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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, October 5, 2012 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Scholarship winners State rep “Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word announced at Bay Path forum sparks before you let it fall.” controversy — Oliver Wendell Holmes ELECTION Q&A TO BE HELD INSIDE TUESDAY AT OVERLOOK BY GUS STEEVES STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF WRITER Learning .............A6-7 CHARLTON — Overlook is Viewpoint ............. A10 hosting a candidate’s night Sports ...............A12-13 for the 6th Worcester District Obituaries ............. B2 state representative’s race Tuesday, Oct. 9 — but Events Calendar ...... B3 whether both candidates will Real Estate ........Sect.B be there remains to be seen. Legal Notices ..... Sect.B “As far as I’m concerned, this event is up in the air,” said incumbent State Rep. Peter Durant, R-Spencer. “We LOCAL haven’t agreed to anything, Mark Ashton photos and we need to agree to sever- al things before we partici- Bay Path students from Webster winning John and Abigail Adams Scholarships include: Shane pate.” Kathleen Walker Banks, Brittany Boyle, Brady Corrette, Jerard Rice. Specifically, Durant said “red lights started going off” when he discovered two of RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS the organizers were donors to his opponent Kathleen WIN SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE Walker’s campaign and wants the three people BY MARK ASHTON rewards high academic achievement on screening questions to be a STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF WRITER MCAS tests and provides financial assis- Democrat, a Republican and CHARLTON — Now they’re all part of tance to college-bound students and their an “independent.” He alleged the “Adams Family” — not the branch fea- families. In fact, the John and Abigail Walker “had to know” her turing Gomez, Morticia, and Uncle Fester, Adams Scholarship offers a tuition waiv- supporters were doing this. or even Samuel, but that of John and er for up to eight semesters of undergrad- Walker said one of her Abigail, whose academic, literary, and uate education at a Massachusetts state donors, Jane Cutting, backed Heart Healthy political acumen represent the best of college or university. The scholarship out as soon as it became an everything in American history – and its must be used within six years of a stu- issue, and she believes the Page A3 hopes for the future. dent’s high school graduation and covers woman coordinating things, Bay Path Regional Vocational tuition only, which ranges annually from Barbara Delano, is a Peter Durant Technical High School has announced approximately $720 at a community col- Republican (Durant said he LEARNING that 68 students have received the John lege to $1,714 at the State Universities. believes none of them are). and Abigail Adams Scholarship Award College fees, room and board, textbooks, “I know [Delano], but she She admitted she hasn’t this year. That’s up from 60 students in and other expenses are not covered by the hasn’t done anything for my looked to see if any of the the 2011/12 school year, and up from 58 for Adams Scholarship. campaign,” Walker said. “… organizers contributed to the 2010/11 school year. He should be OK now that Durant’s campaign. The scholarship, now in its ninth year, Jane’s backed out. She did it “I’d assume, if he’s con- Please Read SCHOLARS, page A9 even before she talked to me.” Please Read DEBATE, page A11 A year in the making FAMILIAR FACE NOW LEADING LIBRARY FULL-TIME Fall Festival at BY JOY RICHARD tion is something she said made clear that this is what I TIMES STAFF WRITER she is already loving. wanted to do with my career St. Louis WEBSTER — From the Grenier said she started at and life,” said Grenier. “I Page A6 circulation desk to the direc- the library in 2005 as a clerk, love [this]. You get to know tor’s office, a Connecticut and the head of adult circu- the people well, you see them resident recently jumped lation. daily,they are like friends or into a new role at the She said even though she family. SPORTS Chester C. Corbin Public has always wanted to work I love getting to know Library. in a library, she left them, I love doing research She may not be a new face Framingham State for patrons or helping them at the public library on Lake University with a degree in [do research].” Street, but for new director criminal justice. Grenier has been at the and Moosup, Conn. resident “It was working here helm for the past four weeks Joy Richard photo Amanda Grenier, this posi- where the decision was Chester C. Corbin Public Library Director Amanda Grenier. Please Read LIBRARY, page A11 A ‘life changing journey’ for local pastor ‘WEAK IN BODY, STRONG IN HEART,’ BLOG TURNED INTO BOOK Soccer Action BY JOY RICHARD Strong In Heart,” is something he hopes Page A12 TIMES STAFF WRITER will be as big an inspiration as his blog WEBSTER — An out-of-the-blue diag- was. nosis turned the lives of a local couple He said originally the point of the upside down, and eventually, into a pub- blog, which his family and friends lished work. accessed through social media like OPINION Faith Assembly of God minister Kent Facebook, and e-mail was to inform Whitecotton, of Webster, and his wife, everyone of Sarah’s health and progress Sarah, said they were always sure they she was making during her treatment. GET YOUR knew that God guided their lives. They Kent said to his surprise, through feed- POINT ACROSS said they were even more convinced he back from friends he found that his blog PAGE A10 had a special plan for them when Sarah had gone worldwide. He was receiving was diagnosed with renal cell cancer and emails from all of over the United States acute myeloid leukemia in 2010. and the globe from those inspired or Courtesy photo The Whitecotton family recently had a comforted by Sarah and his journey Webster resident and Faith Assembly of God minister Kent Whitecotton stands book of Kent’s blog entries printed through her illness. with his wife and church leader Sarah Whitecotton. Kent recently published a under Tate publications, a Christian “When she went into the hospital and book of the blog entries he wrote during his wife’s battle with acute myeloid book distribution company. leukemia and renal cell cancer. Kent said the book, “Weak in Body, Please Read PASTOR, page A11 2 • THE WEBSTER TIMES • Friday, October 5, 2012 www.webstertimes.net Webster forges path with possible storm water bylaw ALMANAC QUOTE OF THE WEEK VOTERS TO DECIDE ON STATE MANDATE BY JOY RICHARD weeks that followed the meeting not much had burden to the average taxpayer. “It was intense times. TIMES STAFF WRITER changed within the article. “It baffles me,” said Miller. “Some folks have WEBSTER — With Fall Town Meeting less He said some small changes were made in asked me, ‘Why do we have to be the lead on For the next 280 days than two weeks away, selectmen are urging the language by Town Counsel’s recommenda- this?’” voters to take part in this year’s meeting. tion, but the bone of the article remained the Miller added that the board did approve of our lives didn’t belong to The annual meeting will be held on Monday, same as during the presentation. the article during the September meeting, but us anymore. It changed Oct. 15, at the Bartlett Jr./Sr.High School audi- During the Sept. 10 meeting, Gaucher said he is looking to hear how residents will vote torium at 7 p.m. Webster would be one of the first communi- on the issue during the meeting. our changed our lives, it There are 23 articles on the recently ties in the state to adopt the mandated bylaw. Dowgiewicz said there is “nothing we can released warrant, which can be found on the He said if voters were to reject the article the do” about the mandate, as it is coming from changed our kids’ lives.” town’s website at www.webster-ma.gov. town may be subject to large fines in the the state and there would be the possibility of Speaking with several members of the Board future. pricy fines in the future if the town does not - Webster resident and Faith Assembly of of Selectmen it was clear that the article that “Webster must adopt regulatory mecha- have a bylaw. God minister Kent Whitecotton, comment- stood out the most is Article 18, the potential nisms giving the town authority to control pol- “I think it is ridiculous that the federal gov- ing on his wife’s cancer diagnosis. storm water management and erosion control lutants from entering the municipal storm ernment is getting more involved in the com- bylaw. drain system,” said Gaucher last month. munities,” said Dowgiewicz, who went on to This issue was brought up most recently at He went on to say that what is outlined in say that he believes in the end it may cost res- the Monday, Sept. 10 selectmen meeting, these articles are some of the necessary “steps idents more in the long run. where Department of Public Works Director to get ahead of the curve.” Board Chairman Donald Bourque reiterat- OPEN TO CLOSE J.T. Gaucher made a presentation to the board Last Monday, he said if residents wanted to ed the point that the federal government is on the progress of the article.

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