Orange supports town businesses with flat tax

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Orange supports town
businesses with flat tax
Sidewalk Closed
By JARED ROBINSON
ADN Staff Reporter
ORANGE — The selectboard agreed to set a single
tax rate for the next fiscal
year at their meeting the
past Wednesday night. This
was done so at the suggestion of Linda Bevin, general
clerk and assistant to the assessors.
Bevin told the selectboard that at this time, the
assessors felt it was not wise
to shift the tax burden to the
local businesses.
Selectboard
vice-chair
Kathy Reinig agreed, citing that the group of local
businesses is so small and
that because they don’t traditionally use the same services as residents, the town
should not shift the tax bur-
den to them. A flat tax rate
is more beneficial to businesses.
Selectman Walter Herk
also agreed, saying that no
one has ever proven to him
that splitting the tax rate
helps businesses in any way,
and he would rather see local businesses generating
revenue.
Under the flat tax rate the
town can anticipate there
being $9,000 in excess levy
capacity.
Shared EMS
At a meeting held Tuesday night in Erving, and
hosted by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, it was agreed that for
fiscal year 2017 area towns
that make use of Orange’s
ambulance service will be
assessed based on the per-
centage of average calls for
the last three years and a
two-year average of each
town’s insurance premiums,
or what the ambulance company receives from billing
insurance.
The towns will make use
of “Option F” of the assessment options offered.
Erving’s assessment will
increase form $10,749 to
$21,285, New Salem will
increase from $11,994 to
$19,248, Warwick will increase from $8,819 to
$17,508, Wendell will increase from $10,390 to
$14,915. Subsequently Orange will now be paying
an assessment as well of
$812,649 to make up the difference to reach the depart-
Orange Page 5
Massachusetts has tough gun
laws, fewer domestic killings
By STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS — A section of sidewalk on Cottage Street
in Orange has been closed by the DPW due to it being considered unsafe.
The cause of the damage has been attributed to the flow of water down the
hill wearing away the curb and getting between the road surface and the
sidewalk. At least one resident has complained that the poor drainage has
resulted in damage to his driveway and foundation. Photo by Jared Robinson
Poor drainage leads to closure
of sidewalk on Cottage Street
By JARED ROBINSON
ADN Staff Reporter
ORANGE — The Orange Department
of Public Works has closed a section of
the sidewalk on Cottage Street due to
poor drainage on the road creating a hazard to pedestrians. At a recent selectboard meeting interim DPW superintendent Josh Knechtel
informed the board that a resident on
Cottage Street has reached out to him
about the improper drainage from the
road and how it is adversely affecting his
home’s foundation and driveway. Knechtel said the problem stems from
the road interrupting the natural flow
of water down the hillside. As a result
the water has eaten away the curb and
worked its way between the road and the
sidewalk, meaning it will not be a simple fix. Knechtel said he has altered the
town’s community development block
Closure Page 5
Backers to rally for plan to ban
sale of some animal goods
BOSTON (AP) — Animal rights advocates will
gather on Beacon Hill to
press lawmakers on a proposal that would ban the
sale of food products from
farms that keep animals in
small, restrictive cages.
The proposal would effectively prohibit the sale of
eggs, pork and veal from animals kept in the tight spaces, wherever they are raised.
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has some of the
toughest gun laws in the
country and relatively few
fatal domestic violence
shootings of states with
similar populations. Here’s
a look at the number of killings and the laws meant to
help curb the violence in the
state:
WOMEN AT RISK
Women are far more likely to be the victims of fatal
domestic violence shootings, according to FBI statistics.
Of such 31 killings in
Massachusetts from 2006 to
2014, only two were men —
both husbands.
Of the remaining 29, 14
were girlfriends, 11 were
wives, three were former
wives and one was a common-law wife.
2007 was the deadliest
year during the time period,
with 11 gun-related domestic violence killings reported
in Massachusetts, twice as
many as any other year.
MASS. VS. OTHER STATES
Massachusetts, with some
of the country’s toughest
gun laws, has far fewer gunrelated domestic violence
killings compared to states
of a similar size.
Arizona, for example, had
nearly the same population
as Massachusetts in 2014
— about 6.7 million — and
reported 201 gun-related
domestic violence killings
from 2006 to 2014.
That’s more than six times
as many as the 31 killings in
Massachusetts.
Tennessee, another state
with nearly the same population as Massachusetts —
about 6.5 million — recorded 258 gun-related domestic
violence killings during the
same time period. That’s
eight times as many as in
Laws Page 5
Q&A on laws meant to keep
guns from domestic abusers
By The Associated Press
During the last two years, 13 states have passed laws
meant to help keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers.
Federal law strips gun rights from felons, anyone convicted of domestic violence-related misdemeanors and
those who are subject to permanent domestic violence
protective orders. Many states are passing their own
laws that often go further.
Some questions and answers about the legislative
push in states:
WHY ISN’T THE FEDERAL LAW ENOUGH?
For starters, barriers to enforcement. Local police
and prosecutors do not bring cases under federal law
and want their own charging authority under state law.
The federal law also does not strip firearms rights from
those who abuse their dating partners, those convicted
of misdemeanor stalking or those who are subject to
temporary protective orders and have not yet had a
hearing. In addition, the federal law fails to spell out
procedures for ensuring that existing guns are seized or
Guns Page 5
Science Project
Supporters have already
collected enough signatures
to place the question before
voters on the November ballot.
Critics say the measure
could drive up the price of
eggs in Massachusetts, most
of which come from farms
outside of the state.
Thursday’s hearing before
Animals Page 5
US Sen. Markey faults feds on
natural gas export decision
BOSTON (AP) — U.S.
Sen. Edward Markey says a
decision by the federal Department of Energy to allow
the export of nearly a billion
cubic feet a day of natural
gas out of New England is
misguided.
The Massachusetts Democrat says the decision announced Friday will allow
gas to be exported to Can-
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ada through the Maritimes
and Northeast Pipeline
where it will be exported
overseas. The pipeline currently flows from Canada
into New England.
Markey says the ultimate
goal of some natural gas
pipeline proposals in New
England is not to help local
residents with expanded infrastructure but to use New
England as a throughway to
export U.S. natural gas to
Markey Page 5
SCIENCE PROJECT — After studying several articles and listening to a radio news program on the
topic, students in Katie Blake’s sixth grade science class at Athol-Royalston Middle School recently
created models reflecting the effects of rising sea levels on Kiritimati Island after the collapse of an ice
shelf.
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Page 2 ATHOL DAILY NEWS Monday, February 8, 2016
Athol Police Log
Obituaries & Services
Pauline Whipps
ATHOL
—
Pauline
(Cooke) Whipps, of Batchelder Road, passed away at
home on Sunday, Feb. 7,
2016, surrounded by her family, after a long and brave
battle with cancer.
PAULINE WHIPPS
Born in Athol on June 26,
1934, she was the daughter of Libby and Howard
Cooke. Polly graduated
Athol High School in 1952
and Green Mountain College in 1954. Shortly after
college she worked at Olyers Hat Shop on Main Street
and later bought the business.
She, alongside her husband
George, founded Whipps
Inc. in 1977. Polly was active
in the company until recently.
Many of the employees were
like family to Polly — she was
very grateful so many came to
visit her and prayed for her
when she was unable to leave
home.
Polly was extremely proud
to be the sixth generation
born and raised in Athol.
While working full-time and
being very involved with her
grandchildren, she always
found time for others. She
loved her community and enjoyed her involvement with
many local organizations including the Athol Historical
Society, Athol Hospital Auxiliary, Athol Women’s Club
and The Salvation Army. Polly was honored to be a Special Reserve Deputy Sheriff
for Sheriff Lew of Worcester
County.
Some of her fondest memories were during the 10-plus
years she volunteered at
Athol Memorial Hospital’s
Oncology Clinic with her
mother Libby. They spent
countless hours comforting
and supporting those battling
cancer as they were both survivors.
Always early to rise, Polly
enjoyed a coffee with friends
and hearing or telling the
latest news. Never one to sit
still, she had many projects
including creating the most
beautiful Christmas wreaths
for the past 45 years. After
Thanksgiving dinner was
served, Polly
would retire to
Monday
the basement to begin the
wreaths. She welcomed help
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her favorite time of year. Polly was the heart and soul of
her family.
Polly was a member of
Grace Anglican Church,
Leominster. She enjoyed
sharing her Christian faith.
Over the past 18 months, she
gifted more than 200 copies
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Survivors include George,
her beloved husband of more
than 50 years; and her children Patricia Adams and
husband Richard; Elizabeth
Whipps and husband Steven
Lewis; Susannah Whipps
Lee and husband Lac, all of
Athol; Timothy Clark and
wife Marsha of Petersham;
Evan Whipps and wife Lisa of
Hopkinton, N.H., and Sarah
Kenda and husband Stephen
of North Hampton, N.H.; and
grandchildren Sydney, Michael, Richard, Fred, James
and David Adams; Samuel,
Hannah and Elizabeth Clark,
Ashley Legrand, Robert Stair
and Danielle Lary; Isabelle,
Emily and Olivia Johnson;
Derek Lewis, Ella Whipps
and Edward Kenda; and
great-grandchildren Ava and
Libby Adams; Tucker, Morgan and Autumn Legrand;
and Dallas and Finn Stair.
Polly also leaves a brother,
Richard Whall of Bradford,
N.H.; and sister-in-law Marcia Bell of Burlington, Ontario; and many nieces, nephews
and special friends. Polly will
also be missed by her faithful
dog, Sadie.
Calling hours will be held
on Friday, Feb. 12, from 4
to 7 p.m., at Fiske-Murphy
& Mack Funeral Home, 110
New Athol Rd., Orange. Funeral services will be held on
Saturday, Feb. 13, at 11 a.m.,
at the Athol Historical Society, 1307 Main St., Athol,
with Bishop William Murdoch of the Anglican Diocese
of New England officiating.
Interment will be at the convenience of the family.
In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to Athol
Salvation Army, 107 Ridge
Ave., Athol, MA 01331 or
GVNA Hospice 34 Pearly
Lane, Gardner, MA 01440.
Simkewicz services
ATHOL — Due to the
storm, the services for Richard T. Simkewicz, 83, of Athol,
were postponed.
A Mass of Christian burial
will be held Thursday, Feb.
11, at 11 a.m., in St. Francis of
Assisi Church, 101 Main St.,
Athol. Burial with full military
honors will follow in Gethsemane Cemetery, Athol.
Calling hours will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 10, from 5
to 7 p.m., in the Fiske-Murphy
& Mack Funeral Home, 110
New Athol Rd., Orange.
Meetings Reminder
Monday, Feb. 8
Erving
School Union 28 Budget
and Personnel Committee,
6 p.m., Erving Elementary
School.
Selectboard, 7 p.m., town
hall.
School Union 28 Joint Supervisory Committee, 7 p.m.,
Erving Elementary School.
Orange
Housing Authority, 1:30
p.m., Colonial Acres.
Water Commissioners, 3:15
p.m., water department office.
Phillipston
Assessors, 6 p.m., assessors office.
Selectboard, 7 p.m., town
hall.
Royalston
Community
Preservation
Committee, 7 p.m., town hall.
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Friday
7:12 a.m. - Athol Fire Department toned out for car fire next
to house, Cobb Road. Vehicle
towed.
7:35 a.m. - Caller reports tractor trailer stuck on hill near Hannaford, South Main Street.
9:44 a.m. - Caller reports she
lost her two dogs, Batchelder
Road. Both are pit bull mixes.
One white with black spots and
named Roxy; other is black with
white spots and named Jackson. Caller stated it was okay to
give out her number to anyone
who finds them.
9:51 a.m. - 911 caller reports
patient needing transport due
to chest pain and muscle weakness. Call transferred to AFD.
10:18 a.m. - Subject to station
for sex offender registration.
10:56 a.m. - Caller reports
someone hit a town vehicle at
Mr. Mike’s, Main Street.
had an accident at Market Basket and damaged her vehicle.
11:29 a.m. - Subject to station
for sex offender registration.
1:20 p.m. - Caller reports
shoplifter, Tunnel Street. Under
investigation.
1:40 p.m. - Follow-up, Exchange Street.
2:10 p.m. - Follow-up, Exchange Street.
4:14 p.m. - Traffic stop, Templeton Road. Verbal warning for
speeding.
4:19 p.m. - Caller requests officer to stand by while property is
gathered, Fairview Avenue.
4:36 p.m. - Walk-in requests
to speak to officer about his
daughter, 18, and her boyfriend.
5:01 p.m. - Property returned,
Fairview Avenue.
5:03 p.m. - Walk-in requests
officer to stand by while property is gathered, Freedom Street.
Spoke to male party who stated
that it was not a good time.
6:27 p.m. - Traffic stop, Main
and Common streets. Citation
issued for defective headlight
and no license in possession.
Street.
6:43 p.m. - Suspicious person, Main Street. Subject sent
on way.
earlier in the day a landscaping
pickup truck pulled out in front
of caller and caused caller to
go onto the sidewalk, Cottage
Street.
and Summer streets.
9:22 p.m. - Traffic stop, Daniel
Shays Highway.
9:35 p.m. - Traffic stop, School
Street.
9:38 p.m. - Caller reports her
mother just called and told her to
call police as Section 12 subject
was at her business, Main Street.
AFD requested to respond at
9:44. Subject transported.
van blocking road and he had
to drive into bushes to get by
it, Kennebunk Street. Spoke to
home owner. Advised to turn
down music and remove vehicles that were causing a hazard.
open door, Grove Street. Residence secured upon arrival.
Saturday
12:52 a.m. - House check,
Liberty Street.
Old Keene Road.
Franklin Street.
Batchelder Road.
8:43 a.m. - Caller reports
female party walking in road
between gas station and pizza
house, Main Street. Concerned
for subject’s safety. At 8:24, sec-
ond caller reported the same.
At 8:52, officer out with subject
at CVS. AFD requested to respond. At 8:55, officer requested
ambulance response as officer
would be transporting subject to
Athol Hospital ER.
10:55 a.m. - Caller reports wire
down, Sanders Street. Phone
line became disconnected from
house. Verizon advised.
is being harassed by neighbors,
Exchange Street. States subjects are smoking too much and
talking about stuff she believes
is about her. Advised of criteria
for harassment prevention order (HPO) and that if neighbors
do anything to her directly she
would be eligible.
11:36 a.m. - Attempt to serve
summons, South Main Street.
is behind a blue Dodge Durango
and it is being driven erratically,
Sout Main Street. States it pulled
into McDonald’s parking lot. Officer advised driver of complaint.
street needs to be sanded, Birch
Street. Advised officer would be
sent to check if there is a need
for sanding. Department of Public Works notified of slippery
road.
2 p.m. - 911 caller requests
ambulance for party, 68, with
COPD, Chestnut Street. Assisted AFD.
3:52 p.m. - Attempt to serve
restraining order (209A), Cottage
Street. No contact with subject.
Family refused to cooperate with
police.
4:11 p.m. - Caller requests
welfare check on female who is
delusional, very upset and angry,
School Street. Spoke to subject
who was seeking assistance
with having her representative
payee changed. She wants
more money per day than she is
being allowed.
4:53 p.m. - Caller requests officer as there is a white van that
keeps pulling real close to her
car and subject is flipping her
off, Main and Exchange streets.
Advised party of complaint.
5:31 p.m. - 911 caller requests
ambulance as she is having a
hard time breathing and cannot feel her hands or feet, Main
Street. AFD advised.
to speak to officer about 209A,
Exchange Street. Advised it has
still not been served and subject was avoiding contact with
police. Officer to advise Orange
District Court of same.
back hall in her apartment building smells like marijuana, Marble
Street. States it is very smoky.
She has spoken to landlord who
told her to call police. Building
checked; nothing found.
7:30 p.m. - Caller requests to
speak to officer about incident
that took place at Eight Dragons.
Spoke to party about argument
she had with an employee. Advised to speak to manager.
person be removed, Chestnut Street. Spoke to subjects
who agreed to go into separate
rooms for the night.
8:04 p.m. - Caller reports people in vacant house next to hers
and she can see flashlights and
can hear things being smashed,
Beacon Street. Officer found two
male parties leaving driveway in
vehicle. Two parties advised.
Building owned by one subject’s
uncle and subject was removing items before the bank takes
possession of house. Under investigation.
young kids lying down at basketball court and sitting in a cir-
ATHOL — Several motor vehicle accidents were
reported to police over the
weekend.
On Friday, at 8:29 a.m.,
a vehicle operated by Marc
Normandin, of Royalston,
went off the road on Chestnut Hill Avenue. The vehicle
was towed. No citations were
issued.
At 9:38 a.m., Friday, a vehicle slid off the road on Chestnut Hill Avenue. No further
information was available
prior to press time today.
On Friday, at 12:41 p.m., a
vehicle operated by Timothy
Barnes, of Athol, went off the
road at South Athol and Partridgeville roads. The vehicle
was towed.
At 5:13 p.m., Friday, vehicles operated by Jacob Bassett, of 84 Ward St.; and Lori
Moore, of Templeton, were in
an accident on Main Street.
Damage was under $1,000.
No citations were issued.
On Saturday, at 10:27 a.m.,
vehicles operated by Joseph
Brooks, of Athol; and Paul
Chapin, of New Salem, were
in an accident on Summer
Street. Brooks was cited for
failure to use care in starting/
stopping.
At 3:35 p.m., Saturday, vehicles operated by Kristi L.
Melanson, of 128 Walnut St.;
and Autumn H. Benoit, of 49
Stone Valley Rd., Orange,
were in an accident at Main
and Island streets. Accord-
ing to police, Melanson had
stopped in traffic and was
rear-ended by Benoit, who
was cited for failure to use
care in stopping. No injuries
resulted.
On Sunday, at 10:18 a.m.,
Jane Williams, of New Salem, reported she had been
backed into by another vehicle at Hannaford Plaza.
Information on the other
driver was unavailable prior
to press time today. No injuries resulted. Information
was exchanged between the
two drivers.
cle, Allen and Riverbend streets.
No one located.
8:36 p.m. - Caller requests officer come back to her residence
as male party won’t stop bothering her, Chestnut Street. Determined subject was intoxicated
and trying to start argument.
Male party was avoiding contact with caller. Subject decided
to go stay with family out of the
area in case caller made false
accusations.
8:50 p.m. - Caller reports silver Saab broke down and he
will remove it Sunday, Common
Street.
to speak to officer about threatening phone calls, Exchange
Street. Extra patrols requested.
Sunday
2:17 a.m. - House check, Liberty Street.
Franklin Street.
2:47 a.m. - Tickets issued for
overnight winter parking ban violations, Riverbend Street.
3:56 a.m. - House check, Old
Keene Road.
7:29 a.m. - Caller requests to
speak to officer about snow being intentionally plowed into path
that is used, Flat Rock Road.
Advised party of complaint.
10:22 a.m. - 911 caller reports
car fire, Chestnut Hill Avenue.
AFD and officers sent.
loose pit bull at School and High
streets.
1:45 p.m. - Medical alarm
company requests officer respond to client’s home, Smith
Street. Client not answering
phone. Accidental activation.
1:55 p.m. - Caller reports wire
down, Sanders Street. Not in
road but hanging over sidewalk.
Verizon was notified of same on
Friday.
National forecast
Forecast highs for Tuesday, Feb. 9
Cold
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ATHOL — The Council On Aging will hold a
blood pressure screening on
Wednesday, Feb. 10, from
11 a.m. to noon, at the senior center, 82 Freedom St.
Screenings
are
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and open to the public.
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Showers
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Rain
20s 30s 40s
T-storms
50s 60s
Flurries
Warm Stationary
70s
80s
Cloudy
Pressure
Low
High
90s 100s 110s
Snow
Ice
Snow Continues In The East, Dry In The West
High pressure will continue to keep the weather dry over the
western third of the country and through much of the Plains. Low
pressure will keep scattered snow showers over the Great Lakes
and Northeast.
Weather Underground • AP
AREA — Tonight: Snow before 10pm, then snow showers,
mainly between 10pm and 3am. Low around 19. North wind
5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening. Winds could gust as
high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow
accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Tuesday: A chance of
snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 28. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a
half inch possible. Tuesday Night: A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 18. Light and variable wind.
Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of
less than a half inch possible. Wednesday: A chance of snow
showers. Cloudy, with a high near 34. Calm wind becoming
west around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Wednesday Night: A chance of snow showers.
Cloudy, with a low around 17. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Almanac — Sun rose 6:54. Sun sets 5:11. Length of day 10
hours, 17 minutes. New moon, Tonight. Full moon, Feb. 22.
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Several weekend accidents in Athol
ATHOL — At 4:35 p.m.,
Saturday, William P. Pacheco,
70, of 605 Chestnut St., was
arrested at a Chestnut Street
location on charges of operating a motor vehicle under
the influence of liquor (fourth
offense), operating a vehicle
without an ignition interlock
device, and operating a vehicle with an obstructed license
plate (snow-covered).
three loose dogs, Rich Place.
Officer to follow up with animal
control officer.
summons, Chestnut Hill Avenue.
4:49 p.m. - 209A served, Cottage Street.
summons, South Main Street.
summons, Pitman Road. Subject lives at different location.
5:12 p.m. - Shoplifter reported, Crescent Street. Viewed surveillance video. Unknown male
party stole a bottle of wine.
5:30 p.m. - 911 caller reports teenager next door and
his friends threatened to smash
caller’s camera if he took pictures of them, Silver Lake Street.
No contact with unknown male
teenager. Advised caller to contact police if subjects return.
7:28 p.m. - 911 caller reports
larceny, Cottage Street.
7:34 p.m. - Caller request welfare check on female who has
not been to work for last two
days, Pleasant Street. Unable
to reach her by phone. Spoke to
subject who was in good health
and alert to time and place.
7:45 p.m. - Property returned
to walk-in.
Today
12:59 a.m. - Transported female to residence, Union Street.
1:09 a.m. - 911 caller requests
ambulance for son who fell and
hurt his back, West Royalston
Road. Assisted AFD. Party taken
to AH.
Batchelder Road.
Newton Street.
Pinedale Avenue.
4:15 a.m. - House check, Old
Keene Road.
Franklin Street.
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Thursday, Feb. 4
Sunday, Feb. 7
5-8-22-23-34; LB-5,
14-20-24-26-34, one winner
no winner
(Vineyard Haven)
Saturday, Feb. 6
POWERBALL
3-5-6-22-26,
Saturday, Feb. 6
no winner
4-13-31-36-52; PB-8
Friday, Feb. 5
$136,400,000, no winner
2-4-10-11-19, one winner
Wednesday, Feb. 3
(Hyde Park)
26-28-31-60-67; PB-23,
Thursday, Feb. 4
$116,600,000, no winner
3-27-29-30-35, two winners
(Boston, Randolph)
Other Regional Results
Wednesday, Feb. 3
TRI-STATE MEGABUCKS
2-3-6-18-24,
Saturday, Feb. 6
no winner
3-8-17-22-23; MB-1
Tuesday, Feb. 2
Wednesday, Feb. 3
2-4-12-15-28, one winner
7-14-23-31-40; MB-2
(Somerset)
ATHOL DAILY NEWS Monday, February 8, 2016 Page 3
Obituaries
& Services
Justin Johnson
ORANGE — Justin “Jut”
Johnson, 96, of Orange,
passed away on Friday, Feb.
5, 2016, at Quabbin Valley
Healthcare in Athol.
JUSTIN JOHNSON
He was born in Montague
on Sept. 28, 1919, where
he lived before coming to
Orange. His parents were
Warren and Janie (Sowell)
Johnson.
In his younger years he
and his brother Russell
helped their father run the
Spring Valley dairy farm.
They would go out and deliver milk from house to
house. In later years, he
and his father ran a chicken plant in Orange which
was owned by a Springfield
poultry dealer. When that
closed, they decided to start
a vegetable growing business. A roadside stand was
built and Justin continued
with it after his father’s passing. Everyone looked forward to his pumpkins and
squash every fall.
Justin loved hunting and
fishing, as well as watching the Red Sox. He went
on several bus trips to ballgames and was able to see
players like Ted Williams,
Dom Dimaggio and Johnny
Pesky.
The love of his life was his
cat, “Bibbie,” who visited
him in the nursing home.
He leaves his sister, Nancy
Carr; nieces, Linda Petruski,
Carol Robichaud, Debra
Carlson and Gail Vorce; and
nephews, Russell Johnson
Jr., James Carr Jr., David
Carr, and Bruce Carr and
their families.
Besides his parents, Jut
was predeceased by a brother, Russell Johnson Sr., on
April 29, 2001.
A calling hour will be
held on Feb. 10, from 10 to
11 a.m., at Witty’s Funeral
Home, 158 South Main St.,
Orange.
Funeral services will be
held on Feb. 10, at 11 a.m.,
at Witty’s Funeral Home in
Orange, with lay minister
Judy Jones of the Orange
United Methodist Church
officiating.
Interment will follow in
South Cemetery, Orange.
In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to the
North Quabbin Animal
Control, c/o Athol Police,
280 Exchange St., Athol,
MA 01331.
Witty’s Funeral Home,
158 South Main St., Orange,
is directing the arrangements.
You may offer your sympathy online at www.wittyfuneralhome.com.
Accidents
ORANGE — Two accidents were reported to police over the weekend. On Friday at 7:40 a.m., a
minor accident occurred in
a parking lot on South Main
Street. No injuries were reported. Further information
was not available prior to
press time. At 2:20 p.m. a minor
two-car accident was reported on Hayden Street
near Harrison Avenue.
Damage was assessed at
under $1,000. Operators exchanged information. Postponed
ORANGE — Due to
the forecasted snow and
high winds, Bill Fournier’s
“Bears in Action” presentation scheduled for tonight at
Orange Innovation Center
is being postponed to the
North Quabbin Trails Association’s March 14 gathering.
Royalston PTG fundraiser earns $2,300+
By MARY C. BARCLAY
ADN Correspondent
ROYALSTON – Royalston Community School’s
(RCS) Parent-Teacher Group
(PTG) has just wrapped up
another successful fundraising event, a lottery calendar
for the month of January.
The endeavor realized more
than $2,300, thanks to the
generosity of many individuals and businesses, as well
support from the school and
greater communities.
The proceeds from this
project, which was planned b
last autumn, were committed
to the field trips account. The
PTG annually provides a sum
of money towards field trips
for every one of the 160 students at RCS. Funds may pay
for transportation, admission
or special programming off
campus.
RCS PTG members solicited donations from businesses they patronize and
spoke to family and friends
who offer unique products
and services, and managed
to fill the 31 days of January
with prizes totaling nearly
$1,000. Supporters donated
$10 for a calendar, and were
eligible to win one or more of
the prizes.
Donors and winners for
each day of January included,
on New Year’s Day – Bernice
Smith ($50 Hen House); 2 –
Terry Adams ($30 – ThirtyOne insulated lunch bag of
kid-friendly stuff); 3 – Todd
Coombs ($15 Fireside Bar
& Grill); 4 – Danielle Rand
($25 The Garage); 5 – Jordan Burnham ($60 Laptop
& Computer Repair); 6 – Aimee Cormier ($40 Terrapin
Traders); 7 – Lynn Divoll ($20
Kitchen Garden); 8 – Jennifer Barilone ($15 Mt. Tully
Kennels); 9 – Janice Trask
($30 – Valuing Our Children
book bag with books); and 10
– Todd Coombs ($25 Divoll/
LeBeouf Royalston honey),
the only two-prize winner.
Also winning prizes; 11 –
Paul Landry ($25 Herrick’s
Tavern); 12 – Tracy Smith
($20 Johnson’s Farm); 13 –
Amos Superch ($60 Laptop
& Computer Repair), 14 –
Sandy Fredette ($25 Pete &
Henry’s); 15 – Corey Brown
($30 ½ hour massage by Marie Mello, LMT); 16 – Molly
Superchi ($15 Winchendon
Gourmet Donuts); 17 – Lori
Bergquist Darling ($25 cash,
Royalston PTG); 18 – Eric
LeBlanc ($25 Trail Head);
19 – Cheryl Mahoney ($50
SAM’S K-9 Companion);
and January 20 – Heather
Gray ($20 Kitchen Garden);
Other winners were: 21 –
Ashley Manley ($25 Squire
Davis Farm Honey); 22 –
Carey Dodge ($25 Atholl
House); 23 – Kim LaCasse
($30 Thirty-One insulated
lunch bag of kid-friendly
stuff); 24 – Marylou Sullivan
($30 ½ hours massage by Marie Mello, LMT); 25 – Carol
Kohlstrom ($15 Winchendon
Gourmet Donuts); 26 – Alita
Barnes ($30 Winchendon’s
Hometown Café); 27 – Allison Hautenen ($30 Divoll’s
Sugarhouse, pure maple
syrup); 28 – Kristine Severy
($60 Laptop & Computer
Repair); 29 – Carolyn Minty
($25 Trail Head, Orange);
30 – Cheryl Newman ($25
cash – Royalston PTG); and
the final winner, on the 31st
– Ken Hadmack ($25 Brenda
Putney’s goats’ milk soaps
and lotions.)
The RCS PTG meets regularly throughout the year, and
has already sponsored numerous activities this school
year. Among events are an
open house bake sale, a pa-
rade float, information booth
and bake sale at Royalston’s
250th, a pumpkin decorating
and scarecrow-making evening for families, a Halloween dance, an evening of gingerbread house construction
for families, cookies-making
for veterans and most recently, a roller-skating night.
In addition to field trips,
PTG monies raised this year
will go towards the upcoming annual field day, Nature’s
Classroom, library fund,
school gardening projects, a
walk-a-thon and playground
equipment, supplies and
enhancements.
On-going
fundraising projects include
Shoparoo app participation
by families, as well as Box
Tops and Labels for Education collections.
All members of RCS –
staff, students, and parents –
are all welcome to participate
in the PTG. For upcoming
meeting dates or questions,
contact any of this year’s officers. Co-Presidents are Danielle Ares (978-895-0497 cell/
text) and Ashley Charron
(978-894-6449 cell/text); Secretary Shelly Livingston (978895-1903 cell/text) and Start
Lite Lamson (978-249-6885).
CALENDAR REMINDERS
For upcoming events consult the expanded calendar listing which
appears in the Quabbin Times section in Tuesday editions of the Athol
Daily News, and daily on the website at, www.atholdailynews.com.
The Daily News welcomes submissions for the Calendar, for public
events in or of general interest to the nine-town, North Quabbin-Mount
Grace Region — including entertainment, cultural and social activities
and events held by non-profit organizations. Excluded are gaming events
and tag/yard sale notices.
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Monday, February 8
3:30-4:30 — LEGO Club, Athol Public Library, Main Street. For
grades 1-5. Info: 978-249-9515
6-7 p.m. — Zumba Class, Royalston Town Hall, on the Common. Donations accepted, bring sneakers to change into from
street shoes or boots.
6:30-8:30 p.m. — Quabbin Community Band Rehearsal,
Quabbin Regional High School, South Street, Barre. Info: 978355-9879
Tuesday, February 9
9 a.m. — English as a Second Language, Riverbend Elementary School, Riverbend Street, Athol. All first languages welcome,
materials provided. Info: 978-249-2415 or bgospodarek@arrsd.
org
11-11:45 a.m. — Rise and Romp Storytime, Wheeler Memorial Library, East Main Street, Orange. For preschoolers and
younger.
3:30-5 p.m. — Craft Club, New Salem Public Library, on the
common. For grades 3-6. Info: 978-544-6334
4 p.m. — Trap Shooting, Orange Gun Club, off West River
Street. Info: 978-467-6076
5 p.m. — Free Meal, Athol Salvation Army, Ridge Avenue.
Open to all. Info: 978-249-8111
7 p.m. — Monthly meeting of the Edward H. Phillips American Legion, 325 Pequoig Ave., Athol. Discussion: Americanism
Night.
7:30 p.m. — North Orange Grange Meeting, Community
Church of North Orange and Tully, corner of Creamery Hill Road
and Main Street. Rachel Gonzalez of Orange will discuss health
benefits and how to make fruit and green smoothies.
Wednesday, February 10
9 a.m. — Quilting, Athol Senior Center, Freedom Street. Info/
Registration: 978-249-8986
9-9:45 a.m. — Story Hour, Erving Public Library, 17 Moore St.
Info: 413-423-3348
10-11:30 a.m. — Playgroup, Wendell Free Library, Wendell
Depot Road. For ages 5 and under.
10:15-11 a.m. — Preschool Story Time, Athol Public Library,
Main Street. Info: 978-249-9515
Noon — Sporting Clays, Petersham Gun Club, Nelson Road.
Info: 978-249-7445
3-5 p.m. — Knit Wits, Athol Public Library, Main Street. For
ages 8 and up. Info: 978-249-9515
5-6 p.m. — Sharing Our Father’s Bread, St. Francis of Assisi
Church Hall (side entrance), Athol. Info: 978-249-2738
Athol Library News
FIRST WINNER – Royalston Parent-Teacher Group
Co-President Ashley Charron, with help from her
daughter, second grader Skyla, drew Bernice Smith’s
name as winner of the first of 31 prizes from the
group’s fundraising lottery calendar. The lucky lady
won a $50 gift certificate to the Hen House in Gardner. The proceeds will support field trips for the
school’s 160 students.
Photo by Mary C. Barclay
ATHOL — The following new fiction is now available at the Athol Public
Library: The Kindness of
Enemies by Leila Aboulela; The Magic Strings of
Frankie Presto by Mitch
Albom; The Guilty by
David Baldacci; The Sellout by Paul Beatty; The
Readers of Broken Wheel
Recommend by Katarina
Bivald; The Guest Room
by Chris Bohjalian; Fallen
Land by Taylor Brown; A
Paper Son by Jason Bucholz; House of Rising Sun
by James Lee Burke; and
After the Crash by Michel
Bussi.
Also, And Again by Jessica Chiarella; All Dressed
in White by Mary Higgins
Clark; Warriors of the
Storm by Bernard Corn-
Orange Police Log
Friday
8:03 a.m. - Report of bus
passing another bus, East
River Street. Bus operator
told officer the bus did not
have flashing lights on.
8:30 a.m. - A vehicle was
found under the Route 2
overpass, South Main Street.
Operator said somewhere on
Route 122 in New Salem he
went off the road and hit a
guardrail and now his bumper is hitting his left front tire,
causing a dangerous situation. Tow requested. 10:28 a.m. - Resident reports an unwanted vehicle
parked on her lawn, Prospect
Street. Owner located and vehicle moved.
3:11 p.m. - Party requests
extra patrols between hours
of 8:20 to 8:30 a.m. and 2:50
to 3:05 p.m. due to cars ignoring buses only sign and
parking in front of Fisher Hill
School, Dexter Street; handicap vans have nowhere to
park and kids are running in
front of cars.
4:20 p.m. - Party requests
officer, East Main Street. Party
wanted it logged that someone struck his car and left in
Cumberland Farms parking
lot. Scuff mark noted on passenger side headlight. 4:30 p.m. - Traffic stop,
New Athol Road. Citation issued for failure to inspect. 4:45 p.m. - Burglar alarm,
Holtshire Road. On arrival
homeowner on scene and
found to be accidental. 7:03 p.m. - Walk-in reports
receiving letter stating he received a government grant
and found it to be a scam;
walk-in wanted police to
be aware. Advised incident
would be on record. Saturday
2:30 a.m. - Orange Fire
Department responding to
carbon monoxide alarm, East
River Street. Officer stood by
while OFD checked home;
nothing found. 2:50 a.m. - Officer observed
two suspicious subjects run
behind building, East Main
Street. Located subjects who
said they were playing around
on way home. The two were
found to be juveniles (11 and
13 years old) and were given
transport home as they were
out past curfew. Spoke to
mother about why juveniles
were transported home. 7:35 a.m. - Report of cat
being hit and possibly deceased, Daniel Shays Highway. Located cat who had expired. MassDOT notified and
cat was removed. 10:34 a.m. - Motorist reports manhole cover has water coming out, Walnut Hill
Road. Found to be constant
flow of water coming out.
Orange Highway Department
notified. 11:30 a.m. - Medical emergency, Red Brook Lane. 11:47 a.m. - Medical emergency, Red Brook Lane. 12:30 p.m. - Medical emergency, East River Street. 12:48 p.m. - Officer observed female/male disturbance, West Main Street.
Male arguing with female and
pointing in her face. Male was
advised his behavior was not
appropriate and he could face
criminal charges. Female was
spoken with and found to be
fine. 2:07 p.m. - Medical emergency, Red Brook Lane. 5:01 p.m. - Accidental 911
call, Red Brook Lane. Officer
responded and caller said
they were trying to get number to Athol Hospital. She is
all set now with number. 8:02 p.m. - Officer stopped
two vehicles after witnessing
road rage incident, East Main
Street. Warnings issued. 8:11 p.m. - Traffic stop for
left turn out of Walmart, East
Main Street. Citation issued. 8:51 p.m. - Traffic stop,
East Main Street. Operator
given warning for defective
equipment. 9 p.m. - Report of suspicious vehicle parked at cemetery entrance, three subjects
standing outside of vehicle,
Chestnut Hill Road. Gone on
arrival. 11:15 p.m. - Party reports
hearing gun shots near his
home, Holtshire Road. Officers monitored area; all was
quiet. 11:20 p.m. - Caller reports
loud music, East Main Street.
No music heard on arrival.
Spoke to caller and advised
him of proper 911 use. Sunday
12:15 a.m. - Caller and dog
were outside and saw people
in dressed in all black going in
driveways when cars would
pass, West River Street. Officers saw one subject on Hamilton Avenue; when headlights
were turned on, subject ran
though a backyard into the
woods on East River Street.
Unable to locate. 1:30 a.m. - Officer checked
on vehicle at closed business, Daniel Shays Highway.
Vehicle appears to have been
there a few hours, unoccupied. 1:40 a.m. - Burglar alarm,
Eagleville Road. On arrival all
secure and no signs of break
in. Alarm company advised
there would be no key holder
response. 1:50 a.m. - Officer noticed
several patrons inside establishment after hours, Daniel
Shays Highway. Spoke with
personnel and removed several patrons. Advised of violation and that department action may be taken. Stood by
while subjects left. 6:36 a.m. - Traffic stop for
no taillights or plate lights,
South Main Street. Operator
issued citation.
10 a.m. - Party reports
subject has his mail and will
not give it back, North Main
Street. Spoke to both parties
and mediated situation. Subject will have officer stand by
Monday while she drops off
mail and retrieves some of her
belongings from residence. 10:12 p.m. - Party asks for
welfare check on individual
who is not answering phone,
Royalston Road. Control was
able to call and make contact
with individual and she is fine. 11 a.m. - Report of two
loose German shepherds,
East Road. Animal control officer to be notified. 11:01 a.m. - Party locked
herself out of house, New
Athol Road. Able to gain entry
to vehicle; party will get spare
key from landlord. 12:32 p.m. - Summons
served, Prospect Street. Party
received letter the other day
saying that she does not have
to appear. Advised to call
court to confirm. 12:48 p.m. - Summons
served, West River Street. 3:01 p.m. - Caller reports
he accidentally left shotgun at
gun club and when returned
an hour later it was gone, East
River Street. Found that another member took it home
until he could make contact
with club president. Officer
responded to Baldwinville and
took possession of shotgun
and returned it to owner. 5:15 p.m. - Caller from
business reports found backpack, West River Street. Item
brought to station and logged
in property. Today
2:15 a.m. - Found door
open to garage for employees, Daniel Shays Highway.
Secured same and left message for keyholder. Warrant arrest
ORANGE — On Friday
at 8:35 p.m., police arrested
Frank Carey, 28, of 35 Stone
Valley Rd., on a warrant. APPLIANCE SERVICE
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The Mistletoe Inn by Richard Paul Evans; The Mystery of the Venus Island
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and A Tangled Thread by
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Also, The Devil in the
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A Hard and Heavy Thing
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B
Fantasy sports online
is a shadowy world
etting on sports is illegal in most states.
Oh, those NCAA Tournament pools
exist among friends and co-workers. And
on Super Bowl week with a Carolinas
team in the big game, well, all bets, ahem,
are off.
But Super Bowl week and all the hoopla
it entails seems also a fitting time to talk
about sports betting, which is probably at
its highest peak in American history at the
moment. Most know it by another name,
“fantasy sports.”
This betting on a hand-picked group of
star athletes has become a multibilliondollar enterprise spurred by a barrage of
advertising and investments from major
sports leagues. Lawmakers and attorneys
general across the country are trying to
decide whether to regulate fantasy sports
betting or simply ban it.
As usual they’re way behind the curve.
In a fantasy sports league, participants
“draft” teams composed of athletes from
a variety of professional teams, then compete against each other based on how
their players perform in real life. People
have been forming leagues — and betting informally on them — for decades.
What’s different now is the emergence of
fast-growing businesses such as FanDuel
and DraftKings that charge players fees
to play online, then award a portion of the
fees to those whose teams prevail in daily
or weekly contests.
The federal law that banned online
gambling exempted fantasy sports on
the grounds that they were, in Congress’
view, games of skill rather than games of
chance. But states have enacted their own
rules, and five state attorneys general have
declared that daily fantasy sports sites are
in fact running games of chance that vio-
late their gambling laws. Two states have
said they don’t. The legal jockeying has
prompted the fantasy sports leagues and
their backers, which also include major
broadcasters and cable companies, to
lobby state legislatures for protection for
themselves and their clientele.
That smacks of asking for forgiveness
instead of permission, which seems to be
the modus operandi for online businesses.
Nevertheless, it may be too late to ban fantasy sports, which have already become a
large part of the online gaming phenomenon. The leagues have drawn millions
of players, just as online poker sites have
developed huge followings regardless of
their legality. The fact that fantasy sports
leagues and other online games are legal
in some jurisdictions means that it will be
difficult, if not impossible, to stop people
from playing them even where they are illegal.
The smart approach is to regulate the
leagues — ideally within the context of a
comprehensive approach to online gaming. That way the state can protect consumers against fly-by-night sites while
requiring companies to use sophisticated
technology to block minors and problem
gamblers, pay fees that can be used for
oversight and enforcement, and guard
consumers against insiders competing unfairly for jackpots, as both FanDuel and
DraftKings were accused of allowing last
year. None of those protections is assured
online today.
Until then, it’s buyer beware. Pretty
much how outside the lines gambling has
always existed.
Reprinted from the Jacksonville Daily
News
Distributed by creators.com
Trump aiming for New Hampshire win
By SERGIO BUSTOS
and BILL BARROW
Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) —
GOP front-runner Donald
Trump is aiming for his first
win in New Hampshire’s
fast-approaching primary,
while rival Republican candidates, including Jeb Bush,
said their campaigns will go
on no matter what the outcome Tuesday.
Democrat Hillary Clinton, facing an uphill campaign in the state against
Bernie Sanders, took a trip
to Michigan.
With the otherwise intense race for the White
House seemingly toned
down Sunday, it’s easy to
forget that this leadoff primary could be a make or
break situation for several
lagging campaigns.
Trump said he doesn’t
need to win New Hampshire, but would like to.
Republican hopeful Marco
Rubio continues to downplay his rough outing in Saturday night’s GOP debate,
while touting his overall
campaign momentum after
his third-place finish in the
Iowa caucuses.
Trump, who is facing intense pressure to perform
after coming in second in
the Iowa caucuses, opted
Sunday for just one of his
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a diner, the billionaire real
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person to 225 Exchange St. All letters must include the author’s first and last names,
five minutes interacting
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with potential voters before
No letter is printed until authenticity is verified by phone, or in person.
sitting down for a meal with
staff.
On the Democratic side,
New Hampshire favorite
Sanders and Clinton — who
NEW YORK (AP) — narrowly won Iowa — are
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Tuesday and looking beyond
to South Carolina and Nevada, the next two states up
in the nomination process.
At his rally, Trump delivered a meandering version of his usual campaign
speech and urged supporters to get to the polls.
“If you’re not going to
vote for me do not vote,” he
dead-panned.
The billionaire businessman had begun his day with
an attempt to do things “the
New Hampshire way” by
engaging in more personal
interactions with voters,
stopping by Chez Vachon,
a hole-in-the-wall Manchester restaurant that specializes in French Canadian fare
and is a popular stop for political candidates.
But while some candidates work to connect with
voters by answering questions and even sitting down
at their tables, Trump spent
less than five minutes circling the restaurant, greeting diners and shaking
hands before sitting down
for his own breakfast.
At another diner in Tilton, reporters invited along
for the visit were greeted
by one of Trump’s sons,
Donald Jr. “We’re dividing
and conquering,” said the
younger Trump of his father’s absence.
For Republican Govs.
Chris Christie, John Kasich and Bush, the task is to
make sure the closing argument here isn’t their last.
Christie sought to capitalize on his debate effort to
batter Rubio, a first-term
senator, as unprepared for
the presidency. But he also
took aim at his fellow governors as they battle for many
of the same voters in an ef-
fort to remain relevant beyond Tuesday.
The governors thus far
have struggled to keep Rubio from emerging as the alternative to Trump and Ted
Cruz. Cruz, the Texas senator won Iowa, though he’s
looking beyond New Hampshire to a run of Southern
primaries with more conservative electorates.
Under assault from Christie during Saturday’s debate,
Rubio repeated his standard
critique of President Barack
Obama several times and
played into Christie’s argument that the first-term
senator is a scripted, inexperienced politician from a
do-nothing Congress.
Rubio was back on message Sunday. “People said,
‘Oh, you said the same thing
three or four times.’ I’m going to say it again,” Rubio
said in Londonderry, New
Hampshire.
For Democrats, Sanders
drew another large crowd
Sunday in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he reprised his indictment of a
“rigged economy” and “corrupt campaign finance system.”
Taking a break from
the New Hampshire campaign trail, Hillary Clinton
stopped in Flint, Michigan,
which continues to deal
with the fallout of a leadcontaminated water system.
At the House of Prayer
Missionary Church, Clinton
noted that for two years,
Flint residents drank poisoned water despite officials
declaring it safe. She urged
Congress to approve $200
million to fix Flint’s water
system and vowed to “fight
for you in Flint no matter
how long it takes.”
Clinton making a personal pitch in NH
responses during a Wednesday night forum hosted by
CNN where she spoke with
humility about her faith and
public service. She noted in
response to a question from
a rabbi that she receives daily
scriptures from a minister.
“I’m constantly trying to
balance how do I assume the
mantle of a position as essentially august as president
of the United States, not lose
track of who I am, what I believe in and what I want to do
to serve?” she said. “I don’t
know that there is ever any
absolute answer, like, ‘OK,
universe, here I am, watch me
roar’ or ‘Oh, my gosh, I can’t
do it, it’s just overwhelming, I
have to retreat.’”
The strategy carries echoes
of Clinton’s 2008 comefrom-behind victory in New
Hampshire. A moment in a
Portsmouth cafe when Clinton’s eyes welled up and she
became emotional was widely
credited with bringing female
voters back into the fold and
helping her win the state after
losing Iowa to then-Illinois
Sen. Barack Obama.
But this year, with Sanders
leading in the state by doubledigits in many polls, Clinton
is aiming her emotions at a
far broader audience in the
states that follow: the Feb. 20
Nevada caucuses, the Feb. 27
South Carolina primary and a
swath of states holding contests on March 1.
Clinton’s campaign is wary
that a big Sanders victory in
New Hampshire could help
him make headway among
women and minority voters,
important parts of the coalition that twice elected Obama
as president. Already there
are signs that he is making
in-roads with those groups:
In Iowa, polling showed that
Clinton lost a majority of
young voters and unmarried
women.
Her campaign has sought
to secure female voters in
New Hampshire, who typically play a pivotal role in
elections and have noted her
connections to several female officeholders who have
endorsed her, including Sen.
Jeanne Shaheen and Gov.
Maggie Hassan.
During a Clinton campaign
rally in Concord on Saturday,
former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright said:
“You have to help. Hillary
Clinton will always be there
for you and just remember
there’s a special place in hell
for women who don’t help
each other.”
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Roll Call records local senators’ and representatives’
votes on roll calls from the
week of Feb. 1-5.
RAINY DAY FUND (S
61) — The House 43-109,
and the Senate 6-31, rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that
would require a two-thirds
vote of the Legislature in
order to spend money from
the state’s Rainy Day Fund,
which was established for
use in the event of an economic downturn. The Fund
may only be used to offset
revenue shortfalls or federal
funding reductions, or when
events threaten the health,
safety, or welfare of citizens.
Currently, only a majority
vote is required to authorize
spending from the Fund.
(A “Yes” vote is for the
two-thirds requirement. A
“No” vote is against the twothirds requirement.)
Rep. Donald Berthiaume:
Yes; Rep. Kimberly Ferguson: Yes; Rep. Stephen
Kulik: No; Rep. Susannah
Whipps Lee: Yes; Rep.
Jonathan Zlotnik: Yes; Sen.
Anne Gobi: No; Sen. Stanley
Rosenberg: No
NON-LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING COMMISSION (H 567) — The House
34-119, and the Senate 9-28,
rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that
would require the Legislature to establish a permanent seven-member redistricting commission with the
responsibility to redraw legislative and congressional
districts in Massachusetts
every ten years. Under the
amendment, the proposed
commission would submit
its recommendations to the
Legislature, which would
vote them up or down. Currently, the Legislature itself
draws the districts. The amendment would
establish specific rules for
the commission, among
them requirements that the
new districts be compact
and contiguous, and that
they would not be redrawn
for the purpose of diluting
the voting strength of a racial minority, political party
or any individual candidate.
The commission also would
be required to attempt to
follow other guidelines, including the prohibition of
dividing any city or town
into more than one district.
The proposed commission would include a dean
or professor of law, political
science or government from
a Massachusetts college, appointed by the governor; a
retired judge, appointed by
the attorney general; and an
expert in civil rights law, appointed by the secretary of
state. The other four members would be chosen by the
above three members from
a list of candidates nominated by the House Speaker, House Minority Leader,
Senate President and Senate Minority Leader.
Supporters of the proposed commission said the
Legislature has abused its
redistricting power and often gerrymandered districts
to protect incumbents. They
said this antiquated, partisan system allows the majority party to control the process and permits “legislators
to choose their voters.”
They noted that the idea of
an independent commission
has been endorsed in the
past by the League of Women Voters, Common Cause,
Laws
and former Govs. Michael
Dukakis, Mitt Romney and
Deval Patrick.
Opponents of the commission said elected members of the Legislature,
who are accountable to the
voters, should be responsible for the important job
of redistricting. They said
the task should not be undertaken by an appointed
commission with unknown
members who would not
have direct accountability.
They cited studies showing
that these so-called “independent” redistricting commissions are no more or less
independent than commissions established by Legislatures.
(A “Yes” vote is for requiring the Legislature to
establish a non-legislative
redistricting commission. A
“No” vote is against requiring it.)
Rep. Berthiaume: Yes;
Rep. Ferguson: Yes; Rep.
Kulik: No; Rep. Whipps
Lee: Yes; Rep. Zlotnik: No;
Sen. Gobi: No; Sen. Rosenberg: No
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT (H 3985)
— The House 119-34, approved resolutions urging
the state’s U.S. Congressional delegation to approve a
proposed U.S. constitutional amendment allowing the
Congress and the states to
establish systems of public
campaign financing and to
impose reasonable limitations on private campaign
contributions and Super
Political Action Committees
(PACs). Super PACS are
created to help candidates
and are often run by the
candidate’s former staffers
or associates who use the
PAC to fund negative ads
against the candidate’s opponents. A candidate’s own
committee’s contributions
are limited by federal law
but super PACs can legally
accept unlimited donations.
The resolutions are in response to the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Citizens
United v. Federal Election Commission in which
the court ruled the First
Amendment prohibits the
government from restricting
corporations, unions and
individuals from donating
unlimited funds to Super
PACS.
resolutions. A “No” vote is
against them and in favor of
the alternative resolutions.)
Rep. Berthiaume: No;
Rep. Ferguson: No; Rep.
Kulik: Yes; Rep. Whipps
Lee: No; Rep. Zlotnik: Yes
PUBLIC RECORDS (S
2120) — The Senate 35-0,
approved legislation designed to ensure that the
state and local municipalities comply in a timely way
with requests for public records. The measure would
also reduce costs to people
making the requests.
Provisions include requiring each state agency and
municipality to appoint at
least one public records access officer to serve as the
point of contact for all public records requests; reducing to 5 cents per page per
page the maximum amount
that state agencies and
municipalities can charge
for production of any records (currently, such costs
can be as much as 50 cents
per page); prohibiting any
agency or municipality from
charging for records if it
does not provide the record
within 15 days of the request
or does not respond to the
requestor within ten days;
requiring state agencies
and encouraging municipalities to post online many
commonly-requested public
records; and allowing courts
to award attorneys’ fees to
plaintiffs when access to
public records is wrongly
denied.
Supporters said this is the
first update to the state’s
public records laws in 40
years and noted that it would
make state and local government more transparent.
They argued it is not acceptable for the members of the
news media or for ordinary
citizens to face unreasonable delays and high costs to
gain access to information
that is supposed to be public. They argued that the bill
balances access to public records with protection for local municipalities from unreasonable procedures and
unfunded mandates.
The House has approved
a different version of the
measure. The Senate version now goes to the House
for consideration.
bill.)
Sen. Gobi: Yes; Sen.
Rosenberg: Yes
OPEN CHECKBOOK (S
2120) — The Senate 10-26,
rejected an amendment to
add data to the state’s Open
Checkbook website, which
was launched in 2011 to give
citizens more information
about expenditure of their
tax dollars. The amendment
would require the website to
include the cost of all state
contracts and invoices over
$500,000.
Amendment
supporters said this would simply
expand what is required to
be included on the website
and make government even
more transparent.
Amendment opponents
said the amendment is wellintentioned but is outside of
the scope of the public records law bill being debated
and is unrelated to it.
The website can be accessed at http://opencheckbook.itd.state.ma.us/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard
amendment. A “No” vote is
against it.)
Sen. Gobi: No; Sen.
Rosenberg: President rarely
votes
shooting at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Connecticut, Massachusetts lawmakers began work to overhaul the state’s gun laws.
The 2014 law stiffened
penalties for some gunbased
crimes,
allowed
for real-time background
checks in private gun sales
and created a firearms trafficking unit within the state
police.
It also gave police chiefs
the right to go to court to
try to deny firearms identification cards needed to buy
rifles or shotguns to people
they felt were unsuitable to
have access to the weapon.
Chiefs can also deny licenses to carry but are required to give written reasons why.
ambulance service, such as
Athol or Northfield. Cemetery Commission
appointment
In a joint meeting with the
cemetery
commissioners
Wednesday, the selectboard
voted 2-0 to appoint Steve
Johnson to the commission
until next year’s election.
Johnson will fill a vacancy
left by Jacqueline MacDonald, who recently resigned.
Traditionally, when the
selectboard appoints someone to an elected board it is
only until the next election,
which is March 7, however
as it is too late for Johnson
to take out the necessary
paperwork to run for the
position he was instead appointed until the 2017 annual election. Subsequently,
there is an open seat up
for election but it’s the one
held by chairman George
Willard, who is running for
Closure
grant plan to include repairs
to this issue and is looking
into using Chapter 90 money to bring an engineer on
board to view the road and
offer suggestions to keep the
problem from reoccurring.
It is anticipated that additional drainage will need to
be added and the pitch of
the road changed to redirect
water away from homes. In
the mean time, the current
patch work has slowed the
problem but not solved it. Knechtel noted that, while
this is a project that needs to
be done, it is difficult to keep
it as a top priority when the
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re-election and so anyone
who did take out papers
would be running against
him. MacDonald’s term was
expected to expire next year
so Johnson will be finishing
out that term. Herk said he knows
Johnson well and thinks he
would be an excellent addition to the commission.
Reinig abstained from
voting, citing her belief that
the person being appointed
should be present and that
she doesn’t personally know
Johnson. Commissioner Jim Cornwell reported that MacDonald also recently resigned
from the Trustees of the
Soldiers Memorial committee too and so there is now
an opening on that board
as well. MacDonald held
the non-veteran position on
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town is also trying to decide about keeping a bridge
open, but he promised it will
move forward and he understands the homeowner’s
frustration. The selectboard voted
that, on the advice of Knechtel, and based on what was
submitted in writing to the
board from the resident, the
northern-most third of the
sidewalk would be closed
until further notice. “At this
point I need to find more
jersey barriers because we
are all out,” Knechtel joked. Knechtel’s comment led
to questions about when
Guns
surrendered.
WHO IS PUSHING FOR
CHANGES TO STATE LAW?
Groups representing domestic violence victims, gun
safety advocates and law enforcement officials often join
together to push for these
measures. They say the laws
save lives and protect vulnerable women and children.
Politicians from both political parties have supported
them.
ARE THEY GETTING ANY
PUSHBACK?
Supporters of gun rights,
including the National Rifle
Association, object to some
of the details. In particular,
they argue that people who
are subject to temporary
protective orders without a
hearing to challenge the allegations should not have to
give up their guns. They say
vindictive ex-spouses could
use the process to unfairly
take away their ex-spouses’
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the East Road bridge will
be reopened. Knechtel said
he has no timeline at this
point because of the lengthy
permitting process involved
with reopening the bridge.
Because of this Knechtel
said he would like to take
a step back and focus on
a long-term repair to the
bridge. This would include
the possible realignment of
the approach, and a widening and realignment of the
culvert as the current one is
too narrow and causes water
to flow too quickly through
and crash against the sides
of the abutment. From Page 1
from people who commit a
crime but are not particularly dangerous.
HOW CAN THE BAN ON GUN
SALES BE ENFORCED?
States enter data into the
national background check
system about people who
are convicted of crimes that
disqualify them from buying
guns. That information turns
up when licensed dealers
conduct background checks
and has resulted in more
than 120,000 applicants being denied since 1998 for
having misdemeanor domestic violence convictions.
Some ineligible domestic
abusers have turned to private sellers at gun shows or
online who do not conduct
background checks to illegally purchase guns. That’s
one reason why gun safety
advocates want to require
background checks on all
gun sales.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR
EXISTING GUNS?
In some states, the individual is required to turn
them over to law enforcement when subject to a ban.
In others, they are allowed
to transfer them to licensed
dealers or give them to third
parties for safekeeping. Other laws are silent on this issue, which makes the gun
ban hard to enforce.
THE NRA HAS NEGOTIATED
COMPROMISES ON SOME OF
THESE BILLS. WHAT DOES IT
SEEK IN RETURN?
In some cases, the NRA
has pushed for provisions
in the law spelling out procedures for individuals to
petition to get their guns
back once protective orders
are lifted. Some of these
measures have been passed
alongside larger laws expanding gun rights.
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Canada and overseas markets.
Markey has cited those
export concerns as part of
his opposition to the proposed Kinder Morgan gas
pipeline.
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GUN RULES FOR
DOMESTIC ABUSERS
Massachusetts has relatively strict laws when it
comes to keeping guns
away from those accused of
abuse.
Judges are required to
order the surrender of all
“firearms, rifles, shotguns,
machine guns and ammunition” when issuing a domestic abuse restraining order.
Accused people are also
required to surrender their
license to carry firearms
or firearms identification
cards. The order can be appealed.
Violations are punishable
by a fine of up to $5,000, 2
1/2 years in jail, or both.
TOUGH GUN LAWS
Following the 2012 school
ment’s total operating budget of $885,605, an increase
of $44,000 over the previous
year.
For fiscal year 2018 and
beyond the towns will be
assessed based on “Option
G,” which is similar to Option F except that by fiscal
year 2019 it will be based
on a rolling average of call
volume based on the previous five years, and only 50
percent of the insurance
revenues will be deducted,
which will be put into escrow to cover operations,
training and the purchase of
new ambulances.
Town administrator Diana Schindler told the selectboard Wednesday night
that Warwick has expressed
interest in seeing a table of
each town’s assessment if
they were to pull out of the
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Athol girls seize control
of Franklin North with
47-33 defeat of Frontier
By JOSH TALBOT
ADN Sports Editor
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The
Lady Raiders lead the North once
again.
The Athol High School girls’
basketball seized control of the
Franklin North with a 47-33 victory
over Frontier Regional School, Friday night.
“It’s a good win and this is a
tough place to play,” said Athol
head coach Dan Bevis. “We’re trying not to get to far ahead of ourselves, but a league title would be
nice. We’ve put ourselves in a good
position and it’s nice to be in control of your own destiny.”
With first place in the league
on the line, Athol (8-7, 4-1 North)
started fast in building a 16-2 lead.
The Red Hawks (6-8, 3-1 North)
would score the final four points of
the first quarter to cut the deficit
back to 10 after a quarter of play.
Foul trouble for Athol stars
Hope Parker and Emily Casella
led to both players watching much
of the second quarter from the
sideline. Frontier was able to crawl
back into the contest one defensive
stop at a time and the Athol lead
was just 17-14 with 2:35 left in the
half.
“I don’t know if we fatigued ourselves with that start or what,” said
Bevis. “It’s the little things like not
rebounding or taking care of the
basketball that compound themselves and we start to get frustrated.”
A basket by Caley McLaughlin helped the Raiders get some
breathing room with 1:25 to go
and a late hoop by Ana Ricko sent
Athol into the half with a 22-16
lead.
With Parker and Casella back in
the lineup, the Lady Raiders took
control early in the third quarter.
Casella, Lindsey Hamlett, Julia
Carey, Parker and Callie Jillson all
got involved in the offense as the
Raiders stretched their lead to 16,
36-20, with 2:25 to go in the third
quarter.
“It starts defensively,” said Bevis. “We did a good job of limiting
them in the third quarter and forcing them to hit outside shots. We
were able to run a couple of set
plays and get some easy hoops.
I’m proud of the way this team responds after we make little adjustments.”
Frontier was able to score the
final four points of the quarter to
make it a 36-24 contest with eight
minutes to go. As the Athol offense
stalled out once again early in the
fourth, Frontier crawled back in it.
A three-pointer from Ellla Deane
and a hoop from Helena Diaz cut
the Athol lead to seven, 40-33, with
2:45 to play.
After a timeout, Casella would
make 1-of-2 free throws and Parker iced the game with a driving layup with 1:27 to play that pushed
the Athol lead back to 10.
Parker netted a team-high 12
points while adding seven rebounds, two steals and two assists. Casella tacked on 11 points,
10 rebounds and five steals. Carey
chipped in nine points and 11 rebounds.
Hamlett tallied eight points and
four assists in the win. Jillson (3),
McLaughlin (2) and Ricko (2)
rounded out the scoring.
The Raiders host a powerful
Hampshire (13-2) on Tuesday. It’s
an opportunity for the Raiders,
who have won four straight, to see
how they measure up.
SURROUNDED — Athol High School’s Julia Carey, with the ball, is surrounded by Frontier
defenders during Friday night’s basketball contest in South Deerfield. The Lady Raiders seized
control of the Franklin North with a 47-33 defeat of the Red Hawks.
Photo By Josh Talbot
“Hampshire is a good team,”
said Bevis. “They have Katy
O’Connor who is a 20-20 girl every night and Chelsea Moussette
is one of the best point guards in
WMass. The run and gun and they
want to put up 70 points. We have
to try to keep them in the 40s and
if we do that, we have a chance. It
will be good to see where we are at
because I think they are one of the
top three or four teams in WMass.”
Athol won the junior varsity contest in overtime, 41-37.
Jess Soucie led the effort with 18
points. Hannah Arsenault added
11 points while Amber Mahony
netted nine. Payton Parker netted two while Shelby Mailloux had
one.
LINE IT UP — Athol’s Callie Jillson lines up a three-pointer
from in front of the Frontier bench during Friday night’s basketball contest in South Deerfield.
SPRAWL — Athol High School’s Ryan White, right, works against Monument Mountain’s
Derian Page during Saturday’s match at Franklin Tech. White won the match, but the Raiders
went 0-4 on the afternoon.
Bradley’s 25 points helps Celtics beat Kings
By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston
Celtics enjoyed a season-high scoring day to keep their current winning stretch rolling along.
Avery Bradley scored 25 points,
Isiah Thomas had 22 and the Celtics held off the Kings 128-119 on
Sunday for their ninth win in 10
games.
“Whenever you get a chance to
run up and down and move the ball
like we did tonight, it’s fun,” Bradley said. “And not only that, we
were making shots. When everybody’s making shots, everybody’s
happy.”
The loss may also fuel recent reports on the shaky status of Sacramento coach George Karl’s future.
Jared Sullinger matched his season high with 21 points, reserve Tyler Zeller had a season high 17 with
seven rebounds and Thomas added
nine assists for Boston, which committed a season high 24 turnovers
but shot 56 percent.
“The one thing is our offense has
been pretty good the last 10 games,”
Boston coach Brad Stevens said. “I
don’t think we’re 128 points good.
We’re probably due for games like
that. You’re going to have games
like the other night when we’re
struggling to get to 100.”
Boston’s previous high was 120
points in a win over Brooklyn on
Nov. 20.
DeMarcus Cousins led Sacramento with 31 points. Marco Belinelli and Darren Collison each
had 16 points. The Kings have lost
seven of eight, prompting rumors
about Karl’s possible firing in the
near future.
“We’re in a losing mode,” Karl
said. “We’re losing games, but our
basketball has not been bad basketball. It’s been not good enough to
win basketball, which happens in
the NBA every night. Just because
you lose doesn’t mean you don’t
play good basketball.”
The Kings had sliced a 21-point
deficit to 97-91 early in the final
quarter before Bradley nailed a
pair of 3-pointers and scored eight
points during a 15-6 spree that was
capped by Evan Turner’s 3-point
play with just less than 6 minutes to
play.
“Biggest thing I guess we’ve got
to find a better energy and effort
as a team,” said Cousins, who said
after Friday’s loss that the team had
a “bigger issue than just energy and
effort” but wouldn’t elaborate.
“We’ve got to find a solution, because right now whatever we’re doing isn’t working,” he said following
the loss to Boston.
Sacramento closed it to five
points with under 2 minutes left,
but Thomas scored nine of 11
points for Boston to seal it.
Coming off a buzzer-beating
3-point shot by Bradley that lifted
Boston to an improbable victory in
Cleveland on Friday night, the Celtics started fast, nailing five of their
initial seven on 3-point attempts to
pull to a 38-22 edge late in the first
quarter.
The Kings cut it to 59-51 before
Boston went on a 9-0 spree en
route to a 74-58 halftime lead.
The Celtics pushed their advantage to 21 points on Thomas’ 3 from
the right wing early in the third, but
the Kings followed with a 15-2 run
to close the gap to 95-87 after three.
TIP-INS
Celtics: They wore warmups with
“Cooper” and the number 11 on
their backs, honoring Chuck Coo-
per as the first African-American
player drafted by an NBA team as
part of Black History month. Boston selected him with the second
pick in the second round.
NO D AT START
Both teams seemed intent to just
shoot and played little defense in
the opening quarter. The Celtics
scored a season-high points for any
quarter this season, grabbing a 4637 lead after one.
Boston also allowed a season
high for a quarter, as did the Kings.
Sacramento shot 63.1 percent (14
of 22) and Boston ended up 58.1
(18 of 31), connecting on 7 of 13
from beyond the arc.
The last time Boston scored 46
in a first quarter was Feb. 12, 1982
during the Larry Bird era, at San
Diego.
WARM RECEPTION
Kings guard Rajon Rondo got
a nice hand in pregame introductions. He was a part of Boston’s
2008 championship-winning team.
He had 14 points and 15 assists.
“It’s always great to play here,” he
said after the game.
NICE HALF
The last time the Celtics scored
74 in the first half was six years ago,
when they had 74 against Dallas at
home on Jan. 25, 2009.
UP NEXT
Kings: At Cleveland on Monday.
Celtics: At Milwaukee on Tuesday.
Bruins’ Subban stable after fracturing larynx
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Bruins prospect Malcolm Subban is
in stable condition after fracturing his larynx during an American Hockey League game on Saturday.
The Bruins say in a statement
on their website Sunday that the
goalie was transported to Maine
Medical Center and stayed there
overnight after being struck in
the throat with a puck during
warmups before Providence’s
game against the Portland Pirates.
Subban was transported to
Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston on Sunday for further
evaluation.
Subban, the younger brother
of Montreal Canadiens star P.K.
Subban, tweeted a photo of himself from the hospital Sunday
night with the caption: “Thanks
for all the support!”
The 22-year-old Subban is 148-5 with the Bruins’ AHL team
this season. He has a 2.44 goalsagainst average and .911 save
percentage.
Matsuyama beats
Rickie Fowler in
Phoenix playoff
By JOHN NICHOLSON
AP Sports Writer
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) —
Rickie Fowler hit two balls into
the water on the par-4 17th hole to
give Hideki Matsuyama an unexpected victory Sunday in the Waste
Management Phoenix Open.
After blowing a two-shot lead
on the 317-yard hole in regulation
when he blasted a driver through
the green and into the water,
Fowler pulled a 5-wood into the
lake on the fourth hole of a playoff
to set up the deciding bogey. Matsuyama birdied the hole in regulation and two-putted for par from 6
feet in the playoff.
Fowler forced the playoff with
a 10-foot birdie putt on the par4 18th after Matsuyama made an
18-footer. They each shot 4-under
67 to finish at 14-under 270.
The playoff was just as dramatic
in front of another big crowd at
TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course
on a sunny day with the temperature in the high 70s.
On the par-4 10th on the third
extra hole, Fowler saved par with
a 12-foot putt after driving into
the left rough and skulling his approach long and right. Matsuyama
made a 5-footer to extend the
playoff.
They played the 18th hole twice
to open overtime. On the first extra hole, Fowler chipped to a foot
to set up a par after leaving his
wedge approach short and right.
Matsuyama rolled his 25-foot
putt inside a foot. On the second
playoff hole, Matsuyama matched
Fowler’s 15-foot birdie putt to extend it.
Matsuyama won the 2014 Memorial for his only other PGA
Tour title, beating Kevin Na on the
first extra hole. The 23-year-old
Japanese player tied for second
last year in Scottsdale, a stroke behind Brooks Koepka.
Fowler missed a chance for
his fifth worldwide win in nine
months. He started the run in May
at The Players Championship, won
the Scottish Open the week before
the British Open, the Deutsche
Bank Championship in September
and the European Tour event two
weeks ago in Abu Dhabi.
Sports Schedule
Monday, February 8
Varsity
Mahar boys basketball vs. Greenfield,
PPD until 2/24
Athol boys basketball vs. Frontier, PPD
JV
Mahar boys basketball vs. Greenfield,
PPD until 2/24
Athol boys basketball vs. Frontier, PPD
Middle School
ARMS boys basketball at Frontier, PPD
MMS boys basketball at Greenfield, PPD
until 2/9
ARMS girls basketball at Frontier, PPD
MMS girls basketball at Greenfield, PPD
until 2/9
Tuesday, February 9
Varsity
Athol girls basketball vs. Hampshire, 7
p.m.
Mahar girls basketball at Easthampton,
7 p.m.
Mahar boys basketball vs. Narragansett,
7 p.m.
JV
Athol girls basketball vs. Hampshire, 5:30
p.m.
Mahar girls basketball at Easthampton,
5:30 p.m.
Middle School
ARMS boys basketball at Smith Academy,
3:30 p.m.
MMS boys basketball at Greenfield, 4 p.m.
MMS girls basketball at Greenfield, 5:15
p.m.
Wednesday, February 10
Varsity
Mahar wrestling at South Hadley, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 11
Varsity
Mahar boys basketball at Smith Academy,
7 p.m.
Athol boys basketball vs. Pioneer, 7:30
p.m.
JV
Mahar boys basketball at Smith Academy,
5:30 p.m.
Athol boys basketball vs. Pioneer, 6 p.m.
Middle School
MMS boys basketball vs. Granby, 3:30
p.m.
MMS girls basketball vs. Granby, 4:45 p.m.
Friday, February 12
Varsity
Athol girls basketball at Easthampton, 7
p.m.
Athol boys basketball at Narragansett, 7
p.m.
Mahar girls basketball at Hopkins, 7:30
p.m.
JV
Athol girls basketball at Easthampton,
5:30 p.m.
Athol boys basketball at Narragansett,
5:30 p.m.
Mahar girls basketball at Hopkins, 6 p.m.
Middle School
ARMS boys basketball at Pioneer, 3:30
p.m.
ARMS girls basketball at Pioneer, 4:30
p.m.
Saturday, February 13
Varsity
WMass Division III Wrestling Championships, at Southwick High School, 9:30 a.m.
Dominant D carries Manning,
Broncos to Super Bowl win
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Sports Writer
SUPER CELEBRATION — Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning (18) celebrates
with his son Marshall and daughter Mosley after the NFL Super Bowl 50 football game Sunday, in Santa Clara, Calif. The Broncos won 24-10.
AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Newton struggles in 1st Super Bowl
By STEVE REED
AP Sports Writer
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
(AP) — A dejected Cam
Newton sat slouching behind
the podium on Sunday night,
wearing a black Panthers
hoodie and a frown.
The league’s top player
this season didn’t feel much
like answering questions,
doing so mostly in delayed
one- and two-word answers.
Some questions he just let
pass without answering at all
— except for one which said
it all.
“They made more plays
than us and that’s what it
comes down to,” Newton said
before walking out of a brief
three-minute interview following Carolina’s 24-10 Super Bowl loss to Denver. “We
had our opportunities and it
was nothing special that they
did. We dropped balls. We
turned the ball over. We gave
up sacks. We threw errant
passes. That’s it.”
Newton’s dream season
ended with a nightmare performance.
The Broncos took Newton
out of his game — completely.
“Hey, when things don’t go
his way, we see the body language — it’s obvious,” said
Broncos safety T.J. Ward said
of Newton. “That’s what we
wanted to do. That was our
intent to come in this game
and get the body language
going. We didn’t want the
happy, fun-spirited ‘dabbing’
Cam. No we want the sulking,
upset, talking to my linemen,
my running backs, ‘I don’t
know what’s going on’ Cam
Newton — and that’s what
we got.”
Fresh off being earning his
first MVP award on Saturday
night, the Panthers fifth-year
quarterback was stymied by
an aggressive Denver Broncos defense in his first Super
Bowl appearance on Sunday.
The 6-foot-5, 245-pound
quarterback who scored 45
touchdowns during the regular season — and five more
in the playoffs — failed to
produce a TD running or
throwing for the first time this
season and the Panthers lost
in Super Bowl 50. Carolina’s
only score came on a 1-yard
run by Jonathan Stewart.
Newton didn’t get a chance
to give any balls away to kids
on the front row of Levi’s Stadium.
“This is one those things
that is going to hurt,” Rivera
said of Newton. “It’s going
to hurt everybody for a while
and hopefully after a few days
we will get over it.”
Newton has failed to score
a TD eight times in his career,
but none since Oct. 26, 2014.
Newton didn’t get much
help from his offensive line
which allowed a Super Bowl
record-tying seven sacks,
or his wide receivers, who
dropped big passes at key
times.
Newton spent much of the
game under heavy duress as
the Panthers were unable to
handle the pressure of Von
Miller and DeMarcus Ware
on the edges. Miller had 2
1/2 sacks, including two stripsacks against overmatched
right tackle Mike Remmers
that led to Denver’s two
touchdowns.
“I don’t think we played
well around him,” tight end
Greg Olsen. “It was us not
getting open, not catching
balls that were tight but we
have to come down with, we
need to do a better job in the
run game. This can’t turn into
the what-happened-to-CamNewton show.”
Denver’s first touchdown
came when Miller blew past
Remmers and ripped the ball
out of Newton’s grasp. Malik
Jackson recovered the ball in
the end zone for a touchdown
to put the Panthers in an early
10-0 hole they could never dig
out of.
Later, Miller beat Remmers for another strip sack
and the Broncos put the
game away with a touchdown
and two-point conversion.
“I knew he was going to be
really quick,” Remmers said.
“I knew he was going to be a
tremendous athlete and it was
going to be a big challenge.”
Newton never looked comfortable in the pocket, sidearming throws, overthrowing
wide receivers and generally
running for his life.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
(AP) — With his prolific
passing and complete control of the game at the line of
scrimmage, Peyton Manning
helped usher in the NFL’s
wide-open era of high-scoring offenses and pass-happy
game plans.
Manning’s possible farewell game in Super Bowl 50
was a throwback to the 1970s
when his father Archie was
running away from dominant
defenses such as the Steel
Curtain and Doomsday.
Von Miller forced fumbles
that set up both of Denver’s
touchdowns, led a defense
that harassed MVP Cam
Newton and helped carry
Manning to his second Super
Bowl title with a 24-10 victory
over the Carolina Panthers
on Sunday.
“Whenever you’re doing
something for your buddies,
it means a little bit more,”
Miller said. “As human beings, we’re selfish but when
you’re doing something for
somebody else, that’s when
the magic happens.”
For so many years, Manning’s career was defined
by his gaudy regular season
numbers that weren’t enough
come playoff time. A lack of
help from teammates or the
inability to thrive against stellar defenses from teams such
as New England and Seattle
left Manning with just one
Super Bowl title in his first 13
playoff trips.
So perhaps it was fitting
that after carrying teammates
for most of his career, he was
carried over the finish line in
this game by Miller and the
coordinator Wade Phillips’
“Orange Rush” defense.
“I certainly knew that
(with) this defense, this team
would have a chance,” Manning said. “Our defense has
just been, from the get-go,
they’ve been nothing but
awesome. Being hurt and
struggling early in the season
wasn’t a lot of fun so I was
grateful to get back healthy
and to try and play my part
these last couple of weeks.”
But now after throwing
for more yards, more touchdowns and winning more
starts than any other quarterback in NFL history, Manning could be ready to hang
it up. Manning wouldn’t say
after the game whether this
was his final one.
“I got some good advice
from Tony Dungy,” Manning
said of the first of four coach-
Tweet from Lynch
hints at retirement
IN THE GRASP — Athol High School’s Trever Mousseau, left, takes control
of Monument Mountain’s Steven Whai during Saturday’s wrestling match in
Turners Falls. Mousseau earned a first period pin to take the win.
Kindred-spirit QBs Favre, Stabler voted into HOF
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— The first NFL game Brett
Favre ever attended, as a
teenager growing up in Mississippi, was the final home
game of Ken “The Snake”
Stabler’s career.
Favre, a New Orleans
Saints fan, traveled the houror-so drive from home to the
Superdome on that Sunday
in 1984 with his father, older
brother and uncle — and it
was a thrill to watch a guy
who electrified a stadium the
way Favre himself would one
day.
“All of a sudden, the crowd
goes crazy, and it’s because
Ken Stabler poked his head
out of the locker room. He
had hair like mine. His was
just a lot longer, kind of aged
and gray,” recounted Favre,
wearing an all-black outfit and sporting a full white
beard. “And I thought: Man,
that’s cool. ... It’s got to be
cool to be ‘The Snake.’ And
then they lost. My dad was
throwing popcorn and beer.
... I thought: Maybe it’s not so
good to be ‘The Snake.’”
Favre and the late Stabler,
a pair of kindred-spirit QBs
who each won a Super Bowl,
entered the Pro Football Hall
of Fame together on Saturday.
Also voted in for the class
of 2016 a day before the Super Bowl were modern-day
players Kevin Greene, Marvin Harrison and Orlando
Pace, coach Tony Dungy,
contributor Ed DeBartolo
Jr., and senior selection Dick
Stanfel.
The freewheeling Favre,
as expected, was a first-ballot
entry, a reward for a long and
distinguished career, mostly
with the Green Bay Packers,
that included three consecutive NFL MVP awards from
1995-97 and a championship
in the 1997 Super Bowl.
“As a kid, all I ever dreamed
of was to play pro football, to
be Roger Staubach or to be
Archie Manning. That’s what
I dreamed of. I hated Terry
Bradshaw, which I told him,”
Favre said with a smile.
Stabler, a left-hander who
earned his nickname for his
ability to slither past defenders, goes into the Hall as a
senior selection about six
months after dying of colon
cancer at age 69 — and just
days after researchers said
his brain showed widespread
signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Stabler, the 1974 NFL
MVP, was represented at Saturday’s announcement by two
of his grandsons, 17-year-old
twins Justin and Jack Moyes.
Each brother wore one of
Grandpa’s bling-filled rings:
Justin’s was from the 1977
Super Bowl with the Oakland
Raiders; Jack’s was from a
college national championship with Alabama.
“One thing he didn’t really
talk to us much about was the
Hall of Fame. I know it would
mean a lot to him if he got
in, which he finally did,” Justin Moyes said. “I know he’s
smiling right now.”
CTE is a disease linked to
repeated brain trauma and associated with symptoms such
as memory loss, depression
and progressive dementia. It
has been found in the brains
of dozens of former football
players, including one of last
year’s Hall inductees, Junior
Seau, who committed suicide
in 2012 at 43.
SEATTLE (AP) — Marshawn Lynch was at the center of attention in the fourth
quarter of the Super Bowl on
Sunday night.
Except this time, Lynch
may have given the surest
sign he’s on the verge of retirement.
Lynch, the mercurial Seattle Seahawks running back,
sent a tweet during the fourth
quarter of Sunday’s game with
a pair of cleats hanging from
a power or telephone line,
along with an emoji depicting a peace sign. It certainly
wasn’t a definitive statement
that Lynch is ready to call it
a career, but fit with mounting evidence that the bruising
running back is ready to move
on from football.
The Seahawks official Twitter account later added the
hashtag #ThankYouBeastMode to Lynch’s original
message and a spokesman
said the tweet stood as the
team’s comment.
Lynch’s teammates in Seattle took Lynch’s message as
a retirement statement. Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin,
Bruce Irvin, Paul Richardson
and Richard Sherman were
among the many teammates
to pay tribute to Lynch on social media.
“Honor playing with one
of the best running backs of
all time!” Wilson, Seattle’s
quarterback, said on Twitter.
“Going to miss sharing the
backfield with you 24.”
“Salute to my guy @MoneyLynch ... It was an honor
sharing the field with you,”
Sherman wrote on Twitter.
“To one of the greatest
teammates I’ve ever had the
pleasure of suiting up with.
Salute. #Beastmode,” Baldwin posted on Instagram.
es with whom he’s been to the
Super Bowl. “He said, ‘Don’t
make an emotional decision.’
This has been an emotional
week, an emotional night. I’m
going to take some time to
reflect.”
Miller set the tone early
when he blew past right
tackle Mike Remmers and
ripped the ball out of Newton’s grasp. Malik Jackson
recovered the ball in the end
zone for a touchdown to put
Denver up 10-0.
Then in the fourth quarter with the Broncos protecting a 16-10 lead, Miller
struck again. Once again, he
got around Remmers and
knocked the ball out of Newton’s hands. T.J. Ward recovered at the 4 and C.J. Anderson sealed it with a TD run.
“In my opinion, we’re the
greatest defense to ever play
the game,” linebacker Bran-
don Marshall said. “Ever. It’s
a bold statement but top to
bottom, we have the greatest talent — from rushers to
safeties to linebackers. Better
than anybody’s ever done it.”
After knocking off former
Super Bowl champions Ben
Roethlisberger and Tom
Brady to make it here and
then holding Newton and the
NFL’s highest-scoring offense
to its lowest point total of the
season, the Broncos stated
their case to stand next to
Pittsburgh’s Steel Curtain defenses of the 1970s, the dominant 1985 Chicago Bears,
the 2000 Baltimore Ravens,
the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the 2013 Seattle
Seahawks on the list of top
defenses.
Denver recorded 14 sacks,
forced seven turnovers and
allowed just four touchdowns
in the three playoff wins.
ATTACK THE HOOP — Athol High School’s
Lindsey Hamlett (5) goes up for a shot as Frontier’s Helena Diaz (2) defends during Friday
night’s basketball contest in South Deerfield. The
Lady Raiders prevailed 47-33 to move into first
place in the Franklin North.
LEGAL NOTICE
MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by DANIEL R. WHITE and
MARGARET WHITE to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated
February 23, 2005 and recorded at Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 35793, Page 134 of which
mortgage Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for
Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-OPT2, Asset Backed
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-OPT2 is the present holder
by assignment from Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option
One Mortgage Corporation to Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee for Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series
2005-OPT2, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005OPT2 dated October 15, 2012 recorded at Worcester County
(Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 50080, Page 45, for
breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of
foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 560
Conant Road, Athol, MA 01331 will be sold at a Public Auction
at 4:00PM on March 7, 2016, at the mortgaged premises, more
particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:
A certain parcel of land with buildings thereon, situated
on the southeasterly side of Conant Road in the southerly part of
Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwesterly corner thereof at an iron
pin in the southeasterly line of Conant Road at a corner of land
now or formerly of Ralph A. Parker & Carol J. Meacham; thence
South 56 degrees 17’ 09” East by said Parker & Meacham land,
531.82 feet to an iron pin in land now or formerly of Laroy A.
Ellinwood and being the northeasterly corner of other land
now or formerly of Rural Housing Improvement, Inc., and being
shown as Lot “8” on a plan hereinafter referred to; thence North
73 degrees 21’ 17” West by said Rural Housing Land and Lot “8”,
548.83 feet to an iron pin in the southeasterly line of Conant
Road; thence North 31 degrees 45’ 59” east, 47.29 feet; thence
North 24 degrees 51’ 31” East, 14.05 feet to an iron pin at a corner of land now of the aforementioned Parker & Meacham and
the point of beginning.
For mortgagor’s title see deed recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 21828,
Page 37. See also Deeds recorded in said Registry of Deeds
in Book 33639, Page 184 and in said Registry of Deeds in Book
42627, Page 112.
The premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid
taxes and other municipal assessments and liens, and subject
to prior liens or other enforceable encumbrances of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject to and
with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and
conditions of record and subject to all tenancies and/or rights
of parties in possession.
Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier’s or certified check in the
sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and
place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage
holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement);
high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or by
certified check in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at
the offices of mortgagee’s attorney, Korde & Associates, P.C.,
321 Billerica Road, Suite 210, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100 or such
other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in
the event of a typographical error in this publication.
Other terms to be announced at the sale.
Deutsche Bank National Trust Company,
as Trustee for Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust,
Series 2005-OPT2,
Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2005-OPT2
Korde & Associates, P.C.
321 Billerica Road
Suite 210
Chelmsford, MA 01824-4100
(978) 256-1500
White, Margaret, 14-019583
February 8, 15, 22, 2016
‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ leads on Super Bowl weekend
NEW YORK (AP) —
“Kung Fu Panda 3” remained atop the box office over Super Bowl
weekend, while the Coen
brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!”
and the Jane Austenmonster mashup “Pride
and Prejudice and Zombies” followed distantly
behind.
DreamWorks
Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda”
sequel earned an estimated $21 million in its second weekend of release,
according to studio estimates Sunday. Joel and
Ethan Coen’s ‘50s Hollywood satire “Hail, Caesar!” opened in second
place with an estimated
$11.4 million in North
American theaters for
Universal Pictures.
The two other major
new releases struggled.
The Nicholas Sparks’
romance “The Choice”
debuted with $6.1 million
for Lionsgate. Despite expectations of a No. 2 opening, “Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies,” bankrolled
by Cross Creek Picture
and released by Sony’s
Screen Gems, eked out a
meager $5.2 million.
Though the majority of
weekend grosses are made
on Fridays and Saturdays,
Hollywood
generally
seeks to avoid competing
with the football broadcast and instead sticks
largely to counterprogramming. The top Super Bowl weekend movie
remains the 2008 concert
film “Hannah Montana
and Miley Cyrus” ($31.1
million) followed by another Sparks adaption,
2010’s “Dear John” ($30.5
million).
Paul
Dergarabedian,
senior media analyst for
comScore, called Super
Bowl weekend a trade-off
for studios that sacrifice
a day of moviegoing for
the promotional benefit
of the game’s mass audience. A number of movie
previews were set to play
during the broadcast.
“It’s one of those weekends
that
Hollywood
braces for but they know
how to course correct before it happens,” Dergarabedian said.
Playing in 2,232 theaters, “Hail, Caesar!” is
one of the Coen brothers’
more wide-opening movies. Starring Josh Brolin
as a studio fixer in the
classic Hollywood era and
featuring George Clooney
and Channing Tatum as
‘50s stars, “Hail, Caesar!”
is the Coens’ most broad
comedy since their 2008
“Burn After Reading.”
That film opened with
$19.1 million.
The Walt Disney Co.’s
“Star Wars: The Force
Awakens,” in its eighth
week of release, celebrated a pair of milestones
over the weekend. It surpassed $900 million at the
North American box office and crossed $2 billion
globally.
Estimated ticket sales
for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian
theaters, according to
comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday
through Sunday are also
included. Final domestic
figures will be released
Monday.
1. “Kung Fu Panda 3,”
$21 million.
2. “Hail, Caesar!” $11.4
million.
LEGAL NOTICE
MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained
in a certain Mortgage given by ERROL C. MORRIS to America’s
Moneyline, Inc., dated September 27, 2005 and recorded with
the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds at
Book 37505, Page 382 subsequently assigned to Saxon Funding
Management, Inc. by America’s Moneyline, Inc. by assignment
recorded in said Registry of Deeds at Book 37506, Page 1 subsequently assigned to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,
as Trustee for Saxon Asset Securities Trust 2005-4, Mortgage Loan
Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-4 by Saxon Mortgage, Inc.
DBA Saxon Funding Management, Inc. by assignment recorded
in said Registry of Deeds at Book 49398, Page 173 of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the
conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing
same will be sold at Public Auction at 3:00 PM on February 29,
2016 at 295 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Athol, MA, all and singular the
premises described in said Mortgage, to wit:
The land in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound at the
westerly corner thereof in the easterly line of Chestnut Hill Avenue and 96 feet northeasterly from Lee Street at an intersection
with said Chestnut Hill Avenue, thence southeasterly and at a
right angle with said Chestnut Hill Avenue and by land formerly
of Frank Herbeck 59.46 feet to a stone bound; thence southerly,
making an exterior angle of 169 degrees 3’ and by land formerly
of said Herbeck seventy-five (75) feet to a stone bound at land
now or formerly of Michael Finn; thence northeasterly by said
Finn land about 61 feet to land now or formerly of Jennie D. Cotton; thence northwesterly by said Cotton land about 150 feet
to Chestnut Hill Avenue; thence southwesterly by said Chestnut
Hill Avenue 60.83 feet to the place of beginning. Also the land in
said Athol on the east side of Chestnut Hill Avenue bounded and
described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of land
hereinabove described thence S. 47 degrees 12’ 54” E. 61.44
feet to a stone bound in the driveway; thence S. 36 degrees 15’
50’ E. 74.03 feet to a stone bound; thence N. 38 degrees 33’ 34”
W. 73.51 feet to a gun barrel set; thence N. 47 degrees 12’ 54”
W. 61.44 feet to a gun barrel set in the easterly line of Chestnut
Hill Avenue; thence N. 42 degrees 30’ 04” E., 3 feet to the place
of beginning. See plan of land in Athol to be conveyed to Ethel
F. Depratti scale 1”=20’, 20 September 1979, Berry Engineering,
Inc., Petersham, Mass., recorded in Worcester District Registry
of Deeds, Plan Book 468 Page 113. Being the same premises
conveyed to the grantee by deed recorded February 26, 2002,
Book 26040, Page 390, Worcester County, Massachusetts Records. AKA: 295 Chestnut Hill Avenue Athol, MA 01331
The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit of
all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, liens, attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to M.G.L.Ch.183A, unpaid taxes,
tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and assessments, rights of
tenants and parties in possession.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS
($5,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s
check or money order will be required to be delivered at or
before the time the bid is offered. The successful bidder will be
required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement immediately after the close of the bidding. The balance of the purchase
price shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the sale date in
the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or other
check satisfactory to Mortgagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to
continue the sale and to amend the terms of the sale by written
or oral announcement made before or during the foreclosure
sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the
sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the
Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the
premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event
of an error in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.
Other terms if any, to be announced at the sale.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Turstee for
Saxon Asset Securities Trust 2005-4, Mortgage Loan Asset
Backed Certificates, Series 2005-4
February 8, 15, 22, 2016
Present Holder of said Mortgage,
By Its Attorneys,
ORLANS MORAN PLLC
PO Box 540540
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: (781) 790-7800
13-018660
A Take on
A Movie
By Ashley Arseneau
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’
TOP MOVIE — This image released by DreamWorks
Animation shows character Mei Mei, voiced by Kate
Hudson performing a ribbon dance in a scene from
the animated film, “Kung Fu Panda 3.” The film releases in U.S. theaters on Jan. 29, 2016. DreamWorks Animation via AP
3. “The Revenant,” $7.1
million.
4. “Star Wars: The Force
Awakens,” $6.9 million.
5. “The Choice,” $6.1
million.
6. “Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies,” $5.2 million.
7. “The Finest Hours,”
$4.7 million.
8. “Ride Along 2,” $4.5
million.
9. “The Boy,” $4.1 million.
10. “Dirty Grandpa,”
$4.1 million.
———
Follow AP Film Writer
Jake Coyle on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
An unclear cinematic season got a little foggier on
Saturday with Alejandro
Inarritu’s Directors Guild
win for his harrowing frontier epic “The Revenant.”
With only weeks to go before the Academy Awards
on Feb. 28, the race is still
as wide open as ever.
Even the guilds are divided in their top awards.
“Spotlight,” the drama detailing the Pulitzer Prizewinning investigation into
sex abuses in the Catholic
Church, won the Screen
Actors Guild award for
best ensemble, while the
financial crisis dramedy
“The Big Short” picked
up the Producers Guild
Award.
The DGA win for “The
Revenant” is not insignificant. Inarritu won last year
for the showbiz sendup
“Birdman,” which went on
to win the best picture and
best director Oscar. In fact,
only seven times in the history of the DGAs has a director who won the guild’s
top award not gone on to
win the Academy Award.
The Mexican-born Inarritu was teary-eyed as
he accepted the Directors
Guild prize, which he characterized as “a hug from
my peers.”
“This hug, this embrace
you are giving me today
goes to a small country,
to a whole Latin American community in this
country,” he said. “Your
embrace makes me feel
proud.”
Both “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy and
“The Big Short” director
Adam McKay were nominated for the DGA prize
and will be competing for
the best director Oscar
too. Others in competition
included George Miller for
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
and Ridley Scott for “The
Martian.” Scott is the only
one of the bunch without
a directing Oscar nomination.
Saturday’s ceremony at
the Hyatt Regency Century
Plaza hotel also offered a
telling look at who’s working behind the camera in
Hollywood amid the industry’s ongoing discussion
about diversity. The guild
dispenses awards to directors in TV and movie categories, and this year many
eyes were on the representation of both women and
directors of color.
While more women were
nominated this year than
ever before — 14 of the 47
nominees — only one took
home an award. Dee Rees
accepted the DGA prize
in the television movie or
miniseries category for
HBO’s “Bessie.”
“There’s a million reasons why I shouldn’t be in
this room, and there are a
million more reasons why I
shouldn’t be on this stage,”
Rees said in her acceptance
speech. “It all comes down
to 10 or 15 people (who
are) the reason why I am in
this room and the reason
why I am on this stage.”
Eleven awards were
presented to recognize
outstanding directing in
various formats, from commercials and live TV shows
to drama series and feature
films. Nine were claimed
by white men.
Inarritu wins top DGA prize
The
Man
from
U.N.C.L.E. starts slow but
picks up a bit as time goes
on however it never really hit its mark. Luckily
it does provide some good
humor and an interesting
plot twist or two but nothing unexpected from a spy
movie set in the 1960s surrounding the cold war. In 1963, former thief now
CIA agent Napoleon Solo,
played by Henry Cavill
(Man of Steel,Immortals),
springs a girl named Gabby, played by Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex
Machina), from East Berlin and her job in a chop
shop. He informs her they
must find her long lost
father, a former Nazi scientist who has been working with the U.S. since the
end of World War II. They
plan to search for her
uncle who is rumored to
have Gabby’s father. The
CIA wants to find him to
help build a nuclear weapon. Solo must work with
KGB agent IIlya Kuryakin,
played by Armie Hammer
(The Lone Ranger, The Social Network), and Gabby
to find her uncle and ultimately her father. The trio
travels to Rome as that is
where Gabby’s uncle is living. At the same time they
most also watch out for
a Nazi couple that wants
to Gabby’s father to help
them build a weapon instead. With Gabby and Kuryakin posing as an engaged
couple and and Solo as an
antiques dealer the group
notices the other couple
is watching them the entire time making it hard
for KGB enforcer Kurya-
kin not to give in to pressure and blow the cover by
knocking the wrong people to the ground. They
also think they have been
swindled by Gabby who
they hear tell her uncle the
truth about her “fiance”
and other traveling companion while they send her
for lunch with her uncle
wearing a wire.They run
to avoid being captured
and are surprised that she
was lying to them but also
someone else. Solo and
Kuryakin may still have to
save her though as she is
captured by someone trying to escape with a dangerous warhead. This movie was good but
not great. It just didn’t pull
me in making it hard to
really enjoy it. The characters were all good and
the story should have been
more exciting but it just
wasn’t enough even with
the action and plot twists. The partnership of Solo
and Kuryakin provides a
bit of humor with the two
seeming to not like each
other too much and they
almost kill the other or
let them be killed multiple times. Kuryakin and
Gabby also seem to be polar opposites but are actually a pretty good match
even being a fake couple.
Which while the couple
that starts off rocky and
seems to come closer together is overplayed, it
does add something more
interesting. Will they fall
in love or not? This movie
can be found now on disc
or streaming.
I
give
the
PG-13
rated ‘The Man from
U.N.C.L.E.’ three stars. Tinseltown Talks
By Nick Thomas
Widely known for her
role as Robert Young’s
eldest TV daughter on
the series “Father Knows
Best,” Elinor Donahue
was a regular on other
series such as “The Andy
Griffith Show” and “The
Odd Couple.” She also
guest starred in dozens of
TV shows from the 1960s
into the early 1980s including “Star Trek.”
But even before little
Eleanor, as she was then
known, began working as
a 5-year-old on radio in
her home town of Tacoma, Wash., the arts were
influencing her.
“When I was 18 months
old, my mother let me
join in a dance class to
work off energy,” she
recalled from her home
in California’s Coachella Valley. “And while
she prepared dinner, my
brother would keep me
busy by playing the piano
and teaching me songs.”
Young Ellie was just six
when her mother packed
up the children, moved
to California, and was
hired for her first movie
“Mister Big” (1943) with
Donald O’Connor.
“I’d seen in him movies and had such a crush
on him even at that
early age,” she laughed.
“When he came on the
set for his first scene, he
looked at me with a big
smile and said ‘Hi there!’
I was so excited that I
burst into tears.”
As her teenage years
approached,
Donahue
had already appeared
in a dozen movies, although the roles were
small and often uncredited. Then one day,
around 12-years-old, she
reached for a book that
would impact her career
in an unexpected way.
“When I opened it, out
fell a newspaper clipping about Elinor Glyn,”
she recalled, referring
to the British novelist and screenwriter. “I
loved the way the name
was spelled and how it
looked. So I changed my
name and son of a gun,
if things didn’t suddenly
turn around for my career!”
Donahue was cast –
now as Elinor – in “Father Knows Best” from
1954 to 1960.
“My parents had been
divorced for some time,
so Robert Young became
a father figure,” she not-
wrapped a scarf around
my head and chest to
cover up that I was all
boney.”
While she essentially
retired from film work in
the late 1950s, Donahue
STAR POWER — Left to right — DeForest Kelley,
Elinor Donahue and Leonard Nimoy in a scene from
the Star Trek episode “Metamorphosis.”
ed. “I had three screen
tests, and six weeks after the last one heard
that I got the role. Like
me, the other two actors
who played his children
in the show were without
dads at home, so I think
(Young) picked up on
that during all our screen
tests and it reinforced
our connection on screen
throughout the series.”
In
1967,
Donahue
guest starred on the
“Star
Trek”
episode
Metamorphosis
where
she plays an irritable,
ailing Federation diplomat who lands on a planet inhabited by a famous
Earth inventor, Zefram
Cochrane, and an alien
energy cloud known as
the Companion.
“After
we
finished
filming and the set was
torn down, something
happened to the film
and we had to do some
re-shooting
2
weeks
later,” recalled Donahue. “Meanwhile, I had
been really sick and lost
an enormous amount of
weight, so the original
dress I had worn was
just hanging on me. They
was occasionally coerced
back to the big screen.
In 1990, she appeared
briefly in a scene with
Julia Roberts in “Pretty
Woman.”
“We shot the scene
at Gucci’s on Rodeo
Drive,” said Donahue.
“We only worked together for one day and Julia
was delightful. When the
film opened, I sat in the
back of the theater and
when my scene came
on, the audience roared
and I heard the chatter
‘that’s Elinor Donahue.’
It was such a thrill that
they recognized me.”
Donahue, who turns 79
in April, was again induced out of retirement
for several episodes of
“The Young and the
Restless” in 2010.
“I don’t think actors
can truly retire because
when a plum role comes
along, it’s hard to resist,”
she says. “So you never
know!”
Nick Thomas teaches at
Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written
features, columns, and interviews for over 600 magazines
and newspapers.
Today In History
By The Associated Press
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Venus, Jupiter and the Heart/Mind Battle Most people will find that
the mind likes to be in charge, and the heart likes to let it think that is
definitely the case. However, the harmony between Venus and Jupiter
suggests that hearts won’t go where they don’t want to go. Furthermore,
hearts have sneaky ways of getting where they do want to go, regardless
of what the mind dictates. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Focus exclusively on positive, desirable options. If it’s not a win for everyone involve it’s not good enough for you,
either. This bold approach will eventually lead to your promotion.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Sign up. Volunteer. Say yes. It doesn’t matter if you know how to approach the task at hand, as you’ll learn along
the way. Your attitude makes you a perfect fit for anything that sounds
fun to you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). While most compliments are nice to hear,
they are not all created equal. Someone will elevate verbal admiration
to an art form. You’ll love how it feels to receive these kudos, and you’ll
learn to give as such.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). If you’re wondering what keeps someone
coming back and back and back to you, it’s all that fresh excitement,
kindness and tenderness you give. You never give your attention the
same way twice.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll appreciate the ones who keep their correspondence short and to the point. You tend to accept calls and visits
from this type because you know it’s not going to drag out. You’d do well
to emulate this succinct style going forward.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Unlike zoo animals, people often get to design their own cages. It sometimes takes them a while to realize this,
though. You have more freedom than you think. Current boundaries are
either illusory, self-imposed, or both.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your soul is searching for someone to nurture.
At the same time, it scares you to take on too much responsibility —
that’s because you know deep down that you’ll give yourself fully to it!
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Many want to be in your “club,” whatever
that means to you these days. For some it’s a professional situation. One
warning: Make sure the ones you take on are really ready and qualified
to play at your level.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The negative emotions needn’t be
shoved aside; nor should they be obsessed over. Acknowledge these
feelings as natural and acceptable. They will flow through you and dissipate.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Inaction frustrates you. What are they
waiting for? The truth is, they are waiting for an invitation from someone
like you. Go on now; throw the doors open and encourage them to walk
through.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You see right through the sad people
putting on a good face. You also see through marketing ploys, ulterior
motives and anyone trying to achieve an end through the act of pretending.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Someone may be pressuring you, but
don’t rush to make a choice. When you do make up your mind, you’ll
strongly lean toward the option that gives you the most space and possibly an escape hatch.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 9). You express yourself in new ways, and
others will have a better understanding and healthier respect for you because of this. You’ll gain fans, too. Carve out time to learn a new skill in
March; you’ll profit from this in April. July sends your heart on a mission.
September brings you and a loved one closer than ever. Cancer and
Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 2, w22, 38 and 15.
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Today is Monday, Feb. 8,
the 39th day of 2016. There
are 327 days left in the year.
This is the Chinese New
Year of the Monkey.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 8, 1966, during
the Vietnam War, President
Lyndon B. Johnson and
South Vietnamese Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky concluded
their meetings in Hawaii by
issuing the “Declaration of
Honolulu,” which asserted
the resolve of their countries to defeat the Communists.
On this date:
In 1587, Mary, Queen of
Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England
after she was implicated in
a plot to murder her cousin,
Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1862, the Civil War
Battle of Roanoke Island,
North Carolina, ended in
victory for Union forces led
by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
In 1910, the Boy Scouts of
America was incorporated.
In 1915, D.W. Griffith’s
groundbreaking as well as
controversial silent movie
epic about the Civil War,
“The Birth of a Nation,”
premiered in Los Angeles
under its original title, “The
Clansman.”
In 1922, President Warren
G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House.
In 1942, during World
War II, Japanese forces
began invading Singapore,
which fell a week later.
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth
II proclaimed her accession
to the British throne following the death of her father,
King George VI.
In 1965, Eastern Air
Lines Flight 663, a DC-7,
crashed shortly after takeoff from New York’s John F.
Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board
were killed. The Supremes’
record “Stop! In the Name
of Love!” was released by
Motown.
In 1968, three college
students were killed in a
confrontation with highway
patrolmen in Orangeburg,
South Carolina, during a
civil rights protest against a
whites-only bowling alley.
In 1976, Martin Scorsese’s graphic urban drama
“Taxi Driver,” starring Robert De Niro, was released by
Columbia Pictures.
In 1989, 144 people were
killed when an Americanchartered
Boeing
707
filled with Italian tourists
slammed into a fog-covered
mountain in the Azores.
In 1996, in a ceremony
at the Library of Congress,
President
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Clinton
signed legislation revamp-
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George W. Bush condemned
deadly rioting sparked by
cartoons of the prophet Muhammad as he urged foreign
leaders to halt the spreading
violence. U2 captured five
Grammy awards for their
album “How to Dismantle
An Atomic Bomb,” including album of the year.
Five years ago: Wael
Ghonim, a 30-year-old
Google executive who’d
helped ignite Egypt’s uprising, appeared before
protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir
Square for the first time after being released from detention; he told them, “We
won’t give up.”
One year ago: A riot
erupted outside a major
soccer stadium in Egypt,
with a stampede and fighting between police and fans
killing at least 19 people.
At the Grammy Awards in
Los Angeles, Sam Smith
won best new artist, record
of the year, song of the year
for “Stay with Me” and
best pop vocal album; Beck
won album of the year for
“Morning Phase.”
Today’s Birthdays: Composer-conductor John Williams is 84. Newscaster Ted
Koppel is 76. Actor Nick
Nolte is 75. Comedian Robert Klein is 74. Actor-rock
musician Creed Bratton is
73. Singer Ron Tyson is 68.
Actress Brooke Adams is 67.
Actress Mary Steenburgen
is 63. Author John Grisham
is 61. Retired NBA All-Star
and College Basketball Hall
of Famer Marques Johnson is 60. Actor Henry Czerny is 57. The president
of the Philippines, Benigno
Aquino III, is 56. Rock
singer Vince Neil (Motley
Crue) is 55. Rock singermusician Sammy Llanas
(The BoDeans) is 55. Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator
Lisa P. Jackson is 54. Movie
producer Toby Emmerich is
53. Actress Mary McCormack is 47. Rock musician
Keith Nelson (Buckcherry)
is 47. Basketball Hall of
Famer Alonzo Mourning is
46. Dance musician GuyManuel de Homem-Christo
(Daft Punk) is 42. Actor
Seth Green is 42. Actor Josh
Morrow is 42. Rock musician Phoenix (Linkin Park)
is 39. Actor Jim Parrack is
35. Folk singer-musician
Joey Ryan (Milk Carton
Kids) is 34. Actress-comedian Cecily Strong is 32. Rock
musician Jeremy Davis is
31. Rock musician Max
Grahn (Carolina Liar) is 28.
Actor Ryan Pinkston is 28.
Professional surfer Bethany
Hamilton is 26. Actress Karle Warren is 24.
Thought for Today: “Discussion is an exchange of
knowledge; an argument an
exchange of ignorance.” —
Robert Quillen, American
journalist (1887-1948).
Divers find bodies, wreckage
of small plane off California
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Two bodies and the
wreckage of a small plane
were found Sunday by divers searching in the water
off Southern California for
evidence following a midair
collision believed to have
killed three people, authorities said.
Divers made the discovery about 100 feet below the
surface, in an area about 2
miles off Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Capt. Jack Ewell
said in a statement.
Investigators from the
coroner’s office will identify
the victims and divers will
resume the search Monday
morning, he said.
A massive search was
launched Friday after a
plane piloted by a 72-yearold woman was seen on
radar colliding with a craft
carrying men ages 61 and 81
off San Pedro, just outside
the harbor.
Authorities have not released any identities, but the
woman’s husband identified
her as Mary Falstrom of Torrance.
Richard Falstrom said his
wife, a longtime pilot, told
him Friday that she was going on a plane ride to enjoy
the sunny weather. Hours
later came the news of the
collision.
Some debris from a plane
carrying two men, including a pilot’s logbook, was
quickly found. But there
was no sign of Falstrom or
her plane.
Richard Falstrom believes
his wife died doing something that gave her great joy.
“She loved flying. It was a
passion,” he told The Associated Press.
His wife was a member
of The Ninety-Nines, Inc.,
an international organization of women pilots, and he
said she volunteered at the
Western Museum of Flight
at Torrance Airport, from
which she and the other
plane took off Friday.
The plane carrying the
men was a Beech 35 Bonanza and the second was a Citabria, said Allen Kenitzer,
a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. Falstrom said his wife
flew a Super Decathlon, an
aerobatic plane by the same
maker of the Citabria.
Lawsuit challenges tribal
reservation feds decision
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP)
An Interior Department
— A group of Massachusetts spokeswoman said the agenresidents is challenging the cy cannot comment on pendfederal government’s deci- ing litigation.
sion to grant the Mashpee
The 2015 decision granted
Wampanoag tribe reservation the Mashpee Wampanoags
lands to build a casino.
151 acres in Taunton and 170
The lawsuit filed Thursday acres in Mashpee, a town
in Boston federal court ar- some 50 miles away on Cape
gues the U.S. Department of Cod.
the Interior is not authorized
Backed by Malaysian cato take lands into trust for sino developers the Genting
tribes recognized after 1934 Group, the tribe proposes a
because of a 2009 Supreme $500 million Las Vegas-style
Court ruling.
resort on their now-sovereign
The Mashpee Wampano- land in Taunton, which is curags were federally recognized rently home to an industrial
in 2007. They trace their an- park.
cestry to the Native AmeriCedric Cromwell, the
cans that negotiated peace tribe’s council chairman,
with the Pilgrims nearly four called the legal challenge a
centuries ago.
“desperate attempt” by rival
“The federal government casino developer Rush Street
has grossly overstepped its Gaming, which is partly fiauthority,” said Adam Bond, nancing the lawsuit.
a lawyer for the 25 Taunton
residents named in the suit.
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The new school will join
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Wakefield.
Joseph Luna, co-chairman of the Nazareth Academy board of directors, says
there’s a need for girls’ Catholic education on the North
Shore, similar to what St.
John’s Prep in Danvers provides for boys.
He says 17 girls schools in
greater Boston have either
closed or converted to co-ed
since the 1970s.
Luna says the new school
hopes to have 100 students in
grades nine to 12 for its first
year.
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ATHOL— Large 1 bedroom, no
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Octogenarian in massive pot operation
BOSTON (AP) — An 80-year-old man who pleaded
guilty to running a massive marijuana-dealing operation
faces sentencing in federal court.
Marshall Dion pleaded guilty in October. He faces up to
seven years in prison under a plea agreement with prosecutors who say Dion has been selling marijuana for decades.
Dion in 1985 crashed a single-engine plane in Kenosha
County, Wisconsin, and then crawled along a field with two
broken ankles as cash floated in the air. He denied that the
$112,000 recovered from the crash scene was his.
A stop for speeding in 2013 in Junction City, Kansas, led
authorities to Massachusetts and Arizona, where they found
about $15 million in cash, nearly 400 pounds of marijuana
and ledgers detailing drug deals going back to 1992.
Sentencing is scheduled for Thursday.
2001 carjack case back to court
BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for
a man sentenced to death in the 2001 carjack killings of two
Massachusetts men will be in court this week to discuss his
retrial.
Gary Lee Sampson pleaded guilty and was given the federal death penalty in 2003 in the killings of 19-year-old Jonathan Rizzo, of Kingston, and 69-year-old Philip McCloskey,
of Taunton. He also admitted killing a third man, Robert
Whitney, in New Hampshire during the same weeklong
crime rampage and received a separate life sentence.
Sampson’s death sentence was overturned in 2011 after a
judge found that one of the jurors at his trial had lied.
A new judge recently took over the case and scheduled
the retrial to begin in September.
A status conference is scheduled Tuesday in U.S. District
Court.
Man, 48, dies after tree limb falls on him
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was
struck by a falling tree limb after a winter snowstorm has
died from his injuries.
The Boston Globe reports that 48-year-old Thomas Gunning died Saturday afternoon at Boston Medical Center.
Gunning was in his yard in Canton tending to an outdoor
hockey rink around 11:15 p.m. Friday when the tree limb,
heavy with snow, fell on him. Fire officials say the branch fell
from about 40 to 50 feet.
Gunning is the second person to die after being struck by
a fallen tree limb from Friday’s snowstorm.
Six-year-old Kaleigh Kenyon died at the hospital Friday
evening.
She was pinned under a large limb when it fell in her yard
in the same town.
The branches fell from towering pine trees in both cases.
Armed suspect shot in home invasion
Police think six Chicago deaths
are result of ‘targeted incident’
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities on Saturday released the names of six
family members found
dead this week in their
southwest side home — the
victims of what Chicago
police believe was a “targeted incident.”
Investigators are still trying to determine a possible
motive. Police spokesman
Anthony Guglielmi said
late Friday that it’s possible someone in the family
“was involved in something
that could have targeted
them,” or that the killings
occurred during a robbery
or a domestic incident.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office released the names of the
victims — two boys, two
women and two men. The
boys were identified Saturday as Leonardo Cruz,
13, and Alexis Cruz, 10,
and the women as Rosaura
Martinez, 58, and Maria
Herminia Martinez, 32.
The men were identified as
Noe Martinez Sr., 62, and
Noe Martinez Jr., 32.
Their deaths were ruled
homicides Friday by the
medical examiner’s office.
Five were stabbed to death
and the sixth died of multiple gunshot wounds, the
office said.
Police found them all
dead on Thursday after
one of the men’s co-workers called 911 to report he
hadn’t shown up to work
for two days. Authorities
initially said it was possible
one person killed the other
five before taking his or
her own life.
Police have added extra
patrols as a precaution,
though Guglielmi on Friday repeated earlier police
statements that they don’t
believe the general public
is in danger. There was no
forced entry into the home
and the house wasn’t ransacked.
“This appears certainly
centered and targeted on
that family, and what we’re
trying to do is figure out
why,” he said.
Officers are exploring
the backgrounds of the six
victims, including talking to
other family members and
friends, Guglielmi said.
Next-door
neighbor
Mayra Diego said Friday
that the family members
were quiet and peaceful
people.
“That’s what we’re most
sorry about,” Diego said.
“Because we could have
done something, or being
so close I feel like maybe
we would have noticed
something.”
A relative said six people
lived in the home — a couple, their son, their daughter and the daughter’s two
children.
“They were a normal
family. Everything was
fine,” the relative, Noemi
Martinez, 29, said from
Dallas during a phone interview in Spanish. She
said her husband was a
nephew and cousin of the
home’s residents.
Martinez said the father
worked at a factory in Chicago and the mother was
a housewife. They were
originally from the Mexican state of Guanajuato
and had lived in Chicago
for about a decade, Martinez said.
“Right now, we just
want to know who did this.
They didn’t deserve this.
We don’t understand what
happened,” she said.
In the neighborhood,
three teenage boys said
they were worried about a
classmate at Rachel Carson Elementary School
who lived in the home.
They feared he was among
the dead.
“His favorite sport was
soccer,” Aaron Villazana
said of his friend. Emmanuel Hernandez chimed
in: “He’d get out of school
and play soccer. ... He liked
sharing.”
Hamas group kills a local commander
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
(AP) — Hamas, the Islamic militant group that
rules Gaza, said Sunday
that it has killed one of its
own commanders over unnamed “moral and behavioral violations.”
Hamas said in a short
Twitter statement that
Mahmoud Eshtewi, a local member of the group’s
military wing, was killed
after he confessed. It said
the decision to kill Eshtewi,
who was detained in January 2015, was taken by its
“military and religious judiciary,” a previously unheard-of department.
Hamas seized the Gaza
Strip from forces loyal to
the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas in 2007. During periods of fighting against
Israel, Hamas has killed
dozens of Palestinians it
accused of spying.
The group is not known
to have killed its own members during peacetime, and
the vague language used
in the statement indicated
Eshtewi was killed for reasons other than spying.
“We are shocked,” his
sister, Buthaina, screamed
over the phone. “He can’t
be executed based on the
reasons they provide.”
She said Hamas officials
had met the family in the
morning and told them that
they were considering his
release. “They tricked us,”
she said.
Eshtewi’s relatives said
they had only been allowed
to visit him three times
during the year he was detained. They said he was
not found guilty of spying,
without elaborating.
Human Rights Watch
said it was following
Eshtewi’s case “with concern” after his family told
the New York-based group
that he was arrested and
tortured for criticizing
more senior Hamas commanders.
Sari Bashi, HRW’s Israel-Palestine director, said
the rights group was unable to visit him, but that
his family’s claims were
“consistent with persistent
and credible reports that
Hamas security forces have
been arresting and torturing those who express criticism.”
Bashi urged Hamas to investigate and “rein in security forces to prevent future
killings from taking place.”
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Police say an officer who shot
an armed suspect during a home invasion has been placed
on administrative leave.
Police responded Saturday evening to a home in Lowell
where they confronted two armed men.
Police say the officer shot 48-year-old Timothy Berry, of
Haverhill, after Berry pointed a handgun at him.
The officer was uninjured. He was placed on administrative leave per the department’s standard procedure.
Berry suffered non-life threatening injuries and is being
treated at a Boston hospital. He’s charged with armed home
invasion and assault with a handgun.
The other suspect, 46-year-old Christopher Covey, of
Groveland, was arrested and charged with armed home invasion.
Police say evidence indicates the men were impersonating
police officers.
Police recovered handcuffs and fake police badges, as well
as marijuana and cash.
Man convicted in slaying of veteran
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has
been found guilty of murder in the 2013 slaying of a 27-yearold U.S. Army veteran.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office says
26-year-old Jessie Williams was convicted of first-degree
murder for the shooting death of Joseph Puopolo Jr.
The Boston Globe reports the Medford man was also convicted Friday of armed robbery, assault and battery with a
dangerous weapon and other offenses.
Authorities said Puopolo was fatally shot on July 3, 2013
at a Stoneham home shortly after midnight. A second victim
was shot in the abdomen and survived.
Ryan’s office says the shooting happened during a drug
deal involving the victims, Williams and 21-year-old Eugene
Tate. Tate was convicted in November of first-degree murder
and other charges.
Williams will be sentenced on March 10.
Salem Witch Museum loses bid
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Salem Witch Museum officials
say they weren’t able to get their hands on a psalm book once
owned by a judge in the famed witch trials.
The Salem News reports the previously unknown seventh
edition of “The Bay Psalm Book” that once belonged to
Jonathan Corwin had been expected to sell for $30,000 to
$40,000 on Wednesday.
Instead, the book sold for $180,000. Witch Museum owner Biff Michaud says he was among the bidders for the 17th
century book, but couldn’t put in for more than $40,000.
It’s unclear who won the bidding.
Corwin was a judge during the 1692 trials, when 19 accused
witches were hanged and another was crushed to death. Corwin’s home, now owned by the city of Salem, is known as the
Witch House.
City gets grant to reduce suspensions
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The Worcester public
school system has received a $400,000 grant to help reduce
suspension rates.
The grant from the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts will help schools implement a program that addresses the underlying trauma such as poverty-related stress
that causes some students to act out.
The program will take an educational approach that aims
to de-escalate issues in the classroom.
The Telegram & Gazette reports that school staff will
take courses to teach them how to identify and respond to
instances of trauma-related behavior by students.
Gov. Baker signs tanning bill
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts law now bans anyone
under 18 from using tanning beds.
Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill on Friday, saying it will
help reduce the risk of skin cancer among minors.
Supporters, including dermatologists, say there’s a sharp
rise in the number of young people diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Doctors believe the rise is linked to the increased use of
sunbeds, which became popular in the 1970s.
Salon owners say tanning beds are safe if used responsibly.
Massachusetts law previously allowed teenagers between
the ages of 14 and 17 to visit tanning salons with consent
from a parent or legal guardian.
Justice
Spina to
retire
BOSTON (AP) — Supreme Judicial Court Justice
Francis X. Spina on Friday became the second justice in days
to announce his retirement
from the state’s highest court.
Spina, who has been on
the bench since 1999, said he
will leave the court in August,
three months before he reaches 70, the state’s mandatory
retirement age for judges. On
Wednesday, Justice Robert
Cordy announced his retirement, also in August.
Their departures will give
Republican Gov. Charlie
Baker the opportunity to
make his first nominations to
the seven-member high court.
Justices Margot Botsford and
Geraldine Hines will reach
the mandatory retirement age
next year.
“It is going to be incredibly important for us to work
very hard to promote the idea
that we want to appoint terrific people, very strong legal
minds, people who are incredibly well-respected by the legal
community, folks who have a
track record of being able and
willing to do the work,” Baker
told reporters Friday.
Appointed by the late former Gov. Paul Cellucci, Spina
was one of three justices who
wrote separate dissents in the
court’s historic 2003 ruling
making Massachusetts the first
state in the nation to legalize
gay marriage.
“What is at stake in this case
is not the unequal treatment of
individuals or whether individual rights have been impermissibly burdened, but the power
of the Legislature to effectuate
social change without interference from the courts ... The
power to regulate marriage
lies with the Legislature, not
the judiciary,” Spina wrote.
In 2005, Spina wrote the
court’s unanimous opinion
finding that most statements
given to police may not be
used at trial unless the witness
can be cross-examined. The
ruling was criticized by advocates for victims of domestic
violence, who said victims are
often afraid to testify against
their abusers.
In the ruling, Spina wrote
that victims who make statements to police must be available for cross-examination
because the Sixth Amendment
guarantees defendants the
right to confront their accusers.
Earlier in his career, Spina
provided legal services to residents of western Massachusetts, including indigent people in landlord-tenant issues
and welfare rights cases. He
also worked as a prosecutor in
the Berkshire County District
Attorney’s Office.
Spina also served as a Superior Court judge and on the
Massachusetts Appeals Court.
In a press release announcing his retirement, the court
said Spina plans to spend more
time with his family and play
piano in an amateur chamber
music group in the Berkshires.
New York
inn makes
own snow
LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
(AP) — Lake Placid’s stately Mirror Lake Inn has its
own antidote for the mild
Adirondack Mountain winter — it’s making its own
snow.
The resort has purchased
four snow guns because
the winter has seen so little
snow.
November and December
were among the warmest
months on record in Lake
Placid. Although some
snow fell in January, warm,
wet weather early last week
melted a lot of the snow on
the ground.
The Mirror Lake Inn
had never made snow until this winter. Owner Ed
Weibrecht decided to start
doing it in December for
Christmas and created a
sledding hill for the inn’s
guests. The inn’s grounds
had the only snow in the village.
Conditions at nearby
Whiteface Mountain remain
good, thanks to a significant
base made last month.
Reborn Maine milling city offers lessons amid refugee crisis
By DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
LEWISTON, Maine (AP)
— The arrival of thousands
of Somali refugees in this former mill city in the nation’s
whitest state sparked a backlash at first, complete with a
rally of white supremacists
and a pig’s head rolled into
the local mosque.
Fifteen years later, the
Somali newcomers are solid
members of the community,
as evidenced by its proliferation of shops, restaurants and
mosques — and a championship-winning high school
soccer team featuring players from Somalia and other
African countries.
Shukri Abasheikh, owner
of Mogadishu Store, a general store that caters to the
African community, said she
and her fellow newcomers
have won respect from residents through hard work.
“When Somalis came in,
Lewiston people, Maine
people, they think we need
welfare, but we don’t need
welfare. We need jobs. We
need peace. We need education,” said Abasheikh, who
worked as a janitor before
achieving her dream of running her own business.
As the U.S. prepares to accept thousands of refugees
from war-torn Syria in coming months and years, this
riverside community illuminates the challenges such
newcomers can face — and
shows that integration can
be slow and painful, but ultimately successful.
Since February 2001, more
than 5,000 Africans have
come to Lewiston, a city of
36,500 on the Androscoggin
River, in a prime example of
what scholars call “rapid ethnic diversification.”
The first Somalis found
Lewiston after a refugee
resettlement program was
established in Portland,
Maine’s largest city.
Because of a housing
shortage in Portland, they
looked 30 miles to the north,
where aging apartments that
once housed Lewiston’s mill
workers provided plenty of
low-cost homes. Despite the
bitter winters, Somalis saw a
safe place with good schools
that was walkable and not
too big.
There was no formal plan.
It just happened.
At first, Lewiston residents
didn’t know what to make of
these newcomers who spoke
no English, providing a challenge for schools. Many knew
little of Somalia beyond news
coverage of a soldier from a
nearby town who was killed
in a Somali firefight that became the basis for the movie
“Black Hawk Down.”
Some locals resented so
many black Muslims moving
to a Roman Catholic community where the twin spires
of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul dominate the
skyline. Rumors spread that
the newcomers were getting
perks like better housing and
even free cars.
Then came a letter from
the mayor to the Somali
community in 2002, asking
them to discourage their
friends and family from moving to Lewiston, saying “our
city is maxed-out financially,
Man who
won new trial
seeks bail
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.
(AP) — A man who was
convicted of rape and spent
30 years in prison based in
part on a single strand of
hair is set to go before a
judge to ask to be released
on bail while he awaits a
new trial.
George Perrot was convicted of raping a 78-yearold woman in 1985. A judge
ruled last month that an FBI
agent’s testimony that a hair
found in the woman’s home
matched Perrot was faulty.
The U.S. Justice Department in 2014 listed Perrot’s
case as one of hundreds that
involved erroneous statements from FBI agents
about microscopic hair analysis. The FBI now acknowledges that the science is not
conclusive.
Perrot has always denied
raping the woman.
A bail hearing is scheduled for Monday in New
Bedford Superior Court.
physically and emotionally.”
An out-of-state white supremacist group seized upon
the discord to hold a rally.
Residents were bewildered to find their community painted as racist in
the national news, and that
low point became a turning
point. They began to embrace the Somali community,
and thousands staged a support rally far larger than the
handful of people with the
white supremacists.
“That was definitely eyeopening, to see that they
support and accept us,” said
Abdirahman
Mohamud,
Abasheikh’s son, who grew
up in Lewiston.
Three years after the rally,
when someone rolled the
pig’s head into the mosque,
swift condemnations followed. The governor at the
time visited Lewiston to denounce the act, and police
quickly charged the perpetrator.
Today, the smell of deepfried samboosa fills a store
in Lisbon Street, and the
aroma of basmati rice and
goat meat emanates from another. Shops feature colorful
clothing and African staples
like fufu flour.
Somalis have taken jobs
with L.L. Bean, Maine’s
iconic outdoors retailer, and
other local employers. Refugees and asylum seekers will
account for about half of
the city’s general assistance
spending in the coming year,
but overall spending is the
same as it was in 1990, said
Deputy City Administrator
Phil Nadeau.
The success flies in the face
of a wave of anti-immigration sentiment nationwide
that’s fueled by concerns
over recruitment by Muslim
extremists, something that
could cause problems for
Syrian refugees, said Westy
Egmont, director of the Immigrant Integration Lab at
the Boston College School of
Social Work.
SOLID MEMBERS — In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 Immigration opponents
photo, Abdi Said, right, trims the rubber bottoms include Republican presiof Bean Boots at an L.L. Bean factory in Lewiston, dential candidate Donald
Maine. Said, a refugee, was originally put in San
Jose, Calif., before he moved cross-country to Lewiston. “We are working hard and we’re going to school
and everything — like regular American people.
They see that we are not different,” he said. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Trump, who wants to ban
Muslims, and several governors who have rejected the
president’s call to accept Syrian refugees.
“Syrians, like all newcomer
groups, will face both a warm
welcome and serious opposition,” Egmont said, “depending on where they end up being placed.”
In Lewiston, white residents now see the black newcomers want the same things
they do — a safe place to
raise a family, good schools,
freedom and jobs, said Abdi
Said, a refugee who was originally put in San Jose, California, before he moved to
Lewiston.
“We are working hard, and
we’re going to school and
everything — like regular
American people,” said Said,
who hopes to buy a home for
his family. “They see that we
are not different.”
Longtime residents have
largely accepted the immigrants, said Jimmy Simones, whose grandfather
was a Greek immigrant who
opened Simones’ Hot Dog
Stand, an eatery that’s now
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from soccer-loving countries
helped elevate the alreadygood team to the state championship in November.
Coach Mike McGraw,
whose undefeated soccer
team featured players from
Somalia, Kenya and Congo,
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refugee camp before his family relocated to Louisville,
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