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IPSWICH – When entertainment entrepreneur Bill Hanney bought the Old Town Hall here eight years ago, his plan was to develop the three-story, 13,444-square-foot Greek revival building as a performing arts space with a restaurant on the first floor. Town residents and officials were thrilled. It would be a high-profile business in a very visible and cherished building that would bring visitors from throughout the North Shore for musicals and plays. But soon the relationship soured between the town and Hanney, who developed the North Shore Music Theater and owns 10 cinemas in four states. Ipswich is suing Hanney for breach of contract claiming he failed to maintain the building. And Hanney is trying to sell the Old Town Hall, which he bought for $300,000 and The Old Town Hall

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used as collateral in buying the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. The asking price is $595,000, according to Ed Dick, the Realtor with J. Barrett and Co., who is handling the property. “In February 2013, the Town filed a complaint in Essex Superior Court against Entertainment Management Corporation (held by William Hanney) for breach of contract and seeking injunctive relief to enforce a preservation restriction,” Town Manager Robin Crosbie wrote in an email. “A pre-trial conference was held in October 2014, trial date set for April 27, 2015. The basis of the suit is that the terms of the sale, contained in the deed and other documents, have not been met.” Hanney did not return several telephone Continued on page 3

Collaboration Neighborhood By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––

AMESBURY – Todd Kopp's daughter Kelsie was only eight when she broke the arm of her grandmother's antique couch. She stood on it while practicing her cheerleading moves. The couch arm was easily fixed by Kopp, an experience cabinet builder, and it spawned an idea and a whole new business of manufacturing safe, performance enhancement equipment for cheerleading and other sports. But just as the company, Core Athletics, was taking off, a disastrous fire almost killed his business more than a year ago. Now after a lengthy rebuilding process, Kopp has re-emerged not only as an ardent entrepreneur and maker of innovative sports equipment, but also as one of the linchpins for a budding Todd Kopp with his popular MaeFlyer.

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collaborative neighborhood of local businesses, all working together to find solutions and build their respective businesses. Kopp, after consoling his daughter, took out his tools that once built front service counters for Starbucks coffee shops and the ribbing for Bayrider Boats and created a safe, unstable platform that cheerleaders can stand on to improve their balance. About the size of a Frisbee, the performance tool, named MaeFlyer, after his daughter's middle name, Mae, is one of the most popular products among the rapid growing legions of cheerleaders. Core Athletics now has nine products and new ones being developed daily. “If I think of a new product, I just make it,” Kopp Continued on page 3

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NEWBURYPORT - The Firehouse address this." says Ms. Falconer. and state municipal, business and Center for the Arts has recently "In 2012, we submitted a successful community members recognized its received a $140,000 grant from the proposal for a Systems Replacement importance and came together to Massachusetts Cultural Council Plan grant from the Massachusetts transform a historic but aging fire Facilities Fund (CFF), announced Cultural Council. This grant provided station into what is now recognized Executive Director Beth Falconer the Firehouse Center for the Arts as the very heart of Newburyport's today. The grant will be used to address with a third party on-site building thriving arts and cultural community: significant renovation/repair needs assessment, which was completed in the Firehouse Center for the Arts. Now and technical upgrades as identified July 2013. The deliverables included a we have the opportunity to continue in a recently completed Systems 20 year assessment of all building and that stewardship and preserve this Replacement Plan and is contingent system needs, a proposed replacement amazing gem. This grant and the Marc Maravalli, B.S., R.Ph. on matching donations raised from schedule, and estimated costs. With generous matches are the first step in Publisher/Editor, The Town Common this valuable information in hand, the securing the funds needed to restore Letters to the Editor provide other private and public sources. The Massachusetts Cultural Firehouse Center for the Arts Board of this wonderful facility." a useful way of communicating The Firehouse is launching the Our concerns, issues, or suggestions to Facilities Fund (CFF) is an initiative of Directors approved moving forward the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. with a Capital Campaign to address House Capital Campaign with the all members of the community. The Town Common encourages The Fund was created as part of a critical building needs." goal of raising $514,000.00 by Spring, all citizens to submit letters major economic stimulus bill that According to Falconer, The 2015 to invest in our treasured facility. concerning issues of interest and was approved by the Massachusetts Firehouse Center is close to securing The organization hopes that businesses concern to the local community. Legislature to increase investments the $140,000 matching funds required and individuals will be especially Letters selected for publication from both the public sector and the by the CFF, which puts them well on motivated to realize the tax benefits may be edited for length and clarity. private sector to support the sound their way to the overall goal of raising associated with their contributions Some letters may serve as a catalyst for other articles or coverage, and planning and development of cultural $514,000. The lead donation is a and encourages individuals to community leaders and agencies facilities in Massachusetts. The Fund pledge of $50,000 from the Institution consider gifts of appreciated stock. Additionally, the Newburyport Mayor Donna Holaday will be offered an opportunity to provides Capital Grants to promote for Savings. respond to letters concerning their the acquisition, design, repair, Firehouse has received $25,000 from is encouraging the community to rehabilitation renovation, expansion, the Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation, support this initiative and said: "The areas of responsibility. All letters must be signed and or construction of nonprofit cultural $10,000 from the Newburyport Five Firehouse Center is the heart and soul include a daytime telephone facilitiesShore’s in Massachusetts. Cents Savings Bank, $5,000 from the of the City of Newburyport's arts and The North Largest Independent Community Newspaper number. "For the past several years, the H. 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requests for an interview on the building. Under the terms of the sale, the town has the right of first refusal on the future use of the building, but it is unclear if the town would want to own it again. No offer has been made by the town. Dick said there has been a lot of interest in the building, mostly people looking to turn the 181-year-old former church, municipal building and district court into residences. Because it is in the central business district, the property is zoned for commercial use and would have to have at least three residential units there. The 18,216-square-foot lot has nine parking spaces and more could be carved out. The Old Town Hall is also in the town's new Architectural Preservation District, which combined with the preservation agreements Hanney signed with the town when he bought it. “It is going to be very difficult to tear down,” said Gordon Harris, the town's historian and vice chairman of the historical commission. Any changes to the building would

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have to be approved by the town's Board of Selectmen and the zoning board. Any changes proposed for the exterior would also have to win the approval of the historical commission and the architectural preservation board. “Any use would be good,” Harris said, suggesting that it might make a nice marketplace with retail shops. Harris said there are mixed feelings among town residents about the old building. Some cherish it, while others would “like to see a match taken to it,” he said. Whoever buys the building has a big project on their hands. The interior is gutted to the studs. Estimates run as high as $1.5 million to restore the interior. Harris in his blog about the building wrote: “Leaks in the roof caused some of the plaster molding in the ceiling to collapse. In 2010, the Ipswich building inspector found several code violations, including disconnected fire alarms and the unsafe storage of materials.” The overall structure of the building is essentially intact, Harris

wrote, but there are several areas of concern where interior supporting structures have been removed, causing flooring and wall partitions above them to sag. Despite the interior deterioration issues, Harris wrote: “The Old Town Hall is amazingly strong, plumb and level for a building of its age.” Built originally by the Unitarian Church on South Main Street at the corner of Elm Street. Inside the larger Old Town Hall, the church building still remains. In 1876, after the town had acquired in decades before to serve as a town hall, the building was raised and a new first floor was added. For that reason, the second floor, where the original sanctuary was, is open. The third floor is a balcony overlooking the second floor. It was here that Hanney planned to build a theater for smaller plays and musicals. But shortly after he acquired the North Shore Music Theatre, he abandoned the interior demolition work on the Ipswich property. In recent years, the building has been used mostly for storage.

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and core. With straps around each upper leg or on the chest and back, attached by rubber bands, the FaSTBands isolate quick-twitch and small fiber muscles, while taking pressure off larger muscles to help prevent injury. It operates much like the Bow Flex training machines. Athletes wear them to practice, field balls, run, skate, shoot baskets. Goalkeepers love them. Golfers are using the bands to improve their swings. Former Red Sox player Darnell McDonald credits his making it to the big leagues in part to the increased speed the FaSTBands gave him. He invited Core Athletics to film an endorsement of the bands in center field at Fenway Park, an experience that still awes Kopp. Just as the business appeared to be taking off, the building here where he rented space was burned down by an emotionally troubled young man. Kopp was able to salvage little and found that the few thousand dollars the insurance paid him was not enough to buy new equipment and rebuild his inventory of products. He had to pull back and start over. Today, he is one of a growing number of businesses that is housed in the new Chestnut Innovation Center, an old warehouse that once was home to ARC. He has developed a network of local and near local

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Rowley Realty is proud to be your local Realtor® for more than 39 years, with over $13 million in sales this past year in the North Shore communities we serve. Following are the 31 properties we have sold in 2014 so far: 30 Perley Avenue, Rowley 290 Haverhill Street, Rowley 9 & 10 Lessard Terrace, Rowley 12 Allen Avenue, Rowley 26 Long Hill Road, Rowley 545 Wethersfield Street, Rowley 13 Perley Avenue, Rowley 11 Gurczak Lane, Rowley 67 Cross Street, Rowley 280 Dodge Road, Rowley 37 Bennett Hill Road, Rowley 260 Dodge Road, Rowley 156 Leslie Road, Rowley 42 Wilson Pond Lane, Rowley 25 Wilkes Road, Rowley 8 Longmeadow Drive, # 26, Rowley 2 Rowley Country Club Road, #2, Rowley 112 Central Street, Rowley 15 Warren Street, Georgetown 6 Lee Circle, Hudson 417 North Street, Georgetown 305 High Street, Ipswich 10 Robert Road, Bradford 80 County Road, Ipswich 4 Courser Brook Drive, Newbury 13 Wells Avenue, Georgetown 103 Elliott Street, # 7, Beverly 3A Quail Circle, Unit A, Salisbury 803 Alyssa Drive, #803, Groveland 45 Greenville Street, Haverhill 37-39 Mineral Street, Ipswich Pauline White and John McCarthy appreciate the opportunity to serve you, and look forward to continue to provide outstanding service in the coming year. If you are thinking of selling or buying in Rowley or the surrounding communities, please call our ofﬁce at (978) 948-2758, or visit our website at www.rowleyrealestate.com

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