Town Officials Pushing for New DPW Facility
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Mailed free to requesting homes in Douglas, Northbridge and Uxbridge Vol. V, No. 36 Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: WWW.BLACKSTONEVALLEYTRIBUNE.COM Friday, June 22, 2012 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Town officials pushing for new DPW facility HURIS OMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE “To make pleas- S : ‘S ’ BY ADAM T. SILVA future of town projects, we the location, according to ures pleasant, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER could be seeing these Shuris, are that it’s on a pub- NORTHBRIDGE — Jim improvements relatively lic road across from the Town shorten them.” Shuris is inviting all soon. Hall and work trucks can go Northbridge residents to stop “We want to make improve- in any direction in the town by and gaze at the DPW facili- ments, but we also want to easily. Charles Buxton ty. stay in this location,” said “We put the plows down But not in a good way. Shuris, who started as the and we’re on a public road The DPW director is push- DPW director in August 2011. and we put the salters down ing hard for a new DPW facil- “Location, location, location. and we’re on a public road,” ity,and if the recent approval It was selected back in 1941 he said. “As part of the analy- INSIDE of a facelift for the Town Hall and this is the best location sis, we are required to do an and improving the town’s for this facility in the entire alternative analysis. Several Adam T. Silva photo A2-3— LOCAL roads is any indicator to the town.” Northbridge is looking to build a new DPW facility on the existing land. Some of the positives for Turn To DPW page A13 A4-5— OPINION Seen here is an out of commission tractor A7— OBITUARIES A8— SENIOR SCENE A12 — SPORTS Selectmen OK A6 — CALENDAR B6— REAL ESTATE abatement for UHS B3 — LEGALS LOCAL water sewer fee $160,000 on a reimbursable ‘WE’DBE item, the state will pay for about half of that,” explained LOSING A LOT Selectman Jay Cahill. “We’d be losing a lot of money if we OF MONEY IF WE didn’t do this. Since there is a cap on the project, we can’t DIDN’T DO THIS’ just add that $80,000 and you just threw away that money.” BY ADAM T. SILVA The biggest argument for TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER the abatement, which took UXBRIDGE — Acting as the place mostly between Uxbridge mother, town’s Water and Sewer Baghdasarian and the other daughters fundraise for Commissioners last week, the four members and Town breast cancer prevention Uxbridge Board of Selectmen Manager Sean Hendricks, came to the long-awaited deci- was that municipal buildings Page A3 sion to abate the new do not pay for this fee in the Uxbridge High School for a town. water and sewer hook-up fee. “Municipal buildings have LEARNING Since the fee was assessed, never been assessed for a it could not be simply waived, water and sewer fee,” said but could be abated by the Selectman Bruce Desilets. Commissioners and came to “Town Hall, the fire and roughly $160,000. The board police departments, schools voted 4-1, with Selectman — none of them were ever Peter Baghdasarian in oppo- assessed.” sition. “If the school spends the Turn To SELECTMEN page A6 Church sewers dressing up for charity Amanda Collins photos A recruit graduate shakes hands with Sen. Brewer as Spencer Fire Chief Robert Parsons looks on. DRESS DONATIONS WORK FLOURISHING AT LOCAL PARISH DES students sing and BY ADAM T. SILVA school nurses, who distrib- Recruits graduate from TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER dance their way into the uted them as they saw fit. NORTHBRIDGE — For “We asked the church for summer those with busy hands at the permission to do this project Page A11 Blackstone Valley United in January 2009 and that’s firefighting academy Methodist Church, they’re when we actually started and involved in the spirit of giv- the whole process was just SPORTS ing year-round. fabulous,” she said. “We first FIREFIGHTING ‘NOT A HOBBY, IT’S A COMMITMENT’ Peggy Codner is one of the made nine dresses and they parishioners involved with were hung in church one BY AMANDA COLLINS While the mood was cele- another right across the creating dresses for less-for- Sunday in March. We took STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF the dresses to the teacher WRITER bratory, the setting provid- street from the high school tunate girls in Northbridge ed a somber reminder of just two days later engulfed and the need is very much who took them into school.” SPENCER — Thirty-five the role of a firefighter. A an apartment building and still out there. The concept for dresses in recruit firefighters graduat- little over a week before the left 16 people homeless. “Back in 2008, a friend of needy families is a difficult ed from Fire District 7 June 14 graduation, a fire “The other side of the mine, Beverly Wheeler, and I notion, according to Codner. training last Thursday on Cherry Street claimed equation is the people were started. We both sew and Unless the family only has night, June 14, at a ceremo- the life of a 57-year-old saved, and neighbor’s hous- wanted to do some sort of girls, dresses typically won’t ny at David Prouty High mission work that included be bought because the chil- Spencer resident, while Turn To ACADEMY page A13 School. sewing,” she explained. “We dren will be given hand-me- didn’t want to make quilts, downs. and she cut out of a magazine “It’s an interesting experi- about a group in New Mexico ence to give something away Around the Valley: that were making dresses for and have no idea who was Spring season review poor girls in the area. They going to use it,” she said. “We Pair arraigned on weapons charges knew that they couldn’t affect were very fine with that. We Page A12 the family’s bottom line, but have continued this notion to BY JOY RICHARD illegal weapons possession, According to court docu- STONEBRIDGE PRESS STAFF WRITER could possibly put a smile on this very day.We lost our con- child endangerment and ments the charges filed a little girl’s face and give her nection to the schools at one WEBSTER — A pair of assault. against Rivera included car- a dress that she probably point, so we started bringing OPINION local men, one from Millbury According to a Webster rying a firearm without a would never have had.” them to Pieces of Bread.” and the other from Webster, Police Department reported license, possession of a Wheeler and Codner con- While the number of sew- ET OUR G Y were taken into custody after filed by Office Aaron Suss, firearm without an FID card tacted the dressmakers in ers has varied throughout the POINT ACROSS a gang related incident last Ware, known to local police and violation of an abuse pre- New Mexico and came to years, the people who have week. as “Black,” was charged with vention order. PAGE A4 their own conclusions about contributed have been an Henry T. Ware, 24, of 40 assault with a dangerous Both Ware and Rivera pled how they would go about interesting lot. At one point, a Prospect St., Apt. 2, and weapon, carrying a firearm not guilty to the charges filed. their own project. grandmother, mother and Millbury resident Jose A. without a license, possession Bail was set at $500 cash for Their biggest concern was daughter were all donating Contact the Rivera, 44, of 38 Gover Road, of a firearm without a Rivera, which was paid on how to get the dresses out of their time and effort for the Tribune editor were arraigned at Dudley Firearms Identification card Thursday, June 7. Ware’s bail the church and to the public. cause. at aminor@ District Court on Thursday, (FID), reckless endangerment was set at $750 cash. Once they were in contact “We have as many dresses June 7, and Monday, June 11, of a child and sale of a Pretrial dates for both men with local schoolteachers, as we have based on how stonebridgepress.com on several charges related to firearm it a minor/alien. Turn To WEAPONS page A13 they were put in contact with Turn To DONATIONS page A13 2 • Friday, June 22, 2012 BLACKSTONE VALLEY TRIBUNE Summer a flurry of activity at West Hill Dam BY ADAM T. SILVA place. People are always here doing the opposite of what we have now. It July 11, the Dam will host the “Baby through 20 and July 23 through 27 TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER tons of things, like walking their kind of put things in danger of not Bees Toddler Hike” for ages 1 to 8 at will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. daily. UXBRIDGE — With summer here, dogs, taking hikes and cross country happening. We were afraid of the 2 p.m., where parents are encour- A lot of what the Dam employees the West Hill Dam is full of activi- skiing when there is snow.” frogs and other amphibians that aged to bring their young ones to are trying to encourage is the inter- ties for families and for anyone look- This past February, the Dam was normally use the vernal pools here experience what the Dam has to action between themselves and the ing to enjoy nature, but the dam is home to the Annual Winter were just not going to be there.