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REGIONAL – The new class started 15 minutes late because a resistance training class was finishing in the main room of the Amesbury Senior Center. Three women and one man waited patiently for their turn to take a fun, high-energy class, called the Three Bs, that promises to improve balance, increase bone density through strength training and improve cognition with trivia questions and brain games, all while great music plays to keep the seniors motivated. The invitation sent to Amesbury seniors said, “If you’re ready to have fun and fitness all wrapped up in one class,” join the six-week class at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. Created by fitness trainer Brian Coyne, the Three Bs class, brains, balance and bones, is the newest fitness class offered to seniors in Amesbury. This senior center and others around the North Shore offer a variety of fitness classes, including the high-intensity Zumba dance class, plus ones for stretching, weight lifting and resistance training. Backed up by a growing number of reputable health studies, the Baby Boomer generation is transforming the senior experience by staying as fit and independent as possible. Continued on page 3 Ingrid, one of the seniors who waited patiently
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ROWLEY — Things rarely seem to go smoothly at the Rowley Water Department. The pending Feb. 2 recall election, which has the support of more than 1,300 residents, could be in jeopardy. It is being challenged in district court by water board commissioner Tim Toomey, the target of the recall. The action, filed against the town’s Board of Photo by Stewart Lytle Registrars, calls The sample recall ballot hanging on the Town Hall for an emergency bulletin board. preliminary injunction to stop the election. Toomey asserts that the petition on which the first 100 signatures of residents were collected was flawed. The first petition for the 100 signatures, which is a required first step in the recall process, did not have word “affidavit” on it, and also missing were the words “signed under the pains and penalty of perjury on this __ day of November, 2015.” Those deficiencies were later corrected after the petition with all 1,302 signatures were filed, but Toomey wants the court to invalidate the petition and require those who want to oust him redo it. The recall election was already costing the town $4,500 plus legal fees. Now those legal fees will rise as the Board of Registers fights Toomey’s challenge. “We’ve put in a lot of hours on this,” said Town Clerk Susan Hazen of the recall process. The hearing on Toomey’s challenge is set for Thursday, Jan. 21, at Newburyport Superior Court. The recall election, set last week by the Board of Selectmen, is the result of an effort by residents who want Toomey removed from the water board after months of contention and accusations within the water department and the board. Toomey was given the opportunity to resign, but he did not. The recall petition accuses Toomey, when he was chairman, of using closed Continued on page 3
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executive sessions rather than public meetings to approve new policies, including hiring an interim water superintendent when the board placed Superintendent MaryBeth Wiser on leave and spending $5,000 on an investigator into the water department operations. Several of the actions by the water board were vacated by the selectmen. At a water board meeting last fall, Toomey called the relationship between the selectmen and the water board “adversarial.” The recall process was already confusing to many, Hazen said. The ballot, printed last week, is a two-step process. First, voters are asked if they support the recall. Voters have to answer the recall question before they cast a ballot for a candidate.
Then they must choose between two candidates, Toomey, whose name will appear first, and Mark Emery, the other candidate for the water board position. “Some people are going to be surprised to see his (Toomey’s) name there,” Hazen said. If voters, casting their ballots at St. Mary’s Church, approve the recall by a majority vote, then the registrars will count the votes for Toomey and Emery. The winner will join John Manning, chairman, and Stuart Dalzell Sr. on the board to fill out the term through May 9, 2017. A lifelong Rowley resident, Emery, 54, is a firefighter for the town and a former water department employee for six years. He has also served on the Finance Committee from 1989 to 1993.
Emery said he got interested in running for the water board after the recent turmoil on the board. He would like to bring positive change to the department, he said. With the support of more than 34 percent of the town’s registered voters, it would appear that Toomey has an uphill battle to retain his seat in a special election. Residents not already registered as a voter in Rowley must register by Wednesday, Jan. 13 if they want to vote in the recall election. Registered voters do not have to reregister, Hazen said. Absentee ballots will be available until noon on Monday, Feb. 1. Hazen predicts that there will be more absentee ballots than in most elections. “We have a lot of snowbirds who are in Florida this time of year. Pray for good weather.”
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hardship, you’re also going to have to put your home on the market and sell it. (We can get into Loan Modification which can allow you to keep your home in a future article). Once you list (you will need to let potential buyers know you are “selling short”) and agree upon a price for the property, you have to supply additional documentation to the lender. Prior to the property being listed, presumably your REALTOR® prepared a comparative market analysis. You’re going to need a copy of that for the lender, along with a hardship letter and anything else that particular lender needs (requirements from lender to lender can vary). Your lender will send out an appraiser to value the home. After submitting everything you are asked, you wait. Once you are done waiting you wait some more. Lenders are very slow lately in allowing short sales to be reviewed and hopefully accepted. If approval is needed from more than one lender or investor the process can drag on and on. If you call to check in with the representative at XYZ National Mortgage Lender and find out that the person assigned to your case with whom you have been talking to for the last 3 months has left, you will have to wait some more. This is the bad news. The good news is from a buyer’s standpoint they can get a home at less than market value. For example if you are planning on closing on the home you are selling in the morning and buying a “short sale” home in the afternoon, forget it. The timing won’t work. The bank works on their time schedule, not yours. Buying a “short sale” property can be a great deal financially. However, with any great deal there are usually strings attached. The strings here are that you never know when or sometimes even if the sale will go through. If you have any questions about this article, real estate in general or are looking to buy or sell a home please contact me, John McCarthy at Rowley Realty, 165 Main St., Rowley, MA 01969, Phone: 978 948-2758, Cell 978 835-2573 or via email at john@ rowleyrealestate.com
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