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2 SPENCER NEW LEADER • Friday, October 1, 2010<br />
Meagher’s experience not meager<br />
NEW PRINCIPAL TAKES REINS AT WIRE VILLAGE SCHOOL<br />
‘Black & White Martini<br />
Night’ at Publick House<br />
STURBRIDGE — The Tantasqua School<br />
Music Association will host a Black & White<br />
Dinner Martini Night located under the<br />
beautiful (heated) tent at the Publick House<br />
on Friday, Oct. 22.<br />
A martini contest and a silent auction preview<br />
will be held at 6:30 p.m. A buffet dinner<br />
will be held at 7:30 p.m., followed by the live<br />
auction. There will also be live entertainment<br />
throughout the evening.<br />
Tickets are on sale for $30 per person. If<br />
you are interested in purchasing tickets or<br />
for more information, call Lynne Conceison<br />
at (508) 347-1562 or Maryann Thorpe at (508)<br />
347-1592.<br />
• GHOULY THINGS • CHARMING TAILS •<br />
CATHY’S FAMILY SALON<br />
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BY GUS STEEVES<br />
NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER<br />
SPENCER — He may be new to Wire<br />
Village School, but Richard Meagher is anything<br />
but new to education, with 19 years<br />
under his belt.<br />
Beyond that, he notes, both parents were<br />
teachers in Worcester.<br />
“This is an opportunity to make a positive<br />
impact and form new relationships, but I’m<br />
also leaving some relationships,” he said,<br />
noting he maintains contact with staff at his<br />
last post, Northbridge Middle School. He<br />
spent nine years there as assistant principal,<br />
helping run a school notably different from<br />
his new one. Northbridge Middle is a<br />
“sprawling, 200-year-old building with a 20-<br />
year-old connection” and 800 students, while<br />
WVS opened just six years ago and has half<br />
that many students. Of course, they’re also of<br />
different ages; his old students were Grades<br />
5-8, and he noted “you want to keep 5 and 8<br />
separate for very good reasons,” but his current<br />
ones are Grades 4-6, which can mix more<br />
easily. The current school tends to operate in<br />
a “more nurturing” way while trying to promote<br />
“some independence,” while the middle<br />
school level is “more rigorous,” he said.<br />
Meagher himself seems to mix easily, presenting<br />
a relaxed demeanor even when<br />
inconvenienced. Maybe that has something<br />
Hearing on CDBG<br />
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BROOKFIELD — The Brookfield Board of<br />
Selectmen will hold a public hearing to discuss<br />
the town’s Community Development<br />
Strategy at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 in the<br />
Banquet Room at Brookfield Town Hall, 6<br />
Central St.<br />
The strategy identifies the town’s community<br />
development priorities and is used as a<br />
supportive document in seeking funds<br />
through the Massachusetts Department of<br />
Housing and Community Development Block<br />
Grant program. Priorities include housing<br />
rehabilitation, public infrastructure and<br />
social service projects, planning activities,<br />
and economic development initiatives. The<br />
strategy also establishes target areas for<br />
grant assistance and<br />
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ENDLESS SUMMER HYDRANGEAS<br />
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Gus Steeves photo<br />
Richard Meagher in his office at Wire Village School<br />
in Spencer.<br />
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prioritizes specific<br />
projects for which<br />
A STONEBRIDGE PRESS<br />
PUBLICATION<br />
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STAFF WRITER<br />
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(508) 909-4136<br />
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STAFF WRITER<br />
Gus Steeves<br />
(508) 909-4135<br />
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to do with his wide range of interests, which<br />
include cooking, running, racquetball, tennis<br />
and — appropriately for a teacher — books.<br />
He even once toyed with going to law school,<br />
but admits he is “very happy with that decision”<br />
not to, partly because his wife did.<br />
To Meagher, reading is crucial to “being a<br />
lifelong learner,” largely because it enables<br />
people to process things quietly and “enter<br />
another world.” That’s why he’s dismayed at<br />
statistics showing around half of the U.S.<br />
population reads less than one book a year.<br />
“Loving to read and understanding the joys<br />
of reading outside educational settings is<br />
huge,” Meagher observed. “It’s something<br />
we’ve gotten away from as a society.”<br />
His idea of literature is one he admits is<br />
somewhat uncommon, especially now. But it<br />
is also oddly appropriate given the current<br />
economic conditions, because Meagher<br />
favors authors who came of age in the 1920s<br />
and ’30s — John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald,<br />
William Yeats and Philip Roth.<br />
“It’s awe-inspiring some of the sentences<br />
they construct,” he said.<br />
Ironically, Meagher never really planned to<br />
teach. At Worcester State he took a class<br />
called “American Metropolitan Evolution”<br />
that interested him so much “I changed my<br />
funding may be sought.<br />
The Town of Brookfield is also concerned<br />
with regional activities that are often funded<br />
through the block grant program and continues<br />
to collaborate with the towns of Ware,<br />
Hardwick and Warren to address the same<br />
concerns. As such, regional priorities and<br />
activities will also be discussed.<br />
Interested people are invited to attend and<br />
are encouraged to provide input on the<br />
Community Development Strategy. For information<br />
about the meeting, please call<br />
Administrative Assistant Donna Neylon at<br />
(508) 867-2930, ext. 10.<br />
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508-885-3705<br />
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Closing Oct. 11th<br />
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major and got a degree in Urban Studies.”<br />
But, as many students quickly discovered<br />
upon graduating, his field did not have many<br />
jobs available. So he started his classroom<br />
career as a substitute in Worcester’s<br />
McGrath Elementary School in 1993 and<br />
eventually earned a master’s in education.<br />
He described that first school as “the perfect<br />
balance of good and struggling students,”<br />
but said there is a notable difference<br />
in the social mix in an urban school versus<br />
his current one. Wire Village, although not<br />
the same age range, has a socioeconomic mix<br />
similar to that in Northbridge, however, he<br />
said. There, Meagher saw the economy bite<br />
hard, with budget cuts costing the school a<br />
third of its faculty and support staff.<br />
“We had to revamp and work with the<br />
schedule and faculty to manage a building in<br />
dire circumstances,” he recalled, noting the<br />
strong support he received “certainly left a<br />
lasting impression.”<br />
“When your faculty understand the decisions<br />
you make as principal are based on<br />
what’s best for the students, you can work<br />
with that faculty,” he added.<br />
Gus Steeves may be reached at (508) 909-4135,<br />
or by e-mail at<br />
gsteeves@stonebridgepress.com.<br />
ALMANAC<br />
QUOTATION OF<br />
THE WEEK<br />
“Unlike a sports<br />
team, there is no<br />
bench. Everybody<br />
plays.”<br />
— David Prouty Marching Panther<br />
Band Director John Waage.<br />
REAL ESTATE<br />
TRANSACTIONS<br />
BROOKFIELD<br />
$226,500, 63 Webber Road, Renate M.<br />
Lowy to Catherine T. Zwarich and<br />
Raymond M. Zwarich.<br />
$223,000, 15 Lincoln St., Robert A.<br />
George and Giovina Ferrante George to<br />
William E. Freels and Wendy B. Freels.<br />
LEICESTER<br />
$125,000, 9 South Main St., Allyn H.<br />
Jones to Home & Land Development LLC.<br />
$100, 64 Mechanic St., Kevin P. Robert to<br />
Kevin P. Robert and Angela M. Robert.<br />
$123,000, 709 Pleasant St., Stephanie<br />
Whelan to Tanya A. Kimball.<br />
NORTH BROOKFIELD<br />
$1, 47 Murphy Road, Gregory T. Sinner<br />
and Allison G. Sinner to Sinner Family<br />
Trust (Andrea P. Sinner, Trustee).<br />
$1, 10 Evergreen St., Anelia A. Yanusas<br />
to 10 Evergreen Street Realty Trust<br />
(Anelia A. Yanusas, Trustee).<br />
$215,000, 55 Old East Brookfield Road,<br />
Kathleen M. O’Connor and Timothy L.<br />
Craig to Joseph M. Brown.<br />
SPENCER<br />
$100, 42 Lincoln St., Angela M. Cormier<br />
to Drew P. Cormier.<br />
$55,000, 36 Lake Ave., Federal National<br />
Mortgage Association to Gordon M.<br />
Clogston III and Sarah J. Clogston.<br />
$265,000, 139 East Charlton Road, Lisa<br />
M. Barrows and Matthew L. Barrows to<br />
James A. Krapf Jr. and Sarah Petty.<br />
$239,000, 44 Bacon Hill Road, David F.<br />
Kelley Jr. and Charlene A. Kelley to Brian<br />
Hrebicek.<br />
$85,000, 21 Sherwood Drive, Mark S.<br />
Maynard to David L. Cataldo.<br />
WARREN<br />
$9,500, Richardson Street, Brian<br />
Connolly to Susan M. Deslongchamps.<br />
$100, Coy Hill Road, Thomas K. Pajak to<br />
Suzanne M. Cote.<br />
$120,250, 105 Highland St., Estate of<br />
Louis C. Comeau and Estate of Bonnie L.<br />
Fitzgerald (Velma B. Comeau, Executrix),<br />
Regina A. Morrissey, Louis C. Comeau Jr.,<br />
Stanley Comeau, Robin Thomas, Lois C.<br />
Harvey, Louis C. Comeau III and Robert J.<br />
Morin Jr. to Eurico C. Machado and<br />
Alcidia C. Machado.<br />
WEST BROOKFIELD<br />
$80,000, 15 Winter St., John A. Paolucci<br />
to Myron W. Sibley Jr. and Tina M. Sibley.<br />
FRONT PAGE QUOTE<br />
This week’s front page quote is attributed<br />
to Robert Byrne.
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