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architect who designed the four-story
building and its soaring enclosure for a
Foucault pendulum.
'About five years ago, the architect
met with the science department
collectively and then each of us
individually and visited classes so that
he would know the sorts of things we
knew,"Bartlett recalled."He was avery,
very good listener as well as a brilliant
architect."
Each teacher, Bartlett said, "had
different ideas about our classrooms.
(Bellingrath ) liked the idea of
individualizing the rooms and not just
having one plan. He and the physics
teacher (Christopher Kelly) and Mr.
Evans were the ones who thought of
the pendulum."
Said pendulum wasthe centerpiece of
lastweek'sevents,withstudentsConnor
McCann and Lorisa Vellone snipping a
ribbon to setitinmotion above asatellite
photograph of Cape Cod,the Islandsand
Southeastern Massachusetts.
SPORTS
BHS serves up boys
volleyball
If the athletes who went out for
Barnstable High School's new boys
volleyball team wanted to know what
to expect from their coach, all they had
to do was ask a player on the school's
girls volleyball team.
"My approach to coaching athletes,
athletes are athletes," said Tom Turco,
who on Jan. 20 was named head coach of
the fledgling program by BHS Athletic
Director Steve Francis. "I can't coach
any other way. I'm not going to coach
any other way."
During the past 18 years, Turco has
developed the most successful girls
volleyball program in the state. His
teams have won nine state Division 1
championships,including the last three
in a row. Those three teams all went
undefeated.
Kennedy ice fertile ground
for BHS girls hockey
Six-year-old Grace Mclnerny was on
ice skates for the first time.
TremiaField.aseniorontheBarnstable
High School girlshockey team,had been
guiding her around Kennedy Memorial
Rink for a little while, helping her figure
out how to navigate the slippery surface
on unfamiliar footwear.
Was she starting to get the hang of it?
"Kinda," Mclnerny said in a small
voice.
And how did she feel about it?
Her face lit up.
"Excited," she declared.
Mclnerny was one of more than 300
girls between the ages of 5 and 14 who
took advantage of an 85-minute open
skatingsessionsponsored byBarnstable
High School Girls Ice Hockey, the BHS
team's non-profit booster club.
The turnout was more than double
what the club and the team had hoped
for, said Paul Logan , club general
manager.
"We're thrilled to see the number of
girls that got a chance to skate," Logan
said afterward. "Hopefully they'll come
back and either figure skate or play
hockey."
Green BHS boys swim team
making strides
They may be few in number and short
on experience,but they're noless serious
about their endeavor.
With just 13 members, and only four
returnees from last year, the BHS boys
swim team has other objectives besides
winning meets.
"They work hard," said coach Sarah
Newcomb. "They're at practice every
day,and every single day they're getting
better. Every single day."
NOW ON-LINE: An efficient
history of Cape Cod property
Wondering about the history of your
property? Check the Barnstable County
Registry of Deeds, as records dating to 1807
were digitized, made searchable and place
on-line this year.
"We wanted to have effectively a virtual
registry online ... to allow as much access
to our information as we could," Register
of Deeds Jack Meade said.
Once completed,the database willextend
back to Jan. 1, 1704, although that date is
a bit deceptive.
Hampering the effort was an event that
occurred nearly 180 years ago. On Oct. 22,
1827 a fire consumed the Barnstable County
Court House, which stored the then-93 books
of the Registryof Deeds. Onevolume, Book 61
covering roughly the year of 1806, was saved.
Meade said having the full volume of
registryrecords makes searches both more
thorough and faster.
Catboat Sarah stirs
A day before area groundhogs stirred in
their burrows to maybe get a little glimpse
of shadow or sunshine, there was a stirring
of sorts at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum
on South Street in Hyannis.
Feb. 1saw the catboat replica Sarah being
"turned down" as part of her construction
schedule.Under thewatchfuleyesofmuseum
boat-buMer Mark Willdnsand aclministrator/
education director Cathrine Macort, and
assisted by a group of volunteers, Sarah was
heeled carefully over on her starboard side so
that shecouldmore easilyreceivehergarboard
planking. The boat , as she is presently
timbered out, already weighs about a ton.
The new cat is modeled on the classic 19-
foot boat constructed in 1886by Osterville's
Herbert F Crosby, now sitting in front of the
Hyannis museum.
The boat' s projected launch date is
expected to be sometime before the end
of 2007.
Unearthed timbers on beach
recalled as 'the old wreck'
When 92-year-old Laurence Bearse was
growingup in Centerville,it'sfair to saythat
thingswere quite different. Pavement hadn't
come to most of the village and Centerville
Beach, as it was known, had rolling dunes
behind it and little development nearby.
It wasalso atime close enough to thetown
and village's grand seafaring days that ship
remains on the beach weren't considered
terribly unusual.
Part ofBearse'sCentervillewasunearthed
inDecember,2005, asthe townofBarnstable
prepared to dredge the upper reaches of
the Centerville River. Timbers from what
Bearse and his family called "the old wreck"
were pulled from the sand to make way for
the basins needed to dewater the material
dredged from the river.
"From the time I could get to the beach,
the wreck was on the beach," Bearse said.
The wreck never had a name associated
with it; the story his parents told him was
that it originally wrecked on Martha's
Vineyard, but was dislodged in a big storm
and brought to Centerville.
But whether it is actually part of a ship
was what Vic Mastone, director and chief
archaeologist for the state 's Board of
Underwater Archaeological Resources,was
trying to figure out.
Departing assessor advises
'change in system'
Contrary to popular belief, Barnstable
chief assessor Paul Matheson didn't retire
because of the tax revolution ofthe prior two
years or to while away hours on the links in
Florida where he has purchased a home.
Health issuesinhisfamilyandthe desireto
spend more time together were the greater
motivating factors, he said.
Still, people close to him say the public
reaction to his first revaluation during his
first year on the job and the subsequent
tax policy debates, often bitter, hastened
the decision.
Matheson'sadvice to taxpayers statewide
is to agitate for changes in the overall real
estate tax system.
During his 4-year tenure, some assessed
values shot up by 150 percent or more,
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New Hyannis chamber
director makes case for
backing business
"What's good for General Motors
is good for the U.S.A." became a pro-
business slogan in the 1950s. The new
executive director of the Hyannis Area
Chamber of Commerce wants to help
people see that what's good for the
members of her organization is good
for all.
"I, think that the Chamber has a
mission," said Monica Bienert (now
Parker), "and that mission is to help
build a robust business community. I
thinkthat relates to abetter community
at large."
She was winding up her job as
director of development for the Latham
Centers.
"We are one of the largest employers
on the Lower Cape," Bienert said of
the agency. "There are 200 full-time
year-round employees, and we have an
economicimpact tothe area ofBrewster
of several million dollars."
Bienert'spassionfor the contributions
of non-profit businesseshelped lead her
to apply for the Chamber job.
Penn family salutes Irish
Village owner
His grandfather, Rick Penn said,
"would rather make a friend than make
a sale."
Penn joined family members Jim
and Milton Penn to congratulate a new
friend, Cape Cod Irish Village owner
Jack Hynes of West Yarmouth, who
received the seventh annual Abraham
Penn CommunityAwardatPuritanCape
Cod's Main Street, Hyannis store.
HyneswasnominatedbytheYarmouth
Chamber of Commerce assomeonewho
"treats his business like a family," a
theme sure to resonate with the multi
generational Puritan executives.
"He cares for his employees like they
are his adult children and his guests
as if they are his favorite out-of- town
relatives," Rick Penn said.
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HIGH RISE -- Helped by the nor'easter and near-full moon, high tide late Sunday morning
found Northside waters higher than usual. The bridge linking Barnstable to Yarmouthport
between Keveney and Mill lanes provided a good vantage point. It was the first storm of any
significance in 2006, dumping about a foot of snow across the Cape.