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NORTH OXFORD — Free tours of the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum will be offered during the 10th annual Blood Drive, which will be hosted by the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum in North Oxford and the American Red Cross in Worcester from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 7. An American Red Cross blood drive will be held at The Barton Center for Diabetes Education’s Chabot Center, 60 Clara Barton Road, which is adjacent to the museum. To celebrate Clara’s birthday (Dec. 25, 1821), the museum will be open for free tours, featuring an original quilt signed by Civil War doctors and officers given to honor Clara’s dedication. A new dis- play was added in 2015, featuring over 130 American Red Cross Chapter and Disaster Relief pins. Clara’s mission was one of service. Her amazing accomplishments includ- ed delivering medical supplies to Civil War battlefields and nursing wound- ed soldiers. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross and served as the organization’s president for 23 years. Anyone interested in donating blood is encouraged to schedule an appoint- ment by calling 1-800 RED CROSS or register online at www.RedCrossBlood. org. Walk-ins are always welcome, how- ever appointments are preferred. Blood donors must be at least 17 years old (16 with parental permission) and weigh at least 110 pounds. Donors who are taking medications are usually accept- able, but potential donors can check with the Red Cross when they make an appointment. The Clara Barton Birthplace Museum teaches the timeless lessons of compas- sion and service through Clara Barton’s 6 56525 10391 9 (508) 943-4800 Newsstand: 75 cents www.StonebridgePress.com Friday, January 5, 2018 Promoting recycling, one home at a time LUCIER TARGETS WASTE REDUCTION BY GUS STEEVES STAFF WRITER AUBURN – ‘Tis the season…for snow and sleigh bells, lights and toys…and lots of boxes and paper to recycle. Unfortunately, the entire recycling market is in an uncertain place today, with recent reports that China will start rejecting loads of metal, plastic and paper more frequently, due to con- tamination. Not necessarily the toxic kind, but food residue, plastic films, and other things that make the materi- als unusable. To help Auburn residents address that, the health department recently hired solid waste reduction coordina- tor Erica Lucier, whose part-time job is to educate people on what is and isn’t recyclable and travel the trash routes making sure what’s in the blue totes should be there. Recycling, she said, has been the law since 2010, but the department formally put it on paper only recently. The regulations include potential fines for violators, but she noted none have been issued yet. “For several years, we saw increas- ing recycling, but the last few it’s flat- lined, even declined,” Lucier said. Her job is being funded by an 18-month DEP grant whose money comes from incin- erator companies; most of Auburn’s trash goes to Wheelabrator. Recycling coordinator Amy Sullivan noted factors in the recycling decline include changes in packaging com- bined with what she dubbed “wishful recycling.” Many people want to recy- cle but don’t realize the town’s curb- side system can’t take broken items, electronic waste and some things that actually are labeled with the famous triangle symbol. Case in point: plastic bags and other filmy plastics. They’re ubiquitous and often have the symbol, but when tossed into Auburn’s “single-stream” system with other materials, they tend to just gum up the sorting machinery. The material is reusable — a few companies remanufacture it into fake-wood build- ing material — but needs to be handled separately to work. Some supermar- kets provide collection bins for them, and town hall recently started offering one. It also accepts batteries and some other items, and the website has ways to recycle harder things like mattress- es and furniture. In fact, the bags are such an envi- ronmental problem that dozens of Bay State towns have banned them, and selectmen are investigating doing so here. Several other places have also done so, while some imposed per-bag fees or taxes that have had the same goal: getting them out of the waste stream and preventing them from becoming pollution. Local food pantries get holiday gift BY GUS STEEVES NEWS CORRESPONDENT AUBURN – There is no ‘good’ time to be hungry, but winter’s cold is proba- bly the worst. Fortunately for those who are, area food pantries got an extra infusion of cash for supplies just before Christmas. Auburn Youth and Family Services was one of them, receiving (like the others) $2,500 from Bank Hometown’s “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” pro- gram. “We have definitely seen an increase, with people coming in and needing a little extra help this winter,” AYFS Director Sally D’Arcangelo said. Donations like this “are such a bless- ing. They enable us to do some things we wouldn’t normally be able to do.” She noted it’s at least the fourth year the bank has donated to her pantry. John Freeland of Oxford Ecumenical Food Shelf agreed, noting their $2,500 “plus our buying power” gets them $8,000 in food. That’s because the pan- tries get the bulk of their supplies from the Worcester County Food Bank in Shrewsbury, where their price is just 17¢ a pound, D’Arcangelo said. “Without donations from the com- munity, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” Freeland said. BankHometown’s website stat- ed there were nine recipients in Massachusetts and northeastern Connecticut. In our area, those were Auburn and Oxford, the St. Vincent de Paul Pantry in Webster and Food Share in Southbridge. Generally speaking, all of them have seen a similar pattern of need in recent years. As Oxford’s website chart of family visits this decade shows, it peak- ed in 2014 at 1746 visits, but still has not dropped to the level it was in 2010, when it totaled 1377. Freeland said they see about 350 different families a year, and most come in via word of mouth or references from Town Hall, the Police Department or the website. The way Oxford’s system works is this: One Thursday each month (the family chooses which), they can get a full week of groceries, a much broader selection that the remaining Thursdays, in which they get “a vari- ety of breads and a selection of grocery items,” the site states. The AYFS pantry, by contrast, is open every other week on Tuesdays, but its site notes “Emergency disburse- ments are made on an as-needed basis.” D’Arcangelo said their “goal and mis- sion is to provide education and nutri- tion.” She noted the economy seems to be improving, most obviously in down- Taking stock of old homes BY GUS STEEVES NEWS CORRESPONDENT AUBURN — Most long-time residents will observe Auburn has changed quite a bit during their lives, with new highways, new businesses and a lot more people. One aspect of all that development that is often overlooked — except by the immediate neighbors — is the fact that periodically old homes get demolished to make way for something new. In some cases, that’s OK, but to Historical Museum President Sari Bitticks, all too often it means “building a silly McMansion where a really beautiful place once lived.” To address that, Helen Poirier and several high school interns (currently, Graham Latino) have been riding around town since this spring trying to identify and photograph those old homes that survive. They’re basing their effort on a 1981 Historical Commission report by John and Meredith Beldings, dividing the town into several historical sections — the center, Drury Square, Pondville, Stoneville, Pakachoag and West Auburn — to find the homes they described from that year’s assessing records. So far, the project has found most of them are still around. Poirier said about 25 of the more than 100 they’ve researched no longer exist, with certain neighbor- hoods hit harder than others. Drury Square and the Maple Street areas are among them; “The nice houses that were on Maple Street are all condos now. They’re gone,” she said. In several areas, the process takes a bit of detective work, since streets have been renumbered since the 1980s. Piorier’s own house is an example: now it’s #50, but in 1981, it was #51; and in such cases she and her team of teens have to compare homes to the old black and white assessing pictures. Safety first when it comes to the ice Turn To RECYCLE, page A9 Turn To FOOD, page A9 The ice on the lakes has formed, and Sturbridge Lakes Advisory Committee thought the following information is important to share. Winter provides an excellent opportunity to participate on many of Massachusetts more than 3,000 lakes and ponds including fishing, skating, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling and more. Unfortunately, every year people are injured or killed as a direct result of falling through thin or weak ice. The Sturbridge Lakes Advisory Committee is providing this article on ice safety to help ensure all Sturbridge residents can safely enjoy winter activities. The reality is, there is no such thing as 100 percent safe ice. It is generally recommended that no one should venture out on any ice less than four inches thick. New, clear blue ice is usually the strongest ice. Partially thawed, white ice embedded with slush or snow and honeycombed ice are significantly lower in strength than clear blue ice. As a general guideline, if it is not clear blue ice you should double the thickness recommendations for each activity. The figures in the table are general guidelines for clear blue ice on lakes and ponds. Always use caution, and don’t venture out onto unfamiliar waters without checking ice thickness frequently. Note: vehicles may be banned from some lakes. It’s best to check with the local lake association. Temperature, snow cover, currents, weeds and springs all affect the rela- tive safety of the ice. Ice is seldom the same thickness over a single body of water, it can be one foot thick in one place, and a few inches thick in a short distance away. Check the ice at least every 150 feet. Ice thickness can easily be checked using an ice chisel, ice auger, axe, hatchet or cordless drill to penetrate the ice and then using a simple tape Turn To ICE, page A2 Turn To OLD HOMES, page A9 Barton Center and Red Cross plan 10th annual event FREE TOURS OF CLARA BARTON BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM ALSO OFFERED Turn To RED CROSS, page A15

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  • NORTH OXFORD — Free tours of the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum will be offered during the 10th annual Blood Drive, which will be hosted by

    the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum in North Oxford and the American Red Cross in Worcester from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 7.

    An American Red Cross blood drive will be held at The Barton Center for Diabetes Education’s Chabot Center, 60 Clara Barton Road, which is adjacent to the museum.

    To celebrate Clara’s birthday (Dec. 25, 1821), the museum will be open for free tours, featuring an original quilt signed by Civil War doctors and officers given to honor Clara’s dedication. A new dis-

    play was added in 2015, featuring over 130 American Red Cross Chapter and Disaster Relief pins.

    Clara’s mission was one of service. Her amazing accomplishments includ-ed delivering medical supplies to Civil War battlefields and nursing wound-ed soldiers. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross and served as the organization’s president for 23 years.

    Anyone interested in donating blood is encouraged to schedule an appoint-ment by calling 1-800 RED CROSS or register online at www.RedCrossBlood.

    org. Walk-ins are always welcome, how-ever appointments are preferred. Blood donors must be at least 17 years old (16 with parental permission) and weigh at least 110 pounds. Donors who are taking medications are usually accept-able, but potential donors can check with the Red Cross when they make an appointment.

    The Clara Barton Birthplace Museum teaches the timeless lessons of compas-sion and service through Clara Barton’s

    6 56525 10391 9

    (508) 943-4800 Newsstand: 75 cents www.StonebridgePress.com Friday, January 5, 2018

    Promoting recycling, one home at a timeLucier targets waste reduction

    BY GUS STEEVESSTAFF WRITER

    AUBURN – ‘Tis the season…for snow and sleigh bells, lights and toys…and lots of boxes and paper to recycle.

    Unfortunately, the entire recycling market is in an uncertain place today, with recent reports that China will start rejecting loads of metal, plastic and paper more frequently, due to con-tamination. Not necessarily the toxic kind, but food residue, plastic films, and other things that make the materi-als unusable.

    To help Auburn residents address that, the health department recently hired solid waste reduction coordina-tor Erica Lucier, whose part-time job is to educate people on what is and isn’t recyclable and travel the trash routes making sure what’s in the blue totes should be there. Recycling, she said, has been the law since 2010, but the department formally put it on paper only recently. The regulations include potential fines for violators, but she noted none have been issued yet.

    “For several years, we saw increas-ing recycling, but the last few it’s flat-lined, even declined,” Lucier said. Her job is being funded by an 18-month DEP grant whose money comes from incin-erator companies; most of Auburn’s trash goes to Wheelabrator.

    Recycling coordinator Amy Sullivan noted factors in the recycling decline

    include changes in packaging com-bined with what she dubbed “wishful recycling.” Many people want to recy-cle but don’t realize the town’s curb-side system can’t take broken items, electronic waste and some things that actually are labeled with the famous triangle symbol.

    Case in point: plastic bags and other filmy plastics. They’re ubiquitous and often have the symbol, but when tossed into Auburn’s “single-stream” system with other materials, they tend to just gum up the sorting machinery. The material is reusable — a few companies remanufacture it into fake-wood build-ing material — but needs to be handled separately to work. Some supermar-kets provide collection bins for them, and town hall recently started offering one. It also accepts batteries and some other items, and the website has ways to recycle harder things like mattress-es and furniture.

    In fact, the bags are such an envi-ronmental problem that dozens of Bay State towns have banned them, and selectmen are investigating doing so here. Several other places have also done so, while some imposed per-bag fees or taxes that have had the same goal: getting them out of the waste stream and preventing them from becoming pollution.

    Local food pantries get holiday gift

    BY GUS STEEVESNEWS CORRESPONDENT

    AUBURN – There is no ‘good’ time to be hungry, but winter’s cold is proba-bly the worst.

    Fortunately for those who are, area food pantries got an extra infusion of cash for supplies just before Christmas.

    Auburn Youth and Family Services was one of them, receiving (like the others) $2,500 from Bank Hometown’s “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” pro-gram.

    “We have definitely seen an increase, with people coming in and needing a little extra help this winter,” AYFS Director Sally D’Arcangelo said. Donations like this “are such a bless-ing. They enable us to do some things we wouldn’t normally be able to do.”

    She noted it’s at least the fourth year the bank has donated to her pantry.

    John Freeland of Oxford Ecumenical Food Shelf agreed, noting their $2,500 “plus our buying power” gets them $8,000 in food. That’s because the pan-tries get the bulk of their supplies from the Worcester County Food Bank in Shrewsbury, where their price is just 17¢ a pound, D’Arcangelo said.

    “Without donations from the com-munity, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” Freeland said.

    BankHometown’s website stat-ed there were nine recipients in

    Massachusetts and northeastern Connecticut. In our area, those were Auburn and Oxford, the St. Vincent de Paul Pantry in Webster and Food Share in Southbridge.

    Generally speaking, all of them have seen a similar pattern of need in recent years. As Oxford’s website chart of family visits this decade shows, it peak-ed in 2014 at 1746 visits, but still has not dropped to the level it was in 2010, when it totaled 1377. Freeland said they see about 350 different families a year, and most come in via word of mouth or references from Town Hall, the Police Department or the website.

    The way Oxford’s system works is this: One Thursday each month (the family chooses which), they can get a full week of groceries, a much broader selection that the remaining Thursdays, in which they get “a vari-ety of breads and a selection of grocery items,” the site states.

    The AYFS pantry, by contrast, is open every other week on Tuesdays, but its site notes “Emergency disburse-ments are made on an as-needed basis.” D’Arcangelo said their “goal and mis-sion is to provide education and nutri-tion.”

    She noted the economy seems to be improving, most obviously in down-

    Taking stock of old homesBY GUS STEEVES

    NEWS CORRESPONDENT

    AUBURN — Most long-time residents will observe Auburn has changed quite a bit during their lives, with new highways, new businesses and a lot more people.

    One aspect of all that development that is often overlooked — except by the immediate neighbors — is the fact that periodically old homes get demolished to make way for something new. In some cases, that’s OK, but to Historical Museum President Sari Bitticks, all too often it means “building a silly McMansion where a really beautiful place once lived.”

    To address that, Helen Poirier and several high school interns (currently, Graham Latino) have been riding around town since this spring trying to identify and photograph those old homes that survive. They’re basing their effort on a 1981 Historical Commission report by John and Meredith Beldings, dividing the town into several historical sections — the center, Drury Square, Pondville, Stoneville, Pakachoag and West Auburn — to find the homes they described from that year’s assessing records.

    So far, the project has found most of them are still around. Poirier said about 25 of the more than 100 they’ve researched no longer exist, with certain neighbor-hoods hit harder than others. Drury Square and the Maple Street areas are among them; “The nice houses that were on Maple Street are all condos now. They’re gone,” she said.

    In several areas, the process takes a bit of detective work, since streets have been renumbered since the 1980s. Piorier’s own house is an example: now it’s #50, but in 1981, it was #51; and in such cases she and her team of teens have to compare homes to the old black and white assessing pictures.

    Safety first when it comes to the ice

    Turn To RECYCLE, page A9

    Turn To FOOD, page A9

    The ice on the lakes has formed, and Sturbridge Lakes Advisory Committee thought the following information is important to share.

    Winter provides an excellent opportunity to participate on many of Massachusetts more than 3,000 lakes and ponds including fishing, skating, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling and more. Unfortunately, every year people are injured or killed as a direct result of falling through thin or weak ice. The Sturbridge Lakes Advisory Committee is providing this article on ice safety to help ensure all Sturbridge residents can safely enjoy winter activities.

    The reality is, there is no such thing as 100 percent safe ice. It is generally recommended that no one should venture out on any ice less than four inches thick. New, clear blue ice is usually the strongest ice. Partially thawed, white ice embedded with slush or snow and honeycombed ice are significantly lower in strength than clear blue ice. As a general guideline, if it is not clear blue ice you should double the thickness recommendations for each activity.

    The figures in the table are general guidelines for clear blue ice on lakes and ponds. Always use caution, and don’t venture out onto unfamiliar waters without checking ice thickness frequently.

    Note: vehicles may be banned from some lakes. It’s best to check with the local lake association.

    Temperature, snow cover, currents, weeds and springs all affect the rela-tive safety of the ice. Ice is seldom the same thickness over a single body of water, it can be one foot thick in one place, and a few inches thick in a short distance away. Check the ice at least every 150 feet.

    Ice thickness can easily be checked using an ice chisel, ice auger, axe, hatchet or cordless drill to penetrate the ice and then using a simple tape

    Turn To ICE, page A2

    Turn To OLD HOMES, page A9

    Barton Center and Red Cross plan 10th annual eventFree tours oF cLara Barton BirthpLace MuseuM aLso oFFered

    Turn To RED CROSS, page A15

  • measure to determine the ice thickness. Be aware ice tends to be thinner on lakes and ponds where there are spring holes, inlets or outlets. Don’t venture onto icebound rivers or streams, as the currents make ice thickness unpredict-able. Similarly, ice near the shoreline is highly variable, so be particularly care-ful of where you gain access and your

    first few steps.Also, you want to make certain you do

    not overload the weight bearing capaci-ty of a particular area of the ice by main-taining a good spacing between gear, snowmobiles, ATVs, and cars or trucks.

    It is good practice when venturing out on the ice to have a safety plan. Always wear a flotation device such as boating life jacket especially if you are testing the ice or snowmobiling or on an ATV. Employ the buddy system maintaining good spacing and always carry ice picks. Bringing along a tobog-gan with an adequate length of rope not only provides a handy means of packing and transporting your equipment, but provides an excellent safety device for reaching and retrieving those who have fallen through. It’s a good idea to have a spare set of dry clothes and an emer-gency kit.

    Lastly do not leave any debris on the ice. Log and branch remains from campfires can be a safety hazard for spring fishermen and animal feces and other debris will contaminate the lake.

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    AUBURN — The Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub in Auburn celebrated its 25th anniversary with team members, guests and members of the community on Nov. 1 with an event that generated more than $1,000 for the South County Pop Warner.

    During the anniversary event, guests enjoyed a spirited game of trivia and par-ticipated in a commemorative ceremony that honored the restaurant’s team mem-bers. A percentage of the restaurant’s total net sales that entire day were donated to South County Pop Warner. Ron Sivey, general managing partner of the Auburn Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, proudly presented the check to South County Pop Warner.

    “We are proud to celebrate 25 years of serving great food and drinks to our guests and are passionate about giving back to the community in whatever way we can,” said Sivey. “We fully support South County Pop Warner and look forward to con-tinuing that relationship for years to come.”

    The Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub is New England’s first locally-based casual restaurant company, established in 1952 at 99 State Street in Boston. Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., the Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub currently operates 106 restau-rants throughout New England and upstate New York.

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  • WORCESTER — Quinsigamond Community College has received an $84,100 Performance Incentive Fund grant from the state to provide accel-erated English classes to students eli-gible for remediation in English. The college will use the grant to increase its Accelerated Learning Program, which focuses on improving the success of developmental education students by working to accelerate these students into college-level English courses.

    QCC has already piloted this program with noteworthy results. Between 2014 and 2016, 75 percent of QCC students who completed an accelerated English course by taking both remedial and college level English, received a “C” or higher, compared to 66 percent of QCC students who only completed the tradi-tional college level English course.

    “This innovative model is particular-

    ly beneficial to those from underserved populations such as low English lan-guage learners,” said QCC President Dr. Luis G. Pedraja. “This PIF grant will help us to increase the number of high quality English reading, writing and critical thinking courses we offer to these students to help them succeed in college.”

    The funding will be used to train additional QCC faculty in order to scale up its current ALP, in addition to creating a new, integrated reading/writing course; three accelerated writing English workshops, and developing a new bridge English as a second lan-guage course. The new bridge ESL

    English course will enable ELL stu-dents to more rapidly transition from ESL to developmental and college level English.

    “This grant will enable us to expand access to educational opportunities for residents of Central Massachusetts, which in turn will lead to increased job opportunities for QCC students,” Dr. Pedraja said. “This is a win for the college and for the community.”

    The Performance Incentive Fund is a competitive grant program that sup-

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    AUBURN — The following students have earned a place on the honor roll for the first trimester at Auburn High School

    GRADE 9

    Honors: Amany Al Nassar, Joshua Anderson, Brendan Anish, Talha Awan, Tatiana Baez, Caleb Bartlett, Ethan Bedard, Taylor Blanton, Lacey Boulay, Zion Burdick, Laura Byrne, Maeve Cahill, Amber Camp, Shayleigh Carlson, Kayla Conway, Carlos Costa, Miranda Courteau, Thomas Cowden, Mia DelloStritto, Jeffrey DiPadua, Maura Donahue, Adam Fuller, Emma Gaudreau, Rachel Gervais, Thomas Gill, Grace Griffin, Corrie Hammond, Dylan Holton, Griffin Hurley, Erin Hynes, Chizoba Igwenagu, Kaitlyn Jess, Audrey Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Kyle Kennedy, Andrew Konicki, Priscilla Kot, Sarah Kramer Lee, Kristen Lambert, Crystalis LaVergne, Tracy Le, Lucas Leatham, Brendan Lee, Drew Lemansky, Devin LePoer, Nathan Lewos, Amanda Loftus, Sean Lovely, Ethan Madison Hella, Emma Martin, Skylar Matson, Elexa McFadden, Nichole Miranda, Maria Misenti, Isabella Nash, Raechel Nash, Amelia Nelson, Connor Nordman, Claudia Oliver, Victor Pacheco, Ethan Petrie, Anthony Picard, Zoe Picard, Ryan Quinn, Grace Rielly, Lydia Rossik, Sarah Schnee, Kasey Simmons, Grace Sitkowski, Brendan Slomski, Brendan Sullivan, Sabrina Tang, Isabella Therrien, Emily Turcotte, Sandy Wahba, Emma Wentworth, Adriana White, Alyssa Wright, Jill Zaparaskas and David Zona.

    High Honors: Emily Adamiak, Samantha Anusauskas, Nathaniel Archambault, Brian Bailey, Alexander Bisceglia, Abigail Brackett, Alysha Creelman, Sage Davis, Kali Day, Sara Dowd, Emily Dupuis, Grace Foulkrod, Savana Giurleo, Connor Halloran,

    James Hines, Kieran Keaney, Joshua Lacewell, Brooke Laplante, Marcus Longo, Quinne Masiello, Julia Matthew, Emma McGrillen, Alison McKiernan, Thomas McKiernan, Emily Mulone, Truc Nguyen, Ryan Ordway, Eric Paine, Georgia Pokropowicz, Emma Schieble, Samantha Stokes, Wilson Van, Isabella Vangos, Nathan Wright, Aaron Zheng.

    GRADE 10

    Honors: Joshua Adams, Jessica Barrell, Grace Beauregard, Samuel Benoit, Julia Benvenuti, Cameron Bolduc, Michael Breen, Ioannis Chatzopoulos, Shannon Courtney, Bella D’Auteuil, Angelina DiCarlo, Kelly Do, Fareda El Gaderi, Lucas Faneuff, Sydney Fanion, Emily Flaherty, Emma Ganley, Sarah Garabedian, Michael Gardner, Griffin Handfield, Menexia Hatzopoulos, Kualim Johnson, Nolan Kennedy, Luke Laplante, Isabelle Lavallee, Danh Le, Joseph LeBlanc, Ethan Leonard, Julia Lussier, Colin Lutz, Amy Ly, Olivia Matthews, Luke Morin, Andrew Noonan, Sandra Phan, Jasmin Powers, Michael Prunier, Hannah Roberts, Victoria Robichaud, Jayda Rodriguez, Alli Schoenfeldt, Kyle Sebastyanski, Luana Sena, Rhiannon Sinkis, Meghan Sjogren, Justin Skaparas, Jaelynn Smith, Nicolas Spanos, Alex Stencel, Samuel Stencel, Alexis Strozina, Brett Sullivan, Alexia Thibodeau, Beau Tran, Serena Viruet, Christine Wanjiru, Elyse Whittemore, Christopher Willis, Jayne Zaparaskas, Julia Zona, Niccola Zona.

    High Honors: Samuel Almeida, Maura Anish, Andrew Coccio, Rachel Grandmaison, Carly Hayes, Amanda Healey, Ehmil Johnson, Kamryn Kobel, Jacob Matson, Kayla Nordman, Haley Norris, Aaron Pigeon, Cody Plasse, John Pokropowicz, Marika Renner, Danielle Schmeling, Caleb Scopetski, Philip Tran, Rezwana Uddin.

    GRADE 11

    Honors: Afuakonadu Agyeman, Allison Anusauska, Matteo Armendo, Nicholas Bartoli, Cody Berube, Nicholas Billings, Leo Boisvert, Derek Brigham, Shea Brown, Naomi Bylund, Makayla Camp, Conor Carlson, Cameron Carpenter, Sheeza Chaudry, Kayli Christie-Perez, Kylee Christie-Perez, Samantha Collins, Katelyn Cormier, Sarah Cronin, Haley Croteau, Molly Cutting, Damian Daniels, Angelique Davis, Thomas Day, Nicholas DiLeo, Jasmine Do, Lauren Duquette, Samuel Elwell, Maxwell Engel, Kristos Fotos, Marissa Gallant, Dawson Gemme, Emma Gervais, James Grady, Margaret Grady, Gianna Grici, Ashley Hayes, Erin Hazelhurst, Jason Henry, Lauryn Hines, Shea Jarvis, Mark John, Emma Johnson, Alexa Katsoulis, Nikoletta Kyiazis, Jaclyn Landry, Marcus LaPointe, Jillian Lavallee, Zachary Lazerick, Charlie Le, Grace Levansavich, Molly Lovely, Caleb Mackin, Christopher Martin, Benjamin Masiello, Sophia Mazzone, Alexis McGrail, Eric Merriam, Daniel Mojica, Tyler Nguyen, Breanna O’Neill, Isabelle O’Toole, Corinne Oliver, Samantha Perry, Gianna Petraitis, Tyler Pratt, Jennifer Premo, Michael Robichaud, Semran Sahota, Shannon Sampson, Alyssa Sarkisian, Alexander Scales, Joseph Scanlon, Matthew Smith, Parth Sonkusare, Hale Spafford, Simon Stevens, Maxwell Strong, Dylan Tang, Timothy Tran, Lily Tuthill, MaKenzie Ward, Collin Winkelmann, Neil Wykes, Gabriela Wyspianski, Eva Zink.

    High Honors: Nicholas Bisceglia, Sean Angus Campbell, Meaghan Contois, Olivia Curnen, Ryan Garabedian, Meghan Hines, Tiffany Huynh, Kaycee Ikonya, Kaitlyn Johnson, Madison Kapulka, Graham Latino, Jadon Latino, Giovanni Longo, Alexandra Masterson, Olivia Mikkila, Victoria Murphy,

    Vishvesh Patel, Madison Poshkus, Courtney Prescott, Jared Sargent, Emily Saucier, Sebastian Smerczak, Paige Souda, Jackson Sypeck, Dayna Tang, Emily Wambach.

    GRADE 12

    Honors: Matthew Backlin, Samantha Barrell, Emily Beavers, Brendan Benevento, Zachary Billings, Kayrin Brower, Craigon Confer, Olivia Copson, Megan Corey, Sydney Dinsdale, Angela DiTommaso, Amanda Doherty, Corey Duff, Carly Filliere, Samantha Foulkrod, Emily Frost, Alyssa Frotten, Rachel Griffin, Coleson Hammond, Julia Handfield, Zachary Hauge, Mackenzie Hebert, Christopher Inyagwa, Tyler Judice, Alexis Kamyck, Lauren Kennedy, Christopher Keyes, Jacob Landry, Gabrielle Lemanski, Brianna Leon, Isabella Lourie, Morgan Maher, Jonathan Marchant, Steven Marshall, Julianna Martinelli, Rachel McGrillen, Kaitlyn Miller, Delaney Nadeau, Breanna Niemiec, Kwame Opoku-Agyeman, Matthew Palmer, Dominic Papandrea, Ana Pietrewicz, John Pignataro, Kyle Powers, Timothy Prosser, Abigail Randall, Eric Rockwood, Alexander Rondon, Brian Sarkisian, Samantha Sheehan, Alexandra Simonian, Elizabeth Simonian, Jacob Stokes, Madison Swedberg, Brenda Ta, Rick Therrien, Kamryn White, William Wright, Danielle Zanchi, Andre Zink.

    High Honors: Madison Boulay, Brandon Burnett, Brighid Campbell, Hannah Cherry, Kerri Dowd, Kathryn Dudko, Rebecca Engel, Mikaela Gilbert, Steven Grampetro, Maggie Grogan, Padraic Halloran, Joshua Harburn, May Huynh, Emma Jette, Gwenyth Lutz, Andrw Millos, Tiffany Moen, Katelyn Norwood, Renee Ordway, Stephanie Peterson, Caroline Saltz, Jennifer Tarini, Matthew Tran, Bridget White.

    LEARNINGAubuRN HIGH ScHooL ANNouNcES HoNoR RoLL

    AUBURN — The following students have earned a place on the honor roll for the first trimester at Auburn Middle School.

    GRADE 6

    Honors: Omar Abu-Lail, Joseph Allain, Vaughan Bailey, Kyle Banfill, Ava Baviello, Jay Beaudet, Julia Brytowski, Rebekah Bugros-Mansfield, Bradley Burroughs, Riley Caruso, Brooke Castellano, Ian Clayton, Rachel Cowden, Liliana Delerme, Connor Dion, Arianna DiPadua, Brett Doherty, Isabella Gagnon, Makaylah Gagnon, Nicole Gallant, Morgan Greenidge, Dominic Hammond, Rylie Jimenez, Ingrid Johnson, Isadora Johnson, Cassandra Keaney, Trey Keller, Tyler Kohler, Sadie Kulma, Camryn LaPrad-Cabral, Nathan Mahoney, Grace Marin, Aaliyah Marquez, Brayden

    Martin, Julia Mathews, Kyra-Jane Matthews, Lia McDonald, Amanda McLaughlin, Vincent Miles, Madison Millette, Avery Mulligan, Dorina Muska, Sam Naeem, Peter Nhan, Alexis Nordman, Luca Parent, Lucas Peschiera, Konstantinos Pirperis, Nicole Pizziconi, Sebastian Plona, Yoanna Proko, Samuel Rundell, Casey Shrauger, Kayla Simpson, Isaac Swedberg, Alysha Szafarowicz, Jordan Tatro, Ava Thibeault, Rocco Vartabedian, Sophia Venditti, Emily Welch, Timothy Welch, Korey Wood.

    High Honors: Kweku Akese, James Almeida, Trevor Amero, Lucas Aucoin, Jenna Barber, Mya Benoit, Avery Bissessar, Jack Bjorkman, Alec Borelli, Joseph Brunsell, Maeve Condron, Erik Dupuis, Kiara Ellman, Isabella Faber, Kiernan Gardner, Nicholas Gillette, Andrew Hawley, Ryan Hunter, Kaitlyn Huynh, Alex

    Mercadante, Evan Mercadante, Mia Morrow, Jeremiah Murphy, Van Nguyen, Vanessa Paddock, Gia Patel, Tyler Poshkus, Morgan Ryan, Saige Sandberg, Leila Santos Diaz, Joshua Schnee, Anthony Seaman, Lexi Sens, Vivian Silva, Maggie Slomski, Lauren Smith, Samuel Soloperto, Grant Stannard, Ryan Sullivan, Jevin Ta, Emma Toscano, Katie Valentine, Jenna Whitsitt, Amanda Wilbur, Grace Wilson.

    GRADE 7

    Honors: Ethan Adamiak, Rafael Albino, Jack Beauregard, Thomas Bigelow, Cooper Boisseau, Jacksen Bolduc, Jordyn Bolduc, Cooper C’Miel, Lily-Ann C’Miel, Raffaele Capaldi, Gavin Cedrone, Daniel Chaffee, Saira Chaudry, Brianna Cota, Dilora Culani, Bianca Darwell, Samantha DeCell, Andrew DiLeo, Evan Facteau, Shea

    Fanion, Nora Foley, Michael Fortunato, Sofia Fortunato, Abigail Gaudreau, Anthony Gervais, Claudia Giffone, Jolena Houle, Logan Hughes, Faith Joslyn, Adam Khafaja, Justin Kisiel, Maximus Lajoie, Gabriel Lazerick, Nathan LeBoeuf, Mackenzie Mackin, Ava Magoun, Allison Mancini, Aidan McGrail, Eva O’Reilly, Molly O’Shea, Nicholas O’Toole, Mateo Peschiera, James Phillips, Hayden Plumb, Jayme Regan, Lana Rodriguez, Dylan Sampson, EllaMargaret Sanchez, MelodyAnn Sanchez, Zachary Scheible, Edward Seaver, Ted Spanos, Zachary Stomski, Briana Ta, Jacob Thomas, Declan Toomey, Silvia Wahba, Jonathan Walsh, Matthew Walsh, Ariana Weagle-Rodriguez, Leah Wentworth, Oscar Wyspianski.

    High Honors: Nishil Adina, Simon Benton, Ella Berg, Marta Brzoska, Quinn Cahill,

    Bryan Cavanaugh, Logan Costa, Zachary Cote, Isabella Doyle, Sophia Gawronski, Mallory Graves, Emma Hesselton, Patricia Howk, Alexis Lamarche, Morganne Lucier, Thomas Lutz, Gabrielle Mahoney, Ally McGill, Sydney Mercadante, Hanorah Murphy, Finn O’Donnell, Ama Opoku-Agyeman, Maggie Russell, Zoey Sandberg, Peyton Scopetski, Lydia Skaparas, Jenna Stencel, Natalie Zona.

    GRADE 8

    Honors: Jennifer Amlaw, Tyler Anderson, Madison Bogar, Owen Bond, Connor Bostock, Ava Brown, Patrick Bruso, Tommy Burny, Kyle Callaghan, Marshal Carpenter, Jackson Chaffee, Tinaya Chauvin, Wesley Cody, Kevin Cunningham, Gavin Dacri, Nicholas Fitzsimmons, Michael Frappier, Allison Frost,

    AubuRN MIddLE ScHooL ANNouNcES HoNoR RoLL

    Turn To HONOR ROLL page A14

  • EAST BROOKFIELD — Lamoureux Ford was among a select group of Ford Dealerships, less than 10% of all dealers nationwide, to be recognized with the 2016 President’s Award by Ford Motor Company. The prestigious award honors dealer-ships that have excelled in auto-motive retailing in 2016 by providing exceptional cus-tomer sales and service satisfaction.

    “Earning this award is a reflection of our entire staff’s commitment to delivering the best cus-tomer experience pos-sible,” say Lamoureux Ford’s owners Marc and Lionel Lamoureux. “We couldn’t be more proud to receive this recognition, especially since it comes from the people we value most – our customers. They’re the reason we were able to achieve this award.”

    The President’s Award was established in 1998. Dealers become eligible

    through survey responses from the customers related to their sales and service satisfaction.

    Lamoureux Ford has won the President’s Award for the 20th year in a row and 23 times over-all.

    4 • The Auburn news • Friday, January 5, 2018

    AlmAnAc

    AUBURN$393,587 4 Whitman Bailey Dr #4,

    J W Land & Development LLC, to Hedly, Linda L.

    $330,000 56 Pakachoag St, Patriot Homes LLC, to Ruco, Anna, and Rucco, Orgest.

    $246,000 23 Alpine Trl, Rose, Allan M, and Rose, Genevieve, to Mcneil, William J, and Daigle, Maurren A.

    $235,000 1202 Forest Park Dr #1202, Rafferty, Lisa, to Morrison, Damien, and Ferrante, Lisa.

    Real estate

    Most people are not selling homes on a regular basis. It is scary to think of how important it is to make the right deci-sion when hiring a Real Estate Agent. Think of what is important to you and make sure to ask questions around that to each person you interview. I would first suggest asking friends and family who they have used and had a good experience. Also, if you see the agents sign all around your town then I would interview them as well. I would suggest you interview 3 agents to ensure you are making the right decision. This is probably the largest financial transac-tion you will ever be involved in. The most important thing is trust, so you want to hire someone you can trust to truly put your needs in front of their own. You also want to make sure they have a track record of selling home that is better than the average agent. For the past the year, the average sales price in Worcester County for single family homes was $308,196 which means you will be spending around $15,000-$20,000 on the services of a Real Estate Agent. Below are some questions to ask the agent to help you discover if you are hiring the right person for the job.

    How many homes have you sold this year? This will let you know if they have recently been selling homes and

    have experience in the cur-rent Real Estate Market, since it is ever-changing.

    How many homes have you sold in the last 5 years? This will show you that they have consistently been helping people in this area sell homes over a period of time and their marketing plan must be working.

    Do you have a written marketing plan to get homes sold? It is important that the agent have a plan in place to sell your home rather than just “wing-ing it”. Some agents may have a plan they use for every home or customize the plan for each home they sell, but make sure they do have a plan.

    Do you have a full-time staff work-ing together to get my home under agreement and sold? This is important to know if when your agent is meet-ing with another seller that they are not missing valuable phone calls from buyers interested in your home. In addition, what if your agent goes on vacation? Is your home sale going on vacation too or is there a plan in place for coverage while they are gone.

    On average how many days does it take you to get an offer on your list-ings? This is especially important if you

    need to move by a specific timeframe and need to know you are selecting an agent that will get you moved in the timeframe that you need. I would also ask them to show the date for what the average

    agents takes to see how it compares.What is your list price to sales price

    ratio on homes you have sold? This will give you a good idea on how well the agents negotiate to get you the best price for the home they sell and will get you the best price for yours. I would ask here for them to show you date on the average agent in you area to ensure their ratios are above average.

    How quickly will you respond to buy-ers that call or email you about my home? This is important, knowing that it is crucial for an internet lead to be contacted within 5 minutes of the inqui-ry and hopefully while they are still searching the agents website. After 5 minutes the odds of them responding back diminishes greatly. People who are calling it is not as urgent but still best if they can have a live conversation with them or at least call back within an

    hour of them leaving a message.How quickly will you respond to other

    agents who have interested buyers in my home? It is important to respond quickly to questions as that will keep the buyers interest in the home. If they ask questions and it takes a few days to get a response, most likely the buyer will have moved on to another home.

    What type of regular training do you attend to keep you at the top of your game? The Real Estate Market is con-stantly changing and in order to help someone to sell their home quickly and for the most money then agents need to constantly be learning new techniques for marketing and skills for negotiat-ing. There have been studies done that the most successful agents on average spends 40% of their days in some sort of training to increase their skills.

    What percentage of your listings sell vs. expiring? When you decide to sell your home, you want to actually have it sell. This will help you see if the agents marketing strategy is effective to get homes sold. Just because an agent has lots of signs in yards in your area does not mean the homes are actually sell-ing.

    Questions to ask when interviewing Real Estate Agents

    JAMESBLACK

    reAltor’sreport

    “Every Town Deserves a Good Local Newspaper”

    Courtesy photo

    Pictured from left: Mark Rogowski (Boston Regional Manager- Ford), Lionel Lamoureux, Marc Lamoureux, and Vince Talia (Regional Manager- Ford Credit).

    Superior service and customer satisfaction earn Lamoureux Ford of East Brookfield Ford’s

    highest award: The President’s Award

    As we start a new year, I thought it might be a good time to take another look at which col-lectibles have been selling well and may con-tinue to sell well during the new year. Some of these items were in my top 10 antiques and collectibles list in 2015. There are additional items in this article though.

    Mid-century collectibles and furnishings continue to fetch strong prices at auction. Baby boomers who grew up in the 1940s through 1970s remember many of these col-lectibles from their youth. Younger collectors also appreciate the sleek lines and simplistic design of mid-century design.

    There are many mid-century “baby boom-er” collectibles that are selling well. We’ve auctioned comic books from the 1960s that have brought over $100 an issue. Older ones can bring even higher prices. A baseball card collection from the 1950s and ‘60s brought five fig-ures at a recent auction. Older sports memorabilia remains popular too. We sold a baseball with a drawing by George Sosnak that brought $3,500 at auction in 2017. One card of a star player in pris-tine condition can bring a figure in that range by itself. Toys remain popular. A toy robot from the 1960s brought a figure over $500 at one of our auc-tions a few years ago.

    Bicycles are also popular with collectors. Early high wheeled and turn of the century bicycles can bring five figure sums at auction. Many more modern bicycles also realize strong auction prices. Schwinn Sting-Ray “Krate” bikes from the late 1960s and 1970s featured high handle bars and banana seats. Some of these bicycles can bring fig-ures in the thousands. Benjamin Bowden designed the Spacelander bicycle in 1946. The futuristic bicycles were then produced in 1960. There are believed to be only 522 that were produced. They typically sell for five figure sums at auction.

    Military items remain popular with collectors. There has always been considerable interest in Civil War memorabilia. I’ve also seen increased interest in World War II artifacts in recent years. For example, we sold a diary of a captured American soldier in a German prison. The diary contained information on daily life in the camp and drawings. It brought several hundred dollars at auction.

    Coins remain a very popular collectible. Dollar coins, half dollars, quarters and dimes from 1964 and earlier are made with 90% silver. They are worth at least their weight in silver. Coins with

    rare dates can be worth much more than the silver value though. For example, we sold a silver dollar with a CC (Carson City, Nevada) mint mark that brought around $500 at auction in 2017. Many old gold coins are worth well over their scrap value as well.

    Other collectibles continue to bring strong prices at auction. Old movie, travel, advertising, Rock and Roll, cir-cus, sports and other posters are very desirable. The market is still great for old advertising signs and displays.

    Historical memorabilia still com-mands strong prices at auction. In 2017, we auctioned some postcards written by Alexander Graham Bell to his attor-ney. They rang up $1,000.

    We continue to pick up some great items for our January 25th live auction. My Evaluating your Antiques class at Bay Path Evening School is scheduled for March 5. We are scheduling some estate sales for after the holidays. Keep checking www.centralmassauctions.com for details.

    Contact us at: Wayne Tuiskula Auctioneer/Appraiser Central Mass Auctions for Antique Auctions, Estate Sales and Appraisal Services www.centralmassauctions.com (508-612- 6111), [email protected]

    Valuable collectibles for 2018

    WAYNE TUISKULA

    Antiques, collectibles

    & estAtes

  • • The Auburn news • 5 Friday, January 5, 2018

  • 6 • The Auburn news • Friday, January 5, 2018

    (SEAL) COMMONWEALTH

    OF MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

    DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT

    17 SM 009613ORDER OF NOTICE

    TO:Bruce J. Grici; Angela J. Griciand to all persons entitled to the ben-efit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act:, 50 U.S.C.c. 50 §3901 (et seq):Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)claiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Auburn, numbered 650 Oxford Street South, given by Bruce J. Grici and Angela J. Grici to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CitiMortgage, Inc., its successors and assigns, dated December 5, 2006, and record-ed with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 40314, Page 1, and now held by plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a com-plaint for determination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status.If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the

    Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before January 29, 2018 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act.Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER Chief Justice of this Court on December 14, 2017Attest: Deborah J. PattersonRecorder(16-015263 Orlans)January 5, 2018

    NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Premises: 68 Appleton Road, Auburn, Massachusetts By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Marguerite M. Beyer to Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a subsidiary of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. and now held by CIT Bank, N.A., said mortgage dated November 20, 2006, and recorded in the Worcester County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds, in Book 40227 at Page 98, as affected by an Assignment of Mortgage dated September 25, 2009, and recorded with said Deeds in Book 44930 at Page 60, as affected by an Assignment

    of Mortgage dated December 9, 2015, and recorded with said Deeds in Book 54699 at Page 244, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions in said mortgage and for the purpose of fore-closing the same will be sold at Public Auction on January 12, 2018, at 10:00 AM Local Time upon the premises, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit: The land in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Worcester, Town of Auburn, on the westerly side of Appleton Road, and bounded and described as fol-lows: BEGINNING at the point of inter-section of the westerly side line of Appleton Road and the northerly side line of Heritage Road; said point being the southeasterly corner of the Parcel to be described; THENCE N. 87 deg. 46’ 38” W along the northerly side line of Heritage Road for a distance of 143.95 feet to a point; THENCE N. 12 deg. 15’ 27” W along land now or formerly of Peters for a distance of 185.91 feet to a point; THENCE S. 87 deg. 46’ 38” E. for a distance of 136.13 feet to a point on the westerly side line of Appleton road; THENCE S. 14 deg. 34’ 00’’ E. along the westerly side line of Appleton Road for a distance of 188.02 feet to the point of beginning. The above-described parcel contains 25,210 square feet, more or less.

    For Grantor’s title see Deed record-ed at Book 11054, Page 313. The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication. For Mortgagor’s Title see Deed dated December 23, 1987, and recorded in Book 11054 at Page 313 with the Worcester County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds. TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within forty five (45) days after the date of sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. Marinosci Law Group, P.C. 275 West Natick Road, Suite 500 Warwick, RI 02886 Attorney for CIT Bank, N.A. Present Holder of the Mortgage Telephone: (401) 234-9200 MLG File No.: 17-04649 December 22, 2017December 29, 2017January 5, 2018

    LEGALS

  • • The Auburn news • 7 Friday, January 5, 2018

    LEGAL NOTICEMORTGAGEE’S SALE

    OF REAL ESTATEBy virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a cer-tain mortgage given by Deborah A. Ritacco and Nicholas J. Ritacco, Jr. to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as a nomi-nee for Cendant Mortgage Corporation d/b/a Coldwell Banker Mortgage, dated October 23, 2002 and recorded in Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 27846, Page 14 (the “Mortgage”) as affected by a Loan Modification Agreement dated May 20, 2007 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Book 42164, Page 112 and further affected by a Loan Modification Agreement dated March 1, 2011 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Book 47255, Page 273 of which mortgage GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-1, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Successor in Interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee is the present holder by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. to U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A., as trustee for GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-1 dated October 14, 2009 recorded at Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 45691, Page 126; assignment from U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Trustee for GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-1 to PHH Mortgage Corporation dated April 24, 2013 recorded at Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 51770, Page 31 and assign-ment from PHH Mortgage Corporation to GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-1, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Successor in Interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee dated July 31, 2014 recorded at Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 52658, Page 202, for breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 5 Sherman Avenue, Auburn, MA 01501 will be sold at a Public Auction at 11:00 AM on January 30, 2018, at the mortgaged premises, more particularly described below, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:The land in said Auburn, on the north-erly side of Sherman Avenue, bounded and described as follows: PARCEL 1 BEGINNING at the northwesterly cor-ner thereof at the southwest corner of Lot Numbered 36-C as shown on Plan hereinafter referred to, and on west by land now or formerly of one Arthur W. Warren;THENCE S. 80 degrees 29’ 57” E. by the southerly side of a part of said Lot numbered 36-C seventy-seven (77) feet to the northwest corner of Lot No. 34-C as shown on said Plan;THENCE S. 4 degrees 2’ 3” W. by the westerly side of Lot No. 34-C as shown on said Plan one hundred twen-ty-five and 63/100 (125.63) feet to the northerly side of Sherman Avenue, as shown on said Plan;THENCE N. 80 degrees 29’ 57” W. by the northerly side of said Sherman Avenue as shown on said Plan eighty-three (83) feet to land now or formerly of Arthur W. Warren;THENCE N. 6 degrees 43’ 33” E. by land now or formerly of said Arthur W. Warren one hundred twenty-five and 15/100 (125.15) feet to the place of beginning.CONTAINING 10,000 square feet of land more or less.BEING Lot No. 32-C as shown on a Plan of House lots in Auburn known as “Intervale” showing Sec. B and C as Revised September 20th, 1949 Waterman A. Warren, Owner, Arthur N. Pond, surveyor, and which said Plan is filed with Worcester District Registry of Deeds.Together granting the right to use, and also subject to the reservation of and excepting the right to use, in common, with all present and future owners of lots described on, and set forth by said Plan, all the drives, roads and avenues described and set forth on said Plan; subject to the reservations of and excepting however the right to lay, and/or right to permit the laying of water, sewer or drainage lines, power or light poles under, along and over said drives, roads and avenues in a manner so as not to unnecessarily interfere with the convenient use of said land. Subject to the following building restric-tions: Except that any single dwelling shall not cost less than $6,000; Except that any building erected on said prem-ises shall not be other than a one fami-ly type home.BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantor by deed dated April

    16, 2002 and recorded in Worcester District Registry of Deeds Book 26388, Page 387.PARCEL 2The land in Auburn, Worcester County, Massachusetts, located on the north-erly side of Sherman Avenue bounded and described as follows:BEG1NNNING at a stake located on the northerly side of Sherman Avenue which is north 80 degrees 29’ 57” west eighty-three (83) feet from a stone bound located at the intersection of the northerly side of Sherman Avenue and the westerly side of Elbridge Road;THENCE north 4 degrees 02’ 03” east by Lot #32C on a plan hereinafter referred to One Hundred Twenty-five and 63/100 (125.63) feet to a stake;THENCE south 80 degrees 29’ 57” east Eleven and 97/100 (11.97) feet to a stake;THENCE south 9 degrees 30’ 03” west by other land now or formerly of John Holmes, Jr. One Hundred Twenty-five and 06/100 (125.06) feet to the point of beginning.BEING the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Marguerite L. Holmes dated 10/10/2002 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds herewith as Instrument #208679.For mortgagor’s title see deed recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 27846, Page 12. The premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes and other municipal assessments and liens, and subject to prior liens or other enforce-able encumbrances of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and conditions of record and subject to all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier’s or certified check in the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement); high bidder to sign writ-ten Memorandum of Sale upon accep-tance of bid; balance of purchase price payable in cash or by certified check in thirty (30) days from the date of the sale at the offices of mortgagee’s attor-ney, Korde & Associates, P.C., 900 Chelmsford Street, Suite 3102, Lowell, MA 01851 or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee. The description for the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.Other terms to be announced at the sale.GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2004-1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-1, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Successor in Interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as TrusteeKorde & Associates, P.C.900 Chelmsford StreetSuite 3102Lowell, MA 01851(978) 256-1500Ritacco, Deborah A. and Nicholas J. Jr, 13-011175December 29, 2017January 5, 2018January 12, 2018

    NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

    Premises: 7 Renaud Drive, Auburn, MA By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mort-gage given by Jayson G. Silva, Eileen A. Silva, and Patricia A. Belanger to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Citizens Mortgage Corporation and now held by Citizens Bank, N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens, N.A., said mortgage dated June 24, 2005, and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 36632, Page 323, said mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Citizens Mortgage Corporation to Citizens Bank, N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens, N.A. by assignment dated May 27, 2016 and recorded with said Registry of Deeds in Book 55425, Page 274; for breach of the conditions in said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction on January 24, 2018 at 10:00 AM Local Time upon the prem-ises, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit:The land situated in Auburn, being Lot #4 on plan of land in Auburn, Worcester County, Massachusetts belonging to Emma M. Renaud, dated August 18, 1945, drawn by W.A. Nelson and recorded in the Worcester Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 140, Plan 1, and further bounded and described as follows:BEGINNING at a point at the south-westerly corner of the premises herein conveyed at land formerly of Eleanor W. Barrows, which point is N. 27 degrees 25’ E., two hundred sixty-sev-en and forty-nine hundredths (267.49) feet from the northerly line of Auburn

    Street;THENCE N. 27 degrees 25’ E. by land formerly of said Barrows, seventy-five (75) feet to a point;THENCE S. 62 degrees 35’ E. by land now or formerly of Whittaker, Irish, Perry Realty Co., one hundred (100) feet to a point;THENCE S. 27 degrees 25’ W. by Renaud Drive, seventy-five (75) feet to a point;THENCE N. 62 degrees 35’ W. one hundred (100) feet to the point of beginningSUBJECT to reservations recited in a deed from Emma M. Renaud to Reuben Lewis, et ux dated November 26, 1946 and recorded with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Book 3035, Page 279.PARCEL TWOThe land with buildings thereon situ-ated on the northerly side of Auburn Street, and being Lot No. 3 shown on Plan of Land belonging to Arthur X. Boucher, Jr., dated September 22, 1945 and revised March 28, 1949, by W.A. Nelson, C.E., and recorded with Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 158, Plan 45, bounded and described as follows:BEGINNING at the southwesterly cor-ner of said Lot No. 3 at an iron pipe set in the ground;THENCE S. 53 degrees 30’ 15” E. one hundred twenty-four and thirty hun-dredths (124.30) feet to an iron pipe set in the ground;THENCE N. 27 degrees 14’ 45” E. seventy-five (75) feet to an iron pipe set in the ground at land now or for-merly of one Wolfe;THENCE N. 53 degrees 30’ 15” W. one hundred twenty-four and thirty hundredths (124.30) feet to an iron pipe set in the ground;THENCE S. 27 degrees 14’ 45” W. seventy-five (75) feet by other land of the grantors to an iron pipe and the point of beginning.CONTAINING 9,150 square feet, more or less.PARCEL THREEA certain parcel of land at the northeast-erly terminus of Renaud Drive in the Town of Auburn, County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows:BEGINNING at a point at the south-westerly corner of the herein described premises, and point being the northerly most corner of the public layout of Renaud Drive;THENCE North 27 degrees 14’ 45” East, by land now or formerly of A & J Realty, Russell, one hundred and thirty-two and ten hundredths (132.10) feet to a point; THENCE South 62 degrees 45’ 15” East by said A & J Realty, Russell, sev-enteen and eighty-three hundredths (17.83) feet to a point at Lot B; THENCE South 27 degrees 14’ 45” West by Lot B, one hundred and thir-ty-two and ten hundredths (132.10) feet to a point in the northeasterly ter-minus of Renaud Drive;THENCE North 62 degrees 45’ 15” West by Renaud Drive, seventeen and eighty-three hundredths (17.83) feet to the point of beginning.CONTAINING, by calculation, 2,355.3 square feet of land and beginning delineated as Lot A on a plan entitled “Land in Auburn, Massachusetts, pre-pared for Kristin R. Tichenor and Peter J. Bigwood” dated April 7, 1992, and prepared for filing with the Worcester District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 661, Plan 49, by Bouley Brothers, Inc., Registered Land Surveyors, Worcester, Massachusetts.Parcel Three being subject to a Quitclaim Deed of Easement from Peter J. Bigwood, et ux, to Dorothy M. Prybyla dated June 23, 1992 and recorded in Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 14396, Page 117.All parcels are conveyed subject to and with the benefit of a variance of the Town of Auburn Zoning Board of Appeals recorded in Worcester District Registry of Deeds, Book 14153, Page 155, and a special permit from said Zoning Board recorded in Book 14153, Page 159.Subject to all rights, restrictions, res-ervations and easements of record insofar as the same are in force and applicable.For title reference see Deed Book 32340, page 97, 98 & 99.Property Address:7 Renaud DriveAuburn, MAThe description of the property con-tained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.For Mortgagor’s Title see deed dated May 7, 2005, and recorded in the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds, in Book 36632, Page 320.TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take pre-cedence over the said mortgage above described.FIVE THOUSAND ($5,000.00) Dollars

    of the purchase price must be paid in cash, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, certified check, bank trea-surer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale.Other terms to be announced at the sale.Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP1080 Main StreetPawtucket, RI 02860Attorney for Citizens Bank, N.A.f/k/a RBSCitizens, N.A.Present Holder of the Mortgage(401) 272-1400December 29, 2017January 5, 2018January 12, 2018

    (SEAL)COMMONWEALTH

    OF MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

    DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT

    17 SM 005353ORDER OF NOTICE

    TO:Kimberly M. Bridge a/k/a Kimberly Bridgeand to all persons entitled to the ben-efit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. § 3901 et seq.: M&T Bankclaiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real proper-ty in Auburn, numbered 1 Newland Street, given by Kimberly M. Bridge a/k/a Kimberly Bridge to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Salem Five Mortgage Company, LLC, dated September 24, 2012, and recorded in Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 49701, Page 128, and now held by Plaintiff by assign-ment, has filed with this court a com-plaint for determination of Defendant’s Servicemembers status. If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before FEB -5 2018 or you will be forever barred from claim-ing that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act. Witness, Judith C. Cutler, Chief Justice of this Court on DEC 20 2017Attest: Deborah J. PattersonRecorderJanuary 5, 2018

    (SEAL) COMMONWEALTH

    OF MASSACHUSETTSLAND COURT

    DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT

    17 SM 009552ORDER OF NOTICE

    TO:Max Freitas; Carmen I. Freitasand to all persons entitled to the ben-efit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act:, 50 U.S.C.c. 50 §3901 (et seq):U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trustclaiming to have an interest in a Mortgage covering real property in Auburn, numbered 101 Heritage Lane, Unit 101, Heritage Commons Condominium given by Max Freitas and Carmen I. Freitas to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., its succes-sors and assigns, dated December 1, 2005, and recorded with the Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 37948, Page 79, and now held by plaintiff by assignment has/have filed with this court a complaint for deter-mination of Defendant’s/Defendants’ Servicemembers status.If you now are, or recently have been, in the active military service of the United States of America, then you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. If you object to a foreclosure of the above-mentioned property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a written appearance and answer in this court at Three Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108 on or before January 29, 2018 or you will be forever barred from claiming that you are entitled to the benefits of said Act.Witness, JUDITH C. CUTLER Chief Justice of this Court on December 13, 2017Attest: Deborah J. PattersonRecorder(17-015215 Orlans)January 5, 2018

    LEGALS

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    We’ve reached the end of anoth-er year – which means it’s just about time for some New Year’s resolutions. Would you like to study a new language, take up a musical instrument or visit the gym more often? All these are worthy goals, of course, but why not also add some financial reso-lutions?

    Here are some ideas to think about:

    Increase contributions to your employer-sponsored retirement plan. For 2018, you can contribute up to $18,500 (or $24,500 if you’re 50 or older) to your 401(k) or sim-ilar plan, such as a 403(b), for employees of public schools and some nonprofit groups, or a 457(b) plan, for employees of local gov-ernments. It’s usually a good idea to contribute as much as you can afford to your employer’s plan, as your contributions may lower your taxable income, while your earnings can grow tax-deferred. At a minimum, put in enough to earn your employer’s matching contribution, if one is offered.

    Try to “max out” on your IRA. Even if you have a 401(k) or sim-ilar plan, you can probably still invest in an IRA. For 2018, you can contribute up to $5,500 to a traditional or Roth IRA, or $6,500 if you’re 50 or older. (Income restrictions apply to Roth IRAs.) Contributions to a traditional IRA may be tax-deductible, depend-ing on your income, and your earnings can grow tax-deferred. Roth IRA contributions are not deductible, but earnings can grow tax-free, provided you don’t start taking withdrawals until you are 59-1/2 and you’ve have had your account at least five years. You can put virtually any investment in an IRA, so it can expand your options beyond those offered in your 401(k) or similar plan.

    Build an emergency fund. Try to build an emergency fund contain-ing three to six months’ worth of living expenses, with the money held in a low-risk, liquid account. This fund can help you avoid dip-ping into your long-term invest-ments to pay for unexpected costs, such as a new furnace or a major car repair.

    Control your debts. It’s never easy, but do what you can to keep your debts under control. The less you have to spend on debt pay-ments, the more you can invest for your future.

    Don’t overreact to changes in the financial markets. We’ve had a long run of rising stock prices – but it won’t last forever. If we experience a sharp market down-turn in 2018, don’t overreact by taking a “time out” from invest-ing. Market drops are a normal feature of the investment land-scape, and you may ultimately gain an advantage by buying new shares when their prices are down.

    Review your goals and risk tol-erance. At least once in 2018, take some time to review your short- and long-term financial goals and try to determine, possibly with the help of a financial professional, if your investment portfolio is still appropriate for these goals. At the same time, you’ll want to re-eval-uate your risk tolerance to ensure you’re not taking too much risk – or possibly too little risk – with your investments.

    Do your best to stick with these resolutions throughout the com-ing year. At a minimum, they can help you improve your investment habits – and they may improve your financial picture far beyond 2018.

    This article was written by

    Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. Please contact Dennis Antonopoulos, your local Edward Jones Advisor at 5 Albert Street, Auburn, MA 01501 Tel: 508-832-5385 or [email protected].

    New Year’s - time

    for New Year’s financial

    resolutions

    Everything old is new again…

    As in, new year of course. Why the Gregorian calendar chose to turn the year in the dead of winter is mysteri-ous; perhaps to give people a reason to celebrate a mite. Most likely to adapt to the solstice holidays and continue that vein of thinking.

    Janus, the god for whom January is named, is the one looking both back-ward and forward; two faces and nei-ther of them looking terribly happy. So that too plays into the mythology. Let’s put the year change right…here…where we can say Janus is watching over the change and decrying what happened the last few months and is upset about what might happen com-ing up.

    Yeah, that makes sense.January isn’t much fun. It’s usually

    dark, and dreary and cold and snowy. There are no holidays in January. It’s a full 31 days long, no slack there.

    Bears and several other smaller mammals hunker down and just sleep through it. Smart.

    We don’t have any comedy relief this year with politics either.

    It’s the same old, same old there too. We do have government still paying its bills for a few more weeks at least, the highly lauded tax cuts included all kinds of hidden agendas that got approved as well with no debate and no one the wiser.

    Those who approve and think the government is going great are happy.

    Those who don’t are grumbling and trying to figure out how to change it.

    This was part of why 200+ years ago the debating founders attempted to put safeguards in place for the republic. Making certain there would always be debate, no one would ever have com-plete control, and despite the present climate of big money controlling the vote, no, ultimately the people will still eventually take it all back because they will realize their VOTES are what have the power. The candidates put up by the machines and the money get the publicity of course, but if the peo-ple truly wanted to vote their minds, they could easily defeat any of them; starting locally and working their way through the milieu.

    They just haven’t figured out that power yet.

    They did in Alabama earlier. It worked right there. The people voted. And their choice is now in the Senate.

    See, we have all been fed the pablum a long, long time. We don’t realize what we are capable of at all. There are ways to get what we want, locally, state and federal levels. But it takes attention and work.

    And we can’t wait for someone else to take the lead on it. We have to do it ourselves. In small groups, in local Democratic or Republican town com-mittees; local grassroots organizations for local causes, independent ventures. Don’t wait for someone else, and don’t decry what happened already; don’t be Janus. He is only a talking head, talking out of both sides of his dou-ble mouths and never accomplishing a thing.

    With 2018 having just made its grand entrance, I found myself wondering what to write in this inau-gural article of the New Year. Seriously question-ing my commitment to resolutions – other than to try to be the best person I can be - I decided instead to take a look back in time. This school year marks my tenth as Auburn’s proud Superintendent of Schools, having arrived in the fall of 2008. Considering my memorable time as Principal of the Bryn Mawr School from 2001 to 2006, in total I’ve been an educational leader in the Auburn Public Schools for fifteen years, constituting nearly 47% of my 32 year career in edu-cation to date.

    Upon my arrival in the fall of 2008, I posed three questions to staff, parents, community members and municipal leaders, committed to giving them all a voice in the direction in which the Auburn Public Schools should move. It was with sincere interest that I sought their opinions, recognizing that unless we did this work together – all of us with vested interests in the success of the Auburn Public Schools, both then and in the future – the foundation on which the work would be built would be shaky at best. Some of you may recall that when I assumed the role of Superintendent in the fall of 2008, I was the seventh educa-tional leader to guide the Auburn Public Schools in eight years. Some colleagues, friends and family members, I vividly recall, were startled by that fact, and you may be, too. Such a period of instability had left its mark on this District and while it was undoubtedly part of our past, I felt strongly, and many others agreed, that it need not define our future. In fact, I recall when I penned that article in January of 2009, that Dennis Waitley’s words lent guidance as I set forth on this project, believing that the lessons of our past can help set us in the right direction for our future: “Learn from the past, watch the present, and create the future.”

    The three questions posed were:What 3 things about the Auburn Public

    Schools make you the most proud and believe we must not change?

    What 3 areas of concern do you have regarding the Auburn Public Schools and believe we should consider changing to further improve it? and,

    What is your vision of the Auburn Public Schools and how it should look in 5-8 years?

    These questions were included in mul-tiple editions of the “Rockets Review,” with an invitation to answer them via e-mail, via phone interview or to meet with me in person being extended to all. These questions were mailed to all Town Meeting members, along with detailed information about the School Department’s request for the fall 2008 Special Town Meeting. And, these ques-tions were included in a fall edition of the various school newsletters. Respondents included members of elected Town Boards and Town Meeting members, par-ents, teachers, and community members, representing a cross-section of stakehold-ers.

    Borrowing from that article first authored in January of 2009, included herein are the “positives” that were noted by the respondents, along with commen-tary regarding their present status in January of 2018. Next week’s article will focus on the areas of concern that the respondents believed to be worthy of con-sideration for change, with an update after a decade of hard work and collab-oration. And finally, part three will be presented in the January 19th edition of the Auburn News, to include the vision as suggested by the respondents, likewise to include an update from my perspective.

    After the first six months in my role as Superintendent of the Auburn Public Schools, there were many lessons I had learned, with one that overshadowed all others: this is a District committed to its students, and despite challenges which arise from time to time, that commitment is unwavering. I can confirm, without equivocation, that unwavering commit-

    ment continues to this day and will do so well into the future.

    Of the three ques-tions asked, there was amazing agree-ment on what made the respondents most proud of the Auburn Public Schools and should not be changed. Nearly every respon-

    dent referenced the dedication and com-mitment of the teachers, administrators and staff. Numerous comments support-ed that belief including, there is a “per-sonal commitment of all teachers and administrators. I know that educators go into their chosen career hoping to make a difference and I have experienced that in many ways in the four years we have been in Auburn.” Others noted that the staff is, “warm, talented and caring,” with “pride of work demonstrated by school department staff at every level.” Another noted that “despite the challenges, they are serious about their profession.”

    Other “positives” that garnered multi-ple responses included the immense pride many feel in the beautiful Auburn High School facility; the welcoming, caring and nurturing small-town feel of the schools, especially at the elementary level; the hiring of the new Superintendent, with one respondent stating, “I believe what you say and I recognize a long tradition of education in your voice”; and the fact that we are a community-service orient-ed institution, with countless examples of activities, lessons and projects that instill in students the enhancement of their social development as well as aca-demic. Several were appreciative of the extracurricular offerings, the strong aca-demic program, the community involve-ment and commitment of volunteers who enhance the District’s programs at every level. Additionally, two noted their plea-sure with the fact that we have committed to a model of continuous improvement. We can always do better – to that end, we will work together to continually move in the direction of educational excellence.

    Finally, laced throughout many com-ments was “Auburn pride” – the belief that as a school district – and as a com-munity, I would contend – we have what it takes to be the high-achieving model to which others strive to emulate. One respondent expressed it well, “When the subject of the best public education pro-gram in Central Massachusetts comes up, Auburn should be on the tip of everyone’s tongue.”

    Fast forward ten years and while we certainly have further to go as a District – in fact, we always will – there is clear evidence of the progress that is being made. The former Julia Bancroft and Pakachoag Schools – once educating our third through fifth graders – were each recognized with a National Blue Ribbon by the U.S. Department of Education for their outstanding efforts in clos-ing achievement gaps. More recently, Auburn High was designated as a Silver Medal High School, earning the ranking of #31 in Massachusetts high schools and, more locally, the Telegram & Gazette gave the Auburn Public Schools a grade of “A” in its comparison with other cen-tral Massachusetts school districts, one of only 4 to have received that highest mark. In addition, our Rockets Marching Band continues to be recognized for its excellence, we have had students compete locally and nationally in robotics and fine arts competitions and our students con-tinues to excel in the classroom, on the field and on the stage.

    In closing, our work is far from over, but I am hopeful that the sign which hangs in the foyer of Auburn High School - “WE ARE AUBURN” - brings you as much pride as it does all of us in the Auburn Public Schools. Thank you for your continued support!

    To contact me to share an idea, a concern or to ask a question, I can be reached at 508-832-7755 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Thank you for your continued interest in and support of the Auburn Public Schools!

    We have reasons for the pride

    Dr. Maryellen Brunelle

    SuperintenDent of SchoolS

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    Happy Holidays!***Did you know candles don’t

    just cover up odors? They actually eliminate them by burning off the tiny odor par-ticles that permeate the air!

    ***

    Here’s a trick from the swinging sixties: Before a din-ner or party, light and then extinguish new candles as they will light more quickly and easily when you are ready to use them.

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