DPEA will have long lasting consequences on the relationship our community has with our professional employees.

Participation in the union is not a choice for an employee or the town after the union has secured the job classification. In the future will we attract quality professionals who would prefer to negotiate the terms of their employment but will now be restricted because the desired position is within a collective bargaining unit? More of our budget dollars will be spent to cover increased legal expenses incurred through our contact with the union and how will this impact our ability to fund salaries and services?

At the heart of the DPEA grievance was the desire for job security and for a disciplinary process that included an objective arbitration alternative. Nationally we are seeing an alarming number of unionized corporations struggling in a declining market with constraining union contracts at the center of the discussion

as their non-union competitors avoid the same degree of layoff’s and closures. Job security is far from guaranteed for these protected union employees, as will be the case here in town if we do not have sufficient revenue and a mutually beneficial contract. In addition if an employee is not effective in their position are we better served by the “protection” that a union will pursue through an often lengthy and expensive grievance?

It is a fact that political games are played between the union and management in which a deserving, or undeserving, union employee is well represented by their business agent while another is sacrificed strategically as a tool in bargaining. It can be argued that the same scenario can happen in a non-union environment but the difference is that the employee is not mandated to relinquish 1.6 percent of their salary for representation and benefits that they may not receive. We have some professionals now forced to pay dues to a union that they do not wish to belong to.

A union environment can result in an “us vs. them” attitude between workers. This mentality is fostered by the union and its organizers to create the needed divisiveness to justify their existence. It appears that this already is at work here in the reported strained relationships between co-workers. Hard working union employees are compensated at a scale equivalent to a co-worker of the same grade regardless of accomplishments; initiative or work ethic often times fostering a culture of mediocrity. An individual employee’s performance and position should be reviewed regularly with fair compensation provided for the job being done. Our employees should have open and direct communications with our town manager and Selectmen. As taxpayers we deserve to have issues resolved amongst our professionals without incurring the expense of legal counsel or the intervention of a labor board.

Unions are another expensive layer of management and a political organization that gains strength through increased membership. In this day and age there may be a useful role for union representation in certain industry; however I struggle to find the long-term usefulness here in our small town. Has the fear of job security for some and the personal agendas of a few shaped the long-term employee relationship for many? If this is the case, I believe the taxpayers of Duxbury are not better served.

The writer is a resident of West Street.

Taxpayers lose with new union

Has the fear of job security for some and the personal agendas of a few shaped the long-term employee relationship for many? If this is the case, I believe the taxpayers of Duxbury

are not better served.

Sleep vote process worse than result

Hey! What did we ever do to you, shouts a third grad-

er walking by the place where the Superintendent and School Committee meet? He walks with his head down wondering why his school just got it’s bud-get cut, is on warning by the Feds for poor MCAS results

and the latest; he gets booted out of the house at 6:45 a.m. to catch the bus. They say it’s go-ing to get better in three years, he thought as he jumps over a puddle, in the dark, on a cold winter morning in February.

Jim O’SullivanAmado Way

Tough time to be an Alden kid

So here we sit, on the dawn of another Dux-bury School Adminis-

tration debacle. The second in three months for this adminis-tration and I wonder “How did we get here?” How did a com-munity, with one of the best schools systems in the country 10 years ago, fall so far? How have meetings conducted by the school administration become forums where parents are yell-ing at each other and a police presence is required at a School Committee meeting because a committee member felt threat-ened? What is happening here?

Wednesday’s vote for the school start time switch has no winners. Instead a precedent has been set. This school adminis-tration has made it very clear that it makes changes involving our children, unilaterally. They decide on changes before the public can have a say, the pub-lic forums aren’t really open fo-rums but controlled propagan-da. A large rift has been wedged between our parents and admin-istration. Parents challenging an administration directive and its lack of due diligence, have been trivialized as “resistant to change.” Disagreement over the implementation of the “gifted program” minimized to “tem-pest in the teapot” over using the word “gifted.” The admin-istration and School Committee are missing the boat here, and

this must be addressed. Ratio-nal people take irrational ac-tions when they feel that their voice has not been heard. Peo-ple protest when they feel that a minority is unilaterally deter-mining the fate of the majority without the majority having the opportunity to speak.

Where did these ideas go wrong? The school adminis-tration is lacking strong leader-ship. Proper implementation of programs such as these, require skillful leadership. The type of leadership that sets up goals and objectives prior to program implementation; leadership that seeks out bipartisan input; lead-ership that challenges proposals and solutions so that they are well thought through and leave no questions unanswered. This is where the process has broken down, inadequate leadership, and the stigma of recurring novice blunders. Once again the result of the school commit-tee vote is clearly unpopular. This process needs to change.

I challenge the School Com-mittee to determine whether this lack of leadership is due to inexperience, inability or lack of interest. I challenge you to revisit these programs and re-look at them in a holistic man-ner, involving more people than just the interested parties. To move forward we must move backward. There are models available for the investigation

and implementation of these programs published by other school districts. These models show fact gathering, clearly de-fined goals and objectives for the programs and codes of con-duct involving decision mak-ing. If we had used guidelines similar to these, we would not be in the place we are today.

If we do not revise this process going forward we will continue on this path of self de-struction. The current process will continue to jeopardize vi-able programs and ideas. The school committee must be the watchdog and voice of reason during the implementation of such programs and challenge the process.

New programs certainly cannot please all people, but one should question a program that displeases so many. One should question why there is so much discourse with a particular plan. Those questions have not been asked by all of the members in this group. This must change too. It can be surprisingly diffi-cult to achieve agreement, even when the facts are compelling. In such cases, you have to ex-amine whether the proponents have done a bad job of commu-nicating or whether there is a larger structural issue, I suspect it is the latter.

Mark & Kim KellyValley Street

The dawn of another Duxbury school debacle?


DHS presents ‘The Wizard of Oz’

The Lullaby League, Sarah Gill, Béla Tearse and Heather O’Brien with Michelle Ducharme (Glinda the Good Witch) welcomes (Dorothy) Natalie Aldrich to Munchkinland.

Michelle Ducharme, Glinda Good Witch of the North, sings with munchkins Abigail LaCass, Jackie Mutkoski and Olivia Duvall.

Natalie Aldrich (Wicked Witch) with her monkeys. (Commander) Luke Cronin leads Kellie Hennessey, Monica Devereaux, Cory Tucker, Sarah Hanlon, Megan Woomer, Julia Leonard, Hannah Dwinell and Annie White. (monkeys not listed in order).

Photos by Karen Wong

Natalie Aldrich (Wicked Witch) flies down in a cloud of smoke to scare the munchkins, (Glinda) Michelle Ducharme and (Dorothy) Kelly Turok.

Oz Guard, Will Holt talks to Matt Scorza, Kelly Turok, Riley Kerle and Brian Greenwood.

Eric Larsen (coroner) declares that the Wicked Witch of the East is truly dead. Béla Tearse goes over to turn the coroner’s sign around.

Kelly Turok (Dorothy) has her future told by Cameron Draper (Professor Marvel).

Munchkins welcome Dorothy to Munchkinland, Ronnie Buell, Katie Cass, Michealla Cesarini and Morgan Cleary.

The full cast gives their thanks to the pit orchestra directed by James Vinci during the curtain call.


DSU NewsValentines Dance : Share the joy of Valentines Day with

your friends at the DSU 6th grade Valentine Dance this Satur-day, Feb. 14, from 7pm - 9pm. Guests are encouraged to wear something red and be ready to dance, play games and have fun. You do not need to bring a date. The cost is $5 for members and $7 for non-members.

High School Coffeehouses and Open Mic Nights: Due to the success of the High School Coffeehouses and Open Mic Nights, the next event has been scheduled for Friday, Feb. 27 from 7.30 p.m. -10 p.m. The Musicians Development Institute of Plymouth has signed on as an on-going sponsor of the events. Once again, they will donate professional sound equipment and provide a Sound Engineer to improve the quality of performanc-es. Expect a visit from our friends at Dragon TV’s Black Box too. All High School students are encouraged to attend and all musicians are invited to share their talents. High School student Billy Jewell is handling band registrations and ticket sales. The cost is $5 and no charge for Members.

To all our Members and Friends, have a safe and enjoy-able February vacation.

DEF NewsDate change: The DEF Community Spelling has been re-

scheduled for March 3. There is still time to sign up! Visit www.duxburyeducationfoundation.org

Upcoming events: “Entertaining for Education”, formerly known as, “Dinners for Duxbury” will take place March 5 - 15. Host alone or with a friend! Whether it’s dinner, a luncheon, a girl’s night out, or a big shindig, the DEF is looking for parents to host an event of their choice and invite friends and neigh-bors. It’s tax deductible, the DEF will provide the invitations and will thank your guests for their tax deductible donation. It’s a terrific way to gather with friends and support the Duxbury public schools! Interested in hosting Or can’t host but would like to attend? Contact Jen Fallon at 781-934-9797 or Cattina Guimetti at 781-934-7871 or e-mail [email protected]

Grant highlight: 5th GRADE WRITING INITIATIVE – NEO 2 (Alphasmarts) This grant provides funds for the initial purchase of three NEO 2 carts (with 30 NEO’s on each cart), to be shared by all fifth grade teachers and their students. Designed specifically for classroom use, the NEO 2’s provide students with independent writing support through the use of hundreds of built-in writing lessons that can jump start students’ imagina-tions and fuel their writing. Having NEO’s in the classroom will create a one-on-one environment where students can con-tinue to develop their writing skills while at the same time help them with communication, collaboration, and critical thinking, all identified as important skills for the 21st century.

Learn more about the DEF by visiting duxburyeduca-tionfoundation.org.

Newcomers’ Club News

Book Club: We will meet Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 at Jen Thorne’s house to discuss Peony in Love by Lisa See.

Cocktails and Karaoke: On Saturday, March 7, join us for some cocktails and Karaoke at the home of Victoria and Ben Lloyd.

Freewheelers: please join us at the Stamp Act in Marshfield at 10 a.m. on Feb. 13. We will create one of a kind Valentine cards. $5 per child. Please RSVP to [email protected].

House Tour: The Duxbury Newcomers’ Club is organiz-ing its annual Spring House Tour scheduled to take place on May 5. If you would like your home to be featured on the tour, please contact Megan Lemieux at [email protected] or Maggie Sanford at [email protected].

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Wednesday Feb. 11Alden PTA Board Meeting 10 a.m.

All Band Night Concert #1 6:30 p.m. at the PACAll Band Night Concert #2 8 p.m. at the PAC

DHS School Council Meeting

Monday Feb 16 - Friday Feb. 20No school -- vacation week

Saturday Feb. 21 Loretta LaRoche 6:30 p.m at the PAC

Thursday Feb. 26Brain Gym (SEPAC Event) 7-9 p.m. Library Merry Room

Wednesday Mar. 4School Committee meeting 7 p.m. at Alden School

Thursday March 5Chandler PTA meeting

DHS Music trip to DisneyDHS School Council meeting 5 p.m.

SEPAC Presentation 7 p.m.

Monday March 9DHS PTO 7 p.m.

Wednesday March 11Alden Student Council meeting 2:45 p.m.

No school lunch week of Feb. 16Have a great vacation!

Congratulations to DHS musicians: (left to right) Junior Connor Inglis, trumpet; Junior Andria Ronne, bass trombone; Senior Eric Yanulis, french horn; Junior Alex Kosharek, clarinet. These students auditioned and were selected to participate in the 2009 Massachusetts All State Concert in March. They will spend three days in Boston rehearsing and performing in a concert at Boston Symphony Hall with the best high school musicians in Massachusetts.

WE’RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND! Beth Dubuisson and Pamela Smith, co-chairs for Duxbury Music Promoters’ upcoming “Music Dinners”, are pictured with music students Laura Donovan, Sarah Soldi, Ashley Magnuson, Greg Auda and Jake Wong who are looking forward to their March trip to Disney World. The award winning DHS music program travels to Disney every four years to participate in their Magic Music Days Festival and Workshops. Students raise their own funds by selling candy, CD’s, raffle tickets, water bottles and Christmas ornaments. DMP helps offset some of these expenses with fund raisers such

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The All Band Marathon will be held Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Performing Arts Center. Because of the large number of students involved in Band Night, the concert has been divided into two separate blocks of time.

Concert 1 will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will include the DMS Jazz Club, the fifth grade band, the White Band, the symphonic band and the high school jazz band.

Concert 2 will begin at 8 p.m. and will include the DMS jazz ensemble, the sixth grade band, the Green Band, the concert band, the wind ensemble and the high school jazz ensemble.

DMS Green Band selected for All-State conference

The Duxbury Middle School Green Band has been selected by a concert committee to be a featured performance group at the 2009 Massachusetts All-State Conference at the Seaport Ho-tel in Boston. The band was chosen through taped audition, and was selected based on the high quality of a recording they made in December. This invitation is a HUGE honor. This is the sec-ond time a Duxbury Middle School performing group has been selected. The band will be performing for music educators from Massachusetts, and they will be representing what the commit-tee regards as the best middle school band in the state. An anal-ogy that best describes this opportunity is that if we were play-ing football, this would be our Super Bowl! The students will perform on Thursday, March 26 for over 500 music educators.

We congratulate our DMS Green Band musicians: Allison Barrett, Liam Beatson, Thomas Blanchard, Joseph Burke, Geor-gia Butcher, Sean Casey, James Chappuis, Kevin C. Coakley, Kevin K. Coakley, Lindsey Cobb, Jill Coghlan, Michael Con-nolly, Max Cook, Sarah Cooper, Caroline Corbett, Earl Cran-don, Kelly Cronin, Caitlin Daly, Kelly Dame, Christian Dow, Sarah Duffy, Haley Dwinell, Malcolm Edgar, Sarah Federoff, Luke Fitzgerald, Erin Gallagher, John Geiger, Gabrielle Gibbs, Evan Gioiosa, Morgan Gisholt-Minard, Jessica Goldberg, Owen Grey, Christine Griffin, Joseph Guilfoile, Jacqueline Hanra-han, Sarah Hansman, Nicholas Hovey, Robert Hovey, Matthew Huang, Joseph Kearney, Sydney King, Aaron Klein, Robert Ko-sharek, Steven Kravitz, Catherine Larsen, Drew Lawrence, Al-exandra Leaverton, Brianna Lynch, Megan MacKinnon, Patrick MacLennan, Ainsley MacNab, Veronica McCarthy, Benjamin McElduff, Daniel McHugh, Michael McPartlan, Caroline Mc-Sherry, Victor Moitinho, Joshua Moniri, Janine Neprud, James Oliver, Alexander Palfrey, Hana Phelan, Sarah Richardson, Michael Roberts, Patrick Robinson, Conor Rooney, Matthew Roveto, Emma Schroeder, Noah Schwanke, Samantha Shally, Keenan Sicliano, Jackson Sinnott, Catherine Sullivan, Tyler Sunderland, Madeleine Swem, Cameron Tokarski, Stephen To-naszuck, Matthew Tonis, Michael Tougas, Caitlin Turok, Nico-letta Vetsch, Kristina Vicario, Alyson Wolff, and Ian Wyllie.

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Friday, Jan. 301:40 a.m. Suspicious vehicle parked at 23 Depot Street.10:00 a.m. Caller on Anchorage Lane reports a suspicious man stopped to ask her son for direc-tions to Cohasset.12:35 p.m. Caller reports motor vehicle parked on Sunset Street blocking traffic.3:11 p.m. Officer served papers to party on Franklin Street.3:27 p.m. Party in station to re-port ski equipment lost from ve-hicle while travelling on Route 3.5:05 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on High Street. Citation issued.5:59 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on East Street. Citation issued.8:05 p.m. Disabled motor vehi-cle reported at the roundabout on Congress Street.

Saturday, Jan. 312:24 a.m. Kingston Police re-quest K9 assistance on Main Street in Kingston.5:09 a.m. Resident on Cross-creek Lane reports suspicious man out walking with a stick. Officer requests ambulance for evaluation. Man transported to Jordan Hospital.10:23 a.m. Caller reports mail taken from mailbox on Trout Farm Lane and thrown on the road. Police to patrol the area.2:50 p.m. Party in station to re-port stolen credit card accounts.5:26 p.m. Police assisted motor vehicle accident in Pembroke.10:00 p.m. Caller reports ice cracked windshield on car on Au-tumn Avenue.

Sunday, Feb. 12:52 a.m. Caller reports being assaulted on Lincoln Street. Sus-pect left on foot into the woods.

Victim transported to Jordan Hos-pital. Officer requested K9 assis-tance.1:26 p.m. Motor vehicle acci-dent on Tremont Street with in-jury. Part transported to Jordan Hospital.9:00 p.m. Caller from Brook Road reports suspicious vehicle followed her home from Kings-ton the previous night.10:48 p.m. Caller reports two vehicles drag racing down Acorn Street.

Monday Feb. 28:30 a.m. License plate stolen from vehicle on Kingstown Way overnight.10:47 a.m. Suspicious motor ve-hicle with two males reported in the area of Birch Street.11:02 a.m. Party from Alden Street in station to report motor vehicle broken into behind Dux-bury Middle School on Friday, Jan. 30.1:50 p.m. Minor motor vehicle accident on Tremont Street.4:28 p.m. Caller reports erratic operation of motor vehicle on Kingstown Way.6:13 p.m. Motor vehicle stop on Depot Street. Citation issued.7:41 p.m. Caller reports fox or dog struck in road on corner of Tremont Street and Flint Locke Drive. Fox moved to side of the road. State DPW notified.9:50 p.m. Caller from Clearwa-ter Drive reports breaking and en-tering in residence.

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5:30 p.m. Caller on Franklin Street reports some type of ani-mal in basement. Animal contol officer called in.8:48 p.m. 911 hang-up call. Po-lice department called back and caller stated overreaction to party at door.9:58 p.m. Caller reports snow plow struck his vehicle on Con-gress Street.10:44 p.m. Caller on Gurnet Road reports cutting through the parking lot from Powder Point Bridge spun out and is stuck in the snow. Transported party to Marshfield. Vehicle to be re-moved in the morning.

Wednesday, Feb. 42:31 a.m. Caller reports party sleeping in car with car running on Chestnut Street. Officer shut-tled party home.8:47 a.m. Bus company reports cars parked in the street on Hid-den Acres Drive are blocking the school bus.8:49 a.m. Motor vehicle stuck on Duxbury Beach Road by Blakemans.10:31 a.m. Keys locked in car on Wadsworth Lane with child in car.12:46 p.m. Motor vehicle on Saint George Street broken into overnight. Garmin GPS stolen.2:49 p.m. Suspicious male walking on East Street asking for directions. Unable to locate.4:09 p.m. Missing property re-ported on Saint George Street.

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Price Range: $400,000-$500,000

Buyer looking for an updated Townhouse in

Bay Farm area.

Price Range: Up to $550,000

Downsizing Duxbury family would like to find a

3+ BR Duxbury home. Willing to update.

Price Range: $400,000-$600,000

Relocating family of 4 looking for 4BR nghbd

home w/ yard for dog. In Duxbury, Scituate, Hing-

ham, Norwell, or Cohasset.

Price Range: $650,000-$750,000

Buyers looking for property with water views.

Price Range: Up to $1,000,000

Here are the profiles of just a few of the qualified buyers we are representing who have not yet found the home of their dreams. Contrary to the news, this is an excellent time to get your home on the market. Historically, February and March are two of the strongest months for under agreements. If you are contemplating a change, don't put it off waiting for "Spring"... it's here!!

Dorrie Arnold, Manager

Section B • Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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By Bruce Barrett, clipper columnist [email protected]

I oughta be horse-whipped. I knew it was coming back when it was coming. When it got here

I saw it plain as day and I didn’t write a word about it. Keel-haul me, cut me up for bait and throw me to the blue-fish. Patrick Browne and Norman For-git’s latest book, “Duxbury … Past and Present” is a stunner, a splendid addi-tion to any library of Duxbury lore, and I didn’t catch it in time to give the tip to Christmas shoppers.

Don’t worry. You can buy the book

at Westwinds Book Shop at Hall’s Cor-ner, at the big-box book store at the Maul, or at the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society’s headquarters at

the Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House, 479 Washington Street. They’re open year-round, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The concept is simple enough. Us-ing the Society’s archive of images – mostly photographs – Patrick and Nor-man collaborated to write the extensive captions (Patrick) and re-shoot the same scenes today (Norman). The result is a visual catalogue of change coupled with the best narrative information available. The deeper result is what I sometimes

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The Duxbury wrestling team finished its regular season with two come-from-behind victories over Catholic Me-morial and Whitman-Hanson to go 3-0 and win the champi-onship trophy as they hosted their annual team tournament on Saturday.

The Dragon wrestlers started the morning off with a convincing 57-24 win over Southwick Tolland, with se-nior captains Colin McKenzie (140 lbs.), who wrestled in the 145 lbs. weight class, and Ty-ler Genereux (171) getting the first of their three wins on the day to finish the regular sea-son undefeated. Both wrestlers won by technical fall, which is wrestling’s version of the mercy rule with a differential of fifteen points over his op-ponent.

Other significant winners were juniors Tim Donoghue (103), Colin Connolly (125), and John McGeady, freshman Brendan Gillis (112), and se-nior captain Justin Carroll (130), Kyle Scola (135), Zach Sanchez (140), and Pat Mur-phy (189). Murphy was named the outstanding wrestler for his key wins over CM and Whit-man Hanson to seal the cham-pionship for the Dragons.

After cruising by South-

wick, Duxbury found them-selves down 19-0 against Cath-olic Memorial after the first five matches. CM sophomore Ricardo Vieux got the visitors off to a fast start by securing a surprising 10-5 decision over Tim Donoghue in the 103 lbs. weight class. Vieux, who is outstanding on his feet, earned four takedowns to give CM a 3-0 lead.

Freshman Phil Ishigi kept the momentum on CM’s side when he outlasted Brendan Gillis for a 14-4 major deci-sion in the 112 lbs. match-up despite Gillis’ numerous at-tempts to take Ishigi down. The four points gave CM a 7-0 lead, and things weren’t look-ing good for the hosts when senior captain Geovani Lopez took the mat against freshman Mikkel Linskey in the 119 lbs. weight class. However, Lopez could only muster a 4-0 deci-sion against the feisty fresh-man, giving Duxbury some-thing to build on.

Unfortunately for the Dragons, CM secured a pin in the 125 lbs. match-up to give

the visitors six more points before Duxbury senior captain Justin Carroll faced off against CM senior captain and sev-enth-ranked Demetri Vieux. Despite wrestling well, Carroll lost a 7-2 decision and only gave up three team points.

Duxbury senior Kyle Sco-la, who is probably one of the strongest wrestlers pound for pound in the league, got the first in a series of four con-secutive pins by Duxbury to give the hosts a 24-19 lead. Also pinning for Duxbury were McKenzie (140), San-chez (145), who is one of the Dragon’s most improved wrestlers, and Johnny Barrett (152, captain). McGeady, who was back on the mat after be-ing sidelined for a week, won a 7-0 decision over sophomore Francis Hawley in the 160 lbs. weight class, while Genereux (171) won again by techni-cal fall over CM backup Zach Ward, and Murphy (189) won a 6-3 decision over sophomore Richard Broderick that proved to be a decisive win, as Dux-bury was forced to forfeit at

215 and heavyweight. The Dragons escaped with a 35-32 victory, and would face Patriot League foe Whitman-Hanson in the finals, having beating them by a narrow margin ear-lier in the season.

The Duxbury grapplers knew that they had to bring their “A” game if they were going to get by W-H, giving up not one, but two weight classes this time.

With a Whitman-Hanson forfeit at 112 to open the match, Duxbury was off to a 6-0 lead. Linskey, who had been pinned by W-H’s Alex Perry in their first meeting, only gave up three points on Saturday when he found himself on the short end of a 3-1 decision.

A Whitman-Hanson pin at 125 and a three-point Pan-ther decision at 130 set up a dramatic turn of events in the 135 lb. weight class when Duxbury’s Kyle Scola was disqualified for retaliating against W-H sophomore Joe Peterson. Scola was cruising 5-0 when the referee awarded the match to Peterson, giving the Panthers six points, much to the dismay of the Duxbury coaching staff, who argued the call to no avail.

With the score now 18-6 in favor of the visitors, the Drag-ons had to dig deep to pull off the win. The Panthers had the momentum and looked to be in position to add to their lead when they sent senior captain James Peterson to the mat against Sanchez in the 140 lbs. match-up. Fortunate-ly for Duxbury and Sanchez, the third time was the charm. After losing to Peterson in his first meeting, and then again at the W-H Tournament, Sanchez turned in a stellar performance

Wrestlers take team tournament

wrestlingDuxbury 35Catholic Memorial 32

wrestlingDuxbury 31Whitman-Hanson 30

wrestlingDuxbury 57Southwick Tolland 24

OUtstAnDing DAY: senior Pat Murphy (top) went 3-0 at the Duxbury team tournament on saturday and won the Outstanding wrestler Award for his match-clinching victory over w-H’s tom Condon in the 215 lb. weight class. daysendphoto.com

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First Baptist fbcd.org

781- 934-6095 Dr. Kevin Cassidy

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

Holy Family Churchholyfamilyduxbury.org

Rev. Bryan Parrish781-934-5055

Weekend Mass: Sat., 5 p.m., Sun., 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., family Mass, 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. babysitting avail-able at 8:30 and 10 a.m. Daily Mass: Mon.-Sat., 8:15 a.m. The rosary is prayed after daily Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Fri., 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Daytime Bible study Thurs., 9:30 a.m. Evening prayer group Wed., 7:30 p.m. Men’s prayer group Fri., 6:45 a.m.

Pilgrim [email protected]

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

781-934-6591Sunday schedule: Worship

Service, 10 a.m., Pilgrim Ring-ers – 8:30 a.m., Junior Choir – 9:00 a.m., Teen Choir – 11:15 a.m., Kids Klub – 2:30 p.m., Junior Youth Fellowship – 5:00 p.m. Church office hours, Mon., 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tues.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Pilgrim childcare and preschool, Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m-6 p.m. Ladies Bible Study is held on Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Wednesdays, at 9 a.m. Open Bible Study on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Men’s Group meets Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Pilgrim Women’s Fellowship Valentine Luncheon – Thursday, Feb. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Council meeting will be held Tuesday Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church

highstreetumc.orgRev. Barbara Kszystyniak

781-585-9863 Sunday, adult choir, 8:30

a.m., worship service and Sun-day school, 10 a.m., followed by fellowship. Tuesday morn-ing prayer, 6 a.m. Wednes-day, Wired Word Bible study, 7:30 p.m. Third Friday of each month dinner is served at Mainspring Shelter, Brockton. Last Wednesday of the month, ladies’ luncheon, 12 p.m.

Church of St. John the Evangeliststjohnsduxbury.org

Rev. Roy Tripp781-934-6523

Sunday services: 8 a.m., w/music 10 a.m. Wednesday, men’s Bible study, 6:30 a.m.,

Holy Eucharist and Healing, 10 a.m., children and youth choir rehearsal in the evening. Thursday evenings, adult choir rehearsal. Friday, AA meeting, 7 p.m. First Monday of each month, God On Tap, 7 p.m., at the Winsor House.

First Parish Churchduxburyuu.org

Rev. Catherine Cullen781-934-6532

Sunday worship, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Church school classes meet downstairs in the Parish House (rear entrance) at the same time. Junior Choir, 9:15 a.m., Senior Choir, 9:30 a.m., HIP youth group, 6 p.m., Buddhist group, first and third Sunday at 7 p.m.

You and your Aging Par-ent. Meeting times continue Feb. 18, 25, Mar. 4, and Mar. 11 at 7:30 pm at First Parish Church. Leader: Betsy Stevens. Call Marty Kearns, Church Ad

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Nursery is provided for all services. Sunday school meets Sunday morning from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. Bay Path Nursing Home Ministry held Sundays at 2 p.m. at 308 Kingstown Way.

Wednesdays the Sacred Youth Ministry will meet at the teen center at 6:30 p.m. and Men’s Bible study will meet in the Atkinson Fellowship Hall at 7 p.m. Women’s Bible study is held on Fridays at 9:30 a.m.

DivorceCare and Divorce-Care for Kids (for children ages 5-12) will continue to meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each Thursday through May 14 at the church.

First Church of Christ Scientist

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

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

Living Waters Community of Hope

LivingWatersCH.orgRev. Kendra Vaughan Hovey. 508-922-1666. Email: [email protected]. Mail-ing Address: PO Box 1761

Duxbury, 02331Worship services will be

held Sundays at 6 p.m. begin-ning May 3.

Journey Community of Faith

www.journeyduxbury.com Rev. David Woods

781-585-8295Sunday, 10 a.m., Ford Cen-

ter at Miramar.

Thursday Feb. 12ZBA Public Hearing. The Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. in the Mural Room.

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. Cece Frame is an Interfaith Minister and Unitarian who has worked for over two decades in the corporate and non-profit sectors in Human Resources, Management Consulting, and Career Coaching. She is especially interested how people can simply and practically reduce stress in their busy lives. Join us for this workshop, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 842 Tremont St.

Farmers Market Meeting. The next meeting of the Duxbury Farmers/Artisans Market group will be held on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Setter room in the library.

Job hunting resources at the library. Program featuring resources from Plymouth’s Career Center and Duxbury Free Library will be held on Thursday Feb. 12 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in the Merry Room of the Duxbury Free Library. Free of charge, but registration is required; call 781-934-2721 x100 to sign up.

Friday Feb. 13Meet with Attorney John McCluskey. Meet with Attorney John McCluskey at the Senior Center Veteran’s office at 11 a.m. Make appt by calling 781-934-5774 x19.

saTurday Feb. 14Happy Valentine’s Day!

Jazz on Valentine’s Day. Jimmy Muzzy, Fred Clifford, and Pete Collins will be performing Jazz at the Winsor House.

Learn to Skate Registration open. The Pilgrim Skating Club offers skating lessons for children and adults ages 5 and up at Hobomock Arena in Pembroke. These lessons teach skaters skills for both figure skating and ice hockey. Next sessions start Saturday, Feb. 28 12:30 -1:20 p.m. or Wednesday, March 4 5:35-6:30 p.m., eight weeks for $120. Register today from 11:20-12:30 or before Feb. 24 and receive $15 off!

For further information call PSC at 781-294-7575.

sunday Feb. 15Eat Your Words. The Duxbury Free Library and Foodie’s Duxbury Market are kicking off the New Year with a unique collaboration named Eat Your Words. Our first theme is the Middle East and the first event is Feb. 15, 2 p.m.: Discussion of “The Bastard of Istanbul” with Georgina Chanatry at the Library, followed by a tasting of a Middle Eastern dish at Foodie’s.

Monday Feb. 16Reverse Mortgages. To be presented in the Veteran’s Office of the Duxbury Senior Center at 1 p.m. Make an appointment with Julie by calling 781-934-5774 x19.

Tuesday Feb. 17Eat your Words. At 10:30 a.m. the Duxbury Free Library and Foodie’s presents Children’s Stories of the Middle East recommended for ages 4 through grade one with an adult at Foodies.

Photo Craft Program. This vacation week program at the Duxbury Free Library features photo crafts for children in grades five and six from 2- 4 p.m. in the children’s program room. Participants will create a beautiful “Friends and Family” photo folio with the 10 or more photos they bring of friends, family, or pets. Register online, in person, or by phone for this program.

Senior Breakfast and Lecture. Senior Breakfast and Slide Show Lecture by Landscape designer Peggy Connors on Gardens of the World at 9 a.m. in the Senior Center. Cost for breakfast is $4. Please call for reservations in advance at 781-934-5774.

Wednesday Feb. 18Picture Book Films. Children in preschool through grade two with an adult can come to the Duxbury Free Library and watch animated versions of several popular picture books on from 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. in the Merry Room. Bring your own

snacks. Register online, in person, or by phone.

Thursday Feb. 19Tricksters and Noodleheads. A comic program suggested for children in grades one and up, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, 10:30-11:15 a.m. in the Merry Room of the Duxbury Free Library. Come watch the antics of Sparky’s Puppets portray some crafty animals and foolish people in a medley of silly folktales. Children in grade two and under must be with an adult. Please, no children under age 5 for this program. Register online, in person, or by phone for these programs beginning Feb. 5.

Friday Feb. 20Gather ‘Round Storytime. The Duxbury Free Library holds storytime in the Picture Book Room of the children’s department from 10:30 a.m.-11a.m.

saTurday Feb. 21Juicy Living, Juicy Aging. Don’t miss this PBS Television Show LIVE Taping of ‘Juicy Living, Juicy Aging’, starring Loretta LaRoche, public television’s original stress-expert, at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the PAC are available at www.lorettalarocheproductions.com, or 508-747-1340 and all FYE stores. Doors open 6:30-7:30 p.m. Due to taping, doors close promptly; no admittance after 7:30 p.m.

Pochoir: Alternative Printmaking. Registration is now taking place at The Art Complex Museum for this class teaching a stencil-based printmaking method that doesn’t require a press or use oil-based inks. Hand-cut Mylar stencils and water-based gouache are used to create colored designs that can become a one-of-a-kind piece. Class held Saturday, Feb. 21 from 1– 4 p.m. All materials provided for $25. Preregistration is required at 781-934-6634, x15.

Blood Drive. The American Red Cross Blood Services, New England Region, will be at High Street United Methodist Church for a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 1-800-GIVELIFE to schedule a time or walk-ins are welcome. In February all presenting donors will receive a free ticket to the New England Home Show at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston from Feb. 26 to March 1. You can check it out at www.newenglandhomeshow.com.

sunday Feb. 22Sunday Salon Series presented by The Duxbury Free Library and Westwinds Bookshop. Juliana Hatfield will be at the Duxbury Free Library from 2-4 p.m. in the Merry Room. Ms. Hatfield is an alternative rocker and author of “When I Grow Up.” Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free tickets will be available at both locations two weeks before the event. Seating is limited, tickets will be necessary to attend. For more information, call the library at 781-934-2721 x108 or visit duxburyfreelibrary.org.

upcoMingLiving with Art Presentation of The Dutch Masters: Rembrandt & Vermeer (originally scheduled for December) at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 23 in the Senior Center. No charge for this activity. Please feel free to come and enjoy a wonderful discussion of this history of art.

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Eat Your Words. The Duxbury Free Library and Foodie’s Duxbury Market are continuing their unique collaboration named Eat Your Words. On March 2 at 10 a.m. you can tour Foodie’s with a sampler of Middle East ingredients at Foodie’s, $5 per person. On March 10 at 6 p.m., there is a cooking class: Middle Eastern Cuisine at Foodie’s, $25 per person. March 15 at 2 p.m., there will be a discussion of “Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil” with Georgina Chanatry at the Library, followed by a tasting of a Middle Eastern dish at Foodie’s. For more information, call the Library at 781-934-2721 x100 or e-mail [email protected].

The 28th Annual Duxbury Spring Antique Show will be held on Saturday, March 28 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 29 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Duxbury High School to

benefit the Duxbury High School Athletic Program. Appraisals of artwork and antiques will be offered on Sunday, March 29 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. $5 per item or 3 for $10. Lunch and homemade goodies available. Admission to the show is $7 or $6 with a card available at many local businesses and other community venues. Please contact Joanne Williams at 781-934-0111 for more information or to volunteer.

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Program Registration. Sailing, rowing, windsurfing, ecology, kayaking, and Accessail registration will take place on Tuesday, Feb.24 6-8:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 28 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.in the Duxbury Free Library Merry Room. Staff will be on hand to help with student placement and answer questions. For more information call DBMS at 781-934-7555.

Friday with Heide Slide Show. Join us at the Senior Center on Friday, Feb. 28 at 9;30 a.m. for a stimulating slide show and historical discussion of Great Britain’s Channel Islands and the role of the Isle of Guernsey during the German Occupation in WWII. Read the book “The Guersey

Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows beforehand for a wonderful read and fascinating background of the island and this particular phase of WWII. Call 781-934-5774 for more information.

Duxbury Free Library hosts “Go” instructional session. Learn the ancient Chinese game of strategy, Go, from a member of the Massachusetts Go Association on Saturday, Feb. 28 2-4 p.m. in the Resource Room lower level, of the Duxbury Free Library. Open to teens and adults. Space limited, please register at the Reference Desk on the upper level.

The Duxbury Special Ed Parent Advisory Council is sponsoring a two-hour Brain Gym Introductory Workshop presented by Stephanie Beynon, OTR/L on Thursday, Feb. 26 from 7-9 p.m. in the Merry Room at the Duxbury Free Library. Brain Gym is an educational program that uses simple movements to enhance learning abilities in children and adults by stimulating the flow of information within the brain and body. For more information, please go to the Brain Gym Website at

www.braingym.org or our Website www.duxburysepac.org.

ongoingDuxbury Youth Softball February Vacation Camp Registration Open. Girls in Grades 3-6 can sign up for February vacation softball at www.duxburyyouthsoftball.org. Registration for spring softball continues for girls in grades 1-8. If you have any questions, call Bill Farquharson at 934-7036.

Yoga. Registration is now taking place at The Art Complex Museum for Yoga classes scheduled for three weeks in February with the exception of February vacation from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesdays or from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Thursdays. It is taught by Kathleen Young who is certified to teach yoga and fitness and has more than fifteen years of experience. The cost for each of the four week sessions is $27. Preregistration is required at 781-934-6634, x15.

Beach and Transfer Station Stickers. The Town of Duxbury is currently accepting applications for beach and transfer station stickers. Applications can be downloaded from the town Website www.town.duxbury.ma.us and are available at Town Hall. Residents can purchase their beach stickers at a reduced rate by mailing in their application postmarked by March 2.

You and your aging parent. As our parents age, we are increasingly involved in family discussions about their future lives and care. Join with others as we tackle some of agings hard questions & search for solutions. The text, “Caring for Your Aging Parents” by Hugh Delahanty and Elinor Ginzler will be the text and is available at Westwinds Bookstore. Meeting times: Feb. 4, 18, 25, Mar. 4, and Mar. 11 at 7:30 pm at First Parish Church. Leader: Betsy Stevens. Call Marty Kearns, Church Adminstrator at 934-6532 x2 to leave your name, phone number and/or email.

Drop In Storytimes. At the Duxbury Free Library. Programs include: Toddler Tales, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., age 3 and under, Drop In Story Time, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., age 3 and under and Gather ‘Round Story Time, Fridays, 10:30 a.m., for preschoolers. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No registration required. For more information, check the children’s pages on the library Web site at duxburyfreelibrary.org.

Storytime Openings. There are still some spaces available for the Tuesday morning storytime which will begin in February at the Duxbury Free Library. This program for children ages three and a half to four will run Tuesdays until April 14, 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. This is a stay alone storytime but adults must stay in the library while children attend. Registration must be done in person by visiting the children’s department. For more information, call 781-934-2721, x115.

DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids. DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids (for chidren ages 5-12) will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each Thursday through May 14 at St. Paul’s Church of the Nazarene, 136 Summer St. This is a weekly support group and seminar for those who are recently separated or divorced. DivorceCare for Kids combines games, crafts, music, activities and DVD drama to create an atmosphere where children can feel comfortable. Call 781-585-3419 for details and to register. Cost is $25 for the first member of each family and $12 for each additional family member. Stories and Art for Preschoolers and Toddlers. Meets from 10-11:30 a.m on the first Thursday of each month at the ACM. Cost is $5 per session. Pre-registration is required by calling 781-934-6634 x15.

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

Caregivers Support Group. Meets at 6:30-8 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Senior Center on Mayflower Street. Sponsored by the Norwell VNA and Hospice. For more information, call 781-659-2342.

Strength Training Class. Meets from 9-10:30 a.m. on Thursdays at the Senior Center on Mayflower Street with Missy Walker, certified personal trainer and fitness consultant. Cost is $7. For more information, call 781-934-5774 x15.

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

Question of the Week

What is your favorite Valentine memory or gift?

“When I was a college sopho-more, my husband-to-be sent me violets with an original poem that

I still carry in my wallet!”sheila Mcgrath loring street

By sarie Booy

“My favorite gift is a heart-shaped pendent that my handi-capped son, Brian, made me with his picture glued on it.”

Mary Ojala south street

“On the first Valentine’s Day with my girlfriend, now my wife, I baked spe-cial cookies with Bailey’s Irish Cream, chocolate, and coffee. I brought the

cookies to her house and we watched “When Harry Met Sally!”

Justin graeber, Clipper editor

“One of my favorite Valentine memories is in Mrs. Peckham’s

fourth grade class at Tarkiln School getting Valentine’s from

BOYS!”Pat garrity Bay road

“I proposed and got engaged to my wife on Valentine’s Day

in Newport.”Josh CutlerVine street

Steven Karidoyanes conducts the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra in the third annual

“Rising Stars Showcase!” a family concert. Joining the orchestra is the 120-voice Plymouth Children’s Cho-rus, Kathy McMinn director, singing movie music from “Amistad” and “Harry Potter” by John Williams, and I Dream a World, native New England composer Peter Boyer’s setting of poetry by Langston Hughes. 14-year-old South Shore Conservatory con-certo competition winner Diana Chen also performs the sparkling third movement from Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. This family-friendly event is being held in Plymouth’s Memorial Hall on Sunday afternoon, March 1. The concert begins at 3 p.m. The hands-on instrument dem-onstrations begin at 2 p.m. and run until 2:40 p.m. Tickets are now on sale. Tickets are $15 adults, $8 youth (through age 12). Advance tickets can be purchased by phone with a credit card by calling the Phil office at 508-746-8008.

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call a transformed eye. When I know more about the history and lives inherent in the things I see, I see them more clearly, more fully than I did before. It doesn’t only change the way the scenes look to me. It changes me, the seer. It’ll do the same to you.

With nine kids of my own, I’ve driven in and out of the Duxbury High School grounds hun-dreds of times. Now I know that the hand-some stone wall and granite gate-posts are nearly all that remain of George and Geor-giana Wright’s mas-sive estate. They are a solid vestige of a

glorious wealth from a by-gone era. The other vestige? The shape of Onion Hill Road as it traces much of the trotting track the Wrights built for their prized horses.

I’ve heard that no one quite knows where Hall’s Corner got its name. Not so fast. Hall’s Tavern once stood nearly alone at the five-corner intersection. The building was dismantled in the 1930’s and moved to Cambridge where it can be seen today as Number 20, Gray Gardens West. Hall’s Tavern, Hall’s Corner – from now on, I’ll use an apostrophe when I spell it.

The Wright building photos on pages 20 and 21 jumped out at me. Throughout the book, the growth and history of Dux-bury’s trees emerges as an understory, so to speak. Some are gone, but most are new growth. Duxbury, like most of New England, was stripped clean to feed stoves and early steam en-gines, and to make room for crops. Ornamental plantings re-mained, and in the old Library photo, one can clearly see the stately curves of an American elm. Most elms have been killed by the Elm Blight. The one in the picture has been replaced by a fast growing maple. But look at the neighboring oak. Hardly any bigger a century later, but healthy and strong enough to con-tinue its sign-bearing duties, the tree remains. You can trace the pattern of the branch above the sign. Same tree, same land.

I’ve read the story of Nat Keene’s giant tall ship before. Built in 1875 on the bay side of the Bluefish River Bridge, “Keene’s Elephant” was so large, the story goes, that she slid off the ways at her launching and slammed clean into the marsh across the river. The Henry J. Lippett, some say, left her mark to this day in the Bluefish River marsh. I went on Google Earth to test the theory.

Hang me if it ain’t true! Type in “River Lane, Duxbury, MA” at Google Earth, and there it is! Right to the west of the natural stream in the marsh is an unmistakable shadow of green. I’ll be goll-durned!


Flash from the past

on Saturday with an 11-3 ma-jor decision.

Senior captains Barrett (152) and McKenzie (145) kept Duxbury on the right track with a major decision by Barrett over W-H’s Aaron Wiltshire and an 8-3 McKen-zie decision over W-H senior captain Synjen Morrocco. McGeady (160) won his third match of the tournament with a critical pin, and Genereux finished the day with a 13-3 major decision over W-H se-nior Pat Devlin.

With the score 28-18 in fa-vor of Duxbury, Head Coach Kyle McCarthy made a criti-cal decision that would ulti-mately enable his team to win

the match. The Duxbury coach would send sophomore Alec McKenzie to the mat against W-H senior Will Forbes in the 189 lb. weight class. Forbes had pinned Pat Murphy in their earlier meeting, and without a 215, Duxbury had to roll the dice. They were will-ing to give up a pin in order to get a win at 215. The gamble paid off when Murphy, who is undersized at 189, won the match despite giving up over 40 pounds to W-H’s Tom Con-don. The 6-3 decision earned Murphy the tournament’s Out-standing Wrestler Award, and the Dragons celebrated with an exciting 31-30 win heading into the Sectionals on Satur-day.

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By mike Halloran, sports editor [email protected]

The 2008-09 Duxbury High School boys’ hockey team is in the midst of its toughest stretch of the season, having gone 0-5-1 in its last six games and hanging on by a thread for a chance at post-season play.

After a 3-2 win over Marshfield on January 17 had the Dragons at 5-4-1, it’s been all downhill for Coach John’s Blake’s squad, as his young team has barely averaged two goals per game during its win-less streak.

A 6-2 loss to Braintree started last week, and a 4-2 loss to Division II powerhouse Coyle-Cassidy on Wednes-day night only made the pres-sure worse for the Dragons on Saturday when they took on Bridgewater-Raynham on Se-nior Night at The Bog.

Hoping to buy some time and a victory, the Dragons got

neither, as they fell to B-R, 4-1, necessitating they win four or five of their last five games in order to make the tournament.

Scoring has been the ma-jor problem for Duxbury this year, forcing junior goalten-der Dan Sangster to be on his game every night. When he’s not, the Dragons have a prob-lem. Despite out-shooting the Trojans, 32-23, B-R left the ice after the first period with a 1-0 lead and saw it grow to 3-0 after the second. Colin Woods’ third period tally would slice the margin to two, but a fourth

goal on replacement netminder Wes Barrington would seal the win for the visitors.

“The effort is there and the kids are working hard, but we’re just not getting the breaks and we don’t have a lot of experience with only four seniors on the team,” said Blake.

On Wednesday night the team will travel to Medford for a 7 p.m. game in hopes of keeping their slim playoff hopes alive.

Hockey on brink of tournament elimination

wHere’s tHe DeFense: Duxbury goaltender Dan sangster has little help with two Bridgewater-raynham forwards cruising in his crease. Photo by Maynard Sangster

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Fisher Division league Overall

Middleboro 2 – 1 6 – 3 Randolph 2 – 1 6 – 3Pembroke 2 – 1 5 – 4 Hanover 0 – 3 0 - 9

Patriot League track standings

Patriot League track all-starsSophomore Jon McKinley1 mile 4:29.222 miles 10:21.301000m 2:48.40600m 1:30.40400m relay split 56.22nd in mile Fresh-Soph Meet12th in mile at Coaches Elite MeetLeading scorer on the team 57 pointsQualified for States in 1000m, 1 mile, 2 mile

Sophomore Julia Nee300m 43.07400m 62.73400m Relay Split 61.4200m Relay Split 26.1High Jump 4’8”1st in Fresh-Soph Meet in 300m18th in Coaches Elite Meet in 300m7th in Dartmouth Relays in 400mLeading scorer on team 69 pointsQualified for State Meet in 300m and 4x400m team

Honorable MentionSenior Tracy Clough55m 8.07200m Relay Split 28.1High Jump 4’8”Long Jump 14’1”Second leading scorer on team 67 points

Individual Sportsmanship AwardsSenior Alex McCaffreyHigh Jump 5’9”55m Hurdles 9.5755m 7.78

Senior Casey Ducinski55m 8.22200m relay split 29.9300m 49.20400m relay split 70.8800m relay split 3:071000m 3:52.60Shot Put 21’2”Qualified for State Meet on 4x400m team



After suffering a painful 61-60 loss to Duxbury back in December, the Scituate Sailors had one thing on their minds when the Dragons visited Fri-day night. A win would thrust the Sailors back into Patriot League contention, while a loss would pretty much put the title in Duxbury’s back pocket.

If there was any doubt about Scituate’s desire to avenge that earlier loss, it was quickly erased in the first three minutes, as the Sailors pounced on the visitors and raced to a 12-0 lead with four different players contributing.

Scituate’s Dean Kennedy may have been a little too fired up after his team raced ahead, as the senior was hit with a technical foul for taunt-ing, giving Duxbury a cause to rally.

They did just that, and went on an 11-2 run over the next 2:42 to get back in the game at 14-11, prompting Sci-tuate coach Matt Poirier to go back to his starters, who im-mediately increased the lead to 21-13 at the end of the first quarter.

Scituate sparkplug Rod-ney Beldo buried five points to start the second quarter and

increased the lead to 26-15. Making matters worse was the fact Duxbury’s 6’7” center Aaron Kramer picked up his third foul of the night with five minutes to go in the half and had to come out of the game.

What looked like a nega-tive turn of events suddenly reversed itself, as the Dragons went on a 12-1 run and tied the score at 27 on a Brian Gross-man three-pointer with 1:48 left in the half.

Duxbury would take its first lead of the game at 33-32, as Grossman stole a cross-court pass and went the length of the court for a lay-up.

Beldo came right back and nailed a trey for a two-point lead, only to have Mike Casal regain the lead for the Drag-ons with a three-pointer of his own. Trailing 36-35 with seconds remaining, Scituate would go to the locker room with a one-point lead, thanks to the efforts of 7’ center An-drew McCarthy, who laid in an offensive rebound at the end of the half.

“We played hard and bat-tled back to get in it,” said Duxbury Coach Gordon Cush-ing. “That was a big hole to climb out of and we expended a lot of energy doing it.”

The lead went back and forth to start the second half until baskets by Sam David-son, Ian Whitney, Mark Brust, and Aaron Kramer had Dux-bury pulling away at 46-39 be-fore Poirier called a timeout.

Minutes after play re-sumed, Kramer picked up his fourth foul of the game and had to come out. But the pain of his loss was eased somewhat when Casal buried another three-pointer for the Dragons’ biggest lead of the night at 52-43 with 2:30 to go.

What appeared to be a comfortable lead evaporated quickly, as Beldo lead the Sail-ors on a 12-0 run and ended the third quarter with his team ahead 55-52.

Brust would fuel a Dux-bury come back with a pair of driving hoops to start the final eight minutes and put his team ahead 56-54, only to see Mc-Carthy come right back for a

57-56 Scituate lead.Three-pointers by David-

son and Brust, along with a free throw from Kramer, had Duxbury looking pretty at 63-57 with 3:37 showing on the clock. However, the Beldo threat was always present, as the junior came right back and buried a three.

A baseline jumper by Whitney put the lead back to five at 65-60 with 2:40 to go, but Scituate’s 6’4” power for-ward Anthony Parham scored off a huge offensive rebound to narrow the gap to three.

With 2:06 remaining Kramer picked up his fifth foul of the night after he had been hacked by McCarthy seconds

earlier.A minute remained when

Beldo had the ball at the top of the key in a 66-66 game, and the junior had ice water in his veins as he launched a three-pointer that swished through the hoop with :58 to go.

Trailing by three, Dux-bury had their chance to tie the game when a loose ball appar-ently went off a Scituate play-er and out of bounds. Much to the dismay of the Duxbury faithful, the call went the other way.

Beldo was fouled on the subsequent possession, and sank two free throws to put the game out of reach.

“I thought we played re-ally well in the first half of that third quarter and then it got away from us when we were rushing our offense instead of taking our time,” said Cush-ing. “Then at the end the calls didn’t go our way, and I think that is an understatement. I’m not blaming the officials, but sometimes it is hard to over-come those things. In the end, we just have to play better so things like that don’t get in our way.”

Brust was Duxbury’s high scorer with 25 points, while Grossman chipped in with 13 and Casal contributed 11.

Sporting a 16-2 overall re-cord prior to last night’s game with Silver Lake, the Drag-ons will now try to keep their title hopes alive by winning at Whitman-Hanson on Thurs-day night.

Dragons’ DenSports Editor Mike Halloran • [email protected]

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A FUtUre HAwkeYe - Duxbury football star shane DiBona displays his signed national letter of intent to play football at the University of iowa in the fall of 2009. Joining shane for the momentous occasion are his parents, Faith and Al DiBona.

DiBona headed for Iowa

it’s A stretCH: Aaron kramer shoots over the outstretched arms of seven-foot center Andrew McCarthy.

nO rOOM FOr errOr: Mark Brust finds the going tough against David gordon (23) and Andrew McCarthy (52).



The girls’ basketball team recovered from a brief bump in the road and ripped off three straight wins last week to qual-ify for post-season play and now stand at 12-4.

After losses to North Quincy and Hingham set up a potential third straight loss to Division I New Bedford, the Lady Dragons turned things around and avenged an earlier loss to the Whalers on their home court by taking a 55-49 decision.

It was a big win for Dux-

bury, as it made life easier for Coach Mark Dunn’s team that proceeded to pummel Quincy, 61-32 and knock off Scituate, 55-40.

The game against Quincy was just what the doctor or-dered, as it came after the New Bedford win and allowed Dunn to give his starters plenty of rest and his bench plenty of playing time.

Despite holding a slim lead of 7-6 in the early going, Dunn went to his bench quickly, as sophomore Devon Tsinzo bur-ied a pair of three-pointers and

Alexa Shanahan added a hoop to give the Lady Dragons a 15-13 first quarter lead.

The second unit stayed in the game for the next eight minutes, as the Presidents ate away at the lead and tied the game with a couple of min-utes to go in the half. With the score knotted at 21, senior for-ward Shannon Kelly went on a tear with five straight points to send her team to the locker room with a 26-21 halftime lead.

After Quincy narrowed the gap to 28-26, the Lady Drag-

ons scored 19 straight points to put the game away at 47-26 and cruised to victory in the fourth quarter.

Friday night’s game with Scituate wasn’t much dif-ferent, as the Lady Dragons stormed to a 23-10 first quar-ter lead and were in complete control by halftime with a 40-18 cushion.

“Everyone got a chance to play in that first half and it allowed me to try some differ-ent looks,” said Dunn. “We’ve been a little inconsistent this year in that we’ve had some good spurts, along with some bad ones. So it’s a process where I’m trying to see who can help us out come playoff time.”

“I’m excited about our chances, but I think the kids need to be a little more hun-gry as we get near the post-season,” said Dunn. “We end our season with a couple of tough games (W-H and Bish-op Fenwick) and I hope that will give us some idea if they are ready to play, We’ve got a good inside-outside game go-ing with the Curleys down low and Sara Botieri and Tsinzo hitting threes, so if that combo is clicking I think we can go deep.”

On Thursday the Lady Dragons will get one of those challenges when they take on Whitman-Hanson on Senior Night starting at 6:30 p.m.

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Lacrosse meeting Feb. 12Join the High School Lacrosse Booster’s on Thursday, Feb.

12 at 7 p.m. in the Teacher’s Lounge at the high school. All parents from every grade are strongly encouraged to get in-volved in the program. We will be discussing the upcoming season, fundraising, volunteers for committees and much more. The support for this program depends on parent in-volvement. Come and see what it’s about. If unable to attend and you would like to help e-mail [email protected].

At ArM’s lengtH: Duxbury’s Devon tsinzo fends off the defen-sive efforts of Quincy’s Julia Yee during last week’s 61-32 win over the Presidents in Patriot league action.

rOAD BlOCk: Forward nikki worthman drives the lane against Quincy’s Colleen tobin.

Sweet to coach at Under Armour Classic in Md.Duxbury boys’ lacrosse coach Chris Sweet

has been picked to coach the north team in the annual Under Armour Classic this

summer. The game pits the best high school players in the country against each other. This year’s game will be broadcast live on ESPN on June 28 from Towson University in Maryland. Sweet has coached the Dragons to six Division 1 State titles, including the last five straight.

COLLEGE CORNERBy mike Halloran, sports editor

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Mike Baran’s (Thayer ’07) Am-herst College men’s hockey team ex-tended its winning streak to four games with a 7-1 win over Connecticut Col-lege last week, ending the Camel’s six-game unbeaten streak. The win gave the Lord Jeffs their eighth win in their last nine games (8-1) and put them in a tie for first place with Mid-dlebury. Baran had a goal in the win. The victory has spurred on the Lord

Jeffs, who took Colby 4-2 on Friday night and went to overtime to knock off Bowdoin, 4-3, on Sunday. Baran scored his 4th goal of the season in the third period of the Bowdoin game… Sophomore Terry Woods (DHS ’06) assisted on Babson’s final goal of the game in a 6-0 shutout win over New England College on Saturday. On Fri-day night Woods had a goal and an as-sist in a 10-3 trouncing of St. Anselm and Brendan Carroll (DHS ’07) … Junior

Kristyn Roth (DHS ’06) and her BC swim team had a tough day against BU, dropping a 212-88 decision to the Terriers. Roth finished 5th in the 200-yard medley relay and 100-yard backstroke… Bucknell sophomore Evan Novakowski (DHS ’07) fin-ished 13th in the 800 at the Sykes-Sabock Cup Challenge in University Park, PA… Curry senior Kim Reske (Sacred Heart ’05) scored 3 pts,

had 3 re-b o u n d s , and 3 steals in her team’s 75-48 win over Eastern Nazarene College…Ju-nior wrestler Andrew Knapp (DHS ’06) defeated Stephen Turner, 6-1, in the heavyweight class in Harvard’s 32-9 win over Princeton… Sopho-more Kristen Byrne (DHS ’07) and her St. Anselm hockey team are now at 14-5-2 after a 9-0 win over Plym-outh State…

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The titles just keep com-ing for the Duxbury High School athletic department, as the Lady Dragon hockey team won its first SEMGHL title on Saturday afternoon at The Bog with a convincing 8-1 victory over winless Martha’s Vine-yard.

Duxbury escaped with a 2-1 win over the Islanders back in December, and that experience wasn’t lost on the Lady Dragons, who took just two minutes to build a 3-0 lead that took the visitors out of the game quickly.

Capitalizing on sloppy play in the MV zone, sophomore Molly O’Sullivan pounced on a loose puck just inside the blue line and swooped in on goaltender Jamie Forend to give Duxbury a 1-0 lead just over a minute into the game.

The quick score seemed to pump up the Lady Drag-ons, as O’Sullivan and senior captain Anie Grunwald com-bined once again just 38 sec-onds later for a 2-0 lead, with O’Sullivan bursting into the zone and hitting Grunwald in the slot where she wristed a shot past a stunned Forend at the 13:15 mark.

It looked like it was going to be a long boat ride home for the visitors, especially when freshman Mary Margaret Don-ovan made it 3-0 with 13:00 remaining in the period after a harmless shot was mishandled by Forend and poked home by Donovan.

Martha’s Vineyard re-gained its composure after the two-minute onslaught and held Duxbury off the scoreboard for the next 12 minutes until sophomore Briana Connolly one-timed a shot from the slot on a pass from junior Kaitlin

Sullivan for a 4-0 lead.The Islanders hoped to get

a fresh start in period two, but things only got worse, as Sul-livan was stationed all alone in front of Forend and knocked home a pass-out from Connol-ly to increase the lead to 5-0.

The ease with which Dux-bury controlled the game even-tually led to some sloppy play in their defensive end that re-sulted in MV’s only goal with 2:21 left in the second period.

Miffed by costing goalie Julia Hannon her shutout, the Lady Dragons raced to get it

back, as Sullivan once again stationed herself in front of the net and redirected a Connolly pass-out into the left corner for a 6-1 lead at the end of the second.

After a failed Duxbury power-play to start the third period, the Lady Dragons got a major scare when Sullivan went to the ice with an appar-ent shoulder injury and never returned.

A minute after play re-sumed, Connolly wheeled and dealed in the offensive end, faking Forend to the ice and

sliding the puck behind her for a 7-1 lead.

After killing off a pair of Vineyard power-plays, Dux-bury ended the scoring for the night when junior defenseman Taryn McCall put one past Forend to end the Islanders’ day of misery.

After traveling to Bourne to take on Marshfield on Wednesday night at 7, the girls will return to The Bog to face Sandwich at 3:20 pm on Sat-urday.

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JAM sessiOn: Duxbury’s Briana Connolly tries to stuff home a rebound against Martha’s Vineyard goaltender Jamie Forend during Duxbury’s 8-1 win that wrapped up the seMgHl title. Photos by Mike Hallorna


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Academic/Reading TutorExperienced local tutor specializing in organizational and study skills, Wilson Reading certified, Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood-Bell trained. College prep, essay writing, assistance with college application process. SAT prep. Help writing research papers. Flexible schedule. Please call Janet Miller, 781-536-8094.

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A year-round local service. Window prices start at $5/each. We also repair loose and leaking gutters, and can install highly durable and effective gutter screens/guards. We also can repair your worn/torn window and door/slider screens. I always answer my phone! Please call cell # 508-523-9927.

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

Guitar/Bass/Music LessonsOffered by long-time professional musician/full-time bandleader with a bachelor of music - guitar performance, and former teacher at South Shore Conservatory. Beginners and experienced players of other instruments are welcome. Duxbury village location. Call Mark, 781-934-7716. E-mail: [email protected].

Interior Finish Work SaleMention this ad and receive 20% off all interior finish work including kitchens, baths, etc. Decades of experience. Licensed, insured and registered #104457. Call Desmond, 781-654-1465.

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

Resume Writing ServiceSeasoned Exec Recruiter w/ over 15 years of experience is available to assist with: writing job-winning resumes, cover letters, the job search process, best interviewing techniques, negotiations and securing your job. One on one personal service. Very Reasonable Rates. Initial Consultation is Free. Call 774-696-3269.

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

No Place Like HomeCNA/CHAA private duty home health aide services. Cooking, housework, doctor’s appts., meds, laundry, personal care, outings. Hourly rates available. References and referrals available. Call 781-588-2165.

Bob’s PlumbingResidential service calls. Install and repair, toilets, faucets, sinks, disposals, dishwashers, icemakers, hot water heaters. Drains cleared/cleaned. Gas work. Your call will be promptly returned. Call 617-212-5234 (cell). Master License #13167.

SnowblowingCall Richard, 781-630-0649.

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

Seasoned FirewoodDry Oak. Cut, split, and delivered. $95/quarter cord; $175/half cord; $300/full cord. Free delivery. Stacking available. Call Greg at 781-706-9829 (cell) or 781-585-6923 (evenings).

Baby-Sitting is my Business13 year old Duxbury resident with two years experience interested in babysitting children 2 years and up. Available weekends and after school. References available. $7.50/hour, .50 additional child. Call between 3-7:30 p.m., weekdays and noon-9, weekends. Home- 781-585-4284, 781-724-5791 (cell).

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

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

Babysitter With Car17 year old male, DHS student with car seeking after school or weekend babysitting jobs. 781-837-5698. Ask for Casey.

Bettencourt’s Walls & CeilingsPainting, drywall finishing, sheet-rocking, water damage, wallpaper stripping. Specializing in interior work. Skim coating over horse hair plaster and textured ceilings a specialty. 25 years experience. Call Steve, 508-833-0546 or 617-922-0944 (cell).

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

Shine Organic CleaningMention this ad, get $20 off first cleaning. Refer a friend for 50% discount. Cleaning services w/experience. Great references. All cleanings (houses, offices, restaurants). Free estimates. Organic or non-organic cleaning supplies. All calls returned. Call 774-269-3400/857-526-3977.

Come Stroll With Joe50s and 60s DJ for hire for all occasions. Original hits, original artists. Low rates. One call does it all. 774-826-8062. Call anytime.

Residential SnowplowingAlso, snowblowing and shovelling. Reasonable rates. Call Brett at B&B Fence, 781-291-9684.


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

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

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

Excel ResumesLooking for a new job begins with a powerful resume and targeted cover letter. Confidential and personal guidance with first job, returning to work, update and career change resumes. Final product in laserjet printed hard copy, MS Word and PDF formats. Experienced Harvard Business School resume reviewer. Please call Anita, 781-934-5825 home.

Speech/Language Therapistwith over 20 years experience available in your home or mine. Specializing in pediatrics with varying needs as well as AT/augmentative communication, and social communication for autistic children or those with similar needs. ASHA certified, state licensed, DOE licensed. Please call Tijen Fitz-Patrick, 617-877-2750 or email [email protected]

Carpet/Upholstery CleaningFresh clean carpets & upholstery. Schedule now. Pet odor removal, Scotchguard and free deodorizing. Leather cleaning. Quality Carpet Company. Owner-operated. 508-580-4777 or 800-652-1744.

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

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

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2000 Lexus ES300Excellent condition. Sunroof, heated seats, power everything. About 65,000 miles. $8000. Call 781-837-0365.

2005 Jeep Wrangler-XRocky Mountain Edition, red with grey/black interior, 4X4, 6-speed manual, cruise control, power steering, 15 inch aluminum wheels, fog lamps, A/C, 6-disc CD changer, premium sound system w/ 7 speakers,18K miles, looks new. $14,000. 781-834-2688


1985 BMW 535i Classic New Price - $3000. First year of 535i. Original owner. 5-speed shift. Power everything, new on-board computer. New: front-end strut housings, brakes, catalytic converter, exhaust assembly. Fully serviced, have maintenance records. recently inspected. Body in great shape. 172,000 miles averaging 1000-2000/year the last 7-8 years. Wonderful driving car! Call 781-934-9867

Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD1994. Black exterior, V8, AWD, leather, towing. New brakes, rotors, shocks, tires and tuneup. Reduced price, asking $2900. Call 781-934-0705 or 617-650-0070.

2002 40' Beneteau First 40.7A sleek and sophisticated racer with all the comforts of a luxurious cruiser. Extra-roomy cockpit, fiberglass hull, single diesel engine, full sail inventory, Profurl roller furling, pear interior, deep draft 7’9, custom handrail, full electronics, and more… $165,000. St. Petersburg, FL 727-214-1590 for more information.


2000 Cadillac Seville STSOne owner. 12,600 miles. Excellent condition. Beige - leather interior. Top of the line. Summer - Duxbury; Winters - Florida (via carrier). $12,500. 781-934-6807.“Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have”.-Hal Borland

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

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

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

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


2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD4-wheel drive, leather interior, moonroof, heated seats. Loaded. Very clean. 161,000 miles with a recent engine replacement. Must see. $4950. Call 617-909-9044.

1992 Jeep Wrangler Sahara4.0 litre, 6 cyl - automatic 4x4. Hard top, soft top, bikini top, no top. Great vehicle. 169K. Runs great. $2500. Call 617-967-0303, Greg.Sea Pro W/Free Winter Storage

2005 20.6’ Sea Pro. 140HP Suzuki; 4-stroke, low hours. Full canvas, swim platform, bait live well. Matrix 27 Fishfinder. Professionally maintained. 2005 Venture trailer included. Boat is currently on Duxbury Bay mooring. Free Winter Storage. $28,500 or BRO. 781-934-7731 (evenings) or 617-696-6900 (days).

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88 Jeep Wrangler4.2L 6-cyl 5-spd manual 1988 Wrangler 4x4. Green w/tan. Three tops. 149k. Lots of updates. $2200. 781-834-2066, Chris.

1995 V6 CamryAutomatic V6 Toyota Camry. 185,000 miles. Excellent mechanical & visual condition, tan interior/exterior, V6, automatic, sunroof, security system, A/C, power everything, new tires with less than 1000 miles on them, CD/AM-FM/cassette. Well maintained. $4000 or BO. Call 781-254-0055.

2004 Kia SorrentoAutomatic, CD player, power locks and windows, roof rack, trailer hitch, new brakes and tires. 60,000 miles. Very good condition. $8500. Call 781-293-9222.

2003 Mercedes E 320Silver. $20,000. Call Jim at 617-312-0172 for full details, or 781-934-2701 (home).


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2004 Pursuit 2270 Center console. Low hours, T-Top, 225 Yamaha 4-stroke, color fishfinder, GPS, live bait well, brand new aluminum Venture tandem trailer with disc brakes. $39,500. Call George, 781-603-5640.

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TOWN OF DUXBURY

CONSERVATION COMMISSION

PUBLIC HEARING

The Duxbury Conservation Commission will hold a Public Hearing in the Mural Room, Lower Level, Town Hall, under the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw, Chapter 9 and Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL, Ch. 131, Section 40, on Tuesday evening, February 17, 2009 at 8:10 p.m. on the request of Duxbury Construction LLC to amend Orders of Conditions SE 18-1411 as described in a written request filed with the Conservation Commission on February 5, 2009. Said project is located at 59 Pill Hill Lane, lot 200-022-000 of the Duxbury Assessors Map.

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TOWN OF DUXBURY


PUBLIC HEARING

The Duxbury Conservation Commission will hold a Public Hearing in the Mural Room, Lower Level, Town Hall, under the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw, Chapter 9 and Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL, Ch. 131, Section 40, on Tuesday evening, February 17, 2009 at 7:50 p.m. on the request of Duxbury Construction LLC to construction an addition in the buffer to bordering vegetated wetlands as described in a Notice of Intent filed with the Conservation Commission on February 5, 2009. Said project is located at 266 Elm Street, lot 150-003-000 of the Duxbury Assessors Map.


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PUBLIC HEARING

The Duxbury Conservation Commission will hold a Public Hearing in the Mural Room, Lower Level, Town Hall, under the Town of Duxbury Wetlands Bylaw, Chapter 9 and Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, MGL, Ch. 131, Section 40, on Tuesday evening, February 17, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. on the request of Duxbury Construction LLC to construct an addition in the buffer to bordering vegetated wetlands as described in a Notice of Intent filed with the Conservation Commission on February 5, 2009. Said project is located at 80

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PUBLIC HEARINGS RESCHEDULED

Because of inclement weather, the meeting of the Duxbury Conservation Commission originally scheduled for February 3, 2009 was rescheduled to Tuesday, February 17, 2009 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Mural Room, Lower Level, of Town Hall. The agenda for the February 17th meeting is as follows:

7:00 p.m. Administrative Matters

7:05 PM, Duxbury Construction, 2 Windward Way, addition

7:15 PH, Lojko/Demos, Amend OC, SE 18-1490, 80 & 84 Marshall St.

7:25 PH, Bourget, 110 Gurnet Rd., garage

7:35 Cont’d. PH, McCarthy, 2 King Caesar Rd., pier, SE 18-1499

7:50 PH, Duxbury Construction, 266 Elm St., addition

8:00 PH, Duxbury Construction, 80 Marshall St., addition

8:10 PH, Duxbury Construction, 59 Pill Hill, Amend OC, SE 18-1411


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PLYMOUTH DivisionDocket No. PL09P0155EAIn the Estate of Mercy

Kellen Goin A/K/A Mercy K. Goin

Late of Duxbury, MA 02332

Date of Death 12/05/2008NOTICE OF PETITION

FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, a petition has been presented praying that Donald H. Jackson, Jr. of Accord, MA or some other suitable person be appointed administrator of said estate to serve With


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OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT PLYMOUTH ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: 03/02/2009.

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

Date: February 2, 2009.

Robert E. McCarthyRegister of Probate

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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL

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Notice of License Application Pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 91Waterways License

Application Number W08-2524

Darryl & Amy DemosJoseph & Cheryl

Lojko

NOTIFICATION DATE: February 11, 2009

Public notice is hereby given of the waterways application by Darryl & Amy Demos and Joseph and Cheryl Lojko to construct and maintain a pier, piles, gangway and floats at 80 and 84 Marshall Street, in the

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municipality of Duxbury, in and over flowed tidelands of Eagles Nest Bay. The proposed project has been determined to be water-dependent.

The Department will consider all written comments on this Waterways application received within 30 days subsequent to the “Notification Date”. Failure of any aggrieved person or group of ten citizens or more to submit written comments to the Waterways Regulation Program by the Public comments Deadline will result in the waiver of any right to an adjudicatory hearing in accordance with 310 CMR 9.13(4)(c).

Additional information regarding this application may be obtained by contacting the Waterways Regulation Program at (508) 946-2748. Project plans and documents for this application are on file with the Waterways Regulation Program for public viewing, by appointment only, at the address below.

Written comments must be addressed to: David E. Hill, Environmental Engineer, DEP Waterways Regulation Program, 20 Riverside Drive, Lakeville, MA 02347.

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THE TRIAL COURT

PROBATE AND FAMILY COURT

PLYMOUTH DivisionDocket No. PL09P0109GDIn the matter of: Martha B

Stearns of Duxbury, MA NOTICE OF PETITION

FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN OF MENTALLY ILL PERSON

To the above name ward, his/her spouse, and heirs apparent or presumptive, a petition has been filed in the above captioned matter alleging that said ward of Duxbury, MA is a mentally ill person and requesting that Martha Stearns of Cambridge, MA be appointed guardian of the person only and James R DeGiacomo Esq. of Boston, MA be appointed guardian of the estate only or some other suitable person be appointed guardian of the person: and estate, with authority to administer antipsychotic medications in accordance with the treatment plan to serve With Personal Surety.

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT PLYMOUTH ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON: FEBRUARY 24, 2009.

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

Date: January 27, 2009.

Robert E. McCarthyRegister of Probate

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MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL

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By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Robert J. Andrews a/k/a Robert J. Andrews Jr. to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., dated February 23, 2007 and recorded in Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 34223, Page 66, of which mortgage GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. is the present holder, for breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 892 Franklin Street, Duxbury, Massachusetts will be sold at a Public Auction at 12:00 p.m. on March 13, 2009, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:

The land in Duxbury, with the buildings thereon, on Union and Franklin Streets and described as follows:

Beginning at a stake on the Easterly line of Union Street, thence North 64 degrees-13’-30” East along a line marked by stakes 286 feet more or less, to the center line of a brook, thence southerly and southwesterly by the center line of said brook 277 feet, more or less, to Franklin Street, thence south 79 degrees-50’50” West by the Northerly line of Franklin Street 71 feet, more or less, thence to, and along Union Street 77.89 feet by a curve to the right, having a radius of 60’, thence North 25 degrees-46’-30” West by Union Street 136.49 feet to first mentioned stake, having an area of one acre, more or less.

As shown no a plan entitled “Plan of Land in Duxbury to be conveyed by Frank Perry to Loretta A. Andrews, July 14, 1961, RH Bent, Surveyor,” and recorded with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds on July 26, 1961, in Plan Book 491 of 1961.

The above premises will be sold subject to all taxes, assessments, and other encumbrances which may constitute a prior lien thereon, and will be conveyed subject to any easements, restrictions of record, tenancies, and rights of redemption for unpaid federal taxes, if any, as shall, notwithstanding this provision, constitute valid liens or encumbrances thereon after said sale.

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Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier’s check, or certified check in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder and will be required to be paid as a deposit by the successful bidder; successful bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or current funds in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee’s attorney, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, 2364 Post Road, Suite 100, Warwick, RI 02886, or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., Present holder of said mortgage, By Its Attorneys, PARTRIDGE SNOW & HAHN LLP, 2364 Post Road, Suite 100, Warwick, Rhode Island 02886, (401) 681-1900 (6301-2264/Andrews (02/11/09, 02/18/09, 02/25/09) (142101)

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL

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By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Deborah J. Shamma and George C. Shamma to “MERS”, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a separate corporation that is acting solely as nominee for Reliant Mortgage Company, LLC, “Lender”; and its successors and assigns dated June 14, 2005 and recorded with the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, in Book 30740, Page 179, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 AM, on March 4, 2009, on the premises known as 175 King Phillips Path, Duxbury, Massachusetts, the premises described in said mortgage, together with all the rights, easements, and appurtenances thereto, to wit:

Property Address: 175 King Phillips Path, Duxbury, Massachusetts 02332

A certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon if any, lying on the Southerly side of King Phillips Path in Duxbury, Plymouth Country, Massachusetts containing

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1.02 acres, more or less, and bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a stake and stones in line of said King Phillips Path at the Southwest corner of the granted premises being the Northwest corner of land now or formerly of McPherson;

Thence running North 49 degrees 48’ East by said Phillips Path 200 feet to a stake and stones;

Thence turning and running South 27 degrees 27’ East by Lot II shown on the plan hereinafter mentioned 226 feet to a stake and stones;

Thence turning and running South 49 degrees 07’ West by land now or formerly of Agnes J. O’Reilly 200.34 feet to a stake and stones in line of land now or formerly of said McPherson;

Thence turning and running North 27 degrees 30’

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West 228.40 feet to the stake and stones marking the point of beginning.

Said parcel is shown as Lot I on a plan entitled, “Lots of King Phillips Path, Duxbury, Mass. To be conveyed by Agnes J. O’Reilly, Scale 1” – 150’ July 3, 1954 L.W. Bailey” recorded with the Plymouth Country Registry of Deeds. Said parcel is also shown as Lots 25D and 26A, Block H, Duxbury Assessors Plans. Said lot is subject to and has the benefit of all rights, easements, grants, restrictions, reservations, covenants, and encumbrances, or record insofar as the same are now in force and applicable.

Being the same premises conveyed to herein named mortgagor (s) by deed recorded with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 12783, Page 311.

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Terms of Sale: These premises are being sold subject to any and all unpaid real estate taxes, water rates, municipal charges and assessments, condominium charges, expenses, costs, and assessments, if applicable, federal tax liens, partition wall rights, statutes, regulations, zoning, subdivision control, or other municipal ordinances or bylaws respecting land use, configuration, building or approval, or bylaws, statutes or ordinances regarding the presence of lead paint, asbestos or other toxic substances, sanitary codes, housing codes, tenancy, and , to the extent that they are recorded prior to the above mortgage, any easements, rights of way, restrictions, confirmation or other matters of record.

Purchaser shall also bear

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all state and county deeds excise tax. The deposit of $5,000.00 is to be paid in cash or bank or certified check at the time and place of the sale, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid by bank or certified check within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, to be deposited in escrow with Guaetta and Benson, LLC, at 9 Acton Road, Suite # 10, Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

In the event that the successful bidder at the foreclosure sale shall default in purchasing the within described property according to the terms of this Notice of Sale and/or the terms of the Memorandum of Sale executed at the time of the foreclosure, the Mortgagee reserves the right to sell the property by foreclosure deed to the second highest bidder or, thereafter, to the next

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highest bidders, providing that said bidder shall deposit with said attorney, the amount of the required deposit as set forth herein within five (5) business days after written notice of the default of the previous highest bidder.

Other terms, if any, are to be announced at the sale.

Present holder of said mortgage

Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificate Holders CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 2005-37T1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-37T1

by its AttorneysGuaetta and Benson, LLCPeter V. Guaetta, Esquire

9 Acton RoadSuite # 10

Chelmsford, MA 01824February 4, 2009


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DuxburyThis wonderful property was just reduced to sell. Great home, walk out basement, cathedral family room, two-car detached garage, sunroom, and more. Located on a lovely tree lined street in a very nice neighbor-hood. A must see! MLS#70790089, Marietta Tsinzo, $469,900

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