What could be finer than restoring a diner? BM VILLAGE: : Local author plays part incommemorative book B:3 SPORTS , dance carry on long past St.Patrick's Day A&E A&E:Music KATHLEEN SZMIT PHOTO SILENT SILHOUETTES -The skyward-reaching trees on the Village Green in Hyannis are silhouetted against a glowing night sky, while all else lies shrouded in fog illuminated by streetlamps on a quiet March evening. Lightmoves . More projects on Route 6 soon By Edward E Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com The Sagamore Bridge down to one lane in each direction. Route 6's Exit 2 westbound closed. Median work between exits 2 and 4 re- quiring lane closures. The roundabout , longer lanes, and repair work at Exit 5. Bridge work at Exit 6. Ready to panic? Then the first thing you need to know is that none of this will be happening from Memorial Day through Labor Day. That leaves the shoulder seasons of spring and fall, those emerging CONTINUED ON PAGE A:4 Canal bridgework just the beginning UP FRONT Hyannis counsels itscouncilors If all the town councilors whose precincts are fully or partially in Hyannis, Hyannisport and West . Hyannisport voted the same way, ' they'd be one shy of a majority.A3 Neck beach in good shape,could see more plovers It could be good and bad news that Sandy Neck's front beach is in better shape than it's been in years.__ A:3 Decision nears on Mills school A decision regarding the vacant Marstons Millsschoolbuildingmay be made before the end of this school year, according to informa- tionprovidedat theMarch13school committee meeting. A:5 ; OPINION I Changingtechnology, • changing education I have had two recent conversa- : tions about whether or not cursive I writing has become obsolete. A:7 \ BUSINESS ; Nickerson preparesto sell I Mid-Cape Home Centers : Nickerson Lumber Company, a j CapeCodmainstaythattracesback i to 1800s schooner captain Oscar • Nickerson, is welcoming aboard a i new master. A:8 : VILLAGES ; What could befiner than ; restoring a diner? If anyone canmake a successof ; the newly opened BluePlate Diner, • in the space of the former Village • Landing Restaurant in Barnstable : Village, it is Sue.Finegold and her • partner Bob Calderone. B:1 Arts& Entertainment Back Section Business A:8 Classifieds A&&18-19 Events A&E3 Editorials A:6 HealthReport BJ Legate A&E:14-18 Movie Listings - A&E:2 Obituaries ~B:2 Op£d A:7 SeniorSense B:6 Sports B:3 Weather A:10 INSIDE THIS WEEK As he makeshis art, David Lewis teaches history By Ellen C. Chahey news@barnstablepatriot.com ELLEN C. CHAHEY PHOTOS HEAD OF CHRIST - This mahogany carving was the firstsculpture David Lewis of Osterville ever made. After hedeveloped an allergyto the wood's dust, he switched to bronze as his medium, and now, with statues in Hyannis, Centerville, Mashpee, and Barnstable Village to his credit, he's getting one ready for Buzzards Bay. GONE FISHIN' - David Lewis stands with a trophy he designed for the Stan Gibbs Cape Cod Canal Fishermen's Classic, based on a 1950s-era photograph of Gibbs. He's now working on a larger-than-life statue of the same figure for a public park near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Is sculptor David Lewis from Osterville? "Born and raised," he said, as was his father, and his father's father, and back. "In fact," he said, "my sister did a geneal- ogy and traced us to the second boat after the Mayflower." He said that Lewis Bay, which hugs the shores of Hyannis and Yarmouth, "is supposed to be named after a relative." For good measure, Lewis and his wife Nancy raised their four children in a house near a bog and the Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuary. They've since sold that house, but moved within sight of it, to a home that used to be Lewis's studio and still houses a small workshop in the basement. Lewis knows from basements. He's trained as a plumber. The art came later, and is entirely self-taught. "In 1975, 1grabbed some tools and a hunk of mahogany and carved a head of Christ," he said of his first sculpture, in- spired by a retreat he'd attended. He stayed with the woodcarving for years, even getting commis- sions from Msgr. Ronald Tosti, who was starting Christ the King, the Roman Catholic par- ish in Mashpee, and who wanted the church building to feature the work of local artists. Today, the church has Lewis's life-size carvings of Jesus prepar- ing to go into the water with John the Baptizer (they took 46 months to complete, he said) and of Mary and Joseph. Then a strange and scary thing happened. Lewis began to have trouble breathing, and one day couldn't even get from his studio to his house except, in the last minutes, by crawling. He had contracted a rare ill- ness called "mahogany asthma." "I had to stop carving," he CONTINUED ON PAGE A:5 SHAPING A LIFE THROUGH SCULPTURE | Endangered ; minnow canbe I protected ; By David Still (I : dstill@barnstablepatriot.com DAVID STILL II PHOTO FOR DEEPER WATERS- Mill Pond in Marstons Mills,seen here fromthe back side,could seethe accumulated siltthat'smade ita shallower water body overtime .dredged if permitting goes well. It appears an endangered minnow can be accom- modated as part of the Mill Pond Restoration Proj- ; ect in Marstons Mills. : An Environmental No- : tification Form (ENF) was filed with the Massachusetts Department of Environ- ; mental Protectionthisweek, i the first, but important , • step in getting the dredging permitted. : Initial permitting work on the project was halted : three years ago after the : endangered bridle minnow ; wasfound to be livingthere. : The work was picked up again through the Cape Cod WaterProtection Collabora- ¦ fiveas part of a three-project demonstration on alterna- ! rive restoration methods to reduce nitrogen. These "at- tenuation" projects seek to increase a natural system's ability to handle increased levels of nutrients, such as nitrogen, before waters reach the estuaries. The Mill Pond project is seen asbeing able to remove a significant amount of ni- trogen from the freshwater Mills River system before it empties into the Three Bay area. It was that potential that drew the Collaborative to it and made it part of the pilot project. The project isn't small. Conservation Administra- tor Rob Gatewood said the plan is to bring most of the pond to its natural bottom, removing up to 10 feet of silt in some places. There will remain some shallower areas for bridle shiner habi- tat, he said. .Gatewood said that a "synergy"developed around the project through the work of Bob Golledge of Golledge Strategies and Solutions, a consultant to the Collaborative, and the engineering firm of Horsely Witten Group in Sandwich, which drafted the ENF. The goal is for the project to emerge from this process with no reviewing agency seekinga full Environmental Impact Report. Through Golledge, a former DEP director, Gatewood said meetings were arranged with key agencies in advance of the filing. "With fingers crossed," Gatewood said that the filing went forward with a sense of optimism about that process. Even so, he anticipates another two years worth of permitting through local and state agencies, perhaps through the Army Corps of Engineers,before any dredg- ing could occur. In addition , the town will pay something of a "minnow betterment ," covering the cost of capturing bridle min- nows, rearing offspring and returning them to the pond after the project. Gatewood credits Golledge with find- ing a program at Dighton AgriculturalTechnical High School capable of doing the work at reasonable costs. Mill Pond dredging moves ahead Agreement with | former treasurer I a public record I By David Still II ; dstill@barnstab!epatnot.com A settlement agreement between the Town of Barnstable and its former town treasurer is a public document subject to disclosure, : according to the Massachusetts Public Records Division. In a March 8 letter to Town Attor- ney Ruth Weil, Assistant Director of the Public Records Division Shawn Williams rejected all six arguments offered by the town for nondisclo- ¦ sure. The Division indicated that any : portion of the settlement that meets certain exempted standards may be properly redacted , but the entirety CONTINUED ON PAGE A:10 | Town ordered I to release |document , OCR Text: What could be finer than restoring a diner? BM VILLAGE: : Local author plays part incommemorative book B:3 SPORTS , dance carry on long past St.Patrick's Day A&E A&E:Music KATHLEEN SZMIT PHOTO SILENT SILHOUETTES -The skyward-reaching trees on the Village Green in Hyannis are silhouetted against a glowing night sky, while all else lies shrouded in fog illuminated by streetlamps on a quiet March evening. Lightmoves . More projects on Route 6 soon By Edward E Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com The Sagamore Bridge down to one lane in each direction. Route 6's Exit 2 westbound closed. Median work between exits 2 and 4 re- quiring lane closures. The roundabout , longer lanes, and repair work at Exit 5. Bridge work at Exit 6. Ready to panic? Then the first thing you need to know is that none of this will be happening from Memorial Day through Labor Day. That leaves the shoulder seasons of spring and fall, those emerging CONTINUED ON PAGE A:4 Canal bridgework just the beginning UP FRONT Hyannis counsels itscouncilors If all the town councilors whose precincts are fully or partially in Hyannis, Hyannisport and West . Hyannisport voted the same way, ' they'd be one shy of a majority.A3 Neck beach in good shape,could see more plovers It could be good and bad news that Sandy Neck's front beach is in better shape than it's been in years.__ A:3 Decision nears on Mills school A decision regarding the vacant Marstons Millsschoolbuildingmay be made before the end of this school year, according to informa- tionprovidedat theMarch13school committee meeting. A:5 ; OPINION I Changingtechnology, • changing education I have had two recent conversa- : tions about whether or not cursive I writing has become obsolete. A:7 \ BUSINESS ; Nickerson preparesto sell I Mid-Cape Home Centers : Nickerson Lumber Company, a j CapeCodmainstaythattracesback i to 1800s schooner captain Oscar • Nickerson, is welcoming aboard a i new master. A:8 : VILLAGES ; What could befiner than ; restoring a diner? If anyone canmake a successof ; the newly opened BluePlate Diner, • in the space of the former Village • Landing Restaurant in Barnstable : Village, it is Sue.Finegold and her • partner Bob Calderone. B:1 Arts& Entertainment Back Section Business A:8 Classifieds A&&18-19 Events A&E3 Editorials A:6 HealthReport BJ Legate A&E:14-18 Movie Listings - A&E:2 Obituaries ~B:2 Op£d A:7 SeniorSense B:6 Sports B:3 Weather A:10 INSIDE THIS WEEK As he makeshis art, David Lewis teaches history By Ellen C. Chahey news@barnstablepatriot.com ELLEN C. CHAHEY PHOTOS HEAD OF CHRIST - This mahogany carving was the firstsculpture David Lewis of Osterville ever made. After hedeveloped an allergyto the wood's dust, he switched to bronze as his medium, and now, with statues in Hyannis, Centerville, Mashpee, and Barnstable Village to his credit, he's getting one ready for Buzzards Bay. GONE FISHIN' - David Lewis stands with a trophy he designed for the Stan Gibbs Cape Cod Canal Fishermen's Classic, based on a 1950s-era photograph of Gibbs. He's now working on a larger-than-life statue of the same figure for a public park near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Is sculptor David Lewis from Osterville? "Born and raised," he said, as was his father, and his father's father, and back. "In fact," he said, "my sister did a geneal- ogy and traced us to the second boat after the Mayflower." He said that Lewis Bay, which hugs the shores of Hyannis and Yarmouth, "is supposed to be named after a relative." For good measure, Lewis and his wife Nancy raised their four children in a house near a bog and the Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuary. They've since sold that house, but moved within sight of it, to a home that used to be Lewis's studio and still houses a small workshop in the basement. Lewis knows from basements. He's trained as a plumber. The art came later, and is entirely self-taught. "In 1975, 1grabbed some tools and a hunk of mahogany and carved a head of Christ," he said of his first sculpture, in- spired by a retreat he'd attended. He stayed with the woodcarving for years, even getting commis- sions from Msgr. Ronald Tosti, who was starting Christ the King, the Roman Catholic par- ish in Mashpee, and who wanted the church building to feature the work of local artists. Today, the church has Lewis's life-size carvings of Jesus prepar- ing to go into the water with John the Baptizer (they took 46 months to complete, he said) and of Mary and Joseph. Then a strange and scary thing happened. Lewis began to have trouble breathing, and one day couldn't even get from his studio to his house except, in the last minutes, by crawling. He had contracted a rare ill- ness called "mahogany asthma." "I had to stop carving," he CONTINUED ON PAGE A:5 SHAPING A LIFE THROUGH SCULPTURE | Endangered ; minnow canbe I protected ; By David Still (I : dstill@barnstablepatriot.com DAVID STILL II PHOTO FOR DEEPER WATERS- Mill Pond in Marstons Mills,seen here fromthe back side,could seethe accumulated siltthat'smade ita shallower water body overtime .dredged if permitting goes well. It appears an endangered minnow can be accom- modated as part of the Mill Pond Restoration Proj- ; ect in Marstons Mills. : An Environmental No- : tification Form (ENF) was filed with the Massachusetts Department of Environ- ; mental Protectionthisweek, i the first, but important , • step in getting the dredging permitted. : Initial permitting work on the project was halted : three years ago after the : endangered bridle minnow ; wasfound to be livingthere. : The work was picked up again through the Cape Cod WaterProtection Collabora- ¦ fiveas part of a three-project demonstration on alterna- ! rive restoration methods to reduce nitrogen. These "at- tenuation" projects seek to increase a natural system's ability to handle increased levels of nutrients, such as nitrogen, before waters reach the estuaries. The Mill Pond project is seen asbeing able to remove a significant amount of ni- trogen from the freshwater Mills River system before it empties into the Three Bay area. It was that potential that drew the Collaborative to it and made it part of the pilot project. The project isn't small. Conservation Administra- tor Rob Gatewood said the plan is to bring most of the pond to its natural bottom, removing up to 10 feet of silt in some places. There will remain some shallower areas for bridle shiner habi- tat, he said. .Gatewood said that a "synergy"developed around the project through the work of Bob Golledge of Golledge Strategies and Solutions, a consultant to the Collaborative, and the engineering firm of Horsely Witten Group in Sandwich, which drafted the ENF. The goal is for the project to emerge from this process with no reviewing agency seekinga full Environmental Impact Report. Through Golledge, a former DEP director, Gatewood said meetings were arranged with key agencies in advance of the filing. "With fingers crossed," Gatewood said that the filing went forward with a sense of optimism about that process. Even so, he anticipates another two years worth of permitting through local and state agencies, perhaps through the Army Corps of Engineers,before any dredg- ing could occur. In addition , the town will pay something of a "minnow betterment ," covering the cost of capturing bridle min- nows, rearing offspring and returning them to the pond after the project. Gatewood credits Golledge with find- ing a program at Dighton AgriculturalTechnical High School capable of doing the work at reasonable costs. Mill Pond dredging moves ahead Agreement with | former treasurer I a public record I By David Still II ; dstill@barnstab!epatnot.com A settlement agreement between the Town of Barnstable and its former town treasurer is a public document subject to disclosure, : according to the Massachusetts Public Records Division. In a March 8 letter to Town Attor- ney Ruth Weil, Assistant Director of the Public Records Division Shawn Williams rejected all six arguments offered by the town for nondisclo- ¦ sure. The Division indicated that any : portion of the settlement that meets certain exempted standards may be properly redacted , but the entirety CONTINUED ON PAGE A:10 | Town ordered I to release |document , Z ArchiveInABox,Car Collections,American Muscle,Chevy,054-bar-2012-03-16-0001.pdf,054-bar-2012-03-16-0001.pdf Page 1, 054-bar-2012-03-16-0001.pdf Page 1