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BY BECCA MANNING, EXPRESS EDITOR BECCA@WHITMANEXPRESS.COM After six years in Whit- man Center, the COMPASS program — an alternative aca- demic program aimed to help at-risk students get to gradu- ation —will be coming back to Whitman-Hanson Regional High School. WHRSD Superintendent Ruth Gilbert-Whitner and high school Principal Jeff Szyma- niak announced plans at last Wednesday’s School Commit- tee meeting to bring the pro- gram back to the school by the start of the 2011-12 year. The COMPASS program evolved from the high school’s former ACES program and provides an alternative cur- riculum for students in grades 9-12 who are struggling with learning disabilities, behavior- al problems and other issues in the regular high school setting. The program was set up in its current location in Whit- man Center during the 2005- 06 school year. The school dis- trict rents a space on the lower floor of the building, including two large rooms, bathrooms and several small offices. The decision to move the program to a separate building was based in part on research that found that students who need an alternative program could be more successful if they are off-campus, Gilbert- Whitner said. “This was an attempt to see if that was a good model,” she said. The decision to return the program to the high school is based on several factors, in- cluding the cost of transporting students back and forth and an effort to give COMPASS stu- dents access to extracurricular programs offered to other high school students. About 28 students are en- rolled in the program, with be- tween 18 and 23 attending on a regular basis, Gilbert-Whit- ner said. Another area that school staff had hoped would work better was in transitioning COMPASS students back to the regular high school pro- gram. “Students were success- ful in transitioning back to the high school in some cases, but in many cases they were not,” Cancelled Insurance Replaced No Money Down Plan Available Free Registry Service AUTO INSURANCE INSURANCE AGENCY ohnson J (508) 587-9900 (781) 447-4400 546 WASHINGTON ST., WHITMAN SEE OUR AD ON PAGE 13 1130am-1am 7 days a week Take out menu available WWW.MCGUIGGANSPUB.COM VISIT THE DAIRY STORE! GREAT MILK-GREAT PRICE! Located at the junctions Rte 18 & 14 Whitman MOVING SALE EVERYTHING 10% OFF 781-447-4451 www.saftlers.com Mon-Fri 9:30am-9pm / Sat 9:30am-5:30pm Closed Sunday VOLUME 9 NO. 7 • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 Get in the race! Deadline to run for town seat is April 4. Regal Marketplace 401 South Ave. Whitman, MA ~ Next to the "Experience The Difference" SPECIAL 1% Milk Gal. TINY & SONS GLASS RS 649 Since 1978 781-826-7779 237 Washington St., Pembroke, MA WE SUPPORT PEMBROKE BOY’S AND GIRLS CLUB 1-888-64-TINY’S MOBILE AUTO GLASS SERVICE BY BECCA MANNING, EXPRESS EDITOR BECCA@WHITMANEXPRESS.COM After spearheading an ef- fort to bring scoreboards to Whitman baseball fields, local parent Lisa Green is hop- ing to serve the communi- ty in another way: as a se- lectman. Green an- nounced this week that she is collecting signatures to run for one of two open seats on the Board of Selectmen. The seats are held by current selectmen Carl Kowalski and Chris Walker, both of whom are running for re-election. This is Green’s first foray into town government, and she said she was inspired to run af- ter finding some success with the scoreboards project. In August — after spending the New bid for BOS Volunteer work spurs woman to run for seat Lisa Green continued on page 12 OPENING ACT: The Whitman-Hanson junior varsity cheerleading team kicks off the Patriot League Cheerleading Championships on Thursday, Feb. 10 at WHRHS. The varsity Panthers took first place at the competition. See more photos from the event inside on page 22. Photo by Dave Palana COMPASS returning to high school building District program will start 2011-12 at WHRHS continued on page 13 “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” — Pearl Buck

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Page 1: Whitman Express 02_17_2011

By Becca Manning, express editor [email protected]

After six years in Whit-man Center, the COMPASS program — an alternative aca-demic program aimed to help at-risk students get to gradu-ation —will be coming back

to Whitman-Hanson Regional High School.

WHRSD Superintendent Ruth Gilbert-Whitner and high school Principal Jeff Szyma-niak announced plans at last Wednesday’s School Commit-tee meeting to bring the pro-gram back to the school by the start of the 2011-12 year.

The COMPASS program evolved from the high school’s former ACES program and provides an alternative cur-riculum for students in grades 9-12 who are struggling with learning disabilities, behavior-al problems and other issues in the regular high school setting.

The program was set up in its current location in Whit-man Center during the 2005-06 school year. The school dis-trict rents a space on the lower floor of the building, including two large rooms, bathrooms and several small offices.

The decision to move the program to a separate building was based in part on research that found that students who need an alternative program

could be more successful if they are off-campus, Gilbert-Whitner said.

“This was an attempt to see if that was a good model,” she said.

The decision to return the program to the high school is based on several factors, in-cluding the cost of transporting students back and forth and an effort to give COMPASS stu-dents access to extracurricular programs offered to other high school students.

About 28 students are en-rolled in the program, with be-tween 18 and 23 attending on a regular basis, Gilbert-Whit-ner said.

Another area that school staff had hoped would work better was in transitioning COMPASS students back to the regular high school pro-gram.

“Students were success-ful in transitioning back to the high school in some cases, but in many cases they were not,”

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By Becca Manning, express editor [email protected]

After spearheading an ef-fort to bring scoreboards to Whitman baseball fields, local

parent Lisa Green is hop-ing to serve the communi-ty in another way: as a se-lectman.

Green an-nounced this week that she is collecting

signatures to run for one of two open seats on the Board of Selectmen. The seats are held by current selectmen Carl Kowalski and Chris Walker, both of whom are running for re-election.

This is Green’s first foray into town government, and she said she was inspired to run af-ter finding some success with the scoreboards project. In August — after spending the

New bid for BOSVolunteer work spurs woman to run for seat

Lisa Green

continued on page 12

OPENING ACT: The Whitman-Hanson junior varsity cheerleading team kicks off the Patriot League Cheerleading Championships on Thursday, Feb. 10 at WHRHS. The varsity Panthers took first place at the competition. See more photos from the event inside on page 22. Photo by Dave Palana

COMPASS returning to high school buildingDistrict program will start 2011-12 at WHRHS

continued on page 13

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” — Pearl Buck

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By eMily Brain, express intern

While it is once again time to file taxes, two Whit-

man-Hanson Regional High School students are prepared to provide the help that will make this process a smooth one. For a second year, the Whitman-Hanson Tax-Aide Program will be available to those in need of assistance.

The AARP Tax-Aide Foundation sponsors the Whitman-Hanson Tax-Aide Program and it is free for all students, senior citizens and taxpayers with low to moder-ate income in the community. Whitman-Hanson teacher Lydia Nelson started this pro-gram last year after she saw an ad in an AARP magazine about the Tax-Aide program. Nelson called to inquire about the program and was curious to know if it was something she could get her accounting students involved in; she was surprised to hear that it was possible.

“It all started with a phone call,” Nelson said.

Last year was the first time the Tax-Aide Program was in-troduced to Whitman-Hanson. With hard work and dedicated volunteers, the program was successful enough to allow its continuation this year.

Along with Nelson, Whit-man-Hanson juniors Kyle Kane and Alex Winnett have volunteered to provide their service to the Tax-Aide Pro-gram. Nelson trained Kane and Winnett so that they could be made available to assist in filing basic tax forms.

Kane and Winnett were motivated to become involved in the program so that they would be able to help those in need.

To participate in this Program, Kane and Winnett had to become certified tax aides. This required a 60-day course, taught by Nelson, during which they studied tax law, and they also had to pass three levels of IRS testing.

Kane and Winnett did not hesitate to admit that the train-ing is a challenge. With hard coursework and a test that takes approximately 20 hours to complete, becoming certi-fied is certainly difficult. How-ever, both boys agreed that it’s worth it, saying that the test is the hardest part because it is so complicated, but after that everything gets easier.

Both teens said they en-joyed the experience and the opportunity to give back to the community.

“We are looking forward to working with the clients,” Kane and Winnett said.

Both Kane and Winnett successfully earned their cer-tification and are now able to begin working with members of the community.

Nelson, Kane and Winnett all recommended volunteer-ing for the Tax-Aide Program to anyone who has good peo-

ple skills, is motivated and is up for a challenge.

“We want more kids who can handle the stress to vol-unteer for next year,” Nelson said. “No one should be too intimidated to try.”

Kane and Winnett believe they gained a lot of experi-ence from their training and will gain even more as they interact with the clients; for them, volunteering has been a positive experience.

“When you’re doing peo-ple’s taxes, it opens your eyes to the different situations in the community that we don’t see in school,” Winnett said.

Nelson hopes to be able to continue offering the Tax-Aide Program in the years to come, believing in a commit-ment to the community. Nel-son said though it is a lot of work, it benefits everyone, as student volunteers develop new skills and those in need of tax help are provided with free aid.

The Tax-Aide Program is now open on Thursdays in the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School Library from 2-5:30 p.m. Taxes are done by appointment, which can be made by calling 781-618-7155, and all appointments are confidential.

Teens offering tax help

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School teacher Lydia Nelson helped juniors Alex Winnett and Kyle Kane receive their tax aide certifications as a requirement to volunteer for the Whitman-Hanson AARP Tax-Aide Program. Photo by Emily Brain

NEED TAX HELP?

The Tax-Aide Program is now open on Thursdays in the Whitman-Hanson Regional High school library from 2-5:30 p.m. Taxes are done by appointment, which can be made by calling 781-618-7155, and all appoint-ments are confidential.

The Old Colony YMCA will be offering its February Vacation Club from Feb. 22-25 at Maquan Elementary School in Hanson.

On Tuesday, the group will be going to the Brockton Y for a fun day of “Swim and Gym.” On Wednesday, it’s a

“Toy Story 3” day, so chil-dren should come dressed as their favorite character and bring along a favorite stuffed animal. On Thursday, the group will be heading to TD Garden for Disney’s “Toy Story 3 on Ice.” And on Fri-day, it’s a snow-themed day,

so children should come dressed to go outside, while inside activities also will be all about snow.

Registration is required, and tickets to Disney are limited, so sign up early. Call 508-833-4796 for more information and prices.

Old Colony YMCA to hold Vacation Club

The Whitman Public Li-brary is sponsoring a poetry contest to celebrate Poetry Month in April. The contest is open to the general public, and Whitman residency is not required. People are encour-aged to try their hand at pen-ning some thoughts through

the poetic form. No experience is re-

quired to enter the contest, and entries must be received by Friday, March 18. First, second and third place win-ners will be selected from the following categories: Adult, teen (ages 13-18) and youth

(12 and under). Winning po-ems will be presented dur-ing a poetry reading event on Saturday, April 16 at the li-brary.

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Patients taking antidepressants may reach a point where they are not willing to put up with side effects (decreased sexual desire, headache, insomnia, drowsiness, vivid dreaming, or not feeling like one’s normal self) that they were initially willing to endure. If so, they may decide to go off their medications. This is a decision that should only be made in consultation with the prescribing physician in order to minimize or avoid discontinuation symptoms that may arise if the medication is withdrawn too quickly. So-called “SSRI discontinuation syndrome” may occur in association with quick cessation of the use of antidepressants known as “selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors” (SSRIs). While discontinuation symptoms are not indicative of an addiction, they may be needlessly uncomfort-able.

The use of antidepressants has been steadily increasing since they were first developed. Antidepressants are not only used for mental depression -- about half the prescriptions are for eating disorders, post-traumatic stress syn-drome, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive syndromes, chronic pain, and a variety of other conditions. For your family’s prescription needs, please call DUVAL’S PHARMACY at 781-447-0606 or visit us in Whitman at 571 Washington St., Rt. 27. We are also located in East Bridgewater at 1 Compass Way (508-350-2900).

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By Becca Manning, express editor [email protected]

Though it is still early in the budget process, the Whit-man-Hanson Regional School District is facing a budget gap of about $2.5 million, school officials said last week.

WHRSD Business Man-ager Sharon Andrew present-ed an early revenue estimate for fiscal year 2012 at the dis-trict School Committee meet-ing on Wednesday, Feb. 9, following up a Jan. 29 budget breakfast in which adminis-trators mostly discussed ex-penses for the year.

With a proposed FY12 budget totaling more than $45.3 million, and available revenues at just under $43 million, administrators will have to find a way to make up the difference so they can present a balanced budget.

On Feb. 9, the School Committee unanimously vot-ed to move $800,000 from district reserves to help less-en the cuts — an action they have taken during the last three budget cycles, accord-ing to chairman Bob Hayes.

Part of the reason for the gap is the fact that federal stimulus (ARRA) funds that have helped protect many schools and towns from major financial burden over the past two years have now dried up.

The district also is in the middle of contract negotia-tions with teachers and also is negotiating a new transpor-tation contract — with costs expected to increase in both areas.

Andrew said the budget gap will have to be made up either through increasing rev-enue from the town or state or through budget reductions, though she did not specify where cuts might be made.

“It’s not a positive thing, but we’ve been there before and we’ve made it through,” Andrew said of the budget gap.

In a separate numbers dis-cussion last Wednesday, Fa-cilities Director Ernie Sand-land provided the School Committee with an update on snow removal operations at all of the district’s school buildings.

Sandland reported that more than 71 inches of snow had fallen on the Whitman and Hanson area from Dec. 20 to Feb. 4.

He and his staff have been busy clearing all that snow and ice off school roofs, with about 630 hours of custodian hours used in the effort, plus more than 300 hours of sub-stitute custodian hours.

At Whitman Middle School alone, as much as sev-

en feet of snow had drifted up against the building, Sandland said. Along with removing the heavy snow, workers cleared drains to ensure melting snow and ice had somewhere to go.

The district hired a con-tractor with a crane to remove snow from the roof of Duval Elementary School in Whit-man, Sandland said. Accord-ing to a digital reading on the crane, which records the weight of every load, more than 63 tons of snow were removed from the school. At Maquan Elementary School in Hanson, more than 27 tons were removed.

Also at their Feb. 9 meet-ing, the School Committee held a ribbon cutting for a new computer lab at Whitman Middle School, made pos-sible through a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant. WMS teacher Gavin Thomas organized the effort to pursue the grant, which was awarded based on the number of online votes the project received.

The next WHRSD School Committee meeting will be held Wednesday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at the high school.

School district facing $2.5 million budget gap

GETTING READY FOR THE OLYMPICS: Team members include (front row) Mike Williams, Taylor Piccuito, Grace Quinlan, Martin Lee, (back row) Thomas Musto, Kevin Barradas, Roberto Tapia, Chris Rotondo, Derek Heaton-Wright and Isaiah Bickel. The team is coached by Mark Main.

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The Whitman-Hanson Regional High School Spe-cial Olympics team attended the South Section assessments for traditional basketball on Satur-

day, Feb. 12, playing two games to assess their abilities in preparation for the state games, to be held March 12-13, where they will be paired up against similar ability teams. The kids have been practicing since September, and the WHRHS boys varsity basketball players have worked with the kids at all practices to help them improve their skills.

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Rockland Trust scholarshipsRockland Trust will award five $2,500 college scholar-

ships to graduating high school seniors in their annual schol-arship competition. Students graduating from high school in 2011 and who are residents of Plymouth County, Barnstable County, Bristol County or the towns of Cohasset, Stoughton, Randolph, Braintree, Weymouth, Quincy, Wellesley or Wa-tertown are eligible to apply. Applicants must be in the top 50 percent of their graduating class and will be scored based on academic achievement, community involvement and an essay question. Five winners will be selected.

Applications will be accepted until March 18. Applica-tions and complete guidelines are available at the Whitman Rockland Trust, 692 Bedford St. (at the corner of routes 18 and 27, and at all other branch locations). For more informa-tion, call 800-222-2299 or visit RocklandTrust.com.

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MONDAY, FEB. 78:03 a.m. Motor vehicle

accident with injuries reported at Bedford and Auburn streets.

12:44 p.m. Motor vehicle accident with property damage reported at Beulah and Temple streets.

4:16 p.m. Police called to a Linden Street for a possible overdose. Fire Department also responded.

5:47 p.m. Police called to Old Mansion Lane on the report of a suspicious vehicle. Vehicle found to be broken down, with operator waiting for a tow.

7:50 p.m. Individual came to station to report someone had slashed her vehicle’s tires while it was parked at John-nie’s Foodmaster on Saturday.

9:04 p.m. Caller reported a group of youths skateboarding in front of a property on Regal Street. Group dispersed upon police arrival.

TUESDAY, FEB. 86:50 a.m. Motor vehicle

accident with property damage reported on Auburn Street.

12:15 p.m. Caller reported a vehicle driving erratically on Auburn Street near the Brock-ton town line. Brockton Police notified.

1:51 p.m. Caller reported that a motor vehicle hit a build-ing on Bedford Street causing some property damage. Build-ing inspector notified.

1:57 p.m. Individual came to station to report a truck driver had hit and damaged her business sign on Essex Street.

9:56 p.m. Caller reported male resident trying to grab her at a Whitman Avenue home. In-dividual transported to Brock-ton Hospital.

11:49 p.m. Police arrested Dennis Hunt, 68, of Raynor Avenue on a default warrant and on a straight warrant.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 912:37 p.m. Caller report-

ed that her ex-boyfriend had threatened to damage a prop-erty on Temple Street.

4:15 p.m. Motor vehicle accident with property damage reported on Bedford Street.

4:33 p.m. Individuals came to station to report an incident in the park.

7:54 p.m. Benson Street resident reported he had paid for fuel oil that had not been delivered.

THURSDAY, FEB. 104:19 a.m. Caller reported

a suspicious vehicle stopped in front of a home construc-tion site on Lyons Lane. Po-lice responded. Whitman man charged with carrying a firearm while intoxicated and placed into protective custody.

8:25 a.m. Caller reported an injured deer in a neighbor’s yard on Mayflower Circle. Ani-mal control officer notified.

10:40 a.m. Individual came to station to report a sto-len construction trailer. Trailer later recovered in Abington.

11:15 a.m. Police arrested David Thomas Jillson, 24, of South Avenue, Whitman on two default warrants.

11:20 a.m. Mail carrier reported being bit by a dog on Jenkins Avenue. No medical services required. Animal con-

trol officer notified.4:37 p.m. Hit and run mo-

tor vehicle accident reported on Regal Street.

4:50 p.m. Caller reported a hit and run motor vehicle ac-cident at a Temple Street gas station.

7:52 p.m. Caller reported a drunk individual causing a dis-turbance on Whitman Avenue.

FRIDAY, FEB. 1111:03 a.m. Individual re-

ported a motor vehicle accident with minor property damage in front of Town Hall.

2:04 p.m. Caller reported a dispute at Stop and Shop on Bedford Street over who was in line first at the gas pumps. Dis-pute resolved.

8:28 p.m. Motor vehicle stopped on Temple Street near the Brockton town line. Jessica Dykens, 23, of Summer St., Brockton and Samantha Simas, 20, of Washington St., Whit-man both arrested for posses-sion of a Class A drug.

10:53 p.m. Caller reported motor vehicle operating errati-cally on Route 58 near Indian Trail. Vehicle not found.

SATURDAY, FEB. 123:10 a.m. Vehicle stopped

on Auburn Street. Police ar-rested Maurice D. Mallory, 28, of Norfolk St., Mattapan for operating a vehicle with a sus-pended license, motor vehicle lights violation, possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle and public consumption of marijuana and cited him for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

6:03 a.m. Caller reported that a dog on Old Coach Road had been barking continually since 4:30 a.m. Animal control officer notified.

6:32 a.m. Vehicle stopped at the corner of Washington Street and Dewey Avenue. Police to summons Ferdinand Sonza, 44, of Stonegate Drive, East Bridgewater for unli-censed operation of a motor vehicle.

10:52 a.m. Caller reported a past break-in at a home on Westwood Drive. Police inves-tigating.

11:51 a.m. Individual came to station to report she had backed into a parked car at the Dunkin Donuts town lot on South Avenue and could not lo-cate the owner to report it.

2:20 p.m. Individual came to station to file a complaint about being “shorted” in a mo-tor vehicle trade arranged on Craigslist.com. Police medi-ated between both parties.

SUNDAY, FEB. 133:45 a.m. Caller reported

a suspicious vehicle on Blake Street striking a snow bank and continuing to drive around the neighborhood. Vehicle located and found parked securely.

9:45 a.m. Caller reported the rear passenger window on a vehicle on Benson Street was broken sometime overnight.

3:24 p.m. Police arrested Patricia Renee Pina, 51, of Parsonage Road, Plympton for violating a harassment preven-tion order.

5:18 p.m. Motor vehicle accident with injuries reported at Auburn and Washington streets.

Whitman Police log

By Stephanie SpyropouloS expreSS Staff

Whitman police are working with the vic-tims of several house break-ins to return stolen items following a bust last week in which the items were recovered from an East Bridgewater home.

Police also are relying on tips from alert neighbors to prevent further break-ins similar to those that occurred recently — some of which were done in broad daylight.

On Wednesday, Feb. 9, police recovered thousands of dollars in goods, including Nikon cameras, jewelry, cash and laptop computers, at the home of Patrick Lydon, 36, of Natalie Drive in East Bridgewater, a suspect in several recent breaking and entering cases in Whitman and surrounding towns.

A search warrant was activated under the lead of WEB task force investigator Sergeant Detective Tim Hanlon of Whitman police last week, according to East Bridgewater police De-tective Scott Allen, WEB investigator.

Patrick Lydon and his brother, Richard Ly-don, 36, of Nason Street, Brockton, had been arrested by Abington police on Sunday, Jan. 23 in a stolen vehicle, just hours after a house on Old Colony Way in Whitman had been broken into — the front door kicked off its hinges and several items reported missing.

When police approached the brothers, they discovered the men were in need of medical aid for an alleged overdose. Both were transported to area hospitals for treatment.

Warrant, were issued for their arrest follow-ing release from the hospital.

On Feb. 9, Hanlon arrested Patrick Lydon as he left his home in East Bridgewater and ex-ecuted a search warrant for the premises.

“During the execution of the search warrants police recovered jewelry on Lydon’s person along with numerous items that appeared to be stolen from recent house breaks,” Allen said.

Police also found three bags of a substance that appeared to be heroin along with other drug paraphernalia, he said.

Kelly Lydon, 31, a resident of Natalie Drive, was arrested by WEB Task Force investigators for possession of heroin during the search. She was booked and processed at the East Bridgewa-

ter Police Department.As police look forward to returning items to

their rightful owners, Detective Stephen Drass of Whitman Police urged residents to look out for their neighbors and to call the police if there is suspicious activity.

“I would rather go check out a house or car and find out the situation is fine,” Drass said.

Reporting an incident that may turn out to be nothing is better than finding out later a home has been broken into, he added.

In the area of Westwood Drive in Whitman on Dec. 30, a resident was gone for four hours when her 55-inch television was stolen right out the front door of her home, Drass said.

He called the burglarizing of homes “ram-pant” and said many homes had been damaged in recent break-ins, with doors being torn off ei-ther the front or back to gain entry.

Lydon will be summonsed to court to face charges of receiving stolen property, according to Whitman detectives.

Whitman Police Detective Stephen Drass looks over items recovered during a warranted search of an East Bridgewater home last week. Photo by Stephanie Spyropoulos

Stolen items recovered Police arrest East Bridgewater man for series of house break-ins in Whitman, other area towns

Man found asleep at the wheel, charged with second OUI

A Whitman man is facing his second OUI offense after he reportedly fell asleep at the wheel while stopped at the intersection of Phillips and Main streets in Hanson.

Another driver came to the Hanson police station around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 13 to report that a vehicle was stopped at the in-tersection and that the man behind the wheel appeared to be asleep. When officers arrived, they found that the driver was in fact asleep behind the wheel, with the vehicle set in drive and his foot on the brake. When officers tapped on the car window, the driver woke up and released his foot from the brake, causing the vehicle to roll into a snow bank, according to Hanson Police Lt. Joe Yakavonis.

The driver was identified as Adam Burniei-ka, 33, of Washington St., Whitman. After po-lice got Burnieika to exit the vehicle and be-gan questioning him, officers noted signs that he may have been drinking, Yakavonis said. Burnieika was arrested and charged with OUI second offense and driving to endanger. His vehicle was towed.

— B. Manning

POlIce & cOUrt brIefS

traffic stop leads to heroin charges

Two women are facing drug charges after police allegedly found trace amounts of heroin and items used to take the drug in their posses-sion during a traffic stop.

Whitman Police officers stopped a vehicle containing five occupants on Temple Street near the Brockton town line on Friday, Feb. 11 around 8:30 p.m. During a search of the oc-cupants, officers found a small bag containing heroin, a hypodermic needle, two plastic straws and a bag with suspected heroin residue inside a pocketbook belonging to one of the occupants, Jessica Dykens, 23, of Summer St., Brockton, according to Whitman Police Chief Christine May-Strafford. Police also found three glass pipes, six hypodermic needles and bags with heroin residue inside a pocketbook belonging to a second occupant, Samantha Simas, 20, of Washington St., Whitman.

Both Dykens and Simas were charged with possession of a Class A drug. They were arrested and later released. Both were arraigned Tuesday in Brockton District Court.

— B. Manning

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Ann A. (Deehan) McGunnigle, 90, a life-long resident of Whitman, died Sunday, Feb. 13, after a period of failing health. She was the wife of the late Robert F. McGunnigle Sr.

Born and raised in Whitman, she was the daughter of the late John T. and Margaret T. (Nash) Deehan and a graduate of Whitman High School.

Ann had worked for over 15 years as a teacher’s aide at the former Regal Park School of Whitman. She was a longtime communicant of the Holy Ghost Church and a former mem-ber of the Ladies Sodality. She loved traveling and knitting and was an avid reader.

Ann leaves her children, John McGunnigle and his wife Linda of West Bridgewater, Sheilah Doherty and her husband Gerald of Boston and Kathi McGunnigle and her husband Timothy Ouimette of New York; her brother William Deehan and his wife Shirley of Plymouth; and

her sisters Margaret Shields of Abington, Fran-ces Mahoney and her husband Robert of Whit-man, Kathleen Willett and her husband Robert of East Bridgewater and Deanna Bermingham and her husband Douglas of Whitman. She also leaves four grandchildren, eight great-grand-children and many nieces and nephews. She was the mother of the late Robert F. McGun-nigle Jr., sister of the late Marie Phinney, and sister-in-law of the late John Shields.

Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 19 at 8:15 a.m. at Blanchard Funeral Chapel on Plymouth Street (Rt. 58 at the rotary) in Whit-man, followed by a funeral Mass at 9 a.m. at Holy Ghost Church in Whitman. Burial will follow at St. James Cemetery in Whitman. Vis-iting hours will be held Friday, Feb. 18 from 4-8 p.m. Donations in Ann’s name may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

Bernice X. (Goodliss) Olsen, 88, a resident of Whitman for more than 40 years, died Thurs-day, Feb. 10, after a period of failing health. She was the wife of the late Ralph Olsen.

Born and raised in Boston, she was the daughter of the late Morris and Celia (Kann) Goodliss. In her earlier years, Bernice worked as a welder at the Quincy Shipyard and later for Mr. Boston Liquors. Before her retirement, she was a nurse’s aide at the Embassy House of Brockton for more than 20 years.

She leaves her two sons, Robert Olsen and his wife Mary-Jean of Pembroke and Richard Olsen of Whitman, and her three grandchil-dren, Stephanie Allen and her husband Thomas of Middelboro and Shanna Olsen and Shalynn Olsen, both of Pembroke.

Her memorial service was held Monday, Feb. 14 in the Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Whitman. Private burial will be held at a later date.

Norman B. Shepherd, 84, of Hanson, died on Feb.12 at the Radius Healthcare Facility in Plymouth after a period of failing health. He was the husband of Lorraine P. (Sylvia) Shep-herd.

He was born in Hanover, son of the late Al-fred and Margaret (Baillie) Shepherd and was raised in Hanson and educated there and in Ha-nover.

Norman was a longtime employee in the maintenance department of the former CALO Pet Food Co. and he later worked for Coburn Wilbert Vault Co., South Shore Packing and My Three Sons Hardware.

He belonged to Wampatuck Lodge of Ma-sons in East Bridgewater and was a 32nd de-gree member of the Scottish Rite Bodies. He was the current Worthy Patron and past Worthy Patron of Pilgrim Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He was Past Grand Warder of the Grand

Chapter of Massachusetts, Order of the East-ern Star. Norman was a volunteer at the Hanson Food Pantry and former volunteer firefighter in Hanover. He enjoyed gardening, fishing and woodworking.

He leaves his wife Lorraine P. (Sylvia) Shepherd and his children, David L. Shepherd and his wife Linda of Hanson and Lori E. Shep-herd and her husband Robert Zaruba of Taun-ton. He was the grandfather of Sunni Willis, Lenna Sweeney and Kara Ready, all of Han-son. He also leaves six great-grandchildren and three nieces.

A funeral will be held in the Magoun-Big-gins Funeral Home, 135 Union St. Rockland on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Steve Youd officiating. Burial will follow in Hanover Center Cemetery. Donations in his memory may be made to the Tri-Town Lodge 38 Franklin St., E. Bridgewater, MA 02333.

Ann A. McGunnigle, 90, teacher’s aide

Bernice X. Olsen, 88, nurse’s aide

Norman B. Shepherd, 84, member of Wampatuck Lodge of Masons

art WitH Heart: Paige regan, 6, of Whitman colors in her valentine while enjoying a lollipop from the Student council table at Saturday’s community togetherness celebration at WHrHS.

James Kemp and nick donovan battle it out for the win in a friendly game of capture the flag on Saturday.

catlin regan, 9, wins the scooter races held in the gymnasium as part of the community togetherness

celebration on Saturday.

Kids in action

Photos by Stephanie Spyropoulos

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Michelle McMahon ➢ was named to the dean’s list at Bridgewater State University for the 2010 fall semester.

Victoria Zappi ➢ has been named to the dean’s list at University of New England in Biddeford Maine for the fall semester 2010.

Whitman resident ➢ Stacey Shanahan graduated from Eastern Nazarene College re-cently, receiving a master’s degree in education during the college’s recent winter commencement exercises held Jan. 30 at the Wollaston Church of the Nazarene in Quincy.

Whitman resident ➢ Me-lissa Camilien, grade 12, earned First Honors on the Fontbonne Academy second quarter honor roll.

Abigail Hanson ➢ of Han-son made honor roll for term two at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham.

Whitman firefighter/ ➢paramedic Patrick Travers has successfully completed the Plymouth County Fire / Rescue Training Association (PCFRTA) “Rope Rescue – Operational Level” program. The program is a two-day in-depth program sponsored by the PCFRTA and taught by roper experts from across the Country. “Firefighter Travers is a member of the County Tech Rescue Team and his expertise in rope rescue adds to our toolbox of resources,” says Chief Grenno. The pro-gram is funded through fed-eral grant monies allocated to the county team for advanced training in areas of special-ized rescue and hazards.

Michelle Backlund ➢ , a sophomore majoring in ac-counting, and Kasey Evans, a sophomore majoring in hos-pitality management, were named to the dean’s list at En-dicott College in Beverly for the fall semester. Backlund is the daughter of Mark and Paul Backlund of Whitman and Evans is the daughter of Thomas and Mary Evans of Whitman.

Happy birthday to ➢ Ed-ward Phillips and Molly Smith (Feb. 17), Jennifer Brides-Mathias and Tim Henderson (Feb. 19), Ellen Stillman (Feb. 20), Shirley Brewer and Christine Kil-martin (Feb. 21), Ed Colley and Lorraine Edwards (Feb. 22), Grace Robohm, Joanne Clemons, Ben Huston, Em-ily Leitch and Alexander Morrison (Feb. 23).

Welcome! michael and laurel maccurtain are the proud par-ents of a son, Shane Joseph maccurtain, born Saturday, Jan. 29 at 1:04 p.m., weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 20 inches. He was welcomed home by his brother and sister, Seamus and tara maccurtain. the grandparents are michael and Wanda maccurtain and christine and Paul Smith.

all-Star eVent: rick Pulkinen, Sean ahern and contestants listen as bob brogna, center, explains the rules of the free throw contest, at the recent all-Star event held by Whitman Jr. Pro basketball at Whitman middle School.

emPloyee recoGniZed: Gail Spinney of Hanson was honored by her peers as employee of the Quarter at Village at Proprietors Green in marshfield. Spinney, a dining room hostess and server, was selected for her courteous and respectful work style as well as her consistent positive and friendly attitude. Spinney received a $150 gift card and will be entered into a drawing to win a trip to disney World at the annual Welch Healthcare & retirement Group’s award dinner in may. left to right: meaghan thompson, dining room manager, Gail Spinney and richard Johnson, execu-tive director of Village at Proprietors Green in marshfield.

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birtHday Girl: Happy second birthday to lilly Jones on Friday, Feb. 18 with love from mom, dad, and liam.

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Black bean salad1 jalapeno pepper, finely dicedJuice of 1 lime2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oilSalt & Pepper2 Roma tomatoes, chopped, or about a dozen cherry or grape toma-toes, quartered (about 1 Cup)3 scallions, thinly sliced (about 1/2 Cup)1 red (or yellow or orange) bell pepper, finely chopped (about 1 cup)1 15 1/2 ounce can of black beans, rinsed in a strainer under hot water1 cup frozen corn kernels, rinsed in a strainer under hot water¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro

Squeeze lime into a medium size mixing bowl; add jalap-eno, olive oil and salt and pepper. Allow jalapenos to macerate in the lime juice and olive oil while the other ingredients are prepared. Add tomato, bell pepper, scallion, beans, corn and cilantro to bowl. Toss and taste for seasoning. Serves 6 -8 as a side dish, 10 -12 as a dip.

Comments, questions and suggestions can be sent to Jen-nifer Cantwell at [email protected].

Pizza Bowl winners

rePeat cHamPion: mike's House of Pizza was once again the community choice award winner at the rockland Hanson rotary club's recent Pizza bowl. they took home the meatiest pizza and cheesiest pizza titles. Whitman-Hanson regional High School community Service learning students partnered with the rotary to run the event and collected over 370 votes in the event. matt Wood, mike's owner Spiro Spyropoulos and allie Spyropoulos are con-gratulated by rotary President amy Jo aronson-Silverman.

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The Good Neighbor Thrift Shoppe is having a storewide clearance sale during the month of February; all clothes are only $1 each. There is a wide selection. All proceeds go to mission projects. The shop is located at the United Methodist Church, 503 South Ave., Whitman and is open every Monday, except holidays, and the second and fourth Fridays of the month.

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Tickets are $15 each or two for $25. There will be limited capacity. Tickets are on sale at Duval’s Pharmacy, Curves (in Whitman), Ford’s Insurance, and Sandy’s Coffee Corner. A list of participating restau-rants will also be available at that time. All proceeds from the evening will benefit DFS in the form of scholarships at Awards Night. For more infor-mation, contact Michael Gan-shirt at 781-252-9683.

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Thursday Feb. 17Hanson Senior Center. 9 a.m. hairdresser, 9:30 a.m. card games, 10 a.m. Cracker Barrel, line dancing, blood pressure at center.

Whitman Senior Center. 8 a.m. Walk the Park, 8:30 a.m. food shopping, 11 a.m. KMart in Brockton and Good Days Restaurant, 11:30 lunch, 12:30-3:30 p.m. brown bag pick up, 1 p.m. cribbage.

Whitman Library. Resumé Writing with Gary Gekow. Join professional employment specialist, Gary Gekow from 5:30-7:30 p.m., for a presentation and workshop on resumé writing. This is a great opportunity to take advantage of a professional evaluation of your resumé at no charge. Critique and rehab your resumé before you need to send it out; 6-7:30 p.m. Beginners Knitting Class, to register call 781-447-7613.

Hanson Little League Registration. 5-8 p.m. Maquan School. No late feel will be applied.

Reiki Session. The Haven for Healing is reaching out to family members and friends of military servicemen and women. A donation based Reiki session open to all will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Hanson Holistic Center, 156 Liberty St., Hanson followed by a yoga class ($10) presented by Beth Murphy.

Rockland-Hanson Rotary Club. 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at the Olde Hitching Post Restaurant in Hanson.

Friday Feb. 18Hanson Senior Center. 9 a.m. hairdresser. 9:30 a.m. card games, 10 a.m. cribbage, 1 p.m. bingo.

Hanson Library. 10-10:30 a.m. Wee Readers for ages 0-3, drop in with caregiver, for stories, finger play and song. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Craft-a-story for ages 3-7, Alpha Tales: read alphabet stories and make a corresponding craft. Call 781-292-2151, X 106 to register.

Whitman Senior Center. Foxwoods Casino, 7:30 a.m. center pick up, 7:45 a.m. home pick up, 11:30 a.m. lunch, 1 p.m. bingo.

Meat Raffle. 7:30 p.m., Friday at Robinson Street in Hanson. Sponsored by the Hanson American Legion 226.

saTurday Feb. 19‘Shabby, Chic & New’ Tag Sale. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at The First Baptist Church, 214 Main St. Hanson (snow date is February 26). There will be something for everyone. Space is available at a reasonable price to sell your treasures. For more information, call First Baptist Church at 781-293-3502 or Sue Parkinson at 781-293-0061.

sunday Feb. 20Hanson Children’s Museum hosts Diversity Month. The Hanson Children’s Museum will host diversity month at the Hanover Mall. The free events are sponsored by Macy’s. Enjoy cultural performances, artwork, stories and special presentations while learning about many cultures. The Asian American influence; Lion dancers, Kite demo, story telling, karate demos will be featured.

Monday Feb. 21President’s Day

Tuesday Feb. 22

Hanson Senior Center. 9 a.m. nails by Julie, 9:30 a.m. card games, 10 a.m. beginner’s bridge,1 p.m. bowling at the Hanson Athletic Association.

Hanson Library. 1:30-2 p.m. Yoga Stories, ages 3+. Drop in with caregiver for stories, finger play and songs.

Whitman Senior Center. 8 a.m. Walk the park, 9 a.m. around town, hairdresser, art class, fuel assistance by appointment, tax assistance by appointment, 10 a.m. line dancing at Legion, 11:30 a.m. lunch, 12 p.m., computer class, Atty. Whitney by appt., 1 p.m. knitting/crocheting, bowling.

Whitman Library. 12-3 p.m., the Whitman Public Library will be offering games and lunch for local teens. The Wii game system will be set up on the projector screen. Enjoy a “pizza tasting” featuring local restaurants’ pizzas. No registration is required.

Hanson Food Pantry. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Main Street.

Wednesday Feb. 23Hanson Senior Center. 9:30 a.m. card games, 10 a.m. poker, 1:30 exercise with Cindie ($5).

Whitman Senior Center. 9:30 a.m. Target in Hanover, 10 a.m. chair yoga, 11:30 lunch, 1 p.m. Bingo at Harvard Court, Mah-Jongg.

Whitman-Hanson Kiwanis Club. Meets on Wednesday, 6:15 p.m. at the Hitching Post Restaurant. For more information, call Mike at 781-447-6501.

‘No Tracks.” 8 p.m., presented by Bridgewater State University Theater and Dance. All performances are held on the BSU campus in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for students with ID, senior citizens, youth, and military with ID; $10 for the general public. Call the box office at 508-531-1321 or visit www.bridgew.edu/theatre for information and reservations.

Thursday Feb. 24Hanson Senior Center. 9 a.m. hairdresser,10 a.m. Cracker Barrel, line dancing.

Whitman Senior Center. 8 a.m. Walk the Park, 10 a.m. Frugal Fannie’s in Westwood, 11:30 a.m. lunch, 12:30 p.m. fuel assistance by appointment, 1 p.m. cribbage.

Whitman Library. 6-7:30 p.m., Beginner’s Knitting Class, to register call 781-447-7613.

Rockland-Hanson Rotary Club. 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at the Olde Hitching Post Restaurant in Hanson.

‘Bat Boy: The Musical.’ 8 p.m., presented by Bridgewater State University Theater and Dance. All performances are held on the BSU campus in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for students with ID, senior citizens, youth, and military with ID; $10 for the general public. Bat Boy: The Musical is intended for mature audiences. Call the box office at 508-531-1321 or visit www.bridgew.edu/theatre for information and reservations.

Friday Feb. 25Hanson Senior Center. 9 a.m. hairdresser. 9:30 a.m. card games, 10 a.m. cribbage, 1 p.m. bingo.

Hanson Library. 10-10:30 a.m. Wee Readers for ages 0-3, drop in with caregiver, for stories, finger play and song. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Craft-a-story for ages 3-7, Alpha Tales: read alphabet stories and make a corresponding craft. Call 781-292-2151, X 106 to register.

Whitman Senior Center. 8:30 a.m. food shopping, 9 a.m. manicurist, 11 a.m. Dollar Tree in Hanson and Grille 58 in Halifax, 11:30 a.m. lunch, 1 p.m. bingo.

Meat Raffle. 7:30 p.m., Friday at Robinson Street in Hanson. Sponsored by the Hanson American Legion 226.

‘No Tracks.” 8 p.m., presented by Bridgewater State University Theater and Dance. All performances are held on the BSU campus in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for students with ID, senior citizens, youth, and military with ID; $10 for the general public. Call the box office at 508-531-1321 or visit www.bridgew.edu/theatre for information and reservations.

upcoMing evenTsLove Your Library Rally. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26. Share stories about what your library means to you, participate in a legislative and planning question and answer session, and enjoy refreshments and activities for the whole family. Enjoy a family magic show from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pre-registration is required by

calling the library at 781-293-2151 or e-mailing [email protected]. Library legislative and planning question and answers will take place from 12-2 p.m. There will be stories and love-my-library crafts for children. Refreshments will be served from 12-2 p.m.

Puppet Show. Whitman Public Library, from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 in the Community Room. All children (3 and up only) must be accompanied by an adult. This is a new version of the classic story, where Cinderella is a fairy who lives with her stepmother and stepsister in an enormous old oak tree! Deborah Costine of Gerwick Puppets presents this fun show for children and adults alike. No registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided. Call the library at 781-447-7613 with any questions.

‘Bat Boy: The Musical.’ Feb. 26, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., presented by Bridgewater State University Theater and Dance. All performances are held on the BSU campus in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for students with ID, senior citizens, youth, and military with ID; $10 for the general public. “Bat Boy: The Musical” is intended for mature audiences. Call the box

office at 508-531-1321 or visit www.bridgew.edu/theatre for information and reservations.

‘No Tracks.” 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 27, presented by Bridgewater State University Theater and Dance. All performances are held on the BSU campus in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for students with ID, senior citizens, youth, and military with ID; $10 for the general public. Call the box office at 508-531-1321 or visit www.bridgew.edu/theatre for information and reservations.

Hanson Children’s Museum hosts Diversity Month. The Hanson Children’s Museum will host diversity month at the Hanover Mall. The free events are sponsored by Macy’s. Enjoy cultural performances, artwork, stories and special presentations while learning about many cultures. Feb: 27: The West African Connection; Drum Circle and a look at nations of West Africa.

Red Cross Blood Drive. The Whitman Knights of Columbus # 347 will sponsor a Red Cross blood drive on Saturday, Feb. 26 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the K of C Hall, Route 18, 1195 Bedford St., Whitman. Presenting donors will receive a Bruins T-shirt. For an appointment, call 1-800-redcross (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org. Walk-ins are welcome; positive ID required.

Hanson Public Library Foundation Annual Meeting. Tuesday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Hanson Public Library. Items on the agenda include the election of officers, the acceptance of the annual report, the budget, programs, and volunteer opportunities. Light refreshments will be served.

Learn to Skate. Wednesdays, starting March 1, 5:35-6:30 p.m. or Saturdays starting March 5, 12:30-1:20 p.m. with the Pilgrim Skating Club at Hobomock Arena in Pembroke. Eight-week session on Wed. runs through April 20 for $150 (plus annual $15 registration fee for new students). Seven-week session on Sat. runs though April 16. Helmets mandatory. For more information visit pilgrimskatingclub.com or call 781-294-7575.

A Taste of Whitman and Hanson. Thursday, March 3, at the VFW Post #697 in Whitman from 5:30 p.m.- 8 p.m. Up to twenty local restaurants and food service providers will be offering samples from their menu to the general public. Tickets are $15 each or two for $25. There will

be limited capacity. Tickets are on sale at Duval’s Pharmacy, Curves (in Whitman), Ford’s Insurance, and Sandy’s Coffee Corner. All proceeds will benefit DFS in the form of scholarships at Awards Night. For more information, contact Michael Ganshirt at 781-252-9683.

Fashion Focus Ladies Night. 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Thursday, March 3 hosted by Macy’s and the new Pomodorino Restaurant at the Independence Mall in Kingston. Enjoy an INC wardrobe coordination class, a mini fashion show and makeup consultation! Free makeup gifts for the first 25 women to sign up and with an INC purchase, receive “Macy Bucks”! Following, the Pomodorino Restaurant will provide free passed appetizers and hors d’oeuvres. Sign up early and reserve your spot by contacting Maria at 781-826-0241 or [email protected].

The Historical Society of Old Abington. Sunday, March 6, at 2:30 p.m. at the Dyer Memorial Library, 28 Centre Avenue, in Abington. A program entitled “National Preservation Projects/Local Applications” will be presented by John Burrows of J. R. Burrows & Company in Rockland. The public is welcome to attend. For more information call 781-878-8480.

Author Visit at Hanson Public Library. March 12, 12:30 p.m., Author John Morris will discuss “Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939),” his account of the lives of Gloucester fishermen. All are welcome; refreshments will be served. To register or to get more information, visit the Hanson Public Library, or call the Library at 781-293-2151.

Theorem Painting Demonstration. The Whitman Cultural Council is providing an opportunity to view a demonstration of theorem painting by Pamela DeYoung at l p.m. on March 12 in the community room at the Whitman Public Library, 100 Webster St., Whitman. This historical art form uses stencils and oil paints on velveteen to create its most common images of the time, which were baskets of fruit and flowers.

Medical Coding and Billing Careers. March 15, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Massasoit Conference Center presented by Commonwealth Corporation in partnership with the Brockton Area Workforce Investment Board and the South Shore WIB. This is a free event.

Community Preservation Open Forum. 7-8:30 p.m. on March 16 at Hanson Town Hall. Committee members will be on hand to discuss the Community Preservation Act and to review the deadlines and application process for the upcoming grant cycle. For information e-mail [email protected] or call 781-293-5644 ext 102 with any questions.

Whitman-Hanson Education Foundation Spelling Bee. March 31. Performing Arts Center at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School. For further information call Laura Kemmett at 781-294-1261 or e-mail [email protected].

ongoing evenTsHanson Library On the Go. Book delivery library service to the homebound. For more information, call Donald at 781-293-2151 x101.

Hanson COA Day Care. This is for elders who need some activity and companionship. This is a non-medical program that runs five days a week with a hot lunch served daily. For more information, call Diane McCarey at 781-293-2683.

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Riley Malloy, 9, shows her father James how to form people out of play dough. The craft theme was “What does your community mean to you?”

Brittany Durant decorates the perfect cupcake in the culinary arts center.

Whitman Food Pantry volunteers Bob Hogan and Leo Hurley participate in the charity fair, at the Community Togetherness Celebration.

Kerri Sellers belts out a tune with her jazz band Driftway Jazz as drummer Doug Meadows keeps a beat during the Community Togetherness Celebration held Saturday, Feb. 12 at the high school. The event was organized by a team of Destination ImagiNation students as part of their projectOUTREACH program.

Dr. Mike Whitner and Whitman-Hanson Superintendent Dr. Ruth Gilbert-Whitner enjoy the events held in the cafeteria on Saturday as part of raising awareness for the community.

Cooper Preskins, 2, enjoys a cupcake with mom Dafne and brother Jackson, 6.

Community fun

Photos by Stephanie Spyropoulos

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Email lEttErs to [email protected].

thE DEaDlinE is tuesday at noon.

It seems nothing is on the level

Frequent visitors to this space will note we are no fans of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts. We firmly believe that most are overpaid, venal career

politicians who put their own interests far ahead of the public interest. Of late, this gang of thieves is being overshadowed by the executive branch.

One party rule breeds arrogance that be-coming too much to bear. Political patronage is alive and well in the executive branch just as much as it is in the legislative branch. Let’s take a look at the Department of Veterans’ Services. Retired Navy Captain Thomas Kelley

ran the department for four administrations. He not only ran the department efficiently, he ran it so well that it became a nation-al model for the delivery of services and information to veterans of all ages and situations. Not only was Kelley essentially apolitical and dedicated to the work-a-day functions of his department, he was accessible and approachable. He also is a 30-year career Naval officer of impeccable integrity and a Medal of Honor recipient for conspicuous gallantry in the Vietnam War.

Kelly was fired by a cabinet officer. Neither the Gover-nor nor the Lieutenant Governor had the integrity to fire him personally. Now we realize that the Secretary serves at the pleasure of the Governor, but was he replaced by an individual of similar stature? No. In addition to being fired in a most insulting manner, he was replaced by now Secretary Nee, who was by all accounts a no-show Democratic hack who took his marching orders directly from Lieutenant Governor Mur-ray and spent most of his time glad handing, fund raising and prioritizing marshalling the veteran vote for the Patrick ad-ministration. Kelley’s chief subordinates, his team that made the department so effective, were also summarily dismissed. Politics trumps all other considerations on Beacon Hill.

Lately we’ve all seen reports of the judicial branch suf-fering the same malaise. It appears that if you want a court officer’s job, or if you are a court officer and want to advance you better have a highly placed politician as a relative, sponsor or recipient of your political contribution largess. We also note that Mrs. State Representative Garrett Healy (D-Hingham) will be a Plymouth District Judge although she has never litigated a case, is not a legal scholar, has no relevant experience, but has a husband who has recently donated nearly $40,000 to Demo-crat politicians and the Democratic Party, including money to Governor’s Councilwoman Tierney, who refused to recuse herself from voting on the confirmation. Perhaps no laws were broken, but the appearance of impropriety is astounding.

Then, of course, we have the scandals involving the Proba-tion Department and the Parole Board. All are the benefits of one party rule in Massachusetts.

There is a saying that seems to be proved true in every day’s headlines: on Beacon Hill nothing is on the level, every-thing is a deal and no deal is too small. We get what we pay for. Stay tuned for a transparent (not!) redistricting plan coming to a Statehouse near you.

By EmEry maddocks

GettinG real

How will you be spending your February vacation?By Kristy Kennedyq u E s t i o n o f t h E w E E k

Krystle Gillietti Old Colony Way, Whitman

“I’m going to hang out with my good friend Sarah!”

Sarah Watson Rosewood Drive, Hanson

“I’ll probably play some lacrosse with Krystle!”

Vanessa Aroujo Pearl Street, Whitman

“I’m going to New York.”

Gail McHugh Alden Street, Whitman

“I’m going to relax on the holiday and then work the rest of the

week.”

Tyler Langlais Pleasant Street, Hanson

“I’m just going to relax all week.”

I am Joan MacRoberts Perkins. Lorna Holbrook of Whitman corresponds with me as her mother’s oldest friend. Lorna

said she has never seen a 70th wedding anni-versary notice in the paper. I thought you might be interested in publishing ours. There must be a few people left who remember us.

My husband, Donald Fuller Perkins, and I celebrated our 70th wedding anniversary last summer quietly as Don has Alzheimer’s dis-ease. We were married in Maine the summer of 1940.

It has been a wonderful 70 years. While we lived in Whitman on Washington Street, and later Sportsmen’s Trail, we were active in town

affairs. Don was on the Board of Selectmen and president of the Jaycees. I was a member of the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School board, president of the Whitman Woman’s Club and a Girl Scout leader for 17 years.

We never thought we would leave Whit-man, but IBM transferred us to New York. (We still love Whitman and all its people.)

P.S. Our daughter Susan and her husband John Young celebrated their 50th anniversary on Nov. 26, 2010. Stephen, our oldest son, and his wife Meredith Jones celebrated their 45th on Nov. 24, 2010.

Joan M. PerkinsAsheville, N.C.

On behalf of the Whitman-Hanson Boys Hockey Boosters, I’d like to extend my most sincere thanks to

the Whitman-Hanson communities for your re-cent help with our efforts to support the local food pantries. Considering this was our inau-gural effort in doing this, your support on Pan-ther Day was a huge success. Thanks to your efforts and those of your children, we were able to deliver cartons of canned goods, etc. to the Whitman Food Pantry as well as the Hanson Food Pantry.

People sometimes refer to younger genera-tions than their own as the “Me” generation, which is an unfair generalization. Congratulate your children on participating in the impor-tant act of giving to those in need and at the same time, congratulate yourselves as parents for teaching the next generation that “Paying It Forward” is a practice that never gets old! Congratulations Whitman-Hanson!

Jack Glynn, PresidentWhitman-Hanson Boys Hockey Boosters

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Trash abatement applications available

Trash bills for fiscal 2011 were issued on Feb. 16 for the billing period of July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. For those residents with contracts for private trash pick up, trash abatement applications are available at the assessor’s office and must be filed with the assessors office by March 18, 2011.

Open burning permitsOpen burning of brush and forestry debris

will be allowed until May 1 under these condi-tions:

• Burning must be conducted at least 75 feet from a structure.

• Burning must be carried out between 10 a.m. and 4 p. m.

• Burning will only be allowed during pe-riods of good atmospheric ventilation, without causing a nuisance.

• Burning of brush and trees from commer-cial land clearing operations is prohibited.

• Burning of grass, hay, leaves, stumps and tires are prohibited.

New burning permits must be obtained in person at the fire station. Anyone who was is-sued a written burning permit last year just needs to call the fire department non-emergen-cy phone number on the day they intend to burn. There is no charge for burning permits. Non-emergency numbers: 781-447-7626 and 781-447-7677.

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Whitman-Hanson Regional High School Principal

Jeff Szymaniak is settling into his first year on the job. Hired in July, Szymaniak came to Whitman-Hanson from West Bridgewater High School, where he was principal. Origi-nally from Western Mass., Szymaniak said he now enjoys living on the South Shore (de-spite all the snow) and is fitting in well at WHRHS.

How is your first year at WHRHS going? It’s been a great acclimation with kids and with parents and with staff. Everybody’s been very sup-portive of the schools, which is huge especially in this eco-nomic time. We ran into an is-sue around some changes we made at our rally in November [when staff asked students to wear school colors instead of separate class colors, such as pink for freshmen]. That has since died down, and I will say on Feb. 8 we held a Pink Day here for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and I was dressed in my pink. We’ve had some interesting ups and downs and some challenges, but the com-munities have been outstand-ing in their support of myself and my administration.

What’s one program go-ing on at the high school that you’re excited about? One of the things I think has been extremely successful is we applied for a grant last year, a 21st Century Skills Grant, for students at risk. The pro-gram we developed out of that is called Mission Possible. It targeted about 65 freshmen coming in who were at-risk of not being successful in the traditional classroom. The pro-gram is after-school, two hours a day, Monday through Thurs-day, where they get homework help, organizational help and now it’s project based where they’re actually doing some of their own movies based on some of their goals and ideas. We’ve seen marked improve-ment in their grades and atti-tude, less discipline issues and higher attendance.

How is Whitman-Hanson meeting the state require-ment to have anti-bullying curriculum? We have it in the ninth and 10th grade in our health classes. We’re working on how we’re going to incor-porate it in 11th and 12th grade, whether it be in classroom set-tings or with presentations. We had Rachel’s Challenge here this year, which I think just scratches the surface in getting kids engaged in being kind to each other. We have a district person who put together our bullying plan and now it’s be-ing disseminated throughout the district.

Do you feel that bully-ing is a major problem at

WHRHS? It depends on the time of year, and it depends on reporting. The old ‘My kid’s being picked on on the play-ground’ or ‘Johnny stole my lunch money’ doesn’t happen. It’s on Facebook, it’s on text messages, it’s on YouTube. When kids want to target an-other student, they’re using so-cial media that they can manip-ulate, they can delete, they can throw a quick hitter out there and then pull it right off. It’s instantaneous, so kids aren’t thinking through the potential consequence of that. It was easy back in my day to make a prank phone call and hang up, but once you send a text mes-sage or an e-mail or an instant message, it’s there and it’s not going away.

On the other side, when you’re trying to enforce it or you’re trying to discuss it after the fact, I’ve got evidence; it’s not just he said, she said. What I tell kids is, if it’s going up, bring me a copy, and it’s easy for me to put that in front of someone and say, here, I have this and you need to stop this.

What kind of power do you have to intervene in cases happening outside of school? We can tie anything that happens outside of school to school consequences. I’m also a big advocate of telling a parent you might want to go talk to the police about this, if you’re truly feeling harassed. I can protect you between my four walls, but if students are feeling like, ‘I’ll take a sus-pension if I can continue to do that,’ that’s as far as I can go. The law hasn’t given principals the authority to, as some folks would say, just expel them.

The high school is go-ing through re-accreditation right now — where are you in that process? We’re right in the middle of our self-study process. We will be visited by the New England Associa-tion of Schools and Colleges on March 11-14, 2012. Then in June of next year, I’ll have a report on our accreditation. They will say that you’re ful-ly accredited, on warning, on probation or your accreditation is gone. From that, they may have us do a one-year report; then a two-year and five-year

report is automatic. Then two years prior to your visit, you start a self-study again. It’s an ongoing cycle to make sure you’re doing what the associa-tion wants you to do.

From the last accreditation, this building was built — there was a strong recommendation that there needed to be a new facility — and now we’ve be-come a model school. This team will be the first team to come into the new building.

Looking forward, is there something you’d like to see changed? Schoolwide, the big goal for us right now is just getting through the accredita-tion process. I’m learning our system; I’m learning how we do things here. I feel lucky enough to be in that self-study piece because we’re looking at everything internally and then we’re going to base our vision — and I’m looking at my vi-sion — based on what I see this year and what comes out of that accreditation report.

I really like what the super-intendent says, that it’s every child every day, and I firmly believe that. It’s not just the kid that struggles the most or the kid that has straight As — it’s every student every day, and that’s really what I want to set our vision on — making sure that our students graduate pre-pared for the work force, pre-pared for college and as good citizens.

A visit with Jeff SzymaniakWHRHS principal enjoying first year on the job

WHRHS Principal Jeff Szymaniak came to Whitman-Hanson from West Bridgewater last summer. Photo by Becca Manning

Abington historical society to meetThe Historical Society of Old Abington will hold its next

meeting on Sunday, March 6, at 2:30 p.m. at the Dyer Memo-rial Library, 28 Centre Avenue, in Abington. A program en-titled “National Preservation Projects/Local Applications” will be presented by John Burrows of J. R. Burrows & Company in Rockland. The public is welcome to attend. For more informa-tion call 781-878-8480.

Gentle chair yoga at senior centerEnjoy gentle chair yoga on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at the

Whitman senior center. Release, restore, recharge your mind and body with gentle movements and mindful breathing. The seated group exercise will be led to the sound of soothing music. No previous yoga experience is required. The cost is $3 per class.

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summer visiting other towns’ fields with her son’s all-star team and finding Whitman was one of the few without scoreboards — Green began contacting Whitman business-es to see if they would be in-terested in sponsoring boards for the Whitman Baseball and Softball Association.

“There are six fields in Whitman with no scoreboards — four at the middle school and two at Conley School. Most of the time with the games, nobody knows what the score is. They use pen and paper to keep score or use rocks and sticks to write in the dirt,” Green said.

The program has met some success, with Duval Pharmacy agreeing to sponsor a board, though Green is still seeking sponsors.

“After doing that, I real-ized I really liked doing things like that, that are going to make a difference for the town

and really benefit the kids,” Green said.

When she saw a notice in the paper for seats up in the election, Green saw an oppor-tunity to expand her commu-nity involvement.

“I really enjoy doing the scoreboard thing, and I’m thinking there is probably much more out there that I could do,” Green said. “I’d re-ally like to see what I could do

for Whitman in general and as a whole.”

As a town government “rookie,” Green said she ap-preciates the job current town officials have done but also feels she has something to bring to the table.

“I think Whitman is going in the right direction and I re-ally just want to do whatever I can to see that Whitman stays going in that direction,” she said. “Everybody’s doing a great job. I’d like to run and see what happens. If nothing happens this year, then maybe next time.”

By Becca Manning, express editor [email protected]

Longtime Town Modera-tor Mike Hayes is looking for three more years at the helm of Town Meeting.

Hayes pulled papers last week to run for another three-year term as moderator. He was first elected to the position in 1985.

“I was brought up to be involved, to take part in the process,” Hayes said of why he wanted to run again. “I strongly believe in participa-tory government.”

Hayes currently works as the vice president of quality insurance for an electronics manufacturing company in North Attleboro.

Also this week, Board of Health member Diane Mac-Neil announced plans to run for a second term. MacNeil previously ran to fill the re-maining two years of a vacan-cy on the board.

MacNeil retired from full-time nursing about 10 years ago but still works part-time as a nurse.

“When I retired, I felt that I needed to give back to the town a little, but also it’s been a very interesting and very rewarding experience,” Mac-Neil said of her first two years on the board. “I really didn’t know all the things that went into the Board of Health. I’ve learned a lot.”

Department of Public Works Commissioner Charles Pace also plans to run for an-other term on his board. Pace, who retired as Whitman Hous-

ing Authority director in 2000, has served as a DPW commis-sioner for about 28 years.

“I enjoy serving the town and I enjoy the DPW,” Pace said. “I try to serve the citizens of town well in any decision I make.”

Public Library Trustee Janice Guillemette is running for her third term on the li-brary board. Guillemette is a retired teacher.

“I like books, and I first took interest in [the board] af-ter I took my grandson to the library regularly and I saw what a busy place it was,” she said. “I just enjoy doing it.”

Others who have taken out nomination papers to run for re-election include: John Nos-ka, assessor; Stacey Dowd, Whitman-Hanson Regional School District School Com-mittee; Edward Winnett, DPW commissioner; Susan Durand, Library Trustee; Steven Green, Housing Authority; and Joseph Foscaldo, Planning Board.

Nomination papers are available now in the town clerk’s office at Town Hall and must be returned with 50 valid voter signatures by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 4.

The town election will be held May 21.

Lisa Green is running for the Board of Selectmen.

Moderator, others seek re-election to seats

OPEN SEATS IN THE 2011 TOWN ELECTION

The following seats and positions are up in the 2011 town election. Status is as of Monday.

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Currently held byMichael HayesMary Beth CarterCarl KowalskiChristine WalkerJohn NoskaThomas EvansStacey DowdCharles PaceEdward WinnettSusan DurandJanice GuillemetteSteven GreenDonald McLeanJoseph FoscaldoBruce VarleyDiane MacNeil

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Planning to run? Incumbents and new candidates who plan to run for a seat in the 2011 town election are invited to submit press releases and campaign information to [email protected] or call Editor Becca Manning at 781-293-0420.

Express takes first place award at NENPAThe staff of the Express took home a first place

award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association conference, held last weekend

at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

The Express won first place in the category of ad-vertising supplement for the 2010 graduation issue.

Here’s what the NEN-PA judges had to say about the supplement: “Terrific community feel-good keep-sake. Like the heavier stock newsprint. Lots of photos of local students to inspire parents/grandparents, etc. Healthy advertising repre-sentation. Nice touch with prom shots, 50 years later feature. Overall great job!”

Mohegan Sun Casino tripA trip to Mohegan Sun Casino is being organized by the

Son’s of The American Legion on Saturday, March 26 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the cost of $25 per person. Full payment is required to reserve a seat and includes a round-trip luxury coach bus, $10 buffet voucher, and $10 betting voucher. The deadline for requesting a seat is Friday, March 11. The bus will leave the American Legion located at 33 Legion Park-way in Whitman at 11 a.m. For more information, con-tact Ken Lailer at 781-447-2940, the American Legion at 781-447-5253, or go to legion22.org/sons and click Casino.

New candidatesBoard of Selectmen Three years Pulled papersLisa Green

New face in selectmen racecontinued from page one SCOREBOARDS SOUGHT

Lisa Green and the Whitman Baseball and Softball Association are still looking for local businesses interested in sponsoring a scoreboard at one of the six Whitman fields currently without boards. For more information, call Green at 781-447-4962 or 508-954-6759 or e-mail [email protected].

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Gilbert-Whitner said.The program also has

limited staff, which includes COMPASS Director Lauren Millette, who teaches at the school, two full-time teach-ers and two part-time school adjustment counselors, and the move would help ensure students are being taught by teachers who are licensed in each subject area.

“Another concern we had is that, over the past five years, the requirements for teachers to be licensed in their subject areas. While it has always been important, it has taken on even greater emphasis,” Gilbert-Whitner said.

The move also makes the district eligible to receive a federal grant being offered through the state to supple-ment the program, which ranges from $100,000 to $200,000 and is only available for alternative programs that are located within the regular high school setting, Gilbert-Whitner said.

“When you’re working with at-risk students, there are no easy answers and there are no simple solutions, but they are our students, and our goal is to see that they gradu-ate from high school and that they have the same oppor-tunities as everybody else,” Gilbert-Whitner said. “[With all these factors] it seemed to be the right time to make the change.”

Timing also worked with a new principal in place — Szy-maniak, who came to Whit-man-Hanson last year from West Bridgewater — has ex-perience managing alternative programs within a high school setting, Gilbert-Whitner said.

Szymaniak has been meet-

ing regularly with the COM-PASS staff to develop a tran-sition plan, and COMPASS students have been involved in the process, providing input to ensure the transition goes smoothly for them as well, Gilbert-Whitner said.

Several School Committee members said they recalled a lengthy discussion years ago when the decision was made to move the program off cam-pus and were surprised to hear administrators wanted to move the program back.

School Committee mem-ber Patricia Rich said she thought one of the reasons COMPASS students were moved off campus was be-cause of behavioral problems and a risk to other students.

“I do believe that kids all need to be taught by the right certified teacher. But I just keep coming back to that and I want to hear how we feel we can minimize that risk when we didn’t feel we could back when we started it,” Rich said.

Szymaniak said COM-PASS students were no more

prone to violent behavior than regular high school students and that problems were more likely to be related to disen-gagement, emotional issues, drug and alcohol use or atten-dance problems.

“At the high school, we have kids that can fly off the handle at any time. They’re regular students,” Szymaniak said. “The charge I have at my school is they’re all my students. Every child, every day.”

Szymaniak said his goal was to make sure the diploma he signed every June was the same for all students — in-cluding access to programs such as technology, culinary arts, fine arts and music.

“Some of these kids could really flourish [in the regular high school setting],” he said.

Currently, school admin-istrators are working to find a space at the high school for the COMPASS program, end-ing their lease agreement for the current COMPASS build-ing and working with teach-ers to establish a faculty plan, Gilbert-Whitner said.

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Whitman-Hanson Regional School District’s alternative high school program, COMPASS, was moved to a rented, off-campus location in Whitman Center in 2005. The program will return to the high school starting with the 2011-12 school year. Courtesy photo

COMPASS program movingcontinued from page one

The Whitman Cultural Council is providing an op-portunity to view a demon-stration of theorem painting by Pamela DeYoung at l p.m. on March 12 in the communi-ty room at the Whitman Pub-lic Library, 100 Webster St.

The art of velvet paint-ing was fashionable between

1810 and 1840 and became part of the curricula of fin-ishing schools for young la-dies. This historical art form uses stencils and oil paints on velveteen to create its most common images of the time which were baskets of fruit and flowers. Learn more about this fascinating early

American art form and how creativity was implemented in its creation.

This program is support-ed in part by a grant from the Whitman Cultural Council, a local agency which is sup-ported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

The Whitman Public Li-brary will host a puppet show from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 in the Community Room. All children (3 and up only) must be accompanied by an adult.

This is a new version of the classic story, where Cin-derella is a fairy who lives with her stepmother and step-sister in an enormous old oak tree. Deborah Costine of Ger-wick Puppets presents this

fun show for children and adults alike.

No registration is re-quired. Light refreshments will be provided. Call the li-brary at 781-447-7613 with any questions.

Puppet Show at Whitman Public Library

Local artist to offer theorem painting demo

South Shore Rehabilita-tion and Skilled Care Center in Rockland will host “Choc-olate and Coffee: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” at the Whitman Senior Cen-ter on Thursday, Feb. 24 at

12:15 p.m. Cindy Reagan of Hos-

pice Services of Mass. will discuss fun facts about how chocolate and coffee can actually be good for you. Sample delicious coffee and

chocolate.There is no cost for this

event, which is open to all seniors in the community. Contact Linda at the senior center, 781-447-7619, to re-serve a spot.

‘Chocolate and Coffee: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’

781-447-7333open daily at 11:30 7 days a week!

See our website for weekly musical entertainment and specials!!

mcguiggan’s pub

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FRIDAY, Feb. 18: Music of Kristin Merlin 9:30pm

SATURDAY, Feb. 19: Music of Johnny & Leslie 9:30pm

MONDAY, Feb. 21: Steak Night $11.99 6pm - 10pm Trivia with Morgan White Jr. 7pm - 8:30pm

TUESDAY, Feb. 22: Live Irish Seisium 7:00pm

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This is a letter of thanks from Pepsi Refresh Grant orga-

nizer Whitman Middle School teacher Gavin Thomas. The Pepsi Refresh Grant was awarded to WMS to fix an old science lab and trans-

form it into a wireless comput-er lab for the school.

Dear Whitman com-munity,

Now that our new computer lab is almost complete, and is currently in use by our students, it is time to thank the many people who helped make it possible. For three long months, during April, May and June of 2010, a virtual army of online vot-ers dedicated themselves to the goal of garnering enough daily online votes to place WMS into the top ten vote-getters for a $25,000 grant @ PepsiRefresh.com in order to furnish a new computer lab at our school.

Besides the continual dai-ly votes from staff members and their spouses, and every student at WMS and their

families, and the thousands of votes from so many staff and students throughout our dis-trict, we had enormous help from outside sources. Specific individuals, who wish to re-main nameless still, captained groups of fifties and sometimes hundreds of others; they made sure to e-mail, call and bother their lists of people, coaxing every last vote from every one of their contacts.

From highly involved parents and community orga-nizers such as Bill and Lisa Arnold, Ed and Michelle Win-nett and so many other parents (too numerous to name) us-ing their influence and urging their friends and families into months of daily voting, to the aides in our schools, such as Alice Stiger and Kim Burt, to classroom teachers from every grade level throughout WMS and the district (again, too numerous too name), and to students at all levels; it took an incredible number of votes and time to gain the win in June and I thank you.

Many parents, of our mid-dle school students, enlisted the help and daily votes of their co-workers at their own jobs and used Twitter and Facebook, so much so that WMS’s goal was voted for by thousands of people across the U.S. It was an amazing accomplishment and one that the current and fu-ture students of WMS should appreciate and benefit from for many years to come.

After we won in June, the physical work began with Bob-by Nutt, Ryan Dempsey, Paul Scarpelli, and Tommy Craven helping to tear out the old sci-ence lab tables and pipes, re-painting etc. Then, District Maintenance and Technol-ogy came in to complete their work. The WMS parent group also contributed PAC funds to complete the project. As the final piece of volunteerism for the lab, Kathryn Cummings and Crystal Cicerone helped to catalogue all of the computers for the lab on a recent Satur-day morning.

Thank you all for being steadfast and faithfully seeing this project through to comple-tion!

Sincerely, Gavin Thomas

Eighth grade history teacher

By GeorGe FarroPrinciPal

Whitmsn middle school

PrincipallySpeaking

Together, we succeeded

WAY TO GO!: Mrs. Hobart’s second grade class was the top collector of Box Tops for the month of January at Duval School. They collected an amazing 517 box tops. This total also puts them in the 2000 Club having collected 2050 box tops so far this year. Photo by Deb Murphy

There will be a fundraiser ski/snowboard and winter ex-ploring day trip to Stowe, Vt. on Saturday, March 5. Bus departure will be from Whit-man-Hanson Regional High School parking lot at 5 a.m. Transportation will be pro-vided by Crystal bus lines on a luxury bus with onboard mov-ies. Cost is $85 (includes bus ride and lift ticket) or bus only transportation $40. Ski and snowboard rentals are avail-able through Country Ski & Sports in Hanson, 781-826-2022. Cost of rental and fit-ting is $35.

This trip is sponsored by Boston Ski and Sports Club and Country Ski and Sports.

Please note this is not a school-sponsored trip. Individuals can register online by Feb. 25. A minimum number of sign ups is needed for the trip to run. The town of Stowe also offers shopping, quaint restaurants, snowshoeing and cross coun-try skiing. For more informa-tion about Stowe go to gos-towe.com/thingstodo.

Proceeds of this fundraiser will help support transporta-tion costs for students attend-ing field trips related to the business/technology depart-ment at Whitman-Hanson High School.

For more information con-tact [email protected] or call 781-618-7025.

Library welcomes teens on Feb. 22On Tuesday, Feb. 22 from noon to 3 p.m., the Whitman Pub-

lic Library will celebrate school vacation and will be offering games and lunch for local teens. They will have the Wii game system set up on the projector screen, and a “pizza tasting” fea-turing local restaurants’ pizzas. No registration is required.

Using the Library for seniorsWhitman senior citizens are encouraged to come get a

tour of the local library on Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 11:30 a.m. Many people beeline for their favorite section without realiz-ing all the other genres and areas the library has to offer. This orientation is geared to senior citizens who are both computer savvy and non-computer users. A majority of the time will be spent looking around the library and learning what each of the different areas has to offer. No registration required; just come by.

Whitman-Hanson Region-al High School is beginning a yearlong self-study process. The purpose of this process is to help W-H determine its strengths and areas for im-provement.

W-H is interested in what the community thinks of the school. To weigh in, select the appropriate survey link below and follow the instructions to complete the online survey.

• Parent Survey Page: whrsd.org/page.cfm?p=3243;

• Professional Staff Survey: whrsd.org/page.cfm?p=3242

• Student Survey Page: whrsd.org/page.cfm?p=3242

Every question on the sur-vey must be answered in order for answers to be recorded. Skipped questions will be presented again until they are answered. At the last screen, click Submit.

Do you have a group of people you really like to hang out with? Why not form a team and enter The Whitman-Hanson Educa-tion Foundation’s Spelling Bee?

On March 31, from 6:30-9 p.m. the Whitman-Hanson Education Founda-tion will be holding its first annual Adult Spelling Bee in the Whitman-Hanson Re-gional High School’s Per-forming Arts Center. Busi-nesses, PTOs, neighborhood

and community groups, town and public safety organiza-tions, are all encouraged to form teams of three to eight spellers. Teams are encour-aged to wear costumes and really get into the spirit.

The entry fee for each team is $150 and is tax-de-ductible. Proceeds will fund grants in all of the Whitman Hanson schools for grades pre-K through high school. Visit wheducationfounda-tion.org for more informa-tion.

Fundraising ski trip scheduled

Adult Spelling Bee

High school survey still up

Going somewhere over February break?Take along a copy of the Express and snap a picture of the family enjoying time outside of

Whitman, or have someone else take a picture of you with the paper, then send a copy to us, along with a caption, to run in an upcoming issue of the Express. E-mail to [email protected] or send via regular mail to: Whitman Express, P.O. Box 60, Hanson, MA 02341.

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Home ImprovementSemi-retired remodeler with 30 plus years experience. De-sign and build. Bath, kitchen, tiling, family room etc. Your problems, our solution. Call Larry McCarthy, 508-746-7829.

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CleaningWith a personal touch. Weekly, bi-weekly and monthly. Reason-able rates and references. Dottie, 781-588-3409.

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MUSINGS by JHC

• Money is the only thing thatcan keep talking without beingboring.

• On ski slopes, you see a lot ofwomen who are beautiful butnumb.

• In 1845 Horace Mann said:“Education, then, beyond allother devices of human origin,is a great equalizer of conditionsof men — the balance wheel ofthe social machinery.”

• At Christmas time yourimpulse to buy expensive giftsmay be nipped in the budget.

• “The best way to cheer your-self is to try to cheer somebodyelse up.” Mark Twain said it.

• Whatever happened to thosebachelor bashes known as“smokers?”

• I admire the editor who put aplaque on his desk with the sim-ple warning: “Eschew obfusca-tion.”

• A facile phrasemaker,Alexander Woodcott contributedthese gems to PicturesqueSpeech in the Reader’s Digest:“The audience strummed theircatarrahs…He was barnacledwith habit” and “Speaking withhis voice on tip-toe.”

• As you grow older, you talkless and say more.

• Emerson was the first to saythat Walt Whitman was toAmerica what Homer was toGreece, Virgil to Rome, Dante toItaly and Shakespeare toEngland.

• William Randolph Hearst said:“You furnish the pictures and I’llfurnish the war.” He was refer-ring to the Spanish-Americanwar.

• Segal’s Law: A man with onewatch knows what time it is. Aman with two watches is neversure.

• “Laziness is nothing more thanthe habit of resting before youget tired.” Jules Renard said it.

• Laurence Sterne speaking:“Men tire themselves in pursuitof rest.”

• Harpo Marx was once invitedto a party with an invitation thatstated “Black tie only.” Youknow how he showed up.

• Some dwarf stars are made ofdiamonds.

• Credit Charles Cryden for firstsaying (about baseball pitcherEd Walsh), “He is the only manin the world who can strut sit-ting down.”

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“If you are writing about baloney, don't try to make it a Cornish hen, because that is the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darned good baloney.”

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1998 Buick LeSabreMeticulously maintained. Runs great, ready to go. 94,000 miles. Averaged about 8,000 miles per year. Asking $3700. Call 781-582-2065 or 339-788-0685.

2002 Hitchhiker 5th Wheel31.5’ long, 3 slides, glide ride hitch, new tires, new water heater, rebuilt furnace. Propane/electric refrigerator and heater. Queen-size bed w/upgraded matteress. Double sleeper sofa. TV and stereo system. Desk station set up for computer. Storage inside and out. Excellent condition, asking $19,999. 617-538-2113.

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WHITMAN BOARD OF APPEALS

PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on Monday 2/28/2011 at 7:00

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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

DEPARTMENT OFTHE TRIAL

COURT(SEAL)

Case No.10 MISC 439093To: Edward M. Flanagan

Heidi F. Flanaganand to all persons entitled

to the benefit of the Service-members Civil Relief Act.

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RBS Citizens N.A., successor in interest to CCO Mortgage Corp. claiming to be the holder of Mortgage covering real property in Whitman, numbered 76 Jenkins Avenue given by Edward M. Flanagan and Heidi F. Flanagan to CCO Mortgage Corp., dated March 10, 2006, and recorded at Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 32356, Page 333, has filed with said court a complaint for author-ity to foreclose said mortgage in the manner following: by entry and possession and ex-

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ercise of power of sale. If you are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Re-lief Act and you object to such foreclosure you or your attorney should file a written appearance and answer in said court at Boston on or before the 14th day of March, 2011 or you may be forever barred from claiming that such fore-closure is invalid under said act.

Witness, KARYN F. SCHEIER Chief Justice of said Court this 26th day of January, 2011

Attest:Deborah J. Patterson

Recorder

(AHF 10-002275 )(Flana-gan)(02-17-11)(265476)

1W - Feb. 17, ‘11

PM in the Lower Town Hall on the petition of Vivan Ad-ams and John & James Chaves for relief from Sec-tions VI 6-5 & VII 7-2 as the applicant wishes to raze the existing single family home and garage to construct a new dance studio for property lo-cated at 409 Bedford St.

John GoldrosenChairman

2/10/2011& 2/17/2011

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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTS(SEAL)

LAND COURTDEPARTMENT OF

THE TRIAL COURT

Case No.437040To:Paul W. Hansen Lynn A. Hansenand to all persons entitled

to the benefit of the Service-members Civil Relief Act: GMAC Mortgage, LLC claiming to be the holder of mortgage covering real prop-erty in Whitman, numbered 52 Winter Street given by Paul W. Hansen and Lynn A. Hansen w/s/a L.A.H. to Cor-nerstone Mortgage Corpora-tion, Inc., dated July 16, 2003, Recorded with the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds at Book 25869, Page 59, and now held by plaintiff by as-signment has filed with said court a complaint for author-ity to foreclose said mortgage in the manner following: by entry and possession and ex-ercise of power of sale. If you are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Re-lief Act and you object to such foreclosure you or your attorney should file a written appearance and answer in said court at Boston on or before the 14th day of March, 2011 or you may be forever barred from claiming that such fore-closure is invalid under said act.

Witness, KARYN F. SCHEIER Chief Justice of said Court this 25th day of January, 2011.

Attest:Deborah J. Patterson

Recorder

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COMMONWEALTH OF

MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL

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(SEAL)

Case No. 10 MISC 439206To: Michael R. Panaro

Jennifer M. Panaroand to all persons entitled

to the benefit of the Service-members Civil Relief Act. RBS Citizens NA claiming to be the holder of Mortgage covering real property in Whitman, numbered 847

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Washington Street given by Michael R. Panaro and Jenni-fer M. Panaro to Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys-tems, Inc. acting solely as a nominee for Citizens Mort-gage Corporation, dated June 15, 2005, and recorded at Ply-mouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 30752, Page 123 and now held by the Plaintiff by assignment, has filed with said court a com-plaint for authority to fore-close said mortgage in the manner following: by entry and possession and exercise of power of sale. If you are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and you object to such foreclosure you or your attor-ney should file a written ap-pearance and answer in said court at Boston on or before the 14th day of March, 2011 or you may be forever barred from claiming that such fore-closure is invalid under said act.

Witness, KARYN F. SCHEIER Chief Justice of said Court this 26th day of January, 2011

Attest:Deborah J. Patterson

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(AHF 10-002633 )(Pa-naro)(02-17-11)(265517)

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NOTICE OFMORTGAGEE'S

SALE OFREAL ESTATE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale con-tained in a certain mortgage given by Brian C. Brown and Julie M. Brown to Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys-tems, Inc., dated November 23, 2004 and recorded with the Plymouth County Regis-try of Deeds at Book 29545,

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Page 117, of which mortgage Wells Fargo Bank, NA is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mort-gage and for the purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 p.m. on March 11, 2011, on the mortgaged premises lo-cated at 804 Auburn Street, Whitman, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, all and singu-lar the premises described in said mortgage,

TO WIT:The land, with the build-

ings thereon, situated in Whit-man, Plymouth County, Mas-sachusetts, on the Southerly side of Auburn Street, bounded and described as fol-lows:

Beginning at a point on Auburn Street, being the northeast corner of the granted premises;

Thence Southerly 107 feet by land of one Sroczynska, sometimes otherwise known as Sroczynski;

Thence Westerly 218 feet by land now of formerly of Trophim K. and Elizabeth Zoobkoff;

Thence Northerly 150 feet by said Zoobkoff land; and

Thence Easterly by Auburn Street, 150 feet to the point of beginning.

For title reference, see deed recorded in Book 28776, Page 273.

For mortgagor's(s') title see deed recorded with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 28776, Page 273.

These premises will be sold and conveyed subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restric-tions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all un-paid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encum-brances of record which are in force and are applicable, hav-ing priority over said mort-gage, whether or not refer-ence to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed.

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TERMS OF SALE:A deposit of Five Thou-

sand ($5,000.00 ) Dollars by certified or bank check will be required to be paid by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at Harmon Law Of-fices, P.C., 150 California Street, Newton, Massachu-setts 02458, or by mail to P.O. Box 610389, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts 02461-0389, within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full of the pur-chase price. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication.

Other terms, if any, to be announced at the sale.

WELLS FARGOBANK, NA

Present holder of said mortgage

By itsAttorneys,

HARMON LAWOFFICES, P.C.

150 California StreetNewton, MA 02458

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LEGAL NOTICEMORTGAGEE'S

SALE OF REAL ESTATE

By virtue of and in execu-tion of the Power of Sale con-tained in a certain mortgage given by Bonita L. Dugas and Jacob M. Dugas to World Savings Bank, FSB, dated November 8, 2006 and re-corded in Plymouth County Registry of Deeds in Book 33757, Page 302, of which mortgage Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. f/k/a Wachovia Mort-gage, FSB f/k/a World Sav-ings Bank, FSB, is the present holder, for breach of condi-tions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 78 Beulah Street, Whitman, Massachusetts will be sold at a Public Auction at 12:00 p.m. on March 3, 2011, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:

The land with buildings thereon, situated in Whitman, Plymouth County, Massachu-setts, on the Westerly Side of Beulah Street, containing 50 square rods, more or less, and bounded and described as fol-lows:

Beginning in the westerly

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side line of Beulah Street, at the southeasterly corner of the land of Paul Jones;

Thence by said Beulah Street, Southerly, five (5) rods to land now or formerly of Warren W. Sampson;

Thence running Westerly by land of said Sampson, ten (10) rods;

Thence running Northerly by land now or formerly of Samuel Fullerton, Five (5) rods; and

Thence running Easterly by said land of Paul Jones, ten (10) rods to the point of be-ginning.

Meaning and intending to convey the premises con-veyed to Charles E. Thrasher by Kenneth A. Churchill by deed dated April 2, 1976, re-corded in Book 4149, Page 431.

For our title see Deed at Book 15476, Page 199.

The above premises will be sold subject to all taxes, as-sessments, and other encum-brances which may constitute a prior lien thereon, and will be conveyed subject to any easements, restrictions of re-cord, tenancies, and rights of redemption for unpaid federal taxes, if any, as shall, not-withstanding this provision, constitute valid liens or en-cumbrances thereon after said sale.

Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier's check, or certified check in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder and will be required to be paid as a deposit by the suc-cessful bidder; successful bid-der to sign written Memoran-dum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or cur-rent funds in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee's attor-ney, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, 2364 Post Road, Suite 100, Warwick, RI 02886, or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the prem-ises contained in said mort-gage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

Other terms to be an-nounced at the sale.

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. F/K/A WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB F/K/A WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB

By Its Attorneys,PARTRIDGE SNOW &

HAHN LLP2364 Post Road, Suite 100

Warwick, Rhode Island 02886

(40l) 681-1900

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SENIOR MOMENTS

Photo and story by Kristy Kennedy

A visit with girls track captain Victoria Newcomb

Newcomb has captained her track team to another great year this winter after starting at the net for the volleyball team this past fall. She shares

her thoughts on …

… choosing a college. I applied to Curry, UMass Amherst, and Salve Regina. My top choice is prob-ably Salve because they have a really good nursing program and the campus is absolutely beautiful, plus it’s only about an hour away, so it isn’t too far from home.

… selecting a major. I’m majoring in nursing because I really like science and I find the medical field very interesting. I also enjoy helping and interacting with other people.

… her favorite sport. My favorite sport would have to be volleyball because it’s very exciting to both watch and play. I also like that it’s a team sport where everyone has to commu-nicate and work together in order to succeed.

… her best sports memory. My best sports mem-ory would have to be our winter track meet junior year against Hingham. Both teams went into the meet unde-feated, and the meet could have easily gone either way. Everyone gave it their all and so we came out with the win.

… her future goals. After high school I plan on at-tending four years of college and maybe playing volley-ball or doing track and field. I then plan on becoming an operating room nurse.

… her other hobbies. Other than sports I just like to hang out with my friends, go shopping, go to the beach and spend time with my family.

kept the Panthers ahead by two at the end of the quarter. The Panthers got their lead up to four in the fourth, but they could not keep pace with the Harbormen in the final five minutes.

The Panthers’ shooting problems were compounded by Hingham dominating the boards from the opening tip-off. The Harbormen finished the game with 47 rebounds to the Panthers’ 27.

“It’s a young team and that’s one of those things that hopefully they learn,” Rod-gers said. “You can’t just go through the motions and find a loose ball, you’ve got to have five guys working together re-bound. We have some excel-lent rebounders on our team, but if you don’t rebound col-lectively as a unit, it’s hard to be successful. Hingham hit the glass hard and got a lot of second chances.”

The loss was the fifth straight for Whitman-Hanson and puts them at 7-9 with three games left on their schedule, and needing to win out in or-der to make their third straight trip to the MIAA tournament.

Bball needs to win out

continued from page 23

Alex Nuby has his shot blocked by Hingham’s Nick Passions. Nuby was one of several Panthers held scoreless against the Harbormen in a poor shooting night for Whitmam-Hanson.

Wrestlers keep rolling

by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

The Patriot League cham-pion Whitman-Hanson wres-tling team was not done taking home hardware this season.

The Panthers had 10 out of 14 wrestlers place at the Divi-sion II South Sectional Indi-vidual tournament over the weekend to place second over-all as a team.

Whitman-Hanson crowned one state champion with fresh-man Jeff Bechen taking the title in the 145-pound division. Senior captain Chris Kellum and junior Colin McSweeney both advanced to the finals in their weight classes and came away with second place at 160 and 140 respectively. Senior captain Tom Condon earned third place in the heavyweight division, while senior Derek Cavender earned a hard-fought fourth place at 152, as did soph-omore Greg McGrath at 189. Freshman Stephen Stephansky, senior captain Alex Perry and sophomore Brody Deminico all placed fifth, and senior Pat Johnson took home sixth place at 171 despite dislocating his elbow.

Shutout to Sandwich backs up boys hockeysition, but Manning said the Class of 2011 was one of the hardest working groups he’s had.

“Every year there is a dif-ferent group with different sto-ries,” he said. “We’ve got guys like [Coleman] Lenane, who didn’t play hockey last year and is helping us out this year, and guys like A-Rob [Adam Robinson] and Chris Mulrey who are having great years. We knew we were going to have some issues this year and work for everything we got, and they’re excited that we still have a chance to make the postseason. Hopefully we can chip away here and send them off on a positive note.”

The Panthers have a good

chance to get back to even with games against Silver Lake and Watertown, two teams they beat earlier in the season, next on their schedule. If they can win both, Whitman-Hanson will have to go at least 1-1-1 against Dennis-Yarmouth, Westwood and Martha’s Vine-yard in their final week.

“We’ve still got three points to play with,” Man-ning said. “We’re just trying to really focus on the next op-ponent and play more five-on-five hockey. No matter what happens this year, we played some good quality teams and we’re going to be better for it in the long run. A win or a tie Wednesday night will do wonders for our confidence, and we’ll see where we can go from there. “

continued from page 23

2011 Whitman Legion Post 22 baseball registration for tryouts now open

Any players from Whitman, Hanson or Abington be-tween the ages of 15-19 and not turning 20 this calender year, interested in trying out for the Whitman Legion baseball team must register on Saturday, March 5 between 3-5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall behind Holy Ghost Church. All players must try out for Whitman before considering play-ing for another town or for Junior Legion in another town; no exceptions. If released, they can then try out for the next closest town only. Players from last year must register and try out also. Abington players must live closer to Whitman-Hamson than surrounding towns that have a team. Any questions, call Coach Adams 781-447-5977.

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Cheerleaders take home league crown

Abby Baker and Caccia-tore got the Panthers off to a good start with wins in the first two races of the day. Baker ran away with the mile by 14 sec-onds while Cacciatore held off a strong challenge from Pem-broke’s Vanessa Pham to win the 600. Rachel Baker then won the last individual race of the meet and broke Kasey Black’s two-mile school re-cord in the process. Baker ran the race virtually by herself as there were only two other runners in the event, and she lapped both twice to win by more than a minute.

“There were only three girls in the race, so that was pretty impressive,” head coach Mike Driscoll said. “Then Abby and Gianna were also league champs in their races, so it was pretty great.”

Collins added a sixth place in the 55-meter hurdles, and teamed with Cacciatore and the Bakers to win the 4x800 relay at the end of the meet. Fellow

sophomores Nicole Galewski and Samantha Richner also medaled in the field events with Richner placing third in the high jump and Galewski fourth in the long. Galewski also teamed with Danielle Spivack, Karen Dempsey, and Alicia Ferraro to take third in the 4x200 relays, and the team of Hannah Wells, Haley Burkow, Victoria Gately and Healy Wells took fifth in the 4x400.

“The 4x4 was great be-cause it was four freshmen,” Driscoll said. “Our theme continues with the young run-ners.”

The Panthers now turn their attention to the Division II Championships on Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Center, where their team will be well represented.

“We have 13 kids, which is the most we’ve taken in a while,” Driscoll said. “Gi-anna and the Baker girls have legitimate shots at being state champs, so it should be great.”

Baker breaks record, as girls get set for D-IIcontinued from page 24

Sophomore Gianna Cacciatore (left) strides to the finish line to win the Patriot League 600-meter championship while fellow 10th grader Nicole Galewski runs the Panthers into third place in the 4x200 meter relay after placing fourth in the long jump.

Karen Howard and Megan Cleary of the JV team stand ready to kick off the Patriot and South Shore League Cheerleading Championships at Whitman-Hanson High School on Thursday.

Brooke Artz corkscrews through the air during the varsity routine as the Panthers took home the first place trophy and advanced to States.

The varsity team strikes a pose during the cheer portion of their routine.

Ashleigh Cancela shouts out a cheer.

A Panther cheerleader is all smiles as she waits to start the varsity routine.

The Panther faithful cheer on the team as varsity takes the mat.

Photos by dave Palana

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Men in Black moving onPanthers finish fifth at All-League meet, D-II next

by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

For 10 members of the boys track team, the All-Pa-triot League Championship on Friday at the Reggie Lewis Center was one final tune-up for the Division II State Cham-pionships this weekend.

For the rest, it was the end of the road this winter.

The Panthers scored 63 points to place fifth at the league meet, bringing an end to a tough but rewarding sea-son for the young team.

“I’m happy with the boys,” head coach Kevin Black said. “It’s been a real winter season with all the snow, and condi-tions made it tough for train-ing purposes. Having survived this winter is an accomplish-ment in itself. We had a good season; now we move on to the state meet with a small number of kids.”

Panther senior captains Justin Blight and Tyler Sulli-van made sure they left their mark on the Patriot League with a pair of first place fin-ishes. Blight won the long

jump with a 20-foot, 2.75-inch leap to win handily over Jerry Acacia from Randolph, who took second with a jump of 19’ 11.25”. Blight also took third in the 55-meter dash, and will continue his breakout sea-son next week when he com-petes in both events at the D-II meet.

“He’s our most valuable player,” Black said of Blight. “He just did a great job for us all year long. He’s an elegant jumper, he can convert speed into the jump and he had a great year jumping and sprint-ing. His dash was surprising. I look forward to seeing him run this spring.”

Sullivan added a win for the Panthers in the two-mile in 9 minutes and 44.83 seconds with Panther junior Pat Ryan finishing three seconds behind him in second place. The two Panthers will also run the two-mile this weekend, and Black said they seem to be peaking at the right time.

“Tonight was clearly their best night,” he said. “We’ll see what happens to those two at

the next level.”Anthony Iannone and

Brendan Moran also had good days as they get set for the D-II meet. Iannone ran a personal best in the 55-meter hurdles to take seventh, and Moran also ran his best 1,000 meters of the year to take fifth.

Sophomore Nate Stepha-nsky medaled in the mile run with his fourth-place finish, as did Luke Laubacher with a sixth place in the 600 meters and Dom Cacciatore with a second in the 300.

The 4x200 team of Steve Croghan, Seth McGee, Dan Gould and Jordan Maxwell, 4x400 team of Moran, Caccia-tore, Iannone and Laubacher and 4x800 team of Stephan-sky, Ryan, Paul Kennedy and Steve Gorman also finished in the top six to earn medals.

Shot putters Anthony Te-deschi and Derek Kruk will join Blight, Sullivan, Ryan, Moran, Stephansky, Iannone, Cacciatore and Laubacher at the Division II meet, which will be at Reggie Lewis on Saturday morning.

Panther captain Justin Blight leaps into first place in the long jump on Friday. Blight will long jump and run the 55-meter dash on Saturday.

Same old story for boys Panthers’ tourney hopes will go down to the wire

by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

It seems like history keeps repeating itself for the boys hockey team. Each of the last two seasons, the team went through ups and downs and were faced with having to run the gauntlet to earn a spot in the MIAA tournament.

The team lost a 6-0 game to the Sandwich Blue Knights on Saturday to extend their cur-rent losing streak to four after a 5-1-1 stretch, and once again they need to find that late-sea-son spark if they hope to return to the postseason after missing it by one point last year.

“It’s shaping up as the same thing,” head coach Rich Manning said. “This is a fairly young team and they’re mak-ing their mistakes. But to still have a chance is good, and we’re going to hang on to that and see if we can start inching out of this thing.”

The Panthers came out strong, but never seemed to get on track against the Blue Knights at Rockland Rink Sat-urday night. Sandwich took the lead when Tom Columbo redirected a slapshot past Pan-ther goalie Tom Leonard for a power-play goal at the 4:03 mark in the first period. The Knights took advantage of an-

other Whitman-Hanson pen-alty later in the period when Taylor Blake squeezed a back-hander inside the near post to put Sandwich up 2-0 with 55 seconds to play before the break.

“I think we were ready to go tonight,” Manning said. “You could feel on the bench that we wanted to work hard, and then we took some un-fortunate penalties. Things like that happen when you are struggling. They didn’t really do anything great on the power play; we just couldn’t get it out and got tired, and they eventu-ally just got some pucks to the net and scored.”

The two goals seemed to deflate the Panthers as the Knights dominated the sec-ond period, scoring two more goals while holding the Pan-

thers to just five shots despite three Whitman-Hanson power plays.

The Panthers came out with more energy in the third but couldn’t get on the board. Sandwich added two more goals in the final five minutes to pad their lead and send the Panthers back to the locker room now two games below .500.

“For us to go down 2 or 3-0 at this point really kills our confidence,” Manning said. “We’re struggling and every-body’s frustrated, but we’re not going to quit.”

The game was also Senior Night for the Panthers and their families. It’s been a tough season for the upperclassmen this year with the team in tran-

Assistant captain Scottie MacArthur greets his parents on the ice during the Panthers’ Senior Night festivities on Saturday.

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Win or go homeBoys basketball loses to Hingham, needs to win out to make MIAA tournament

by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

The Panthers looked poised to come out of Hing-ham High School Tuesday with a much-needed vic-tory. Then they inexplicably couldn’t find the basket.

The Panthers managed just three field goals in the second half, allowing the Harbormen to storm back from 10 down to win 49-43 and put the Panthers behind the eight ball for a tourna-ment spot.

The Panthers held on to their lead into the fourth quar-ter by forcing 15 Hingham turnovers and shooting 69 percent from the free throw line. But Hingham took a 37-36 lead with 5:26 to play and ran it to seven points before Miles Hoffman hit a 3-point-er with 39.1 seconds left for the Panthers’ only field goal of the fourth quarter.

“We really did not shoot the ball well tonight,” head coach Bob Rodgers said. “We played excellent defense and

our kids battled tough; that’s how we’ve played all sea-son. But if you can’t score, those stops become harder to get, and that’s the key. We were getting shots where we want them and how we want them; they just weren’t going down.”

The game bore resem-blance to the first meeting between the two teams, when the Panthers lost a lead in the fourth quarter, but Rodgers said the Panthers were never really in command of the re-match.

“The first time we played them, I felt like we had more control,” he said. “This time around we were never really in control. I thought we had some fortuitous plays to get that lead; it wasn’t as crisp as the first time we played them.”

The Panthers took a 20-14 lead into the second quar-ter behind a last-minute three by Hoffman and a buzzer-beater by Jay Vancura, and ran their lead to 10 with five and a half minutes to play in the half before going into the break up 27-19.

Their cold shooting al-lowed Hingham to tie the game in the third, but a pair of free throws from Hoffman

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Rachel Baker breaks another school record as girls track gets set for state meet

What a long, strange tripLady Panthers back in tourney

by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

Abby Baker, Rachel Baker, Gianna Cacciatore and Mel Collins have been break-

ing records together as a relay team this winter, but they showed on Friday that they are perfectly capable of winning big races on their own.

Rachel Baker set another school re-cord while Abby Baker and Cacciatore added first places and Collins was one of 10 other Panthers who medaled at the All-Patriot League Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center.

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by dave Palana, sPorts editor [email protected]

It’s been a roller coaster season for the girls basketball team, but it will have the same ending it has for years — a spot in the MIAA tournament.

The Panthers beat Dux-bury, Hanover and Hingham on Friday, Saturday and Mon-day to improve to 10-8 and punch their ticket to the post-season. For a team that was riddled with injuries early in the season and spent most of the year below the .500 mark, head coach Jim Daley said making it back to the tourna-ment was especially reward-ing this year.

“It was a big accomplish-ment,” he said. “I’m really excited for the girls. They are playing their best basketball of the season right now.”

Daley credits the team’s 32-31 win over the Duxbury Dragons on Friday as the game where the team turned the cor-ner. The Panthers were coming off a 59-43 loss to Scituate, who had lost to the Dragons by 19 points, and Daley said finishing off the close game gave his team the momentum boost.

“We thought that was go-

ing to be a challenge,” Daley said. “Getting that win really helped our confidence.

The Panthers closed out the home portion of the regu-lar season with a 54-27 win over the Hingham Harbor-women on Senior Night. The Panthers edged Hingham by four in their first meeting this season and took a 29-21 lead into halftime. But they clamped down defensively to allow just six points over the final two quarters.

“It was a tremendous de-fensive effort,” Daley said. “They really turned it on as the game went along.”

Senior captains Michaela O’Neil and Mary Rose Grif-fin each had 10 points, while the team’s other senior, Kaley Mientkiewicz, chipped in with eight to end their careers in the high school gym on a high note.

“For those seniors to go out that way was really tre-mendous,” Daley said.

The Panthers got more good news this week when Griffin and junior point guard Mackenzie Hatfield were named Patriot League All-Stars. The Panthers will look to improve their tournament seed in the final week of the season starting on Thursday when they head to Silver Lake. The tournament brackets will come out a week from Friday.

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