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By stewart Lytle, reporter ––––––––––––––––– REGIONAL – Now that warm road races, such as the Poker Run in weather has arrived, it is time to get Rowley next fall. outside to hike, bike, run, push a “Essex Heritage is excited to work stroller and enjoy the North Shore with the YMCA of the North Shore natural beauty that rail trails offer. to promote healthy living by getting The Essex National Heritage people out and active,” said Annie Commission, using a $13,000 C. Harris, Essex Heritage CEO. grant from the National Parks “Move It! provides an excellent Foundation, is promoting its Move platform to raise awareness of the It! campaign to “get people off the natural resources, trails and rail couch and out of the house,” said trails throughout the Essex National Bill Steelman, Essex Heritage’s chief Heritage Area while having fun on operating officer. “It fits nicely with your own or at special events – like our efforts to encourage people to Essex Heritage’s new “Rail Trail become involved in appreciating Series,” the YMCA of the North the historic, cultural and natural Shore Road Races, Essex Heritage’s resources of Essex County.” Trail & Sails events, and dozens of Move It! will promote local events, other activities for all ages offered such as the recent Salisbury Art throughout Essex County.” Stroll, and particularly events along To help individuals pursue their Photo by Stewart Lytle the growing number of rail trails. It fitness goals, Essex Heritage has The Clipper City Heritage Trail will also work with the YMCA of the created a web site to allow hikers, Continued on page 8 North Shore to promote upcoming runners and bikers track their
Rare Disease Won’t Slow Vittorio Ricci By stewart Lytle, reporter ––––––––––––––––– BOXFORD – Vittorio Ricci remembers running as fast as he could on his high school cross country team only to be passed by other runners who had not worked nearly as hard as he had to get into condition. The highly competitive junior at Masconomet High School was so frustrated he could hardly breathe. He would not let himself fall back on the excuse that he was the only runner that was wearing braces on his legs. “Braces are not as good as real legs,” Ricci said. But the more people and doctors tell him not to do something, the more he wants to do it. He suffers from the rare and currently incurable disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth or simply CMT. It is a disease that affects the peripheral nerves, those outside the brain and spinal cord. It causes damage to the hand and feet muscles and progressively gets worse as the individual ages. There are now more than 86 known types of CMT. The type contracted by Ricci had not been Vittorio Ricci with his braces
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discovered. He anticipates it being the 87th type. Most people have never heard of CMT, his mother Jill Ricci said, although the disease affects one person in 2,500 people or about 2.8 million people worldwide, of all races and ethnic groups. There are now 17 CMT Centers of Excellence worldwide, medical facilities studying the disease and hunting for a cure or at least an effective treatment. Massachusetts General Hospital is the latest CMT Center of Excellence. The disease, named for the three physicians who discovered it, is a group of inherited disorders. Each kind is caused by a different kind of mutation, and more causes are being discovered every year. In the most common types of CMT, symptoms usually begin before the age of 20. They may include foot deformity (very high arched feet), foot drop, muscle loss in the lower legs, which leads to skinny calves, numbness in the feet, difficulty with balance and later similar symptoms in the arms Continued on page 3
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TOWN OF ROWLEY ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Case #15.08 A Public Hearing will be held at the Town Hall Annex, 39 Central Street, on Thursday, June 18th, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. to act on an application received May 13th, 2015 from Richard J. Caram, Jr. Applicant is requesting a Special Permit from the Board of Appeals for an attached in-law apartment under section 6.6.2 of the Rowley Zoning Bylaws. Property is located at 157 Boxford Road, Rowley, MA. The property is in the Outlying district and is shown on Assessors’ Map 2, Block 27, Lot 6. At the public hearing, members of the public may ask questions and present evidence that supports either the approval or denial of this petition. Donald W. Thurston – Chairman
Bartlett Museum Thank Donors Dear Editor, The Bartlett Museum is grateful to those who donate items for the collection. Often the museum receives donations of vintage clothing, memorabilia, historical war related items, photos, scrapbooks, journals, art and genealogical information. It is much appreciated. We would specifically like to acknowledge and thank the following persons who donated items during 2014- 2015. Jane Kelloway: Wicker doll carriage ca 1920-1930; Margie Marble: Coon baby dress, slip, socks, shoes; Robert Mullaley: Silver coin commemorating the 300th Anniversary of Amesbury’s founding and a 1976 United States Bicentennial bronze coin issued by the Town of Amesbury; Royal Feltner: First copy of the book he researched and compiled titled “History of Amesbury Carriage Makers and Bailey Electric Automobile”. The Museum located on 270 Main Street, Amesbury is open Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 – 4:00 pm. To schedule an off hours special tour leave a message on the museum phone 978-388-4528. Dianne Dostie Cole Bartlett Museum Board of Directors: Treasurer: Steve Klomps; PR/ Fundraiser: Dianne Cole; Members Secretary: Jon Camp, Alex Pooler, Sel Mize, Gina Moscardini, Lee-Anne Banville, Carol Finn, Ed Duguay.
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and hands. CMT almost never affects brain function. Ricci realized he had the disease when he was 14 and moving from middle school to high school, a tough time for any adolescent and even tougher for one who had to wear braces. He believes the disease was triggered in his body – the first in his family – when he grew six inches and gained 20 pounds in one year. At first, “Everybody just thought I was gawky,� he said. But soon he noticed that his left toe had dropped and was causing him to stumble. The doctors he saw initially did not know what he had and sent him to be fitted for braces. The specialist suspected he had CMT and suggested he be tested. Several months later the Riccis were back, having been diagnosed correctly. He was sent to the University of Iowa CMT Center of Excellence, where they poked him and drew lots of blood to study his rare form of CMT. When he showed up for his freshman year, some teachers thought his braces were soccer shin
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mileage. The Move It! Mileage Tracker is available online. Register at http://www.essexheritage.org/ moveitreg/register. After years of work designing, acquiring the land and constructing rail trails in our area, the number of miles available along what was once railroad tracks has grown and more are coming. Expect in the next few years that the cities and towns along the North Shore will be bisected with a variety of trails. One of the most popular, the 1.1. mile Clipper City Heritage Trail from the Merrimack River to the Newburyport MBTA station will be extended by 2017 from the Merrimack waterfront for a mile and a half through the South End under High Road to Parker Street in Newbury. The current trail attracts about 1,000 people on a Saturday. “It is very popular,� said Geordie Vining, senior planner for the city of Newburyport, who has been working on the rail trail since he came to work for the city in 2001. He expects the state Department
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guards. The formerly shy student, who has developed a delightful sense of humor since contracting the disease, told other students that he had been attacked by a shark. At the summer camp where he was a counselor in training, he told the campers that his braces made him a superhero and allowed him to jump 100 feet. In many ways he just like any other high school student. He runs, swims, plays soccer, rides mountain bikes too fast, which scares his doctors because a broken leg for a person with CMT “is really bad,� he said. Thriving on a variety of challenges, Ricci is taking up rock climbing. The son of a state highway engineer with excellent grades plans to go to college and study biomedical engineering. Living with CMT is expensive. Ricci’s carbon-fiber braces cost $1,500, of which the health insurance pays only one third, and they break often. This week he is getting new braces from a company in Canada that sit on the top of his sneaker and are supposed to be stronger and not wear out his
sneakers as fast. Those too cost $1,500 and insurance pays nothing, Ms. Ricci said. Ricci has become a master fundraiser – not for himself, but for the CMT association, having raised almost $100,000 mostly for research. In his freshman year, he was invited to speak about his disease to his elementary school. Each student brought one dollar. Vittorio has since spoken at other schools. He has also become a local celebrity, having been named a “Hometown Hero� by Fox 25 Television News and the “Class Act� by WHDH_TV, Channel 7. He was invited to Beacon Hill to meet with several legislators on the disease, including one that thought he suffered from a tooth disease. Each summer the Riccis hold an annual fundraiser in Gloucester, where he and his father dock fishing boats and have many friends in the Cape Ann fishing community. The next fundraiser is on July 18 at the Cape Ann Marina. For more information, visit wwwcmtusa.org, click on Circle of Friends and scroll near the bottom to find Vittorio’s Circle of Friends.
year and construction will begin in 2016. It is “a long, slow process,� Vining said. Similarly design of an expansion of the 1.4 mile Old Eastern Marsh Trail in Salisbury is underway. MassDOT will hold a 25 percent Preliminary Design Public Hearing on the two and a half mile northern extension of the Old Eastern Marsh Trail at 7 p.m. on June 8 in Salisbury’s Hilton Center. The proposed trail extension would start at the north end of the Marsh Trail at Mudnock Road in Salisbury and cross Elm Street, Route 110, to connect with the Ghost Trail at Lion’s Park. The extension would continue north across Lafayette Road, Route 1, on a new rebuilt bridge to connect to the Salisbury Elementary School. It will end at the New Hampshire state line at Route 286. Town Moderator Jerry Klima wrote in an email that Salisbury and MassDOT have been working on the preliminary design of the
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www.TheTownCommon.com The Belleville Roots Music Concert Series presents Della Mae performing a bluegrass concert at the Belleville Stage, 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA on Friday, June 5th at 8 PM. Tickets are $30 in advance/ $35 day of show/ $10 children 18 and under. For more information, please email: bellevilleroots@gmail. com or visit: www.bellevilleroots.org.
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A PROGRAM OF CLASSICAL FAVORITES Symphony by the Sea presents “A Program of Classical Favorites” on Friday, June 5th at 8:00PM. At the Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport. Tickets: $35.00 Adults; $5.00 Students. For more info please call SATURDAY MORNING BIRDING the Box Office at 978-462-7336 or Our experienced leaders will visit online at www.firehouse.org take you to birding hot spots in the Newburyport/Plum Island area in SATURDAY, JUNE 6th search of avian activity. Beginners and birders of all skill levels are welcome. BEE IN THE BARN CATMOBILE Sat, June 06, 2015; 9:00 am - 11:30 The Barn at Todd Farm, 275 Main The Catmobile, which offers am. Meet at Joppa Flats Education St., welcomes you to participate in low cost spay/neuter for cats only, Center, One Plum Island Turnpike, a monthly Bee in the Barn. Please is coming to Tom’s Discount Store Newburyport. $12. No preregistration join us for an old fashioned Bee and located at 175 Elm Street in Salisbury required. Call 978-462-9998 for enjoy the companionship of fellow on 6/6 & 6/13.For the month of June, information about additional programs handworkers. Bring a project of your kittens under 6 months old will be and events, or visit the website at www. choosing, - knitting, crocheting, rug spay/neutered for the low price of massaudubon.org/joppaflats. hooking, quilting, or whatever suits $20 due to the Petsmart Charities your creative spirit. Jess Wrobel, “Precious, Not Parents” campaign. Pet 17th CENTURY SATURDAY Studio Artisan, http://www.jwrobel. parents who wish to take advantage of June 6: Ipswich Museum, 54 com/ will be on hand to help with basic this offer must mention the campaign South Main St., will host 17th questions. This is a social gathering, when they call to schedule an Century Saturday, 11am-3pm: Join not a class. Our first meeting will be appointment. This offer is based on us for North of Boston’s 17th Century Friday, June 5th from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. availability. Microchipping is available Saturdays this summer! FREE tours of Please contact The Barn for additional for $20. Individually packaged take- the 1677 Whipple House and authentic home flea treatment is available for reproduction 1657 Knight House (this information at 978-948-5111. $15 per dose. The neuter package for month ONLY). Tours of the circa male cats costs $80 and a female spay 1800 Heard House are $10. BEATLEJUICE CONCERT Opportunity Works of Newburyport is $120. Ferals are $35 and will be earand Haverhill is hosting their second tipped. Reservations are required and GETTING STARTED IN annual BeatleJuice concert Friday, can be made online at www.catmobile. GENEALOGY: FINDING YOUR June 5th at the Bradford Country org or by calling 978-465-1940. NEW ENGLAND ROOTS Club. The doors open at 7:00 and the A one-time “Getting Started” concert starts at 8:00 PM. You don’t HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS program, for the benefit of those want to miss this encore performance WASTE COLLECTION wishing to learn more about their New of last year’s hugely popular concert by With winter and all the snow in England roots, will be facilitated by New England’s premier Beatles cover the rear view mirror, the Amesbury Ashley Adams of the Tewksbury Public band. Tickets are $40 each or $75 for Department of Public Works wants Library. Discussion will include the two. Please call Deborah Andrews at residents to begin planning for the importance of starting in the present 978-358-5803 or go to their website annual Household Hazardous Waste and working back, documenting www.opportunityworks.org. Collection on June 6 and the Annual resources, where to find facts and proof Recycling Collection Event on to take you back another generation, TheIN North Shore’s DELLA MAE CONCERT ON Largest SeptemberIndependent 26. The hazardous Community waste and what Newspaper forms and resources are Continued on page 11 THE BELLEVILLE STAGE event will take place at 60 South
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AMESBURY - Join the Bartlett Museum on its first cemetery tour by Lynn Davis on June 20 from 1:00 – 3:00 Community pm. Meet at the Bartlett Museum, 270 Main Street, Amesbury to thenConnections tour the Union Cemetery off Macy Street and visit the seven Revolutionary War Graves. The tour includes graves of veterans: Captain John Currier, John Dustin, David Lowell, Ezekiel Goodridge, John Barnard, John Blaisdell and Merchant Cleaves. Suggested donation The North Shore’s Largest Independent Community Newspaper Spotlight cost of $10 is charged at the door,Business $8 in advance. To reserve tickets please email museum@bartlettmuseum.org or leave a message at the museum at 978-388- 4528. As part of the program, Lynn has offered to do a free brief bio/ genealogy/sketch after the event for any of the attendees who has a relative who was a veteran and is buried in one • For Sale Real Construction Division of the local cemeteries at no charge. Leave her a nameEstate and information, along with an e-mail address. Lynn Davis is Roofing • Siding • Windows • Doors • Interior Painting • Drywall a lifelong genealogist and history buff who was born in Portsmouth NH and spent most of her life in upstate New York but her family roots run deep in Amesbury as her grandfather is Richard Briggs; she is a direct descendant Honest Affordable Work • Sports • Sports Sports of Captain John Currier, and related by marriage to Susannah Martin. Her education includes a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree with memberships to the Essex County Genealogist Society, New England Historic Genealogy Society and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her work has been published by the Essex Society of Est. 1975 Pets, Genealogists and her latest research on Veterans of Animals, Amesbury’s Union Cemetery isPlus currently being prepared for publication. 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Interested residents should submit applications, which are available online. Hardcopies may be submitted to the Board of Selectmen’s Office, 25 Green Street, Ipswich, MA 01938, or electronically to jenniferb@ipswich-ma.gov, no later than June 9, 2015. Applicants will be required to attend the June 15, 2015 Board of Selectmen’s meeting. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Board of Selectmen’s office. Attorney-At-Law -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - Local guitarist Scott Ouellette will be performing original instrumental works for solo guitar, along with cover arrangements of popular music. Scott’s been performing solo guitar for over 30 years, and has been an active teacher, performer and music copyist living in Rowley, Massachusetts. Thursday, June 11 at 7:00pm 102 Bridge Rd, Salisbury at the Newburyport Public Library. All are welcome to this free event! 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Q. How is the market? -Anyone that knows I am a REALTOR® A. Overall excellent. Over the last 12-24 months we have certainly transitioned into a seller’s market. Inventories are low, prices are starting to slowly rise and there are a number of buyers out there. That said, buyers are still able to get the home they are looking for at a reasonable price. Buyers are starting to understand that if a home that “checks all their boxes” comes on the market, they better act right away as it probably won’t be available tomorrow. Q. I need to buy a house. How do I determine if my house will increase in value? -Most buyers A. How does anyone know what is going to happen in the next few years or even few months? As with any investment, there are risks. What is your reasoning for buying? Are you definitely selling in a year, five or ten years? With any of these scenarios, look at where you are buying? Does the location appeal to almost everyone? Can you make improvements? By doing the proper renovations (consult with your REALTOR®) over time, you can offset any downturn in the market. This assumes you bought at fair market value and didn’t overpay. Your REALTOR® can help you with that too. Q: I am reluctant to put in an offer on the home we love because there are other offers. What should we do? -Many buyers lately A: Why are you reluctant? Are you hesitating because you don’t want to pay more than the asking price? Makes sense but what if the house is worth more than the asking price? What if you bought it as the market is ascending? Here are the questions you should ask yourself: What is the house worth? What can we afford? Put your best offer out there, one that you won’t regret and one that isn’t so low that if you found out it sold for $500 more you are kicking yourself. Q. As a seller do I need to do an Open House? -Many sellers
A. Totally up to you. There are pros and cons to conducting an Open House. Speak with your REALTOR®; who can advise you as to these pros and cons. Q. I had a Goldilocks and the Three Bears situation this week. The first REALTOR® I spoke with gave me a price on my home that I think is too low. The second REALTOR® I spoke with gave me a price I thought was too high. Unfortunately I don’t know if the third REALTOR® gave me a price that is “just right”. Obviously I want to sell my home for the maximum amount the market will bear. What should I do? -A recent seller A. Do these REALTORs® know the market? When I say “market” keep in mind that all markets are different and they can differ dramatically from town to town. Have any one of them shown you on paper what similar homes have sold for recently? Homes that are for sale are not good comparables. Homes that have sold and compare favorably to yours are good comps. Q. How does the escrow money work? -A recent buyer A. The deposits or escrow money given by the buyer are essentially good faith payments. There is a small payment when the offer is presented, followed by a larger one once the Purchase and Sale is signed. These payments can be used as part or all of a down payment at the closing. The payments show the seller that the buyer isn’t going from house to house making offers and tying up listings until they make up their mind which one they want to buy. They are making a commitment to purchase the home. Q. Why did you schedule this “final walkthrough”. I understand that the people buying our home want to come back before closing but we are in the middle of packing and moving and it was very uncomfortable for us. -A stressed seller. A. The buyers are not
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