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Auburn: Yes: 684; No: 508 Clare Booth Luce According to Superintendent John LaFleche, Charlton: Yes: 1,015; No: 311 that means the School Committee can restart a Dudley: Yes: 542; No: 470 process it had put on hold, namely putting out bids North Brookfield: Yes: 170; No: 515 to get a construction manager. Although the Oxford: Yes: 534; No: 538 process has delayed things somewhat, he said he Paxton: Yes: 238; No: 239 INSIDE still hopes to start construction sometime next Rutland: Yes: 310; No: 285 summer. Southbridge: Yes: 957; No: 388 “I started to feel somewhat optimistic in the last Spencer: Yes: 458; No: 340 David Dore photos Obituaries ..............B2 three weeks, when we were speaking to public offi- Webster: Yes: 395; No: 242 Carmen Zayas of North Brookfield, a teacher at Bay Path, showed her Calendar ................B3 support for the Bay Path renovation and expansion project outside the Turn To VOTE, page A16 TOTAL: Yes: 5,303; No: 3,836 Our Towns ..............B4 North Brookfield Senior Center on Election Day. Classroom Corner ....A6 Viewpoint ............A10 APPLE MANIA Sports ............A12-15 Budget deal, zoning Police Logs ..........A16 BROOKFIELD — The 34th Annual Apple change facing votes Country Fair, organized by the Brookfield Community LOCAL Club, was held on the Brookfield Town Common in Leicester Saturday, Oct. 6. BY DAVID DORE torium. For more photos, turn to NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER page A11! The deal between the LEICESTER — According School Committee and the to Town Administrator Board of Selectmen, Reed Robert Reed, municipal and said Thursday, Oct. 4, calls school officials reached an for the school district to use agreement to help close the $150,000 in special educa- deficit in this year’s budget. tion reimbursements from The agreement will be the state (also known as David Dore photos presented for a vote at the “circuit breaker” funds) for From left, Tom, Alison and Oct. 16 Special Town fiscal 2012 expenses. Nathan Regan of Brookfield Meeting, which starts at 7 dance in a circle on the com- p.m. in the Town Hall audi- Turn To BUDGET, page A17 mon. Endangered Historic Location Volunteers sought for Page A3 Spencer Meals on Wheels BY ELISA KROCHMALNYCKYJ before noon. SPORTS NEW LEADER CORRESPONDENT “I need drivers for one SPENCER — The Spencer day a week,” Stanley said. With the aid of a Meals on Wheels program “They get out of here with couple of mirrors, is looking for some volun- the meals by 10, and they Lauren Dobson, teers to bring meals to are usually back by 12.” 6, of Sturbridge homebound senior citizens. While the purpose of the looks at the “I have my old faithfuls job is to deliver the meals design painted who deliver, but they are that are made, packed and onto her face at doubling up, and I don’t sent out of Howe Village, it the face-painting want to burn them out and also serves as a “wellness booth. lose them,” said Meals on check” for the seniors. Wheels director Nancy “At the same time the Wolverines Shear Stanley. Woolies All it takes is a few hours Turn To MEALS, page A16 Page A12 A Homecoming gift, wrapped up in pink OPINION GET YOUR BY DAVID DORE cured of it. That feels really enough. NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER good.” Jackson and the other POINT ACROSS SPENCER — This past On Friday, Oct. 5 — Amy members of the David PAGE A10 Good Friday, Amy Paul and husband Doug’s 16th Prouty boys’ soccer team found out she had breast wedding anniversary — the wore fluorescent pink T- cancer. Pauls found out how much shirts under their home A few days later, on her support they have in the whites as they took to the 40th birthday,she was told it Spencer area. field Homecoming night had progressed to Stage II. Doug, their 12-year-old against Southbridge. “I have a very aggressive daughter Maggie and son As the Prouty players form of cancer,” Amy said, Jackson, a sophomore at were introduced, they took “but they found it early in David Prouty High School, off their jerseys to reveal David Dore photos the stage. They have drugs were in on the secret. But the T-shirts. On the back Jackson Paul, sixth from left, stands with his fellow soccer play- that can cure my cancer. So Amy was about to find out ers and his mother, Amy. The team wore pink T-shirts in recogni- their feeling is that I will be what was happening soon Turn To PINK, page A17 tion of Amy Paul’s battle against breast cancer and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2 SPENCER NEW LEADER • Friday, October 12, 2012 Municipal clerk hired as selectmen discuss job changes BY DAVID DORE at this time.” ALMANAC NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER Comtois suggested last month the munici- BROOKFIELD — A West Brookfield resi- pal clerk could take over for Neylon when dent has been hired as Brookfield’s new part- she retires. Neylon objected to that a couple QUOTATION OF time municipal clerk to help three depart- of weeks ago, and reiterated it last week, ments. since that would mean taking someone THE WEEK Beth Conant was one of four finalists trained for one job to do another — leaving interviewed Tuesday, Oct. 2 by the Board of the people the clerk worked with without the Selectmen. The other finalists were help they had for several months. Brookfield residents Lindsay Holm, who “That’s wrong,” Neylon said last week. “I posted it to until last week was the interim municipal “They don’t have time for that.” clerk, and former Spencer New Leader Heller said he supports the proposed Facebook. Now Advertising Representative John Loveland, upgrade in Neylon’s position because he and Janet Mary Lenahan of Sturbridge. feels the Board of Selectmen could use some it’s official.” According to her resume, from August 2002 assistance in dealing with matters in town. to January 2006 Conant was assistant town He noted that according to a Brookfield clerk/treasurer in Strafford, Vt. Before that, resident, the impact of a town administrator - Michael Langevin, the Southbridge represen- she managed a medicinal herb company in and additional hours for the municipal clerk tative on the Bay Path School Committee, jok- Oakham; after that, she worked at a farm in would have an impact of “one cup of coffee ing after the approval of the Bay Path renova- Vermont and at a Brookfield restaurant. per month for every household” on the prop- tion project at the polls last week. Conant has an associate’s degree in med- erty tax rate. ical office administration from Springfield “A cup of coffee a month is a worthwhile Technical Community College. She took a price to pay for somebody that’s not going to David Dore photo EAL STATE professional medical coding course at let things fall through the cracks,” Heller R E Lebanon College in New Hampshire in 2006. Beth Conant, right, the new municipal clerk in said. Selectmen were split on who they wanted Brookfield, stands next to Town Treasurer Sheila “I’m going to give them that cup of coffee ... to take the clerk’s position — someone who Frangiamore as she addresses the Board of because we’re doing that job currently,” EAST BROOKFIELD Selectmen Tuesday, Oct. 2. $290,000, 218 Harrington Circle, would work for the tax collector, treasurer Comtois said. Harrington Trust (Joan D. Straw and and Board of Selectmen. Thomo said he felt the town’s property tax Michael A. Donahue, trustees) to Francis G. Nicholas Thomo said he supported Conant municipal clerk and urged the board to hire rate should be $12 or $13 per $1,000 assessed a Brookfield resident. She said Conant and Gaumond. because of her “experience and education,” value, not this year’s amount of $16.45.