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Pioneers ready to roll-over Hornets on T-Day Selectmen look to have new town administrator by Jan. 1 By Christopher Roberson
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t is the intent of the Board of Selectmen that the dawn of the New Year will also bring a new town administrator to Lynnfield. The board officially began the search process during its Nov. 15 meeting with Bernard LHS Football Pioneers Head Coach Neal Weidman is shown with his captains, Nicholas Kinnon, Lynch, principal of Community William Collins, Cooper Marengi, Nathan Drisiane, Anthony Murphy, ready to take on the North Paradigm Associates. Lynch said Reading Hornets on Thanksgiving Day. he can accelerate the search;
By Joe Mitchell
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oach Neil Weidman has to find a way to get his Lynnfield High School football team over its most bitter defeat in years, when they seemingly had the Division 5 North championship game wrapped up, only to see the Watertown Raiders stage another playoff comeback to win the game, 38-34. But then again, it’s Thanksgiving, the day the alumni returns to renew old acquaintances while rooting for the Pioneers to defeat the Hornets, their longtime rivals, this year at their place in North Reading, starting at 10:30 a.m.
“They were naturally disappointed the first few days after the loss to Watertown, but they know what Thanksgiving is all about,” Weidman said. “For the seniors, they all want to do well, because this is the last football game they will be playing together …” The Pioneers were the top seed when the playoffs began, with a 6-1 record, and they promptly dispatched Bedford and Newburyport in the first two rounds by a combined score of 60-13. They then had a 34-24 lead on Watertown late in the title game, before the team from the Middlesex League showed that they had another comeback left in them
as the sixth seed that had already knocked off Swampscott and Somerville, the third and second seeds, respectively, with the latter also experiencing a heartbreaking loss in the waning seconds. They went from 3-4 at the start of the playoffs to 6-4 and the North title just three weeks later. But their improbable run came to a crashing halt at the hands of Dennis-Yarmouth in a state semifinal game last Friday night in Medford, 41-3. Last year North Reading won a thrilling contest in front of the home Lynnfield fans, 2120.
however, it will be challenging, as his last search in Norwood attracted 28 applicants and lasted 12 weeks. In an effort to complete the search by the end of the year, Lynch will be hosting a community forum on Nov. 29, and the deadline for résumé submissions is Dec. 3. He said that at
SELECTMEN | SEE PAGE 6
Norman Rockwell depicted an idealized version of American Thanksgiving
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“FREEDOM FROM WANT”: In 1942 Rockwell used his own Vermont dining room as backdrop for this famous painting. He enlisted family members and neighbors as models, including his cook Mrs. Thaddeus Wheaton, who is serving the turkey. Rockwell was concerned that the size of the bird suggested an “abundance” not experienced by everyone throughout the country during World War II. Nevertheless, the painting enjoyed tremendous popularity that has endured through the years. The work showcases Rockwell’s artistic talents. One critic described the table setting as “one of the most ambitious plays of white-against-white since Whistler.” Regarding the turkey, Rockwell later quipped, “Our cook cooked it, I painted it and we ate it. That was one of the few times I’ve ever eaten the model.”
By Helen Breen “Maybe as I grew up and found the world wasn’t the perfect place I had thought it to be, I unconsciously decided that if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be, and so painted only the ideal aspects of it.”
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o wrote Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), American painter extraordinaire, reflecting back on his life’s work. Recognized for his artistic talents very young, he received his initial commission at age
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