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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––
T R I TO N – Town officials agreed last week that the proposed Triton Regional School District budget for next year is too high and on a path that is unsustainable, although all agreed that every student, as Rowley Board Photo by Stewart Lytle of Selectman Rowley Selectman David Petersen speaks to Superintendent Chairman Robert Snow said, should Christopher Farmer and the School Committee. have “the best education possible.” The Town Common Courtesy Photo They were less in agreement on what school districts through its Chapter 70 to do about the proposed $37 million funding program. Others proposed The Town Common Courtesy Photo that the district find more ways to The Governor's Academy of Byfield, Massachusetts recently visited the Body Worlds Vital exhibit budget for next year. Several town reduce the amount of the proposed at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Students observe the human body through cautionary displays officials blamed the Commonwealth increase for next year. for not allocating more funds to local about distress and disease, learning about health and vitality. Continued on page 3
Join in the Irish Fun at Port Tavern By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––
NEWBURYPORT – Wednesday nights and every other Sunday afternoons are special at the Port Tavern on State Street. That is when Eamon Coyne and a gaggle of talented Irish musicians and occasionally singers and dancers gather to play hours of traditional Irish music in what is called a session or in the Irish language a seisiún. Under stenciled mirrors advertising Murphy's Ale and Boddington's Pub Ale, the Irish musicians commandeer tables in the back of the tavern and play reels, jigs, hornpipes and occasionally polkas on their fiddles, guitars, flutes, bodhrans and whistles. “It is like a family. It is a joy,” said Coyne, who grew up in Liverpool, England, and has been playing with his father, Eamon Sr., a Photo by Stewart Lytle famous musician, and brothers, Michael and Eamon Coyne, (center), leads the Irish seisiún at the Port Tavern with Ann Terry, for most of his life. Federowicz and Michael Jeanneau.
The pub crowd loves it when the music begins, but playing for an appreciative audience is not what motivates the musicians. They come to play with one another. On any given Wednesday or alternate Sundays, the musicians may range in number from four or five to as many 23, Coyne said. Last Wednesday night, there were seven musicians and more expected as the evening wore on. Ann Federowicz, who plays the fiddle, moved to Newburyport about a year ago. She found the group on a web site that lists Irish seisiúns in towns across America. Of the group that comes to the Port Tavern, Federowicz said, “They are the nicest seisiunists ever.” When she joined the group, she found she had “an instant family.” Coyne, who moved to Merrimack seven years ago after living and playing in Ireland, Continued on page 3
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ROWLEY PLANNING BOARD In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40A, the Rowley Protective Zoning Bylaw, and the Rowley Planning Board Rules and Regulations, the Rowley Planning Board will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 7:45 p.m. in the Conference Room at the Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, Rowley, MA., relative to Applications for Approval of Modifications to Special Permits and the approved Site Plan. The Applicant/Owner is Institution for Savings, 93 State Street, Newburyport, MA 01950 represented by Meridian Associates, 500 Cummings Center, Suite 5950, Beverly, MA. The Modification to the Special Permit is required for “Banks and Credit Unions with drivethru” on properties located within the Retail District. A modification is also required for a Floodplain District Special Permit previously issued to the Applicant under Section 4.10 of the Rowley Protective Zoning Bylaws. The Modification to the Site Plan Review Application is for the expansion of the existing parking area that will increase the number of on-site parking spaces by fourteen (14) additional spaces. The property subject to the request is located at 312 Haverhill Street, Rowley, MA, and shown on Assessors’ Map14, Lot 12. The applications, plans, and relative documents are on file with the Rowley Planning Board, and are available for public inspection at the Rowley Planning Board Office, Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, during public office hours. Curtis Bryant, Chairman ROWLEY PLANNING BOARD In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40A, the Rowley Protective Zoning Bylaw, and the Rowley Planning Board Rules and Regulations, the Rowley Planning Board will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. in the Conference Room at the Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, Rowley, MA., relative to Applications for Approval of Modifications to an approved Site Plan and Special Permit. The Applicant/Owner is Four Twenty Newburyport Turnpike, LLC, 420 Newburyport Turnpike, Rowley, MA 01969 represented by Meridian Associates, 500 Cummings Center, Suite 5950, Beverly, MA. The Modification to the Site Plan Review Application is to transfer 13,000 square feet from a previously approved 21,000 square-foot expansion on the rear of building #2 located at 420 Newburyport Turnpike, to a previously approved 12,000 square-foot expansion on the rear of building #3 located at 428 Newburyport Turnpike, with the result that the building #2 expansion will consist of a total 8,000 square feet, and, the building #3 expansion will consist of a total 25,000 square feet. The Modification to the Special Permit is required for “Assembly or light manufacturing enterprises” on properties located within the Business/Light Industrial Zoning District. The property subject to the request is located at 420 and 428 Newburyport Turnpike, Rowley, MA, and shown on Assessors’ Map 18, Lot 3, and on Assessors’, Map 18, Lot 3-1. The applications, plans, and relevant documents are on file with the Rowley Planning Board, and are available for public inspection at the Rowley Planning Board Office, Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, during public office hours.
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used to play at the Port's predecessor, Rosie O'Shea's. When Dermot Bolger and his partners opened the Port Tavern, he sent him a CD displaying his talents. “Dermot liked it,” Coyne said, and invited him to compete with another Irish group for the right to lead the seisiún. He has been playing at the Port Tavern for the last five years. Last week, he was joined by Federowicz, Kevin McDermott, who plays the flute and the whistle; Gary Hudson, who beats his hand-made bodhran (Celtic drum); Michael Jeanneau, who with Peter Hale provides the rhythm on guitars, and Michael Pendergrass, who plays the triad. Tony Giblin, who owned Rosie O'Shea's, also joins the group. A seisiún is an open session, anyone can play. But there is a protocol. Someone starts a tune, and those
who know it join in. Good etiquette requires that one not play if he or she does not know the tune. Typically, the first tune is followed by another two or three tunes in a set. The tunes flow from one to another in similar key and melodic structure, without being so similar as to sound the same. The tunes of a set will usually be of the same type, all jigs or reels, although it may also include a slip jig amongst the jigs. Eamon, a world-class fiddle and mandolin player, is known for his unique fiddle style and is in demand for session and performance work by top recording artists. Eamon is also a composer of melodies and tunes which are played by many of today’s traditional performers. He has performed for the Spanish king and queen, the Irish president and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Eamon performs around Boston,
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The budget, tentatively approved by the School Committee last month and headed for likely approval on March 12, would increase the district's budget by 4.35 percent, or $1,552,755. The budget is paid for by the towns of Newbury, Rowley and Salisbury. “We are in a real mess here,” said Rowley Selectman David Petersen said. The proposed budget, which maintains current levels of services, would provide a basis for collective bargaining agreements with teachers, expand wireless Internet access to all classrooms and learning centers and provide more in-district programs for the rising number of students with learning disabilities. Farmer also delivered a bit of good news. Fewer students are opting to attend other districts, a sign that Triton has become more competitive with its neighboring districts. That saves Triton the cost of tuition it does not have to pay other districts for those students. This year, 130 students choose to attend other districts, compared to 270 five years ago. And 179 students chose to attend Triton from other districts for a net gain of 49 students. Several town officials, who met on the proposed school budget an hour before the School Committee's public hearing last week, asked the School Committee and Superintendent Christopher Farmer to cut costs. Others proposed to rally pro-education minded citizens to lobby state officials to increase the contribution to local districts. Farmer said the state's funding levels for local school districts next year was “flat-lined.” The proposed state funding to Triton next year will increase by $65,450, making the state's contribution about 22 percent of the overall budget. In the 2004 budget, the state's contribution was
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