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PROUD MEDIA SPONSOR OF SOUTHBRIDGE AREA RELAY FOR LIFE! SERVING OUR READERS SINCE 1923 WEDNESDAY , J ANUARY 27, 2010 (508) 764-4325/VISIT US AT: www.theheartofmassachusetts.com Newsstand: 60 cents TODAY’S QUOTE Don’t be ‘shy’ to run for office “I disapprove of what WITH PAPERS NOW AVAILABLE, CANDIDATES WANTED ON LOCAL BALLOT you say, but I will defend BY GUS STEEVES run for office,” said Town Clerk to the death your right to NEWS STAFF WRITER Madaline Daoust, who has seen both say it.” — Voltaire SOUTHBRIDGE — With a surpris- an easy, unopposed race (in 2006) ingly contentious U.S. and a heated one (last Senate race just over, year). “To be a good can- local politics is switching didate, your heart and TOMORROW’’S gears to focus on the soul is for Southbridge. WEATHER June 29 annual election. We definitely need that W Papers for town offices at this economic time.” became available this Southbridge High week featuring three School history teacher seats on the Town John McHugh agreed. Council, two on School Despite some of the Committee, and one each assertions that some- on the Board of times fly around town, Assessors, Housing he believes local govern- Authority, ment “is responsive.” Redevelopment Madaline Daoust “For what it’s worth, Authority and Southern Southbridge is pretty Worcester County Regional good,” he said. “You’ve got well- Vocational School Committee. meaning people here [in office] with Chance of snow File photo/Gus Steeves Aspiring candidates need to return few if any hidden agendas. It’s all High 37 their petitions with 50 signatures by out in the open.” Voters are seen checking in at a polling place during the Jan. 19 special senatorial Low 19 May 11. To him, there’s one key quality election. Southbridge residents are urged to place their name on the ballot in the June “You definitely need thick skin to 29 town election. Nomination papers became available this week. Please Read CANDIDATES, page A7 WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS Council conversation centers on Census BY GUS STEEVES said Partnership Specialist This year, she said, every- ed by law from sharing any NEWS STAFF WRITER MASS. DAILY NUMBERS Melissa Trzasko, noting the one’s getting just 10 ques- personal information it col- drawn Monday SOUTHBRIDGE — decennial process is man- tions — listing number of lects with any other federal afternoon were: Census workers on Monday dated by the U.S. people and their name, sex, agency or individuals. Such 8-6-2-8 appealed to the Town Constitution. age and ethnicity for each, agencies, even the presi- Council and, via cable TV,to Specifically,this Census is plus whether the home is dent, only have access to the the community to partici- much simpler than the con- owned or rented and a compiled data. MASS DAILY NUMBERS pate in this year’s federal troversial one of 2000. Then, phone number for “quality Her boss, Regional drawn Monday night were: census. one household in six dreds of questions and a 40- assurance.” Manager Richard Bennett, 3-6-7-0 “It’s one of the most received a very lengthy page manual. The rest had a Trzasko noted, however, short form. important things we do,” form that included hun- that the bureau is prohibit- Please Read CENSUS, page A7 Cash Winfall: 4-7-19-20-23-45 CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARIES LOCAL New face at the desk PLIMPTON TO TAKE HELM AT The Hot Spot JOSHUA HYDE Page A3 BY CHRISTOPHER TANGUAY NEWS STAFF WRITER SPORTS STURBRIDGE — File photo Change is in the air at the This November 2009 photo of the Route 20 business district of Joshua Hyde Library. Sturbridge is one area planners are looking at in their efforts to bol- As former Library ster the town’s economic future. Director Ellie Chesebrough finished up the final days of her more than 17 years in charge of Joshua Hyde, newly Time to call in appointed Library Director Becky Plimpton Christopher Tanguay photo Rams best Woolies used the time to get New Library Director Becky Plimpton, left, sits with Ellie acquainted with the build- Chesebrough, who is leaving the position after almost 18 years in Page A10 a professional? ing, people and operations. Sturbridge. Plimpton was selected from a pool of 25 appli- the library’s Board of Chesebrough’s tutelage. STURBRIDGE CONSIDERS AN cants for the position, and Trustees. “I have to learn every- GLOBAL AFFAIRS was officially appointed on On Monday, Jan. 25, thing she knows in the ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Thursday, Jan. 7 by a four- Plimpton began learning next five days,” Plimpton WHAT’S HAPPENING member subcommittee of the day-to-day processes of the library under Please Read PLIMPTON, page A8 ‘BEYOND OUR BORDERS’ BY CHRISTOPHER TANGUAY town in the form of taxes — NEWS STAFF WRITER and sometimes, taxable PAGE A2 STURBRIDGE — There products or services — and are a lot of plans in the water and sewer fees. OPINION works here. Some businesses howev- Readers, unite! The Master Plan and the er,may not be the best fit for GET YOUR Commercial Tourist Sturbridge. A restaurant or POINT ACROSS District Revitalization retail outlet with prices far BOOK GROUPS BOOMING Plan, for example, are two exceeding the disposable PAGE A4 of the larger undertakings income of the surrounding BY JOY RICHARD by the town’s Planning population would not sur- STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF WRITER WHAT TO DO Department in recent vive. A commercial entity WEBSTER — Taking a page from months. These plans share that required an inordinate national trends, Webster residents have A CALENDAR many interconnected amount of attention from been frequenting their public library — OF AREA EVENTS aspects relating to quality police may end up costing specifically, its book club — more fre- of life, public safety and the town money in services. quently since the economic downturn PAGE A5 downtown accessibility. So with all the thought began. One point in both plans that has go into what the Chester C. Corbin Public Library that is essential to their majority of people in town Director Daniel Gallagher said he has success is the need to bring agree is a necessity, whose seen a “definite rise” in the number of more businesses into town. job is it to figure out what patrons using library services over the Additional commerce businesses are best for Joy Richard photo past two years. Gallagher said he is also that may include retail, Sturbridge, or where they Chester C. Corbin Public Library Assistant pleased to see more people sharing their industrial or technological would be most strategically Director Daniel Gallagher stands with devoted love of literature with others through the entities would, in the long located? Ideally: an eco- members of the library and its book club, library’s book club. run, help reduce residential nomic development profes- Webster residents Sue Buehler, Mary Chabot and Jean Travis. Please Read BUSY, page A8 6 56525 10441 1 taxes by creating additional sources of revenue to the Please Read STURBRIDGE, page A9 2 • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 FROM THE OUTSIDE IN ACCURACY WATCH Alaska village counts first AT THE • In Monday’s paper, a story headlined “Thin ice no longer?” misstated some of 2010 CENSUS BEGINS the parking limits in town. MOVIES On Pleasant Street, alternate side ABOVE ARCTIC CIRCLE parking is required on everything north of the Big Bunny driveway.Also, to clar- NOORVIK, Alaska (AP) — One down, Can ‘Avatar’ sink ify, parking restrictions on “snow emer- more than 309 million to go. gency” routes only apply when town U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert ‘Titanic’ at box officials declare a snow emergency, not Groves on Monday began the 2010 count of all winter as the article might have the nation's residents in a village in Alaska's LOS ANGELES (AP) — James implied. arctic hinterlands. Cameron's "Avatar" is on a course to sink "Titanic" at the box office. • In a Page 1 cutline in Tuesday’s The first person tallied in Noorvik, an No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend Southbridge Evening News, 5-year-old Inupiat Eskimo community of 650, was with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox Corbin Gadbois’ age was erroneously Clifton Jackson, a World War II veteran and sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to assigned to his mother Julie, as well. the town's oldest resident. $552.8 million, according to studio esti- The News apologizes for the error. "It's all downhill from now," Groves said after exiting Jackson's house. mates Sunday. "Avatar" raised its world- • Also, the lottery numbers were omit- wide total to $1.841 billion. That's $2 mil- ted in the Monday, Jan. 25 issue. The Clifton said he was honored to be the first person counted because he thought there AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster lion shy of first place behind Cameron's Friday evening daily number was 0-4-4- U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves arrives were other elders in town who would have last movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic 6 and the Saturday afternoon number in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, been just as worthy. "Titanic," at $1.843 billion. was 4-5-0-9 and at night was 7-7-0-7. Alaska in a dogsled driven by Noorvik resident "It defies all superlatives," said Chris The News apologizes for the omission. "It's seemed, to me, OK," he said. Brian Coffin, 11,, Monday, Jan 25. Groves came to Groves and other officials were taken Aronson, head of distribution for Fox. the village to formally launch the nation's 2010 The studio said "Avatar" has hit $1.29 from the airport to the village school by count of America's residents.

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