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January 21 - 27, 2015 Vol. 11, No. 12
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NEWBURYPORT – Lou Minicucci, owner of Minco Development Co., has a special place in his heart for building affordable housing, especially in Newburyport. His first job, after earning an MBA from Suffolk University, was managing publicly owned housing project for the elderly and veterans in North Andover. Since founding Minco Development Corporation in 1982, he has developed more than 1,000 housing units in New England and Florida, including the 114-unit Maritime Landing condominiums in Newburyport. He said he is very fond of Newburyport and knows it well because his father lived here for years. Now he describes as a “tough” new challenge to buy 11 acres near the Newburyport train station from the MBTA by June 1 to build one or more five-story apartment buildings under a new state program and a proposed city ordinance that is still being written. Called 40R, the state program provides incentives to cities to approve new housing projects that would include 20 percent or more affordable units. Out of dozens of developers asked by the MBTA to bid on the project here, only two submitted bids, Minicucci said. The timing is very tight to meet the June 1 deadline, he said after a meeting with Mayor Donna Holaday and members of the Affordable Housing Trust and Planning Board last week. Holaday and Planning Director Andy Port said they expect the City Council to act on the proposed 40R program for the city by March, giving Minco about two months to secure permits to build the first apartment building. Without the permits, Minicucci said no bank would lend the money needed to buy the land and construct the building.
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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– NEWBURY — For the next two years, the five member Board of Selectmen here will continue to be made up of only men, which Town Clerk Leslie Haley said has been a topic of discussion around town hall since J.R. Colby, Michael Doyle and George Morse filed to run in the special election Feb. 10. “Send us some women who are interested, and we'll talk them into running,” Haley said. The man elected to fill the unexpired term of the late David Mountain will have to deal with several challenging issues facing the financially strapped town. Among them is whether to build a new police station and town hall, replace the Triton High School field and bleachers and find more tax revenues. Colby, who is a farmer at the family owned and operated Colby Farm on Scotland Road, said he decided to run in part because he was inspired by Mountain's thoughtfulness and integrity. “We can't afford to lose the qualities he brought to the table, and I would be honored to fulfill his term,” he said. Describing himself as man who works with his hands with plenty of dirt under his nails, Colby is a past board member of the American hand-fire engine society and the Newbury Fire Museum. He plants the sunflowers at Hiller field on Scotland Road for families to enjoy at no cost. “I feel that I bring a different perspective to the table than the other candidates” because at 34 he is younger and has a child in the school system. “Young Newbury families need more representation in town hall. We need a 'look down the road' approach, not quick fixes,” he said. “I am also the only candidate that's not a town hall Continued on page 3
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(R) Conor Henry (#15) of Triton blocks the shot of Robbie Glavin of Ipswich in last week's Triton win over Ipswich, 56-40. (L) Cam Armand (#3) scored twenty-two points for Triton.
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Newburyport, – The party atmosphere and flavor of New Orleans will come alive in Newburyport on Feb. 14, 2014 at 7 p.m. with the second annual Masquerade Ball to benefit St. Paul’s Church. The ball coincides with New Orleans’ Mardi Gras carnival season, which lasts for two weeks and culminates with Mardi Gras day (“Fat Tuesday”), the day before Ash Wednesday, marking the solemn observation of Lent in the Christian calendar. This year’s event also falls on Valentine’s Day, offering the public a way to celebrate love as well as Mardi Gras! It will be held at the Mission Oak Grill’s Steeple Hall ballroom, 26 Green Street, Newburyport. The event features the very popular EJ Ouellette & Crazy Maggy band, which plays rock, pop, jazz, reggae and more. A complimentary sampling of New Orleans food, desserts, masks and beads are included in the ticket price. Costumes are encouraged; otherwise semi-formal attire. Tickets can be purchased at: www.MKtix.com/spcn , through St. Paul’s church (978-465-5351, or stpauls@stpauls-nbpt.org ), as well as the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce. Ticket price is $55 if purchased by January 31, and $65 after January 31, or $75 at the door. There will be a variety of interesting raffle items, and one lucky person who wins the door prize will win the use of St. Paul’s beautifully restored 1863 High Gothic Style Granite Chapel for a wedding. Remember, it is Valentine’s Day! The gala benefits St. Paul’s Church in Newburyport and the community and ministries it serves, including: • Among Friends serves over 100 hot lunches every Tuesday and Friday to anyone in need. Evening Among Friends serves over 50 hot evening meals every Monday night. • Our Food Voucher Program allows families in need to buy groceries at a local supermarket. • Food and clothing drives to support Pettengill House, Inc. in Salisbury, MA., Community Service of Newburyport, Inc., and Emmaus, Inc., in Haverhill, MA. • Global Partnership with the Episcopal Church in El Salvador and Haiti. • Over 12 community groups are held weekly at St. Paul's Church facilities, including AA, Al-Anon, NA, OA, SLAA, La Leche League, Boy Scouts, and local meditation groups. • Rehearsal and performance space to Strings in Motion, Inc., a community based inter-generational string orchestra. • Concert space for recitals and performances to other local music teachers and musicians. • Annually hosts the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival. • Youth-led Community Talent Show & Fundraisers for Haiti. • Montessori based Christian Education programs for children ages 3-13. More than 500 people use St. Paul’s Church weekly for these activities.
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NEWBURYPORT - Anna Jaques Hospital welcomes primary care physician Dr. Patrick Barbier to the hospital campus this month as he joins Dr. Guy Navarra at Seacoast Medical Associates at 21 Highland Avenue, Suite 24 in Newburyport. Dr. Barbier has been practicing in the greater Newburyport community for the past 27 years.
Dr. Barbier is on staff at Anna Jaques Hospital and has also been on the active medical staff at Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital in Haverhill since 1985. Dr. Barbier received his primary medical training in Paris, France, where he also served as a teaching/ attending physician at Universite Kremlin-Bicerte and Physician in Charge at Ferrari Retirement Home/St. Joseph Hospice in Clamart, France. Seacoast Medical Associates is a private practice offering adult medicine for patients starting at age 16, specialized care for the elderly, and a medical weight loss clinic. The practice also offers walk-in service sick call for their patients Monday through Friday from 7:45am-8:45am. Dr. Barbier is now accepting new patients. For more information, contact Seacoast Medical Associates at (978) 462-1555.
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insider.� Doyle, a 60-year resident, is a retired pharmacist who teaches at North Shore Community College and substitute teaches at Triton. Doyle was a selectmen from 20012004. He is a member of the Municipal Building Committee and has served on the health board, finance committee and Friends of the Newbury Library. He said he is running because of the challenges the town faces and because the selectman's job is now more manageable than it was a decade ago. Then there were three members of the board, who were responsible for the daily operations of the town. Now with five members and a full-time town manager, “the job has changed so much,� he said. Morse, a four-year resident, is an attorney and a member of the planning board. He said he offered to serve on the planning board “to give back freely my time, effort and experience in a manner I believe is beneficial to the residents of Newbury. I am a candidate for selectman for the same reason, to serve in a meaningful way.� All three candidates support a new
police station and town hall. Doyle called the station “a nightmare� that could be closed any day by the state or federal agencies. He is concerned that so few people attended the December briefing on the proposal. Morse wrote that he favors a new police station and town hall, but architectural plans and price funding have not been finalized. “Any resident might reasonably speculate bonding over several years is the way to manage the cost of the project,� he wrote. Colby supports a revamped town hall and a conservatively sized police station, as opposed to “a municipal mega complex.� He would favor keeping the police station separate from town hall. “The Newbury police deserve to graduate from the basement of town hall. They have done well over the years to operate professionally out of such cramped quarters,� he wrote. Morse and Doyle also supported replacing Triton's field, track and bleachers. Morse wrote: “The safety of Triton and visiting students, as well as visiting spectators, is an important consideration and responsibility. If facilities are allowed to continue
falling into disrepair, the future costs of repair will very likely increase from what they may be now.� Doyle, who walked the track recently, called it and the bleachers “dangerous.� All agreed that Newbury faces tough financial challenges. And in general they agreed that the town needs more tax revenues and will have to approve future overrides. “Nobody wants to pay more, but by rejecting overrides and the community preservation act, we now find ourselves surrounded by pressing needs that we don't have the means to fix, and we are quickly using up all our favors,� Colby wrote. Colby and Doyle believe the town has to attract more businesses to Route 1. Doyle said that won't happen unless water lines are built to serve those businesses. “We need to encourage new business in our business and industrial districts, streamline the permitting process for those businesses, and keep up the trend of trimming the fat that has been implemented by our town administrator,� Colby wrote. The deadline to register to vote in this election is Jan. 21.
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The state Chapter 40R program seeks to increase the supply of housing and decrease its cost by allocating more land zoned for dense housing. The Smart Growth Zoning Overlay District Act encourages communities to create dense residential or mixeduse smart growth zoning districts, including a high percentage of affordable housing units, to be near transit stations or near city centers. To help developers like Minco, the program requires that cities speed up their permitting processes. If a city adopts the zoning and streamlines the development process for 40R districts, the state will provide between $10,000 and $600,000 in funding. It will also give an additional $3,000 for every new home created. The city of Haverhill has received a $600,000 40R zoning incentive payment plus another $1,086,000 in 40R density Bonus payments for building the 305-unit Hamel Mill Lofts and the 57-unit Hayes Building in its smart growth district beside the train station on the Merrimack River. The preliminary plans for Minco's proposed One Boston Way call for 80 units, including 70 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and about 10 live-work spaces on the ground floor. A Minco brochure on the project described it as “luxury apartments with modern design, amenities of a corporate office, great potential for company space, and the leisure of no commute to work.� On the first floor, there would be
as much as 3,500 square feet of space allocated for a business center for use by residents. Minicucci said the live-work spaces would be attractive to professionals who work out of a home office, but need a place to hold planning or client meetings. “This could be an excellent site for small businesses that could work in Newburyport and get on the train to Boston when they needed to,� he said. The concept of live-work units was added to the project by Minco after the mayor requested that theShore’s building The North have retail or commercial space on the first floor. Minicucci said the mayor suggested that the space could be rented by businesses such as a coffee shop that would serve commuters. Minicucci said he did not think retail would work in this building, although he was open to it for phase two, which would be built on two lots facing Route 1. Those lots include land currently owned by Haley's Ice Cream shop. Minco owns one parcel and is negotiating to buy the Haley land. The proposal is to make 20 percent or 16 units affordable, which means they would be rented at discounted rates by residents whose income is less than 80 percent of the community's median income. The mayor and Affordable Trust members are asking Minco to increase the number to 30 percent, but Minicucci said that would not be feasible. Although both sides said they would negotiate this issue later, he said it could be no more than 25
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Tour will pleased to announce a special event staged readings, and the ten-minute Septic tankS & be conducted via refuge van, with to make life during midterm week shorts are memorized. Friday & several brief “drive by” stops along a little less stressful. Need a place to Saturday Nights, January 23 & 24 SyStem contractorS the way. The tour will present an study that's free from distraction? and January 30 & 31, 2015 - All container Service “up close and personal” look at the We've got you covered! The library shows at 8PM at the Firehouse refuge through the multiple lenses is reserving study rooms for TEENS Center for the Arts, Market Square, of the cultural history of Plum ONLY! Bring your friends and study Newburyport . Island and the Great Marsh, native until your brain hurts! Free snacks wildlife and their habitats, and and caffeinated beverages will be FREE, FUN, DANCE EVENT: 8-948-8696 • www.thetowncommon.com • advertise@thetowncommon.com the role of refuge management in served hourly, and super-smart NOON DANCE! the conservation of these precious librarians and tutors will be around This and every Friday, noon to natural resources. Participants may to help you with your research. one pm, at the Ipswich Town Hall Swimming Pools & Spas Service Upgrades be driven along areas on the refuge There will be designated areas for Gym, 25 Green Street, Ipswich otherwise closed to the public. both quiet study and group study Massachusetts. Great space, music Fire Alarms Recessed Lighting This guided two hour program is so no matter what you need, NPL and light, we dance and stretch Landscape Lighting Back-Up Generators most appropriate for older teens has your back. This event will take for fifty minutes and then enjoy a and adults. 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