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School Com looking tosolidify start time plans

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Norwood firefighters remembered John Bellanti this week.PHOTO BY NFD

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The Norwood Fire De-partment (NFD) rememberedretired firefighter JohnBellanti last week after hepassed away from cancer.

Bellanti served the NFDfor 25 years and worked inthe EMS system for 19 ofthose years. NorwoodFirefighter and Union Presi-dent Paul Ronco said hedrove a ladder as well, andkept his firehouse mates fedthroughout his time with the

department.Ronco said Bellanti was a

fun guy to be around in thestation.

“John was a once-in-a-lifetime personality,” Roncosaid with a laugh. “He was acharacter for sure. He lovedhis motorcycles, he lovedtraveling, but most of all heloved his family. His wifeJoanne, his daughter Michelleand her husband Nick. Hewas just a character aroundthe station and he did a lot of

NFD remembersJohn Bellanti

Do you want your zoning districtwell-done, medium or rare?

Town Meeting members may have a menu of mixed-use options at the next Town Meeting so that the Route1 Rezoning effort will pass.

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The Norwood PlanningBoard met on Monday,March 8 in a virtual formatand discussed a possiblenew kind of Town Meetingzoning item that has a dif-ferent f lavor than howNorwood has done it in thepast.

Back in February, TownMeeting struck down a pro-posed rezoning of the Route1 Highway Business Dis-trict. Most Town Meetingmembers appeared in favorof most of the provisions,but it failed 89 to 70, witha vote to refer the matter

back to the Planning Board.Town Meeting members

tried to pick and choose whatthey didn’t like about the re-zoning, called Article 12 atthe time. It included threedistricts of mixed-use zoningthat would allow for denserresidential buildings (exactlylike what Town Meeting ap-proved in the Mixed-UseOverlay Distr ict for theDowntown). TM wanted toremove districts from the ar-ticle, but Town Planner PaulHalkiotis said they could notbe readily extricated in a waythat would allow a vote.

Halkiotis and the PlanningBoard have been deliberatingon how best to reintroduce

the measure to TM, hope-fully for the Spring TownMeeting in May, so that itwill more than likely pass.Taking one or two of thethree mixed-use districts outwas tossed around, but howcould they know whichzones would be preferred bythe 250 potential TownMeeting members?

Simple. Just do it a lacarte.

“I received a public hear-ing notice from the Town ofWestwood for some zoningbylaw and map amend-ments. What caught my eyewas that they gave the vot-


The Norwood SchoolCommittee (NSC) met onMarch 3 and started whittlingdown options for changingschool start times.

The initiative comes as re-search shows that adolescentminds need different amountsof sleep at different times tofunction properly and be ableto learn at a rate consistentwith the educational system.The School Committee isscheduled to meet with theSchool Start Time Task Force

on March 10, after TheNorwood Record’s deadline.

The Committee voted onJan. 13 unanimously to approvechanges to school start timespending a community feedbacksurvey. Chair Teresa Stewartsaid the surveys have recentlycome back.

“The Task Force met onMonday (March 1) and they didshare all the information theyhad,” she said. “We had 1,330people across the district whotook the surveys. It is about 200fewer than who took our fall

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Save money, save water, save theplanet and stop the flooding

Fresh water and the monu-mental system that brings itto faucets across the countryis an amazing feat of ingenu-ity and architecture. So muchso that people take forgranted that when the faucetis opened water will flow out.

Though many people’swater bills are not staggeringby any means, the UnitedStates is in tough economicstraights right now. That’sone of the reasons ProgressNorwood has teamed with theHyde Park-based GreatAmerican Rain Barrel Com-pany to provide a discountedprice from the company forrain barrels until April 18.The barrels are designed tocollect and store rain waterfor outdoor use, mostly forlawn and garden needs.

Progress Norwood’sHeather Murray said theystarted the program last yearand helped to bring 60 bar-rels to Norwood residents.

“They take repurposedfood shipping barrels andconvert them into rain collec-tion barrels,” she said. “Weused ours for the first timelast summer. It was great; wehad plenty of water for our


Rain collection barrels like these could save water, save money andhelp reduce flooding.

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garden and got to water ourlawn as needed. It was alldone with the rain barrel. Wedidn’t have to rely on ourhose and drive up our waterbill. There were a lot of ben-efits.”

The program touts that us-ing rain barrel water will notonly conserve water re-sources but also save the userup to 40 percent on their wa-ter bill, obviously dependingon the size and thirst of one’sgarden. The barrel’s are du-

rable plastic at 3/16ths of aninch think, BPD-free, foodgrade and ultraviolet lightprotected. Murray said sheand her family were moti-vated to use the barrel out ofa desire to conserve.

“We wanted to conservewater. As I started to do re-search I came across rain bar-rels as a great tool for cap-turing rain water for futureuse,” she said. “They save the

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Selectmen look to expand animal control

The Norwood Board of Se-lectmen met on March 9 andvoted to approve a measure toenter into an agreement with theTown of Walpole to share animalcontrol services.

At the end of the meeting,Selectmen Chair Bill Plasko ad-dressed an issue reported in theMarch 4 edition of The NorwoodRecord regarding an alleged per-sonnel matter. The issue includeda conflict between former TownEmployee Ramanda Morgan andat least one member of Townmanagement, leading to Ms.Morgan resigning her position,which was reported on in theissue’s coverage of the ZoningBoard of Appeals (ZBA) meet-ing of March 2 and commentedon in the Opinion piece relativeto the same meeting.

“The paper noted that it didnot try to get information from theTown’s Personnel Office, be-cause rightly, they protect the in-formation related to personnelmatters,” Plasko said. “The pa-per called on other Town officialsto make statements with detailsrelative to this matter. The paperdid this after acknowledging thatit is proper that such personnelmatters be treated with confiden-tiality. Not only are such thingsproper, but Massachusetts lawrequires it.”

Plasko said he did not feel itproper to ask Town officials tobreak the law on this matter.

“The Board of Selectmen canassure our residents that theTown’s policy when it receives acomplaint from an employee is toinvestigate the facts and act onthe results,” he said. “The inves-tigations are conducted either withthe Town’s Human ResourcesDepartment or with the assistanceof outside, independent investiga-tors. Therefore, as stated, theTown’s obligation is to protect ouremployees’ confidentiality, andwill not comment on personnelmatters.”

Plasko made this statement atthe end of the meeting, after theBoard voted to accept the resig-nations of former ZBA membersJack Perry and Patrick Mulvehillat the beginning of the meeting.Mulvehill stated previously that atleast part of his reason for resign-ing had to do with the treatmentof Ms. Morgan.

The Board voted during themeeting unanimously to enter intoan inter-municipal agreement withthe Town of Walpole to share ani-mal control services.

“We’ve always sort of infor-mally shared animal control ser-vices with Walpole,” Town Man-ager Tony Mazzucco said. “Wekind of share the same problemsthey do, in that we have one full-time Animal Control Officer(ACO) and they have one full-time ACO and they’re alwayssort of backing each other up.”

Mazzucco said the biggestchallenge in Animal Control for

both Towns is that when an ACOretires or moves to another job,it’s not like the police or fire ser-vices in that there’s a bench oftrained officers or potential can-didates straight out of the gate.

“You’re often left without an-other individual to fill in and it putsthe burden on the Town,” he said.“We’re fortunate that we haveACO Henry Cerquira. He’s afantastic ACO. But it’s a difficultposition to hire for because there’snobody to naturally take your pickfrom. You’ve sort of got a depart-ment of one everywhere youare.”

Mazzucco said the agreementwould make the service com-pletely in the Town of Norwood’spurview.

“It gives us a little bit of abench; it gives Walpole a little bitof a bench and the hope is to ex-pand the service to other townsas when you lose a good ACOit’s very difficult to find another,”he said. “When one is hired theycome on and they don’t reallyhave anyone else to report to be-cause there’s no one else doinganimal control. We would sharetwo employees to start just tocover the highlights. Henry wouldbe sort of the lead or the direc-tor.”

Selectman Helen Abdallah-Donohue said she felt thatWalpole should be contributingmore than Norwood because itssquare mileage is about twice thatof Norwood. Mazzucco pointedout however that Norwood has amuch denser population andwould have more calls, butDonohue countered thatWalpole’s calls would involvemore wild animals than pet com-plaints.

Mazzucco said the agreementis for just over one year andwould be reviewed at that timebefore renewal. He said theTown would save a bit of moneyright out of the gate and moredown the road if other towns optinto this sharing of services.

Mazzucco said an ACO basi-cally has no down time. Hepointed out that Cerquira has al-most never taken vacation time,as the Town can’t afford to tellsomeone with an animal emer-gency that they’ll have to call backat a later date. If someone doesleave, that puts the town in a pre-carious position.

“It’s a service we have to pro-vide,” he said. “It’s a very sort ofrisky service in the sense that –well it’s risky for a lot of reasons– but if Henry was to retire to-morrow, we have no one. Thereisn’t a pool of trained ACOs outthere. What happens when wego a week? Two weeks? Threeweeks? If there’s a dog barkingit’s not a big call, but a lot of peopledon’t realize how much work anACO does when an animal is in-jured. And if we have nobody torespond we have nobody to re-spond. God forbid there’s a rabidanimal out there. We can’t justtell someone, ‘sorry, we don’thave anyone.’ So we’re looking

to have the service built out to thepoint where we know there isnever going to be a reliability is-sue.”

Mazzucco said this is just thestart of the process and he thinksboth towns may agree in sixmonths to add one more personto the staff to allow for downtimeor for someone leaving.

Norwood Police Department(NPD) Chief William Brooks alsogave his report during the meet-ing and said the department as-sisted the Boston Police Depart-ment (BPD) a few weeks ago inthe execution of a search war-rant for an unlawful possessionof a firearm. Brooks said hewanted to discuss this particularcase because of TV shows andnews reports detailing policeforcefully entering a domicile, andwanted to clear up how it hap-pens in Norwood, at least.

“I think people have an im-age from television as to how en-try teams or SWAT teams oper-ate, and it’s actually not accurate,”he said.

Brooks said they assisted theBPD in serving the search war-rant by first surrounding the build-ing and then calling the residenceof the suspect. When no one an-swered, they used the speakersystem in the SWAT vehicle tocall out to people they saw peek-ing through the curtains.

“The subject came out andsurrendered,” he said. “Only thendid they go in and make a sweepto make sure nobody was left in-side.”

Mazzucco also said the Towncould have a surplus in the Snowand Ice budget this year if theweather holds out. He said itwould be the first time in a longtime that happened.

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Real estate is staying strong Typically, February as one of

the winter months does not haveas great an amount of real estateactivity as other months in thecalendar year. However, despitethe above and despite the continu-ing challenges brought on by theCOVID-19 pandemic, Register ofDeeds William P. O’Donnell re-ported increased numbers in manyreal estate categories during themonth of February 2021 com-pared to February of 2020.

“The Norfolk County real es-tate market” noted RegisterO’Donnell, “has continued to bebusy. Historically, February asone of the winter months does notsee as much real estateactivity. However, there were15,549 documents recorded at theNorfolk County Registry ofDeeds which is a 44% increaseover last year’s February docu-ment volume. There were 1,250deeds recorded out of this docu-ment volume, representing a 16%increase over February of lastyear. Average sale price, againincluding both residential andcommercial sales, increased 13%over 2020 to $860,812.32. Thereal estate numbers are robust es-pecially considering that lastyear’s February real estate num-bers were prior to the onset ofCOVID-19 and the COVID-19emergency declarations.”

In addition to real estate sales,the Norfolk County lending mar-ket has been busy inFebruary. There were 4,389 mort-gages recorded during the monthwhich is a 103% increase over2020. Total amount of moneyborrowed for mortgages countywide was over 1.6 billon, a 19%increase compared to February2020. “While some of the mort-gages are due to purchases andsales of real estate, there are a largenumber of individuals and fami-lies taking advantage of historicallylow interest rates by refinancingexisting mortgages. Individualshave different motivations torefinance. Some refinance to re-duce their monthly payments, oth-ers to take some years off theirdebt while still others are usingthe money to pay for home im-provements and other capital ex-penditures” said RegisterO’Donnell.

Register O’Donnell went onto state, “There has been a strongdemand for housing, single fam-ily housing in particular, coupledwith a limited supply of availablehousing stock and historically lowinterest rates which could be mo-tivating buyers to do what is nec-essary to secure housing. Lendingactivity was up. The growth innumbers seen in 2020 continuesinto 2021. However, there are ex-pectations that for 2021 many ofthe numbers may not be as expan-sive as what took place in2020. Yet February 2021 statisticsexceeded February 2020 statis-tics.”

The Norfolk County Registryof Deeds has been closely watch-

ing the foreclosure market. Amoratorium on foreclosures inplace during the pandemic in 2020was lifted on October 17,2020. This moratorium was inplace due to the COVID-19pandemic. O’Donnell stated,“During February of 2021 therewas only 1 foreclosure deed re-corded as a result of foreclosureprocesses taking place in NorfolkCounty. Additionally, there were6 Notices to Foreclosure Mort-gages, the first step in the foreclo-sure process, recorded here inNorfolk County. A foreclosure re-cording is very impactful on thosebeing foreclosed on. These num-bers are extremely low especiallywhen you consider in February of2020 pre-COVID there were 51Notices to Foreclosure Mortgagesand 18 foreclosure Deeds. Theforeclosure numbers in the futurebear watching given the negativeeconomic impacts of COVID-19.”

“The Norfolk County Regis-try of Deeds has also been work-ing in close cooperation with At-torney General Maura Healey’soffice to ensure there are noabuses being perpetrated againsthomeowners while the COVID-19 state of emergency is ongoing,”noted O’Donnell.

Additionally, for the past sev-eral years, the Norfolk CountyRegistry of Deeds has partneredwith Quincy Community ActionPrograms, 617-479-8181 x376,and NeighborWorks Housing So-lutions, 508-587-0950 to help any-one facing challenges paying theirmortgage. Another option forhomeowners is to contact theMassachusetts Attorney General’sConsumer Advocacy and Re-sponse Division (CARD) at 617-727-8400. Register O’Donnellstated, “If you are having diffi-culty paying your monthly mort-gage, please consider contactingone of these non-profit agenciesfor help and guidance.”

Homestead recordings byowners of homes and condomini-ums continue to occur at the Nor-folk County Registry of Deeds inFebruary. There was a 17% in-crease in homestead recordings inFebruary 2021 compared to Feb-ruary 2020. “A Homestead,”noted O’Donnell, “provides lim-ited protection against the forced

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sale of an individual’s primary resi-dence to satisfy unsecured debt upto $500,000. It is great to see folksprotecting the biggest asset mostof us have, our homes. I wouldurge anyone who has not availedthemselves of this important con-sumer protection tool to considerdoing so. Please visit the Registrywebsite atwww.norfolkdeeds.org to getmore information on homesteadprotection.”

In conclusion, RegisterO’Donnell stated, “Many smallbusinesses and specific sectors ofour economy, such as restaurantand hospitality, have been nega-tively impacted by the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic. One sectorthat has continued to thrive dur-ing the pandemic is the real estatemarket, particularly the residen-tial market. There have been manyfactors that have kept the NorfolkCounty real estate market viable.Motivated buyers and sellers, lowinterest rates, and the NorfolkCounty Registry of Deeds remain-ing open for the recording of landdocuments. While the Registry ofDeeds building in Dedham re-mains closed to the general pub-lic, we at the Registry remain openoperationally to serve our custom-ers, the residents of NorfolkCounty and real estate profession-als alike. By listening to publichealth officials, practicing socialdistancing, making sure all staffare wearing masks and taking anyand all other steps necessary, theRegistry of Deeds has remainedopen for business. Land docu-ments are being recorded elec-tronically for many of our institu-tional users. We are also receiv-ing documents via regular mail,Federal Express and from thoseplaced in our drop-off box locatedjust outside our main entrance at649 High Street, Dedham, MA.As your Norfolk County Registerof Deeds, I want to thank all ofyou for the cooperation, patienceand understanding you haveshown myself and the Registrystaff while this pandemic has beenongoing. Be healthy. Be safe.”

To learn more about these andother Registry of Deeds eventsand initiatives, like us at facebook/com/NorfolkDeeds or follow uson twitter.com/NorfolkDeeds andInstagram.com/NorfolkDeeds.

The Norfolk County Reg-istry of Deeds is located at 649High Street in Dedham. TheRegistry is a resource forhomeowners, title examiners,mortgage lenders, municipali-ties and others with a need forsecure, accurate, accessibleland record information. Allland record research informa-tion can be found on theR e g i s t r y ’ swebsite Norfolkdeeds.org. Residentsin need of assistance can con-tact the Registry of Deeds Cus-tomer Service Center via tele-phone at (781) 461-6101, or youcan send us an email at [email protected].

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Happy St. Patrick’sDay to all Sullivan’s

My Kindof Town/Joe Galeota

As spring starts to poke itshead upward with the crociand tulips, many people willstream over to Castle Islandfor a burger or a hot dog, notaverse to having the chillywinds from Boston Harborblow away their napkins. Photographers from our tworemaining Boston dailies willhightail over there, as well astelevision camera crews tocatch us munching whilestanding.

As a child, my father andhis family would ride the CityPoint MTA bus to Kelly’sLanding and then picnic in thepark abutting Farragut. AfterKelly’s Landing folded, heshifted allegiance to Sullivan’sand introduced me seventyyears ago to the pleasures ofa snack and strolling aroundFort Independence. Eventhough Kelly’s Landing stillsold basically the same itemsas those sold at Sullivan’s, ourdestination was going to thepentagonal fort. My motherbeing a Sullivan, that lastname is precious to me—ac-tually, it was O’Sullivan butsomewhere, somehow the“O” was dropped whenGrandfather Tim emigratedfrom Tralee. Thus I’m usu-ally partial at first to any per-son or establishment bearingthat moniker.

Sullivan’s at Castle Islandis the name of the long-stand-ing restaurant at the tip ofSouth Boston, where Boston’sdiversity is most observable.You ask, why doesn’t thename ever change? The res-taurant is actually on state(DCR property) so why thelack of change? Don’t storeshave to bid to own such a con-cession?

An article ten years ago inCommonwealth magazine—the last time any investigativereporting was done because ofthe difficulty of accessing pub-lic records—detailed the his-tory of Sullivan’s. It seemsthat the state did not chargethe owners ANY rent al allfrom 1951 to 1986. Then thelegislature passed a bill allow-ing the state to lease the prop-erty for almost the next halfcentury until 2031, with themonthly rent at the beginninga mere $400, rising every fiveyears by 20% but no higher

than the increase in the Con-sumer Price Index. In 2011the rent was still a mere $671a month, as Sullivan’s was al-lowed to remain a monopoly: there would be no other com-petitors, which probablymeans no ice-cream and foodtrucks can park near there.

As improvements weremade to the building and thearea surrounding it—but norestrooms for the food-con-suming public—the Common-wealth wanted Sullivan’s tomove to a new spot. The newlease forced Sullivan’s to payfor the demolition of the oldstand but, hear this, allowed itto deduct those costs from fu-ture rental payments. Thelease program manager for theDCR at the time, upon review-ing the deal, said he wasshocked that such a leasecould have been crafted so fa-vorably to Sullivan’s and ter-ribly for us taxpayers.

In 2008 Sullivan’s wassold to the owner’s son. Ihope you didn’t try to bid on it.

If in these hard financialtimes you are thinking to tak-ing the fam over there on a sul-try summer evening after sup-per for dessert, you might wantto think of saving some moneyand buy the soft-serve icecream cones at McDonald’scurrently for a mere buck asopposed to coughing up$3.50 for the same (but ad-mittedly somewhat larger)sof t -serve cone a tSullivan’s. In any event,Happy St. Patrick’s Day toeveryone, regardless of yourlast name.


ConCom advises restraint fortrail makers in Norwood


The Norwood Conservation Commission spoke with representatives fromthe Trails Committee about potential trail work on conservation land.

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The Norwood Conserva-tion Commission (ConCom)met on Feb. 17 and discusseda potential wetlands violationat the Meadow Street foresttrail.

According to NorwoodConservation Agent HollyJones, during a recent trailwalk with the Norwood TrailsAdvisory Committee (NTAC)said one member discoveredwhat they thought was a trail.Someone cut down somebrush and planted flags tomark the trail on conservationland. Jones added that thisland may be wetlands, pre-cluding any use as a walkingtrail.

“Some of the things wethought about potentially do-ing included taking the flagsdown where that trail is untilit can be determined whetherit’s a wetland area or not,”Jones said.

Jones added the ConCommay want to send her to aTrails meeting to reiterate thisto the membership.

NTAC Chair JosephGreeley said during the meet-ing that they will be morecareful in the future, and thatthey need to check with theConservation Commission be-

fore they start marking trails,just in case there’s an issue.

“We all understand properchannels and group effortsand I think we didn’t followour own guidance when it oc-curred,” he said. “I’ve onlyactually been on the propertyonce, and it’s a beautifulplace. Some of it is ConComland and some is Light De-partment-owned, and it’s hardto tell where the line is. Re-gardless, it’s beautiful.”

Greeley said he has talkedwith Jones and ConCom ChairSteve Washburn about pos-sible joint projects in the fu-ture to use the Meadow Streetproperty for resident pur-

poses. He also said the TrailsCommittee would be willingto do any work to amelioratethe situation.

Washburn said the NTACand the ConCom should be inbetter communication.

“I feel that despite somevery considerate effort fromindividuals, I think there’sbeen a lack of communicationbetween the entities, andthat’s something that won’tserve the community ofNorwood very well,” he said.“This is something that Mr.Greeley and I have talkedabout a lot recently, and it’s


John Bellanti

Bellanti continued from page 1the cooking for Group 1 andhe was a ladder driver forquite a few years.”

Ronco said Bellanti wasdiagnosed with the cancerthat later killed him almost assoon as he retired.

“Unfortunately, he was di-agnosed with multiple my-eloma about a month after heretired in July,” he said. “Hereally didn’t have any time toenjoy retirement.”

And this story is by nomeans uncommon in thefirefighter community. Car-cinogens fly through the airconstantly during a house oroffice fire and even more soduring an industrial fire (thinkcement plants or paper mills),and the International Asso-ciation of Firefighters re-ported in 2017 that cancer isthe most common killer offirefighters in the world. Ac-cording to that report, 61 per-cent of career line-of-dutydeaths between 2002 to 2017were cancer-related. TheNational Inst i tute forOccupantional Health andSafety reported in 2016 thatfirefighters in the UnitedStates are at a 9 percenthigher risk of being diagnosedwith cancer than the rest ofU.S. citizens. Smokers, whowillingly inhale a carcinogenall day, have a 10 to 15 per-cent increased risk of devel-oping lung cancer specifically.

“It’s running rampant inthe fire service right now, andthat was one of John’sthings,” Ronco said. “I re-member visiting him in thehospital and one of his bigthings was he wanted to bringawareness to how prevalentit is in the fire service. Johnwanted to bring awareness tothe public because we’ve gotan awful lot of members whohave been diagnosed with allsorts of different types of can-cers.”

One of the big issues is thewashing of firefighter suits,or turnout gear. Every time afirefighter works a fire theirgear is covered in those samecarcinogens, and that gearhas to be cleaned extensivelyin an industrial washing ma-chine called an extractor.Ronco said the NFD has one,and the department also hasalternate gear for firefightersto wear when their other setis being washed, but he saidthere is still a big problem builtright into the gear itself: per-and polyfluoroalkyl sub-stances (PFAS).

The types of cancer asso-ciated with these PFAS havebeen found increasingly in thebodies of firefighters, mainlytesticular cancer, prostatecancer, mesothelioma, andnon-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.One recent study( p u b s . a c s . o r g / d o i / a b s /

1 0 . 1 0 2 1 /acs.estlett.0c00410?source=cen)from the American ChemicalSociety suggests that’s be-cause the PFAS are in theaqueous film-forming foams(AFFF) that firefighters oftenuse to put out fires, that canseep through older andpoorly-maintained firefighterprotective clothing and possi-bly lead to higher rates of theaforementioned cancers.

Turnout gear works byhaving three layers, a thermallayer next to the skin, a mois-ture barrier and then an outershell. Usually, that middlelayer has water-resistant tex-tiles made with PFAS andover time the PFAS can seepthrough and be absorbed bythe skin. According to a 2020Energy and EnvironmentNews article, one manufac-turer has also been found toinclude PFAS in the thermallayer.

PFAS are known colloqui-ally as “forever chemicals,”because they build up in yourbody once ingested and do notget broken down or excreted.

“They’ve taken their tollon cancer rates,” Ronco said.“They’ve been in our gear foryears and years and years,and right now they’re work-ing on getting rid of those, butit’s a slow process... We’vehad multiple members withprostate cancer, we’ve had

leukemias, we’ve had othersover the years and it’s prettycrazy the numbers we’recoming up with who are get-ting sick. And not only themembers but there’s an aw-ful lot of cancers occurring inspouses. There’s a huge num-ber of spouses who are beingdiagnosed with auto-immune

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title of a Page 1 article ‘Eric Higgins: Behind the Mask’was incorrect. The name of the person featured in thearticle is ‘Ernie Higgins’. Mr. Higgins was incorrectlyidentified throughout the article.

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diseases and it’s too much tobe a coincidence.”

Ronco said right now theUnion is in negotiations withthe NFD leadership to stopthese materials from being soprevalent in the NFD lockerrooms, but said he could notcomment further while negotia-tions were ongoing.


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School Committee Chair Teresa Stewart

2019 survey.”Stewart said the committee

hopes to vote on changing thestart times at the March 8 meet-ing after they have discussedthe survey results and whatschool year they should imple-ment these new start times, ei-ther fall 2021, 2022, etc.

“The majority of highschool parents who answeredthe question of fall 2021 ver-sus fall 2022 for implementa-tion said fall 2021,” she said.“But the majority of elementaryschool parents who answeredthat question said fall 2022.There is a lot more data that thefull task force will share nextweek.”

Schools SuperintendentDavid Thomson said theseschedule changes have been inthe works for more than his ten-ure at Norwood Public Schools(NPS). He said his feelings onimplementation however arecomplicated due to the pan-demic.

“The science is the science,but as we are getting closer toSeptember, the hope that it wasgoing to be normal is getting alittle further away at this pointin time, which concerns me inthe first part of that recommen-dation,” he said. “As things getmore normal, it might give ustime to make more tweaks inthe schedule, what have you,but we kind of need to make adecision so people can start

making plans.”Thomson said the School

Start Task Force, of which heis a member, is there to makerecommendations, and theSchool Committee is there tomake the policy decisions forNPS.

“You can either accept theinformation we’re giving or re-ject it,” he said. “Hopefully bynext week people will knowwhich direction we’re goingin.”

At the last meeting the TaskForce came to in January,Oldham Middle School Princi-pal Dr. Margo Fraczek outlinedthe reasoning behind the pro-posed start time changes. Shesaid at several developmentalstages in a young person’s life,the times when they would begetting their deepest sleepchanges. For example, she saidher 11-year-old wakes up laterand falls asleep later. She saidthat 11-year-old is now wakingup for school when they shouldbe experiencing their deepestperiod of sleep.

The recommendations dis-cussed at the January meetingincluded starting the highschool at 8:10 to 8:20 a.m. andending at 2:50 p.m. The middleschool would be set at 8:40 a.m.or 8:50 a.m. and end at 3:20p.m. High School Principal Dr.Hugh Galligan said after-schoolactivities like arts and atheleticswould not be significantly af-

fected. He said arts and extra-curricular clubs would not beaffected, practices would not beaffected and school sportingevents (games) would beshifted from a 3:30 p.m. starttime to 4 p.m., which he saidhe felt was not a significantshift.

Cleveland ElementarySchool Principal NancyCoppola pointed out that forelementary parents and stu-dents, childcare will be a mustand the Extended Day Programwill continue for all elementaryschools as well as the WilletEarly Education Center.

The School Committee ishoping to hold a vote on the is-sue on March 10 at its 7 p.m.meeting.

In other news, School Busi-ness Official Karin Sheridanwent through the entire currentschool budget. For the full pre-sentation, go to https://bit.ly/3sWWhoI to view the entireSchool Committee meeting andpresentation.

For current Fiscal Year2020-2021 grants concerningCOVID-19 relief and protec-tion, Sheridan said NPS appliedfor and won $2.5 million tohelp reopen and properly ven-tilate the schools (several of theolder buildings were not de-signed with proper ventilationin mind).

The five grants for COVID-19 relief included $345,607from the CARES Act Funding

under the State’s Department ofElementary and SecondaryEducation (DESE) Elementaryand Secondary EducationEmergency Relief (ESSER)funds in the first round. Thosefunds have already been eitherexpended or encumbered infull, however the ESSER’s sec-ond round of funding, Sheridansaid, is due for $1.3 million andcan be used in expenditures in-curred over multiple years.

“We’re in the process rightnow of developing a plan onhow we’re going to spend thatgrant,” Sheridan said. “And hotoff the press this week we justgot a State Covid PreventionFund grant for $167,125. We’vealready got the first installmentof that grant and the second in-stallment comes either nextmonth or the following month.

We’re going to be using it forair quality systems and some ofthe other facility needs we havefor reopening the schools.”

The next grants include$781,875 from the CoronavirusRelief Fund School ReopeningGrant and $56,523 from theRemote Learning TechnologyEssentials Grant. Both of thesehave also been expended orencumbered in preparation forreopening.

In terms of total grants,Sheridan said currently they areassuming the department willget about the same as it got lastyear, which was $1.7 millionfor subjects like English lan-guage learners, immigrant chil-dren, early childhood specialeducation, summer/vacationlearning, academic enrichmentetc.


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Trails continued from page 5something that I’ve had on mymind quite a bit.”

Washburn said he felt thatwhile he is in favor of the goalof the Trails member whostarted creating a path for theentire community to use andenjoy, it should have been donethrough the proper channels soas to make sure that trail didn’tdespoil the very environmentand natural beauty it wasmeant to showcase.

“One of the primary rea-sons we’re here is that there’s

a process and protocol to es-tablishing these accesses, andsometimes that process can besomething difficult to endure,quite frankly,” he said. “It caninvolve a feasibility study, itcan involve environmental sci-entists, it can involve a tar-geted delineation of poten-tially sensitive resource areas,and this can be an arduousprocess. There are a lot ofhoops to jump through, but wecertainly don’t want to get intothe habit of asking forgiveness

instead of permission.”Washburn said he and

Greeley have been workingon setting up some sort ofregular update between theConCom and the NTAC, butnothing concrete has beenyet established. In the mean-time, Greeley and the ConComagreed to host a joint meetingat some point in the future.Greeley also suggested asite walk with Jones to goover the Meadow Streetproperty.

DeathsBURNS

Harold Spencer, died peacefully on March2, 2021, at the age of 84. Born on June 6, 1936to Joseph and Viola (Mahood) Burns, Haroldwas a brother to Carole Tripsha of Estero, FL,and the late Patricia Dacko, Margaret McKeon,Robert Burns, Joseph Burns. He was lovinglycared for by his niece, Patricia (Dacko)Petrucci. Harold was an uncle to several niecesand nephews, as well as a great and great-great-uncle to many more throughout the years. Be-ginning in 1956, Harold enjoyed an illustriousmilitary career serving first for the United StatesNavy, then going on to spend nearly 20 yearsin the United States Air Force. During his timewith the Air Force, Harold served as a MedicalService Technician in 13 states and 4 countries,including 3 tours in Vietnam. At the time of hisdischarge he ranked as Master Sargent. Follow-ing his service, Harold worked for theMiddlesex County Sheriff’s department. Hespent 20 years as a sergeant in the medical de-partment at their Cambridge jail, retiring in2003. Private services will be held at GilloolyFuneral Home to honor Harold’s memory.Gil looly Funeral Home NorwoodGilloolyFuneralHome.com

CAPPELLOBertha M. (Maxwell) of Norwood, formerly

of Westwood, died at home March 2nd, 2021,surrounded by her loving family. Beloved wifeof the late Nicholas J. Cappello. Loving motherof Sebby and Rick Santiano of Groton,Jacqueline and Dan Magnarelli of NC, Nicho-las and Angela Cappello of VA, and the latePaul N. Cappello. Cherished grandmother ofSuzanne Basile and her husband Stephen, Lauraand Christina Santiano, Dan Magnarelli and hiswife Christine, Cara Goodwin and her husbandBryan and John and Scott Cappello and Ceceand Domenic Cappello. Great-grandmother ofRocco, Francesca and Anthony Basile, Gia andVincenzo Magnarelli and Luca Goodwin. Sis-ter of Maria Schorr and the late Jacqueline Max-well. Also survived by many loving nieces andnephews. Due to current health concerns, Fu-neral Services and Interment will be private forfamily only. In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made in Bertha’s memory to Memorial Pro-cessing, c/o St. Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 or at stjude.org/memorial. Holden-Dunn-Lawler www.hdlfuneralhome.net

McLELLANHarry E., Age 93, of Franklin, formerly of

Norwood, passed away on February 23. Be-loved husband and partner of Sandi Braymanfor more than 30 years. Devoted father of LindaDelaney of Needham, Harry McLellan ofScituate, Tom McLellan of Dallas, SteveMcLellan of North Falmouth and CarrieMcLellan of Middletown, RI. Loving grandfa-ther of ten, great-grandfather of three. Brotherof Dorothy Trovato of Dedham and JohnMcLellan of Michigan. Predeceased by his sib-lings William Bowman, Anna Carew, HughMcLellan, Margaret Murray and the mother ofhis children Shirley (Holmquist) McLellan. Sur-vived by many nieces and nephews. Proud

WWII veteran serving in Germany in the 709thMilitary Police Battalion, past member of theDedham VFW and honor guard. Owner in the1950’s of Pierce’s Market in Dorchester. Harrywas a great guy, truly one of a kind. He wasirreverent, smart, big hearted, funny, quick, freeof judgement and very much engaged in his richlife. His loss is beyond telling. A Celebrationof his Life will be held at a post Covid-19 datewhen we can embrace one another and honorthis long and wonderful life. Private Burial atMassachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne.Donations in his memory may be made to theSalvation Army, P.O. Box 55876, Boston, MA02205. Holden-Dunn-Lawlerwww.hdlfuneralhome.net

NADOFRANK A.

SR. A lifelongresident ofN o r w o o dpassed awayon March 4,2021 at theage of 81. Be-loved husbandof the lateJane M.( C h e r e l l a )Nado. De-voted father ofFrank A. NadoJr. and hiswife Denise ofPlainville andSheryl A. Ward and her husband John ofBridgewater. Cherished “grand pa” of Kerry andEmily Nado. Brother of Nancy Katz of DE. Sonof the late Anthony Nado and Pauline (Courso)Nado. Also survived by several loving niecesand nephews. Frank was a Norwood HighSchool graduate class of 1957, worked atPolaroid as an engineer for over 30 years andserved as a Norwood town meeting member forseveral years. He also was a proud US ArmyVeteran of the Korean War. Funeral from theKraw-Kornack Funeral Home 1248 WashingtonSt. Burial with U.S. Army military honors willfollow at Highland Cemetery Norwood MA. Inlieu of flowers donations in his memory maybe made to the Norwood Food Pantry, 150Chapel St., Norwood, MA 02062.

PARTRIDGEJanice (MacKenney) Partridge, 84, of

Norwood passed away February 28, 2021. BornMarch 16, 1936 to Carl and Lillian (Lettes)MacKenney. Janice is survived by her children,Richard Partridge Jr. and his spouse Christineof Dennis, MA., Terry Partridge and his spouseHoury of CA., Russell Partridge and his spouseKathleen of Norwood, and Kenneth Partridgeand his spouse Wendy of CA.; her eight grand-children and four great grandchildren; and manynieces and nephews. Janice was predeceased byher sisters Lois Johnson and Carol Packard. Inlieu of flowers, memorial contributions may bemade in Janice’s honor to the Alzheimer’s As-sociation, https://act.alz.org/site/DonationGilloolyFuneralHome.com


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water down the road for drier times.”It also frees up more water for indoor uses like drinking

and washing. You might not realize it, but the MassachusettsWater Resource Authority (MWRA) provides most of the wa-ter for eastern Massachusetts, including Norwood, by tap-ping the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts. Thatwater is treated, which means it goes through a lot of testingand process before it reaches your tap, which contributes toyour water bill. Taking that process out of the equation foryour lawn and garden – unless you have some very pickyvegetables – basically provides a great benefit with little cost.At least with the bulk discount the Great American RainBarrel Company is giving Norwood. Residents can purchasethe barrels for $69 a piece, which is almost half of what theyusually go for.

The barrels also take rain water out of the municipal wa-ter runoff system, and though Murray said it’s not all thatsignificant, during large rain events every little bit of wateryou don’t have to soak or shovel is a direct benefit.

“We saw last June in Norwood catastrophic flooding andit was just the sheer volume of water that was running offinto the municipal system that overwhelmed it,” she said.“So the more water we can capture and retain in place whereit falls, the better because we’ll be able to reduce that stresson the municipal system as well.”

Murray said this is just one part of Progress Norwood’sCovid-friendly Earth Day Celebration events, with more tocome. To get your rain barrel , go togreatamericanrainbarrel.com/community/norwood/

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ers a menu option to vote onan article. It read basically‘here’s the zoning amend-ment,’ and it had option Aoption B and option C. Thatwas a different kind of ap-proach than I’ve ever seenused in a zoning amendment,but as I thought about it, Ithought it might be an ap-proach that we’d like to fol-low, so that we could havefour different votes.”

Halkiotis said they couldfirst vote to approve the cre-ation of the Boston ProvidenceHighway Zoning District,which at that stage does not in-volve any multi-family hous-ing, and would be the standardtwo-thirds vote that the Townhas always required with zon-ing (recent changes to StateLaw now require only a simplemajority for multi-family hous-ing amendments or parking forthose amendments).

He said they could vote toadopt the district, then onemixed-use overlay district,

then the next vote would allowthe next mixed use, and so on.Halkiotis added that this wouldallow local property owners inthe district to advocate fortheir specific districts withpotential projects on the hori-zon to directly advocate forthem.

Halkiotis added that hespoke with Town CounselDavid DeLuca, who said at thistime he did not see any legalissues with it.

Planning Board MemberErnie Paciorkowski said he feltthis would put more specificpower into the hands of TownMeeting members and allowfor a more measured ap-proach.

“It gives them the choiceof what exactly they will ac-cept,” he said. “I think it’sbetter than the all-or-nothingapproach. We tried that at thelast Town Meeting and nowwe’re back to the drawingboard and if we go with an all-or-nothing approach again

and there’s something theydon’t like it’s back to thedrawing board again. I thinkit gives them the menu effectand I really like it.”

The only kink in this pipeto getting the two-year-longrezoning effort off the groundis that of time. Can it be donebefore Spring Town Meeting?Halkiotis is hoping that to bethe case, as there isn’t muchactual change they wouldhave to do, just separate outwhat is necessary to create amenu rather than an offering.

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Monday, March 11224 Phone - Unwanted Party

Services Rendered Location/Address: Central St Un-wanted male party outsiderestaurant. Party was verballyuninvited.

1235 Phone - Well Being Chk*Report Filed Location/Ad-dress: Nichols St + NahatanSt Female reports a male ex-posing himself as he walks.

1602 911 - Well Being Chk*Arrest(S)Made Location/Address: Dean St Report of aman either sleeping or passedout at the wheel with his haz-ard lights on. As a result,N669 placed one party underarrest and transported him tothe station. Don and Wally’stowed MA PC 7VPL70. Re-fer To Arrest: 21-52-AR Ar-rest: Dalimov, Iusup Address:193 Kelton St Apt. #103Allston, Ma Age: 54 Charges:License Suspended, Op MvWith Warrant Arrest WarrantArrest Warrant Arrest

Tuesday, March 21014 Initiated - Debris On Road

Services Rendered Location/Address: Nahatan St + Pleas-ant St N661 comes acrossitems in roadway that havefallen off a truck, workers try-ing to gather up same. N661stood by until cleaned up.

1014 Cellular - DisturbanceSpoken To Location/Address:Mountain Ave Report motheris in her car, son is on couchand maybe under influence.NFD sent. N677 reportsmother given advice abouthow to deal with her son andNFD canceled as son is ok.

1019 Phone - Civil DisputeCivil Matter Location/Ad-dress: Negoshian Enterprises- Walpole St Report issue overa bill that caller cannot pay toget his car back. N666 reportscivil matter.

1056 Phone - Assist Citizen Ser-vices Rendered Location/Ad-dress: Bond St Male party wasdropped off at this church byambulance. N667 spoke to allparties involved. He was senton his way.

1229 Phone - Larceny *ReportFiled Location/Address: C&EAuto Collision - Pleasant StPast larceny of checks.

1325 Phone - Assist CitizenSpoken To Location/Address:Prospect St Landlord reportstenant, who he is evicting, isusing drugs. N666 reports nocrime occurring at this time,N666 properly disposed ofuncapped, blood infused sy-ringe in driveway forlandlard, spoke to tenantabout her son.

1611 911 - Civil Dispute Spo-ken To Location/Address:Upland Woods Cir Verbal dis-pute between office staff andan Amazon delivery driver.Both parties spoken to andadvised.

1627 Initiated - Assist CitizenAssisted Party Location/Ad-dress: Lenox St Male partytripped and fell on grass dueto previous knee injury. De-clined medical, assisted tostand, continued his walk.

1905 911 - Well Being Chk *Re-port Filed Location/Address:Cvs Pharmacy - Nahatan StUnattended child in MA PC389AC9.

Wednesday, March 30325 Phone - Warrant Service

*Arrest(S)Made Location/Address: Norwest Dr Proba-tion violation.N661,N663,N668 respondedand return with 1 under arrest.(Doc# 2050CR001532A-E )Refer To Arrest: 21-56-ARArrest: Nelms, ShemarWallace Address: 507Norwest Dr Norwood, MaAge: 19 Charges: WarrantArrest

0623 Phone - Well Being ChkServices Rendered Location/Address: Lenox St Partycalled asking to speak with anofficer about past larceny andsounded confused. Officersspoke with caller who locateditems before their arrival.

0953 Phone - Illegal Trash Dis-posal Services Rendered Lo-cation/Address: Hilltop Gar-dens Apartments - Rock StManagement reports illegaldumping. Packages show a166 Rock ST address. Unableto reach anyone at 166. Man-agement will hold off any for-mal report at this time. If itcontinues they will contact us.

1028 Other - Warrant Service*Arrest(S)Made Location/Address: Sycamore St Infor-

mation received that a subjectwith a warrant is in the home.N665 places him under arrestand transports to station. Re-fer To Arrest: 21-57-AR Ar-rest: Shields, Michael C Ad-dress: 52 Sycamore StNorwood, Ma Age: 41Charges: Warrant Arrest

1146 Phone - Well Being ChkSpoken To Location/Address:Canterbury Dr Son, at BostonMedical, requests check ofmother, not answering phone.N666 reports phone issue anda 2nd family member is onscene trying to resolve same.

1350 Phone - Citizens Com-plaint No Action RequiredLocation/Address: NorwoodPlaza - Nahatan St Customerreports a B/M, gotee,sweatshirt with word “Bos-ton” on it, backpack, panhan-dling, area of Shaw’s andCVS. N668 reports not goingto check on him unless busi-ness complains.

1455 911 - Report Of Fire FireDept Notified/RespondedLocation/Address: Nahatan StResident reports she left apiece of plastic on stove afterlighting same, fire is out. NFDto double check same.

1506 Phone - Citizens Com-plaint Spoken To Location/Address: United ElectronicsIndustries - Vanderbilt AveReport TT unit parked onMorgan Dr. side of buildingfor 2 days and diesel fumesgo into ventilation system ofcompany. N674 reports truckmoved.

1515 Phone - Well Being ChkServices Rendered Location/Address: Central ChryslerJeep & Dodge Of Norwood -Bos-Prov Hwy Report emer-gency button pressed, no ver-bal response, initially givenaddress was 56 UniversityAve. 1st made a call to Cen-tral Jeep, car is there beingdetailed.

1533 Phone - Civil Dispute Ser-vices Rendered Location/Ad-dress: Hillcrest Rd Residentbought a lamp, sent it out toget fixed, now cannot get it

back. Officer to speak to re-pairman tomorrow and ar-range exchange.

1559 Phone - Susp Person Spo-ken To Location/Address:Cross St Resident reports aparty pacing outside of herhouse for ten minutes. Officerspoke to him, he is waiting tohave his vehicle repairednearby.

1729 Phone - Animal ComplaintServices Rendered Location/Address: Washington StCaller reports a dog jumpedout MA PC POPS1 which isparked and she can’t seem tofind the owner. Check of TLOhad no working number.N663 brought the dog to thestation and left a note for theowner who did show up andretrieved the dog.

2200 Phone - Susp Vehicle Spo-ken To Location/Address:Quincy Ave Caller reports amotorcycle in the neighbor-hood that stopped in front ofa house for a while then thatperson pushed the motorcycledown the street. N667 spoketo that party he just bought thebike and is walking it home.

Thursday, March 40011 Phone - Noise Complaint

Spoken To Location/Address:Village Rd W Caller reportsneighbors being loud. N663spoke to that resident and theyhave agreed to keep it down.

0032 Phone - Well Being ChkSpoken To Location/Address:Jefferson Dr Westwood P.D.transfers call from tower forJefferson Dr. - Caller statesthat ex-boyfriend had re-turned to pick up Belongingsand is concerned that he maytake hers as well. Officers re-sponded and report he had leftwith his belongings beforetheir arrival. She was satisfiedand everything was fine.

0952 Phone - Citizens Com-plaint Spoken To Location/Address: Washington StFence damaged by the plowand fire.

1156 Phone - Assist CitizenSpoken To Location/Address:Harding Rd Report text mes-sage that her house was sold.Officer reports no crime andthe resident was advised.

1311 Phone - Animal ComplaintServices Rendered Location/Address: Crescent AveNACO will handle a dog inthe area that attacked the call-ers dog yesterday.

1517 Phone - Assist CitizenSpoken To Location/Address:Jefferson Dr Walk-in partyseeking advice on matterswith her son. N666 advisedand stated she would returnwith her son.

1639 911 - Motor Vehicle Acci-dent *Arrest(S)Made Loca-tion/Address: Verizon - Ac-cess Rd Caller reports a sil-ver Ford Focus struck the sideof the building. As a result,N664 placed one female partyunder arrest and transportedher to the station S/M 47223at 1657, E/M 47225 at 1701.MA PC 1JJP56 towed byNegoshian’s. Refer To Arrest:21-58-AR Arrest: Woodring,Kendrea Lee Address: 4 OldeDerby Rd Apt. #103aNorwood, Ma Age: 39Charges: Oui-Liquor Or.08%, 3rd Offense NegligentOperation Of Motor VehicleAlcohol In Mv, Possess OpenContainer Of

1741 911 - Unwanted Party*Report Filed Location/Ad-dress: Residence Inn ByMarriot - Norwood Pk S Em-ployee States That GuestsThat Were Asked To LeaveAre Now making accusationsagainst her.

1746 911 - Assist Citizen As-sisted Party Location/Ad-dress: Azalea Dr Party ad-vised on how to obtain vac-cine.

2207 Initiated - RecoveredMissing Person ReturnedHome Location/Address:CCS National LLC- CreditCollection Services - CantonSt. N666 comes across PA PCLMH8054 parked on the sideof the road, operator wassleeping. That party was en-tered as a missing person outof Reading from earlier today.Party checked OK. ReadingPD notified, removed fromNCIC.

Friday, March 50927 Phone - Larceny *Report

Filed Location/Address: Cus-tom Design Cabinetry - Pleas-ant St Report 2 catalytic con-verters stolen.

1032 Phone - Assist Citizen Ser-vices Rendered Location/Ad-dress: Bos-Prov Hwy + DeanSt Caller, involved in MVAtoday around 0700 Hrs can-not find his front plate. N661checked area of MVA andhighway up to Subaru dealer-ship-did not see it. Don andWally’s checked the other carin case it was imbedded orplaced inside same it was not.Caller notified.

1608 Phone - Disturbance Spo-ken To Location/Address:Nahatan St Caller reports amale party yelling at custom-ers. N668 spoke to that partyhe checks out.

1611 Walk-In - Assist CitizenCivil Matter Location/Ad-dress: Boch Chevrolet ( DcdC Norwood - Bos-Prov HwyWalk in reports her new carhas dents and dings after be-ing left in the care of the deal-ership.

2147 Phone - Neighbor Distur-bance Spoken To Location/Address: Lincoln St Caller re-ports she can hear kids argu-ing and yelling. N667 reportsits just some kids playing inthe back yard.

2246 Phone - Noise ComplaintSpoken To Location/Address:Savin Ave Caller reports theupstairs neighbors are beingloud. N662 spoke to the indi-viduals there and they agreedto turn down the music.

2342 Phone - Neighbor Distur-bance Services Rendered Lo-cation/Address: Austin StCaller reports her neighborsare being loud out on the frontporch. Upon arrival the callercalled back and reports the in-dividuals at that residence hadgone back inside.

2346 Phone - Neighbor Distur-bance Spoken To Location/Address: Norwest Dr Callerreports loud music and some-one singing into a micro-phone. N663 spoke to thoseindividuals they were not verycooperative but agreed to turnthe music down.

Saturday, March 60001 Phone - Noise Complaint

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Police Logs continued from page 10Savin Ave Caller reports up-stairs neighbors are still beingloud. 2nd call for this address.N663 spoke to party andagreed to quiet down.

0046 Other - Dog Bite *ReportFiled Location/Address: Ma-son Construction - FieldbrookDr Fax recieved from NewtonWellesley Hospital reporting adog bite. N678 contactedowner and report to be filed.

0051 Phone - Noise ComplaintSpoken To Location/Address:Savin Ave 3rd noise com-plaint, downstairs neighbor re-ports upstairs still banging andbeing loud. N678, N663,N661 and N668 responded.N678 advised parties causingthe disturbance on secondfloor left for the night, all is

quiet. Calling party spoken toand satisfied.

0101 911 - Mischief (Kids) Spo-ken To Location/Address:Norwest Dr Caller reports 7/8young teenagers horse playingin front of her residence caus-ing a disturbance. N663, N661and N666 responded. N663advised was a gathering thatwas dispersing and the kidscausing the loud disturbanceleft prior to his arrival.

1300 Phone - Assist Fire DeptPolice & Fire Notified/Re-spond Location/Address:Rock On Adventure/ 5thDemension Athletics - Pleas-ant St. Employee locked insidethe bathroom . Officer reportsthe front door was open andNFD gained access to the bath-

room.1621 Phone - Assist Citizen Spo-

ken To Location/Address: BirdRd Advised about the Applephone scam attempt.

2119 911 - Well Being Chk Spo-ken To Location/Address:Washington St Caller request-ing a wellness check on amale party in a wheelchair,he fell out of the chair andwas helped up by some by-standers, she just wants tomake sure he is ok. N670spoke to that party and hechecks out fine.

Sunday, March 70211 Phone - Well Being Chk

Spoken To Location/Ad-dress: Washington St + DaySt Caller requesting well be-

ing check for male party onbench. N667 responding.The male party states he isfine and refused services.

0526 Phone - Noise ComplaintSpoken To Location/Ad-dress: Second St Caller re-ports loud music from insidea vehicle. N663 and N669 re-sponding.

0945 Walk-In - Assaults *ReportFiled Location/Address: IrishHeaven Inc - Central St PartyIn Lobby Reports An AssaultLast Night.

1015 Phone - Unwanted PartySpoken To Location/Ad-dress: Sabb’s Market Inc. -Bos-Prov Hwy Customer re-ports clerk not wearing amask and asked her to leavethe store. N674 reports fe-male left before officer’s ar-rival and Health Dept. voicemail is full and cannot accept

messages.1138 Phone - Disturbance Ser-

vices Rendered Location/Address: Buckminster DrCaller reports a verbal argu-ment over a lost item.

21-4663 1214 Walk-In - AssistCitizen Spoken To Location/Address: Second St Walk inparty seeking advice on hisneighbor who was yellingafter a noise complaint calllast night.

21-4679 1851 Other - Harass-ment *Report Filed Location/Address: Pleasant St Party re-ports her ex-boyfriend hasbeen harassing her. Refer ToIncident: 21-203-OF

2316 911 - Assist Citizen As-sisted Party Location/Ad-dress: Olde Derby Rd Callerrequests assistance withchild’s behavioral issues. Ad-vised on services available.

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For the RecordBLESSINGS BOUTIQUETHIS SATURDAY

At First Baptist Church,71Bond St., Norwoodon Saturday, March 13, 10:00AM - noon. Please use theWalpole St. entrance. Gettingready for spring! Come see whatwe have for you - clothes, house-hold and seasonal items, books,purses, children’s books, andmuch, much more.

GARDEN CLUB TO HOSTVIRTUAL PROGRAM ONTREES & SHRUBS

The Norwood Evening Gar-den Club will virtually hostJoann Vieira, the state-wide Di-rector of Horticulture for TheTrustees of Reservations onTuesday, March 30, 2021 at 7:00p.m. via Zoom. The public is in-vited to attend for a $5 donation.If you are interested in register-ing for this program, please sendan email to:[email protected].

Vieira is passionate aboutplants – trees and shrubs in par-ticular – and will share some ofher favorites, along with tipson sourcing and growing them.Come and learn moreabout distinctive trees and shrubsthat will add interest and sophis-tication to your garden year-round. And learn which ones arefragrant, which oneshave interesting form or winterpresence, which ones have beau-tiful flowers and/or foliage andwhich ones are well suited toNew England gardens.

Vieira brings many years ofexperience in public horticulture,including serving as the found-ing Director of Horticulture forTower Hill Botanic Garden inBoylston, MA, a position sheheld for nearly 30 years. She was

instrumental in shaping the gar-dens, landscape and plant collec-tions, transforming the propertyfrom a 132-acre dairy farm to avibrant and growing 171-acrepublic garden hosting over140,000 visitors each year.

A member of The GardenClub Federation of Massachu-setts, New England GardenClubs, and National GardenClubs, Inc., members of theNorwood Evening Garden Clubhave been providing educationand public beautification inNorwood and its surroundingcommunities since 1996. TheClub, open to novice and expertgardeners, draws its membersfrom Norwood, Walpole,Westwood, Dedham, Medfield,Randolph, and Stoughton. Forinformation about the NorwoodEvening Garden Club, visitwww.NorwoodEveningGardenClub.com.

WHEN THE IRISHINVADED CANADA:IT’S NO BLARNEY

Calling all history buffs andIrish enthusiasts! Join the MorrillMemorial Library via Zoom onThursday, March 25 at 7:00 pmas New England author Christo-pher Klein tells us about a uniquetwist of Irish history in NorthAmerica.

Just over a year after RobertE. Lee relinquished his sword, aband of Union and Confederateveterans dusted off their guns.These former foes, however, hadno intention of reigniting theCivil War. Instead, they foughtside by side to undertake one of

the most fantastical missions inmilitary history: to seize the Brit-ish province of Canada and holdit hostage until the independenceof Ireland was secured. In thistalk, learn the outlandish, little-known story of the self-pro-claimed Irish Republican Armythat carried out five attacks onCanada—known collectively asthe Fenian Raids—between1866 and 1871. With the tacitsupport of the U.S. government,this motley group—including aone-armed war hero, an Englishspy infiltrating rebel forces, anda radical who staged his own fu-neral—managed to seize a pieceof America’s northern neighbor,if only for a matter of days.

Registration is required forthis program funded by theFriends of the Library. Pleasesign up by visiting the library’sonline events calendar atnorwoodlibrary.org/wp-admin,or call the Reference desk withany questions at 781-769-0200x2.

ABSENTEE BALLOTELECTION INFORMATION

The Town Clerk’s Officewishes to inform the registeredvoters in the Town, anyone thatwishes to Vote Absentee in theupcoming Annual Town Elec-tion, Monday, April 5, 2021,MUST complete an AbsenteeBallot Application before a bal-lot can be mailed to them.

The deadline to apply for anAbsentee Ballot to be Mailed outis TUESDAY, MARCH 30,2021.

An Absentee Ballot Applica-tion can be found on the Townof Norwood website or you cancall the Town Clerk’s Office781-762-1240.

All Absentee Ballots are dueback to the Town Clerk’s Officeon or before Monday, April 5,2020 at 8:00 PM.

Absentee Ballots can bedropped off in the Drop Boxesat Town Hall or returned throughthe mail.

SPECIAL REGISTRATIONSESSION FOR TOWNELECTION

The Board of Registrarswishes to inform the residents ofthe Town of Norwood that a spe-cial registration session has beenset for the April 5, 2021 AnnualTown Election.

An evening special registra-tion session will be held at theMunicipal Building, Room 32 onTuesday March 16, 2021 from4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.

This is the FINAL REGIS-TRATION SESSION prior to theAnnual Town Election.

Daily registration of voterswill be conducted at the TownClerk’s office, Monday throughFriday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00P.M.

A mail-in registration form isnow available at NorwoodMorrill Memorial Library andthe Norwood Post Office.

You may also register to voteon-line at sec.state.ma.us

Qualifications to register tovote are that the applicants mustbe 18 years old on or before elec-

tion day and must either be bornin the United States or be a Natu-ralized Citizen.

PREPARING FOREXTREME WEATHERIN NORWOOD

The Morrill Memorial Libraryinvites you to join us for a Zoompresentation on Thursday, March11 at 7:00 PM. Learn how ex-treme weather events, which wecan expect to continue, will affectour lives and our town. More im-portantly, learn what we can doto ameliorate the damage causedby flooding and drought. We can’tgo back; these events occur un-predictably and with more fre-quency. A certain amount of Cli-mate Change has already oc-curred and won’t be reversed inour lifetimes. While we try tomake sure not to accelerate Cli-mate Change, we must still livewith the sort of weather eventsmost likely to affect Norwood.

Patrick Hogan, Water Re-source Professional at NeponsetRiver Watershed Association, willlead this presentation. He will bejoined by Kelly Snyder, AdvocacyDirector for Neponset River Wa-tershed Association and by HollyJones, Conservation Planner forthe Town of Norwood. There willbe a Q&A at the end of the pro-gram, and questions can be sub-mitted in advance on the eventregistration page.

Please register for this pro-gram by visiting the library’swebsite at norwoodlibrary.org/morrillcalendar, or by callingthe library at 781-729-0200 x2.This program is part of theSpring Sustainability Series andNorwood’s Civic Hub, spon-sored by Progress Norwood, To-gether Yes, and Norwood Library.

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