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Norwood celebrates first Chanukah LightingJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

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Hundreds came out on Sunday for the first annual Chanukah Menora Lighting in Norwood's recent history.PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN

While no one is definitely sureNorwood has never had a Chanukahcelebration on its Town Common inthe past, most residents agree that thelighting on Dec. 2 was a unique eventfor the Town.

Rabbi Mendy Horowitz and hiswife Rivka Horowitz from the Can-ton Chi Center organized the event,and they said they were amazed tosee people numbering in the hundredsshow up and celebrate the seasonwith them and their family.

“The message really is that at theend of the day, light will triumph overdarkness, positivity will overpowerevil, it’s just a matter of having theright perspective and giving and re-ally changing the world with acts ofgoodness and kindness,” he said.

“That’s what Chanukah is all about,that’s what every candle really rep-resents.... It’s really amazing to seethe momentum and the response,people of all faiths wanted this to hap-pen.”

Horowitz said he thought it par-ticularly important to have the light-ing due to the recent shooting in aPittsburgh synagogue, and that hewanted to bring people together aftersuch a dark act.

“Throughout the year, we have toincrease the light with acts of good-ness and kindness to make the worlda better place,” said Horowitz. “Assome of you may know, one of thereasons why I came up with the rea-son to have the lighting here tonightis what happened in Pittsburgh sev-eral weeks ago. Unfortunately, 11people were gunned down for thecrime of praying in a synagogue,

which is unspeakable and really un-believable that it happened in theUnited States of America, the great-est country on Earth, in which Jew-ish people and all people of all reli-gions should feel safe and secure topractice their religions.”

Horowitz led the crowd in a read-ing of the names of those lost and amoment of silence to remember allwho were lost.

“Although these 11 people are nothere with us, and are not able to cel-ebrate Chanukah with their family andfriends, by us lighting the candle andhaving them in our minds we are ableto continue where they left off at thesynagogue, celebrating their religionand customs.”

Horowtiz bestowed the honor ofilluminating the lights and the bless-

The Zoning Board of Appeal(ZBA) met on Tuesday, Dec. 4 fora session featuring three hearings.These ran an hour and a half anddrew a capacity crowd to acramped Room 12.

The main hearing of the nightconcerned a special permit requestfor new construction proposed toreplace the property located at 862-878 Washington St., near the inter-section of Hoyle St.

This was a return engagementfor the developers – John Roche ofJCR Real Estate Development andStefan Frey of Charles River Eq-uity Partners – who had gone be-fore the ZBA this past March seek-ing a variance for lot size insuffi-cient for the 12 units that they hadproposed for their residential con-dominium project.

Despite the enthusiasm of theBoard and those who commentedduring that hearing, the variance ap-plication was withdrawn withoutprejudice when it became clear thatthe ZBA would not bypass theTown’s zoning bylaw regarding theratio of lot size to units.

The withdrawal without preju-dice left the door open for theproperty’s developers to reapply tothe Zoning Board without having towait two years, as would have beenrequired if their variance requesthad been voted down.

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BEH, Airport Commission, andTown to have their day in court

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On Monday, Dec. 10, thecivil action filed by BostonExecutive Helicopters (BEH)against the Town of Norwoodand members of the NorwoodAirport Commission (NAC)is scheduled to be heard inUnited States District Court.

This will mark the start ofthe latest instal lment inBEH’s long, contentiousdealings with the AirportCommission as it has at-tempted to expand its busi-ness at Norwood Memorial.

This conflict – which be-gan in early 2014 and esca-lated over the next year anda half – has been driven by

BEH’s unsuccessful effort toobtain two things from theNAC:

The first is a fixed basedoperator (FBO) permit thatwould enable the helicoptercharter service – operatingout of the Airport since 2010– to broaden and diversify thescope of its aviation servicesto include, among otherthings, the sale of fuel.

The second is enough Air-port apron/ramp space for itto make its FBO business vi-able.

BEH’s case centers on itsclaim that the NAC retaliatedagainst it for exercising itsFirst Amendment r ights,which included its filing of aSuperior Court lawsuit and a

formal FAA (Federal Avia-tion Administration) com-plaint against the Commis-sion, as well as its requestsfor public records pertainingto the NAC.

Boston Executive is bas-ing its case on the AirportCommission’s demands re-garding its FBO application– which it argues were morestringent than the NAC’sstandard FBO requirements –and by the Commission’sleasing practices having to dowith Boston Executive in re-lation to FlightLevel, theAirport’s only FBO and itsmajor lessee.

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Selectmen setnew tax rate

The Board of Selectmenvoted to set Norwood’s tax ratefor fiscal year 2019 during Tues-day night’s meeting.

During a public hearing, Timo-thy McDonough, Chairman of theBoard of Assessors, along withJames Grover and RobertThornton gave a presentation tothe selectmen about Norwood’stax history to help the board makeits decision.

McDonough began the pre-sentation by explaining how thetax rate is set, which is done bydividing the Tax Levy by prop-erty values. He then proceededto show the Town’s previous taxrates for both commercial andresidential properties.

“We’ve been pretty consistenton the Tax Levy history over thepast several years,” statedMcDonough, while walking theboard through a slideshow of thetown’s data.

“It’s like trying to walk a tight-rope. There’s a fine line betweentrying to keep the residential rateto a modest increase without pil-ing it on the commercial and in-dustrial,” said Thornton.

“Clearly commercialists al-ready are paying double,” notedboard member Helen AbdallahDonohue. Donohue commentedthat Norwood’s large commercialbase is “what makes the towngreat” and said that in addition totry to be fair to the town’s privateresidents, commercial residentsshouldn’t be deterred away from

Norwood either.“For this past year, fiscal year

2018, the total percentage of ourproperty evaluation commercial is27 percent and yet, when you lookat the percentage of the TaxLevy, they’re paying 44 percentalmost 45 percent of the tax bur-den, so close to double (of whatresidential owners pay),” addedWilliam Plasko while readingthrough the Assessors report.

Once the hearing closed to thepublic, Plasko made a motion toshift the CIP (Commercial, Indus-trial, Personal Property) to 61percent from the current 57 per-cent.

“I believe that that does a fairjob of balancing what we’re try-ing to do between the effects onthe commercial and residential,”said Plasko.

Plasko said that with the 61percent shift it would increase theaverage residential homeowner’s tax bill by about $102.Last year it increased $169 andthe year before $215.

The percentage increase forcommercial properties, accordingto Chairman Thomas Maloney,would be 1.6 percent and 2.1 per-cent for residential properties.

Selectman Paul Bishop notedearlier in the hearing that it is pos-sible that not everyone would seethe same dollar increase as hous-ing styles, location and lot size allplay a role in property values. Itis important to note that this doesnot take into account the possi-bility of an operational budget

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Work has been going on at the side streets of Norwood to clean and reline water mains that needed sometender loving care.

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OPINION

override, which would add addi-tional levies on residential andcommercial properties. The fulldetails of the process of the over-ride, which many Town officialsthink could be likely if residentsdo not want to see substantial cutsto services in the Town, is cov-ered in the story on page 5.

The motion was passed unani-mously.

Earlier in the meeting the

board entertained two appoint-ments, the first from NorwoodFire Department Chief GeorgeMorrice and the second fromSuperintendent Travis Farley ofthe Recreation Department.

Both appointments were verybrief. Morrice took the time toinform the board and the publicabout an issue concerning theNational Grid lockout. Accordingto Morrice, some town residents

and businesses have looked toinstall propane tanks as they areunable to access natural gas.

“We just want to make peopleaware that if they do that, theyneed to come to the fire depart-ment to get a permit to install that.Even if it’s temporary, they needto get a permit,” said Morrice.

The next Board of Selectmenmeeting is scheduled for Tuesday,Dec. 11.

Norwood DPW almost donewith side street work

The Norwood Departmentof Public Works (DPW) is al-most finished with road workon Vernon, Day and CottageStreets adjacent to Washing-ton Street in the uptown area.

The work has shut downthese streets multiple timesand made commutes a littlehectic, but DPW DirectorMark Ryan said the work ispart of an ongoing process theTown is undertaking to makesure water mains in the groundcontinue to provide clean wa-ter.

“The Town of Norwoodcleans some water main linesevery year, and this helps withthe aesthetics of the waterand also improves the flows,”Ryan said. “The inside of thewater main, the old cast iron,builds tuberlucation, and thatbasically is the buildup of met-als that are naturally in thewater. That’s where you mightsee rusty water, but it’s notdangerous.”

The buildup can also causeflow problems, and Ryan saidthey not only clean the lines,but then line the pipes with ce-ment to prevent rust buildup inthe future.

“We cleaned and linedabout 3,700 feet of six-inchwater main for this project andthe total project bid price was$747,000,” he said.

The project began this past

September, and Ryan pointedout that it’s not just the watermains they have to worryabout.

“We started the project atthe beginning of Septemberand because we were going tobe shutting the water maindown, we had to build anabove-ground water bypassinfrastructure,” he said. “Wewere providing water serviceto all the buildings and also forfire protection.... During thattime in September, Octoberand November we were in-stalling bypasses, cleaning thewater main, lining the waterand, as of Monday, Dec. 3, allthe properties are back on thenewly-lined water main.”

Right now, Ryan said theyare finishing up and getting ridof the bypass. “And this weekthe project will be 100 percentcomplete,” he said.

However, the work will con-tinue next year.

“We have 120 miles of wa-ter main and, to date, about 70percent of that is lined,” he said.“So each year we try to do about3,000 feet more or less of clean-ing and lining in areas where wehave unlined water mains.”

Ryan said residents may havenoticed a few bypass lines rup-tured and overflowing, but saidany money lost from that is builtinto the contractor’s bid and con-tract, and the Town is not pay-ing for water down the tubes.

“It’s not uncommon for apipe to be damaged by a vehiclegoing over it, something hittingit or something like that,” Ryansaid. “So the contractor hassomeone on standby for whenthat happens. We call them,they come out and they repairit; that’s part of the normalworkload.”

An example of the buildup old pipes can garner after being in use fordecades.

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Norwood has been battered and bruised over the last de-cade, arguably longer. And though present circumstancesaren’t as bad as some residents have expressed publicly, thingsinarguably haven’t been going well, and the moniker of “TheCrown Jewel of the Commonwealth” is only being tossedaround by those refusing to acknowledge that serious mis-takes have been made on many levels of Town government,tarnishing a reputation constructed by others over centuries.

Not all is the fault of public officials, but a strong argu-ment can be made that running a municipality the size ofNorwood requires more than a part-time, unpaid group ofelected Selectmen. And with public apathy seemingly at anall-time high, challenges to the existing power structure justdon’t occur, which is too bad. Nationally, the hue and cry isthat the nation needs fresh new blood to invigorate the masses.Well, if this is true nationwide, why is it any different here?

The onslaught of multi-unit housing is the result of poorplanning and decision making. Real estate parcels availablefor the Town to purchase over the years were ignored due toa lack of vision. Recent examples include the Old Stop &Shop on Central Street, now a massive housing complex,and all of the land at Upland Woods, also a monstrous hous-ing facility, just to name a couple. The recent purchase of theForbes Hill property was the result, in part, of ignorance andpoor legal representation, placing the Town in a position tobe extorted by developers knowing Norwood had no lever-age. Now, the minimum asking price to sell it is less thanwhat the Town paid, and will probably end up with the verysame housing the Town was hoping to avoid. The soon-to-be Avalon Woods housing monolith could have been mar-keted to commercial entities looking to move or expand op-erations, given its location so close to highways and publictransportation. However, no one ran with the responsibilityof attracting said companies. No one appeared to have theknowledge, energy and will to do so.

It’s this same inertia that has Norwood’s infrastructure indire need of attention. Deferred maintenance motivated bytaking the easy way out to balance budgets has some build-ings on the precipice of extinction. Lack of leadership hasthe uptown area of Washington Street continuing to lookdeserted, littered with empty storefronts. South Norwoodcontinues to struggle.

This newspaper has written before and we continue tosuggest that Norwood should seriously consider changing itscurrent form of government. Mayoral leadership, with somesort of a city council, is the direction some other towns havechosen to take. There is no guarantee that such a metamor-phosis will provide wholesale positive changes around here,but circumstances suggest that current leadership is incapableof dealing with the challenges municipalities now face on aday-to-day basis.


No rabbits to pull out of ahat for the budget this year

JefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

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Almost 200 residentspacked into the Norwood HighSchool auditorium on Thursday,Nov. 29, to hear of Norwood’sbudget problems and the pos-sibility of an operational bud-get override proposal.

While the Town has beenable to make up several bud-get shortfalls in the past, Bud-get Balancing Committee(BBC) Chair Alan Slater saidthis year will mean either anoverride or severe cuts to ser-vices.

“Quite frankly, we have nomore rabbits to pull out of thehat,” he said. “I think for thefirst time this could mean weget a significant reduction ofservices and possible large-scale layoffs.”

The biggest problem withthe budget, according to TownManager Tony Mazzucco, isstate law. He explained that inthe 1980s, the MassachusettsLegislature placed a cap onmunicipalities’ ability to in-crease rates for propertytaxes. Property taxes are, ac-cording to Mazzucco, the big-gest and most significant in-come a municipality generates.

He said that when the lawwas originally envisioned, it

was to be a cap of about $25per year, but the state then de-cided, somewhat arbitrarily ac-cording to Mazzucco, that thecap should be a 2.5 percent in-crease annually of existingtaxes for each municipality.This proposition (Prop 2 ½)went into effect in 1982, with1.4 million residents voting forit and 988,839 voting against.

“We are dealing with a 30-plus year old system for limit-ing tax growth and numbersthat were artificially set de-cades ago,” he said.

Mazzucco said that whilethe Town has the ability tocharge fees for services, thosefees have to be justified by theservice, so the Town has tocharge what the service costsand can’t really increase rev-enues that way.

He went on to say that thecurrent numbers for creatingwhat the BBC members call alevel services budget would re-quire an $8.7 million increasein revenue.

According to the BBC, thiswould mean an annual increaseof $574.60 for the average ho-meowner in Norwood,amounting to a monthly in-crease of $48 or $1.58 per day.Mazzucco said that numbercould be lowered sometimesoon if the Forbes Hill property

gets sold and, though he saidhe is confident the property willsell, they cannot factor the salein while creating the budget.

Mazzucco said one of thereasons for the deficit is thefact that much of the mainte-nance the Town needs to dohas been deferred to savemoney in the short-term. Hesaid this kind of thinking can-not continue, as it has madewhat were once smaller andinexpensive problems intolarger ones. He said theTown’s reliance on free cashas a stop-gap measure in thepast to keep the budget bal-anced has resulted in a verysmall amount of free cash be-ing left over for this fiscal year.He said they have $1.7 million,and a good chunk of that willmost likely have to go intosnow removal.

For perspective, he said inthe Town of Adams, Massachu-setts, where he used to workas a town manager, they had asurplus of free cash of $1.7 mil-lion as well, but the budget hewas working with was onlyaround $9.7 million. Norwood,for this year at least, is work-ing with a total budget of about$79.6 million.

“Our free cash generation


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Chanukah continued from page 1ing to Norwood resident and Holocaust survivor AaronGreenfield. He said he met Greenfield last week. Greenfieldsaid he was one of nine children before Nazi Germany’s sys-tematic collection and slaughter of Jews throughout Europe.He said only he and one of his sisters survived.

“They were all killed in Auschwitz,” he said. “I lied aboutmy age and said I was 16, but I was 15. They said if youwere 16, go to the right. That’s how I survived, my mothersaid to me to put on long pants to look older. Even though weknew about what was going to happen, there was nothing wecould do. We stood there, left, right; they emptied the ghet-tos, stood in line and went left or right. Nine children, mylittle sister was five, and all were killed.”

Residents Michael Salzman, Jessica Regan-Salzman andMike and Helen Regan said they came out to support eachother during the holidays. Jessica, Mike and Helen’s daugh-ter converted to Judaism when she married her husbandMichael, and the Regans said they came out to support theirfamily and maybe get a few donuts and latkes.

“They live in Attleboro, but she is connected with Norwoodthrough Norwood Now on Facebook and she told us aboutit,” Helen Regan said. “She was all excited because this isNorwood’s first event. They came to the house and we had latkesand some other food. We came down and I’m amazed at the turn-out.”

Jessica and Michael have been married for 15 years and thefamily has been celebrating along with them ever since.

“I was born and raised in Norwood and it’s just amazing to havethe first one here,” Jessica said. “We’re surprised because a lot ofthe Chabad events we’ve been to in Mansfield and Stoughton havenot had large turnouts, so this is awesome.”

Resident Deborah Liu said she’s happy to see the celebrationtake place, as several children ran around dancing to Chanukahsongs.

“We’ve been living in Norwood since 2001, and I grew up herein the 1960s and I don’t remember ever having one of these,” shesaid. “I’m not of the Jewish faith, but I wanted to come out hereand support the community.”

Selectmen Chair Tom Maloney said, “I think the response isoutstanding”. “There are so many people from Norwood here too,people I recognize. The organization is from Canton, so I think thisis a great turnout and it just shows you how Norwood embracespeople of all faiths.”

Rabbi Horowitz said the success of this event has led his familyto already start thinking about next year.

“Someone suggested we get a double-height menorah, so we’llwork on that,” he said. “The Canton Chi Center sponsored this, andit was kind of costly... We’re working on it, but thank God we havea nice menorah here. This is a nice starter and maybe next yearwe’ll have the momentum to do more of an indoor Chanukah cel-ebration for the families.”

Horowitz said there may have been some divine interventionjust for this event.

“Thank God we had the celebration here because the rain stoppedas soon as we started,” he said.

rents approximately 14 acresof Airport land, while BEHrents about 30,000 squarefeet of it, 15,000 of whichholds a hangar and fuel farmbuilt by the company in 2013– with NAC approval – in an-ticipation of receiving itsFBO permit.

In November of 2017,Judge Richard G. Stearns –who is presiding over the fed-

eral case – ruled against theTown’s motion for a sum-mary judgment, determiningthat the dispute over whetheror not BEH’s exercise of freespeech was a motivating fac-tor in the NAC’s subsequentconduct toward the FBO ap-plicant was worth hearing incourt.

Closely related to the caseis the FAA Director’s Deter-

mination issued in early No-vember coming down in fa-vor of BEH in its formal com-plaint against the Town andthe Airport Commission.This complaint addressedmuch of what the civil suitwill focus on: the NAC’sFBO permit application re-quirements and its leasingpractices regarding BEH.

The Town has filed an ap-

peal of this decision with theFAA.

Although the FAA andU.S. District Court are sepa-rate and independent, the ar-gument that BEH made to theformer will be in large part –according to its legal counselMichael C. Fee (of Pierce &Mandell, P.C.) – the same onethat it intends to present tothe latter.

Also of note is an earlierruling by Judge Stearns,made in July of 2017, thatrelieved the National UnionFire Insurance Company ofits obligation to cover theTown in the current litiga-tion, citing the insurancepolicy’s exclusion regarding“knowing” violations of will-

ful intent on the part of theNAC – and by extension theTown – to injure BEH.

At the time of that ruling,the Massachusetts InterlocalInsurance Association (MIIA)picked up the coverage for theTown’s litigation expenses forthe case, although the poten-tial remains for the Town tobe liable if the decision comesdown against it.

As of going to press, nosettlement has been reachedbetween the Town and BEH.

Jury selection, followed bythe trial, is scheduled to be-gin at 9 a.m. on Monday, Dec.10 in Courtroom 21 of theMoakley United States Court-house (1 Courthouse Way,Boston).

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is nowhere near what it shouldbe,” Mazzucco said.

Norwood Public SchoolsSuperintendent DavidThomson said that despitemaking cuts everywhere theypossibly could in the past, thistime he thinks the cuts will befelt throughout the district. Hesaid they are about $2.7 mil-lion short in terms of the struc-tural deficit.

“There are not a lot of ex-tra things to cut,” he said. “I’mnot recommending we lay off50 people, because we wouldnot be educating, we would bewarehousing.”

The deficit currently in-creases by about a million peryear. Thomson said they havealready cut significant positionsto the point where the depart-ment cannot guarantee at leasttwo years of foreign languageeducation, which affects thedepartment’s ability to apply forgrants and participate in otherprograms. He said they havelost several full-time equivalentpositions over the last fewyears, including 1.4 of a sci-ence teacher, 2.0 foreign lan-guage teachers, 1.6 social stud-ies teachers, .6 of math .2 ofmusic, and .3 of MCASremediation, and that’s just inthe High School.

Residents were then af-forded an opportunity to ask theBBC questions during themeeting, and also present ideasto help close the budget gap,but the BBC and Mazzuccosaid all of the ideas expressedwould not get the Town out ofthis hole.

One resident asked aboutthe possibility of ending theTown’s moratorium on recre-ational marijuana as a meansof increasing revenue, andMazzucco said that while thetwo dispensaries currentlyopen in other towns are doingamazing business – $2.2 mil-lion in the first five days – oncethe novelty wears off andother dispensaries open, thatwill most likely start to godown. He said even if it didn’t,it would not likely fix the gap.

Mazzucco said that if theTown was able to build 130new homes every year it wouldbe enough to close the gap.

“The problem is we don’thave enough room for 130new homes,” he said.

Resident Julie DonnellyMathews asked about chang-ing the tax rate for seniors anddisabled persons so that per-sons with fixed incomes wouldnot be hit so hard by an op-erational override. Mazzuccosaid this was something tothink about, but pointed outthat the state has the final sayon how revenues can be col-lected and, as far as he isaware, there is no law ormechanism that would allowa municipality to charge dif-ferent rates based on age. Hesaid income would also haveto be a consideration, sincemany residents over the ageof 65 still have incomes.

Thomson said he lives inNorton, which is one of thefew other towns in Massachu-setts not to have had an op-erational override since the

state enacted Prop 2.5. Hesaid Norton had decided notto pass an override four timesnow, and the results hit resi-dents hard. This discussioncame up when a residentasked why the Town couldn’thire a third party trash re-moval service and charge afee for that service. By resi-dent Peter MacFarlane’s reck-oning, this would free up $2million the Town pays fortrash collection salaries andequipment each year.

Selectman Bill Plasko saidthey had done this calculationbefore and the numbers werenot great. He said the feewould start off around $145per year and rise to about $275,with residents absorbing thecost completely. Thomson saidsomething like this was passedin Norton as well.

“I have to pay for my owntrash removal,” Thomson said.“I wish I was paying $145.”


Police Logs Monday November 261211 Cellular - B & E Residence *Re-

port Filed Location/Address:Chapel Ct Report door to apart-ment found open.

1432 Walk-In - Hit And Run *ReportFiled Location/Address: NorwoodPlaza - Nahatan St Report car side-swiped parked, unoccupied. N666reports no note left, no camera work-ing at Shaw’s.

1438 Cellular - Complaint Of Mv AreaSearch Negative Location/Ad-dress: Elliot St Report of aMercedes, silver, blue and whiteplate maybe State of CT,u nknownnumbers/letters, excess of 50mph,always at high school dismissal.

1450 Initiated - Well Being Chk Spo-ken To Location/Address: ChapelSt N667 received information thatresident returned home. N667 re-ports he is ok.

1530 Phone - Animal ComplaintNACO/WACO notified Location/Address: Fairview Rd Report 2squirrels in attic. N.A.C.O. to callresident.

1729 Phone - Susp Vehicle *ReportFiled Location/Address: ArnoldRd Red Honda parked for a weekwithout being moved.

2000 Phone - Assist Other AgencyServices Rendered Location/Ad-dress: Sturtevant Ave Quincy Po-lice Department requests check ofaddress for MA PC 26D720 whichwas involved in an armed robberyin their city. Officers identifiedthose parties, notified Quincy PD.

Tuesday November 270003 Phone - Susp Activity Services

Rendered Location/Address:Bradford Dr Resident reports see-ing flashlights at vacant housebehind his. Officers spoke to anauthorized party on scene whowas checking water pumps with aflashlight.

0109 Phone - Noise Complaint Ser-vices Rendered Location/Address:Sturtevant Ave Caller reports thereis a car running in driveway nextdoor, keeping him up. N669, N664responded. No car in driveway.Neighbor in same building had airconditioning unit on and turned itoff for the night.

1024 Initiated - Citizens ComplaintState DPW/Norwood DPW NO Lo-cation/Address: Beacon St N661reports the “Beacon St” street signis lying on sidewalk.

1031 Phone - Lost And Found Ser-vices Rendered Location/Address:Norwood Engineering Co - Bos-Prov Hwy Report bicycle leaningup against a tree on left side of build-ing. DPW assisted with transport-ing it to station. N667 checks sto-len bike reports-no matches. N667filled out the Lost and Found En-try Form.

1256 Phone - Well Being Chk SpokenTo Location/Address: Juniper DrSubject home and will call family in

Florida.1257 Phone - Hit And Run *Report

Filed Location/Address: ShurfineMarket - Nahatan St Vehiclebacked into the building bumpingthe AC unit.

1410 Phone - Lost And Found Trans-ported To Hospital Location/Ad-dress: Chapel St DPW workersfound a debit card and baseballcards in a leaf bag.

1541 Phone - Well Being Chk SpokenTo Location/Address: 49 -Yarmouth Rd Report mailman inmail truck, head on steering wheelfor awhile. N663 reports he is ok.

Wednesday November 280753 Phone - Warrant Service

*Arrest(S)Made Location/Ad-dress: Mill Pond Ln WMS arrest.Refer To Arrest: 18-491-AR Arrest:Mcauley, Jason D Address: 8 MillPond Ln Norwood, Ma Age: 42Charges: Warrant Arrest

1006 Walk-In - Auto Theft *ReportFiled Location/Address: PlymouthDr Vehicle entered into NCIC.

1034 Walk-In - Assist Citizen *ReportFiled Location/Address: KappysCoins & Stamps - Washington StParty reports a lost wallet with alarge amount of cash.

1056 Phone - Threats *Protective Cus-tody Location/Address:Springvale Rd Party transported tohospital on Section 12.

1338 Phone - Susp Activity SpokenTo Location/Address: WestoverPkwy SP activity and possibleB&E attempt. Officers report allsecure.

1420 Phone - Susp Activity ServicesRendered Location/Address:Tremont St Male party looking intrash bins. N663 spoke to him andall is well.

1508 Phone - Larceny *Report FiledLocation/Address: Dean St Reportof two stolen off road motor bikes.

1737 Initiated - Susp Activity SpokenTo Location/Address: Lenox St +Washington St Group of individu-als gathering. Parties were waitingfor a ride.

1757 Phone - Noise Complaint Spo-ken To Location/Address: Blos-som St Caller reports white vanplaying loud music. Officer’s spoketo operator, he was charging hisphone and is moving along.

2048 Phone - Susp Activity AreaSearch Negative Location/Ad-dress: Talbot Farm Rd Caller re-ports 3 male parties knocked on herdoor then tried to open the door,Parties were in a Toyota Rav 4 colorred. N666, N663 searched the areawith negative results.

2103 Phone - Well Being Chk ServicesRendered Location/Address: ElmSt Dedham PD would like a checkon the resident at this address.N664,N665 went to the addressand the party in question does notlive there.

2229 911 - Well Being Chk Services

Rendered Location/Address:Maple St Caller requesting a checkon his friend. N665, N664 spoke tothe party and her mother, she isfine. All checked out OK.

2239 911 - Susp Activity Gone On Ar-rival Location/Address:Mcdonalds - Broadway St Callerreports that four individuals inblack clothing keep entering andleaving the store. She believes theyleft in a green jeep, unknown direc-tion.

Thursday November 290157 911 - Assist Citizen Fire Dept

Notified/Respo Location/Address:Plymouth Dr Public assist. NFD re-sponded and handled same.

0201 Initiated - Parking Violation Park-ing Ticket Issued Location/Ad-dress: St Paul Ave all night park-ing, St Paul. Allandale, Pond andHeaton. 5 tickets issued.

0202 Initiated - Parking Violation Park-ing Ticket Issued Location/Ad-dress: Plymouth Dr Plymouth Dr.area 17 tickets issued.

1414 Phone - Susp Activity AreaSearch Negative Location/Ad-dress: Crestwood Cir Ble top andjeans walking around the drive-ways .Possible utility worker butGOA

1714 Initiated - Assist Citizen ServicesRendered Location/Address: Win-ter St + Spruce Rd Individual fromnearby group home did not wantto go back. Officer’s spoke with theparty and they agreed to go backwith a counselor.

1836 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:Percival Brewing Company -Morse St

1858 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:The Feisty Greek - Vanderbilt Ave

1904 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:Courtyard By Marriott - RiverRidge Dr

1931 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:Emmets Of Norwood - Bos-ProvHwy

2010 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:Olde Colonial Cafe - Nahatan St

2055 Initiated - Liquor Law Violation*Report Filed Location/Address:Shabu Lee - Washington St

2233 Phone - Susp Person Gone OnArrival Location/Address:Winfield St Caller reports an indi-vidual walking up and down thestreet yelling on his phone.

Friday November 300129 Walk-In - Well Being Chk *Pro-

tective Custody Location/Ad-

dress: Extra Space Storage - Wash-ington St Party in lobby reports hesaw a man sleeping by the door ofExtra Space Storage. N667,N663 re-sponded and located party whowas taken into protective custodyand taken home. Party was re-leased to the custody of hisbrother.

0209 Initiated - Parking Violation Park-ing Ticket Issued Location/Ad-dress: Washington St 5 tickets is-sued, Washington St, Sturtevant,St John.

0731 Phone - Assist Citizen SpokenTo Location/Address: RailroadAve + Hill St Traffic supervisorstates a male party reported to herthat his wallet was stolen. Officersarrived and met with known partythat was a little confused today andtold several different stories includ-ing it being stolen in Boston. Ad-vised.

0832 Phone - Larceny *Report FiledLocation/Address: Regal Press Inc- Guild St Caller reports wire sto-len.

1100 Phone - Unwanted Party ServicesRendered Location/Address:Springvale Rd Both parties spokento and matter was resolved.

1104 Phone - Unwanted Party ServicesRendered Location/Address: ExtraSpace Storage - Washington StParty moved along.

1159 Walk-In - Bad Check (S) AssistedParty Location/Address: Remark-able Cleanouts - Endicott St Partyadvised. Victim is away on vaca-tion, will contact station upon re-turn.

1219 Phone - Assist Citizen Gone OnArrival Location/Address: Wal-nut Ave Caller reports 4 suspiciousmales, early 20s, sitting on wall.

1342 Phone - Well Being Chk *Pro-tective Custody Location/Ad-dress: Winter St + Elm St Femaletransported to hospital on Section12.

1416 Phone - Susp Activity ServicesRendered Location/Address:Bos-Prov Hwy Caller reports twomen in camo walking into thewoods. Parties check out, all iswell.

1436 Phone - Larceny *Report FiledLocation/Address: North Plain StReport of a stolen package.

1720 Phone - Susp Activity AreaSearch Negative Location/Ad-dress: Bos-Prov Hwy + Ellis AveCaller reports possible hunting inthe woods. N661 and N667 to in-vestigate. N667 and N661 reportsnobody in the area.

1803 911 - Drunk Driver Gone On Ar-rival Location/Address: AdamAnd Eve - Bos-Prov Hwy Callerreports possible DK party cameinto the business and left. She re-ported the vehicle as MA Reg1AN298. N666 and N665 respond-ing to the area.

1948 Phone - Susp Person Could NotLocate Location/Address:Neponset St + Dean St Caller re-ports male party walking in andout of traffic. N667 and N670 re-sponding.

2122 Phone - Report Of Fight Spo-ken To Location/Address:Codman Rd Caller reports pos-sible fight in front of her residence.N661. N667, and N666 respond-ing. N661 reports there was nofighting and it was just a largegroup of juveniles being loud. Par-ties sent on their way.

2303 Phone - Parking Violation Spo-ken To Location/Address: BeechSt + Day St Caller states there is aparty in the neighborhood whichis causing parking issues. Shestates vehicles are parked on bothsides of the street which leave noroom to drive through. N664 andN666 responding. Parking issuewas resolved.

Saturday December 10049 Phone - Noise Complaint Spo-

ken To Location/Address: EatonVillage - Neponset St Caller statesher neighbor is constantly jump-ing around and smashing thingskeeping her up. Officers re-sponded and stated all was quietupon arrival. Advised caller tospeak with property managementon Monday morning.

0834 Phone - Larceny *Report Filed

Location/Address: RobinwoodRd Caller reports theft of his pass-port.

2001 Phone - Unwanted Party GoneOn Arrival Location/Address:Bamboo Cafe - Washington StCustomer causing a disturbanceafter being refused service.

2212 Phone - Disturbance *ReportFiled Location/Address:Norwood Hospital - WashingtonSt Security requests assistance fora party who may have drugs onhis person. See call 18-25244.

Sunday December 20119 Phone - Hit And Run

*Arrest(S)Made Location/Ad-dress: Oak Rd Bolo out of Foxboro@ Patriot Place for Hit & Run of 2pedestrians. ( Ma. Reg# 6CA483)coming back to Norwood Ad-dress. N667,N665,N678,N668 re-spond to home. Driver pulls upand arrested on OUI and probablecause for H&R of 2 pedestrians inFoxboro. Negoshian’s towed ve-hicle. Refer To Arrest: 18-497-ARArrest: Henry, Matthew RobertAddress: 39 Oak Rd Norwood, MaAge: 23 Charges: Oui Liquor

0413 Other - Susp Activity Fire DeptNotified/Respo Location/Ad-dress: Town Hall - Washington StCall from passerby reportingsmoke coming from roof of townhall. NFD,N667 responded. NFDreports it is coming from smokestack. All in order.

0430 911 - Noise Complaint ServicesRendered Location/Address: SSector - Norwest Dr Caller reportsyelling and banging against thewall coming from the apartmentthat abuts her son’s bedroom. Shedid not want to be identified infear of retaliation. N667,N678,N665responded, listened and checkedon residents in that immediateblock. Unable to locate any signsof trouble.

0558 911 - Larceny *Report Filed Lo-cation/Address: Olde Derby RdCaller reports she is missing jew-elry from her apartment while shewas in the hospital. N667 re-sponded.

0639 Phone - Assist Citizen AssistedParty Location/Address: BarberryLn N665 assisted resident at hishome with his dog.

0725 911 - Well Being Chk SpokenTo Location/Address: WestoverPkwy Elder female called 911 try-ing to reach her son at NorwoodHospital. She seemed a little con-fused. N679,N666 sent for a well-being check. They said she is fineand assisted her in getting intouch with him.

1350 Phone - Susp Activity ServicesRendered Location/Address:Walpole St Door is unlocked to theapartment no apparent B&E. Resi-dent advised and is flying hometonight and will call on arrival.

1709 Phone - Assist Citizen SpokenTo Location/Address: Center AutoBody - Carnegie Row Caller reportsa customer is being argumentativeabout taking his car that wastowed. N667 spoke to that partyand they will return during busi-ness hours.

1724 Phone - Assist Citizen SpokenTo Location/Address: Walpole StCaller reports she would like tospeak to an officer regarding herrights on a past tenant. N665 re-ports advice given.

1736 Phone - Disturbance Spoken ToLocation/Address: NorwoodHospital - Washington StSwitchboard operator reportscode gray an out of control pa-tient at the hospital requestingan officer. N669 reports thatparty was spoken to and calmeddown.

2011 911 - Civil Dispute Civil Mat-ter Location/Address:Mcdonalds - Union/Rte1 - Bos-Prov Hwy Manager requestsassistance for an employee whorefuses to clock out for break.Matter resolved prior to officer’sarrival.

2041 Phone - Susp Activity AreaSearch Negative Location/Ad-dress: Walpole St + ChickeringRd Party out walking heard thesound of glass break. Officersspoke to reporting party andsearched the area, negative re-

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DAUPHINAISAgnes M. (Mahony) Of

Norwood passed away on No-vember 26, 2018 at the age of 78.Daughter of the late Thomas U.and Ruth F. (Massey) Mahony.Loving sister of Jane Gulla and herlate husband Anthony Gulla ofWalpole, Elizabeth A. Tomm andher husband Frederick of E.Walpole and the late RobertMahony. Agnes was born inNorwood and was a NorwoodHigh School Graduate and thenwent on to Graduate fromBridgewater State College receiv-ing a Bachelor’s Degree in Teach-ing. She was a longtime teacher inthe Walpole School System beforeher retirement. Agnes was a mem-ber of the Walpole Country Cluband achieved 4 holes in one dur-ing her years golfing at the club.She was also a Historian and mem-ber of the Women’s MassachusettsGolf Assoc. A funeral mass was

held at St. Mary’s Church E.Walpole, MA. Burial will be held ata later date. In lieu of flowers do-nations may be made in her nameto the Juvenile Diabetes ResearchFoundation, JDRF 26 Broadway,14th Floor New York, NY 10004.kraw-kornackfuneralhome.comFamily Owned and Operated 781-762-0482

FLECKAnn D. (Duffie) Of Franklin,

formerly of Walpole, Nov 26. Be-loved wife of the late Raymond F.Fleck, and dear mother of WilliamD. and his wife Susan, of Franklin,and Carol A. Whetzel and her hus-band Michael D. Sr., ofChambersburg, PA. Loving sisterof the late Jean Gardner and thelate Marcia Durfor. Proud grand-mother of Melanie Taylor, MichaelD. Whetzel Jr., Janet Lundgren,and Timothy, Joyce, and DianeFleck, and dear great-grandmother

of Nathan and Joshua Whetzel,Malachi Taylor, Susanna, Rosalia,Zachary and Amy Lundgren, andZoe and Theodore Fleck. A funeralmass was held at First BaptistChurch of NorwoodNorwood,MA. followed by interment inMount Pleasant Cemetery,Harwichport. If desired, donationsin Ann’s memory can be made tothe First Baptist Church (addressabove) or to the Ann D. FleckScholarship Fund at HillsideSchool, 404 Robin Hill St.,Marlborough, MA 01752. Forobituary and guest book please visitwebsite. Folsom Funeral Homewww.folsomfuneral.com

LYDONMary A. (McMenamin) Of

NH, formerly of Roslindale,passed away on November 28,


SENIOR NEWSLibrary EventsDR. HYLANDER PRESENTS “ABANDONSHIP: THE USS INDIANAPOLIS

Come to the Morrill Memorial Library on Monday,December 10 at 7 p.m. for the final lecture of the year bypopular historian Dr. Gary Hylander, who will present“Abandon Ship: The USS Indianapolis.”

After delivering an atomic bomb to Tinian Islandfor the air attack on Hiroshima, the Indianapolis wastorpedoed by a Japanese sub on July 30, 1945. An esti-mated 300 sailors were killed immediately and another900 swept into the Pacific. Battered by high seas andfighting off sharks, hypothermia, and dehydration, onlyone-third of the men made it back alive. While CaptainCharles McVay III survived the sinking, he was neverthe same. An official cover-up was already underway.The sinking of the Indianapolis was the single worst navaldisaster in American history. To sign up for this pro-gram, please call 781-769-0200, x110, [email protected], or stop by the library Refer-ence or Information Desk.

HOLIDAY FILM SERIESThe Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood will hold

a Holiday Movies Film Series this December with a mixof morning and evening show times. From treasuredholiday classics to modern gems, these films are sureto spread holiday cheer. The series will kick off onTuesday December 11 at 10:30 am with the 2008 film,“Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage,” rated PG andrunning 1 hour 36 minutes, starring Peter O’Toole,Jared Padalecki, and Marcia Gay Harden. Next, onFriday December 14 at 10:30 am we’ll show the 1946classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” rated PG and run-ning 2 hours 10 minutes, starring James Stewart,Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore. On MondayDecember 17 at 6:30 pm we’ll show the 1994 com-edy/drama “Mixed Nuts,” rated PG-13 and running 1hour 37 minutes, starring Steve Martin, MadelineKahn, Robert Klein and directed by Nora Ephron.Then, on Friday December 21 at 10:30 am we’ll beshowing the 2006 film “The Nativity Story,” rated PGand running 1 hour 41 minutes, which was the firstfilm to have its world premiere in Vatican City. Fi-nally, on Wednesday December 26 at 6:30 pm we’llshow the 1998 feel-good movie “You’ve Got Mail,”rated PG and running 1 hour 59 minutes, starring TomHanks, Meg Ryan, and Greg Kinnear. Light refresh-ments will be served. To sign up for any or all of thesefilms, please call the Reference Desk at 781-769-0200x110, email [email protected], or visit the Ref-erence or Information Desk.

TEA AND FINE CHOCOLATEIndulge your taste for tea and chocolate by joining

Kim Larkin of Klassic Kreations at the Morrill MemorialLibrary on Thursday, December 13 at 6:30 pm. Ms. Larkinwill present her workshop, “A Pleasant Pairing: Tea &Fine Chocolate” to the first 45 people to sign up. This is aneducational talk highlighting the history and health ben-efits of tea and dark chocolate (cacao), with insights fromher background as a commercial chocolatier. The presen-tation includes samplings of tea, tea-infused food, variouschocolates, trivia, poetry, an antique teapot/lace display,and more. To register, please call 781-769-0200, x110 or222, email [email protected], or stop by the libraryReference or Information Desk.

“EASY LIKE WATER”The fall Sustainability Series on climate change, pre-

sented by Together Yes, will continue at the Morrill Me-morial Library on Wednesday, December 12 at 6:30 p.m.with a screening of the film, “Easy Like Water.” InBangladesh—the size of Iowa with a population of 160million—low-lying areas are flooded every year duringthe monsoon season, upending entire villages and destroy-ing hundreds of schools. On the front line of climatechange, architect Mohammed Rezwan is building float-ing schools from surplus boats to bring education toyoung people, including girls who have never had theopportunity because of cultural or religious restrictions.To sign up for this evening of film and discussion, pleasecall 781-769-0200, x110, [email protected], or stop by the library Refer-ence or Information Desk.

BOOK CLUB TO DISCUSS “NORA WEBSTER”The Morrill Memorial Library’s monthly Turn the

Page Book Group will meet on Wednesday, December19 at 10 am and at 7 pm to Colm Toibin’s award-win-ning novel, “Nora Webster.” Patty Bailey and guest hostKate Tigue will lead the discussion of this character-driven literary fiction set in Ireland. Widowed at forty,with four children and not enough money, Nora has lostthe love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued herfrom the stifling world to which she was born. And nowshe fears she may be drawn back into it, even as she’sdrowning in her own sorrow and blind to the sufferingof her young sons. Copies of the book in a variety offormats are available to check out at the CirculationDesk. Refreshments will be served, and registration isappreciated. Please sign up by calling 781-769-0200,x110 or 222, emailing [email protected], orstopping by the library Reference or Information Desk.

BINGO: Every Wednesday,from 12:45 PM to 3:00 PM, $5.00to get started. We have begun anew game, for $1.00, with a win-ner take all prize! You must be hereby 12:45 PM to play the new game!

BOOK CLUB: Our next BookClub will be meeting on Dec. 17,at the senior center.

BRIDGE: Our Bridge Clubmeets on Thursdays at 9:00 AM,in the Library. The Tuesday grouphas been cancelled.

COMPUTER CLUB: TheComputer Club meets everyWednesday at 1:00 PM.

CRIBBAGE: Our seniorsmeet every Monday at 12:45 PMto play cribbage. New Class onFridays at 12:45 (except the 4thFriday).

DIGITAL PHOTO ORGA-NIZATION & EDITING: willtake place the 1st and 3rd Wednes-day of the month at 11:30 AM.

FOOT DOCTOR: Dr.Michael Mitri is scheduled to behere on Dec 7. $35.00 charge-callto schedule an appointment.

FRIENDS EVENINGDANCE: December 21st, 7:00PM - 10:00 PM, Dave Valero.

GLEE CLUB: Glee Clubmeets every Tuesday at 11:15 AM.

H A N D C R A F T E R S :Handcrafters meet every Mondayfrom 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM.

HEARING SOLUTIONS:Hearing Aide clinic on Wednesday,January 23, 11:30AM.

LEARN TO PLAY MAHJONG -Thursdays and Fridays at12:30 PM.

LINE DANCE Classes areheld each Tuesday. Class will beheld from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM.

MAH JONG: Mah Jong play-ers meet Monday, Wednesday, andFriday 10:00 AM - Noon.

MANICURES: December 28,Friday at 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM.

NORWOOD RETIREDMEN’S CLUB: The Board of Di-rectors meets on the 1st Tuesdayof each month at 10:30AM, at theSenior Center. The Club Member-ship meets the 2nd Tuesday of eachmonth at the Norwood Elks Lodge,at 10:00 AM.

SCRABBLE: Thursday after-noons at 1:00 PM. Come and joinus for a game.

SHINE: We have two SHINECounselors. Carole is here to helpyou with your medical insuranceneeds on Tuesdays from 10:00AM. - 2:00 PM. Amy will be hereon Fridays from 10:00 AM - 2:00PM Please call 781-762-1201 foran appointment.

TAP DANCE-Thursdays at11:15 AM. All levels are welcomeand encouraged to join the fun.

WATER COLOR: The nextsession is scheduled for Thursday,December 13th at 9:00 AM. Pay-ment of $20.00 must be made attime of sign up.

WAXING– Monday, Decem-ber 17, 9:00 AM – Noon.

WHIST: Whist players meeton Tuesdays at 12:45 PM, in thelibrary.

December EventsGlee Club Holiday Concert,

Friday, December 7, 1PM.Christmas Party, Thursday,

December 13, Italian Meal, Enter-tainment Sponsored by WCC,Christmas Carolers, Doors Open at11:30AM, $10.00.

David Shikes, Comedian, Fri-day, December 14, 1PM. PleaseSign up.

Mini Bus TripsTuesday, Dec 4-Walmart,

Tuesday, Dec 11-Patriot Place,Tuesday, Dec. 18-Twin River.


Gingerbread Fair atFirst Baptist Church

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DAR pins Good Citizen

Norwood High School Good Citizen Luca Colosimo being pinnedby his mother Lisa Colosimo.

COURTESY PHOTO

Recently the Aaron Guild Chapter of the National SocietyDaughters of the American Revolution (DAR) honored NorwoodHigh School Senior Luca Colosimo who was chosen as a DARGood Citizen by his classmates and teachers.

The Good Citizen Award night took place on November 14 atthe George H. Morse Historic House on Washington Street inNorwood. Luca received a Good Citizen pin, a framed posterdescribing the Good Citizen Award, and a flag that flew over theUnited States Capitol on Patriot’s Day. Luca also received a cer-tificate that reads that the flag was flown to honor Aaron GuildChapter’s Good Citizen.

DAR Chapter Chair Sunny O’Malley of Westwood madethe presentations. Luca was chosen for his leadership, patriotism,and service to the community. At graduation in June, Luca willreceive a framed certificate and a check from the Aaron GuildChapter. Luca is involved in activities at his school as well as inhis community.

Following the presentation, the members and guests weretreated to a talk and tour of the Morse House by Morse HouseHistorian Dr. Bill Pudsey. The Morse House is indeed a Norwoodtreasure, and the Aaron Guild Chapter loves meeting there.

For the holidays the Aaron Guild Chapter makes up ditty bagswith toiletries and small gifts for West Roxbury Veterans Hospitalpatients. The gift bags for both men and women patients aredelivered personally by the members at New Years.

The Aaron Guild Chapter is made up of members from thearea towns of Norwood, Westwood, Walpole, Canton, Medfield,and Millis, as well as other communities and welcomes new mem-bers. Call Regent Terry Whetstone at 781-329-8463 for moreinformation.”

The annual Gingerbread Fair will be held at First Baptist Church,71 Bond Street, in the Carriage House on Sat. Dec. 8th. The doorswill be open from 9:30 AM to 2:30PM. Numerous items will beavailable for your bids on the Silent Auction tables.

You may fill a box of homemade cookies, make wonderful jew-elry selections, find slightly used white elephant items and hundredsof books. There will be beautiful handmade mittens, hats, etc andhandmade wooden crafts. The cooks will be preparing lunch thatwill include Dena’s famous homemade Minestrone Soup, hot dogs,hamburgers, etc. This is such a great way to get started on yourChristmas shopping. Come with friends and sit down for lunch orjust some coffee and gingerbread.

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Roche and Frey – takingadvantage of this option –went before the Board againwith the same design proposal:a 12 unit, T-shaped residentialbuilding comprised of a threestory, five apartment sectionfronting Washington Street andseven townhouses running tothe back of the property that,upon completion, would be putup for sale as condominiums.

This time, however, their re-quest was for several specialpermits and was presented byAttorney Mark Bobrowski,who replaced David Hern asthe project’s legal representa-tive.

Starting off, Bobrowski in-formed the Board that he had,in fact, helped to rewrite theTown’s zoning bylaws and re-ferred to one sub-section as amethod for nonconformingproperties to bypass a variancerequirement.

Sub-section 5.2.2 of thezoning bylaws allows a changein use from one nonconform-ing structure to another non-conforming one as long as it is“not more detrimental to thecharacter of the district inwhich it is located than the ex-isting use.”

Advocating for the project,Bobrowski described the twobuildings at 862-878 Washing-ton St. – which were built in1889 and are nonconforming –as a nightmare.

“They’re impossible to re-pair, to maintain, to keep up, toput in decent wiring under code,not to mention... wireless andother things that are requiredin a modern building,” he said.

He continued by sayingthat “we want to change thenonconforming structure theretoday – which everybody, Ithink, would agree is not a goodthing – to something much bet-ter.”

Much as they had been forthe project when it had beenfirst presented, the Board wasuniformly receptive to the ideaof the proposal, with severalwholeheartedly in favor of it.Jack Perry was the first tocomment, and – in stating thathe thought it would be a hugeimprovement for the site,touched on making effectiveuse of the Town’s zoning by-laws:

“I’m involved in a lot ofprojects in Dedham, andDedham has far exceeded usin what they want to have hap-pen with their bylaws – andwe’ve kind of been lax. So Iwould like to have somethinglike this.”

Tom Brady also spoke in fa-vor of the project, referring tothe earlier application and theZBA’s reluctance to set a vari-ance precedent, despite gener-ally being in favor of the idea:

“I think 5.2.2 gives us theout we were looking for from

last time,” he said.Chair Patrick Mulvehill was

a little more cautious in his ap-proach, stating that he wouldnot ask for a vote on the appli-cation during that session andasking Bobrowski some tech-nical questions regarding 5.2.2in order to better understand it.

Bobrowski commented onhis addition of this subsectionto the zoning bylaws:

“The whole purpose of 5.2.2is to offer an easier permittingpath by eliminating the soil condi-tion, shape, and topography re-quirement [of a variance], and byjust saying, basically, if it’s badtoday and better tomorrow, andyou’re in favor of it, fine.”

Philip Riley, while also gener-ally in favor of the proposal,brought up the fact that – by put-ting in 12 units – the developerswould be increasing the noncon-formity of the structure and, indoing so, trigger subsection 5.3.3,which would require a variance.

Bobrowski’s response that“5.2.2 trumps 5.3.3” set off a 10minute legal exchange betweenhim and Riley, during which Sec-

tion 4 (Dimensional Require-ments), 5 (Nonconforming Usesand Structures), and 6 (GeneralUse) of the zoning bylaws wereall cited by both in greater orlesser detail, with Bobrowskiagreeing to respond to Riley’squestions in writing and to submitthose answers to the ZBA.

After hearing public com-ments, the Board continued thehearing to 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 15.

Two hearings were continuedfrom Nov. 13:

The request to convert fouroffices at 500 Washington St., onetwo- bedroom apartment, twoone-bedroom apartments, and anoffice was unanimously ap-proved. The applicant had origi-nally sought a variance in orderto convert the four offices to fourapartments.

The variance request for 0Morse Ave. was approved to bewithdrawn without prejudice forthe applicant to present a definedplan for the size of the proposedhome for the lot.

The next ZBA meeting isscheduled for Dec. 18 at 7:15 p.m.at Town Hall.

2018 at the age of 80. Beloved wifeof the late Joseph Lydon. Devotedmother of Anne Marie Clancy andher husband Brian of Franklin,Patrick J. Lydon of FL, ThomasE. Lydon of Spencer, MaureenBannon and her husband Michaelof NH, Joseph J. Lydon and hiswife Tammy of PA, Brian W.Lydon of Plainville and the lateMichael C. Lydon. Sister ofPatrick McMenamin of Irelandand Ann Walsh of England. Cher-ished grandmother of 12 grand-children and 6 great-grandchil-dren. Also survived by manynieces and nephews. Daughter ofthe late Thomas and Sarah(McLaughlin) McMenamin. AFuneral Mass was held at St.Theresa of Avila Parish, W.Roxbury, MA.. Burial will be atSt. Joseph Cemetery, W.Roxbury, MA. www.kraw-kornackfuneralhome.com FamilyOwned and Operated 781-762-0482

McVANEMichael Joseph “Joe” Korean

War US Army Veteran Of Quincy,formerly of Norwood, November29, 2018, age 88. Joe was prede-ceased by his wife Marilyn M.(Bernard) McVane, and is sur-vived by his children Marilyn F.

McVane (Florida), Michael J.McVane (Florida), David (Jodi)McVane (Cohasset) and Brian(Kathy) McVane (Hingham). Healso leaves three grandchildren,Matthew McVane, BenjaminMcVane and Emily McVane andmany nieces and nephews. Joewas the dear brother of MaryHallahan of New York, JudithCunningham, Jack McVane, MaryLou McVane and VirginiaAlexander, all of Florida and thelate Barbara Coulliard, TheresaMoschella, Jean Fielding andDoris Doherty. The McVanefamily would like to thank thestaff of The Atrium at FaxonWoods for their exceptional careand comfort provided to Joeover the past six years. Callinghours will be held on Thursday,December 6, 2018, from 11:00-12:30 PM at the James H.Delaney & Son Funeral Home,48 Common Street ,WALPOLE followed by an in-house Prayer Service at 12:30PM. Committal Services areprivate. In lieu of flowers, me-morial contributions may bemade to the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation, PO Box 96011, Wash-ington, DC 20090-6011.Delaney Funeral Homewww.delaneyfuneral.com


The Record BookGINGERBREAD FAIRAT FIRST BAPTISTCHURCH

The annual Gingerbread Fairwill be held at First BaptistChurch, 71 Bond Street, in theCarriage House on Sat. Dec. 8th.The doors will be open from 9:30AM to 2:30 PM. Numerousitems will be available for yourbids on the Silent Auction tables.

You may fill a box of home-made cookies, make wonderfuljewelry selections, find slightlyused white elephant items andhundreds of books. There will bebeautiful handmade mittens,hats, etc and handmade woodencrafts. The cooks will be prepar-ing lunch that will include

Dena’s famous homemade Min-estrone Soup, hot dogs, ham-burgers, etc. This is such a greatway to get started on your Christ-mas shopping. Come withfriends and sit down for lunch orjust some coffee and ginger-bread.

U.S.M.C. TOYS FORTOTS CHRISTMAS PARTY

scheduled for Friday, Decem-ber 7th, from 8 pm to midnightat the Norwood V.F.W. Post#2452 at 193 Dean Street,

Norwood, MA. We ask peopleto bring an unwrapped, non-vio-lent, new toy, for a deserving tot. Tickets are $5/person at the doorwith a gift, and $10/person without a gift.

Music is generously beingprovided by the band “RoundHouse.” There will be a“surprise” entertainment appear-ance early in the evening, a 50/50 Cash Raffle, Cash Bar, andlight snacks on each table. Our Door Prize this year isBobby Orr’s new book, “Bobby,

My Story in Pictures,” autographed by Bobby Orr him-self.

All proceeds will be donatedto the Toys for Tots local organi-zation. For more information,questions, etc., please contactTrudy Wallace @ 617-510-5360or @ [email protected].

BALCH SCHOOL ANNUALPANCAKE BREAKFASTWITH SANTA

Please join us on Saturday,Dec. 8th from 8a.m. - 11a.m. Fun

for all, pictures with Santa, Artsand Crafts, Hot Cocoa Bar,Candy Cane Shop, Raffles andmore!

HOLIDAY POPSCONCERT IN DECEMBER

Sunday December 9: at 4:00p.m. at the First CongregationalChurch, 100 Winter Street,Norwood. This concertis sponsored by Folsom & MayFuneral Home and the programis supported in part by a grantfrom the Norwood CulturalCouncil, a local agency which issupported by the MassachusettsCultural Council, a state agency.Donation is $15; $10 for seniorsand students; and free for chil-dren under 12 years old. Doorswill open at 3:30 p.m. Light re-freshments and free parking areincluded. For ticket reservations,please call 781-444-5041 oremail [email protected].

For more information on allconcerts, visit the orchestra’sweb siteat www.ParkwayConcertOrchestra.org.

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