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N orwood Record The www.norwoodrecord.com FREE Volume 13, Issue 18 April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020 School Committ School Committ School Committ School Committ School Committee ee ee ee ee Continued on page 2 ConCom ConCom ConCom ConCom ConCom Continued on page 6 Saint Streets lot entering final stretch Jef Jef Jef Jef Jeff Sulliv f Sulliv f Sulliv f Sulliv f Sullivan an an an an Staff Reporter School Committee approves budget requests narrowly Mar Mar Mar Mar Mary Ellen Gambon y Ellen Gambon y Ellen Gambon y Ellen Gambon y Ellen Gambon Staff Reporter First responders from Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Norfolk, Foxborough, Mansfield, Walpole and more came to the First Responders Parade at the Norwood Hospital on Tuesday. The parade was to show support for hospital staff and first responders facing down the COVDI-19 outbreak.. PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN The Norwood School Committee met last week and discussed, among other things, capital project purchases. COURTESY PHOTO The School Committee met on Wed., Apr. 22 and approved the four capital outlay expenditures totaling $363,000 recommended by Superinten- dent Dr. David Thomson at the past two meetings in a 3-2 vote, with COVID- 19 playing a factor in the decision. “We received questions about what if we had to be remote or partially re- mote in September and needing more devices to accomplish that at the el- ementary level,” Thomson said of ques- tions directed to himself and Technol- ogy Director Joe Kidd at the previous meeting. He explained that there are still 600 Chrome Books available to be borrowed after outreach to parents and students from principals and teachers. He added that Town Manager Tony Mazzucco has offered low- or no-cost Internet service to students who do not currently have access. Also, Thomson said the department is scheduled to pur- chase 525 iPads this summer. “The early childhood folks are not re- lying on devices in kindergarten right now,” he said. “There’s a developmental piece of that, which a lot do not feel is necessarily good for kids at that age.” Thomson stressed the four requests he made are priorities: the four vans at a cost of $300,000 each; the new district- wide VOIP voicemail phone system, the cost of which will be paid upfront by the Town; projectors and interactive whiteboards for the high school class- rooms to replace the current ones, which are outdated; and the $18,750 for a computer science lab for the Path- ways program. “If we didn’t need the things that are in that capital request, we would not have asked for the things that are in that capital request,” he said. The van request is one that cannot be delayed, as one van broke down the day of the meeting. “There’s no way in heck we are go- The Norwood Conservation Com- mission (NCC) met last week to discuss several issues. Town Planner Paul Halkiotis dis- cussed the new Environmental Planner job, a full time position the Town is cre- ating. “We have been in the process of re- structuring the Town’s land use depart- ments for the last two years,” he said. “Back in July of 2018, General Man- ager Tony Mazzucco asked me to take over supervising Al Goetz, the Conser- vation Agent, and in the fall of 2019 our Planning Board, Conservation Commis- sion and the (Zoning) Board of Appeals budgets were combined under one com- munity development budget. What we’re here to talk about tonight is the next phase of that process.” Halkiotis said the current Fiscal Year 2021 budget includes the Environmen- tal Planner as a full-time position, and will absorb the Conservation Agent po- sition as well, which is currently a part- time position. Halkiotis said in his ex- perience, a part-time agent is an abnor- mality. “As you know, I’ve been doing this kind of work for many years and I’ve worked for many communities, and in all the towns I’ve worked for I’ve worked closely with the conservation agent,” he said. “Norwood is the only town I’ve ever worked in over the last 34 years that had a part-time conserva- tion agent.” ConCom talks ConCom talks ConCom talks ConCom talks ConCom talks ne ne ne ne new position w position w position w position w position Fir Fir Fir Fir First R st R st R st R st Responder P esponder P esponder P esponder P esponder Parade successful in Nor arade successful in Nor arade successful in Nor arade successful in Nor arade successful in Norwood ood ood ood ood Norwood Town Planner Paul Halkiotis

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First responders from Norwood, Canton, Sharon, Norfolk, Foxborough, Mansfield, Walpole and more came to the First RespondersParade at the Norwood Hospital on Tuesday. The parade was to show support for hospital staff and first responders facing downthe COVDI-19 outbreak.. PHOTO BY JEFF SULLIVAN

The Norwood School Committee met last week and discussed, among other things, capital project purchases.COURTESY PHOTO

The School Committee met onWed., Apr. 22 and approved the fourcapital outlay expenditures totaling$363,000 recommended by Superinten-dent Dr. David Thomson at the past twomeetings in a 3-2 vote, with COVID-19 playing a factor in the decision.

“We received questions about whatif we had to be remote or partially re-mote in September and needing moredevices to accomplish that at the el-ementary level,” Thomson said of ques-tions directed to himself and Technol-ogy Director Joe Kidd at the previousmeeting. He explained that there are

still 600 Chrome Books available to beborrowed after outreach to parents andstudents from principals and teachers.

He added that Town Manager TonyMazzucco has offered low- or no-costInternet service to students who do notcurrently have access. Also, Thomsonsaid the department is scheduled to pur-chase 525 iPads this summer.

“The early childhood folks are not re-lying on devices in kindergarten rightnow,” he said. “There’s a developmentalpiece of that, which a lot do not feel isnecessarily good for kids at that age.”

Thomson stressed the four requestshe made are priorities: the four vans at acost of $300,000 each; the new district-wide VOIP voicemail phone system, the

cost of which will be paid upfront bythe Town; projectors and interactivewhiteboards for the high school class-rooms to replace the current ones,which are outdated; and the $18,750for a computer science lab for the Path-ways program.

“If we didn’t need the things thatare in that capital request, we wouldnot have asked for the things that arein that capital request,” he said.

The van request is one that cannotbe delayed, as one van broke down theday of the meeting.

“There’s no way in heck we are go-

The Norwood Conservation Com-mission (NCC) met last week to discussseveral issues.

Town Planner Paul Halkiotis dis-cussed the new Environmental Plannerjob, a full time position the Town is cre-ating.

“We have been in the process of re-structuring the Town’s land use depart-ments for the last two years,” he said.“Back in July of 2018, General Man-ager Tony Mazzucco asked me to takeover supervising Al Goetz, the Conser-vation Agent, and in the fall of 2019 ourPlanning Board, Conservation Commis-sion and the (Zoning) Board of Appealsbudgets were combined under one com-munity development budget. Whatwe’re here to talk about tonight is thenext phase of that process.”

Halkiotis said the current Fiscal Year2021 budget includes the Environmen-tal Planner as a full-time position, andwill absorb the Conservation Agent po-sition as well, which is currently a part-time position. Halkiotis said in his ex-perience, a part-time agent is an abnor-mality.

“As you know, I’ve been doing thiskind of work for many years and I’veworked for many communities, and inall the towns I’ve worked for I’veworked closely with the conservationagent,” he said. “Norwood is the onlytown I’ve ever worked in over the last34 years that had a part-time conserva-tion agent.”

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ing to put that on the road, eventhough it passed the last inspec-tion,” he said, noting the last pur-chase was in 2008 of one-thirdof the fleet.

Also, Amazon has bought alarge number of vans, makingthe turn-around time for pur-chases longer.

“If we wait until October, wemight not get the vans untilMarch, and that’s just not do-able,” he said.

The Windows 10 machinesand software are necessary in or-der to continue the Pathwaysprogram for students studyinghealthcare, which began lastyear, Thomson explained.

“That is an important pro-gram for our high school, andimportant for the population thatwe serve,” he said. “We have agood number of people whohave kids who have enrolled inthat first year, and we’re look-ing to see that increase next year.To have them not be able to par-take in that second-year curricu-lum … That’s only about$19,000-$20,000. That’s not ahuge ask right there.”

The current interactivewhiteboards “are not supportedanymore,” Thomson explained.It can be more expensive tryingto find replacement parts.

“If they break, we cannot geta bulb, we cannot get a projec-tor that’s the same kind, they allwork differently now, and theyhave evolved,” he said. “Couldwe possibly band-aid it togetherfor a number of months? Butthen you’re actually spendingmore money to fix somethingwhen another part is going tobreak. And again, it’s an invest-ment in the future.”

The request for the school’sportion of the expense of thephone system will be made inthe fall, but the work needs tobe done in the summer.

Member Dr. Joan Giblinasked about how the fundingprocess worked for the phonesystem.

Kidd explained that theSchool Department was ap-proached by the Town to do aunified Cloud-based phone sys-tem.

“That takes the initial invest-ment way down, because we’renot buying the equipment,” hesaid, noting the original costwould have been $175,000 if thedepartment had done a separatesystem. “Our up-front cost is al-most $60,000. The Town hasfound money to pay for that. Sowe might not be asking for anymoney for the VOIP. We justhaven’t taken that ask off untilit’s paid for.”

He added that the CapitalOutlay Committee had origi-nally approved the $175,000 atits meeting.

“But until it’s paid for, itprobably wouldn’t be prudent totake that ask off,” he explainedof the $60,000, even though itmay not need to be paid by theSchool Department.

“How do we go about mak-

ing sure that we have accurate,up-to-date information?” Giblinasked.

Thomson said thatoftentimes, capital requestscome in under budget, and themoney comes back to the Town.

“I’m having trouble under-standing why that’s on our capi-tal outlay if the Town is payingfor it anyway,” Giblin contin-ued. “I am a little bit frustratedwith that. Let me ask one ques-tion: Who’s credit card is thevendor taking? Is it the Town’scredit card, or is it our creditcard to get this project started?We can fight about who’s pay-ing the credit card bill later.”

“The Town,” Thomson said.“We will update it when wehave a known answer. It’s a bigplaceholder because we origi-nally looked at buying the hard-ware and having it in-house.”

He added that it showed“good fiscal stewardship” topartner with the Town on thesystem.

“I think so many things areshifting and have happened inthe past six weeks,” said ChairTeresa Stewart, “and that’swhat’s leading to some of theconfusion and frustration andsome miscommunication be-tween Town and School.”

She added that “hadCOVID-19 never unfolded, wewould not be having this con-versation,” as the Capital Out-lay Committee had approvedthe requests. But because theBudget Balancing Committee(BBC) mentioned in a meetinglast month that Mazzuccodidn’t want to move ahead withcapital requests until the fall be-cause of budget concerns dueto the coronavirus pandemic,the Committee had to recon-sider the capital outlay projects.

Member Myev Bodenhofermade the motion to approve thefour expenses requested whichwas seconded by Dave Cataniaand voted for by Stewart.Giblin and member MauraSmith voted against the mo-tion.

“I am not in any way, shapeor form arguing that these arenot things that are needed,”Smith said. “But I do think,where I’m coming from interms of good financial stew-ardship … I am just not com-fortable asking for anythingadditional at this point that’soutside of the realm of emer-gency spending.”

Thomson also announcedthat the schools will be closedfor the remainder of the schoolyear.

“I think I share everybody’sfeeling of loss and not beingable to come back together asa school community and workwith our kids. I think every-body is grieving.”

In the next few weeks, theschools will be planning for“transition and closureevents,” he added, “trying tohonor those traditions as bestwe can.”

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McQuaid to stay on,Talbot lot to see changesJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

The Norwood Board ofSelectmen met on Tuesday,April 28 and discussedwhether or not to accept thewithdrawal of Town Accoun-tant Thomas McQuaid’s let-ter of retirement.

McQuaid announced hisintention to retire on Jan. 6of this year, and Selectmen atthe time wished him well.But, seeing as the Town, likeeverywhere else in the coun-try, is going through a bit ofupheaval, McQuaid has of-fered to stay on for anotheryear and withdraw his inten-tion to retire.

Selectmen voted unani-mously to let McQuaid stayon and then to start the pro-cess of finding his replace-ment next year. The plan isto let McQuaid finish up thisfiscal year and next fiscalyear to allow for continuityin the budget. Town ManagerTony Mazzucco said it worksout beneficially for the Town,since they want to line up thehiring after the end of a fis-cal year. He said that also al-lows the new hire to get a gripon the Town’s budget beforea Town Meeting vote can betaken, and it allows any can-didate that is currently work-ing for another Town to leavewith their replacement wait-ing in the wings.

Selectman Bill Plaskosaid they had several appli-cants they wanted to inter-view, but he said he had afeeling those applicantswould want to wait until theState of Emergency from theCOVID-19 outbreak has beenlifted as well.

“I believe the manager hasreceived 17 applications andas I’ve looked through thempersonally there are quite afew qualified candidates onpaper and they appear to bevery interesting,” he said.

The Board also votedunanimously to accept theplans for repaving and main-tenance of six of the Town’sseven parking lots, excluding

the Talbot Lot, which theyheld for further discussionuntil next week. NorwoodDepartment of Public WorksDirector Mark Ryan said theother six parking lot planswere pretty standard and hadfew if any changes to the lay-out of the lot. The Talbot lot,located behind Babel’sPaints, was another story.

“So the area in front ofBabel’s can accommodate alandscaped island with sometrees, about six trees there,but when you get to the backlot, what do we really wantto do with that?” Ryan said.

Ryan presented one sce-nario to the board, but he saidthe DPW has several others.He said the big question forthis lot is spaces versus aes-thetics; you could improvethe landscaping with the ad-dit ion of more trees andgreenspace, but at the cost ofparking spaces. Ryan saidwith the approval of theMixed Use Overlay Districtin the Downtown GeneralBusiness area, he felt thatmore spaces would be neces-sary as the Town is encour-aging more development withfewer regulations on density.

Ryan also said there are afew other layouts the Boardshould consider, hence thevote to discuss further nextweek.

Selectman David Hajjarsaid he would also like to seesome screening at that park-ing lot. “For me personally,I’d like to see some bushesalong the fencing that sepa-rates the parking lot from thehouses on Cottage and MapleStreets, just to provide a bet-ter view and give some pro-tection to the neighbors,” hesaid.

The Board also votedunanimously to allow theNorwood Fund to continue toaccept and expend donationsup to 30 days after the end ofthe Commonwealth of Mas-sachusetts State of Emer-gency. Mazzucco said thiswould allow the Town to takecare of those still experienc-ing the economic impacts of

the COVID-19 outbreak afterthe State of Emergency.

Mazzucco also gave hisreport for the Board, whichincluded the recent First Re-sponders Parade that tookplace from the NorwoodHigh School to the NorwoodHospital Tuesday afternoon.

“We had a parade todaythat was organized by NFDChief George Morrice andthe Canton Fire Chief(Charles) Doody,” he said. “Itwas a parade going past thehospital to show thanks forour first responders, and I’msure that anyone in Town to-day heard the parade. A lot offolks came out to see it andthey maintained their socialdistancing. We heard fromfolks at the hospital and theywere very appreciative of it.”

Though Mazzucco saidthere was one aspect of theparade that didn’t go exactlyas smoothly as it could have.

“My apologies to theboard, we were probably sup-posed to obtain a parade per-mit and we neglected to doso,” he said. “We will, nexttime, make sure we secure theappropriate parade permit.There were about 25 to 30apparatuses from a number ofcommunities in the area thattook the time to drive throughthe community and byNorwood Hospital. I got toride in a fire truck with ChiefMorrice. The community wasappreciative and I believe theemployees at the hospitalwere appreciative as well.”

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My heart goes out to . . .

My Kindof Town/Joe Galeota

My Kind of TownJoseph Galeota During

this pandemic I feel for thosegrieving the loss of loved oneswithout the consolation of be-ing with them as they pass andwithout the solace of wakesand funerals. There are alsoheartfelt feelings for those stillstruggling valiantly to recoverfrom the disease and for thosewho have lost jobs and busi-nesses.

But beyond those verytragic losses mentioned above,there are others in no particu-lar order to whom my heartgoes out:

. . . college and highschool seniors who havemissed proms, prize nights,and graduations

. . . college and highschool athletes who havemissed the culmination ofwinter sports and the entireseason of spring sports

. . . high school sopho-mores and juniors who havemissed dancing at their sopho-more semis and junior promsas well as visiting college cam-puses

. . . college and highschool actors and musicians

whose plays/musicals are un-dermined after months ofpractice

. . . middle school stu-dents and kindergartners whohave missed their “gradua-tions”

. . . participants in dancerecitals, science fairs, and de-bating tourneys . . . childrenmissing the unbridled exuber-ance of that last day of school . . . partygoers denied anni-versary, birthday, and Ken-tucky Derby celebrations

. . . stressed patientsawaiting dental proceduresand elective surgeries for kneeand hip replacements, tonsil-lectomies, etc.

. . . future motorists an-ticipating their driving exams

. . . potential lifeguardsmissing their Red Cross train-ing

Shelter in placeThat’s what they saySo that’s how I’ve spentThis long boring dayI watched Christmas moviesThat I’ve seen beforeMy library books I finishedAnd I can’t get any moreMy Lysol spray is running low,My toilet paper tooThe stores are out of everythingSo what am I to do?

Wear gloves and a maskIf you need to go outBut where can I get someI want to shoutI need to stay calmFor my blood pressure’s sakeWhat would work best for meIs a LARGE PIECE OF CAKE

Shelter in placeSo what else is new?Think I’ll have a cookieWell, maybe even twoThe cookies are all gone nowAnd I’ve had a piece of pie,Why didn’t I buy some Hershey bars?I think I’m going to cryI’ve washed my hands so many timesThey now are really rawHolding anything hurts so badI’m drinking through a straw

Well, let’s just keep our spirits upDon’t let yourself despairFor those who are sick with this virusWe all should say a prayer.Look forward to the time whenThis darn thing finally endsAnd we are back at the CenterHugging all our friendsBut let’s not forget how it feltWhen we had to live this way,And be kind to one anotherEach and EVERY DAY

Corona MadnessBy Lillian Flynn Dennis

Conserve our resources.Recycle this newspaper.

Editor's Note: This poem was submitted by Kerri McCarthy of theNorwood Senior Center on behalf of the author Lillian Flynn Dennis. Ms.McCarthy thought it would be a nice message from the Senior Center. Weagree.

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Board of Health considers enforcement, local COVID trendsJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

The Norwood Board ofHealth (BOH) met virtually onTuesday, April 28, and dis-cussed how the Town is enforc-ing the non-essential businessclosure order from the state.

Town Health DirectorSigalle Reiss said the depart-ment is working with busi-nesses to find compromiseswhere possible and informthose who are not followingclosure guidelines that they’rein violation of the order fromMassachusetts Gov. CharlieBaker.

“We’ve been doing our bestto enforce the Governor’s or-ders, but compliance has notbeen 100 percent,” she said.“We do follow up on all com-plaints we get, contact the busi-ness and try to stress the impor-tance of closing.”

Reiss said a conversationhas usually been all that’s re-quired, but if more than talk isneeded to keep a businessclosed, then the Norwood Po-lice would be called. She addedthat the department is awarethat every business is different,and the closure order may beconfusing, so they’re trying tobe as understanding as possible.

“They keep adding to thefrequently asked questions onthe state website to try toclarify, but it’s not always clearwhat is essential and whatisn’t,” she said.

She added that when busi-

nesses do open up non-essen-tial operations, she is fairly con-fident that social distance bar-riers, free sanitizer, face cover-ings and personal protectiveequipment will be recom-mended or required.

Norwood Health Depart-ment Sanitarian Angelo DeLuca said most complaints havebeen about the face mask orcovering recommendation fromthe state.

“It is recommended thatpeople wear face masks or facecoverings, but it is not required,including for a food establish-ment,” he said. “The companiesthemselves can make their ownrequirements of staff wearingcoverings, but it is not a require-ment at this moment.”

Reiss said the Town couldconsider a requirement for pub-lic places, as Somerville, Cam-bridge and Brookline havedone, but more discussionwould be needed for that.

De Luca also pointed outthat for pre-cooked food, chefs,food handlers and drive-thruworkers are not required towear gloves.

“So I just want to make sureresidents understand that foodgloves are to be worn whenthey’re handling ready-to-eatfood,” he said. “However, ifthey’re handling pre-packaged

food, if they’re giving you foodfrom a drive thru in a box or abag, they don’t have to weargloves. We’ve gotten manycomplaints about it, but theydon’t have to. So any food thatis ready to eat that no longer re-quires any cooking or cleaning,they do not have to wear gloves.A lot of residents disagree withthat and I understand their con-cerns, but I just want to get thatacross to residents, it’s not re-quired.”

Reiss also pointed out thatgloves don’t really solve much,and that they can get dirty justlike bare hands.

“The more effective precau-tion is frequent hand-washing,”she said. “That’s how things aregoing to be transmitted, fromcontaminated hands or glovesand (then) touching your face.We really just have to go backto the basics of hand-washing.”

De Luca also said they areallowing restaurants to sell gro-ceries take out style as well, buthe said they want any restau-rant wishing do to so to contactthe Health Department to makesure regulations managing suchinstitutions are followed.

Reiss said the regulationsare basically the same precau-tions and advisories they makegrocery stores follow.

De Luca added that when

the state does decide to open upnon-essential businesses again,he would want to start doing in-spections on the food establish-ments that have been closedduring this time, since he hasbeen inspecting those that have

stayed open much more exten-sively.

Reiss also went over thenumber of cases the Town isseeing. She said currently they

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The Saints Street Lot is nearing final purchasing by the Town, which means recreation could start there assoon as the stay-at-home advisory is lifted.

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Halkiotis said that even in1987, when he was working forthe Town of Duxbury, the mu-nicipality had a population of6,000 residents and a full-timeconservation agent position. Headded many other towns heworked for had a full-timeagent and a conservation staff.

Halkiotis said that theTown’s human resource depart-ment did a study of 14 compa-rable communities and foundthat in terms of human re-sources dedicated to conserva-tion, Norwood came in deadlast.

“Coming in last is not whereI think the leaders of the Townof Norwood want to be in anydepartment, and it’s certainlynot where I want to be in thedepartment I’m managing,” hesaid.

Halkiotis said there is cur-rently money in the budget tokeep Goetz on, as well as con-servation secretary RamandaMorgan (who currently workspart-time for the Commissionand for the Zoning Board ofAppeals) to train this new per-son once the position is filled.Morgan has opted to leave herConCom position andHalkiotis said both he andTown Manager TonyMazzucco felt this was theright time to implement achange, as finding a replace-ment for Morgan’s 10-hour aweek position with her knowl-edge and experience when itcomes to what conservationcommissions do would bemore than a little difficult.

In other news, Halkiotisalso gave the NCC an updateon the status of the Saint StreetLot near 84 Morse St. TownMeeting voted last year to pur-chase the property using Com-munity Preservation Act (CPA)

funds after DCD Realty of-fered to sell the property for$338,000. DCD wanted to puthundreds of parking spaces at84 Morse St. for Boch Auto-motive, to the protest of sev-eral officials and dozens ofresidents. A compromise wasmade resulting in the Townbeing offered a section of whatwas originally going to be thea part of the parking lot.

Now, Halkiotis said theyare moving into the finalstretches of the process forpurchasing that lot.

“Happy Earth Day,” hesaid. “We have made greatprogress working with TownCounsel and the seller of theproperty at the end of the SaintStreets.”

Halkiotis said two thingsneed to happen before theTown can start planning for thespace to be used by the publicfor passive recreation. First,Halkiotis said the actual execu-tion of the purchase and salesagreement, approved by unani-mous vote by the Board of Se-lectmen earlier this month, iswithin a few weeks of happen-ing. He said he and TownCounsel David DeLuca havebeen working with the prop-erty owner to finalize the prop-erty transfer.

“Everything is in place andthe details are being ironedout,” he said. “All we need todo at this point is schedule theclosing. I talked to Davidabout how that actually hap-pens in this virtual worldwe’re living in now, and hesays that it happens online.The deed has been sent backto the seller. The seller hasbeen asked to sign the deed,then send it to Town Counselfor signature on our end andthen it will be recorded at the

County Registry of Deeds.”Halkiotis said the other

thing they need to do beforethey can start working on cre-ating a passive recreation sitewould be to finalize the Con-servation Restriction of theproperty.

“I’ve been working on theConservation Restriction,which is a requirement for anyproperties that are purchasedusing Community Preserva-tion funds.”

Halkiotis explained thatthe Conservation Restrictionis a detailed legal documentthat clearly states what activi-ties are allowed or not, whichin this case basically meanspassive recreation for a water-front property. It will alsomean little to no developmentwill be allowed on the prop-erty. He said the restrictionhas to be sent to the State De-partment of Conservation andRecreation (DCR) for ap-proval. The drarft has beensent to DCR for the reviewprocess to begin.

“It could take up to threemonths,” he said.

Halkiotis has been work-ing with the Wildlands Trustfor a time to put together theConservation Restriction, and

he said they basically startedwith a boiler plate applicationand filled in the details forNorwood and the specific par-cel.

“That also means they’llbe enforcing the ConservationRestriction in the future,” hesaid. “The title of the propertywill be held by the Board ofSelectmen.”

Aside from the DCR, theNCC has to vote to approvethe restriction as well, andHalkiotis said he will be send-ing the NCC a draft shortly soit could be voted on at thecommission’s next meeting.He said he hasn’t sent it to theNCC yet because he wantsany changes the state needs todo to be completed first, so noextraneous votes need to becalled later.

“I don’t want to have togive it to you and ask you toread it, and then come backand look at minor amend-ments made later,” he said.

In other news, Conserva-tion Agent Al Goetz andHalkotis both gave an updateon the Traphole Brook MillPond Dam removal project,which is run by the state. Ac-cording to Goetz and Halkiotis,the Massachusetts Environmen-

tal Protection Agency (MEPA)has jurisdiction over the project,but has been joined by theNeponset River Watershed As-sociation (NRWA), residents ofNorwood and the NCC.

The idea for the removal isto increase water flow, whichwill decrease the water tempera-ture, thereby increasing its oxy-gen level and hopefully bringback trout and other wildlife tothe area.

Halkiotis said there was ascoping meeting held by MEPArecently and as far as that meet-ing went, the dam removalseems to be on track.

Goetz said that though hewasn’t able to join the scopingmeeting due to technical issues,he did talk with MEPA represen-tative and head of the state’s sideof the project, Chris Hirsch.

“Chris and I pretty muchagreed on two major things, oneis that the next plan generatedhas to move the brook so thatit’s on the border with bothTown Conservation land andprivate land, not all on one orthe other,” Goetz said. “Theother issue is not to exclude thehomeowners on the other side,they want some of this projectand we want some of thisproject.”

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Hundreds of pounds of food was donated at the last drive, and organizers are hoping the Town can do itagain.

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Norwood hostingbi-weekly food drive

JefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

While the Norwood FoodPantry has been, by all accounts,doing its best to handle the needsof residents during this tryingtime, the Norwood High Schoolhas stepped up its efforts to helpas well.

Now called the NorwoodMustang Food Pantry, the once-impromptu distribution is nowon a temporary bi-weekly basis,hosting food collections everyother Friday starting May 1 atDoor 13 (leading to the cafete-ria) of the High School from 9a.m. to 12 p.m., with distribu-tion occurring the followingWednesday from 10:30 a.m. to1 p.m.

The drive, originally orga-nized by teachers at theNorwood High School, hashosted two collections and dis-tributions before the Town tookover to help streamline the pro-cess. Co-Founder and NHSteacher Cindy Derrane said it’sbeen amazing to see the Towncome together like this.

“A big part of the reason Iwould never leave is the waythat the Town is such a commu-nity,” she said. “I feel like timeslike these bring out the best inpeople... I’ve been in the Townof Norwood for 28 years and it’s

such a special place. I can’tthank the whole communityenough for the way they rallyaround each other anytimethere’s a crisis, and this time wasno different.”

Derrane said, however, it didnot mean there was no appre-hension on her part and othervolunteers’ parts when theystarted.

“I think people who had notparticipated in a food drive be-fore were kind of skeptical thatwe’d get the turnout we would,but with the volunteers we gotfrom the get go, we just knew,”she said. “From the bottom ofmy heart, I can’t thank the com-munity enough.”

Derrane said the collectionon May 1 is for nonperishablefoods, mainly for sanitary rea-sons.

“The collection has to sit for48 hours and we sanitize what-ever we can,” she said.

Derrane said the Town alsogets a delivery of perishableitems and more nonperishableitems from the Greater BostonFood Bank (GBFB) and LovingSpoonfuls. Those items are paidfor with donations from resi-dents and organizations, so ifyou want to support the Mus-tang Food Pantry that way, cometo the collection on May 1 or callthe Town Hall at 781-762-1240

for more information on howyou can donate.

Former Norwood RecreationDepartment SuperintendentGerald “Gerry/Jerry” Millersaid he’s now helping to run thepantry as it has shifted to theTown side of things. He said hewas present at the last collectionand distribution day, and said healso felt overwhelming pride forhis Town.

“We were pleasantly sur-prised,” he said. “We had liter-ally hundreds and hundreds ofbags of food stuff dropped offand Cindy and her crew werethere and we came in to supple-ment.”

He said it’s fantastic whatthey’ve been able to buy for per-ishable foods from the GBFBand Loving Spoonfuls.

“Stuff like potatoes, carrots,apples, oranges and even milk,and thanks to (Norwood PublicSchools Facilities Manager)Paul Riccardi, we were able touse their coolers,” he said. “Lastweek, we had close to 90 ve-hicles and we were able to serve400 people. We have to adjustthe donations according to thenumber of people they have intheir families. We distribute thebags based on that number.”

Miller said that about 80 per-cent of what they gave out at thelast distribution was donatedfrom Norwood residents, and 20percent was from monies fromthe GBFB and Loving Spoon-fuls.

“We would have had muchsmaller bags and not been ableto give as much if we had not had

all those donations,” he said.And Miller said they’re get-

ting donations from unexpectedplaces. He said last Thursday hegot a call from Xaverian HighSchool Track Team memberMatt Kerns who had some goodnews.

“The track team had this ideato have a food drive and they gota bunch of donations, about fivevehicles filled, and they werehaving trouble finding a place todonate them,” he said. “So theycalled me and we unloaded it alland they had probably about 50percent of what we picked up inthe donations two weeks ago. Itwas a great donation.”

Miller said Kerns challengesthe other High School teams andteam members in Norwood todonate this Friday.

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Airport approves hunting,gives update on operations

and CARES ActJefJefJefJefJeff Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf Sullivf SullivanananananStaff Reporter

Legals

While deer on the runway has not been reported to be the reason forallowing hunting at the Norwood Airport, three residents are re-questing permission to bow hunt at the property.

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The Norwood Airport Com-mission (NAC) met virtually onApril 23 to discuss several issuesfacing the airport.

In what might seem a strangerequest for the NAC, three ap-plicants requested approval tohunt with bows on the NorwoodMemorial Airport’s property.Norwood Police Officer MichaelO’Brien, along with WilliamMulvey and Jake Bennett are allrequesting to hunt on the prop-erty, and Norwood Airport Man-ager Russ Maguire said the com-mission has authorized huntingin the past, but with four majorconditions.

“The first being that theNorwood Police Chief supportsthe individual who is requestingto hunt, second is that all hunt-ing would be in observance of allCommonwealth of Massachu-setts hunting regulations, thirdwould be that a hunter or hunt-ers can only gain access to air-port land beyond the securityfence by lawful entry and cannottrespass onto private property,”he said. “And the fourth condi-tion is that these hunters mustadvise in writing in advance ofwhen they expect to hunt.”

The NAC voted unanimouslyto approve the request as long asthose four conditions are met.

Maguire also gave his reportduring the meeting. He said theongoing health crisis has madesome changes to the way busi-ness at the airport is conducted,but they are still operating. Hesaid on March 16, the Welch Ad-ministration Building closed tothe public, and they are practic-ing social distancing and arecleaning as many vehicles as theycan.

“As an air transportation hub,we are deemed by the federalgovernment to be an essential ser-vice, so we continue from an air-port management standpoint. Weshow up five days a week andwe’re on-call for the off hours aswell.”

He said air traffic, landing andfuel flow have decreased greatlysince the start of the stay-at-homeadvisory, and he said more nega-tive impacts are probably on theway.

Maguire also gave a runthrough of what the airport couldexpect from the federalgovernment’s Coronavirus Aid,Relief, and Economic Security(CARES) Act passed on March27. He said $100 million was ear-marked for general aviation air-ports like Norwood.

“My understanding right nowis that Norwood Memorial Air-port, as a federally-obligated pub-lic use airport for general avia-tion, has available to it up to$69,000 in grant monies under

the CARES Act,” he said. “Weobviously have to go through theapplication for assistance withthe FAA, and we’re still waitingon that document.”

Maguire said it’s a reimburse-ment program and the airportwould be required to use it onlyfor operating expenses or newdevelopment. He said theywould use it to cover payrollgoing back to Jan. 20, 2020,which might use up all $69,000Maguire said they could usefrom the CARES Act funds.The NAC voted to authorizeChair Mark Ryan to sign saidFAA documentation once it ar-rives to begin the process forthose funds.

The NAC also voted unani-mously to expend $30,000 fora solar and battery-poweredriding lawn mower, butMaguire said the Massachu-setts Department of Transpor-tation would be footing the billand reimbursing the airport forit.

have a total of 366 confirmedcases as of the date of the meet-ing (Tuesday, April 28), whichis up 56 from last week’s 310cases. Health Department Assis-tant Inspector Stacey Lane saidthe Town is now employing 16people to do contact tracing withanyone who has a confirmedcase of COVID-19.

Reiss said they originallystarted contact tracing with thefirst case back in February, when

Town Manager Tony Mazzuccohad a confirmed test, but thatwas only with a handful ofpeople.

“Those 16 people interviewpeople who tested positive, askwho they were in close contactwith two days before symptomsstarted. We also ask them for theirphone number and we ask thosepeople (the original infected per-son came into contact with) toquarantine for 14 days,” she said.

She said at the start of con-tact tracing, there were about 30other people they would have tocall to follow up with and informthem of procedure, but she saidnow those numbers are down tothree or four people and they’reusually people sharing a resi-dence with the infected person.

Reiss said the contact tracingis extremely important, as thestate has estimated that withoutany social distancing and otherprecautions, one infected personon average would infect fourmore, and continue exponen-tially. She said with mitigationefforts, the infection rate is about1.25 people infected per one per-son infected, which is why theyneed the contact tracing, as ithelps to reduce that number fur-ther. She said the goal is to getthe infection rate below a one-to-one ratio.

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The F.A. ClevelandSchool PTA will presentthree scholarships inJune 2020. Two scholarshipswill be presented based onspecial achievement and thethird on character in memoryof former Cleveland SchoolPrincipal, William P. Kenny.

The awards will be givento outstanding young menand women who attended theCleveland School, are pres-ently residing in Norwoodand are graduating from highschool in June 2020.

Applicants will be judgedon scholastic achievements,extracurricular activities,work experience, citizenship,recommendation of guidancecounselor, and essay quality.

Please note, the recipientwill not be selected on scho-lastic achievement alone, andit is not necessary that thecandidate plan to continuehis/her education.

The awards consist of a$500.00 check and havingtheir names inscribed on aplaque, which hangs in the

Cleveland School.Applications are now

available from the GuidanceDepartment at Norwood HighSchool as well as from thePrincipal’s office at theCleveland School.

All applications must bereturned to the ClevelandSchool, Attn: Mrs. NancyCoppola, Principal, no laterthan Friday, May 22, 2020.

PTA to present scholarships

The Norwood Police Department announced this week that the new hybrid vehicles are painted, at thestation and ready to serve. NPD Chief William Brooks asked for their appropriation at last year's TownMeeting and the hope was then to reduce fuel costs, just as oil hit $0 a barrel.

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Can My Husband Get ASpouse Benefit from Me?

This article is intended for information purposes only and does notrepresent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and in-terpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accreditedby the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMACFoundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the So-cial Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To sub-mit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/social-security-advisory) or email us at [email protected].

Russell GloorAMAC Certified Social

Security Advisor

Dear Rusty: I'm wonder-ing if my husband can sub-mit a "restricted applicationfor spousal benefits only." Heis 76 years old, has been re-ceiving his benefit since2005. His present benefit is$263.50. I am 74 years old,receiving my benefit since2007. My present benefit is$931. Am I to understand thathe could be receiving half ofmy amount rather than hissmaller amount? Signed: In-quiring Wife

Dear Inquiring Wife:Your husband isn't eligible tofile a "restricted applicationfor spousal benefits only" be-cause he is already collectinghis own Social Security ben-efits and because he is past70 years of age. But heshould probably be receivinga spousal benefit from youbecause his benefit is somuch lower than yours. Fromwhat you've written, you bothclaimed your Social Securitybenefits when you were 62years of age. That means youboth took a 25% cut in ben-efits from what you wouldhave gotten at your full retire-ment age (FRA) of 66.

Spousal benefits are basedupon FRA benefit amounts,even if you claimed benefitsearlier. So, since your FRAbenefit amount would havebeen about $1164 and yourhusband's FRA benefit wouldhave been about $330, by mycalculations he should nowbe receiving a spousal benefitof about $516 instead of hisbenefit of $263.50. The com-putation for that is: Take halfof your FRA benefit amount($582) minus your husband'sFRA benefit amount ($330);the difference ($252) isadded to his own current ben-efit ($264) to get $516 as hispossible spousal benefit (notethe actual numbers from SSmay vary somewhat). Thisprobably means that whenyou claimed your benefit twoyears after your husbandclaimed his, your husbanddidn't apply for his spousalbenefit (and i t wasn' t

awarded automatically bySS).

I suggest your husbandcontact Social Security assoon as possible and make anappointment to apply for hisspousal benefits. Since hehas been entitled to that ben-efit for some time now, hecan also request 6 months ofretroactive spousal benefitswhich they will pay in alump-sum and adjust hismonthly benefit to what he isentitled to as your spouse.There is also a possibility that,when you filed, SS failed to no-tify your husband he was eli-gible for a spouse benefit, inwhich case he may be able tocollect his spouse benefit backto the date he became eligible.Your husband should contactSocial Security directly at ei-ther 1.800.772-1213, or at yourlocal office (find it atwww.ssa.gov/locator) to makean appointment to apply for hisspousal benefit from you. And,usually, this application can beaccomplished over the phone.

Please note that all of theabove assumes that yourhusband’s current benefit isn’tbeing reduced due to a non-covered pension which causesthe Windfall Elimination Pro-vision (WEP) to lower his ben-efit amount, and which wouldcause the Government PensionOffset (GPO) to severely alter,or even eliminate, his spousalbenefit.

. . . teenagers awaiting other summer job openings . . . parents awaiting the OK’s for their children’s summer

camps to open . . . engaged couples having their weddings being put on

hold . . . Confirmation, First Communion, Bar and Bat Mitzvah

recipients, all having their days-in-the-sun cancelled . . . youngsters awaiting spring soccer, Little Leagues, and

CYO softball/baseball tryouts and games . . . flower lovers struggling to park near the Arboretum on

Lilac Sunday . . . environmentalists repugnant at the thought of not using

their own bags again and again at grocery stores and pharmacies Undoubtedly there has been much that has been overlooked.

There are other examples of pain in these horrible times. Pleaseforgive me.

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CLINTON

Barbara M. (Carchedi), Age88, passed into eternal life on April21st, 2020 at home surrounded byher loving family. A longtime resi-dent of Norwood, Barbara was thedaughter of the late Dominic andMary (Cirillo) Carchedi. Belovedwife of John R Clinton, married for66 years. Along with her husband,she is survived by her children:Russell Clinton and his wife Neideof Dennis, Joseph Clinton and hislate wife Ann of Norwood, David

Clinton and his wife Joyce ofWrentham. She was the proudgrandmother of Megan Schneiderand her husband Colby ofBrentwood NH, Keriann ClintonMcDonough and her wife Brianneof Waltham, Jenna Clinton and herfiancé Jonathan Buote of Plymouthand Jared Clinton of Wrentham. She was the sister of the late KayCoughlin and the late CarmelaSawyer and sister to JoanneNelson, Joseph Carchedi, RalphCarchedi, Lorraine Coyne, MaryJane Bruce. She is also survivedby many nieces and nephews aswell as several cousins. Barbarawas born in Watertown, MA onOctober 8th 1931. She graduatedfrom Norwood High School, classof 1949 and later studied nursingat Massasoit College. Barbararaised her family in Norwood andworked at Polaroid before retiringafter 22 years. She was a devotedCatholic and Eucharistic Ministerat Saint Catherine of Siena Parishin Norwood. Barbara loved theocean and had wonderful memo-

ries of family trips to the Cape andNantasket. She loved fashion andstyle which was shown in theclothes she wore and the cars shedrove. Barbara loved dressing upher three boys when they wereyoung and taking them on trips intoBoston. She also had a great pas-sion for animals and cared formany dogs over the years. Sheloved her dogs and her grand dogs.She will be remembered by herlove for her family and the fondmemories that have filled ourhearts. Arrangements by the Kraw-Kornack Funeral Home Norwood,MA. In lieu of flowers, memorialdonations can be made to theMSPCA 350 South HuntingtonAve. Boston, MA 02130. https://www.mspca.org/donate-now/ Dueto the current health crisis, therewill be a Mass of Christian Burialto celebrate Barbara’s life at a timeto be announced in the future atSaint Catherine of Siena Parish inNorwood, MA.

CURLEYMargaret Kathryn, Age 96, of

Norwood, passed away peacefullyon Friday, April 17, 2020. She wasthe beloved daughter of the lateThomas S. Curley and Dorothy R.(Bushee) Curley. Loving sister ofBarbara A. Curley of Norwood,Jacqueline M. Wolfe of Franklin,formerly of Norwood, Charles Z.Curley and his wife Shirley ofAlton, NH, formerly of Norwood,David F. Curley of San Francisco,CA, brother-in-law Victor Pisini,and the late Dorothy T. Pisini,Geraldine L. Gleason, Thomas S.Curley, Jr. and Nancy E. Curley.She is also survived by many lov-ing nieces and nephews with whomshe cherished many family trips toNew Hampshire, Maine andthroughout New England. Marga-ret, lovingly known to all as Peggy,enjoyed pottery, sewing and knit-ting and is known for making manybeautiful items for her family. Sheloved traveling to many places, in-cluding Europe, the Caribbean,Bermuda, and Central and SouthAmerica. She also enjoyed winter-ing in South Fort Myers with herfamily. Peggy worked in Washing-ton, D.C. for 25 years and then re-turned to her native MA and retiredfrom Honeywell after many years

of service. Peggy will be remem-bered for her love and devotion toher family and generosity to oth-ers. She will be greatly missed byall her family and friends. A Me-morial Service will be held inPeggy’s honor at a later date. Ex-pressions of sympathy in hermemory may be made to the Inter-national Rett Syndrome Founda-tion, P.O. Box 706143, Cincinnati,OH 45270 orvisit rettsyndrome.org

GIORDANOFrank of Norwood, passed

away on April 19, 2020 at the ageof 85. Son of the late Joseph andMaria (Mazzotta) Giordano.Brother of the late BrunoGiordano. A private Burial willtake place at the MassachusettsNational Cemetery in Bourne, MA.Frank was a US Air Force KoreanWar Veteran. Arrangements by theKraw-Kornack Funeral Home,NORWOOD, MA. In lieu of flow-ers, donations may be made in hisname to a Veteran’s charity of yourchoice. Kraw-Kornack FuneralH o m e k r a w -kornackfuneralhome.com

MOLINARICynthia Maria (George) of

Norwood, April 25, 2020. Dearand devoted wife of Paul Molinari.Beloved sister of Muriel Salamiand her husband Joseph ofWestwood, Thomas “Tim” and hiswife Anne of Boston. Loving auntof Joseph D. Salami, Jr., MarciaKhan, Lisa Leary, and Stacey Sotir.Cynthia’s funeral services will beprivate. In lieu of flowers, pleasemake contributions in her memoryto St. Jude Children’s ResearchHospital, stjude.org 501 St. JudePl., Memphis, TN 38105, or to OurLady of the Cedars of LebanonChurch, ourladyofthecedars.org 61Rockwood St., Jamaica Plain, MA02130. Photo obituary andg u e s t b o o kat www.KfouryFuneral.com KfouryKeefe Funeral Home WestRoxbury 617-325-3600.

O’CONNELLTimothy of Norwood, Died

Sunday April 12, 2020. Born inCambridge, Tim was raised inCambridge, graduated from

Matignon High School and earnedhis undergraduate and Masters ofEducation from Boston State. Hewas a longtime teacher in the Bos-ton Public Schools, retiring in2002, having taught at Boston En-glish and Boston High. Tim was afounding member of the BostonTeachers Union. Tim was very ac-tive in the Norwood community.He coached the Norwood LittleLeague Red Sox team for over 35years, with Norwood’s only StateChampionship in 1997. He di-rected the Knights of ColumbusNorwood Council 252 Bingo Nightfor the last 20 years and is a formerExalted Ruler of the Norwood ElksLodge 1124. Beloved husband ofthe late Joan Ann (Callinan)O’Connell. Loving father of Timo-thy M. O’Connell and his wifeElizabeth of Arlington, Sean P.O’Connell and Christopher S.O’Connell, both of Norwood.Grandfather of Emma JoanO’Connell.Visitation and servicewere private, followed by inter-ment in Highland Cemetery,Norwood. A public service will beannounced. Donations in Tim’smemory may be made to NorwoodLittle League, 31 Marion Avenue,Norwood, MA 02062.Dolan Fu-neral Homes of Milton andDorchester are honored to haveassisted the O’Connell family withfuneral arrangements. Please sendthe O’Connell family a sympathymessage at www.dolanfuneral.com

ROMAN

Marilyn H. (McDargh), 85, for-merly of Boston, Norwood, andWestwood, passed away peace-fully on April 18, 2020, surroundedby family, after a long illness. Shewas the devoted wife of 59 yearsto Chester of Westwood; Loving

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Bank helps to feed familiesTown of Norwood General Manager Tony

Mazzucco is pleased to announce that NorwoodBank has made a $60,000 donation to help fundthe town’s weekly family meals program for themonths of May and June.

The program, run through the Norwood Pub-lic Schools, was originally the idea ofNorwood’s Incident Command Team. It pro-vides free grab-and-go dinner meals to anyNorwood family with students in the NorwoodPublic Schools or home-school, or other schoolfamilies with children under 18 years of age.

The meals are available for pick up from anyof the community elementary schools onWednesdays.

All meals are prepared and packaged “fam-ily style” and are distributed cold, with heatingand cooling instructions provided. Meals con-tain 8-10 servings, potentially lasting morethan one day.

Norwood Bank is also making a separate

$5,000 donation to support the fund.“This is an incredibly generous gift, and

will feed hundreds of families in town,” Gen-eral Manager Mazzucco said. “This familymeals program is unique to the Town ofNorwood, and it means so much that a com-munity business such as Norwood Bank wouldget behind it. They’ve really stepped up bymaking this donation.”

Employees of Norwood Bank first raisedthe idea of contributing to the fund, and theBoard of Directors asked President JohnGalvani to reach out to General ManagerMazzucco.

“Many of our employees have children inthe school system,” Galvani said. “We’ve beenhelping a lot of our customers with loansthrough the new federal Paycheck ProtectionProgram, and donating to the meals programwas a way for us to go one step further andhelp our customers’ entire family."

Mum to sons Timothy and his wifeDeborah of Walpole, Kenneth andhis wife Diane of Norwood anddaughter Amy Albert and her hus-band Alan of Walpole; ProudGrammie to Jason and Emily;Cherished sister of Nancy Roweanof East Walpole; Beloved Auntieto many nieces and nephews. Shealso leaves her best friend of over70 years, Julia McPherson, ofNewton. Born September 27, 1934Marilyn graduated Norwood HighSchool in 1952 and then attendedHenry O. Peabody in Norwood andbecame a certified secretary. Sheworked at Wiggins Airport,Norwood and Hartney Tree inDedham, before staying home toraise a family. Marilyn helpedbuild the family’s business, whichbegan as Roman Jewelers inDedham and eventually Roman’sHallmark. Marilyn claims she wasthe one to first bring HallmarkCards to Dedham in the 1970’s!The business grew to three loca-tions including Millis and SouthWeymouth. Marilyn loved sendingand receiving Hallmark cards. Sheloved being of Irish heritage, evenif it was “just a wee bit”. She also

loved being a “New Englandah”.Marilyn and Chet, in their retire-ment years, would often head“Down the Cape” on a whim forsome “chowdah” or for a “lobstahroll”. Marilyn loved her friendsand neighbors, especially on LaneDrive, where she raised her fam-ily. She was one of the First Mem-bers of St. Timothy Parish and re-mained faithful throughout her life.She will always be remembered forher kindnesses and hergenerosity.We are grateful to manywho helped us along the way dur-ing our Mom’s illness. We wouldlike to extend huge THANKYOU’S, especially to Linda Lin-coln and all of our Roman’s em-ployees, past and present, who be-came like family and enabled usto take care of our Mom at homefor years; Our dear customers, whobecame our friends and not onlypatronized us, but lent support,prayers, and concern for our Momfor many years; Our friends at St.Timothy Parish- priests and com-munity; Right at Home staff andcaregivers, for giving excellent carefor so many years; Roche Bros.Westwood cashiers and baggers,

who would ask for our Mom eachtime we would shop for her. Sheloved Roche Bros. and so do we! ;Westwood Police Fire and Rescuethank you for your service and forhelping us keep safe!; CharlesMcInnis, M.D. and JoanneMcInnis, R.N., and finally, at MGH:Dr. H.D. Rosas and Diane Lucente,M.S. - your knowledge was para-mount in getting my Mom the careshe needed. We appreciate all ofthe cards, notes, and prayers fromfriends and family, all throughouther illness. Not only did it keep myMom buoyed, but us as well. TheRoman Family will always be grate-ful! Burial will be private. A Me-morial Mass will be held in the fu-ture at St. Timothy Parish. In lieuof flowers, donations may be sentin Marilyn’s name to St. TimothyChristian Service Fund, c/o St.Timothy Church, 650 NicholsStreet, Norwood, MA 02062. InMarilyn’s honor, wear your favor-ite Irish knit and/or her very favor-ite color: gray....as her hair turnedgray, she started to dress in gray tomatch! Correspondence can be sentto the Roman family at 26 MillistonRoad, Millis, MA 02054.

Norwood Bank President John Galvani and Norwood Town Manager Tony Mazzucco posed for a photowith a check for $60,000 (at a safe social distance) to fund the Evening Family Meal program for theNorwood Public Schools.

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