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The Falmouth Enterprise
Serving The Upper Cape Since 1895
Volume 121 Number 97
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Two Sections - Eighteen Pages
One Dollar
Mush...
Around The
Lawrence School
Ms. Freitag
Will Not Run
For Reelection
By BRENT RUNYON
Eighth graders participated in
the first-ever Lawrence School
Iditarod on Friday, a local version of the dog sled race in Alaska, where student “dogs” pulled
student mushers around a milelong course on handmade sleds.
The event tied together English, math and engineering lessons and had the added benefit of
being a lot of fun, said 8th grade
English teacher Lisbeth M. Liles.
She got the idea after witnessing
the start of the Iditarod while
traveling in Alaska last year.
Seven teams with a total of
49 students competed on the
mile-long course around Lawrence School. The course was a
scaled-down model of the real
975-mile course, complete with
checkpoints named after Alaskan towns.
The winning team comprised
musher Ryan Pina and “dogs”
Matt Aylmer, Shane Windward,
Jared Travis, Lukas Sievert, Tim
LeBoeuf and Allen Phan. They
completed the course in 12 minutes and 37 seconds.
In the Falmouth version of
the Iditarod, the “dogs” had to
stop, rest and eat twice along the
course, but instead of dog food,
the students ate cereal. “They
were allowed to hold the bowl
with their hands, but they had
to eat the food like dogs,” said
teacher Robert Porto.
Students designed, built and
tested their sleds in Mr. Porto’s
class. In all, about 86 students
participated in the event, either
by building the sleds or participating in the race, he said.
Since there is no snow, the
sleds ran on caster wheels like
those on shopping carts. The students were divided into seven
teams with one musher, six dogs,
and one alternate. If more than
one student wanted to be a musher, Mr. Porto held a vote, he said.
After the sleds were built, they
tested them in the parking lot
outside of his classroom, which
was a process of trial and error.
“The first time they got on the
sled outside, the dogs ran as fast
as they could, and the musher
fell off the back,” Mr. Porto said.
Students wore helmets during
the race and there were no injuries.
Over time, the teams learned to
work together and the mushers
also developed leadership skills,
Mr. Porto said. “The mushers,
for the most part, had the most
dominant personalities, but they
were often not the students that I
thought they would be,” he said.
The English part of the lesson
started weeks ago and coincided
with the start of the Iditarod from
Anchorage to Nome. Students in
8th grade English classes chose
a musher to follow for the entire
race, Ms. Liles said, and used the
Internet to follow their progress.
“It’s one of the few things in
the world that you can only find
works are tested out before Cape
audiences, that her passion for
contemporary theater was born.
That is not to say she does not
have an appreciation for more
classical fare. “It’s funny. I’m a
huge theater dork. One of my favorite authors is Chekhov. I love
Ibsen and I think Tennessee Williams is a genius,” she said. “But in
terms of making sure theater sustains itself for however many centuries, it is important to pave the
way for the next Chekhov, Ibsen
and Tennessee Williams because
they wouldn’t have been around if
we didn’t have Shakespeare. And
he wouldn’t have been around if
we didn’t have Euripides.”
It was also in high school where
Ms. Gould would begin to discover
another interest, aside from acting. “I think I started to feel inter-
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN
Late last week Selectman Melissa C. Freitag went out to her
mailbox on Andy’s Lane in West
Falmouth to find a large envelope
addressed to her from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University.
Inside that package was an acceptance letter. “It was so thrilling,” she said yesterday morning.
In August she will embark on a
new stage in her professional career, returning to college to earn
a second master’s degree.
Her decision to go back to
school, made relatively recently—she only took the GRE in
December—will mean that Ms.
Freitag will not be running as an
incumbent in the May election.
As a result, the board will welcome a newcomer from among
four candidates who have pulled
papers for this year’s race. The
possibilities are former Falmouth fire chief Paul D. Brodeur
of Bacon Farm Road, East Falmouth; Douglas H. Jones of Quissett Avenue; David R. Moriarty
of Lower Road, West Falmouth;
and R. Jude Wilber of Highland
Circle, Hatchville. Of those, only
Mr. Wilber has not yet returned
his signed nomination papers to
the clerk’s office.
Ms. Freitag, who currently
teaches history and political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, said prior to
enrolling at Brown University in
2004, from which she holds a master’s degree in history, she had
the Fletcher School on the short
list of graduate schools she would
like to attend.
As to why now, she said, “It was
always something in the back of
my mind... I thought this would
be a great time to do this and the
capstone of my career track. I figured I should do it now or do it
never, as I’m approaching the big
five-oh.”
Because of the demands of the
coursework, she said, she will
“need to devote 100 percent of my
time and energy to this endeavor.”
That has prompted her to pull out
of this year’s selectman’s race as
well as temporarily shelve her
teaching career so she can concentrate on her education.
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Meetings
Agricultural Commission—tonight, 5:30 PM, town hall.
Historical
Commission—tonight, 7 PM, town hall.
Beach Committee—tomorrow, 7
PM, town marina.
Conservation Commission—tomorrow, 70 PM, town hall.
Substance Abuse Commission—
Thursday, 5 PM, Gus Canty Community Center.
Community Preservation Committee—Thursday, 7 PM, town
hall.
Weather Forecast
This afternoon, it will be partly
cloudy and mild; the high will be
around 58. Tonight, it will continue
partly cloudy, with dense fog in some
areas. The low will be around 45. Tomorrow it will be foggy early, then becoming mostly sunny. The high will be
around 55 and the low will be around
46. Extended forecast for Thursday is
partly cloudy and warmer. High will
be around 69, with the low around 44.
Air 58; Sea Water 44
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Eighth graders participate in the first-ever Lawrence School Iditarod on Friday. Students designed and built their own sleds, and acted
as “dogs” and mushers for the one-mile course around the school. From left, 8th graders D’Andre Sims, Kevin Walsh, Ahmad Akkawi,
Nick Marston and Marysia Moskal race for the finish. The organizers hope to turn the Lawrence Iditarod into an annual event.
Falmouth Native Finds Home In The Theater
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN
On the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s website is a blog posting
from the fall of 2010 introducing
then-resident director Morgan D.
Gould to the New York City theater’s devotees.
“If you take the A train from
Washington Heights you might
find Morgan Gould, living under
a leaky roof with about 16 roommates, living what she calls the
glamorous life of an ‘emerging director,’ ” the piece begins.
“That was a slight exaggeration,” Ms. Gould said yesterday
afternoon with a laugh. “My roof
no longer leaks. My super fixed
that. And I now only have three
roommates.” Actually, there are
four if one counts her roommate’s
3-year-old cocker spaniel Westley
who shares their Upper Manhattan apartment.
Still, there is a kernel of truth
to Ms. Gould’s statement, one that
reflects the idea of the starving
artist. “Everyone I know, even
successful artists on Broadway,
don’t make money, ever,” she said.
“Even people who go to the Tony
Awards have to hawk everything
they own just to buy a dress for
the show. There is a Chekhovian
feel of being underpaid, underappreciated and undervalued as an
artist in our culture.”
Despite that meager subsistence, Ms. Gould would not have it
any other way, for it is here, in the
theater, she is happiest.
She learned that at an early
age, growing up in Falmouth the
younger of two children raised by
theater-loving parents, Davien B.
and Matthew R. Gould of Lantern
Avenue, Falmouth.
Both are actively involved with
the Falmouth Theatre Guild,
where the couple met. The pair
would raise their children, the
other being Louisa A. Gould, on a
steady diet of live performance.
“I was bitten by the bug before
I could remember,” Morgan Gould
said. “Actually, it was during a
Theatre By The Bay production
in Bourne of ‘Into The Woods’ that
my sister and dad were in. I had
to see every single show and there
were 20 shows. I sat through all
of them. By the time it was over,
I knew all the words and all the
parts.”
Soon Ms. Gould would join her
family on stage. Her first foray into
acting occurred during a summer
acting workshop taught by Kelly
A. Cooke, a kindergarten teacher
at the North Falmouth Elementary School. Her first role was as
Mrs. Potts from the Walt Disney
film “Beauty and the Beast.”
“I remember the costume was a
large papier-mache cup. I was so
excited to wear it, even though I
banged my shins on it every where
I walked,” she laughed.
She would take Ms. Cooke’s
classes over the next four summers before she began participating in school productions. Her
first “major breakout role, as my
mother called it,” she said, was
in 1995 when, as a 4th grader,
she was cast in Falmouth High
School’s production of the “Sound
of Music.”
Morgan Gould
Her love of the theater only
grew stronger as she acted in dozens of local plays, from “Oklahoma” to multiple performances of
“A Christmas Carol” to “An Enemy of the People,” produced by
Falmouth Public Schools and also
by the Falmouth Theatre Guild.
Today she holds a special
fondness for community theater,
which she said “has a real rigor
and care for the plays that are
put forth, especially on the Cape.
The people who do them are such
amazingly talented and dedicated
people. They instilled in me what
an amazing place the theater is. I
knew I wanted to be around that
for the rest of my life.”
It was during high school, as
an intern at Falmouth Academy’s
Cape Cod Theatre Project, that
she learned that perhaps she
could make a career in the field.
And it was there, where new
Board Seeks Ways To Improve Permitting Process
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN
Navigating the maze of bureaucracy is difficult for residents
attempting to complete a home
project. It often requires the assistance of a consultant to determine what steps are necessary to
get the project approved.
By the Falmouth Zoning Board
of Appeals’ own admission, the
process is one that is unfriendly
and one that board members
would like to improve.
Board members discussed that
goal with Falmouth selectmen
last Monday night in an effort to
see if the town’s regulatory departments and boards can make
the permitting hurdles a little
less daunting for applicants.
To achieve that goal, Matthew
J. McNamara, chairman of the
zoning board of appeals, asked
selectmen for their support in
putting together a workshop involving the town’s regulatory
agencies, from the zoning board to
the planning board to the health
department to the conservation
commission to the historical commission, to see if the permitting
process can be streamlined.
He said there may be an opportunity to eliminate duplication
of efforts among these various
boards and the departments they
serve.
In doing so, he said, applicants
would benefit because it would
take less time and be less expen-
sive for projects to be approved.
And that, he said, might promote
more business in town.
It also would result in better
decision-making among boards,
he said, an argument that fellow
board member Kenneth H. Foreman agreed with. “Often times
projects can marginally squeak
by three or four of the boards, but
in the aggregate the project isn’t
a great idea,” Dr. Foreman said,
noting that with cross-communication, certain projects could be
flagged and given special consideration by town boards to improve them.
Though appeals board member
Dennis Murphy said he and his
colleagues understand the appli-
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The Falmouth High School girls’ hockey team salutes fans at the Boston Garden on Sunday morning
after a hard-fought 3-1 loss against number one seeded Duxbury in the MA Division 2 girls’ hockey
championship game. (Story and more photographs appear in the A-section.)
cation process, “it can be intimidating” for the average resident.
It can lead to confusion among
applicants, something that fellow
board member Edwin (Scott) P.
Zylinski II said is readily apparent during their meetings. “You
can see it on their faces,” he said.
“If we simplify it or made it easier, it would be better for everybody.”
Because it is daunting for a
resident to go before the zoning
board, member Patricia P. Johnson said, applicants often have a
representative appear on their
behalf. She said she would like
to see residents “have the confidence to come before our board.
We’ve seen it lately with people
coming before [us]. I’d like to see
more of that confidence with applicants.”
One way to do that, she said, is
to integrate certain sections of
an application so it can be referenced by all the town’s regulatory
boards.
David A. Haddad of the zoning board said that compared to
neighboring towns, it takes much
longer for builders to pull a permit in Falmouth. “It may take
two months here to get a permit,
whereas neighboring towns, it
takes a week or two,” he said.
“Maybe there is an easier way.”
Mr. McNamara noted that in
some cases it can take six months
to a year before “someone can be
in the pipeline for something.”
Though those are more complicated projects, he said, not everyone has the money to navigate the
system.
“I’m not sure if I pulled a permit where to start, and here I am,
a part of the cog,” he said.
Because the town has such a
system in place, Selectman Kevin
E. Murphy said, it has a detrimental impact on local builders who
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out about from the Internet,” Ms.
Liles said. The race is not televised, and updates are few and
far between, she said. “Students
are used to having all the information that they want at their fingertips,” she said, but there are
typically hours between updates
about the race. “The information
is really sparse,” she said.
Students wrote reports about
what they learned and also wrote
letters to the mushers. The lesson gave them experience writing both formally and informally,
she said.
As an added treat, students
got to connect with a former
Falmouth resident who is also
a musher. Sarah Stokey is the
daughter of Lawrence School
nurse Andrea Stokey. Students
connected via Skype with Sarah
on Friday.
Sarah Stokey has been interested in dog sledding since she
saw “Iron Will,” the Disney movie about dog sledding when she
was 6. “It’s always been a passion of hers,” Ms. Stokey said.
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Photographs by GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
The Speed Racer team charges into the race: (from left) 8th graders Tyler Glover, Chad Hunt, Marc
Rocheleau, Jack Koss, Nate Lane and Jake Good (behind Nate). Eighth grade students following the
Iditarod race as part of Lisbeth Liles’s English class project built their own sleds and ran a one-mile
course around the school, complete with a feeding station for the “dogs” and music from the school
band.
Every Christmas and birthday
she asked her parents for a dog
team, but was disappointed each
“Sled dogs” have to be fed at a stop during the race. Marc Miller
and Annie Yakovleva eat their “dog” food (cereal).
time.
At 12, Sarah decided that she
was going to take things into her
own hands. She e-mailed fourtime Iditarod champion Susan
Butcher looking for sled dogs.
Ms. Butcher e-mailed her back
and said she had three or four
dogs that would make a great first
team for a young musher looking
to get into the sport. Sarah saved
her money, and was about to send
for the dogs, until her mother
found out and stopped her.
After graduating from Falmouth Academy in 2006, Sarah
went on to earn a degree in sociology from Northeastern University. She graduated a semester
early so she could volunteer at a
dog sledding kennel in Western
Massachusetts.
Sarah Stokey moved to Alaska in 2010, where she works at
Turning Heads Kennel with her
boyfriend Travis Beals. Sarah
hopes to qualify for the Iditarod
and race in 2013. Ms. Stokey has
visited her daughter in Alaska,
which is an amazingly beautiful
place, she said. “It really is the
last frontier,” Ms. Stokey said.
The Lawrence Iditarod was the
brainchild of Ms. Liles, who is a
first-year teacher at Lawrence
School. She grew up in Falmouth
and is a former Lawrence School
student. She is now colleagues
with Lynn O’Connell, her former
English teacher.
She was a substitute teacher
in Falmouth Public Schools last
year, and was considering moving to Alaska, but returned to
Falmouth when she got the job
at Lawrence School.
Parents and students donated
redeemable cans and bottles to
offset the costs of the project, Mr.
Porto said. The Home Depot donated about $400 worth of lumber
for the sleds, Mr. Porto said.
Falmouth Native Finds Home In The Theater
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ested in directing my senior year,”
she said. “I always had opinions
when we were doing stuff and I realized maybe directing was something I wanted to try. And it was
something I shared with my mom,
who directed me in a couple productions at the theatre guild.”
Once Ms. Gould graduated from
Falmouth High School in 2004, she
went on to study at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
The private Jesuit school represented a change for Ms. Gould,
who grew up in a non-denominational household in Falmouth. But
its motto, “To educate your whole
being, mind, body and spirit,” is
one that has a special meaning for
her as she has pursued a career in
the arts. “It is incredibly true of
the theater,” she said. “You have
to be smart, able and capable and
spiritually nourish yourself because this is really a tough career.
That has definitely shaped me
when I’ve had to make tough decisions between this gig, which may
pay me more, and this one, which
is what I love doing.”
After four years at Fordham, Ms.
Gould would not only emerge with
a bachelor’s degree in directing
and performance, but a job at the
Lark Play Development Center, changed my life and if she ever
needed anyone to mop the floor to
thanks to a college internship.
She would work there for two let me know,” Ms. Gould said. “She
years, balancing a job as an artis- wrote back 20 minutes later and
tic assistant, while forging a free- asked if I wanted to work with her
lance directing career at night. on ‘King Lear.’ I said, ‘Are you seThat meant “pulling 18-hour days, rious?’ and she said, ‘Yeah.’ ”
So she sat in on auditions for the
which I still do. I’d get up at eight
in the morning and not get home experimental play and has been a
until one or two and do that seven part of Ms. Lee’s production company ever since, including her
days a week,” she said.
She then moved on to a resi- most recent “Untitled Feminist
dency at Playwrights Horizons, Show,” which premiered in Januan off-Broadway theater devoted ary and for which Ms. Gould was a
choreographer.
to creating and
“She is one of
producing new
Share your thoughts on this story at
the premier exworks.
There
perimental playshe
assisted
wright directors
with two Obie
of our time,” Ms.
Award winners,
“Circle Mirror Transformation” Gould said, a statement backed
by Annie Baker and “Clybourne by The New York Times’ Charles
Park” by Bruce Norris. The lat- Isherwood, who called Ms. Lee
ter, which also won the Pulitzer “the most adventurous downtown
Prize, opened up on Broadway playwright of her generation” in
his review of the all-nude dancethis week.
It was during this time that Ms. piece “Untitled Feminist Show,”
Gould began working with ac- which also made mention of Ms.
claimed playwright Young Jean Gould’s contributions.
Ms. Gould serves as the associate
Lee on her adaptation of Shakeartistic director of Ms. Lee’s comspeare’s “King Lear.”
The two met after Ms. Gould pany. Her responsibilities range
wrote her an e-mail upon seeing from the administrative to helping
a performance of Ms. Lee’s “The with the casting of Ms. Lee’s tourShipment” in New York. “I wrote ing productions to prepping actors
her that it was amazing and it for those shows.
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Seeks Ways To Improve Permitting Process
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gally. But others from outside the
town, he said, may circumvent
the process and do work without
a permit. “We lose income because that job went to somebody
else,” he said. “And we lose an
upgrade on the taxable property
because the assessment has not
changed.”
He was in favor of a simplified
permit process, one that could be
expedited, to allow builders to
move projects forward.
Technology could also play a
beneficial role, Chairman of the
Falmouth Board of Selectmen
Mary (Pat) Flynn said, noting that
if applications could be submitted online, it would be one improvement. “But that doesn’t ad-
dress town hall and walking in
here and knowing where to go,”
she said.
The fear, Mr. McNamara said,
is that if it is more difficult for
builders to do business in Falmouth, they will go elsewhere.
“That doesn’t do us any good,” he
said.
Sari D. Budrow, the zoning administrator, suggested that department heads representing the
various regulatory boards meet
with applicants on larger projects in an informal roundtable
discussion. It would be a way, she
said, to provide direction to applicants while giving regulatory
boards detailed information on
these projects.
Selectman Melissa C. Freitag
raised concerns that Falmouth
Booklet Showcases The Schools
Falmouth Public Schools have
produced a glossy 20-page booklet entitled “Bringing Curiosity to
Life,” which is being distributed in
today’s Enterprise.
The booklet is designed to promote the schools from preschool to
high school, said Superintendent
Marc P. Dupuis. It will be distributed to real estate offices in towns,
the town libraries, and each of the
district schools.
The brochure is one way the
schools are trying to increase
enrollment in Falmouth Public
Schools. There is a growing competition for students from private
schools, charter schools and school
choice programs, Mr. Dupuis said.
“I think it’s giving a really positive message about all the schools,”
Mr. Dupuis said.
The brochure was designed by
Mark C. Wilson, Falmouth Public
Schools director of curriculum
and instruction, and Sonia Tellier,
director of academic affairs at Falmouth High School.
may not have the manpower to
adequately hold such sessions,
pointing out there is no administrator for the historical commission or the historic districts commission.
Dr. Foreman said that the town
may want to consider increasing
its administrative support because it would bring in more revenue than it costs. “We don’t want
to be penny-wise and pound-foolish,” he said.
Even simple changes, like having applicants sit at a table instead of standing at a lectern,
were explored as ways to reduce
some of the tension that occurs at
the board of appeals’ hearings.
Making residents feel comfortable in these settings is important, appeals board member
Patricia Favulli said. “Everyone
here will help guide the person
and make them feel at ease and
joke with them,” she said. “We
want to make them say, ‘Great. I
don’t have to pay somebody.’ ”
The group returned to Mr. McNamara’s original request calling for a workshop, even if it was
just department heads and one
member from each regulatory
board, to gather and find ways to
improve the permitting process.
“This is something selectmen
need to say is important,” Mr.
McNamara said. “A roundtable
discussion will give us an opportunity to flesh out some ideas.”
She continues to balance her
daily work with her personal one
at night. She directs a number of
new plays and staged readings
through New Georges, a nonprofit
theater company that fosters women directors.
This past November she collaborated with fellow-Falmouth
High School grad Zachary Grady,
an actor now living in New York
City, by directing a play he wrote
titled “Travis and the Terpsichorean Factory.”
“It was fun. We have a shared
history of when we used to create plays in his parents’ back yard
and our friend Colleen’s [Deasy]
house,” Ms. Gould said of the experience. “So when we went to
do his show, Colleen came down
and she said, ‘This is hilarious because this is the same type of play
you’d do in my living room, and my
parents would tell you to shut up.
Now people are paying to see it.
It’s come full circle.’”
Next month she will be directing “Monkey,” written by Matthew
Paul Olmos, which is loosely based
on the 1980s film “Trading Places”
featuring Eddie Murphy and Dan
Aykroyd, at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
At this stage in her career, Ms.
Gould knows that each play is
building toward something larger.
As to where she hopes to be in five
or 10 years, she has two goals, one
more concrete—paying off her
student loans—and the other less
tangible: “If I’m still doing this in
five, 10 or 20 years and I’m still loving what I’m doing, then I would
consider my career a success,” she
said.
She and her husband, Lee Freitag, a senior electronic engineer
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, will remain in Falmouth.
She also has left open the possibility of returning to the board
in the future. “My returning to
school in no means precludes me
from serving in the future,” Ms.
Freitag said. “Don’t be surprised
if you see my name on the ballot in
the future. I really enjoy the job,
though it is a difficult one.”
In 2009, Ms. Freitag ran successfully for her current seat, just six
months after she failed in her bid
for the state representative seat
currently held by Timothy Madden (D-Nantucket).
It marked a quick ascension up
the political ladder in Falmouth
for Ms. Freitag, who had moved
here in 2006. During her short time
here she has been active in local
government, having previously
served on the Falmouth Historical Commission and the Falmouth
Community Preservation Committee.
Ms. Freitag’s term got off to a
rocky start when just six months
into it George W. Morse of Highview
Drive, East Falmouth, dropped off
an affidavit to remove her from office. That recall, which Mr. Morse
claimed was prompted by Mary
Ann Stacey of East Falmouth, ultimately failed when organizers
were unable to obtain the necessary signatures to put the question
to voters.
To the four candidates running,
Ms. Freitag provided one piece
of wisdom shaped by that experience: “Build up a thick skin, be-
cause you will take a lot of criticism from all kinds of people,” she
said.
Despite being placed under a
microscope, Ms. Freitag has largely enjoyed her time as a selectman.
She was most proud of the accomplishments made by the board in
progressing the town’s wastewater
and drinking water efforts.
“We’ve also weathered the fiscal
storm quite well,” she said, noting
that things should be improved
when Town Meeting approves the
creation of a finance director in
Falmouth.
During her three years on the
board Ms. Freitag has served in a
number of additional capacities,
which have included being a member of the subcommittee tasked
with making recommendations
on how best to update the town’s
economic development section of
Falmouth’s Local Comprehensive
Plan. She also was the board’s
representative to the Barnstable
County Ocean Management Planning District of Critical Planning
Concern, a process that looked at
the development of wind turbines
in Cape waters.
Among the most rewarding aspects of the job has been “engaging people in conversations from
various departments, neighborhoods and interests,” she said. “It
has been very enlightening and
challenging to balance everyone’s
perspectives.”
The final recommendation Ms.
Freitag had for the four candidates running for her seat was “to
be prepared,” she said. “It is a lot
of work and it takes up a great percentage of your life. It is very rewarding work, but it is very serious
work and not to be taken lightly.”
May Election Might Have
Few Contested Races
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN
With a week left for residents to
pull papers, the selectman’s race
continues to be the only one that
will be contested in the May 15
election.
That could change as residents
have until Friday to throw their
hat into the ring for any one of the
other four races that will be on
the upcoming ballot. Those other
races are for the school committee, the planning board, the town
moderator and the library board
of trustees.
Though only three candidates
have pulled papers for the school
committee, that board could welcome a new member as incumbent Jamie E. MacDonald IV of
Old Main Road, North Falmouth,
has informed Falmouth Town
Clerk Michael C. Palmer he does
not intend to run.
Current committee members
Susan E. Augusta of Old Meetinghouse Road, East Falmouth,
and Emily Davern of Marshview
Road, East Falmouth, have pulled
papers seeking reelection. They
have been joined by Laura L. Peterson of Acapesket Road, East
Falmouth, as candidates for the
school committee.
The planning board could also
have a different look as Mr. Palmer said that incumbent Kenneth
W. Medeiros II of Meredith Drive,
Hatchville, is not planning to run
for reelection.
Incumbents Robert J. Leary
of Goeletta Drive and Douglas C.
Brown of Shorewood Drive, East
Falmouth, have pulled papers
seeking election to the planning
board for the two seats up for
grabs for a three-year term.
Paul C. Dreyer of Lakeview
Avenue, Falmouth, a member of
Falmouth Charter Review Committee, has taken out papers for
a one-year term on the planning
board.
In the town moderator race, incumbent David T. Vieira of Silent
Way, Hatchville, remains the sole
candidate.
And with the three seats up for
contention on the board of trustees
for the Falmouth Public Library,
all three incumbents have pulled
papers. They are Kathleen H. Murray of Woods Hole Road; Marilyn
G. Zacks of Saconesset Road, West
Falmouth; and Jerome S. Fanger
of Cliff Road, West Falmouth.
Friday is the last day for residents to pull nomination papers.
Tuesday, March 27, is the deadline
to return them.
Affirmative Action Committee To Meet
The Falmouth Affirmative Action Committee will meet on Friday at 7 PM in the Civil Defense
Room of Falmouth Town Hall to
present proposed changes to the
town’s affirmative action code.
The changes include additions
to the “protected classes,” which
would include sexual orientation,
gender identity, gender expression, marital status, and veteran
status. The committee also hopes
to change its name from “affirmative action” to Falmouth Human
Rights Committee to reflect the
breadth of roles and activities engaged in by the committee and the
equity/affirmative action officer.
The affirmative action code
was originally adopted by the
Falmouth Board of Selectmen in
1991.
GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
Lawrence School 8th grader Madi Andrade (left) spreads red paint over the hand of 7th grader Kiana Resende as 7th grader Brandi Wunchelo looks on. Earlier this month Madi and Abby Peterson,
who are both Advanced Project Learning students, painted the pillars in the cafeteria white and
charged students $1 each to place a handprint on top, with the money going to the American Red
Cross. The APL class promotes community service.