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May 17, 2015
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Borden Street residents’
complaints addressed by Westport’s “highway men.”
Westport Art Group invites Kids to Create!
Fall River/Freetown State Forest Stakeholder
Meeting.
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Borden
Street residents’ complaints addressed by Westport’s “highway men.” EverythingWestport.com Sunday,
May 17, 2015 Borden Street
residents have long complained about dangerous road and traffic conditions on
Westport’s southwest-most side street off Route 6. Automobiles zipping through the strip mall’s parking lot, around a stop
sign, and going the wrong way onto Route 6 to take a western turn through the
Route 6 median strip cut out towards Fall River. And you don’t even want to talk about the cars coming in from the west
on America’s oldest highway, cutting across the entrance to Borden Street and
flying into the mall’s parking lot. “We’ve had it with contaminated water runoff turning our lawns yellow,
dangerous road ice build-up in the winter months, and the unsafe entrance to
our road, one resident recently complained to Selectmen at their weekly Town
Hall meeting. “What are you going to do about it?” Well, Westport
Highway Department personnel showed up Thursday morning at Borden Street with
trucks and jackhammers, Jersey barriers and new signage, and quickly got to
work defining the road’s layout, and moving the stop sign forward forty feet
to the edge of Route 6. “The Jersey
barriers will define the roadway up to the stop sign at the State Road/Borden
Street intersection,” said Highway Surveyor Chris Gonsalves.
“When we eventually work on Borden Street with repaving and better drainage
culverts and basins, we’ll put in an extended landscaped strip of land to
replace the Jersey barriers.”
Above: this wide-open
and dangerous intersection, compounded by the entrance to a strip mall, will be
better organized with Jersey barriers for now, but later with a permanent
narrow strip of land that will define the road’s (Borden Street) shouldered
edge all the way to State Road. Westport Art Group invites Kids to Create! EverythingWestport.com Sunday, May 17 The Westport Art Group is happy to offer fun and exciting art programs
this spring and summer, designed especially for young artists! Registration is now open for the Saturday, June 20th one-day, Paper
Possibilities Workshop, and also for the two July sessions of their popular
Art + Nature Camp for Kids. Paper Possibilities
Workshop – Saturday, June 20 Ever wonder how to make your own paper by transforming cotton pulp?
What can you do with homemade paper? In the June 20th workshop, kids will
assemble their very own booklet of decorative papers that they actually
create themselves. Dartmouth resident and watercolorist Peggy Call-Conley,
who has 35 years’ experience teaching elementary school art, will guide the
children in techniques such as marbleizing, painting papers, and printing on
paper. And more - decorative papers will be also be used for creating
mixed-media collages, where the kids themselves decide their themes. Art + Nature Art Camp
for Kids -Two Sessions - July 13-17 and July 27-31 Fun, inventive, and skill building, Westport Art Group offers another
summer of art camps for kids. Two sessions are being held: July The first session, Nature in Artwork: Print, Paint & Sculpt, July
13-17, will be led by artist and teacher Brittany Wood, who will explore,
alongside the children, ways to incorporate nature into artwork through the
use of several interesting and unique techniques that she has mastered. Kids will
experiment with making their very own natural paints. They'll create
sculptures, and also dabble in printmaking. Ms. Wood will introduce to
the children the work of contemporary artists like Andy Goldsworthy and Chris
Sickles for further inspiration. The children will also create keepsakes in
their own small books they've created using the skills they have learned
during the week: drawing, collage, paint and print. Artist/teacher Jennifer Rashleigh is back
this summer to teach the second session of summer camp, Rural Landscape
Riches, July 27 - 31. The group will observe our natural surroundings
and re-interpret these through drawing, painting, printing, sculpting, and
collage. Cresting waves, crawling crabs, swooping birds, leaping fish,
creeping critters, magnificent sunsets, billowing sails, and waving wheat
grass; they will use our local surroundings to inspire a wonder-filled week
of multimedia creations in the studio at WAG. Children’s' programs at Westport Art Group are open to all South Coast
children in grades 1 through 6, and scholarships are available. Contact Emily
Sutton at info@westportartgroup.com
for scholarship information. Please visit the Westport Art Group
website www.WestportArtGroup.com
for details and registration. This program is supported by the Westport Cultural Council through a
grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust administered by Bank of
America.
Fall River/Freetown State Forest Stakeholder Meeting. This is an organizational meeting
to bring together a robust and diverse group of interested folks to work
alongside state entities for the preservation, maintenance, and upkeep of the
Fall River/Freetown State Forest. EverythingWestport.com Sunday, May 17, 2015
This is an organizational meeting to bring together a robust and
diverse group of interested folks to join together and work alongside the
Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Executive Office of Energy and
Environmental Affairs and other state entities for the preservation,
maintenance, and upkeep of the Fall River/Freetown State Forest. For further information please contact: Anthony Veilleux,
Office of Paul A. Schmid at 617.722.2210 or email: Anthony.veilleux@mahouse.gov
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