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In November of 2012 Massachusetts voters, including voters in Essex County, overwhelmingly approved An Act for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana. At the October 22, 2013 Special Town Meeting, the Town of Newbury enacted a moratorium on the use of land or structures for Registered Marijuana Dispensaries and related uses to allow the Town time to develop appropriate regulations.

This moratorium will be in effect through December 31, 2014.

The Workshop will begin with a presentation by the Planning Board and the Town Planner on the Act and the related Department of Public Health regulations which were promulgated last spring.

Following the presentation, audience members will be invited to ask questions and express any concerns that they may have regarding the siting of medical marijuana facilities. The Planning Board’s goal is to develop a by-law for consideration at the Annual Town Meeting in May 2014.

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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––

Junior Clippers and their coaches

NEWBURYPORT – It would be hard to say who gets the most out of the Special Olympics programs here.

Talk to the coaches, the coordinators or the students and the message is that each thinks they receive the most joy and benefits from helping, guiding or befriending children with intellectual disabilities than the athletes themselves.

Founded originally in the 1950s and early 1960s by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics has grown into a worldwide organization, providing opportunities for children and young adults with intellectual

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REGIONAL – Rick Hydren was videotaping from a observatory tower on Plum Island when not one, but two birders asked him excitedly what was he photographing. When he told them phragmites, they looked up in the sky and wanted him to point out these unusual birds.

Hydren with Straddles Productions in Rowley told that story last week to a gathering of state and local officials, environmental organization executives and concerned North Shore residents who make up the Great Marsh Revitalization Task Force as an example of how the public is illinformed about the threat the invasive phragmite and other weeds are to the Great Marsh.

In an attempt to educate the public about the threat of phragmites and other invasive weeds, Hydren has produced a 30-minute You Tube video, called

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Phragmites in the marsh

Danger in the Reeds, which depicts the threat the tall perennial grass is having on large portions of the 18,000-acre Great Salt Marsh.

The fast-growing plant, which has no natural enemies, prevents the growth of native plants,

impedes the access for wildlife through the marsh and affects the flow and salinity of water.

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Dear Community,

It frustrates me that Comcast is the only vendor of high-speed broadband internet access in the city of Newburyport.

While some residents use Verizon’s DSL network and others get internet service from satellite, Comcast owns the local monopoly on broadband — and I intend to find alternatives.

Four years ago when I led a grassroots movement to solicit Google to install a fiber network here, I met a lot of people and gained a lot of knowledge.

For instance, do you know that while Verizon never connected its FIOS, or fiber optic service, to homes and businesses here, they installed a lot of it along Low Street and other main trunks in the city — to get from Salisbury to West Newbury? Yet, we can’t touch it.

Comcast employs a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable in their broadband network; it could provide speeds between 10 and 100 megabits per second. My own speed averages 20 mbps to download and 5 mbps to upload. Fiber is faster with standard speeds between 10 megabits to 10 gigabits per second.

Do you know there is a municipal fiber network that connects city hall with the schools and PortMedia? Could that be expanded for residents?

Do you know that several private companies offer fiber to corporate clients in the city? Could that be daisy-chained to residents?

Do you know about the OpenCape network on Cape Cod and the Three Ring Binder network in Maine that offer opt-in aggregated regional broadband service? Could we partner with other Merrimack Valley or Cape Ann communities and offer the same?

I want to revisit the topic of internet service — and fiber, specifically — through a series of public forums. I intend to schedule the first forum in early February.

Please email me at ariherzog@gmail.com or drop a note in my box in city hall if you are interested in participating. I already have a list of about 20 residents.

Thank you.

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The Newburyport programs began 10 years ago when Nicole Twomey, following in Shriver's footsteps, saw a chance to bring the Special Olympics program to the high school.

“There was a lack of opportunities for children with intellectual and development disabilities,” Twomey said.

The high school program offers the athletes a chance to learn to play soccer in the fall and basketball in the winter and to compete in statewide tournaments in both sports.

“They love the competitions,” said Lori Solazzo, who coaches basketball with her husband Matt.

“It is a chance for a sleepover, to ride on a bus to Worcester. They get a night out.”

And most important, they love to win medals.

Four years later, parents of two intellectually disabled children decided they wanted to augment the high school program by creating athletic opportunities for younger children.

Kim Spinney and Mary Gene Clavin contacted Special Olympics, went through required training and qualified to organize a Special Olympics-sanctioned program, called Junior Clippers, for children ages eight to 15. The athletes

compete in soccer, basketball, plus track and field in the spring.

Spinney's husband, Neal, and Marty Leahy coach the teams of Junior Clippers along with Karen Twomey and Skip Short.

“They love working with the athletes,” Kim Spinney said. “They will tell you they get more out of the program than the athletes.”

The same is said of the student volunteers – whether they are at the high school, where they are called unified partners, or in the Best Buddies program, where they are referred to as Peer Buddies. Solazzo said the full numbers are not in yet, but she guessed that more than 20 regular education students are participating in the program this winter.

Eight members of the high school basketball team assist with the Junior Clippers this season, Kim Spinney said.

Whether they have an intellectual disability or not, all are called athletes.

“At the end of the day, what every athlete on my team is gaining are so many life lessons,” Twomey said.

Lori Solazzo, a high school teacher, said the athletes benefit from interacting with one another, as well as learning to play a sport and getting some exercise.

The program is also great for the parents. It gives them a chance to meet other parents in an

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“The parents get so excited. The kids are thrilled,” Kim Spinney said. “There are a lot of happy faces.

We are so blessed to be part of it.”

The relay race is their favorite activity, she said.

The athletes also love wearing their uniforms. And this year, the Junior Clippers raised money to buy each athlete a team jacket.

“They so love those jackets,” Spinney said.

The programs are supported financially by the Newburyport Five Cent Savings Bank and the Institution for Savings and other groups, she said.

The program also holds fundraisers during the year. In December, there was the Jolly Jog. And upcoming in February is the Polar Plunge on Revere Beach, which Twomey, the mother of a newborn, plans to be there to take a plunge in the icy ocean waters – all for a good cause.

For more information on the programs, visit www.newburyport. k12.ma.us/spec_ed_special_ olympics.html. Or email Kim Spinney at kimspin@comcast. net . To make a donation to the program, contact Mary Gene Clavin at mgclavin@comcast.net.

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Once the phragmites are removed, the native plants and wildlife return.

Hydren's video, which was funded in part with Kickstarter donations, can be viewed at www. dangerinthereeds.com.

The Great Marsh Revitalization Task Force, chaired by state Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, and state Sen. Kathleen O'Connor Ives, DNewburyport, voted unanimously to submit an application to the National Wildlife Foundation for up to $3 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Interior that have been made available in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to restore beaches and reduce the risk of coastal flooding.

“This is the most ambitious thing I've ever seen. It is very, very ambitious. It is very impactful,” Tarr said. He called the program for eradicating the phragmites and other plants “cutting edge.”

The goal, said Peter Phippen with the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, is to “Make the marsh better. Heal the marsh. Help it do its job better.”

The Great Marsh, which Christopher Hilke with the

National Wildlife Federation called “a jewel”, provides some of the most outstanding ecological resources on the Eastern seaboard.

It is the largest barrier island and salt marsh complex in New England and supports international bird migrations and dozens of other protected species.

The area that would be part of the Comprehensive Coastal Resiliency Enhancement program stretches from Salisbury to Gloucester on the coastline and inland through Georgetown and Andover to Wilmington.

The application for eradication of both phragmites and pepper weed will be for $400,000 Phippen said.

It will pay for weed eradication from Salisbury to Ipswich. The plan is to remove the weeds and reeds on 325 acres.

Other areas of possible funding include dune restoration on Plum Island and Salisbury Beach for $850,000, the restoration of submerged aquatic vegetation, mostly Eel grass in Essex Bay for $120,000, and an assessment of the barriers to water flow for $300,000.

The group also plans to apply for funding for involving youth in the communities in the protection of the Great Marsh and to help

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Salisbury, Newburyport, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich and Essex initiate community plans to reduce the risk of coastal flooding. If approved, the grant would give each of the six communities $60,000 each for this planning. Essex is already using funding for a pilot program.

The North And while the Great Marsh may be one of the most studied ecological areas, the group is applying for $550,000 for a hydrodynamic modeling of the marsh to determine levels of sediment and salinity.

Phragmites, which grow to 14 feet tall, are tough to kill off. Over the last five years, local groups have waged war against the plant, primarily in the Newbury sections of Plum Island. Five years ago this area had about 250 acres heavily infested by the plant. Today, it is 90 per cent eradicated, Phippen said.

To kill off the plant it must be sprayed with a herbicide, then mowed down.

Phippen said, “It has been a very, very successful project.”

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There are as many options or negotiating strategies as there are buyer and seller scenarios. Here is another scenario: 2.Your seven children are grown and now have families of their own.

Before they all move back in with you, you want to sell the oversized home but you have not found the next home of your dreams. You tell your Realtor that you will list your property for sale but you want that sale to be subject to you finding your own suitable housing.

YOU ARE THINKING- “If someone really wants my home, they will wait until I find the home I want. (SELLER’S HOME SALE CONTINGENCY) I do not want to have to find interim housing if my home sells before I find another.

I will not assume the risk.”

THE BUYER IS THINKING“I’m not going to put my hopes, dreams and resources into a new home that I may never own if the owner doesn’t find what he wants and he just backs out. I’d be assuming all the risk and I need to be able to count on having a home within a certain time period. I’ll pass on this home and keep looking for one that I can actually purchase.”

YOUR SELLER/LISTING REALTOR IS THINKING-“The seller’s chances of finding a buyer who will wait indefinitely for the

are not good. Even if he finds just the right home, he will have to ask that seller to wait for his present home to sell. May be we can find a buyer who will agree to wait ninety days for my seller to sell his home.

Maybe my seller will agree to interim housing by that time. At least he will have sold his home successfully and he will be a ready, willing and able buyer for his new home.

THE BUYER’S REALTOR IS THINKING-If my buyer can’t find a home he likes as well as the one where the sale is subject to the owner finding suitable housing, maybe he can make an offer that gives the seller a longer than usual time to find a new property but in any event, the closing must be on or before that mutually agreed upon closing date. I think I’ll run that possibility by my buyer and the seller’s agent… ….who knows?

Just keep in mind that these scenarios are so common that the need for interim housing has given rise to many alternatives within the hotel industry that now offers plans that suit myriad needs.

Do the best you can to keep things “moving” especially when the inventory is so low. If you need to move on to another home, focus on selling the one you no longer want without creating obstacles to that sale if you possible can. Like my Mother always said “Everything has a way of working out so take a leap of faith.”

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First of all, understand that no matter what your personal or financial circumstances are, once you enter the real estate market you will have to assume some degree of risk. Control freaks, be advised and proceed with caution. Every transaction requires some leap of faith much as we would like to think otherwise. To minimize risk, be sure you have trusted advisors such as a Realtor®, an Attorney and a mortgage provider on your team.

Here are some scenarios: 1. The walls are closing in on you since the triplets arrived and your neighbors have decided to breed dairy cows and sell manure on the side. Your home is mortgaged and the bank will not lend you any money to buy another home until you sell your present home. You walk into an open house and you immediately know you have walked into the perfect home for you. One of the bedrooms fits three cribs perfectly and the backyard abuts beautiful conservation land……. without manure.

YOU ARE THINKING- “I’ll ask that this seller wait until my home sells before he gets his money.”

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Mary drinks diet soda. In fact, Mary doesn’t just drink diet soda; she has a diet soda by her side all day long. At a recent event I saw Mary sitting and listening intently to the presentation. At her side was her diet soda. Every few minutes Mary would unscrew the diet soda cap and take a swig.

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