All right. I call the meeting of the Newbury Historical Commission to order May 8th, 2025 at 710. All rise for the pledge of allegiance. We'll start on Q.
I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is not good. All right, minutes for the April meeting. Everybody
grab those over them. And it's looking like there might be a fall meeting. I heard. I hope so. They can't get all of it. They had 27 warrant items this time. That's
But like 20 of them were all the same thing, basic Thank you. Anybody find anything? Oh my god.
Nope. I haven't found anything. You did front page. Eva bottom. Eva followed either. Eva will follow up. No, there's no will. Go to the beginning of the sentence character. Eva followed up with her copy info and locked in. Does that
sound like an incorrect sentence to you? No copy of info. There you go. My brain just my brain just skips skips over things like that. Are you Are you happy with that? Uh yes, talk about that on old business. Okay. Yeah.
Any errors or omissions? I'll entertain a motion to accept as written. I move that we accept the meeting uh minutes of the Thursday, April 10th meeting as written. Second. Second. All in favor?
[Applause] I Okay. Treasurer's report. Did you get that email today, Mr. Treasurer? Uh, I'm not sure. Which one? From the town uh assistant and town accountant
about your your balance. So you haven't seen your I haven't checked my email. I was talking to these fifth graders most of the day. Okay. So you've got correspond. You've got mail. I got mail. And what was it you uh running out of money?
Oh, who? I honestly only scanned it. Oh, okay. I was at work and it's like, oh, I got I got the budget. Yeah. Okay. And that agrees with our numbers. Okay. The expenditure. Expenditures. Yeah. Yeah. Except for one account which we don't agree with. Now you can attach it to
your Okay. Go forth with So here's the Yeah. Here's the rest of the This So this is copy for everybody. You just get two. So well there's nothing that's really changed. Jan's got a couple of things she wants us to buy.
I'm going to go through uh all of the uh print out printed material and see if there's anything in there that we're short on before the summer starts. Uh I haven't put out the uh porta potty yet uh for a reason. I I like to put it out
early because it the kids can use it when they're playing. But they're now now appearing in the hundreds and there's cars parked all over that thing. And if we put that out there and and after three days of using
that because it only gets cleaned once a week, I don't want to get them mad at us to be full. We get a we get a good price for it. So, do you want to wait till closer to I'm just keeping my eye on when these games go down. It's cuz it's
T-ball and stuff. Yeah, they're out there tonight. There were only about maybe 12 people out there. That's what it used to be and that was that was cool because they're not gonna couple people to that use it. But when when they're out there having actual games and and and literally all the entire both sides
of the road were all parked cars and I'm down the road and there was some kind of a game going on out there. So it it was there were just too many people. So I'm going to hold off a little bit. I usually put it out May in the beginning of May and and there's just been too much activity. Wow. Yeah. And what they
need is three of them out there. It or it sounds like the town needs. That's what I mean. And not us. Not us. Well, yeah. In H in Hamilton, the health department paid for them all and they distributed and put them out and managed them all and everything. They um I'm sure they're going to be in a problem.
They got that many people there. No Porter John. What are they going to do? Yeah. That's actually It's not fun when you're Yeah. To get kids, right? We can come out looking like a hero. I don't know. It's only at your discretion. We'd have to Well, we'd have to we'd have to
get one would not be sufficient for the crowds that are there. Or we just would have to have them come and clean it like weekly. They already do that. They already do it for weekly. Oh, all right. Yeah, we do it weekly. Well, that's why it's always so clean compared to the one with the landing dock, which does not
get cleaned weekly. Yeah. Yeah. I I said So, what do we want to do then? Well, I'm just I'm right now I'm just holding off to see what happens. I'd say wait because if it becomes a problem, somebody's going to complain to the town and the town will put one there. Yeah. And we don't have it in our budget to I
mean really I would think do that. We've only got for one. Yeah. Okay. All right. What else on the treasury? Yeah. So anyway, everything else in there is pretty much the same. Um, so there there'll be some purchases out of the gift and the donations, although I'll probably take out of the general fund
because we still have effectively uh almost $800 in the in the general fund. And uh so maybe I'll just see what we need and buy it with the general I wouldn't take the water things out of the uh that would come out of general fund. That wouldn't come out of gift
donations. I usually just do the printing out of that. Okay. So I'll I'll take a look at it, see how big it's going to be. Are all your printing projects done? No. I say I've got I've got to go in and take the inventory and see which ones are short and then I'll have And what about all of our cards and
postcards and all the map the yearly maps? Oh, you mean the the brochure little thing with the map inside of it? Yeah. We doing all right? I I haven't gone over yet. I I think we do. I think we've got enough right now.
Right. I feel like we had a lot at the end of the year. Well, we have to have everything in to them by the beginning of July, but the expenses have to be through June 30th. Yeah. And this is May 8th. So, but what we want to if we've
got some that we're almost out of, right? I mean, but so we have time to go get stuff planned, get a bill, and get it in. It's not a big As long as we get it done. Yeah. I'm not worried about it. and and there's plenty of money. So, that's What about other annual? We're
okay with the flag. Well, we got no got new flags uh two years ago, but I got a good one. I got other supplies for running the place during the summer. The just the dehumidifier buckets. Yeah. You know, the dry the damper buckets. I have
not put up the shades yet. I've got to get over there and put the shades up. So, the windows are all done. They look great. Uh, but do we need new like window fans or anything like that? Those get gross after a while. I just No, I think those are in because it's not like they're used a
lot. They're only in there for a couple of days on weekends. That's true. Not like me that runs my fans all the time and they get all Yeah, they do. Well, they do. Yeah. So, but this is a little different. I did go up into the attic and the attic is kind of a mess. Shocking. Uh, no. I mean, it looks like
it's been somebody has come through. Maybe the guys when they were trying to get that window in the back. I'm not sure what happened, but there, you know, that one bench that was up there, it's kind of sticking up in the air toward the ceiling. So, somebody I was up there last week moved a whole bunch of stuff.
Yeah. But the good thing is I was out out there in the worst of the rain and there was no leak. Oh, no. Well, you know, they they they plywooded the entire roof. Yeah, I saw that. And they they you could see the ring nails coming through the existing boards. Yeah. Yeah. They they left old shingles there. the
old cedar shingles if they took off a layer of the of the regular shingles. I don't even know why the building inspector would approve that. Applying over the shingles. Yeah, I never done that before. Oh, they did it this time.
Right. You went up and looked up, right? Yeah. And the nails are coming when when the nails that are coming through to hold the plywood down are through the shingles. Yeah. Oh, okay. I don't know what building code is there.
Well, anyway, so money and knew what was going in and everything about it. So, if anybody can think of anything else we we should be doing, we could pull down another one of those maps and see if we want to do see do a restoration on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we when we
do the clean up? Why don't we pull all those maps down, open them up, get them, see what's there. Yeah. Okay. What? What? You're talking about maps. I'm talking about the ones in the in the tubes, right? The ones the other the one No, the ones. There's also some the pull down ones up in the attic. Okay. I thought that's what you were talking about, but I just wanted to be sure cuz
the other ones are totally a total different ball game. No, you only get Sorry. These these are the ones they're they're mounted on linen or something just like the uh the one that we have. 1653. Yeah. So, you've only got 790 left. So
effect ineffectively because of the you know the commitments to the port of body and so you got to get all your printing done and and and I usually take well yeah but we we use take some of the printing out of the gift fund if we need it. Uh but I I don't I we won't have
that much printing guaranteed. Okay. Yeah. Well I knew the bill was getting up pretty high when printing was costing. Well we printed a lot last year so I I just don't know how many we used. Would we ever consider any
uh additional postcards? I mean, if we wanted to do new images or something like that, I mean, it's always Did we ever we ever come up with another image to do? We just got one postcard or two postcards now. Well, we got the the one that's a sepia and the one that's in color and but they're the same image.
Yeah. That's in the inside. Yeah. We've got that really nice uh picture that we're using in the uh local historic district is our picture of choice. It's an older photograph while the shingle while the shutters were still on the school. Yeah. But it's just really a
nice photograph of the outside of the school. Of the outside of the school. You do something like that. Oh. Uh is it on the schoolhouse brochure? Uh no, not that I know. This is something I found somewhere. I don't remember where I even found it, but but
it's an old image. It's it's an older image, but it's but it's color. It's a color image. It's Yeah. But it's just it's just it's it's an it just looks nice. That's that's the best way to put it. Just looks nice. Oh, and then I've got I'll I'll
uh I've got lots of pictures of the construction when they put the new roof out and and putting the windows in. Oh, yeah. Email me. Where should I Who should I email them to me because I'll stick them on the website. Yeah. I think I hope we're getting close to getting
the 1635 back on his commission. That's coming up. That's part of the email. Let's do things in order. So, if everything's okay here, I did speak to Alicia Greco about the um the special account and uh all I got was
a a promise that if we need the money, we'll have it. Yeah. What that means? That means nothing. But well, it takes the the citizens have to vote it to give us back now. Well, why didn't the citizens have to vote it to get take it away? It's a transfer of funds from one
account to another, right? I know. I find that I find that to be so frustrating that we have to ask permission to get it back when it was No, but we had to ask permission to take it away. Take it away. It's very frustrating. I think it was an account. Yeah. And it wasn't taken away at the
beginning of the year. It was taken away in November. Well, it just seems to be again my whole thing is like precedent. Well, if all three of the accounts are moving over, why wouldn't the fourth one go or whatever it is? It's a different kind of account. It's got a different number. uh to it. Well, it's not on here. I can't show it. Well, I thought
And so it was like that's why it wasn't like look like kind of in a row with ours. Yeah, these things these things move over automatically. Well, one moves over, but there's zero in it. Anything we don't spend in the general account goes back into free cash, right? So, that one in effect, how many other
departments gave back $4,000 at the end of the year? Right. Right. In the middle of the fiscal year. All right. Well, we learned from our era and it was a multitude of things that just all combined. So, but I'm just nervous that
in theory though that we go I mean it considering the way that the voting went everything was just yes to everything. But like I'm just nervous that it will be the one that they say no to when we get back. You know, it'll be like well but not the people who have been here
for years and that were part of the 375th, right? because that's where the balance of the money is from. But six votes mostly. Well, stick with me on this. It's much nicer that way. They had to sell the coins. They sold
the coins. And this is the money. That's what it says in all the historical commission meetings from back then. We'll have I don't know how I get I don't know. I guess I' I've just like thought of like how are we going to even pitch it to people at the meeting to be like, "Hi guys. Well, so there was an
accounting error and we would just like our money back. It wasn't an accounting error. My fault for not filling out the form. Okay, we're done. Our green study committee report. Oh, okay. So, we gave a presentation to the um we gave a
presentation to the planning committee to Christine Grubs and and and and people and gave them a status report of where we are. In fact, it's right. No, that's that's my Al Gore talk. Okay. I thought I had a copy of it here. We gave a presentation uh at the planning
meeting a couple days ago. And the status of the of the program now is basically it's done except uh we're working and and we're actually working with council on this, but we're we're just finishing up the language in the bylaw and once we get that done, it's
it's ready to to be approved. So that's kind of the update we gave the planning board. So if they have an October town meeting, then we could put it on that. Otherwise, we have to wait till next year. Oh. So counting backwards, if it's a So they started preparing for this
town meeting in November, which is November to April. How many months? December, January, February, March, April. Six. So prepare preparation is going to start right after we finish the old one. If they decide there's going to be one. So, but I'm hearing there is.
Yeah, there will be. So, both items that we need in the town, your thing and our thing, we need to start working on that July 1st. Yeah. And start getting it in. Get on the agenda. That's the main thing. And and I don't think we'll have
any trouble getting the historic uh new uh commission in uh in Boston to get our material back to us. That won't be an issue. I don't think in time. Well, you don't know. You need to keep calling now. Yeah. Well, right. We'll
keep in touch. Don't keep waiting. Yeah. Um uh the uh the vote we took that we'd be all be willing to go over. So, uh I guess so I so Mass Historical got back to me on that and said the best way to make that happen is to write that into
the bylaw. So, that's what we're working on right now. Oh, yeah. That's Yeah. So if it's in if it's in the bylaw then it's then then then it's better when when we try to go and set the thing up because the bylaw is is recommending it. That's the approach. Well that's going
to be timeconuming to write and then town council will have to approve it. So that's another thing is going to so you're going to have to write that the members will also be the members of the other committee. You're also gonna have to put in there about if one
person's gets off of one board, are they on the both board, off the other board? Um how what are the rules? Because one of the biggest broke rules, as I recall, was job requirement, for lack of a better word. Is there a real estate
person? Is there two two things that that that the uh select board was supposed to to go out and try to fill those find a realtor. Yeah. Well, that's the definition is between should and shall. So would favorably like to have
it that way, but the I mean the way our boards are nowadays it can only be you know should. Yeah. So so that section isn't completed yet and there's another piece that you're still working on. just it's a language.
Okay. All right. Now to the long awaited website report, let's have an update. Um so with that email that we got Hello. Um is that you? Um we're all set. So that whole like joy you emailed me and like
that and I talked to John and I actually emailed him because I was like just just to confirm like are we all set? Do I just say it's current, everything's correct, and you're good to go? And he wrote back to me. In the case of your website, you're all set. This memo isn't regarding anything currently on the main net town Newbury website. Specifically,
the merger of the Newbury 1635 website will happen after the migration and redesign process is completed. Which promise date? None. Okay. But then he'll let me know. So I'm like, okay. And then he said to you, he said that you got
emails. There was some sort of confirmation about you getting emails about today. Did you talk to him today? Yeah, when I got the camera he let you know the emails. You got emails because when they upgraded the system
with the.gov and they put special precautions, which is fine. I mean, I have to get a text um texted a code to type in so they know it's really me and it's logging in. But now it wants me to put an app on my phone, which my phone
does not accept any apps. So it blocked me out. So I couldn't get into the email at all because I don't have an app. You have a super fancy phone, right? I that's I hate stuff like that. So this before I had there was so many chances at it like and then now they decided
you've had enough time. So that's it. You're done. So I had to try to get hold of him and and then I was dancing around other people going does anybody know is he in there? Because I know he's swamped still. No. Well, he wasn't there this morning when I went to get the camera. So I went back in the afternoon and then
that's when I actually so he called me this morning and or right around noon or whatever it was and we walked through the thing and reset it. Then he took that thing off. I said I don't have a problem with the verification code. That's okay. But yeah, I'm not
downloading an app. My Galaxy 7 phone does not take apps. So everybody has a smartphone. They have to realize that. Well, I have a smartphone. It's just a little It's a little on the downside, but you know, not that smart. Well, it's Yeah, it's not quite that
smart. Who wants to get away from smartphones? Go back to like rotary dial. You know what I mean? Okay. Not as I'm not that bad. Although I do still have the rotary dial phone from the house. I I I have mine from my parents house in So, let's not, you know, go crazy.
When we get there, we'll get there. But right, so he got me back up and running so I can which is a good thing because Eva sent me some information and if she had I wouldn't have been able to print it cuz she sent it to me late this afternoon. So frustrating. No. So I was
like I'm trying to be as willing as I can be. So this is access to get to the incoming mail. Correct. So you need to type up the instructions. If you get the flu, somebody's got to
get in. The only other person who can get in is you. Yeah. Okay. Well, I need It's all new. So, I want Now you really need it. I want I really like It's not that It's not It's not Don't say it's not that. It's very easy. It's not complicated. Now, this part it was going
to the other thing that was you go into the usual website. It asks, but the only thing is is that you have to make sure that we have the new.gov gov thing instead of the.com thing when you go to go in because you your computer remembers the old ones. I can't
get it to remember the new one. But that's another story. So then and you know what the password is. No. So just get it all. Just do it all. Please. He doesn't want you to die. If you die, we're screwed. We are anyways. I know. I know. We have
to have everything written down on a piece of paper. All right. So just copy the pieces. Everything that looks on that whole side of the dining room, just pack it up and take it to town hall and say it's historical commission. She goes, "Okay." So new instructions,
passwords, everything. I want it on a piece of paper and I learned it in the front of my notebook. But now that he fixed it, it's back to what it I was okay with it like, you know, it cuz my credit card does that. Yeah. Text me a code. You type it to say, you know, make sure it's you. That's all. And I'm not
wrong with that. But then it was the doing the app thing that my phone won't app. So, excuse me. MFK, multiffactor. Dropbox to me, too. What did that Dropbox? Almost everything does it now. You get in it and send me code. Yeah. Okay.
Let's get So, that's all fine. So, but when that gets fixed and finished and we can get it up, but you can still access it out in the out in the worldwide web, which is nice. So, because I've had I've looked a few things up, but I had to go out there instead of just clicking on a link. But
we had to go through and make sure that everybody's we being everybody who has a website at the time. Yeah. Um all the pages when you go through to look it up um to make sure that the information that was on there was up to date cuz I
guess they had found some stuff that was probably ancient history and was not something that just got stuck old links or like got taken off. So, I already went through and did all that, but I go through and do that all the time. So, So, is there links to members on the
website? Names of that? Yeah. And our names, things like that, but not emails or anything like that. No, no, private emails. No, no, no. Just the name and when you um you're you expire as a member, what your term is, but it's the
stuff down the sides. If you go into the town web pages that you know we have stuff on two sides. One side is mostly all the um uh the u meeting the old meeting minutes and stuff like that and the agendas are down there. Then the
other side is like the um the DDB. Yep. Um the visitors map uh the the historic district the national historic registry district things like that. So all the stuff that's on there is still pertinent and up to date. So, it took me like, you know, a
whopping 10 minutes to double. Yeah. Because the only thing that changes, as I said, is people's date of when they're members. Right. Right. So, and right now, Eva and I Well, I She said she hasn't, and I haven't either heard from anybody to say
that we're being renewed. Oh, you haven't got the email back yet? As of July 1st. So, I would like to think though. I might need to have it at the end. Somebody's here. But usually it does. It's not like a goes to pick the select board. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So, so
that's it. I mean, our thing that was sent to all the groups, everybody's page to look at their pages cuz some of them the stuff of nobody's ever updated it and there's a turnover, right? So, nobody knows who's in charge of this now. Sounds familiar. Yeah. So, but we
were and I got it. Thank you so much for being so quick. Mhm. And and when my email address changed, it took three years to go through the system. Oh my god. Okay. Correspondence. I don't want to do it. Oh, sorry. Did I say that out loud?
Give me a good one. Just kidding. So, damn. The dam should be under old. Which dam is this now? More than one. Well, there's there's a damn e the evil one is the one I was just looking. Yes. Except that you
didn't read it. There's a follow-up email thanking her for sending them all this information. That was new. Aren't they also taking away the damn at Yeah. So, if you weren't at the town
meeting, we they were passing out. Yes. By field day are back on this year. The 16th of August, I think it is. Right. It is Saturday, August 16th in Central Street Fields in Byfield. But the kickoff car
show is the Friday night before. Okay. So, and it's only going to be at Central at the at one location this time. They're not going to have it all over town. That's what it says. Well, that was New That was Newbury days. That wasn't Bfield Days. Isn't
that say Newberry Town Day? Is that Town Day or is that Bfield Day? Newberry Town Day. Okay. All right. She said byfield day. So I thought she was talking about field days. It's Central Street in Biffield. So it's not the town. It's by field. They always did
this, right? Did they not always do this? It used to be Biffield days. There used to be two separate field days. No. Way back it was just by field. There was no lumberjack competition. That's what I remember. Frying pan throwing
drunken boat race. the floating of the the animals and the people down the river, canoe races and all sorts of stuff. And was it always at Manor Fields? It was. No, it was pre-manant fields. It was uh like the old fire
station. Okay. Centralized library. The library. Yeah. The the school next to the schoolhouse. I can't think of the name. Yellow school. Grange. Gra. It was here, wasn't it? And so it was
all there. Yep. So as far as I know, this is the same thing as Biffield days. It is not town days because I haven't seen anything that says they're going to do something all over town again. Well, that's my question. So it's like if are they just going
to pulled up the last because last year they did Spencer Pierce Little Farm and they consolidated everything there because the the previous year was just a free-for-all. It was too spread out stuff all over the place. All right. So, I will double check and see if I can get in touch with somebody and and make sure
about it. But okay. Yeah, I'm up for adventure when people get together. It's just there needs to be some of usually what it is. Note to Joy saying, "I've reviewed everything and our town website is too
late." Um this is the information Eve has sent saying we uh the historical commission have reviewed the old Hill Street barrier. This is from August I mean August April 26th. So she sent all
the information that we had talked about and plus the information that she had found and sent it to them. Um, so that is her email that she sent to them plus the attachments that she gave out, which is the stuff that she
had for us to look at. Um, that wasn't Are there any recommendations in there for what they should do? What she sent off? Did we Did we get a copy of that? I don't remember seeing it. I don't know.
It's a letter. Yeah. Well, I assume it contained the information from our motion is what she was authorized to convey to them. Okay. Okay. We've gotten the most interesting email lately.
You did get them. This gentleman called uh sent calls. See, I'm losing it completed tonight. I'm a retired museum and historical services professional with an interest in the centennial of Newberry. Hi, Bill. Both my wife and I are retired and have
Newbury ancestors on the map of the green lots and on that map the green lots the lots on the green that that we have that map on the map of the green lots. some reading this and
only found out the week after we were married that they had ancestors is what it boils down to. Okay. Um they have a broad interest in colonial earlier colonial America Plymouth correctly spelt in the old way plantation and cultural post
at historic St. Mary's city in Maryland. So he's not interested in a post. Darn. We could have got him on maybe, but he is interested if we need someone to um transliterate a period
text. Oh, provide advice or suggest context. So, his name is Eric Maher, M A RR, and he is the assistant aviation curator, retired of the National Museum of the United States Marine
Corps. So, I thought it was very nice that they've moved back here and they'd like to help if we need help with any text that we can't read. Yes. Which is nice. So, that was that's that. Um, we got another email. People are
always asking us for information for their searches, but he's expanding his research. Mr. Ed Brumley in Scotland and into research into the 400 that were captured in transports off
Boston in June of 1776. He has hundreds of documents. A few of them were sent to Numery mainly the jail and these are the captured people not the so from the war. I'm
talking about red 1776. He wants to know if we have local diaries. So I of course sent it to Eva. Eva said go to the museum of old Newbury. So I sent him how to get to the
connect to them and how to connect to the Maritime Museum at the custom house. So success. Hopefully that will help with whatever he's looking for. And um we got a message from gentleman who
lives at um Scott Bayer who lives at 8 High Road and he owns one of the town houses and he said they're in in reviewing their master insurance with their agent and she said her agency is limited to which insurance companies
they work with on our policy since it's in the Newbury historic database. What? I'm wondering if you would be able to see if the property is actually on that database. So if it's part of the National Historical District. Yeah. First I heard
of this, but not my problem. No. So I gave him the connection to the town website and cuz I didn't I got to send him something that was like 28 pages. He didn't really want to look at it. So I told him that here's the information.
You are indeed house number 30. I think it's because it's weirdly numbered the house. So that's I the first I've ever heard of this. I have no idea. But they also
sold I believe it's sold five five and five R high which is the peep the house. We will No, that's high. Go ahead. Yeah. Right after the cemetery. The ones we were talking about
that's really really Yeah, this one. Old Yeah, this one. No, this one. Oh, okay. Brown. Brown one that he wants to tear down or something, right? Well, that was the guy that was looking at before. Now, he's evidently, we think, gotten permission
to come. He's he's wait or he's waiting to get permission to come in off that back road, the road that's like parallel to High Road. Hold on. Pull it up. So, Pawn Street, I guess. Yeah, that sounds that
sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah. Okay. So, he's got to he's checking with Nubry to see if there's any reason why he can't have a he can't put a driveway entrance there so they can use the second parcel, which is the rear parcel.
And I don't know what this I don't know what the what the rules are about driveways, but there's an obvious there's an obvious on us or anything to do with this. So yeah, we can stay right out of that. So um but they cannot there's an obvious spot. The house
itself has restrictions of the color of the cabinets inside everything. So the f the other guy the last time we were talking that was interested in it was going to tear it down and build town houses, right? It was his plan until he found
out he can't even change the color of the cabinets. That could be a problem. Wants to create a driveway and then put town houses back. Well, he's going to he wants to build something back there. Um, and does it say how many acres? Well, he can't subdivide the property if he
doesn't have footage on on a on a real live road. Right. Right. Yeah. So, that's why he has to talk to Newbury Port because part of the back end of that I guess the back side of it is on Newport. Oh, look. See how like
see right here? That's probably where he wants to put a driveway in. Okay. It just looks pretty big. But but but and you could put a driveway in as long as this is one lot. You can't put a driveway in if that's another lot because you can't make another lot
without the frontage. That's some somebody near us picked up a bunch of acreage and it was on a gravel road and they can't do anything with it. It wasn't a real road. Once again, not our problem. Yeah. Except
they try to change something in there, but they it's it's a it's on the thing and they won't get a building permit. though. Okay. It's on the It's on the D. I love I think it's 100. Is it 150 ft now? Probably. Used to be 50. No, I think it's like when the one next to my
house got put in. I think it's 150. That's hard to come by. 50. Yeah. But but see the the uh the property on the old Bushy estate is grandfathered in because it was subdivided uh previously.
previously and it's and everything's approved and he just somebody just happened to buy two of the lots in effect, right? And put a house on it, right? And the other ones are already already there. But but you'll have people have to recover that culdeac, put that road back. That won't be hard. No,
because I think it's just under the lawn. Yeah, I think they just put stuff over it. Okay, what's next? Okay. Um, schoolhouse roof and window report. Oh, sorry. Everybody I talked to loves it. The
roof. The roof. The roof was awesome. It really Have you seen it? It really I went by the other day cuz I said, "Oh, you're almost there. You might as well go all the way down." And I'm like, "Are you kidding? It came out great. It really did." Looks like the old roof except for the color. Really? I mean, I
don't see It looks like a cedar shingle roof. So, that was awesome. What company did it end up being? The the shingle. Uh, I think they went with the one we recommended, didn't they? I don't I I can't remember the name of it. I got a picture of their truck. No, the shingle manufacturer manufacturer. Oh, yes, they
went definitely. At least that it looked famili I I grabbed one and turned it over and looked at it. I'm pretty sure it's the same manufacturer. It certainly is the same style because there's I think there were three different sizes, right? There was a wider one, a narrower
one, and something. And then and then on a lot of them when they put them in they just took a saw. They fold it in one hand and just saw like this out. Stick it in. They over there knew what they were doing. This is from Eva. Eva sent this tonight. It said it's about the old
Hazde project and she wanted to make sure that we could we knew because she wasn't going to be there where we were. Yeah. So, um, and then she had it, she, if you'll see in the middle down the middle of the page, she had information about 50 high. So, you can, we can
peruse it. Obviously, we aren't doing this right now cuz we're waiting to get more information to see. Well, we're waiting for the owner to right to lay their hand. Talking about the property
we're back on, we're on 50 now. You get you got stuck over the What happened to the dam? Are we still talking about the dam? Well, the first part is the old is is about that. Thank you. She got a thank you note. We received a thank you from the people for the information that
she sent and the order of confirmation was noted to include access to the site. Remember how we said we'd like access to get somebody in there with a metal detector. Yeah. No. So, we are going to have a access to the site after the first layer has been removed and access
to the site to check what lies beneath. And um Pat Huckery from Mass Wildlife forwarded our research, meaning the trustee, you know, the one that she had already done. Yep. Um to the trustees along with the trustes land use history
so they can be aware of their own report. I love it. I need to say that out loud. Should we be thinking of spending some money on somebody with a metal detector? I'm meeting somebody with a metal detector tomorrow morning. So, I will have one available. I could give you the license plate of the guy that was
legally called out. So, I mean, I could be there, too. They're all there. I got his license plate. No, he EA had somebody who she said was really good that she was recommending. So, is that the same person you're talking to? Okay. So, right now we're not worrying. I'm I'm just reading what we're what's going
on. So, this is the last of I hope the emails Um, we have another thing coming up only because I read the paper once. One Little's Lane has been sold, formerly known as Henry Becca's house
that only had three steps going up to it now. And then if you keep going down Little's Lane, you get to the Spence Pier Little Farm. Right. Trying to say what it looks like. It looks like nothing. Oh, okay. Except for the barn in the back, right? Yeah, I see. The old
barn in the back. That's all that's left. The house that was in the front. There's nothing. Yeah. Well, I mean, cuz they the people that owned Ipsswitch Glass that built the big huge house on the corner there that's on High Road.
Yep. bought his house so that I was told at the time, I'm not positive it's true, they didn't want anybody to be able to look over the fence at into their yard. So, they spent 1.1 million to buy the property. People do that. Yeah, this is
Newberry. I'm sorry. This makes no sense to my poor little wallet, but that's okay because it has nothing to do with me. But in order to do anything, they um Spana came after them because of that the barn that's left. So, and that's
what this information is. So, if you guys want to look at it, we haven't done anything. We don't know anything, but it's in case it comes up in front of us somewhere. Yep. We already know what we're talking. We know. So, somebody wants to take the barn down. I don't know that anybody wants to do anything. They just bought it. But there's
restrictions on the property. There's restrictions on the road going to Spence Pier's Little Farm. They evidently own the right to that road or something and because a lot of people were going to buy the land at one Little's and like use it like say like for catering
business, but they were going to have trucks going in. They said absolutely not. It's not it's not supposed to be used that way. So, there's a lot of restrictions there on that piece of property that's left, which um I printed the thing somewhere. Oh,
it's really quite interesting. All that's left is this. Yep. Okay. That's So, it's no house left. That's the That's the one going down towards Spencer Little Farm. Yes. against the back from high road. Yeah.
Actually drove in there once and looked at that trespassing probably. Yeah. And just to take a look at it because I think there was a for sale sign on it for a while. Well, that cuz the property was for sale. Oh, okay. But they can't do anything. They can't do anything with the
property. They can't do anything with a lot of it because it's restrictions all over the place. So I'm just it might come up and because it's important that we know that there's restrictions and span
will have we'll deal with it because it's they're the ones I think that got the restrictions put on there. So with the other folks just so just so we're up to date we know what's going on. So that's kind of okay. All right. And
somewhere they go, well, where did this come from? All right. So, Eva, so yeah. So, she this information from Eve that I Eva sent is because they thanked us and stuff, but she also had the 50 high road
information um that she looked up, which is very helpful in case we have to worry about it. So, that takes care of that. Take care of the gentlemen. I think we're good on things. They kept coming in and then I couldn't get in the
system. So, moving right. So, uh number seven. So, the roof and the windows are complete. Yes. The only thing that needs still needs to be done is there's still some bare wood and I got to get some paint on. Okay. For the slides to replace the wood
there. And and somebody's already asked me when are we going to paint it? Nuhuh. I'm getting it. I'm getting I know. Couple of dry days. No, the whole thing. Oh, made the the whole building. Well, didn't the town do that for us? Wasn't that long ago, right? Four, five years
ago. To the town to paint it, but it wasn't well enough. Like they Yeah, they just slapped a coat of latex on it. It's all peeled. They Well, they did. They had to put new boards on the front. Well, the front side that you see from High Road, right at one point, not a
couple of those as well. Oh, in the bottom. That's right. Okay. Uh, report from the witches stone department. I haven't followed up on that yet. I will get to it. Okay. Oh, it's actually stone and stone. Two stones. Two stones.
Um, review of the DDB. Are you still talking about changing time frames on the DDB? Is that what you wanted? No. Because of 50 high road 50 high road to applies for a tear down
permit. It's a 1700's house and we are going to have to because it is older than 1820. It will kick it into will likely be just to run. They'll probably want to change it. It says house. Well, there was some
somebody inquired of the town where it would take to demolish it, right? And there's like a really big backyard. Is that is that the house that was part of the the uh not the bushiest the plumber, the Barton estate? No. Okay. It has quite a bit of um
what's no road high road close same general area on your way home. It's on that side. Look at the property and it's a pale pale yellow. probably want to demo it to access the backyard. And it says it says here that um Chrissy uh
admin for the building received a request from the current owners of what would need to be done uh with the town if they wanted to tear down the existing structure. Yeah. This is from last month's video. Yeah. So, um it's, you
know, it's a it's 50. Yeah. It's a very very very pale yellow. And you'll go buy it on the way home. Yeah. You'll zip right past it because you won't even notice it. Um, if you get to Spencer Pier's little farm, turn off, you went past it. That's how
But that boils down to it has to go through the process. They have to go to town. They have to go to the building. They have to request a tear down. I believe they have to go through inspections before it can be torn down, including this. They have to
check the septic. They have to check the like they have the chimney and all that mold. certain lead. So they have to do all that. But if they do get an approval for the tear down, it will immediately invoke the demolition delay bylaw. We
hope. Do we have to send a reminder to the building inspector or anything? No. No. It automatically triggers. Peter and I already discussed, but is this a derelict building? I don't think so. I mean, it's like five bed five rooms, something one bedroom. The house is full
of mold. pots of it are rotting away. Yeah, it's probably to the price pointwise too much to fix. And I believe I I keep thinking I thought you told me something, but I can't prove it in my any paperwork. I thought it was like he
inherited the house. Yes, I vaguely remember that story. And there was at one point there was some kind of an odd discussion about they couldn't decide they were going to sell this and keep a a property they have like in up in up in New Hampshire or in Maine or something
or sell that one and tear this down and rebuilt, but they're talking about the house. I haven't heard anything about any of the rest of it. Can I see it? I think we should just make sure that
we're aware that it may come up and as um I I asked Peter I mean even if even if we if we go through it and say we don't have a problem but if the building inspector and historical commission deem that it's a derelic building and it does
not apply back to the argument we've talked about a year ago is there a demolition permit needed for an outhouse right it's up to the it's up to starts with the uh historical commission and the building inspector. If it's there's
nothing left of the building and has no reason, then we do not have to go through just like one me. It's the same as one me. Yeah. Have you seen that foundation? I There's a there's going to be two town houses. Really? So two on
one side like the four total. Wow. Yeah. I just saw the the forms up to the foundation. Yeah. No, not not in that spot. Anyway, I'm looking at this bus. You got to go
through the the big thick thing, but still if it's that's the Reader's Digest version, right? But if [Music] it's significant if it's built in or before 1820,
but this before this even starts. It starts with the building inspector, right? in the historical commission if it even requires this is back to the discussion. Do you need to do this if it's an outhouse? I don't I mean
it's more than an outhouse though. All right. So I but I just want us to I'll be sold. Is there a Zillow? It has probably I don't I bet you it has no nothing inside. I mean if it was it might not have been sold though. If it was an inheritance it might not have any of that. Oh that's true. Yeah. There was
nothing on the property that I could find of restrictions of and any of the you know you can't touch it, you can't do this. Great. So, um it would be a simple case of following the DDB and
going with the and Peter, thank goodness, is from Newport. Okay. So, he's been through a gazillion of the DDB things because of they they have like historic districts in every other blink of your eye. So he's like almost like
the expert and he's our building inspector now. So I went out and talked to him and said, "Oh, you're going to have a problem. You're going to help us." And he said, "Of course he would." So we're good with that, you know. So that's all right now. It's just a be aware thing so we don't get caught by
surprise. All right. Okay. Any other unfinished business? This would be bringing our thing up from 9 months to 12 months or something. Well, yeah, we've been talking. We got to get back on the talking and not the
animal talking. Okay. All right. We're not doing anything about macros tonight. Um, that's it. Anything else before the board tonight? I think I there may have been something that I missed, but it's
mostly just informative, not Yeah. Y substantial. All right. I'll entertain a a motion to adjurnn. I move that we adjourn. Second. I second that. All in favor? I 83.