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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– But the 12-year Selectman never thought he would also follow his father as a town official. His father, who moved to Salisbury from Newburyport in 1939, served as a town Selectman. His uncle was a policeman. “Public service was a tradition in our family,” he said. This spring Hunt is running for reelection this week. If elected, he would Photo by Stewart Lytle have the opportunity to Ed Hunt at Town Hall serve the town for 15 SALISBURY – Ed Hunt has years, one of the longest serving spent much of his life following in Selectmen in Salisbury's history. Photo by Peter McClelland his father's footsteps. As a young Hunt is the only incumbent in Vicki Allman of Newburyport slides in to third as Rylee Culverwell of Triton man, his father persuaded him to leave a job he really enjoyed and the race, although one candidate, tries to tag her during Triton's, 10-7, victory over Newburyport on April Continued on page 3 24th. buy the family's shellfish business.
Salisbury Deciding On New Library By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– SALISBURY – Almost seven years ago, Terry Kyrios developed a long-range plan for the little library on Salisbury Green in the center of town. As part of the plan, she mailed a survey to the town's 8,000 residents. About 1,000 responded with a wide range of suggestions, including more children's activities, more space for teens and young adults, which are confined to a hallway now, and more organized book clubs and meeting space for adults. Kyrios, the town librarian Photo by Stewart Lytle incorporated all the ideas into
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the plan, knowing that few could be implemented in the cramped quarters of the library. She hoped that with the long-range plan filed with the state government, she might be able to get a couple of computers for the overtaxed library. Not long after the Salisbury library filed the long-range plan, the phone range both the library and Town Manager Neil Harrington's office. The state library thought it was time Salisbury started designing a new, larger library.
Librarian Terry Kyrios (left) and Library Board Chair Jannette Lazarus.
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The House of Representatives yesterday passed the annual state budget, which includes funding for several local initiatives, including the re-nourishment of Salisbury Beach after severe erosion occurred there, State Representative Michael A. Costello (D – Newburyport) announced. The House also passed the so-called “Chapter 90” bill for funding local road construction projects, increasing the amount of the program from $200 million to $300 million. Both the state budget and the road construction bills move to the Senate for its consideration. Representative Costello secured $300,000 for the re-nourishment of Salisbury Beach State Reservation after winter storms left several areas of the beach severely eroded. The fee for camping and parking on the reservation will also increase from $2 to $3 to be placed in the Salisbury Beach Preservation Trust Fund for enhancing and maintaining the beach in the future.. “This money will provide the resources to harvest additional sand or to purchase additional sand and to place it in some of the areas on Salisbury Beach affected the most by erosion,” Costello said. The state budget will also support the Newburyport Shellfish Purification Plant, Our Neighbor’s Table of Amesbury, the C10 Research and Education Foundation, and directed state police patrols at Salisbury Beach during the busy summer tourist season. Specifically, the House budget included: • $90,000 for the C-10 Research and Education Foundation; • $20,000 for Our Neighbor’s Table; and • $400,000 for the operation of the Newburyport shellfish and purification plant Local communities will receive the following increases in their Chapter 90 funding under the bill passed by the House: Amesbury will receive, $609,794, an increase of $203,265 from last year; Newburyport will receive $779,547, an increase of $259,849; and Salisbury will receive $350,844, an increase of $116,948. mon The Town Com
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nursery owner Freeman Condon, served as a Selectman years ago. Ron Laffely, Paula Moore and Tom Saab are also running for the chance to serve a three-year term as Selectman. The Town Common has featured profiles of each of the candidates for Selectman. Selectman Jerry Klima is running for town moderator against Ronalee Ray-Parrott, the daughter of longtime Moderator Ronald Ray. The elder Ray is not running for reelection this year. Salisbury elects its five Selectmen in staggered terms. Two Selectmen seats are up every year, except one year when only one is open. The election will be held on Tuesday, April 30. “I'm a people person,” Hunt said. The self-described “good old boy” said, “I do not represent any special interest. I am very family oriented.” Hunt finds himself at times out of step with the majority on the Board of Selectmen. “I vote what I think is best for the families in
Salisbury,” he said. He is the lone voice on the board, asking for a state audit of the town's finances. Other Selectmen have questioned why he wants an audit, which is similar to one conducted by the state when Hunt was first on the board and the town faced several accounting issues. “It's not that I think we have a lot of problems. I just think it is smart to do an audit every 10 years or so,” he said. “I just want to know.” Hunt believes that the town has made great progress in the years he has been on the Board in 2001. Many of the challenges he inherited as a new Selectman have been resolved, particularly the financial accounting issues that plagued the town 12 years ago, he said. Now he worries that with the economy improving, the town will move from fixing needs like building a new water tower at the beach, to wants or items that would be nice to have. He believes the town should remain “cautious” and hold down spending at least
In June 2007, the state Board of Library Commissioners gave the town $40,000 to plan and design a new library. Town Meeting approved another $20,000 in matching funds. “If anyone had told me that we would now be trying to build a whole new library, I would said you were crazy,” Kyrios said last week at an informational briefing about the proposed new library. Voters are deciding this week if building a new two-story library on the green is a good idea. If voters support the new library, it still must be approved at the Town Meeting on May 20. A simple majority is needed to approve the debt exclusion ballot question at the polls this week, but at Town Meeting, a super majority, or two-thirds vote, will be required to allow the town to borrow about $3.2 million in municipal bonds. The state has promised to provide a $3.8 million grant, or about 55 percent of the cost. The Friends of the Library also plan to raise some funds from private sources to help build and manage the larger library. Kyrios and Board of Trustees Chair Jeannette Lazarus described the current library as “not user friendly.” “We are totally out of space,”
Kyrios said. Lazarus said the library can be the heart of the community. “It is a closet now.” In addition to the lack of space for the young adults books and activities, the children's area has tall shelves that require a ladder to get to the top shelves. For adults, the library’s Internet connection is in great demand. Some adults come to the library, bringing their laptops, printers, scanners and cell phones, setting up a virtual office at the library. But there is not enough electrical outlets to support the demand, Kyrios said. Others come to sit on the green and connect to the Internet through the library. “The way libraries do business today is so different,” she said. In response to suggestions that the town should expand the current library, rather than replacing it, Lazarus said the building, built in 1956, is not strong enough to build a second floor on it. Initial plans were for a singlestory library, but its footprint took up too much of the green. So the building committee had the architects re-design the library to make it two stories and a smaller footprint. During the two years it would take to tear down the old library and build the new one, the town
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door. We look forward to seeing you rain or shine! For more information or to volunteer for this event, call 978-9482850 or email booksale@rowleylibrary. org. GROVELAND BOOK SALE See Friday, May 3rd. “BEHIND THE SCENES” REFUGE TOUR Held on the following days: Saturdays, May 4th, 11th, & 18th at 9:30 am; Sundays, May 5th, 12th, 19th at 1:00 pm. Tours last approximately 2 hours. Join a refuge ranger for a behind the scenes tour of Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. Tour will be conducted via refuge van, with several brief “drive by” stops along the way. Meet the ranger in the lobby of the Headquarters visitor center. Each session is limited to 10 participants; no more than 4 individuals per sign-up. Please call 978-465-5753; to register for this program. All refuge run programs are FREE but space may be limited and advanced registration is required for all programs, unless otherwise indicated. Visit us on the web for more information: http://parkerriver. fws.gov or call Refuge Headquarters. The refuge visitor center is located at 6 Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, MA. BACK TO THE BEAN Bethany Masonic Lodge will be holding their "Back to the Bean" Ham and bean supper the first Saturday of every month (May 4th) at the Masonic Hall on 31 Green Street, Newburyport, MA 01950 from 4:30 to 6 PM. Cost is 8 dollars for adults 4 dollars for kids. Dinner includes: ham, hot dogs, 3 kinds of beans, potato and egg salad, Cole slaw, brown bread, rolls, Monthly theme dish: (chili), drinks, desserts and an atmosphere like no other bean supper would provide. Easy listening form Rogers and King Trio.
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Harty will offer tips on how to encourage children to be “thoughtful savers, careful spenders, and intentional givers.” Through the sponsorship of New York Life Insurance gift package: Company, a 25-page booklet, “It’s Common Cents: Money Tips and Tools for Kids and Their Parents,” written by Flash Beaute Facial, Pedicure Neale Godfrey, will be distributed to program attendees. and Wash & Blow Dry Style -----------------------------------------------------------for $115 (save 15%). ROWLEY - Pine Grove student, Mary Ouellette, is collecting tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. Helping is as “Cherish” easy as 1, 2, 3. 1. Pull your aluminum tabs off of soda, vegetable, tennis and pet food cans. 2. Save and Collect tabs. 3. gift package: Recycle tabs in the children’s room at the Rowley Public Library. (Pine Grove Students can return tabs to the school.) Tab pick-up is available by calling 978-358-8129. 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