MTC 16.03.25

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MTC 16.03.25

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From the Moon to Milford, Robert Gilmore
Brings Lunar Rocks to Town
By Melissa Orff
Staff Reporter
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Astronaut Neil
Armstrong’s words as he became the first man to walk on the moon have
inspired students and Americans to reach for the stars for over 45 years.
Mementos of that first journey into space made their way to Milford and
Stacy Middle School this month, as students and residents had the chance
to study samples of moon rocks on loan from the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
Science Teacher Dr. Robert Gilmore took a six-hour training
course to be certified to receive lunar materials on loan for study.
NASA sent six moon rock samples and six meteorite samples
encased in two clear Lucite disks.
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Stacy Middle School fifth-graders William George, Emma Hogarty, and Fionn
Diorio (l-r) study pieces of moon rock on loan from NASA.
A listing of Easter Services offered by
Milford Churches and those in Mendon
and Upton can be found by visiting
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Dr. Robert Gilmore, 5th Grade Science Teacher at Stacy,
recently learned about a program available for grades K-12
educators to request samples of moon rocks and meteorites
MOON TO MILFORD p 23
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Finance Committee Discusses
“Muzzling” its Members
By Kevin Rudden
Staff Reporter/Columnist
If Chairman Marc Schaen had his way, none of
the Finance Committee members would be allowed
to speak in opposition to the committee’s majority
position at a Town Meeting. Schaen proposed such
a rule at his committee’s March 9 meeting, but
members took no action on it.
“A number of members have approached asking
what is the right protocol or a right thing for a Fin
Com member to do at Town Meeting if, in fact, that
person disagrees with the majority of the Fin Com,”
Schaen said. “I don’t think it’s right, in my opinion,
that anyone gets up, as a member of the Fin Com,
and speaks in opposition to whatever the Fin Com
voted.” Continuing, he said, “Over the years, it’s not
been the norm.”
Schaen noted that, historically, Finance
Committee members who want to vote against the
committee’s stance on an article returned to their
precinct seats – if Town Meeting Members – to
vote against a measure. But, in his view, having a
Finance Committee member speak out against the
committee’s majority view just serves to “undercut”
the committee’s credibility.
“That pesky First Amendment still gets in my
way,” responded Committee member Alberto
Correia. “I don’t care about the First Amendment,”
Schaen joked. “I’ve got the Second Amendment that
says I can shoot you.” Replied Correia, “I can see not
talking from the FinCom table. I can see the person
that we ask to represent us not talking against the
Fin Com’s position.” If members disagree, they can
then sit with their precincts, he said. “Getting up
and advocating for that position is not beneficial
MUZZLING p 17
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Buckley, Kingkade
Ignore Hiring
Recommendation
By Kevin Rudden
Selectmen William Buckley
and William Kingkade ignored a
recommended candidate to be hired
as a junior building custodian in
the renovated Milford Youth Center
and instead voted to hire another
finalist. Their 2-1 vote to hire Mark
Veneziano – with Chairman Brian
Murray dissenting – came during
the board’s March 7 meeting.
Town Administrator Richard
Villani said that 33 people applied
for the job, five were interviewed
and two of those withdrew – leaving
three finalists. He recommended
hiring Paolo DeSouza at $17.91 per
hour, with a start date of March 14.
But, Buckley said he had received
phone calls from people he knew
in town, all recommending
Veneziano, Kingkade said he knew
the Veneziano family and “There’s
no way I’m voting against Mark.”
Murray said he had received no
such phone calls. “I would prefer
to follow the process and go with
the recommendation of the Town
Administrator,” the chairman said.
Following the board’s meeting,
Buckley told the Town Crier that
Veneziano was one of the finalists
for the job.
In other action, Buckley
recommended using $2,200 from
the funds in the tax increment
financing (TIF) agreement account
with the former BioMeasure, Inc. to
replace lighting in front of the Police
Station to illuminate the U.S. flag at
night.
Kingkade – who brought up the
problem several weeks ago – said
he wanted to correct the violation
of the United State Flag Code that
calls for the flag to be illuminated
if displayed at night before the May
23 Annual Town Meeting considers
a funding request. Failing that, he
asked that custodial staff take down
the flag each evening.
The board decided to first have
Villani check to see if funds could
be found in the Police Department’s
budget to pay for the new lights
now; if not, the funds would be
taken from the BioMeasure account.
PELLEGRINI for PARK COMMISSIONER
Dedicated to the enrichment of our parks,
trails and recreational facilities.
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I ask for your vote on April 5th.
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BRIAN W. MURRAY
SELECTMAN
Brian has been a public servant
throughout our 29 years of marriage.
His involvement in many town
projects and attendance at many
meetings is well documented.
But I’d like to share what you may
not see. It is precious weekend
hours he spends in preparation, time
invested responding to resident
concerns and behind-the-scenes
research.
Brian takes public service very
seriously. He knows you are counting on him. He wants to do right by all of us. And I support his
efforts because I trust him to make informed decisions to benefit
our entire community.
I ask for you to please vote for Brian so that he may continue to be
the independent voice on the Board of Selectman.
Emily Murray
For more information call 508-473-1740,
email [email protected] or visit our
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Using bits of fabric, an eye for design and a
talent for sewing, members of the Thimble
Pleasures Quilt Guild created over 200
masterpieces for their biennial Quilt Show
held on March 12 and 13 at Blackstone
Valley Tech in Upton. Part of the proceeds
from the event was donated to the American
Autoimmune Disorder and Related Diseases
Association. Included in that donation were
funds raised when the Guild raffled off
this quilt, O Glorious Day, created by the
members. Harry Platcow photo
Among the over 200 quilts showcased at the
Biennnial Thimble Pleasures Quilt Guild Show
was this wall hanging created by 12-year-old
Nora Gould. Entitled, Snowman for Mom
it creates a whimsically winter scene and a
holiday decoration. Harry Platcow photo
To view more photos from the Thimble
Pleasures Quilt Guild Show by Harry
Platcow visit TownCrier.us and click on
Photo Galleries.
Giving the Gift of Language
Imagine coming to a new country,
leaving all that is familiar and comforting:
your culture, your friends, your family,
and your roots. You find yourself baffled
by a strange and difficult language - one
you know you must master to fulfill your
dream of advancing in your adopted
homeland. This is the dilemma of the
growing number of immigrants who have
come to Worcester-area in search of a
better life.
Others struggling with reading and
writing in English are native born
Americans whose literacy levels are
below sixth grade level. In Worcester
County, nearly 20 percent (82,026 people)
are without a high school diploma.
Often secretly illiterate because of their
embarrassment, some full-fledged citizens,
for whatever reasons, never learned basic
English language skills.
You can help change this reality for
both immigrants and illiterate residents
by joining Literacy Volunteers, who aim
to empower adults to achieve their goals
of a better life by mastering the English
language. If you have as little as an hour or
two a week to volunteer, you can have the
satisfaction of enabling someone to fulfill
his or her dreams and change their lives
immeasurably.
Located at the Worcester Public Library,
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester
is one of 13 independent non-profit
affiliates throughout the state dedicated
to promoting literacy through volunteer
tutoring. We offer confidential and
student-centered instruction at no cost to
the learner. Our mission is to promote the
comprehension, speaking, reading, and
writing of English for those adults who
most need this help.
The only requirement to be eligible
to tutor is that you have a high school
diploma, that you be at least 18 years
old, and that you be willing to give freely
of your time. If you decide to become
a volunteer, prior to being certified and
matched up with a student, we ask you
to participate in a two hour orientation
and six weekly workshops to prepare you.
Following this preparation, you tell us
when you are available and the Literacy
Volunteers office sets up the first meeting
with your student in a public place such as
the Worcester public library.
After a nine to 12 month commitment,
student and tutor may continue working
together, but if your student has achieved
his or her goals, or moves, you can decide
to be matched with another student. The
workshops provide excellent preparation
for the tutors, though there is no set
curriculum. Instead, student and tutor
work together to reach the student’s
individual goals. In the volunteer office
at the library, there are helpful literacy
experts as well as a wealth of books and
materials, including computers with
learning programs for volunteers and their
students.
More tutors are needed to assist the
many who need help. Consider joining Literacy Volunteers. Contact Literacy Volunteers at 508-754-8056 or [email protected]
Tri-Valley Participates in Nationwide 2016
March for Meals
Tri-Valley’s Nutrition Program, which serves Mendon, Milford and Upton, will be
participating in the 14th annual March for Meals – a month-long, nationwide celebration
of Meals on Wheels and the homebound and vulnerable seniors who rely on its vital
safety net. Tri-Valley’s March for Meals celebration will include visits to nutrition site
locations by town and state officials, a raffle and an Italian Dinner to benefit March
for Meals on March 31, at 4 p.m. at the Ruth Anne Bleakney Senior Center in Milford.
Dinner tickets are $7 and must be reserved by March 25. Contact Tri-Valley’s Nutrition
department at 508-949-6640 for more information.
For more information on how you can volunteer, contribute or speak out for the
seniors in your community and across the country, visit www.marchformeals.com.
All donations to Tri-Valley March for Meals, a non-profit agency, are welcome and can
be mailed to: 10 Mill St., Dudley, MA 01571 or online at www.trivalleyinc.org. For more
information, call 508-949-6640.
MILFORD TOWN CRIER
MARCH 25, 2016
Medway Businesses Get Social…Social Media That is
Submitted y Wayne Texeira,
MBC Board of Directors and Marketing Director
at Murphy Insurance Agency
Social media and managing an online
presence is essential for every business looking
to engage existing and prospective customers.
Most consumers and businesses use the Internet
to find information about where they can buy
products and services they need and to learn
more about a business they are considering
patronizing. Besides constantly updating web
pages, businesses need a social media presence
on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram,
Yelp and others to make a significant impact.
Likewise, updating website content is key
because search engines look at a variety of
information when determining the results
presented in response to an online search.
Social media and digital marketing experts
from Nowspeed, a Westborough digital
marketing agency, Max Rielly and Jillian
Guzinski shared information on how to better
manage social media and digital marketing
efforts at the March 16 Medway Business
Council event held at Charles River Bank,
Medway.
According to Guzinski, businesses should
spend time thinking about what they want to
accomplish with social media, look at what
similar businesses are doing to get ideas that
might work for them, develop a strategy with an
editorial calendar of what to post and when, and
set measurable that can be tracked using free
tools.
She noted that using an editorial calendar
and free tools such as Hootsuite and Sprout
Social that allow businesses to schedule posts in
advance, make the process more manageable.
When considering what content to post,
Guzinski recommends leveraging content a
company has created for a website or other
purposes to share on social media. This includes
links to existing pages on a website, photos,
testimonials, news, events, white papers, press
releases, articles and videos plus others to
industry content from other sources.
Rielly states it’s definitely worth businesses
investing the time to develop their social media
presence and sharing content on an ongoing
basis, since it helps customers find a firm and
ensures a positive impression for customers.
He noted there are a variety of ways to do this
inexpensively, by encouraging employees, who
use social media, to participate in a business’
social media efforts by liking, commenting,
sharing and retweeting company posts.
Admittedly, it’s important to find a balance as
most employees don’t want to constantly “sell.”
However, sharing fun information and photos
can make it easy for your employees to increase
awareness of the business with their network.
Because social media is such a large realm,
start small, pick one social media platform and
begin learning. Given that Facebook has by far
the greatest number of users, it can be a good
place for consumer-focused businesses to begin.
Rielly also shared the importance of
businesses claiming or adding their profile
listing on Google My Business. The search
engine uses and displays this information in
response to searches. Be sure that business
profile is complete, including accurate location,
hours, phone and even photos. If the business
has multiple locations, be sure that each location
has a Google profile. This is extremely important
so the business will show up in local map results.
While there is so much more that can be
learned and shared regarding social media
and digital marketing, MBC was grateful for
the comprehensive and informative overview
provided at the session.
MBC also thanks Charles River Bank for
graciously hosting the meeting and providing
refreshments. To learn more about Medway
Business Council visit MedwayBusinessCouncil.
org.
Greater Milford
Community Chorus
2016 Spring Concert
Hopedale
Cultural Council
Seeks New
Members
The Greater Milford Community Chorus
will be performing their annual Spring
Concert, Songs with Heart, on Saturday
evening, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. and again
on Sunday afternoon, May 1 at 1:30 p.m.
at the Davoren Auditorium at Milford
High School, 31 West Fountain St. The
auditorium and parking are handicapped
accessible. Tickets are on sale now from any
chorus member, or at Music & Arts located
at 164 Main St., Milford. Presale tickets are
$8 by April 29 or $10 when purchased at
the door. Children under12 are free.
The Chorus, under the musical direction
of Dan Zabinski of Uxbridge, has been
rehearsing some of your favorite songs.
Attendees will hear many of their favorite
songs from the 1920s through the current
day, some with amazing solo performances
throughout the piece. Accompanying
the chorus on piano is Wayne Ward of
Holliston. Featured soloists are Milford
resident Lisa Mather offering the 1959 hit
Broken Hearted Melody and Jeff Lovell, also
from Milford, singing a very popular hit
from 1920s, Heart of My Heart.
The Greater Milford Community Chorus
is a nonprofit organization sponsored by
the Milford Community Use Program
and the Milford Cultural Council, which
is part of the Massachusetts Cultural
Council. Singers come from many towns
in the wider community. There is no
audition to join the chorus, just a basic
understanding of music and the ability
to carry a tune! New members are
encouraged to join. More information
can be found at the Website at www.
greatermilfordcommunitychorus.org
or check us out on Facebook at Greater
Milford Community Chorus.
The Hopedale Cultural
Council is a group of volunteers
appointed by the Board of
Selectmen, whose main function
is to award grants annually
from state appropriations to
individuals and organizations
for community projects and
events. Additionally the Council
organizes the summer band
concerts, the Hopedale Day in
the Park (September), and the
Student Art Show (December)
in addition to sponsoring group
theater trips to Boston and
Providence.
The council meets a few times
a year for planning purposes.
Members work on projects on
their own time and are present at
sponsored events.
We are looking for people to
join the council who would like
to help us with our activities.
Please see our Facebook page
(Hopedale Cultural CouncilCommunity Organization) for
photos and videos of past events.
Current members are : Ellen
Murphy, Treasurer, Paula
Galligan, Secretary, Sally
Decelles, Grant Coordinator,
Bridget Pardee, Virginia Larkin,
Melissa Martin-LaVache, and
Ann LaBrode.
For more information contact:
Billi Manning, Chairperson 508478-0929.
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Milford Firefighter Pat Evans was on
hand at the Milford Family Fun Fair
on Saturday, March 12 with safety
tips to youngsters and their families.
Here he is shown with Vera, Ava and
Dylan Andreola next to the Milford
Fire Department booth. Harry
Platcow photo
Sara Humiston, left, and Isabel
Denault man the Milford Family
& Community Network booth at
the Annual Family Fun Fair at
Milford High School on March 12.
The annual fair is sponsored by the
Network and offers youngsters and
their families a chance to view the
local organizations that offer services
for them. Harry Platcow photo
Milford Pediatrician Robert Beckman,
MD provides an examination of a
youngster’s teddy bear at the Family
Fun Fair at the Milford High School
on March 12. Dr. Beckman was just
one of the dozens of local individuals,
business, groups and organizations
with family-related services that
exhibited at the annual event. Harry
Platcow photo
Youngsters of all ages, along with the adults important in their lives, enjoyed the
22nd Annual Family Fun Fair on Saturday, March 12. The event sponsored by
the Milford Family & Community Network, which serves families and providers
in the greater Milford, Hopedale and Bellingham areas, offered a wide range of
services, organizations and groups with a family friendly focus. Shown is young
Xavier Semenuk, who was interested in everything that was going on, especially
in having his photo taken. Harry Platcow photo
To view more photos of the 2016 Family Fun Fair by Harry
Platcow visit TownCrier.us and click on Photo Galleries.
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508-473-5511
James Ligor for School Committee
Please vote on April 5, 2016
BACKGROUND
• Life Long Milford Resident of 45 Years
Son of Tom and Barbara (Carrachino) Ligor
• Graduate of Milford High Class of 1988
• Undergrad Degree, Business Management
• North American Portfolio Manager,
Tech Refresh / EMC
• Married for 18 years to Jill (Francis) Ligor
• Two children in the district: Joshua
(Freshman, age 15), Jacob (5th Grade, age 11)
Both boys are 3 season athletes
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10 years of service on the Personnel Board
5 Years as Chairman
Youth Coaching
5 years Milford Basketball
1 year Milford Youth Baseball
MISSION
• To improve, increase and effectively
communicate the brand and brand equity
of Milford Public Schools
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MARCH 25, 2016
MYSTERY PHOTO FROM FEBRUARY 12
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Duties include following batch records to
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The Advertiser’s Club
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The Advertiser’s Club Directory is a listing
of those businesses that have contracted
to advertising at least 12 times a year in
The Milford Town Crier. Features include
a listing in this directory, discounts and
a feature article about your business (size
and frequency requirements apply).
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Business Name................................Ad on Page
Advantage Siding.................................................12
Affordable Junk Removal...................................12
Beauty Nails.............................................next issue
Blaire House.................................................. 14, 28
Bon Appetit Pizza...................................next issue
Boucher Energy Systems....................................12
Bright Insurance..................................................16
CabinetDepot.com..............................................13
CPR Etc....................................................next issue
Crystal Room.......................................................22
Dewey Pest...........................................................12
Extra Mile Tutoring...............................................4
Fortress Computer.................................next issue
Gallo Moving.......................................................16
Gibson Septic Service............................next issue
Guerriere & Halnon, Inc....................................23
Heritage Siding.......................................next issue
Homefield Credit Union.......................................2
Hopedale Country Club.....................................17
Iadarola Plumbing...............................................13
Imperial.com....................................................3, 28
Joliceur Overhead Doors.......................next issue
Joyce Plumbing....................................................12
LaRose Muscular Therapy.....................next issue
Mango Tree Cuisine...............................next issue
Medway Oil & Propane Company....................27
Milford Federal....................................................16
Milford-Franklin Eye Associates .........next issue
Milford National.....................................next issue
Music Together of Blackstone Valley..................9
Nathans’ Jewelers.................................................20
New England Fat Loss............................next issue
Park Place Dental................................................19
Restaurant 45..........................................next issue
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Robertson Floor Covering....................next issue
Simoneau Electric...................................next issue
Stardust Jewelers.....................................next issue
Templeman Tree Service....................................12
UPS Store.................................................next issue
Wanokura Japanese Restaurant...........................5
Wayside Youth and Family Services..................16
Wolf Dental.............................................next issue
Wylie & Julian Oil...............................................20
Zenith Mortgage..................................................20
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Thanks to Pat Fahey and the Milford Historical Commission for supplying our
March 11 Mystery Photo. It shows Milford’s original train station, built in 1848, the
Boston & Albany Station, which was located on Central St. H.F. Green took the photo.
According to Fahey, who was helping the Commission identify some photos in
its collection, the picture was taken “around 1900 to 1905 judging by the derailed
locomotive,” which had “crashed through the bumper at the end of the track.”
A number of readers responded with guesses among them Sandi Tetreault, who
discussed the derailment. Pat Fahey added that the engine is a Boston & Albany 4-4-0.
Local historian, Robin Philbin noted that the “Boston & Albany train crashed
through a bumper between Depot St. and the car house onto Central St. circa 1885 –
90. Train was carrying lumber for the Field & Crosby Lumber Co, Front St.; a loading
platform was located at the northern end of the car house. Contemporary maps show
that no tracks crossed Central St. at this point. Buildings in background from left:
Field Bros. Coal Co., 1885 [successor Macuen Bros. 1892]; original Boston & Albany
depot [note bell tower] and car house for the Boston & Albany RR.”
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Opinion
SPORTS FLASH
NOTES & NOTATIONS
Sports as Entertainment?
The Power of One
By Chris Villani
Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage
unleashed a spring training furor when he
lashed out against slow home run trots,
bat flips, and Washington Nationals young
superstar Bryce Harper, who penned his own piece pleading with
baseball to allow its young stars to showcase their personalities and
not allow the game to become stale.
I am, admittedly, far too young to remember the days of Gossage.
But looking at his career numbers and accomplishments, I cannot
see anything but a borderline — at best — case for the longtime
reliever to be enshrined in Cooperstown, but I’m just one of those
“nerds” he says are ruining the game with our newfangled statistics
and silly belief that it’s not a bad thing to learn something new. But
that’s not the issue here.
Sides were chosen, Team Gossage vs. Team Harper. Old school
vs. new school. Snail mail vs. Instagram.
I’m Team Harper all the way, mainly because I believe
pro athletes should be themselves and pro sports is about
entertainment. One of the major arguments on the other side of the
coin build down to “what about the kids?”
Youth coaches lament having to deal with a generation of
children who idolize a generation of “look at me” stars. But why
should professional sports be forced to do a coach’s job for them?
When I was a kid, Ken Griffey Jr. was my favorite player. He
made the game look easy, and few things were as cool as watching
“the Kid” take batting practice with his hat on backwards. I wanted to wear my hat backwards. My father, who is certainly
Team Gossage all the way, had other ideas. His message to me was
pretty simple, “when you’re as good as Griffey, feel free to wear
your hat any way you’d like.”
At a high school game, he hammered home the point even more. “Look at them,” he said, pointing to the Milford High players.
“None of them are wearing their hats on backwards and you’re not
even as good as they are.”
It was an easy lesson for a 10-year-old to understand. I’m not a parent, but I recognize there are difficult conversations
that need to be had when raising children. How to act on a baseball
field seems pretty far down the list when you look at other things
that happen in the world. And, it’s worth pointing out, there are
many of “old school” types in the game today, guys like Mike Trout
who dutifully put their heads down and circle the bases at a speedy
clip after a home run.
For the guys that aren’t, baseball should allow them to be
themselves. Coaches should explain pro athletes, and adults in
general, get to do things that kids can’t do. And they should inspire
them to be themselves and be ready to savior their first home run
in the big leagues.
Milford Candidates Featured
on 30 Minutes with the Town Crier
By Kevin Rudden
Candidates in the April 5 Milford
Town Election are being featured
on 30 Minutes with The Town Crier
during March and early April. A
new show featuring a candidate
in a contested race will air every
Friday evening through April 1. The
episodes also will be available for
viewing on the 30 Minutes with The
Town Crier channel on YouTube.
The schedule is:
• Today: Paul Pellegrini, candidate
for re-election to the Park
Commission
• April 1: Cesare Comolli,
candidate for Park Commission
The following interviews already
have aired and are now available on
YouTube:
• February 12: James Ligor,
RUMINATIONS
By Kevin Rudden
By Jane Bigda
candidate for School Committee
• February 19: Patrick Holland,
candidate for Board of Selectmen
• February 26: Joseph Morais,
candidate for re-election to the
School Committee
• March 4: Brian Murray,
candidate for re-election to the
Board of Selectmen
• March 11: Scott Vecchiolla,
• March 18: Michael Visconti,
Each new show will air at 6:30 p.m.
on Friday on Milford TV – Comcast
Channel 8 and Verizon Channel 38
– and will be repeated several times
the following week.
30 Minutes with The Town Crier is
produced by Town Crier Publications,
Inc. – publishers of The Milford Town
Crier and The Upton & Mendon Town
Crier
Congratulations are due to the
voters in Milford who turned out
in significant numbers for the
Massachusetts Presidential Primary
on March 1. Just over 40 percent of voters turned out
to support Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party
nominee and Donald Trump for the Republican Party.
Hopefully that interest in the national contest will
carry over into local politics and voters will respond
again be turning out at the polls on April 5 for the
Milford Town Election.
With four contests on the ballot including a race
between incumbent Brian Murray and challenger
Patrick Holland for a three year seat on the Milford
Board of Selectmen, and a four way race between
James Ligor, Scott Vecchiolla, and Michael Visconti
and incumbent Joseph Morais for the two, three-year,
terms on the Milford School Committee, voters should
be interested in turning out at the polls. The other two
contests on the ballot are for Park Commission with
Cesare Comolli challenging incumbent Paul Pellegrini
for a three-year seat, and Board of Library Trustees
with Christine Crean, Rory D’Alessandro and Jessica
Espinoza vying with incumbent John Byrnes for the
two, three-year seats.
While some elections seem more important or
exciting than others, all have an impact in the long
run. An election is the one time when a citizen
can definitively tell a politician, an official, the
establishment, what he or she really thinks about how
things should work in a town, state or nation. Your vote
is your assessment of the status quo—do you like what
is happening or do you want a change. It is your chance
to help shape the future.
Equally important, an election is one time when
a person with power must absolutely listen to their
constituents. Once elected politicians, may think that
they know more than the rest of us. Sometimes they
do but often they have lost touch with the reality of
everyday lives. An election is the time to remind them
of that reality and to let them know again what the real
power holders, the people, want and need.
So how do you choose who you vote for? Elections
are a lot of fluff, drama and showmanship—slick
ads, mass mailings full of innuendo and stunts liking
shaking the hands of every voter in a district. How can
a voter cut through the nonsense?
I think Doris Kearns Goodwin offered some good
advice when speaking about her book Team of Rivals:
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She noted,
politicians may run for election on a specific platform
but once elected the realities of the office and the events
that happen in real time can radically change what they
can do. Focusing on the subject of her book, Abraham
Lincoln, she noted that despite his thin resume and
limited background, Lincoln became one of our most
revered Presidents. He had what the country needed,
a character marked by determination, adaptability and
the ability to weather downturns without losing his way.
His character was his most important credential. He
had what we might call the right stuff.
It all comes down to that, character in the end is what
matters in a candidate and a leader.
So as we go to the polls this spring and later this fall
who has the character, the right stuff, to lead our towns,
our state, our nation? Votes and elections count, and
choosing a candidate by his or her character might
make it the easiest choice of all.
In the last issue’s column,
I focused on the Board of
Library Trustees as an oftoverlooked board, in terms
of election coverage. For this
issue, I’m focusing on the
Park's Commission.
Two people are running this year for the one
available three-year seat: incumbent Paul Pellegrini
and newcomer Cesare Comolli.
“The Milford Park Department maintains
all school grounds, over 20 parks and fields,
maintenance of about ten playgrounds, the Louisa
Lake recreational area, the Upper Charles Trail, and
operation of the municipal pool,” according to the
town’s website.
In a town like Milford, that loves its sports,
that makes the three Park Commissioners very
important people. They are in charge of just about
every sports and recreation area in the town.
Last October, I wrote a column recommending
readers to check out the Finance Committee’s
October 14 meeting on YouTube to see a good,
democratic (with a small “d”, not the political party)
debate about property tax relief. How the Finance
Committee handled that issue at the October
26 Special Town Meeting was the subject of the
committee’s recent March 9 meeting. I urge anyone
interested in First Amendment rights to watch this
meeting on YouTube, as well.
This month’s topic was whether a Finance
Committee member who opposes the committee’s
majority opinion has a right to speak against that
recommendation at a Town Meeting. To quote
committee member Al Correia, there’s “that pesky
First Amendment” to consider.
Fin Com Chair Marc Schaen felt that having
a committee member stand up in his or her
precinct area and publicly voice a stand against
the Fin Com’s recommendation would undercut
the committee’s credibility. Schaen said it’s OK to
vote, but not to speak out. Correia and committee
member Aldo Cecchi disagreed.
Correia did suggest that, if the committee knew
a member was opposed to the Fin Com’s majority
opinion, then it should make sure that person is not
chosen to present the Fin Com’s financial report at
the start of the meeting.
The discussion goes back to last October’s
meeting, when Vice Chair Chris Morin gave the
financial report and later got up to vocally oppose
the committee’s position on how much of the
town’s “free cash” balance should be used to lower
property taxes. Morin’s viewpoint was adopted by
Town Meeting Members, by the way.
In case you have forgotten it, the First
Amendment reads: Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of grievances.
In my view, this is one of the most fundamental
freedoms guaranteed to every American citizen.
Limiting it should not be taken lightly at any level
of government.
I understand Schaen’s point about undercutting
the Finance Committee’s credibility, but Correia’s
suggestion of who gives the financial report not
only makes far more sense, but it takes away no
one’s rights.
Cla
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Community Calendar................................ 8, 9
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MARCH 25, 2016
Twas the wearin’ of the Green at the Senior Center
Despite their
Italian heritage,
Anthony Tieuli
and his daughter,
Ruthann Toledo
became Irish
for the day and
got into the
spirit of wearin’
of the green at
the annual St.
Patrick’s Day
Lunch at the Ruth
Anne Bleakney
Senior Center on
March 17. Harry
Platcow photo
St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated at the Ruth Anne Bleakney Senior Center in Milford
with a traditional corned beef and cabbage lunch and the wearin’ of the green. Republic
Services, Milford’s trash hauler donated $400 to help pay for the lunch. Shown, left
to right are: Susie Cadrin, Gerry Hennessy, Sue Clark, Senior Center Director; Mike
Szczepan of Republic Services; and Brenda Needleman. Harry Platcow photo
Helping the Families of Those Who Serve
Thanks To Yanks, a Milford-based
organization, which supports members
of the military and their family, recently
donated new sensory equipment for
children with special needs who have a
family member in the armed services.
TSgt Tiffany Starling, right, from
Hanscom AFB is pictured accepting
the donation from Donnalee Shain,
Vice President of Thanks To Yanks. For
more information on Thanks To Yanks
and how they support military families
please visit www.thankstoyanks.org
and like them on Facebook. Thanks To
Yanks photo
MARCH 25, 2016
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Calendar
MILFORD MEETINGS
Unless otherwise noted, the activities take
place at Town Hall. Official meeting notices
are posted on Town Clerk’s Bulletin Board. For
additional information, contact the appropriate
Board or official.
Tuesday, March 29
Planning Board, Room 03, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30
Selectman Kingkade Office Hours, Room 02,
6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5
Annual Town Election, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday, April 11
Board of Selectmen, Room 03, 7 p.m.
MILFORD SENIOR CENTER
The Ruth Anne Bleakney Senior Center, located
at 60 North Bow St., is open Monday through
Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.
Contact the center by calling 508-473-8334 or
emailing [email protected]. Sue Trotta
Clark is the director.
Thursday, March 31
10 a.m. Men’s Group Meeting, Public Works
Presentation by Scott Crisafulli, Free
Thursday, April 7
11 a.m. Brunch, prepared by Chef Brenda
Needleman, Entertainment by the Debenedictis
Twins, Sponsored by Home Care Solutions &
Friends of Bleakney Senior Center, $5
Monday, April 18
Senior Center Closed for Patriots Day
Monday
8:30 a.m. Game Room
8:30 a.m. Fitness Equipment & Internet.
8:30 a.m. SHINE by Appointment
8:30 a.m. Outreach Services
9 a.m. Silver Sneakers
9:30 a.m. Cribbage
10 a.m. Gift Shop
10:30 a.m. Zumba Gold
1 p.m. Mexican Train Dominos
1:15 p.m. Safe Exercise
Tuesday
8:30 a.m. Game Room
8:30 a.m. Fitness Equipment & Internet
9 a.m. Morning Stretch & Balance
10 a.m. Gift Shop
10 a.m. Tai Chi
11 a.m. Whist
12:30 p.m. Turkey Foot Dominos
1 p.m. Mah Jongg
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. Game Room
8:30 a.m. SHINE by appointment
9 a.m. Zumba Gold
10 a.m. Watercolor Art Classes
10 a.m. Gift Shop
10:15 a.m. Fall Prevention
1 p.m. Bingo
1 p.m. Chess
Thursday
8:30 a.m. Game Room
9 a.m. Knitting and Sewing Class
9:30 a.m. Senior Yoga
10 a.m. Gift Shop
10:30 a.m. Line Dancing
1:15 p.m. Safe Exercise
Friday
8:30 a.m. Game Room
9 a.m. Hairdresser/Barber (by Appointment)
9:15 a.m. Fall Prevention
10 a.m. Gift Shop
10:30 a.m. Zumba Gold
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Powerful Tools for Caregivers
MENDON-Powerful Tools for Caregivers, a free
six-week program, will be offered at the Mendon
Senior Center, 62 Providence St., on Wednesdays
March 30 through April 27 and May 11 from
1 to 3 p.m. The program is designed to help you
take care of yourself while caring for an older
adult. Get the tools you need to:
• reduce stress
• communicate effectively
• reduce guilt, anger and depression
• make tough decisions
• set goals
•problem-solve
The program is sponsored by Tri-Valley Inc.
and the Mendon Senior Center. To register
contact Laura Black Silver, LICSW, Caregiver
Specialist, Tri-Valley Inc. at [email protected]
1-800-286-6640, Ext. 3079 or Amy Wilson
Kent, Mendon Senior Center Director, at coa@
mendonma.gov or 508-478-6175.
Foxwoods Trip
MILFORD-The Knights of Columbus Valencia
Council 80 is sponsoring a trip to Foxwoods
on Friday, April 8 for $20 per person, which
includes round trip bus transportation plus
$10 in food vouchers and slot plays. The bus
leaves the Milford Municipal Lot, across the
street from Sacred Heart of Jesus Church of
Milford at 4 p.m. and leave Foxwoods at 11
p.m. Reservations must be made by April 1 by
contacting James Burke, F.D.D. at 508-478-9813.
Photos by Platcow
MILFORD-Town Crier photographer Harry
Platcow is showing some of his many pictures at
the Milford National Bank, 146 South Main St.
(Rt. 140), Milford through the month of April.
Stop by to see photos from the area and Boston.
The exhibit will change weekly.
Community Meals
AREA-A number of local churches are offering
free, nourishing meals to the local community.
All are welcome to these meals.
Trinity Episcopal Church, 17 Congress St.,
Milford, with sponsorship from volunteers of the
First Methodist Church of Milford, offers dinner
including an entrée, soup, salad, bread, dessert
and beverage on the last Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of the month from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
For more information contact the parish office
at 508-473-8464 or office@trinitychurchmilford.
org. Volunteers to help prepare and serve meals
are always needed and most welcome.
Community Brown Bag lunch / dinner is
offered on the last Saturday of each month from
6 to 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church,
23 Pine St., Milford. Please enter by the side
door, next to the Laundromat. Sacred Heart of
Jesus Parish of Milford sponsors the meal.
United Parish of Upton members are offering
monthly Community Suppers the third
Thursday of each month to bring local residents
together at 5:30 p.m. at the church, 1 Church
St., Upton. Please call 508-529-3192 to reserve a
spot. There is no fee, but donations are gratefully
accepted.
Food with Friends Meals program at St. Mary
of the Assumption Parish, 27 Pearl St., Milford,
offers lunch every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. and dinner the second Tuesday of
the month from 4:45 to 7 p.m. The full course
dinners are open to all in the diverse Milford
community. Meals are offered in the Parish
Center’s Small Hall.
Free One-Night Adult Classes
MILFORD-The Milford Community School
Use Program has many interesting, and some
FREE, one-night classes for adults coming up.
Sign up for one or more of these programs:
Room Re-Design; Train Your Brain for Greater
Focus, Greater Calm and Greater Performance;
Rejuvenate with Zentangle; About Boating
Safety (Coast Guard Auxiliary); and Canning
101; Understanding and Using Your VA Home
Loan Guarantee.
Visit MCS.milford.ma.us to get the details for
these and many other programs. Click “Adult
Spring” in the menu on the left side of the home
page; then scroll down to click on the selected
program. Follow the registration procedure for
each class selected. Call 508-478-1119 for more
information.
Milford High School Prom/Semi
Formal Dress Drive
MILFORD-Milford High School Cinderella’s
Closet is now collecting new and gently used
prom, semi formal dresses and accessories for
their 2016 Prom Dress Drive that runs through
April 13. The 2016 drive is designed to help
offset the high cost of attending a high school
prom and semi formal for Milford High School
students. In addition to dresses, gently used
donations of costume jewelry, purses and shoes
are welcome!
If you have a prom dress that you no longer
need, don’t let it hang in the back of your closet
and gather dust for another day. Instead, donate
it! Drop off locations, open Monday through
Friday are: Milford High School Main Lobby, 31
West Fountain St., 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Milford
Sports Center, 132 Central St., 3 to 9 p.m. A
special collection date will be held on March 19
in the Milford High School cafeteria lobby from
9 to 11 a.m.
For more information please contact Cheryl
Shea - [email protected] or call 508-4781110 ext. 2172
Second Annual Travel Fair
MILFORD- Ready to start thinking about your
next vacation? Then join us at the 2nd Annual
Atlas Travel Fair on Wednesday, March 30 from
4 to 7 p.m. at Milford High School (Cafeteria
Entrance), 31 West Fountain St.
This free event, open to the public, is hosted
by the Milford High School Hospitality &
Tourism Management students, along with Atlas
Travel of Milford. You will have the opportunity
to meet and speak with representatives from
many different vacation companies, as well as
Atlas Travel (www.atlastravel.com). Vacation
companies in attendance include: Royal
Caribbean Cruise Lines; Norwegian Cruise
Lines; Disney; Classic Vacations; Celebrity
Cruises, plus many more. They will be offering
vacation packages at a discounted rate.
If you have any questions, please email htm@
milfordma.com or call Atlas Travel at 800-8788626.
Claflin Hill Chamber Series at
Alternatives
WHITINSVILLE-The Claflin Hill Symphony
Woodwind Quintet will perform on Friday,
April 8 at Alternatives Singh Performance
Center, 50 Douglas Rd., Whitinsville
at 7:30 p.m. This is the third and final
performance of the orchestra in the Claflin
Hill Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series at
Alternatives.2015-2016 Season.
Principal and Assistant Principal Wind
performers from the Claflin Hill Symphony
Orchestra join Director Paul Surapine for an
evening of colorful and powerful works from the
Woodwind Quintet repertoire, including works
of Beethoven, Hindemith and more.
Tickets for all the concerts are now on sale
at ClafinHill.com by calling 508-478-5924 or
by mail at Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, 54
Claflin St., Milford MA 01757
Disabled American Veterans Mobile
Service Office
AREA-The nonprofit Disabled American
Veterans (DAV) offers help to veterans
concerning the benefits and services they have
earned. The DAV Mobile Service Office will
be at the following locations from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. on the days listed to personally provide
the best counseling and claim filing assistance
available. Like all DAV services, help from the
Mobile Service Office is free to all veterans and
members of their families.
Monday, March 28-DAV Lawson Raiola
Chapter 15, Veterans Home, 480 Metacom
Ave., Bristol, R.I.
Tuesday, March 29-DAV Westcott Houghton
Chapter 56, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 50
Jefferson St., North Attleboro
Wednesday, March 30-Dennis Police
Department, 90 Bob Crowell Rd., South
Dennis
Thursday, March 31-Providence VA Medical
Center, 2038 Warwick Ave., Warwick.
Friday, April 1-Knights of Columbus, 1675
Douglas Ave., North Providence.
For further information regarding these
events, please feel free to contact NSO Michael J.
Zibrida at 401-223-3695.
MILFORD TOWN CRIER
Psychic Gary McKinstry
UPTON-Gary McKinstry, popular medium and
psychic, is returning to Upton for his seventh
Connections presentation on April 8 at 7 p.m.
at the Upton Town Hall. This event is sponsored
by the Upton Bloomer Girls, a local charitable
organization. Interacting closely with the
audience, McKinstry works to channel spiritual
contact between guests and loved ones who have
passed away. Reserve seats for $20 by calling the
Upton Town Clerk at 508-529-3565 or Ida at
508-529-2822. Tickets may be purchased at the
door for $25. I Love My Clogs
MILFORD-On Friday, April 1, I Love My
Clogs shoes offered by Darius Filipiak, ABC
Board Certified Pedorthist, will be available
for purchase at the Milford Regional Medical
Center, in Conference Room A, from 7 a.m. to
4 p.m. as a fundraiser for the Milford Regional
Medical Center Auxilary. Shoes are fitted
specifically to the client’s foot. Styles include
Dansko, Sanita and Klogs USA. Narrow and
wide widths are available.
The fundraisers provide support to Medical
Center departments. The Auxiliary meets
on the second Tuesday monthly at 9:30 a.m.,
except for July and August. Men and women are
encouraged to consider joining this successful
organization. For more information, call 508422-2099.
April Fun Raffle
MILFORD-The Milford Regional Medical
Center Auxliary will sponsor an April Fun Raffle
with tickets on sale from April 11 through 15
in the Atrium Cafeteria from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. and in the Gift Shop.
The three prizes will be a Roller Kingdom
Gift Card for a Deluxe Birthday Party for up to
10 people, two movie gift cards and basket from
Regal Cinemas of Bellingham and a Pinz party
for two hours of bowling for 15 people plus a gift
card for snacks or games.
Tickets $1 each or six for $5. The drawing is at
1:30 p.m. on April 15. The winner does not have
to present to win.
The Auxiliary conducts many fundraisers
throughout the year which provide support to
hospital departments. The public is welcome;
men and women are encouraged to consider
joining this successful organization. For more
information, call 508-422-2099.
April Vacation Kids Kamp
MILFORD-Lenny Morcone, Director of the
Milford Community School Use Program, has
announced that the April Vacation Kids Kamp
will be held during the week of April 18-22 from
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at Milford High School,
West Fountain St. Participants must be attending
Kindergarten through Grade 7. There is a
discounted rate for children who are currently
enrolled in our Extended Day Program with
discounts also applied to the second and third
children of Milford residents and Extended Day
participants only.
Daily entrance will be in the Cafeteria Lobby.
All participants will bring a lunch, beverage and
a snack with them each day, as well as a swimsuit
and towel. Activities will include a recreational
swim time in the pool each day, arts and crafts,
games and contests, movies, quiet/story time,
and sports contests.
Space is limited with registrations are being
accepted by mail or in person daily at the
Milford Community Program Office, located at
the Milford High School. Please make checks
payable to Town of Milford - MCSUP. All
registration forms and fees must be received
by Monday, April 11, but early registration is
encouraged.
For more information including fees, visit
MCS.milford.us or call the office, 508-478-1119.
MACC Events
AREA- The Milford Area Chamber of
Commerce (MACC) will be holding the
following events. To reserve your place call 508473-6700 or email chamber@milfordchamber.
org. For more information about the chamber
visit www.milfordchamber.org.
The Home & Garden Show will be held on
Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
Blackstone Valley Tech High School, 65 Pleasant
St., Upton. Exhibitors can contact the chamber
for more information.
MARCH 25, 2016
Calendar
Community Harvest Project Seeking
Volunteers
NORTH GRAFTON-On Saturday, March
26, Community Harvest Project will host a
Volunteer Team Leader Open House at Brigham
Hill Community Farm, 37 Wheeler Rd., North
Grafton. Informational Sessions will be held
on the hour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., allowing
interested community members to find out more
about Community Harvest Project and how
they can become involved in a leadership role. Volunteer Team Leaders help to lead volunteer
groups from schools, businesses and civic
organizations in volunteer farming activities for
hunger relief. The Open House is a wonderful
opportunity for community members to learn
more! Over the past several years, Community
Harvest Project has hosted over 11,000 volunteer
farmers per season at their farms in North
Grafton and Harvard to grow hundreds of
thousands of pounds of fruits and vegetables,
which are primarily donated through hunger
relief agencies to individuals and families in
need in Worcester County. Minimum age is 16
½ to become a participating Volunteer Team
Leader.
For more information please contact Wayne
McAuliffe, Leadership Programs Manager, at
[email protected].
Friends of Milford Upper Charles Trail
MILFORD- The Friends of the Milford Upper
Charles Trail, a non-profit all-volunteer
organization helping promote the use of the
trail and supporting its maintenance, meets
on the first Tuesday of the month at the Ruth
Anne Bleakney Senior Center, 60 North Bow St.,
Milford at 7 p.m. All meetings are open to the
public and new members are always welcomed.
Upcoming meetings are Tuesday, April 5.
Mass Murder – Massachusetts’ Most
Infamous Murder Cases
MILFORD-Historian Chris Daley, an audience
favorite, returns with a one-hour slide show/
lecture that is an entertaining and fascinating
look at some of Massachusetts’ most infamous
murder cases, both solved and unsolved on
Wednesday, April 6 at the 7 p.m. in the Granite
and Quarry Rooms of the Milford Town Library,
Spruce St. Readers and others who enjoy
mystery, suspense and a little blood and gore
will love this lecture. It is fully illustrated with
photographs and artwork culled from archival,
microfilm and literary sources. Many of the
murder sites and historical locations have been
photographed in order to give the audience a
sense of the modern day context of the crimes.
Available for sale that evening will be Daley’s
new book, Murder & Mayhem in Boston:
Historic Crimes in the Hub. Sponsored by the
Friends of the Milford Town Library, this event
is free and open to the public.
Milford Regional Medical Center
Auxiliary Meeting
MILFORD-The Milford Regional Medical
Center Auxiliary April Meeting is April 12 from
9:30 – 11 a.m. in the MRMC Conference Room
A, 14 Prospect St., Milford.
Jan Lewis, host of Upton’s Be My Quest will be
speaking about Memories and How to Preserve
Them.
The Auxiliary conducts many fundraisers
throughout the year, which provide support
to the hospital departments. The public is
welcome; men and women are encouraged to
consider joining this successful organization.
If you would like more information about the
Auxiliary, please call 508-422-2099.
Blackstone Valley Chamber of
Commerce
BLACKSTONE VALLEY- The Blackstone
Valley Chamber of Commerce will sponsor
the following events. For more information
or to register call 508-234-9090, x 100, email
[email protected], or visit
BlackstoneValley.org.
Business Smart Workshops presented by
the US Small Business Administration, basic
business courses for entrepreneurs will include
Essentials of Becoming Credit Ready on March
29 and Resources on April 13. Both will be held
at the Chamber Offices, 670 Linwood Ave., Bldg
A, Suite 5, Whitinsville from 8 to 10 a.m.
MARCH 25, 2016
All You Can Eat Breakfast
MILFORD-Thanks To Yanks is holding an All
You Can Eat Breakfast on Saturday, April 2
from 7:30 to 11 a.m. at the Italian American
Veteran’s Club, 4 Hayward Field, Milford.
Entrance is $8 per person and $5 per child age
eight years and younger. For more information
email [email protected].
Fourth Annual Art Palette Contest
WHITINSVILLE-The 4th Annual Art Palette
Contest at the Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage
Gallery in Alternatives Whitin Mill, 50 Douglas
Rd., Whitinsville is now going on through April
29. This art contest is for people of all ages and
abilities, where anything goes and creativity is
rewarded has returned! Come see how this year’s
75 + entrants have transformed ordinary 16 x 20"
artist palettes into extraordinary works of art.
Visit the gallery, which is open Monday
through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., by
April 1 to vote for your favorite palette. Cash
prizes of up to $300 will be awarded to nine
winners!
For more information about the contest, please
contact: Pamela Murphy at 508-278-3789 or
[email protected]
Blackstone Heritage Corridor
Prepares for 2nd Annual GO!
WOONSOCKET-Blackstone Heritage Corridor,
Inc. (BHC) is seeking volunteers to lead free,
guided experiences for its 2nd Annual GO! in
September. In its inaugural year, BHC’s GO!
featured more than 80 unique experiences
including guided walks, hikes, bike rides, canoe
and kayak trips, horse rides, wagon rides, boat
rides, museum tours and more throughout the
25 communities within the National Heritage
Corridor. In addition to guided experiences,
several festivals were featured along with feebased exhibits and workshops. More than 8,000
people participated in the 2015 GO!.
Last year’s program kicked off in Uxbridge,
at the Uxbridge Antique Fire Museum with an
open house and tour. Roy Henry, a volunteer
with the BHC for 11 years, was one of the first
to sign up to host an event for GO! and saw it as
an opportunity to highlight the work he and his
colleagues had done to build up the collection at
the museum.
All events are featured in a full-color
brochure, available in print and online, reaching
over 100,000 potential new visitors.
Proposals for free, guided experiences, as
well as special events, for the 2016 GO! are
due by May 15. Request a form via mail by
contacting mail@BlackstoneHeritageCorridor.
org or download one from the BHC website at
BlackstoneHeritageCorridor.org. Experience
leaders will attend a training session in August
and will receive a free GO! T-shirt to wear
guiding the experience, as well as signs to direct
participants to parking and location. Questions
about GO! can be directed to the BHC office
at [email protected] or by
calling Stephanie at 401-765-2211.
Friends of Hopedale Library Beer &
Wine Tasting
MENDON-The Friends of the Hopedale Library
will hold a Beer and Wine Tasting on Tuesday,
April 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Willowbrook
Restaurant, 16 Hastings St., Mendon. Enjoy
a casual night tasting the latest from Atlas
Distributing and the Hopedale Package Store.
Beer selections from Peak Organic Brewing
Company and wines from Wicked Wines and
La Bodega will be served. Gluten-free drink and
food options will be available this year. Proceeds
of this event help fund the Bancroft Library’s
children’s summer reading program On Your
Mark, Get Set…READ plus adult and children’s
programs throughout the year. Suggested
donation for this event is $15 paid at the library
or $20 paid at the door. Attendees must be 21 or
older. ID is required.
2016 Arts in Bloom Exhibit
HOPKINTON-The Hopkinton Center for the
Arts (HCA) is inviting area artists to submit 2D
and 3D artwork to the Arts in Bloom exhibit,
an open juried show, which will feature oneof-a-kind floral arrangements created by the
Hopkinton Garden Club. The exhibit runs from
April 29 to June 2 at the Hopkinton Center for
the Arts. Cash prizes will be announced at the
opening reception, April 29. Submissions should
reflect the theme of blooming. Artists may drop
off artwork with completed entry form and a $35
entry fee, $25 for HCA members, to 98 Hayden
Rowe St., Hopkinton on Friday, April 8 from
2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 9 from 11a.m.
to 1 p.m. Entry form and additional details are
available at www.hopartscenter.org/call-for-art.
Twice Blessed Thrift Shop
HOPEDALE-Sacred Heart Church of Hopedale
Twice Blessed Thrift Shop will offer the
following April Specials—think Mother’s Day.
All women’s clothing and all handbags, shoes
and hat will be 50 percent off. There are a lot
of gift items for Mom. The shop is open every
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays
from 9 a.m. to noon.
Celebration/Benefit for the Family of
Eric Lambert
WEBSTER-The family of Eric Lambert is
holding a Celebration/Benefit for Eric on April
10 at Point Breeze Webster. Eric continues to
struggle with the recovery from his BMT 5 years
ago. He continues to be hospitalized occasionally
with affects from GvHD. It was recently
necessary to surgically insert a tracheal tube to
assist him with his breathing. He suffers from
Grafts vs Host disease, a serious disease creating
havoc on his organs, muscles and joints. This
celebration/benefit is to assist them with extreme
expenses and possible family time to celebrate
five-years cancer free and both he and his wife
turning 40. If you would like more information
please contact Marsha Lambert at 508-529-6880
or via email; [email protected]. Please
join us for a fun filled afternoon.
Home Buying 101:
What Today’s Buyer
Should Know
Kevin R. Goffe, President and CEO
of Dean Bank announced that the bank
will be hosting another in a series of
free, educational workshops entitled
Home Buying 101: What Todays Buyer
Should Know, at its 411 Pulaski Blvd.,
Bellingham Branch Office on Wednesday
March 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. The workshop
will feature a panel of industry experts
discussing topics that include: new
search tools available to home buyers,
credit score considerations prior to
making application, understanding
the appraisal process, title and closing
concerns, why getting pre-approved before
you buy is an important home-buying
tool, Construction Loans, First-time
Homebuyer program requirements and
other related topics. All attendees will be
entered into a free raffle for a $100 Lowe’s
gift card.
Attendees who submit a pre-approval
application with Dean Bank will receive
a coupon good for a $500 Closing Cost
credit and all attendees who make
application with Dean Bank will also
receive a coupon good for a free home
appraisal. Since seating is limited please
RSVP to Tina Rogers via email, trogers@
deanbank.com or call 508-803-7846.
Complimentary refreshments will be
provided.
Free First Time Home
Buyers Seminar
On Saturday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to
12 noon, The Milford National Bank and
Trust Company is hosting a First Time
Home Buyers Seminar at its 300 East
Main St., Milford office. Expert speakers
will present information on qualifying for
pre-approvals, financing, working with a
Real Estate agent to find a home, the home
inspection process and closing process.
Attendees will receive a free gift and entry
into a drawing for a garden gift basket!
Continental breakfast will be served.
Seating is limited, so please reserve your
space today.
Call Deb Forget at 508-244-5141 or
email [email protected].
Sewing by Hand
MILFORD-In March, the Milford Community
Program is offering six-week Sewing by Hand
for students in grades 3 through 5, taught by
Lisa Bibring, the Milford Memorial Elementary
School Librarian, who has instructed her own
daughters how to sew..
This program, held on Saturdays, March 5
through April 9 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Milford
High School, 31 West Fountain St., is for both
beginners and students who have previously
taken this class. During this fun-filled class,
your child will learn a variety of stitches. There
will be time to complete at least three projects.
More experienced students will move beyond
the basics to use decorative embroidery stitches
on projects. Students who have previously taken
this class will always have new projects to choose
from. Maximum is eight students.
Registration forms and other program
information may be found on the Milford
Community Program website at www.mcs.
milford.ma.us. Please call the office at 508-4781119 with questions. All registration forms
and fees must be submitted to the Milford
Community Program office located at 31 West
Fountain St., Milford prior to the start of the
program.
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ELECTION NEWS
Four Contested Races in April 5 Town Election
By Kevin Rudden
Voters will be choosing candidates in four contested races,
deciding on a local ballot question, and electing Town Meeting
Members across all eight precincts in the April 5 Annual Town
Election.
In the order they appear on the ballot, the four contested races
are:
• Board of Selectmen: Instead of running for a third term on
the School Committee, Patrick Holland is challenging fiveterm incumbent Selectman Brian Murray for a three-year
seat;
• Park Commission: Cesare Comolli is challenging incumbent
Paul Pellegrini for a three-year seat;
• Board of Library Trustees: Christine Crean, Rory
D’Alessandro and Jessica Espinoza are vying with incumbent
John Byrnes for the two, three-year seats available; and,
• School Committee: James Ligor, Scott Vecchiolla, and
Michael Visconti are vying with incumbent Joseph Morais
for the two, three-year seats open on the School Committee.
In the order they appear on the ballot, candidates seeking to be
re-elected are:
• Gerald Hennessy, to a three-year term on the Board of
Health;
• Joseph Arcudi, to a three-year term on the Board of
Assessors;
• Lena McCarthy, to a five-year term on the Planning Board;
• Katherine Consigli, to a five–year term on the Housing
Authority;
• Richard Cenedella, to a three-year term on the Board of
Sewer Commissioners;
• Marilyn Lovell and Scott Vecchiolla, to three-year terms as
Trustee of Vernon Grove Cemetery; and,
• Joseph Arcudi, Mark Calzolaio, Barbara Clement,
Raymond Pagucci, Jr. and Mark Tosti, to three-year terms
as Constable.
Question
The ballot question, requested by the Board of Assessors, asks
voters to decide: “Shall the Town of Milford cease assessing the
excise imposed under General Lawns Chapter 59, Section 8A on
certain animals, machinery and equipment owned by individuals
and non-corporate entities principally engaged in agriculture?”
In requesting that this question be placed on the ballot, Assessors
said that it costs the town more money to gather the required
information and prepare the tax bills in question than the amount
it receives in these taxes.
Town Meeting Members
Town Meeting Members are being elected in all eight precincts:
• Precinct 1: There are only five candidates running, for
the 10 three-year seats available: Joseph Cosentino, Paul
Nevins, Brian Donahue and Jennifer DeManche-Yohn
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are candidates for re-election and Susan Clark is a new
candidate.
Precinct 2: There are only five candidates running for the
10 three-year seats available: Tomas Myatt, Margaret Myatt,
Thomas Russ, Robert Mitchell and William Wing are
candidates for re-election.
Precinct 3: Rosemary Trettel, Alfred Teixeira, Steven
Trettel, Russell Abisla, John Taddei, Joseph Shea, B. Gregory
Johnson, Stephanie Abisla and Julie Gonzalez are running
for re-election to three-year terms. David Collard is a new
candidate for a three-year term.
Precinct 4: There are only six candidates running for the 10
three-year terms available: Terence Thomas, Edward Ross,
Christian Lavallie, Roque Figueroa and Joseph Cuddy are
candidates for re-election and Evelyn BonTempo is a new
candidate.
Precinct 5: Joanne Dillon, Marc Schaen, John Tennaro, Jose
Morais, Thomas Keenan, Jr., John Edmondson and James
Wheelock are seeking re-election to three-year terms and
Cesare Comolli, Edwin Roth and David Hunter are new
candidates for three-year terms.
Precinct 6: There are only eight candidates for the 10 threeyear seats available and no candidates for the two, one-year
seats available: Janice Acquafresca, Christine Crean, Maria
Romagnoli, Jennifer Parson, Daniel Cloutier, Sidney DeJesus
and Margaret Hannigan are seeking re-election to three-year
terms and Angelo Calagione is a new candidate for a threeyear term.
Precinct 7: There are only nine candidates for the 10 threeyear seats available: Mark Nelson, Jean DeLuzio, Nancy
Wojick, George Swymer, Jr., Renaldo DeLuzio, Beverly
Swymer, Joseph Graziano, Mary Castrucci and Paul
Tamagni are seeking re-election to three-year terms.
Precinct 8: There are only eight candidates for the 10 threeyear seats available and no candidates for the one, oneyear seats available: Rose Mary Natelson, James Griffith,
Daniel Bruce, Stephen Costello, Barbara Morganelli and
Bartholomew Lawless are seeking re-election to three-year
terms and Jeffrey Niro and Donna Niro are new candidates
for three-year terms.
Polling Places
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the following locations:
• Precinct 1 and 6: Ruth Anne Bleakney Senior Center, 60
North Bow St.
• Precinct 2 and 3: Italian American Veterans Hall - 4
Hayward Field
• Precincts 4, 5, 7 and 8: Milford Portuguese Club, 119
Prospect Heights
Editor’s Note: Complete, precinct-by-precinct election results will be
available on April 6 on our website, TownCrier.us
Re-Elect Joe Morais
for
School Committee
Three years ago, I was honored to have been
elected to represent you as a member of your
School Committee. It has been incredibly rewarding to serve you in an effort to create the very best
possible school environment for our children.
 Current Vice Chairman of the School
Committee
 Town Meeting Member
 Lifelong Milford resident, Class of 1991
 Married to Allison (Crowley) Morais,
Class of 1994
 Daughter Amelia Morais, Class of 2023
This is an exciting time for the Milford Schools.
Much has been achieved, and more remains to be
accomplished. I believe that I have the experience,
perspective and passion to continue moving us
forward.
I humbly ask for your support, and your vote on
April 5, 2016.
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MILFORD TOWN CRIER
Candidates
Upstaged by
10-Year Old
By Kevin Rudden
The annual Candidates’ Forum
sponsored by the Citizens for Milford offers
those running for public office a chance to
pitch themselves to voters and answer their
questions. At this year’s March 16 event,
however, the candidates were upstaged by
10-year old Anthony Persico, a student at
Woodland Elementary School, who asked
questions based on his perspectives.
Persico asked trenchant questions of
the candidates for Parks Commission,
School Committee and Board of Selectmen.
The boy’s first question went to Parks
Commission candidates Cesare Comolli
and Paul Pellegrini regarding planned
improvements at the Town Park on
Congress St. “Can you add, like, some
more 10-year old stuff?” he queried. Next,
Persico took on the four School Committee
candidates by asking them “to get rid of ”
the Common Core/PARCC tests, saying he
didn’t like them. His final question went to
the two Board of Selectmen candidates: “So,
why did you guys run for Selectman. I’m
just curious. What special qualities do you
have?”
The Parks Commission candidates
promised to consider Persico’s request. He
received a mixed bag of answers from the
School Committee candidates. “I think you
should be up here, running for office,” said
Scott Vecchiolla. Joseph Morais explained
the need to measure students’ progress,
but added the stress students feel taking
the tests needs to be reduced. James Ligor
agreed. “You are going to be tested one way
or another for the rest of your life,” Michael
Visconti said. “Get used to it.”
Selectman candidate Patrick Holland said
he was running because “I love this town.
It’s important to me, so that I give back to
the town.”
“It’s important to do things for the
community,” said Selectman Brian Murray.
“If you believe in what you do and try to
do the right thing for everybody, there’s
nothing more rewarding in the world.”
The School Committee candidates fielded
questions on topics such as why students
leaving the Milford school system for
elsewhere, what skills they would bring, and
challenges facing the School Department.
The selectman candidates faced a wider
array, including the future of the town’s
Capital Improvement Committee,
their hiring process, support for bus
transportation, the proposed Algonquin
natural gas pipeline, trucks parked on
streets and in municipal parking lots, fiscal
responsibility, and the future of downtown
Milford.
About 75 residents attended the twohour forum, which was taped by Milford
TV to be broadcast up until the April 5
Annual Town Election. The event was cosponsored by the Town Crier.
Don't Forget to
Cast Your Vote
on April 5
MARCH 25, 2016
ELECTION NEWS
Holland, Murray Vie
for Selectman Seat
By Kevin Rudden
Five-term incumbent Selectman Brian Murray is
being challenged by Patrick Holland for the threeyear Board of Selectmen seat in the April 5 Annual
Town Election.
Calling himself, “an independent voice,” Murray
points to his tenure on the board, his previous time
on the School Committee and his years as a Town
Meeting Member as providing him with the right
experience to help guide Milford into the future.
Murray points to his accomplishments of renovating
Draper Memorial Park, building the Ruth Anne
Bleakney Senior Center, rebuilding the athletic field
complex at Milford High School and the ongoing
Milford Youth Center renovation
“Over the past 15 years, I have worked hard to
research all matters and make responsible decisions
that are in the best interest of the town as a whole.
During this very crucial period in our history, I
believe the diversity of educated opinion I bring to
this board is needed more than ever,” he says.
Holland is finishing his sixth year on the School
Committee and opted not to run for a third term
on that board. “I believe public service is important,
and that a fresh outlook and new ideas makes local
government more vibrant,” he says.
Holland’s major focus during the campaign is
revitalizing the downtown Main Street shopping area.
“We need to, as a community, come forward with a
long-range development plan,” he says.
Both candidates are married and the fathers of
three children. Both are lawyers.
Senior Center Holds Candidates Forum
The Ruth Anne Bleakney Senior Center held its annual Milford Town Election
Candidates Forum on Tuesday, March 22. The event was delayed from Monday March
21 due to a snowstorm. All candidates on the ballot were invited to attend. Those that
did are shown left to right on the speaker’s dais. They are: John Byrnes running for Board
of Library Trustee, Barbara Clement running for Constable, Jessica Espinoza running
for Board of Library Trustees, Patrick Holland (standing) running for Selectman, James
Ligor running for School Committee, Joseph Morais running for School Committee,
Brian Murray running for Selectman, Scott Vecchiolla running for School Committee,
Paul Pellegrini running for Parks Commission and Michael Visconti, Jr. running for
School Committee. Harry Platcow photo
Barbara Clement, a candidate for
Constable, was at the Candidates
Forum held at the Ruth Anne
Bleakney Senior Center on Tuesday,
March 22. Clement is one the
candidates running for the office.
Other Constable candidates on
the ballot are Joseph Arcudi, Mark
Calzolaio, Raymond Pagucci, Jr.
and Mark Tosti. The term is for
three years. Harry Platcow photo
Patrick Holland
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by the Greenleaf Garden Club (GGC) in which they
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topics. This month the topic was recycling and the
Green Thumbs enjoyed making floral arrangements
and 3-D greeting cards from recyclable materials.
In a second project, they used empty ice cream
containers, bits of wallpaper and colored plastic bags
to create a floral arrangement to take home.
The Junior Gardener workshop program meets
monthly after school under the guidance of GGC
members Dianne Chambers, Barbara Fadden, Pat Lee
and Annette Packard. March found them exploring
the principles of floral design by creating a rounded
traditional design in a round container. In April,
they will celebrate Arbor Day by designing a poster
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Green Thumbs will start in May by learning methods
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giving them the beginnings of their own garden.
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Spring Spruce-Up
Gypsy Moths and Winter Moths--What Can You Do?
A gypsy moth catepillar. Minnesota
Department of Agriculture photo
The Friends of Upton State Forest and
the Upton Open Space Committee are
co-sponsoring a program on gypsy moths
and winter moths by Ken Gooch, Director
of Forest Health for the Department of
Conservation and Recreation on Thursday,
April 14, at 7 p.m. in Upton VFW Hall, 15
Milford St. This is in response to several
inquiries the Friends received last summer
from people concerned about the moths
defoliating trees around their yards. The
public is welcome, and we encourage
property owners to take advantage of this
free program to learn what they can do to
protect their trees.
The last time this area had a gypsy
moth infestation was in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, which lasted several years, but
this time the winter moth population is
building at the same time. In 1869, gypsy
moths were introduced into Medford in
a failed attempt to establish a silkworm
industry, while the winter moth came to
Nova Scotia from Europe sometime before 1950. Both pests have
spread throughout the northeastern US and southeastern Canada.
They are similar in the destruction they cause as the caterpillar stage
feeds on tree leaves and shrubs. Defoliation weakens trees and they
become vulnerable to disease. The added stress of drought can make
it difficult for the tree to recover.
Residents may have noticed the pests last year, but the buff
colored egg masses on local trees indicate that the populations are
building once again. Preferred trees of the pests include maple,
elm, and, especially oak, but they will eat apple, alder, birch, poplar,
and willow. If there is a large population, they will even consume
evergreens.
Friends of Upton State Forest work to “preserve, enhance, and
protect the natural and historic resources of Upton State Forest.”
New members are welcomed. To learn more about the group visit
FriendsofUptonStateForest.org. Donations are welcome and the
group will have their logo apparel available at the program. To learn
more about the Upton Open Space Committee (UOSC), UptonMa/
open-space-committee. New members are invited to UOSC
meetings on the fourth Monday of each month.
Questions about the program, or the Friends, can also be
directed to 508-529-6610, or news@frriendsofuptonstate
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Navigating Your Hearing Loss
The Hearing Loss Association-Central Massachusetts chapter
is sponsoring a series titled Navigating Your Hearing Loss at the
Northborough Free Library. Each overview/presentation will be
followed by an interactive discussion. Newcomers are welcome,
attendance is open; attend whichever session applies to you.
Come and listen, CART provided, or share your story. Learn
more about how to navigate your hearing loss.
The second in the series, For You and Your Family, basic
information on communication issues, challenges and strategies
regarding how hearing loss affects others will be held on April 9,
from 2 to 4 p.m.
The third in the series, For You and Your Environment, basic
information on how to use technology to be aware of sounds in
your environment and to participate in the world around you,
will be held on June 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
There is ample Free Parking at the Northborough Library,
behind the building via Patty Lane. For more information
about the library visit NorthboroughLibrary.org/hours.
asp. And for information about the program email info@
hearinglosscentralma.org.
Early Onset Dementia Program
St. Camillus Adult Day Health Center announces a free
dementia educational presentation for families and their loved
ones who are challenged with the diagnosis of dementia on
Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the facility, Lindwood
Mill Apartments, 670 Linwood Ave, Whitinsville. Guest
speakers will include Frank S. P. Yacino, who will present on
his role as a caregiver of his wife who suffered from Alzheimer’s
disease; Michael Belleville, will tell his story about his diagnosis
of early on-set dementia and how he and his family are
coping knowing what the future has in store for them; and
Julie McMurray, Central Mass Regional Manager, from the
Alzheimer’s Association, will discuss her agency and the many
benefits that are provided to patients and their families.
This program is free of charge and open to the public. Please
contact Lisa Bernard, Director at 508-266-2054 or lbernard@
stcamillus.com to register for this educational program or to
request additional information.
Free Paying for Assisted
Living eBook
In an effort to arm consumers with all the information they
may need to understand the language and intricacies of the
assisted living industry and to help families make the most
informed decisions, Senior Living Residences, management
company for Cornerstone at Milford Assisted Living and
Compass Memory Support, has published a free educational
guide, Paying for Assisted Living.
Any family who has been through the process of researching
and moving a loved one into an assisted living community can
attest that trying to compare communities on cost alone is no
simple feat. Communities and companies within the industry
can offer differing services and have several types of pricing
structures, making it quite difficult to compare apples to apples.
“This guide answers just about any question you may have
about the cost of assisted living in Massachusetts,” said Carolyn
Smith, Executive Director at Cornerstone at Milford. “What a
tremendous resource for families who are just beginning their
search for a senior community.”
Paying for Assisted Living answers commonly asked
questions, such as What is and is not included in the monthly
fee?, and also offers an in depth explanation of pricing
structures found across the state and a review of how to
compare the value of assisted living to that of bringing in home
care services.
The 24-page e-book was created by Senior Living Residences
as part of their larger commitment to public education. “We
consider it a responsibility to educate our residents and their
families, and the general public, on issues related to aging and
wellness for seniors and their caregivers,” said Lee Larkin,
Corporate Director of Communications for Senior Living
Residences. “It is an integral part of who we are as a company.
Our customers, who want straight forward, transparent
information to help them make important decisions, truly
appreciate our commitment to education.”
For more information about Cornerstone and to download
a free copy of their Paying for Assisted Living guide, visit
CornerstoneMilford.com A copy of the guide is also available by
visiting http://www.seniorlivingresidences.com/finance-book.
Medication Safety
It is a good idea to make and carry an accurate list of all medications that you are taking, including over the counter medicines,
vitamins, and herbal supplements. Milford Regional Medical Center has created, “My Medication Record,” which is an online form
that can be completed on line, printed and saved to your personal computer. Members of the PFAC (Patient and Family Advisory
Council) will be available at the Mendon Senior Center on Thursday, March 31 at 11 a.m. to provide additional information and
answer any questions you may have regarding your medication list. Please call the senior center at 508-478-6175 or stop by to
register for this free program. And why not consider joining us for lunch after the program?
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Seniors at
Potential Risk
for Medication
Misuse
Plenty of programs stress the importance
of talking to teenagers about the dangers of
drug misuse, but who is talking to seniors?
According to a new survey of seniors,
nearly one-fifth of those taking five or more
prescription medications have experienced
challenges in managing their medications,
including keeping track of which
medications they have taken and when.
This type of unintentional medication
misuse can often lead to devastating
consequences. To help families have this
critical conversation with their senior loved
ones, the local Home Instead Senior Care®
offices, an in-home senior care provider
in the Boston area, has launched a new
public education program called Let’s Talk
about RxSM, offering families free resources
and tips, as well as insight into potential
medication pitfalls facing seniors.
Studies show that medication errors are
among the most serious health risks facing
seniors, and a key factor leading to longterm care placements, such as in a nursing
home. However, for many, medication
management is a difficult subject to broach
as it is a very personal topic. Often times,
seniors have been managing this aspect of
their life on their own for many years and
may not be fully aware of potential pitfalls.
“We’re encouraging the greater Boston
area to have these conversations with their
families because we’ve seen that seniors’
ability to remain independent in their
homes is greatly dependent on their ability
to manage their medications,” said Tom
Moorehead, franchise owner of the Home
Instead Senior Care office in Lexington.
“If families see any signs that their senior
loved one may be having difficulties – such
as unintended weight loss or full medicine
bottles – we encourage them to help their
senior loved one, serving as a second set of
eyes and ears, or ask for help.”
Family caregivers can accompany
their senior to the doctor, use pillboxes
and medication trackers, or look into
pharmacies like Simple MedsSM that package
medications and vitamins in singledose packs. Having the right medication
management plan can help seniors stay
independent in their homes and avoid
adverse drug reactions.
“Discussing medication regimens with
a loved one increases their self-confidence
to correctly take their prescriptions, overthe-counter medications and vitamins,” said
Dr. Jane Potter, geriatrician and director
of the Home Instead Center for Successful
Aging at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center. “This is increasingly important
both as an individual ages and the number
of medications they take increases. Taking
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risk for a medical emergency from incorrect
dosing or adverse medication interactions.”
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Lydia Taft also understands the stress
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Government
Health Board, Schools Look at Recycling Textiles
By Kevin Rudden
revenue to fund some school-related activities. Walsh
said he would work to get Larsen onto his committee’s
The Board of Health and three School Committee
March 17 agenda to make a presentation to the full
members were given a pitch by Bay State Textiles on
School Committee. Erickson said he needed to check
March 7 on – literally – the
with Moody on whether
value of recycling textiles.
having the collection boxes
The company promised
at the schools would violate
to pay $100 per ton of
the town’s Zoning By-laws.
collected material to the
Currently, a special permit
town, School Department
from the Zoning Board of
If Milford adopts Bay State Textiles’ recycling
or designated charity.
Appeals is needed in order
rebate program, the following items would be
Unfortunately for the
to have clothing collection
accepted:
School Department, Town
boxes in commercially
• Footwear: shoes, boots, sneakers, heels,
Counsel Gerald Moody
zoned areas.
work boots, cleats, pumps, dress boots,
ruled the next day that the
Larsen said her company
slippers, sandals, winter boots and flipcollection containers are not
currently has 370 collection
flops.
allowed in the residential
boxes in 49 towns and
• Clothing: tops, pants, undergarments,
zones in which all public
school districts, with the
sweaters, jeans, socks, sweatshirts,
school buildings are located,
closest being Hopkinton and
sweatpants, T-shirts, dresses, skirts, slips,
according to Building
Medway.
tank tips, shorts, pajamas, blazers, slacks
Commissioner John
Information she handed
and coats.
Erickson. Health Agent Paul
out to the two boards’
• Accessories: hats, gloves, scarves,
Mazzuchelli said on March
members said the average
pocketbooks, duffle bags, totes, belts, ties
8 that the Board of Health
American throws away 81
and bathrobes.
will proceed with getting a
pounds of clothing, shoes
• Linens: sheets, aprons, comforters,
collection trailer at its Cedar
and other textiles each year.
blankets, dish towels, throw runs, draperies,
St. [Rt. 85] Transfer Station.
Given Milford’s population,
table linens and place mats.
“It’s a somewhat simple
that number translates into
• Other: stuffed animals.
program. It runs itself,”
1,134 tons. With Milford
explained Kathryn Larsen,
bringing 8,580 tons of trash
Recycling Development
to the incinerator each year,
coordinator for the Pembroke-based company, to the
and statistics showing six percent of trash is textile
two boards. After four years in business, “We’re not the
waste, that would mean 515 less tons, she calculated.
biggest. We’re not the smallest, but we want to be the
And, if each of the town’s students brought in two
best,” she said.
10-pound bags of unwanted textiles, that would equate
Health Board members were quick to look at the
to 421 tons, Larsen noted.
cost benefits. “They [the Wheelabrator incinerator in
Mazzuchelli said the Board of Health could create a
Millbury] charge us $66 a ton, starting July 1,” to take
new regulation stating that no textiles could be thrown
it,” Mazzuchelli explained. Board member Kenneth
out for curbside pickup. That would mean educating
Evans said he wanted a collection trailer at the town’s
the public that “We are now recycling a new material
Transfer Station as soon as possible.
that we don’t [recycle] right now.”
School Committee members Michael Walsh, Joseph
Health board members said they would want the
Morais and Erickson also liked the idea of placing
$100 per ton rebate coming into their budget, and not
collection containers on school grounds and using the
going to a private organization.
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MARCH 25, 2016
Government
Selectmen Focus on Beach St. Truck Issue
Beach St. runs between Main and Central Streets (shown at
bottom). Google Maps image
By Kevin Rudden
Highway Surveyor Scott Crisafulli, Town Engineer
Vonnie Reis and Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin joined
the March 7 Board of Selectmen’s meeting to explore
ways of alleviating Beach St. residents’ complaints about
noise and vibrations caused by heavy truck traffic. The
conclusion was to find a way to better measure the noise
and the vibrations.
Selectman William Kingkade has been pushing for a
resolution to the issue since he was elected to his board
11 months ago. This month’s session was called to have
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to this committee or Town Meeting
because that sends a different
message,” Schaen countered.
A member could always speak in
opposition to the majority view at a
Finance Committee meeting, Schaen
said. Correia then suggested that a
member could ask to present a minority report. “I just have a problem stifling
your ability to speak,” he said. “I’m
struggling.” “Trust me, I’m struggling,
too,” Schaen replied.
Committee Member Niro said he
agreed with both men, noting that the
public identified Schaen and Correia as
being “the Finance Committee” while
they might not feel the same as with
himself, a newer member. He said he
agreed with the right to speak, but
noted “You’re the Fin Com.”
Correia said the issue boiled down
to whether an individual member –
not the chair or vice chair – could get
up and speak against the committee’s
position.
“Let all be frank here, this is the
Chris amendment that we’re talking
about,” Vice Chairman Christopher
Morin joked. “Let’s not paint it any other way,” Morin was referring to his stand
last year against the Fin Com’s recommendation regarding how much money
should be used to offset the tax rate.
“When I did do it, I went and sat in
my precinct as a precinct member. And,
I think I did everything right,” Morin
said. “Looking back at it, does it give
the wrong impression because I gave
MARCH 25, 2016
Reis review bids from engineering firms that would assist
the town in analyzing the truck traffic and preparing the
paperwork needed to request a truck exclusion from the
state. – a task the board recently asked her to do in early
January.
Reis said she requested quotes from three engineering
firms, but only two replied with quotes – one for $4,000
and the other for $10,000. She recommended selecting the
lower quote, saying that the scope of work promised was
similar in both.
However, O’Loughlin outlined the difficulties in getting
the state to grant a truck exclusion, mainly the lack of a
“viable” alternate route within Milford’s boundaries. Since
most of the trucks in question are either coming from or
going to the Ardagh Group glass container manufacturing
plant on National St., that would involve getting
permission from the towns of Hopedale and Bellingham,
he explained. O’Loughlin said that would be unlikely.
And, even if the exclusion were granted by the state, the
ban would still not prevent trucks from using Beach St., the
chief added. Noise and speed studies conducted in the past
have failed to find the cause of the residents’ complaints,
O’Loughlin said. “We have not ignored the situation by any
stretch of the imagination,” he said.
Crisafulli weighed in that Beach St. was resurfaced
about 10 years ago, but he would take another look at the
road’s surface to see if there were any problem areas he
could address. “If there’s something we can fix to stop that,
we’ll do it,” he said. The culverts over the Charles River on
Central St. also were re-paved over about six or seven years
ago, he said. He offered to stand near the culverts and listen
for any noise or sense vibrations when trucks pass by.
The problem could be as simple as pallets bouncing in
an empty truck going down the street, Crisafulli said. Or,
O’Loughlin said, it could be that plus the fact that homes
on the street were built close to the paved roadway.
Kingkade noted, “If we had a place for the trucks to go,
that [a truck exclusion] would be a no-brainer.” But, he
noted, “I don’t see the point of doing a truck exclusion
if there’s no place to go. Why waste our time and the
money?” What, he wondered aloud, is causing the
vibrations that, in some case, caused things to fall off of
shelves in homes on Beach St.
Reviewing the history of past actions by the town since
2007 – including asking the various owners of the glass
manufacturing plant to ask their customers’ drivers to
avoid residential streets – Chairman Brian Murray said,
“Short of making a Beach St. truck exclusion, I don’t know
what else we can do.”
If residents in the area are saying they are hearing
noise and feeling vibrations, then engineers should be
able to sense them as well and find a cause, Selectman
William Buckley said. He added instead of framing the
problem as the need for a truck exclusion, maybe it
should be looked at in terms of what tools are needed to
monitor the problem. “I think what we’re talking about is
some measurement and some analysis,” he said. Buckley
suggested Reis and Crisafulli meet with residents in the
area and determine what kind of monitoring or study can
be done.
Reis said the town could do vibration monitoring, but
asked for guidance from the board on how extensive it
should be. Buckley urged her to meet with residents and
come back to his board with options. Selectmen, he noted,
“are not equipped in skill” like an engineer is.
“Why don’t you take it one step at a time?” Murray
suggested to Reis. Noting his own Main St. building has
been hit by trucks three times, the chairman said, “This
problem with trucks is not excusive to Beach St.”
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the [Finance Committee’s] presentation that night? Yes, I think people can
definitely take that perception,” he said.
“Saying that I’m not allowed to talk at
a Town Meeting as a Town Meeting
Member just because I’m on this committee, I have a problem with though.”
He voiced support for a committee
policy that would disallow committee
members making the financial presentation to Town Meeting Members
from publicly challenging the committee’s majority opinion. “But, saying
just because I’m on the Fin Com I’m
not allowed to talk to Town Meeting
anymore, I have a problem, with that,”
Morin said.
Long-time committee member Aldo
Cecchi voiced his view, “I don’t see being a member of this board says I have
to surrender my individuality. “I truly
believe that.” He continued, “I think as
a democracy, we make a recommendation as a group. As an individual, we’ll
make our own decisions. Hopefully
they’ll coincide, but they don’t always.”
Correia said the committee failed
itself last year, since it knew that Morin
opposed the majority opinion on offsetting taxes, yet it asked him to make the
financial presentation. “For that meeting, where you’re not able to, in good
conscience, represent us, then don’t
be the chair that night,” he said. “Ask
somebody else.” Correia continued, “As
Aldo said, I have a problem taking away
your right if you feel passionate about
something, and it doesn’t happen that
often.
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Government
Blue Cross Offers Town Employees Wellness Grant
By Kevin Rudden
Beginning in May, town employees will
be able to take advantage of a $15,000
wellness grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield
of Massachusetts that is part of the town’s
renewing its group health insurance plan
for another year. The Board of Selectmen
voted on March 7 to approve the contract
renewal, with a 5.4 percent rate increase,
as recommended by the town’s Insurance
Advisory Committee (IAC).
Selectmen also voted to renew the dental
insurance contract with Delta Dental and
the life insurance contract with Boston
Mutual Life Insurance – both of which had
no increase in costs. With the renewals,
employee costs will be:
• HMO Blue New England – individual
coverage: $251.86 per month
• HMO Blue New England – family
• Blue Care Elect PPO – individual
• Blue Care Elect PPO – family coverage:
$1,698.09 per month
• Delta Dental – individual coverage:
$22.76 per month
• Delta Dental – family coverage: $59.09
per month
• Boston Mutual Life Insurance – for
active employees: $7.58 per month
• Boston Mutual Life Insurance – for
retired employees: $3.68 per month
Benefits Coordinator Kelly Capece sold
selectmen that Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care declined to submit a renewal quote;
Tufts Health Plan submitted coverage with
a 4.21 percent rate increase; and, Fallon
Community Health Plan’s proposed rates
were 8.01 percent higher. Both Tufts’ and
Fallon’s rate quotes were based on totally
replacing all existing insurance, including
the town’s existing Medicare supplement
plan, she said.
“They wanted all of the business,” IAC
Chair Peter Filosa said. While the committee
– comprised of representatives of the town’s
various unions – looked seriously at Tufts’
quote because it was lower, it felt that the
Blue Cross Blue Shield increase “was below
trend,” he said. IAC members also felt they
should give Blue Cross Blue Shield more
than just one year to see where the trend in
its pricing is headed, Filosa explained.
While choosing Tufts might save between
$80,000 and $90,000, the IAC felt its quote
was too low and would rise substantially in
the future, he added. Brian Boyle, Jr., the
town’s insurance consultant, said Blue Cross
Blue Shield “is making an investment in
Milford for the long term” with its increase
and providing the wellness grant. The 5.4
percent increase also came in the face of $3.7
million in insurance claims from 31 people,
he added.
Brian Boyle, Sr. – also the town’s insurance
consultant –noted the trend for the “Blues” is
in the 7.5 percent range, which means the 5.4
percent hike is below average. Subtracting
1.5 percent of the hike attributed to the costs
of the federal Affordable Care Act means the
increase drop to the four percent range, he
added.
“This is probably the lowest increase I
Funding for Local Bus Service Placed on Warrant
By Kevin Rudden
Following a unanimous March 7 vote by the Board of Selectmen,
Town Meeting Members will address the question of whether to
spend $250,000 on bringing local bus service to Milford. The cost
will be lowered by a $75,000 grant the town received from a local
organization.
Selectman William Buckley made it clear that he still had several
questions he wanted answered before the May 23 Annual Town
Meeting and pointed out the one-year grant would still leave the
town with operational costs to pay in future years. “I think we’re
getting somewhere,” he commented. “I’m extremely excited about
the opportunity for intra-bus service within the Town of Milford.”
He said he was less enthused about bus service between Milford and
Framingham.
Chairman Brian Murray opened the discussion by saying the
town had received “very good news” and thanked Harold Rhodes,
chairman of the town’s Commission on Disability, for working on the
grant application. “That’s certainly a significant financial allocation,”
Murray said, “and makes it easier to place on a warrant.”
The $75,000 comes from the Greater Milford Community Health
Network (CHNA 6) – one of 27 Community Health Network Areas
(CHNAs) partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health across Massachusetts –using funds set aside by Milford
Regional Medical Center as part of the approval process for it to
build its recently opened addition.
While saying he supported the warrant article, Buckley
commented, “I think we’re still a ways off,” and enumerated a series
of things he wanted before the actual vote in May:
• Getting feedback from all town department heads on any
potential opportunities they thought would come from having
bus service, any potential risks they saw and how they could
mitigate those risks. An example he gave was the Highway
Department having to clear snow from bus stops;
• Holding at least two more information sessions for the public
to comment about the proposed bus service. Rhodes said
additional sessions would be scheduled during April and early
May;
• Obtaining a draft contract from the MetroWest Regional Transit
Authority for the town to review. Rhodes said he would get a
“draft agreement” within the next two weeks; and,
• Finding out if the buses could take residents to commuter rail
stations in Ashland and Franklin.
Buckley noted that although Finance Director Zachary Taylor
had said the town could afford to pay for the bus service, that ability
was contingent on meeting several criteria – such as the School
Department’s budget increase saying within a 3.5 percent increase –
that had yet to happen.
He added that, while he favored bus service within Milford, he was
less enthused about bus service between Milford and Framingham.
Buckley voiced a concern about “opening up a wider pipe or link
to Framingham” and stating, “I don’t want Milford to be the little
Framingham of Bus Service.”
Selectman William Kingkade supported Buckley’s desire to
connect to the nearby commuter rail stations, saying that Milford
residents commuting to Boston tend to go to the stations in
Southborough, Ashland and Franklin. He noted that “Harold, you
must have been very busy” before the board’s meeting because he
[Kingkade] had received 130 emails in favor of the bus service.
Elderly residents have contacted him, Kingkade said, asking that
bus service extend all the way up Purchase St. to the Hopkinton
town line.” We haven’t even been able to get to that level of detail yet,”
Murray said. “We’ll have ample opportunity between now and Town
Meeting to come to agreement on all of the details,” Rhodes said.
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can remember,” Selectmen Chairman Brian
Murray commented. Selectman William
Buckley said employees seemed happy
with their Blue Cross Blue Shield coverage,
adding that, “I don’t know if jumping for a
percent [less, offered by Tufts] is advisable.”
“I was quite pleased” with the 5.4 percent
increase, Capece said. She praised the IAC
as being “a very seasoned board and they’re
very helpful to me.”
The wellness grant will be put toward
incentive programs to change employees’
habits, Brian Boyle, Jr. explained. If it is not
all used, another $15,000 will be available
upon the May 1, 2017 renewal date, he
explained. The funds are held by Blue Cross
Blue Shield and allocated to the town,
he said. “They allow us to divide it up”
and create various local programs, Filosa
explained. Among them will be flu shot
clinics and screening programs, Capece
added. The wellness grant is an addition to
the $150 allocated to employees for gym
memberships, she said.
Selectmen Review
Highway Department
Requests
By Kevin Rudden
The Board of Selectmen continued its
new process of reviewing requests to place
financial articles on the May 23 Annual
Town Meeting warrant by meeting with
Highway Surveyor Scott Crisafulli at its
March 7 meeting. Crisafulli discussed four
articles:
• $150,000 to conduct maintenance of
the Louisa Lake dam to comply with
state Office of Dam Safety regulations.
“It’s mostly brush control” and some
concrete patching that would be done
by the Highway Department,” Crisafulli
explained. He envisioned asking for a
similar sum in 2020.
• $158,748 to provide the town’s 40
percent share of a state grant applied
for by Town Engineer Vonnie Reis as to
create a wetland at the corner of Sumner
and Dilla Streets to naturally clean
stormwater flowing from businesses in
the area before the water enters Milford
Pond. “It’s a step forward toward our
stormwater permit and compliance with
it,” Crisafulli said. The completed area
will look “more like a wetland, with
flowers and plants,” he explained.
• $50,000 to provide the town’s half-share
– with Upton paying the other half – of
engineering costs to redesign a bridge
crossing Fiske Mill Road at the town
line. The cost of repairing the bridge
is not known yet, Crisafulli said. He
looked into getting a grant for the work,
but the existing grant program covers
bridges up to 20 feet and this one is 21
feet, the Highway chief explained.
• $125,000 to complete the final third
of stormwater infrastructure mapping
that is needed to comply with the town’s
stormwater discharge permit.
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Finance Committee Delves into Bus Costs
By Kevin Rudden
The Finance Committee took its first formal
look on March 9 into whether it will support
the cost of bringing local bus transportation
to Milford, concluding that it needs to meet
with MetroWest Regional Transit Authority
(MWRTA) officials to learn what assumptions
they made in proposing a $250,000 annual cost
for the bus service.
Harold Rhodes, chairman of Milford’s
Commission on Disability, and the Board of
Selectmen met with the Finance Committee to
review the costs, since the matter will be voted
upon at the May 23 Annual Town Meeting.
Selectmen Chairman Brian Murray said that
State Representative John Fernandes, D. Milford,
is pursuing legislation to put Milford into the
MWRTA’s “catchment area,” which would
make the town eligible for up to a 50 percent
reimbursement from the state. That $125,000,
plus a $75,000 grant from the Greater Milford
Community Health Network (CHNA 6) means,
“The potential is it [the cost] could be as low as
$50,000,” Murray said.
Questions posed by the various committee
members involved why the MWRTA would be
providing the town with a senior van, whether
it made sense to have two buses operating to
reduce the time it would take to drive along
the bus route and why the school system just
couldn’t provide a dedicated bus to handle local
transportation.
Murray said MWRTA has promised to provide
another senior van, but Milford would have to
pay for its driver and gasoline. That issue has
yet to be finalized, he said. Rhodes noted that a
final bus route has yet to be decided upon and a
second bus could be added if ridership was high
enough. “Milford owns the route schedule. We
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can change that as we want to,” he said.
“A quarter million dollars or more, I want to
make sure there was due diligence,” commented
committee member Alberto Correia. “Are we
rushing into it?” he questioned. Correia added,
“Yes, this sound great, but don’t rush.” Correia
noted that the idea of bringing bus service into
town is popular with many people. “Voting
against this is voting against my mother,” he
stated. Correia asked candidly what benefit the
bus service would bring.
Rhodes noted MWRTA would provide service
for 13-hours each day on Mondays through
Fridays. Selectman William Buckley said having
the bus service provides some “inherent benefits”
to residents, but recommended using the first
year as a pilot program to test how well the
service worked. I would consider that first-year
contract a trial period,” he said. Buckley said the
warrant article could be passed over in May if
questions remain unanswered.
Committee members Michael Soares and
Christopher Morin delved into the cost structure
of the proposal and whether bus shelters would
have to be built. Member Aldo Cecchi wanted
to know if bringing the MWRTA into Milford
would open the town up to getting assessed by
the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
“I just get frightened when I hear MBTA,” he
said. Selectman William Kingkade, who works
for the “T,” said it would not.
Chairman Marc Schaen’s questions had to
do with the cost structure of the proposed
$250,000 charges from MWRTA. “That budget,
in a vacuum, is not particularly helpful,” Murray
agreed. Schaen said his committee had many
unanswered questions that will need to be
resolved before the Finance Committee takes a
formal stand on bus service.
By Kevin Rudden
By a split 3-2 decision on March 10, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)
refused to allow Krystal Fuer of 20 Parkhurst St. to keep between four to
eight hens at her property.
In asking for the required special permit, Fuer said she planned to have a
four-foot by three-foot chicken coop on one side if her yard, where a shed
used to be. The coop itself would be in a five-foot by 15-foot enclosed are,
she said. Any chicken “droppings” would be taken to her parents’ farm in
Millis on a weekly basis, she explained.
“We like having organic, home-grown eggs,” Fuer said, adding that her
son found the animals to be therapeutic. She presented the board with a
letter of support signed by five area residents, including the two others
living in her three-family home.
Board member Mary Carlson – who voted against the request – said she
was concerned about the smell from the coop would affect neighbors. “I
think it’s important to be respectful to the neighbors,” added board member
David Pyne.
Patty Tamagni of 61 Hayward St. and Lisa Tamagni of 61 ½ Hayward St.
spoke against the request. “It’s a big concern for me to have the chickens,”
said Patty Tamagni, saying the chickens didn’t belong in a residential
neighborhood, would create a noise problem, and would attract predator
animals such as rats and raccoons to the area. “It just doesn’t seem like it
would be a good ending at all in such a small neighborhood,” Lisa Tamagni
said.
Carlson and board member Mark Calzolaio also voiced concern about
the hens attracting predatory animals to the neighborhood.
Chairman David Consigli reviewed his board’s past history with granting
or not granting permission for people to have chickens, saying the goal was
to try to make both the applicant and the neighbors happy. He said he could
support granting the special permit for a one-year duration to see if any
problems developed. Calzolaio suggested a six-month period so that Fuer
could get through the summer months. Pyne said he would also support six
months.
“I just don’t think it’s appropriate for the neighborhood,” Carlson said.
“Too close an area,” added board member John Dagnese. Carlson, Calzolaio
and Dagnese voted against the special permit, while Consigli and Pyne
voted in favor of it.
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Recent Actions by Milford Town Boards
By Kevin Rudden
Board of Health
• Discussed the possibility of no longer having leaf and cut
grass disposal at the Cedar St. (Rt. 85) Transfer Station and
instead having the Highway Department set up a dump site
elsewhere in town. (March 7)
• Discussed the need to have regulations, with fines for noncompliance, for trash disposal at multi-family buildings in
Milford and directed Health Agent Paul Mazzuchelli to draft
the regulations. (March 7)
• Reviewed Mazzuchelli’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget submission.
(March 7)
• Reviewed the “Food Safety Information and Other Health
Requirements for Temporary Events” package of information
put together by Mazzuchelli for carnivals, the Milford Food
Market and the “Celebrate Milford” event in May. (March 7)
Board of Selectmen
• Selectman William Kingkade displayed a card he received
from a fourth grade class at Woodland Elementary
School he had spoken to on March 1 – the date of the
state’s Presidential Primary election – about voting and
government. (March 7)
• Heard a report from Town Administrator Richard Villani
that a new Wi-Fi system had been installed in Town Hall,
with a public network for visitors and a private network
for employees. The Wi-Fi service is not available in Upper
Town Hall, he said. (March 7)
• Heard a report from Villani that the Finance Department
had shuffled offices within Town Hall. The Benefits
Departments and Retirement Board are now located where
the Treasurer’s Office was and the Treasurer’s Office has
moved to where the Retirement Board offices were, he
explained. (March 7)
• Heard a report from Villani that the proposed
reconstruction of Main St. (Rt. 16) from Water St.
to the Hopedale town line is scheduled on the state’s
Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for FY2019.
The work includes reconstruction of the Rts. 16/140
intersection, he explained. The town has paid 25 percent of
the road’s redesign and will have to appropriate funds for
the rest, 75 percent, Villani said. (March 7).
• Selectman William Buckley congratulated Villani for
attending a supervisory leadership program run by the
Massachusetts Municipal Association. (March 7)
• Approved a Carnival Permit allowing Fiesta Shows of
Seabrook, N.H. to hold a carnival in the Kmart Plaza
parking lot from April 7-17 as a fundraiser for the
Memorial School PTO. The carnival will be open 6 to 11
p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from noon to 11 p.m.
on Saturdays and Sundays. (March 7)
• Approved allowing the “Braking Aids” Ride to travel
through Milford on September 23 from about 8:15 a.m.
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Charles River Trail as a rest stop. (March 7)
• Voted to approve proposed two percent raises for full-time
elected officials and one percent raises for other elected
officials, which will be voted upon by Town Meeting
Members as Article 3 in the May 23 Annual Town Meeting.
(March 7)
• At the request of Finance Director Zachary Taylor, approved
allowing the town to spend its snow and ice removal budget
in deficit status. Highway Surveyor Scott Crisafulli advised
the board on February 29 that the budget line item had a
deficit of $9,763.45. (March 7)
• Voted to place a proposed Zoning By-Law amendment
sponsored by local attorney Ernest Pettinari on the warrant
for the May 23 Annual Town Meeting and remanded the
proposed amendment to the Planning Board for its required
public hearing. Chairman Brian Murray said the proposed
amendment would allow retail uses in the Office Residential
zone by a special permit. (March 7)
• Reviewed a memo from the Planning Board advising
selectmen it had voted to change two sections of the
wording of a proposed Zoning By-law amendment that
would replace the current Section 3.9, “Sign Regulations,”
with a comprehensive update. The two changes eliminated
a prohibition for balloons over 24 inches in diameter
and define signs inside an athletic facility. Selectmen are
co-sponsoring the proposed complete by-law revision
amendment with the Planning Board. The proposal will
be considered by Town Meeting Members at the May 23
Annual Town Meeting. (March 7)
• Reviewed Town Engineer Vonnie Reis’ monthly report.
(March 7)
Finance Committee
• At the request of Finance Director Zachary Taylor, approved
allowing the town to spend its snow and ice removal budget
in deficit status. Highway Surveyor Scott Crisafulli advised
the Board of Selectmen on February 29 that the budget line
item had a deficit of $9,763.45. (March 9)
Planning Board
• Approved a new lot plan for the Consigli Construction
Company campus at 72-74 Sumner St. that takes into
account a small portion of the land without a clear title.
(March 15)
• Released a lot at 15 Casey Drive that is within the completed
and accepted South Central Estates II subdivision. (March
15)
• Voted 4-1 to send a favorable recommendation to the
Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) on a variance request by
Mary and Viginio Sardinha to build carports with solar
panel arrays on top of them at the rear of their 350 Main
St. (Rt. 16) shopping plaza. The carports would be within
four feet from the property line, but a 25-foot setback
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is required. Town Planner Larry
Dunkin said there is an unbuildable
30-foot wide strip of land next
to the site that would serve as
a buffer. Board member Joseph
Calagione voted against the favorable
recommendation, saying he saw no
hardship if the request were denied.
(March 15)
• Voted 4-1 to send a favorable
recommendation to the ZBA on a
special permit request by Michael
Tusino to add a 20-foot by 25-foot
two-story addition to the existing
two-family house at 29 Emmons St.
One part of the addition would be six
feet away from a property line where
a 10-foot setback is required. The
board’s favorable recommendation
included a request to relocate an
existing shed so that it complies with
current zoning requirements. Board
member Patrick Kennelly voted
against the recommendation, saying
that moving the addition would
eliminate the need for the special
permit.
• Reviewed and approved a draft letter
to Town Meeting Members seeking
support for the proposed Zoning
By-law amendment about signs that
is scheduled for consideration at
the May 23 Annual Town Meeting.
(March 15)
Zoning Board of Appeals
• Chairman David Consigli announced
the resignation of board member
Joseph Evans and thanked him for his
many years of service to the board.
(March 10)
• Voted unanimously to grant Raynie
Lyrid of Worcester a special permit to
operate a portion of the muffler shop
at 20 Beaver St. as a repair garage and
to sell used cars at the site. Lyrid said
he has been running “Sal’s Garage” at
the site for the past four months and
plans to change its name to “Speed
Auto Center.” The board approval
runs with Lyrid and not the property,
must be renewed after two years, and
limits him to displaying no more than
six unregistered vehicles. (March 10)
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School News
School Committee Discusses Fate of Middle
School East Building
School Committee members will do some homework before deciding the fate of the Middle
School East building. It will become vacant this summer when the new Woodland School is
completed and begins housing the town’s fifth graders. The move will allow eighth grade classes
to move from Middle School East to Stacy School. Jane Bigda photo
By Melissa Orff
Staff Reporter
Several Milford School Committee
Members voiced their opinions during a
March 17 meeting that more work needs
to be done before deciding the fate of the
Middle School East Building.
Middle School East will become vacant
this summer when the new Woodland
Elementary School Building is complete,
which will shift the 5th grade to Woodland
and the 8th grade from Middle East to Stacy
Middle School.
Over the past year, representatives from
a number of town committees and boards
as well as the School Committee have
formed a Middle School East (MSE) Reuse
Committee and have met on a regular
basis to determine the possibilities for
the building including selling, leasing, or
keeping the building for school or town use.
Although a report from an outside
consultant hired by the MSE Reuse
Committee is imminent, several School
Committee Members expressed concerns
that they haven’t looked closely enough into
potential educational uses for the building,
or the space it could free up in other
buildings if certain departments moved.
“I don’t feel that we have done that level of
analysis yet,” said Member Joseph Morias.
Member John Erickson too said that they
should be looking at the “bigger picture”
when making decisions on the building
and should be having conversations with
administrators and building principals
about new programming they could offer if
space freed up in their schools.
Erickson suggested forming a
Subcommittee to look into the building’s
potential from an educational standpoint.
Yet School Committee Member
Scott Harrison, who also serves as
a representative for the MSE Reuse
Committee, said that would be getting
ahead of themselves. “It’s too far in advance
to know what the feasibility of using that
space because it may be cost prohibitive,” he
said.
Harrison said that they should have a
“comprehensive” report from the consultant
within the next few weeks, but early
information shows that renovations for
the building would be costly. “It’s not an
insignificant number…it’s in the millions,”
said Harrison.
Member Jen Parson also weighed in,
saying that with the topic of students
“choicing-out” of the district being at
the forefront of everyone’s minds, it is
important to think about what educational
opportunities they could bring to the high
school if space frees up from moving the
administrative office and/or the Community
Use Program to the MSE building.
“A district’s High School is its flagship,”
she said. “I really want to make sure we
think about it; fully vet the pros and cons.”
Parson also commented that it was
important that all of the stakeholders get a
chance to weigh in on the decision together.
“Given the size, value, and location of this
building, we should get everyone together,”
she said.
Superintendent Dr. Robert Tremblay
informed the Committee that they have
begun to explore possibilities at the high
school if space freed up in the building.
Although the Committee did not move to
form a Subcommittee, they agreed to keep
the topic on the agenda for future meetings.
Milford High to Roll Out College
Course Pilot Program
By Melissa Orff
Staff Reporter
Milford High School will be piloting a new program to give students the opportunity
to gain college credits at no cost while still in high school.
Assistant Superintendent Dr. Kevin McIntrye and Milford High School (MHS)
Principal Carolyn Banach gave a presentation during the March 17 School Committee
Meeting on the new Early College High School program that the school plans to roll out
during the 2016/2017 school year.
Banach said that the program partners MHS with Framingham State University,
Quinsigamond Community College and Mass Bay Community College to offer a
number of general education or core courses that are 100 percent transferable to all two
and four year colleges or universities in the UMass system.
“This program has many advantages for our students…having that college experience
while still in high school,” said Banach.
With the cost of college sky rocketing, Banach said that the other big advantage to
this program is the opportunity for students to save money by taking college classes for
free before they even start. “Financially it is a huge savings for the students,” she said. “It
could mean thousands and thousands of dollars of savings.” Students could enter college
with a semester, a year, or more under their belts, saving tuition money at the outset.
The administrators said that the new program differs from the Advanced Placement
program, as instead of the end of course test determining college credit or not, students
who take a class through the Early College High School program just need to earn a “C”
or better to qualify for the college credit.
“We think this can reach a sector of our student population that we may not be
reaching with our Advanced placement program,” said Banach.
Preliminary plans are for the school to pilot three college-level courses next year,
and approximately 50 students have already taken the Accuplacer exam to determine
readiness for the college level courses according to Banach.
“Having these college credits can build momentum,” said Banach. “It propels them to
keep moving forward.”
Banach said that they hope to expand the program in the future and currently have
nine courses with curriculum maps that are being reviewed by Framingham State to
ensure they align with college level courses.
After the presentation, School Committee Members gave kudos to McIntrye and
Banach for bringing the new program to MHS.
“We do a lot of great things for our high achievers, a lot of great things for our special
education and ELL students, but the average student can really benefit from something
like this,” said Member Joseph Morias.
“This is an amazing opportunity for our kids and our families,” said Parson.
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Institute. The application deadline is Friday, April 29.
Music Worcester’s Vocal Prize, formerly run by Opera Worcester, will be held April 24
and is open to high school and college students seriously studying voice (opera, musical
theater, etc.). Students may reside in any locality. The application deadline is Monday, April
18. The competition will be held at the Briarwood in Worcester.
The Gerald Mack Scholarship, a $500 award, is open to high school seniors planning
on pursuing a Music Major in college who reside in Worcester County. The application
deadline is May 1.
For more information about the opportunities and to download an application visit
MusicWorcester.org and click on Community Engagement or call 508-754-3231.
MARCH 25, 2016
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School News
Extra Credits
BVT Students Review their Options at College and Career Fair
Submitted by Andrew Morrison
Valley Tech
With dozens of employers and admissions personnel
vying to recruit them during the school’s recent College and
Career Fair, students at Blackstone Valley Tech received a
firsthand look at their many opportunities in the modern
workforce, military, and higher education.
This year’s event was the first in which Valley Tech
combined its previously independent college and career
fairs. Under the new model, nearly 100 business and
industry representatives, U.S. military recruitment officers,
and admissions personnel from some of New England’s
finest colleges, universities, and training institutions came
together in the school’s Competition Center to meet with
students. It was the first visit to Valley Tech for Dean College
Admissions Counselor Tenley Sodeur, who quickly noticed
that college and employment are far from exclusive pathways
for Valley Tech students. “The students are so careerfocused, which is great,” Sodeur commented. “They want
to know what kind of boost a college education can give to
their careers.”
Shane Ross, Service Warranty Manager at United Home
Experts, said that his company is on the lookout for young,
capable employees interested in the home improvement
field. The BVT College and Career Fair, according to Ross,
presented the perfect opportunity to access a pipeline to
high-skill workers. “As a local employer, it’s great to have this
chance to find local talent,” Ross said, noting that students
came prepared with thoughtful questions and formal
resumes.
Many students employed part-time through the
Valley Tech Cooperative Education program (co-op)
participated in the College and Career Fair on behalf of
their co-op employers. Health Services senior Samantha
Cella of Northbridge represented Uxbridge Orthopedic
& Sports Therapy, where she has gained valuable realworld experience toward her goal of becoming a physical
therapist. Plumbing senior Corinne Boisseau of Blackstone
Milford Public School
Activities and Events
Compiled by Melissa Orff
Shown (left to right) HVAC & R sophomore Michael Iacovelli of Hopedale,
Plumbing sophomores Jordi Raul Ruiz-Manzano of Milford and John
Davidge of Blackstone, and HVAC & R sophomore Brenden Ferreira of
Milford spoke with a Dean College admissions counselor about the many
ways in which a college education can enhance their professional careers.
BVT photo
represented her employer, Rodenhiser Plumbing & HVAC, where she
plans on accepting an offer of full-time employment following May’s
graduate.
The fair’s participating employers also included several Valley Tech
graduates who returned to their alma mater to share their stories and
advice. Crystal Brule, a 2013 Cosmetology graduate originally from
Douglas, spoke with students about her experience working for the Spa
Tech Institute, where she was hired after demonstrating her knowledge
of the beauty industry, technical skills, and ability to communicate
effectively with the public.
“I have a great job. I’m 21 years old and I support myself,” Brule said,
crediting Valley Tech with preparing her for the workforce. “Coming to
Valley Tech was the best decision I ever made. It’s an awesome school.”
Seeing the World
Virtually
Google Expedition Pioneer program
associate Matt Murphy came to Hopedale
Jr. Sr. High School to give students an
opportunity to experience virtual reality
using Google’s new product. Talitha Oliveri
communicated with Google to set up this
opportunity for Hopedale. Students Kayla
Hall and Sabrina Eisner were given the
pleasure to teach students about the app and
take them everywhere around the world.
Shown here are Hopedale students exploring
The Washington Monuments the eyes of
the Google Expedition Pioneer Program.
Hopedale Jr. Sr. High photo
Milford Rotary Club
Middle School East: Middle School East
students had the chance to participate in
an annual Milford High School Athletics
& Activities Showcase on March 14 in
the Milford High School Cafeteria. The
showcase was sponsored in part by the
Athletic Department. Representatives from
all 27 sports and a multitude of clubs and
activity groups were present for the fair-like
atmosphere to highlight all of the clubs,
sports, and organizations offered at Milford
High School. Target audience for this fair
was the incoming 8th graders.
Milford High School: On March 30,
the first-year Hospitality and Tourism
Management students will once again be
hosting the Atlas Travel Fair in the MHS
cafeteria from 4 to 7 p.m. Vendors that will
be in attendance include Royal Caribbean
Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian
Cruise Line, Disney Globus Journeys,
Travel Impressions, Princess Cruises,
Classic Vacations, Azamara Club Cruises,
and Star Clippers. Area residents can come
out for some great vacation deals as well as
a raffle opportunity to win a free cruise.
The Milford High School Hospitality and
Tourism Management (HTM) Program
in conjunction with the Milford High
School video production and web design
students announces its new website. Visit
the website to learn more about the HTM
program and to watch a video where
current students talk about the benefits of
the HTM program. Check it out at http://
htm443.wix.com/hospitality.
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Stacy Middle: The Assistant Director of
Admissions at Assumption College Mike
Perron visited the 7th grade classes at Stacy
on March 11 to speak to them about the
opportunities available to them after high
school graduation. This year, the Guidance
Department is spearheading a new
initiative to try and get kids thinking about
post-high school plans, even in the later
middle school years. Guidance Counselor
Meredith Purtell has arranged for the visit
and plans to have follow-up conversations
with the 7th grade about life after high
school throughout the school year.
The Stacy Middle Guidance Department
is also sponsoring “March Madness” for
students and staff. Classroom doors and
bulletin boards will be decorated with
college paraphernalia and everyone had the
opportunity to show their college spirit by
wearing their favorite college apparel on
March 16. The month will close out with
a “March Madness” basketball game on
Thursday, March 31 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in
the Stacy Gymnasium.
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School News
BVT Holds Overall FY17 Budget Increase to 3%
Assessments Average a 4.36% Increase
Submitted by Andrew Morrison
Valley Tech
Faced with significant cost-hikes in
health insurance and pension obligations,
the Blackstone Valley Vocational Regional
School District initiated aggressive measures
to decrease its proposed annual budget,
including adoption of a new healthcare
option, acquisition of more than $1 million
in additional state grants, and reduction
in non-instructional full-time staff to keep
its overall budget increase to 3 percent in
fiscal year 2017 (FY17). The total budget
is $21,956,739, which was approved by
the School Committee on March 3 at their
regular meeting, as compared to $21,317,222
in FY16.The average assessments for the 13
towns that make up the district are up by
4.36 percent in FY17. See the accompanying
article to view the proposed assessment
breakdown for Mendon, Milford and Upton.
The Committee first examined the budget’s
overall healthcare costs, which came in at
an initial increase of 20 percent, or $536,000
higher than the prior year, driven by
changes in premium rates and the number
of subscribers. That increase was ultimately
lowered to nearly 15 percent after the
District worked with its insurance brokers to
negotiate a more favorable rate on existing
plans and impact bargained with the BVT
Teachers Association to offer a new lowpremium/high-deductible health insurance
option.
“The cost of health benefits is a challenge
faced by school districts and municipalities
across the state, if not the nation,”
commented Superintendent-Director Dr.
Michael Fitzpatrick. “I commend the School
Committee and BVT Teachers Association
for sitting down and working together to
understand all the moving parts and benefits
of this new plan, which is now one of three
viable options available to our system’s staff.”
Valley Tech’s proposed budget increase
was further reduced by the acquisition of
more than $1.02 million in state grants
for capital improvements and purchases.
Approval of a $619,000 reimbursement from
the Massachusetts School Building Authority
allowed the school to self-fund a major roof
repair project without asking its district-
towns for additional dollars. A $407,000
grant from Governor Charlie Baker’s
Workforce Skills Capital Grant Program will
purchase cutting-edge equipment for four
Valley Tech programs, enabling the school to
further reduce the FY17 budget’s bottom line
by removing funds for vital capital equipment
purchases.
The Committee also reduced staffing
patterns by 3.5 full-time positions while
preserving quality instruction, saved on
contracted services by utilizing staff and
student skills on internal improvement
projects, and garnered temporary relief
on retroactive billing of non-educator
pension obligations. Finally, in an effort
to further reduce the budget’s impact on
member-towns’ assessments, the BVT
School Committee voted to supplement
the operational blueprint with $250,000 in
available reserve funds.
Fitzpatrick noted that approval of the FY17
budget request marks the seventh consecutive
year in which Valley Tech has presented an
annual budgetary increase of 3 percent or
less.
“Limiting expenditures to annual increases
no greater than 3 percent is an especially
impressive feat given that our system is one of
only a few across the Commonwealth which
has seen a steady increase in the number of
students served over that same time period,”
Fitzpatrick said.
Following School Committee approval,
the proposed Blackstone Valley Tech
FY17 budget totaling $21,956,739 will be
considered this spring by town meeting
voters throughout the school’s 13-town
district. Like last year, Valley Tech officials are
optimistic the plan will receive unanimous
approval.
“The goal every year is to create a budget
that advances Valley Tech’s ability to train the
future workforce while remaining sensitive
to the financial challenges we share with
our member towns,” said School Committee
Chairman Joseph M. Hall of Bellingham.
“Our district-towns’ leaders have identified
what they consider a manageable percentageincrease in their Valley Tech assessments, and
we’ve worked hard to once again produce a
plan within that range.”
Breaking Down the Numbers in the
Valley Tech Budget
The following is a breakdown of the assessments for the towns of
Mendon, Milford and Upton as outlined in the Blackstone Valley Vocational
Regional School budget for fiscal year 2017 (FY17). The FY17 assessments
are compared with those assessed in FY16 for each community. A
portion of the assessment is based on the number of students from each
community enrolled in the high school as of October 1 according to a
formula used by the Commonwealth along with other financial filings with
the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
The budget request also includes a figure labeled as Additional
Assessment. According to School–Superintendent Director, Dr. Michael
Fitzpatrick, “Additional assessments cover the known District operational
expenses not addressed within the state directed absolute minimum
obligation. State authorities have publicly acknowledged that their current
formula does not address inflationary cost centers such as employee health
insurance, pension and multiple others. When the Commonwealth is not
able to fund additional state aid (Chapter 70), then by necessity the District
pursues (additional) assessment revenue from its member towns. This
enables BVT to make a one-time consolidated request to meet 100 percent
of its anticipated annual expenses.” In FY16, BVT was able to credit each
community an amount in that line item, this year it is asking for funding to
meet its FY17 obligations.
In FY17 Mendon’s assessment for Valley Tech will be $920,062 up from
the FY16 figure of $813,414, an increase of $106,648. Mendon’s enrollment
in the district has also increased by three students from 77 in FY16 to 80 in
FY17.
Milford’s FY17 assessment is $1,615,084 up by $180,517 from its FY16
assessment of $1,434,567. Again enrollment from Milford increased from
150 students in FY16 to 173 in FY17.
Upton’s assessment went down from $1,228,630 in FY16 to $1,201,228
in FY17, a decrease of $27,402. Upton’s enrollment at Valley Tech also fell
from 120 students in FY16 to 107 in FY17.
A more detailed breakdown of each town’s assessment for FY17 as
compared to FY16 can be found in the table below.
◆ MOON TO MILFORD from front page
to use for study in the classroom. Gilmore signed
up for the six-hour training course at Framingham
State University’s Christa McAuliffe Center in order
to be certified to receive lunar materials on loan from
NASA.
“I remember the first time I saw a moon rock at
the Smithsonian Museum [in Washington, DC], and
I remember thinking ‘wow, here is the proof that we
did it’,” said Gilmore. “I wanted our students to have
that same sense of awe and to be inspired by what we
did as a species,” he said of applying for the NASA
program.
The moon rocks and meteorite samples visited
Milford at the beginning of March and for two and
a half weeks, the fifth-graders had a chance to hold a
“national treasure” in their hands.
Six moon rocks and six meteorite samples were
encased in two clear, Lucite disks, and students used
magnifying glasses to see the pieces up close.
Gilmore told the students that each evening, the
samples were locked in a safe at the Milford Police
Department as per the rules of the NASA program.
When a student asked Gilmore the value of the
moon rocks, the answer came easily. “The real value
is that we accomplished something remarkable,” he
said. “Leaving this planet, traveling 240,000 miles in
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space, landing on the moon, collecting samples, and
returning to earth alive…six times.”
Along with viewing the moon rock samples and
learning some history about space travel, students
were given an engineering challenge of designing a
lunar lander which would protect its astronauts and
land safely on the moon. Using only a paper cup,
two ping pong balls, 10 index cards, and 18” of tape,
the fifth-graders set out on a challenge that seemed
worthy of a NASA training.
“It’s about the process, not about the design,” said
Gilmore about whether any student had passed the
design challenge. “They were all successes.”
Along with the 325 fifth-graders that were able to
hold a piece of outer space in their hands, Gilmore
also brought the samples to the Milford Senior
Center and Milford Public Library where he gave
presentations to the community on the history of the
space flight program.
The moon samples are now safely on their way
back to NASA in Houston, but Gilmore hopes to
make this an annual event now that he is certified.
“In [the student’s] lifetime, plans to have colonies
on the moon are becoming more and more possible,”
he said. “This is a good way for them to get a sense
that those accomplishments are all of ours to share.”
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Sports
School News
Writing About Topics Important to Them
Students Become Published Authors
The Woodland Elementary School is celebrating five 4th -grade students in Ann Anderson’s
class. These talented students, shown left to right, holding the anthology text showcasing
their work—Matthew Donahue, Mateo Bailey, Camila Maza, Ashly Guaman and Ana Julia
Candida—are now published authors after winning an online essay contest. In the fall, these
students entered a Creative Communication A Celebration of Today’s Writers’ essay contest
for students in grades 4 to 6. Creative Communication is dedicated to promoting the arts
and has sponsored student contests for over 20 years. Participants were required to write
original nonfiction essays on the topic, “What Is Important to Me”. The Woodland students’
published titles are “Moon Transformations”, “First Responders”, “Cesar Chevez, A Man of
Courage, “My Day at the Beach”, and “Cesar Chevez, A Brave Man”.
Competition
Brewing for MHS
Boys Track
By Chris Villani
Sports Reporter/Columnist
The Milford High School boys track
team does not have many spots locked
up as the spring season begins, but head
coach Tim Cullen does not think that’s a
bad thing at all.
“We have an open competition for
varsity spots, which is great,” Cullen said
after practice began this week. “I try to
follow successful coaches at any level and
try to hear what their outlook is and they
all say ‘competition breeds competition.’
“At our practices, we adhere to that,”
the coach continued. “We will have open
competitions once or twice a week and
whomever is in our top three will be with
the varsity.”
The Scarlet Hawks rolled through dual
meet season unbeaten last year, winning
the Hockomock League title along the
way. Track may be an individual sport,
but Cullen is focused on another team
success in 2016. He said he sat down with
MHS wrestling coach P.J. Boccia, who
leads the successful winter program at
the school, to pick his brain about what
makes a individuals come together for a
successful team.
“I put a big emphasis on team,” Cullen
said. “In some individual sports there are
coaches who would rather have five guys
in the state finals and only win a couple of
team meets, I would prefer to win every
meet.”
MHS does have a few athletes who
figure to make some noise at the end
of the year when the district and state
meets roll around. Ryan Nesta made it
to the state qualifier meet in Fitchburg
last spring in both the 100 and 200 and
Cullen said the senior should not be
beaten too often in the dual meet season.
Leo Moronta made it to the same meet
in the hurdles and finished in the top-20
nationally in the decathlon, competing
in North Carolina after the year had
wrapped up.
“Last year was the first year doing
track for both of them and it was good
experience,” Cullen said.
Nesta and Mortona will serve as
captains this year, along with Jack
DeSantis, who is ranked first in the
Hockomock among returning javelin
throwers. DeSantis qualified for the allstate meet in 2015.
While stressing the competition for
varsity spots, Cullen did point to a few
athletes who could factor into the scoring
this season. John Niro will compete in
the shot put and discus, while Jack Kalil
“showed some good promise,” during the
cross-country season. The head coach
described Caden Kelly as a “tall, athletic
kid,” and noted his third place finish in
the triple jump in last year’s Hockomock’s
freshman-sophomore meet. Junior Kevin
Troung is also back, after qualifying for
the all-state meet in the triple jump as
well as the long jump.
Cullen is setting his goals high again
this year and plans to put together
another lineup that can win the league,
the only thing left to figure out is who will
make up that lineup. “I think the competition is a good
thing,” Cullen said. “It gives our kids a
chance to be motivated and show they
deserve a spot. I am excited to see who is
going to step up.”
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MILFORD TOWN CRIER
Bono Takes Over
Milford Boys
Lacrosse
By Chris Villani
There’s a good chance the members of
the Milford boys’ lacrosse team were a little
sore as they make their way from class to
class this spring, but it’s all about getting
ready to play the style their new coach
wants to see.
“It depends on our personnel, but I want
to be able to run a high-trump offense and
a ball hawking defense that can turn the
ball over and translate into fast breaks,”
first-year coach Ralph Bono said. “We will
run the stuff I expect to be able to run and
change on the fly where we need to, to what
may be more suitable.” Bono comes to Milford after coaching
lacrosse at various schools for 18 years.
He spent the past three springs with the
Algonquin junior varsity team. Prior to his
time with the Tomahawks, Bono spent two
years coaching the Wakefield junior varsity,
and was the head coach at Matignon High
in Cambridge and Quincy High School.
Bono has also spent time on the staff at
Brookline High School and the Fay School
in Southboro. Bono started his playing career at
Burlington High School, where he was
introduced to the sport in junior high
school. “They had an activity period and one
of our teachers ran a lacrosse program,”
he said. “I was playing hockey my whole
life and it was an easy transition. Once
I started playing, I fell in love with it.” A
goalie, Bono continued his playing career at
UMass-Boston.
Talking about the MHS team, he said
he is trying to “change the culture” for a
program that saw only two wins at the
varsity level in 2015. The new coach said
he had the chance to watch the team play
several games on tape.
“The talent is there, the structure was
missing,” Bono said. “The stuff that makes
you a two-win team, they are easy fixes.
There were a lot of undisciplined errors and
unforced errors, but there is a good amount
of talent there.”
Despite the struggles last spring, Bono
has set the bar of expectation high for 2016.
“I expect to make the tournament this
year. How far we go, I don’t know, but I
know we will make the tourney,” he said.
“This is a really good sports town and
one of the great things about lacrosse, if
you have played any other sport, you can
translate what you did from the previous
sport onto the lacrosse field.”
The culture change started this week
with conditioning. Bono’s first week fitness
test included a mile and a half run, 50
pushups, a three-minute plank, crunches
and pullups.
“These are core exercises to see where
they are at,” Bono said. “We will see what
we need to work on, but the first day of
tryouts is the fitness test, that’s all we are
doing. We will see where we go from there.”
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MARCH 25, 2016
Sports
Milford Girls
LAX Looks to
Improve
By Chris Villani
Milford girls lacrosse head coach
Jason Gelmini does not mince words
when he looks at his team’s prospects
this season.
“This year is going to be a challenge,”
he said. “We need to get the goals back
we lost last year, and we lost a bunch of
seniors last year, nine, and last year we
ended up with two wins total.”
The challenge has not dampened
Gelmini’s optimism headed into the
year. A total of 30 girls came out for the
team this year, including 10 freshman,
and the Scarlet Hawks still have several
veterans with substantial varsity
experience.
Morgan Smith is the team’s top
returning scorer, and one of three
senior captains leading the 2016
Hawks.
“She will split some time between
midfield and attack,” Gelmini said. “She
is one of our top all around players and
she can score, play defense, and get the
ball up and down the field.”
Fellow captain Julie Dam returns at
the midfield and Gelmini is looking for
her to take on more of a scoring role
this year to replace some of the goals
lost to graduation.
“She was very solid on defense and
a good facilitator, but she needs to
step up and put the ball in the net a
bit more,” he said, while praising her
leadership on the field. “She really
understands the ins and outs of the
game.”
Erin Fleming is the lone returning
player on defense and will anchor a
young group on that side of the field.
“She is definitely going to be the
leader on defense, and she is a great
presence,” Gelmini said. “She is a very
vocal on the field, she understands the
game, and she is not shy about telling
the other girls where they have to be on
the field. She will be key in getting the
young girls up to speed on defense.”
Milford will also rely on a strong
junior class this spring. Hanna Cairney
returns in goal and Gelmini touted her
as a “great talent and great leader who
really stepped up for us last year.”
“It’s good to have a core position I
don’t have to worry about,” he said. Juniors Jordyn Lombardo and
Brianna Croteau will step into larger
roles this season after gaining varsity
experience as sophomores. “Graduating a large number of
seniors gives these girls a chance to
come into their own,” Gelmini said.
“We will be leaning on them to score
some goals this year and these will be
a couple of players we will be watching
out for.”
Asked about his goals for this year’s
team, Gelmini said his group would be
“staritng off small” and wants to stress
getting better every day.
“We definitely have a good group
and we’ll go into every game expecting
to win,” he said. “But we want to make
sure our young players learn the game.
We had a lot of freshman come out
who have never played, which in my
mind is great because it means lacrosse
is becoming more popular in the area. I
am looking forward to getting the new
girls up to speed.”
MARCH 25, 2016
Volleyball
Champs!
Congratulations to the members
of Mass Mayhem Menace for
bringing home the gold medal
today at their New England
Region Volleyball Association
1(NERVA) tournament at
home in Milford on Sunday,
March 6. Shown left to right are:
Back row-Jill Valanzola, Grace
Caughey, Brianna Croteau,
Julianna Tracy, Hattie Dorion,
Shea Murray and Coach
Kevin Marshall; and Front
row-Victoria VanZile, Kyra
Alves and Lauren Zouranjian.
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not in use. A 3’x 5’ flag on a 10’ staff will be placed in the holder.
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12 Flags - $450
16 Flags - $600
Questions? Call Captains Dave & Jessie Irwin: 508-473-0786
508
-473 -0786
**The flag and staff will remain the property of The Salvation Army in Milford
and will be removed at the end of each holiday.
*Please return the entire application form*
MILFORD TOWN CRIER
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Sports
My One Wish Golf
Tournament
My One Wish Golf Tournament will be
Friday June 24 at Blissful Meadows Golf
Club, Chocolog Rd., Uxbridge For more
information [email protected].
Or contact the following individuals: Julie
[email protected],
508-473-1207; Dave Consigli-drcc21@aol.
com, 508-922-9644; Christine [email protected], 508-478-3131; or
Kara [email protected],
508-922-9130. The tournament will help
support the group, which works to fulfill
the wishes of critically or chronically ill
children.
Youth Golf Programs
The Milford Community School Use
Program is offering golf programs for
children at Maplegate Country Club
during April Vacation from Monday,
April 18 through Thursday, April 21
with Greg Dowdell, Director of Golf,
and Kevin Weldon, USTGF Professional
at Maplegate, along with other staff
members, instructing the classes.
The 4-Day Junior Gold Academy, held
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily with lunch
provided, is for serious junior golfers of
all ability levels between the ages of 9 to
17 years. It will cover rules and etiquette
along with the pre-shot routine, full swing,
short game, and equipment selection. Rain
date is Friday, April 22.
Try Golf for Beginners for ages 5
to 12 from 9 to 10 a.m. is a fun-based
introduction to golf for new golfers. The
program offers group lessons covering
rules and swing fundamentals, as well as
fun-based games.
Maplegate is also offering a Golf for
Toddlers program for youngsters age 1 to
4, who will learn swing fundamentals and
golf basics using plastic clubs and balls,
which they may keep. This program will be
held on Mondays, May 2,9 and 16 from 12
noon to 1 p.m. Rain date is May 23.
All program details and registration
forms may be found on the Milford
Community Program website MCS.
milford.ma.us or calling 508-478-1119.
All registration forms and fees must be
submitted to the Milford Community
Program office located at 31 West Fountain
St,. Milford MA 01757 by Wednesday,
April 13.
Adult Golf Programs
Program will offer Adult Golf Programs at
Maplegate Country Club, 160 Maple St.,
Bellingham this spring with instructors
Greg Dowdell, Director of Golf, and Kevin
Weldon, USTGF Professional at Maplegate,
along with other staff members.
The five-week Golf for Moms program
runs from Monday May 2 to Monday June
6 with no class on May 30. Rain date is June
13.
Mothers Day 2 for 1 will be Saturday,
May 7, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. This is a
three-hour lesson especially planned for
family members - mom and child, dad and
child, husband and wife, friend, etc.
The five-week After Work Group Golf
Lessons for Adults runs Monday, May 9 to
June 13, with no class on May30 from 6 to
7:30 p.m. Rain date is June 20.
Also for adults, One Day Golf School is
offered on your choice of a Saturday May 28,
June 25 for Ladies only and summer dates
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
All details including fees and the
registration form may be found at MCS.
milford.ma.us. Click on Adult Spring in the
left side menu on the home page, then scroll
down and click on the program to get the
details. The registration form and fee must
be submitted to the Milford Community
Program, 31 West Fountain St., Milford MA
01757 by the Wednesday before the start of
the program. Please call the office at 508478-1119 with questions.
By Chris Villani
Mainini Looks to Continue MHS
Volleyball Tradition
Replacing a legendary coach is never
easy, but Andrew Mainini seems to have all
the qualities necessary to lead the Milford
High boys volleyball program as he takes
over this spring as the varsity team’s head
coach.
“Yeah, there is definitely a lot of pressure
there,” Mainini said about the prospect of
taking over for Hall of Fame coach Linda
Zacchilli. “I think knowing that I value
the same thing she values and the fact that
I have learned so much from her, I am
hoping I can continue what she is doing.”
The 2007 MHS grad played for Zacchilli
and spent the past two seasons as the
Milford junior varsity coach and as
an assistant for Zacchilli and, like his
mentor, even has experience in starting a
championship program from scratch. “When I got to Holy Cross, they didn’t
have a boys club volleyball team so I
found a couple of guys who wanted to
start a team and put together a rec team,”
Mainini said. “We would get together
on the weekends and play. The next year
we joined the New England Collegiate
Volleyball League.”
Mainini played two more seasons with
the fledgling Holy Cross club team and
returned as the program’s coach after
graduating in 2011. In his second year as
coach, he guided the team to the NECVL
title.
“That was kind of cool,” he said. “I got to
start the program and in five years, we got
to win the whole thing. That was my first
coaching experience and I enjoyed that
more than playing.”
Mainini said he did not know what to do
when he graduated college, and he ended
up taking a fulltime substitute teaching
position in Hopedale and started working
with Zacchilli on a volunteer basis. He was
hired as a Spanish teacher at Hopedale
and became the girls varsity coach for the
Blue Raiders. When Zacchilli’s son, Peter,
stepped down as Milford boys JV coach,
Mainini jumped at the chance.
Linda Zacchilli will not be far away from
the program she started and has led for
more than three decades to numerous
league and district titles — not to mention
spots in multiple volleyball halls of fame.
She will serve as the junior varsity coach
and as an assistant to Mainini, the pair
effectively swapping the roles they have
held the past two years.
“We have worked as a team and she has
always included me in the decision making
process,” Mainini said. “I really appreciated
that because you could tell she wasn’t just
asking to make me feel involved, she was
asking because she valued my input. That’s
why I enjoyed working with her so much
and also why I think we will work together
so well.”
Mainini said he has been able to learn a
lot from working with Zacchilli the past
two years.
“She is really tough on all of her athletes,
but at the same time they know she really
cares,” he said. “The way they respond to
her isn’t something you see with every
coach out there. You see it with the athletes
who come back each year and scrimmage
with the varsity team, or the 30 alumni
who came back for the cancer benefit
match we had last year.”
The rookie head coach said he also
learned a sense of commitment. “This is
more of a life thing, not just a coaching
thing, but she taught me when you get
involved in something, you need to be 100
percent dedicated,” Mainini said, adding
that he is not looking to reinvent the
program that has been among the most
successful in the state.
“I want to keep doing what [Zacchilli]
is doing and have the same success she is
having,” he said. “I know it won’t be easy,
but I am up to the challenge.”
Find Sports Flash by Chris Villani at TownCrier.us
It’s a Game, College Athletic Recruiting
Jack Renkins of Recruiting Realities will bring his unique nononsense presentation on college athletic recruiting to Nipmuc
Regional High School on Tuesday March 29 at 7 p.m. in the
auditorium. His free presentation, It’s a Game, Know the Rules,
serve as a reality check for families of student-athletes looking to
get their degree and play at the college level.
Parents have an opportunity to hear the truth about college
athletic recruiting, the role of their high school coach, the impact
of today’s social media and where parents fit into the process. If
your son or daughter is serious about getting a college degree and
passionate about the sport the play, then this an event to attend.
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SPORTS FLASH
Against the Tide
Registration is now going on for the
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
(MBCC) 2016 Against the Tide. The onemile swim, two-mile kayak and three mile
walk or 5K or 10K run will be held on
Saturday, June 18 at Hopkinton State Park
in Hopkinton and Saturday, August 20 at
Nickerson State Park in Brewster. Both
events begin at 8:30 a.m. Participants may
take part in one or more of the components
of the event.
Funds raised by the event will benefit
MBCC’s work toward breast cancer
prevention. For more information or to
register visit MBCC.org/swim or call 1-800649-MBCC (6222).
American Red Cross Swimming
Lessons
Lenny Morcone, Director of the Milford Community
School Use Program, has announced the registration
date for Session 4 of Swim Lessons of the American Red
Cross to be held at the Milford High School Pool. Swim
Lessons are offered in five-week sessions for all skill
levels and all ages, starting at two years of age.
Classes for ages 2 and 3, Tiny Tonkers, are held at 10
a.m. and for ages 4 and 5, Mini Wheats, at 11 a.m. on
Saturdays, April 16 and 30 and May 7, 14 and 21. Classes
for ages 6 and older (Levels 1 – 6), lessons are held on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 7 p.m. from April
12 through May 19. Instructional time for all classes is
approximately 40 minutes.
Space is limited and registration is accepted on a firstcome, first-serve basis. The registration date for Milford
residents only, who must show proof of residency, is
Monday, April 4 at 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Milford
High School Pool.
Non-Milford residents are welcome if space is
available on the day following Milford registration, with
level openings being posted on the message board of
www.mcs.milford.ma.us or by calling the office 508-4781119.
Any parents with any specific questions regarding
Swim Lessons may call the Milford Community School
Use Program Office or visit the website.
MILFORD TOWN CRIER
Milford Community Use Spring
Sports Programs
This spring, the Milford Community School Use
Program (MCSUP) will offer many programs for
children instructed by the F.A.S.T. Athletics Staff.
April Vacation Sports Mania for students in
kindergarten through grade 5, will be April 18-22
from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon.
The six-week Super Sports for students in
kindergarten through grade 3 starts on Thursday,
May 5 from 4 to 5 p.m.
Flag Football is for students in grades 1 through 4
and it will run on the same dates and times as Super
Sports.
The six-week, Preschool Soccer and Mini Sports
for boys and girls, age 3 to 5 years old, begins on
Saturday, May 7.
The specifics of each of these programs including
registration forms, fees and deadlines may be found
on the Milford Community program website, MCS.
milford.ma.us. All registration forms and fees must
be submitted to the Milford Community Program,
31 West Fountain St., Milford MA 01757 prior to the
start of the program. Registration is on a first-come
first-serve basis. Please call the office at 508-4781119 with questions.
MARCH 25, 2016
Sports
Sophomore Wilde
Leads Milford
Baseball Into 2016
Pitching Duo Leads
Milford Softball
By Chris Villani
By Chris Villani
In an interesting paradox, Milford High
softball coach Steve DiVitto heads into
He’s only a sophomore, but Aidan Wilde the 2016 season with a team that has both
has been named a captain for the Milford
youth and experience. Nowhere is this more
High baseball team this year and is looking evident than in the circle, where junior Ali
to build off one of the best freshman
Atherton and sophomore Kelley Reichert
campaigns in the history of the school’s
are once again expected to shoulder the
storied program.
load as they did last year for a squad
“I am excited,” head coach Paul Pellegrini that went 19-4 and won the Hockomock
said about having Wilde back in the lineup. League’s Davenport Division.
“It’s nice knowing you have a player coming
“I think this is the year Ali really takes
back who can really carry your team.”
that step to being an elite pitcher, not just
Wilde put up eye-popping numbers
in the Hock, but in the state,” DiVitto said.
in 2015. He racked up 36 hits and a .538
“She has been working at her game and
batting average, the fourth best total in the
worked out tirelessly during the offseason
state. and it shows.”
“I would be selfish to say I was looking
After seeing her pitch during the first
for the same, to put back-to-back seasons
week of practice, DiVitto said Atherton’s
together like that would be hard,” Pellegrini performance was “very, very encouraging.”
said. “But he can handle the pressure. We
The junior went 10-3 last season with 70
are trying not to put too much pressure
strikeouts in 96 innings pitched. Reichert
on him, he is surrounded by some good
worked 54.2 innings, and finished the year
players.”
with a 9-1 record.
One of those players will be senior Zach
“She pitched a bunch last year and she is
Lanzetta, who returns after sitting out last
going to do the same this year,” DiVitto said
year. A natural shortstop, he will move
of Reichert. “I like to split the workload.
Wilde to a different spot on the diamond
I think it’s important when you have two
this year. Wilde will also be freed up to
girls who can shoulder it and you use that
pitch, and Pellegrini said to expect Lanzetta to your advantage so when playoff time
to be on the mound as well.
comes around, they are both fresh. We will
“He put up some impressive numbers
need them both to contribute.”
in football, he shattered every passing
Both pitchers are right handed, but their
record the program has,” the baseball coach coach said there are a number of differences
said, referencing Lanzetta’s stellar senior
between the two.
campaign on the gridiron this fall. “He has
“Ali is a bit more of a power pitcher,
a live arm, a rubber arm, he throws strikes, she needs to use her fastball and she has
he’s a good shortstop, and he can hit. That
really been working on her drop to have
was a great bonus to get him back this year.” something to go with that fastball,” DiVitto
As a sophomore, Blake Hill batted .350
said. “Kelley is a strike machine. She throws
with four home runs and will return for his a lot of strikes, she attacks the zone and
third season in the cleanup spot. Pellegrini attacks the zone low. She has a great change
points out the home run total might have
up as well. They really contrast each other.”
been higher if not for the Scarlet Hawks
Pitching will be crucial for the Scarlet
expansive home ballpark. Hawks, who start the season with
“We are playing at Yellowstone, so some
championship aspirations. Milford
of the balls he hit at Fino would have been
graduated offensive powerhouses Allie
out of any other park,” the coach mused.
Piergustavo and Taylor LeBrun, but does
“He is imposing and he will make everyone bring some big bats back to the 2016 lineup.
else in the lineup around him better.
Emily Piergustavo hit .440 last season with
He’s been hitting cleanup since he was a
21 RBIs and will return for her sophomore
freshman and he loves it.” season. Senior Megan Jacques batted .348
Hill will serve as a co-captain along with last year and will see time at first base
Wilde and seniors Brian Ireland and Alex
and behind the plate, and Sydney Pounds
Macek. Ireland saw time on the mound last returns after hitting a robust .381 during
spring and played third base, Pellegrini said her junior season last year.
he will play a similar role this year. Macek is
“I think there are a lot of positive things
expected to add to the Scarlet Hawks’ deep here for this squad,” DiVitto said. “It’s
well of arms.
exciting for me as a coach and they are
Milford posted an 11-9 record in 2015,
excited to see what they can do.”
losing to the eventual state champion
The Milford players have a hashtag for
Middleboro 2-1 in the postseason.
this season, #26 — the number of games
Pellegrini expects the Hockomock League
you play in order to make it all the way to
to be tough once again, but said his team
the state final.
will be battling for a Davenport Division
“The sky is the limit with this team,”
title and hopefully a league championship. DiVitto said. “We like to set our goals high
“It all depends on our prep and how hard and I know it’s tough, but they are an ‘all in’
the kids work,” he said. “We have a lot of
group. They set the bar high and it shows
varsity experience on this roster in a variety with their work ethic.”
of spots. We will keep 20 kids on varsity
and we should have at least nine pitchers.”
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Milford Community School
Use Football Programs
Program (MCSUP) will offer two football
programs this spring Flag Football and
Milford Youth Passing League.
Flag Football, instructed by FAST
Athletics for students in grades 1 through 4,
will teach players game strategies, catching
techniques and most importantly how
to work together as a team. The students
will be able to participate in different
situational games and each class will end
with a simulated game broken down into
for quarters. The six-week program, which
is held from 4 to 5 p.m. at Tank Field,
Milford, begins Thursday, May 5.
The Milford Youth Passing League,
for students in grades 4 through 8, will
be instructed by Joe Todd, MHS Varsity
Football Coach, along with his players. The
program will focus on developing skills,
techniques and fundamentals specific to
offensive and defensive skill positions.
All positions are highly encouraged to
participate. This five-week program held
from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Milford High field
begins on Thursday, May 26.
Additional details of these and all
programs may be found on the Milford
Community Program website MCS.
milford.ma.us
Registrations
will
be
accepted
immediately by mail to Milford Community
Program, 31 West Fountain St., Milford,
MA 01757. Registration and payment may
be dropped off at the security kiosk in the
front of Milford High School between 7
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and in the MCSUP office
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Checks should be
made payable to Town of Milford - MCSUP.
Any questions, please call the office at 508478-1119.
Elks Care Elks Share 4th
Annual Road Race & Walk
The Elks Care Elks Share 4th Annual
Road Race & Walk will be May 7,
starting at the Franklin Elks Lodge,
1077 Pond St. All are invited to kick
off Mother’s Day with this fun-filled
event that helps support local Veterans
and the community. All proceeds go
to the Franklin Food Pantry, Fisher
House Boston for Veterans and one
of Massachusetts’ Veterans, Master
Sgt. Joseph Deslauriers. The race is
professionally timed by racewire and
prizes will be given to top runners in
each age group. A pancake breakfast
will be available for all participants
immediately following the event. It is not
just a race, but a great event to support
some wonderful causes. Join us and, Run
for a Reason. For more information visit
FranklinElks5k.com.
Spring Health and Fitness
Programs for Adults
Program will offer these health and fitness
programs for adults this spring.
Train your Brain, a free one-night
seminar, will be offered on Monday, April
4, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Dr. Anita Kite will
discuss how imbalances in your brain waves
may be contributing to reducing the quality
of many aspects of your life and how to
use several low to high tech options for
retraining your brain so that you are able to
function more optimally. This will be a fun,
experiential evening filled with practical
information. Registration is required.
Couch to 5k, instructed by Erin
Mahoney, begins Sunday, April 3
and ending on June 12, leading up to
participation in the Sharon Timlin 5k on
Sunday June 18. The class will meet each
week from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Milford High
School Track. Register by Wednesday,
March 30.
ABT’s Boot Camp, instructed by Chris
LeBlanc and Katie Covell, will take place at
the MHS Track on Monday and Wednesday
mornings from 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. starting
Monday, April 4 and ending Monday, June
20. Register by Wednesday, March 30.
Adult Cardio Tennis, 9 to 10 a.m.,
and Adult Tennis Lessons, 10 to 11 a.m.,
instructed by Lisa Caruso begin on April
23 and run until May 21 at the MHS Tennis
Courts. Register by April 13.
Swim Lessons for Adults, instructed
by Susan Antonellis, will take place at the
MHS Pool from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning
Wednesday, May 18, and ending June 15.
Register by May 11.
Visit MCS.milford.ma.us to get the details
for these and many other programs. Click
“Adult Spring” in the menu on the left side
of the home page; then scroll down to click
on the selected program.
Please send a registration form, found
on the website, and check or money order
to the Milford Community Program, 31
West Fountain St., Milford, MA 01757.
Registration may also be dropped off at the
office between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. weekdays
when school is in session. Call 508-4781119 for more information.
Upton Men’s Softball
Registration
Registration for the Upton Men’s Sunday
Morning Softball League will be Saturday,
March 26 at the Rose Garden, Rt. 140,
Upton from noon to 6 p.m. Registration
is $5 per person and may also be mailed
to Rick Rankins, 35 Pearl St., Upton, MA
01568 Checks should be made payable to
Upton Men’s Softball. For more information
contact Rankins at 508-509-5473 or
[email protected]
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