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Digital learning day at Medfield High School, and town officials were invited this year. Keynote speaker now, and five workshops coming up next. Each workshop offered about six choices, so tons of options.

I always wondered what happened on teacher days, and now I know – looks impressive so far.

This email to the editor of the New York Times about its article this week about Pete Carroll, notes that he was not involved with the evergreen field at MHS. Tim Nugent and Steve McCormack were the primary people who reportedly made it happen.

From: abby marble
Date: January 30, 2015 at 11:29:45 AM EST
To: “nytnews@nytimes.com” <nytnews@nytimes.com>
Subject: correction

A correction should be made to yesterday’s article about Pete Carroll and his
connections to Medfield, MA written by PETER MAY.
Pete Carroll was long gone from Medfield when the Evergrass turf field began
looking for funding.  The first dollar deposited toward the field was on 5/5/04.  I
have a list of every single contributor and neither Pete Carroll or Drew Bledsloe
had a part in the field. It was a grass roots effort by the wonderful Medfield
residents.  Please contact me if you need more information.
Abby Marble

I have been a Medfield resident since 1989 and Treasurer of the Medfield
Foundation since its incorporation in 2001.
FYI — Medfield Foundation was the 501 (c) 3 used to facilitate the raising of
the money for the field.

Thanks to Shawn Collins for this fun NO SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT.

Took a turn with this Model T at MMA meeting. The owner offered to find one for me. Apparently so many were made that there are many around. First time I have been in one. It dropped down a lot when I stepped onto the running board, much to my surprise, as my Altima does not do that. Lots of changes for the better in 100 years.

Just learned that the MMA annual meeting is scheduled around the NFL playoff schedule. Thank you MMA.

The MMA business meeting just passed three resolutions:

First to ask state to properly fund cites and towns.

Second to have the state and federal governments fund capital projects. The list includes roads, clean water, unfunded mandates, and others items.

Third to deal with OPEB and other personnel issues.

Full details are available at MMA website.

Just learned it is Senator Spilka, not Spilki. My bad.

Sen. Warren to us at MMA: we in the cities and towns have the hardest job, while she has the most aggravating job.

She notes that US spends way less on infrastructure than China, and that is not good long term. She suggests we need to spend on our infrastructure and NIH for medical research.

Major Walsh just said that he hopes to have more time in future to do MMA work., but shared that his first year was like trying “to drink water from two firehouse at once. ”

Spoke to our DEP rep this morning and picked up their application that will provide Medfield several thousand dollars, and talked about getting technical assistance from them to help us to recycle more and save money on trash. I will pass both along to the Solid Waste Committee.

New State Senate Ways and Means Committee chair, Senator Spilki, presenting. Too early for her to share state budget figures. She has a background on her town school committee, which is helpful for the towns.

The Massachusetts Municipal Association annual meeting this morning is starting with the Massachusetts Association annual meeting at which we learned about how Arlington uses a visual online budget to make their town finances come to life and hope the Wellesley Police Department is using social media to communicate town information to the residents.

Both are really exciting opportunities and tons that I hope to implement in Medfield.

Need to check out further using GovDelivery.com as a vehicle for us to use.

Driving was poor due to the snow on the way in until I got to Route 9.