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AROUND THE WORLD: Italian gondolier Vincenzo, played byHobomock Elementary School student Justin Pijanowski, givesthe Wiley family — played by Alex MacPherson, Tim Scully,Griffin Murray, Charlotte Nagle and Colleen Pekrul — a tourof the canals of Venice, Italy during the school’s InternationalWeek play “A Whole New World” last Friday. The play toldthe story of the Wiley family, who won a trip around the worldthrough the “Ellen” show, learning about language, historyand cultures along the way. See photos on page 10.
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Furnace Colony residentswho have long put up withroads described as “like driv-ing on the surface of the moon”and “kidney-busting” becauseof the number of potholes soonwill have a smoother ride.The entire neighborhood— including Furnace ColonyDrive as well as more than adozen other roads in the areaand the area of West Street— will undergo street workbeginning this summer afterselectmen voted Monday nightto authorize the $325,000project.The board voted 4-1 infavor of the funding, with Se-lectman Don Anderson votingagainst it. Anderson said he
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PAST PATCHING: Potholes onFurnace Colony Drive havelong posed a hazard to vehiclesand pedestrians. On Monday,selectmen approved a $325,000resurfacing and drainage proj-ect for more than a dozen roadsin that neighborhood.
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Community newspapericon and Express publisherDavid S. Cutler died on Sun-day after a battle with cancer.Cutler was only seven yearsold when his parents, John andRoberta, started the DuxburyClipper on their dining roomtable. But it sparked a lifelongpassion for journalism,and commu-nity news inparticular, thatwould leadhim to pub-lish dozens of newspapersacross Mas-sachusetts, New Hampshireand Connecticut, including thePembroke Mariner and laterthe Pembroke Express, whichwas founded by his son Josh.From the beginning, Cut-ler showed an aptitude for thewritten word.“David’s writing was soincredible. He was alwaysright on the mark,” said PaulaMaxwell, who worked withCutler as the managing editorof the Clipper during the ’80sand ’90s. “He could get rightto the nub of the issue; he hadsuch a way with words.”
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THE NAMESAKE: Young Taj Mahal Wiley (played by CharlotteNagle), with sister Florie (Alex MacPherson), get their firstlook at Taj’s namesake, the Taj Mahal in India.David Cutler
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When Brian and Jenn Dee-gan’s daughter, a freshmanvolleyball player, suffered aconcussion during practice inOctober, she was cleared with-in a week to return to school.Though she still wasn’tfeeling up to par, her parentsfelt the doctor’s OK meant shewas ready.Meanwhile, she had beentested by Dr. Janet Kent,medical director of rehabili-tation services at the SportsConcussion Clinic at SouthShore Hospital, using Imme-diate Post-concussion Assess-ment and Cognitive Testing(imPACT), which evaluatedthe teen’s verbal and visualmemory, processing speed andreaction time.After her daughter hadbeen back to school for a fewdays, Jenn Deegan received aphone call from Kent. Results
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hances are you have either heard of or attended the Historical Society’sPancake Breakfast, Pembroke Sci-ence Fair or the Pembroke Arts Festival. Theseevents are made possible through the commit-ment of many volunteers who spend countlesshours ensuring that they run successfully. Su-san Frodigh is one of the people who have dedi-cated their time for the betterment of the town.
How long have you lived in Pembroke?
Iam a longtime Pembroke resident. I have livedin the town since 1965. My family had emi-grated from Scotland and we started living inWeymouth near our sponsor. My family tooksome day trips around the area. We liked thearea and ended up in Pembroke. I was marriedin 1990, rented in Quincy for four years andmoved with my husband, Chick, to Pembrokeabout 18 years ago. What we really like aboutPembroke is the mix of people. Personally, Ihave seen a lot of changes because I been intown for so long. I do not remember when traf-
c lights came to Pembroke, but I do rememberwhen there were no trafc lights.
What is your favorite place in town?
Iwould have to say the Herring Run. It reallyembodies what is great about Pembroke. It isreally quaint. It is the location of the Histori-cal Society’s biggest fundraiser, the Grand OldFish Fry, which is May 2. It is also a fun placefor the family; the kids can run around or playon the rock.
You had a pioneering role in the ScienceFair. What was your involvement?
I run thefood concessions for the event. I work to secureany donations and do the shopping for the otheritems, such as pizza. Between parents, partici-pants and siblings, we feed about 500 peopleover the four hours of the event that day. Thisyear’s Science Fair is Sunday, March 21 at thePembroke Community Middle School.
How did you become involved in thePembroke Arts Festival?
I saw something inthe paper about the possibility of not having it,and the need for volunteers because we had lostseveral long-term members. Although I hadno experience in art or photography, I blindlywent in. I work as an executive assistant, so Ido planning for a living. I co-chaired for oneyear and chaired it for three more years. I stilldo the program to keep my hands in it, but Ihave stepped back a little because I am busyevery night with something around town orwith my kids.
How long have you been involved withthe Historical Society?
At least ve years. Wegot involved one year when we were at the sh
fry. We were at the event and our son was play-ing with a friend whose family was helpingout. We ended up going back to the museumbuilding to help clean up and got involved. Thepeople are so much fun. We ended up becom-ing members. My husband, Chick, is a boardmember as of last year. This is the second timethat I have chaired the pancake breakfast.
The pancake breakfast is coming up.What can people expect?
This year, the eventis Sunday, March 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at themuseum building in the center. We will servepancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and hotchocolate. All of the food is freshly made inthe kitchen. The cost is $6 for adults and $4 forchildren. We will also be selling Mimosas andBloody Marys. It is a really good deal.The museum will also be open. It has manyhistorical farming and shipbuilding tools. Wewill also be selling our books from Karen Proc-tor and Ed Quill, mugs, maps and many thingsrelated to Pembroke. We will also have a bakesale and fresh daffodils available for purchase.We also use the event to try to get new peopleinvolved.
Where do the funds go?
All of the moneygoes to maintaining our three buildings: theAda Hall House, Friends Meeting House andthe museum building in the center. Some peo-ple believe that these are owned by the town,but they are not. They are owned by the soci-ety. We do what we can to keep these thingsgoing.
You are a family of avid surfers — howoften do you catch a wave?
Well, I go a coupleof times per year. It is always the warmest dayof the year in July, when the water is the warm-est. I really like to boogie board instead. It isn’tas much work. My husband and our two chil-dren, Charlie and Katie, are really passionateabout it. Chick runs a long board tournamentat Nantasket in the summer. I just help out withthe administrative pieces.
A visit with Ssan Frdigh
Volunteer keeps busy with Historical Society, science fair
Susan Frodigh, chairman of the PembrokeHistorical Society’s pancake breakfast, standsoutside the society’s museum in the center oftown, where the event will be held on March 14.
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Voters won’t see an optionto make elected town boardsappointed come April 27, butthey will have a chance to de-cide whether Pembroke shouldhire a town manager.The Town GovernmentStudy Committee was beforethe Board of Selectmen Mon-day night presenting an updat-ed version of their article forthe annual Town Meeting.In February, the six-mem-ber committee that has beenmeeting since July visitedboards throughout town to getinput on their proposal, whichincluded both a change to townmanager and making manyelected boards appointed.That proposal has sincechanged.“Ultimately, at the end of the day, it wasn’t somethingthat sounded like it addressedwhat we were really hearingwere the issues,” committeemember Brian Krause said of the elected-appointed plan.The committee had lookedat that option as a way to bet-
ter ensure qualied ofcials,
he said.“It sounded like it wouldhave been a nice-to-have in-stead of a must-have at thispoint,” Krause said. “It alsosounded like it was going to benot very well received by thetown. It doesn’t make sense togo that route if that’s not theway the town wants to go.”The committee still sup-ports a change from town ad-ministrator to town manager,however. They are preparing
a nal draft for Town Meet
-ing and made some changesafter talking with other townboards.“What we’re trying to dois get a streamlined line of authority where you have theBoard of Selectmen at the top,the town manager and thenall the town employees underthere and take the day-to-daycontrol of the staff away from[the various boards],” commit-tee member Tony Marino said.“We’re basically trying to in-crease accountability, increasecommunication throughout theTown Hall, and we believe thisact will do that.”Marino said the committeehad looked at town managerforms in several towns, includ-ing Duxbury, Hanover, Abing-ton and Cohasset, and tailored
the plan to t Pembroke.
Towns ranged in size from7,000 to 16,000 residents— Pembroke has more than18,000 as of the last census— with budgets ranging from$39 million to $65 million, ac-cording to committee memberLew Stone, who is also a se-lectman.If passed at Town Meeting,the issue would be forwardedto the state legislature for re-view. Though previously thecommittee had planned to in-clude the issue on the May 1ballot, members have learnedthat it is not required unlessdeemed necessary by the statelegislature, Marino said.An independent searchcommittee would then lookfor the right candidate, withthe Board of Selectmen nego-tiating the manager’s contractand salary, Krause said.During the discussion,Advisory Committee memberBen Bastianelli asked what thecost of hiring a town managerwould be.Krause said the committeeunderstood there would be anincrease to the budget in theshort-term — he estimated$15,000 to $20,000 — but thatthey believed the town couldrealize a savings in the future.“The theory to be tested iswhether or not someone whocan run all of the operations in
town can nd more efcien
-cies than someone without thatability could do today,” he said.
“In the ve-year plan, it’s ab
-solutely not out of the realm of possibility to see three or fourtimes [the cost] in savings.”The town of Abington,which recently changed itsform of government and isconducting a search for a townmanager, has received 61 ap-plications for the job, Stonesaid.The committee also an-swered some citizens’ con-cerns, as well as their own, bylimiting the power of the townmanager. For example, if themanager wanted to replace adepartment head, he or shewould have to go before theBoard of Selectmen to “makea case” and would need ap-
proval from four of the ve
selectmen, Stone said.“There seemed to be someconcern with one person hav-ing a lot of what [citizens]interpreted to be as power.I’d like to think of it not aspower but having the authorityto make decisions in the bestinterest of the town,” Stonesaid. “We don’t want to builda dictatorship here, and I thinkwe’ve done a good job of notdoing that.”With a manager takingover the day-to-day operationsof Town Hall, it would free uptown boards to focus on “bigpicture” items, committeemembers said. That includesthe Board of Selectmen.“This group is going tochange in some of the thingsthat we do. We’re going to belooking at a lot of policy issuesand future planning and howare we going to solve thesemany problems,” Stone said.Selectman Don Andersonsaid it is important for citizensto recognize that the govern-ment change would last be-
yond current ofcials.
“It’s a plan to move usforward,” he said. “This is notabout personalities, thoughpersonalities will make orbreak any town governmentwhether they’re elected or ap-pointed.”He wished the study com-mittee “good luck” in gettingthe word out to let peopleknow that the decision was not“politically motivated.”“I don’t get the sense thatit is,” he said.The Town GovernmentStudy Committee will bescheduling a public hearing onthe bylaw change in the com-ing weeks.
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CHANGE INTHE AIR: TownGovernmentStudyCommitteemember TonyMarino, next tomember GeorgeEmanuel,explains thegroup’s reasonsfor proposinga change fromtown adminis-trator to townmanager forPembroke. Thegroup spoketo the Board ofSelectmen onMonday night.
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