Plymouth Youth Services Librarian Margaret McGrath meets with some curious kindergartners.
The Manomet Current recently visited Manomet Elementary School for their Community Helpers Day. The event gave MES kindergartners a chance to meet local educators and first responders, among others, to learn about what they did.
We had a chance to speak with some of the students.
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E. Gordon Ozelius, 86, of Manomet, passed away March 6, 2014.
He was born to the late Gustav Edwin and Margaret (Linde), Dec. 21, 1927, in Brockton. Gordon graduated from Brockton High School in 1945 and was drafted upon graduation into the Army. He proudly served in General Douglas MacArthur’s Honor Guard in the US Army of Occupation in Tokyo following World War II and was a long time member of the Honor Guard Association. He received a BA in Teacher Education from Springfield College in 1952.
Gordon grew up in the Campello Swedish section of Brockton and was the owner of Campello Package Store. After moving in 1976, Gordon was an active member of the Manomet community. He owned Dutchies Greenhouses, and served as past secretary and president of the Manomet-Cedarville Kiwanis Club.
Gordon is survived by his beloved wife of 59 years, Connie (Verkade) and his five children: Theodore and his wife Marilyn, Diane and Douglas all of Plymouth; Daniel of Brockton; Laurie and her partner Ann, of White Plains, New York as well as three grandchildren Erik, Katie and Pasha, and brother Edwin and his wife Irene from Woburn and cousins Janet Ketron and Jack Linde from Indiana and Chris Linde from Florida
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or to Boston Medical Center.
The wake is at the Richard Davis Funeral Home 619 State Road, in Manomet on Thursday March 13, 2014 from 4-8 p.m.. Private burial will be held at a later date at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne.
On line condolences can be made at richarddavisfuneralhome.com
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March 5
7:51 a.m. Domestic disturbance on State Road
1:57 p.m Vandalism on Long Pond Road
Graffiti in PSHS bathroom.
5:56 p.m. Suspicious activity on Highland Terrace
March 6
12:26 p.m. Larceny on State Road
March 7
5:54 a.m. Domestic disturbance on Indian Avenue
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Mass Maritime student Stefan Gustafson shows off some pitch pine during his presentation to the Conservation Commission.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy students Stefan Gustafson and Chris Talbot have been studying the region’s pine barren forest, which extends from Kingston to Provincetown, making it the second largest such forest in the world after the one in New Jersey.
The pair are interns for the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance, which is working on an assessment of the rare ecological system. They presented their work to the Conservation Commission last week.
According to SEMPA Vice President Carolyn Gould, the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences began a study of pine barrens, but shelved it after they began to focus more on global issues.
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State Police arrested a Buzzards Bay man for drunk driving after he hit a car, and crashed his own, on Route 3, Wednesday night.
According to Trooper Todd Nolan, state police were called around 6:10 p.m. by a caller who said she had been hit from behind near Exit 3 Southbound by a truck that fled the scene. About 5 minutes later that vehicle was found in the woods. The driver had left the truck, leaving two people inside, Nolan said.
Plymouth police found the driver, Paul Gibbs, walking along the road, according to Plymouth Police Captain John Rogers. A Plymouth police canine unit was used to local Gibbs, Nolan said.
Gibbs, 43, was taken to South Shore Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He will be summonsed to court on charges of OUI and marked lanes violation, Nolan said.
One of his passengers, a 35-year-old Sagamore Beach man was also taken South Shore Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the other car, a 57-year-old Scituate woman was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess-Plymouth with non-life-threatening injuries.
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March 3
4:03 p.m. Fraud on Long Pond Road
March 4
12:39 p.m. Harassment on Belltree
3:33 p.m. Larceny on State Road
Bog View Road man, 52, arrested at State Road for shoplifting by concealing merchandise.
6:05 p.m. Suspicious activity on State Road
6:32 p.m. General disturbance on Tide View Path
10:12 p.m. Check wellbeing on Winslow Avenue
Peter Livas, 29, of Winslow Avenue, arrested for domestic assault and battery.
March 5
3:48 a.m. Suspicious activity on Ship Pond Road
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There always have been aspects of Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station that come off as unideal but acceptable to many. But there are some features about Pilgrim that make the unideal seem desirable and give new meaning to the word unacceptable. Pilgrim’s cooling system is one of these features.
Pilgrim has been operating with the same once-through water cooling system that it began with in 1972. Over this time the system has done immeasurable damage to Cape Cod Bay’s marine life and aquatic ecosystem. What’s more is that, although Entergy was given a permit to utilize this water cooling system, the permit expired in 1996, meaning that for the past 18 years Pilgrim has been essentially fishing without a license.
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Willard Whittemore, 101, passed away on March 1, 2014 at Plymouth Rehab and Healthcare Center.
Willard was born on August 30, 1912 in Agawam. After graduating from National Bible Institute in 1937, he married the love of his life, Jennie, to whom he was married for over 76 years. Ordained several days after the wedding, Willard served as pastor of churches in Grafton, New York and Dunbar, Pennsylvania.
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The Girl Scouts are holding an informational meeting at Manomet Elementary School on Thursday, March 6.
This meeting is for girls who attend Manomet and Indian Brook Elementary Schools.
For more information, call Brenda at 774-766-6947 or e-mail bwheelock@girlscoutseasternmag.org
