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Vote For LORETTA SCOTT WALKER For Selectman Experience Accountability “I would Vision appreciate your 10 Years Community Service vote on May 5th” to greater Webster Paid for by Loretta Scott Walker for selectman Mailed free to requesting homes in Webster, Dudley and the Oxfords 508-764-4325 PROUD MEDIA SPONSOR OF RELAY FOR LIFE OF THE GREATER SOUTHBRIDGE AREA! Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: WWW.WEBSTERTIMES.NET Friday, May 2, 2014 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE THE GAMES GO ON Jolda joins “Nothing is particularly hard first BOS race if you divide it into small jobs.” WEBSTER LAKE, Henry Ford ZONING BYLAWS ON INSIDE AGENDA IF Seniors ................. A19 ELECTED Learning .............A5-8 Viewpoint ............. A10 BY JOY RICHARD Sports ..................A11-12 TIMES STAFF WRITER Obituaries ............B Sect WEBSTER — With the Andrew M. Jolda Events Calendar ...B Sect Board of Selectmen’s race Real Estate ...........B Sect coming down to the wire at the Webster Town Hall. Legal Notices ..... B Sect and six candidates ready for Longtime selectman and Joy Richard photos residents to hit the polls, one current Chairman Deborah Players on the Twins carried the first sign for the Oxford Little League during their parade. final newcomer, Andrew M. Keefe and Jeffrey Duggan Jolda, is making his case to will be leaving the board this LOCAL Little League players in Webster and Oxford got their respective seasons off to a wet voters. year with almost a decade of start last weekend, as each league held its Opening Day parade on Sunday, April 27. Jolda is vying for one of service between them. For more photos from each Little League parade, turn to pages A15-A16! two open seats on the Board Jolda, a resident of of Selectmen. The six can- Webster for the past didates are Jolda, Agnes 21-years, said this will be his S. Kokosinski-Rubin, for- first foray into local politics. mer Selectman Donald D. He said while not on any Bourque, James W. Bazinet, formal board, he is heavi- Loretta L. Scott-Walker ly involved with Webster and George C. Berthiaume Lake, its preservation, and (Editor’s Note: Berthiaume the potential it has in bring- declined the offer to partic- ing people to the commu- ipate in an election profile nity and advocating for its with the Webster Times). improvement. Cold, but happy The election will take He said he believes his Webster resident place on Monday, May 5, Turn To JOLDA page A13 and member Group’s mission of the Angels to promote Jessiaha Medina, 8, smiles for ‘one of the last the camera on great highways’ Sunday at the Kokosinski-Rubin Webster parade. Page A2 seeks first LEARNING elected office ‘MY GOAL IS TO BE ELECTED AND BE Water rights buyback EFFECTIVE’ BY JOY RICHARD TIMES STAFF WRITER Park Ave. School WEBSTER — Local project moves splits Oxford residents business owner Agnes S. Kokosinski-Rubin is looking closer to opening BY JOY RICHARD The annual Town which would raise the orig- to win one of two Board of TIMES STAFF WRITER Meeting will take place inal appropriation of $6.7 Selectmen seats during the Page A6 town’s Annual Election next OXFORD — With Town on Wednesday, May 7, at million to $9.3 million. week. Agnes S. Kokosinski-Rubin Meeting only days away, Oxford High School, at 7 This cost is to pay for the Webster will hold their mer Selectman Donald D. residents are confront- p.m. water supply system, extra local elections on Monday, Bourque, James W. Bazinet, ed with several pressing A hot topic since the legal fees incurred since SPORTS May 5, at the Webster Town Andrew M. Jolda, Loretta issues — one of which is acquisition was approved by 2009 and supports the stock- Hall. L. Scott-Walker and George an article addressing the residents in 2009, the water holder’s 5-percent return. The race for selectman C. Berthiaume (Editor’s pending water rights acqui- rights issue has returned, Speaking with Town is split six ways between Note: Berthiaume declined sition from Aquarion Water and residents will have the Manager Joseph Zeneski Kokosinski-Rubin, for- Turn To RUBIN A13 Company. chance to vote on Article 19, Turn To MEETING page A19 page One more run SOUTHBRIDGE DOCTOR HELPS WEBSTER RUNNER PREPARE FOR MARATHON Clutch hitting helps BY JOY RICHARD doctor. challenge Stawiecki faced was the Tantasqua softball TIMES STAFF WRITER After years of pounding the pain and stress of bone-on-bone get by Rams WEBSTER — With 14 Boston pavement, Stawiecki said he took arthritis in his right knee. Even Marathons and many other road the now-infamous 2013 Boston during the interview, two days Page A11 races under his belt, Webster resi- Marathon off, and was glad he did, after the marathon, Stawiecki was dent Bob Stawiecki was supported as his wife usually stands where still wearing the knee brace, which in this year’s marathon by not the second bomb was detonated. he credited with some relief, along only his family, but by one special He said he was honored to hit with Oh and cortisone and gel the roads of the Hub again this injections. Joy Richard photos year, especially in the wake of the He said what really kept him Harrington Memorial Hospital tragedy. going was the thought of those lost Orthopedics Dr. Young-Ho Oh stands Sitting down with Stawiecki and in last year’s tragedy — Martin alongside Webster resident and Harrington Hospital Orthopedic Richard, Krystle Campbell and 14-time Boston Marathon runner Bob Dr. Young-Ho Oh on Wednesday, Lu Lingzi, as well as Sean Collier Stawiecki on Wednesday, April 23, April 23, it was clear that Oh was a during the manhunt in the days after the 2014 marathon. Stawiecki big inspiration and help in getting that followed. said Oh was instrumental in him hitting Stawiecki back on the road. the pavement one last time. According to Oh, the biggest Turn To RUN page A13 2 • THE WEBSTER TIMES • Friday, May 2, 2014 www.webstertimes.net Group’s mission to promote ‘one of the last great highways’ BY AMANDA COLLINS Farr, along with a board of four other was born in November 1925 and while the STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF WRITER members, is working to identify and pre- plan was to stretch the road from its start- serve the cultural importance of, and pro- ing point at Kenmore Square in Boston Nat King Cole may have gotten his kicks mote the economic development of inner all the way to Oregon, it was cut short on Route 66, but Bryan Farr spent some of cities, small towns and rural communities when developers worried that the route the best times of his life driving through along the more than 3,000-mile stretch of couldn’t be maintained through the moun- small-town America on Route 20. road that locally runs through Brimfield, tains. It ended at the eastern entrance of A few years ago, the Boston resident Sturbridge, Charlton, Oxford, Auburn, Yellowstone Park. drove from his hometown to Newport, and Millbury. Long ago, it was known in But by 1940, Farr said the mountainous Ore., in a 3,365-mile cross-country journey this area as the Boston Post Road. states upgraded their highway system and along what he calls “one of the last great Their mission will be delivered through by 1945, Route 20 made its way all the way highways,” Route 20. promotion, preservation, and education, to Oregon, just shy of the Pacific Ocean. During his trek, Farr became so smitten such as the upcoming presentation in To learn more about this historic road, with the road and the landscape it snakes Sturbridge. They hope to establish branch- which travels right through our local through, that he founded the Historic US es in each of the 12 states Route 20 runs towns, visit historicUS20.org, or come to Route 20 Association, with a mission to through to work on a local level and to tie the presentation at the Sturbridge Town preserve and promote the highway’s histo- it all together with the placement of histor- Hall, May 13 at 6:30 p.m. ry and significance. He’ll be in Sturbridge ic signage from coast to coast. on Tuesday, May 13, to present the organi- “We aim to work the leaders of the com- Amanda Collins may be reached at (508) zation’s goals to the Planning Board. munities and states as well as with other 909-4132 or by email at acollins@stone- Farr says what’s special about Route organizations to place signage on sections bridgepress.com. 20, which is America’s longest highway, of Route 20 designating them as ‘Historic is that it “has not been lost to history, cut Routes,’” said Farr. “This will allow the up, or rerouted to the other interstates. traveler to get a glimpse of Americana, Everybody’s obsessed with or romanti- tracing the history and touring the old cizes Route 66 when they think American alignments of Route 20, in return giving Courtesy photo highways, that I kept thinking to myself, an economic boost to the local economy on ALMANAC The Historic U.S. Route 20 Association is a we have the longest intact highway in the their trip whether it is local, statewide or nonprofit organization working to promote and country, that meanders through small- cross country.” preserve the historical significance of America’s town America just as it did in 1926 right While today, a road tripper can travel QUOTE OF THE WEEK longest highway. They’re hoping local towns will here in our backyards.