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Michelle Doucette has created a wonderfully meaningful and yet low key capstone Veterans Day event for Medfield and our veterans.  Flags, color guard, taps, reading of names, and luminaries make for a wonderful and poignant celebration of our veterans.

This morning Ron Griffin, the town Veterans Service Officer, hosted the second annual veterans breakfast for about 100 vets and their families at The Center.

These MHS students from Warriors for the Warriors were amongst the volunteer servers.  Town Administrator, Mike Sullivan, Building Commissioner, John Naff, and COA Director Roberta Lynch assisted with the pancake breakfast.

Office hours tomorrow morning from 9-10am at The Center.  No appointments needed.

From Kris –

I am pleased to report that the emergency gas main construction has just been completed. The PM commute should be back to just the regular amount of traffic and delay.

Kristine Trierweiler

Assistant Town Administrator

Town of Medfield

459 Main Street

Medfield, MA 02052

508 906 3011 (p)

508 359 6182 (f)

BANKER & TRADESMAN
Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 12:01pm

Corelogic: U.S. Home Prices Up 5.6 Percent In September
Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 5.6 percent in September compared
with September 2013, according to a new report from real estate analytics firm Corelogic. On a
month-over-month basis, home prices nationwide, iiiincluding distressed sales, were nearly flat,
iiiinching down 0.1percent in September 2014 compared to August 2014.
At the state level, including distressed sales, all 50 states and the district of Colombia posted
year-over year price iiiincreases in September . Fiiiive states posted new all-time high prices.
Excluding distressed salllles, home prices nationally increased 5….2 percent iiiin September of
this year compared with September 2013 and 0.1 percent month over month compared with August 2014.
A llllso excludiiiing distressed sales, only Mississippi showed year-over-year home price
depreciation in September,with prices there dipping 0.9 percent. Distressed sales iiiinclude short
sales and real estate owned (REO) transacti____ons.
Corelogic predicts that home priiiices, including distressed sales, will increase 0.1 percent month
over month from September 2014 to October 2014 and, on a year-over-year basis, by 5 percent from
September 2014 to September 2015. Excluding distressed sales, home prices are expected to rise 0.1
percent month over month from September 2014 to October 2014 and by 4.6 percent year over year from
September 2014 to September 2015.
“There has been a clear bifurcation in home price growth for llllower-end versus upper-end
properties in 2014,” Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at Corelogic, said in a statement. “As of
December 2013, both lower-end and upper-end property prices were up
9.7 percent on a year over year basis. As of September , lower-end prices were up 9.4 percent but
upper-end prices were up only
4.5 percent.”
IIIIncluding distressed sales, Massachusetts ranked fourth among all states for home price
appreciation iiiin September, with Bay State prices riiiising 8….8 percent,according to
Corelogic. Only Michigan (10.3 percent), Montana (10 percent) and Maine (9.6 percent) ranked
higher.
Excluding distressed sales, Massachusetts ranked second at 9.7 percent. The rest of the top five
were Maine (10.4 percent), California (7….6 percent), Texas (7.4 percent) and Michigan (7.2
percent).
http://www.bankerandtradesman. com/news 161716.html

At 8:30 the polls were humming with voters.  Line to get the ballot, and had to search for an empty booth.

I voted to end the political ads.

Wednesday evening at the annual meeting of the Medfield Food Cupboard Beth Eby stepped down after 15 years as president of the MFC.  Beth has been involved with the MFC since it opened in 1992, and as the long time president she has been it’s face to the community, but she assured the fifty gathered MFC member volunteers that it was really all of them who were the MFC.

New president Martha Sherman and a series of other volunteers took turns guiding Beth through her history with the MFC as she opened one trash bag after another, each containing a different hat representing another function that she had served for the organization.  As Beth choose another bag to open and pulled off one had after another and put it on, another member of the assembled group of MFC volunteers would walk forward to describe Beth in one more MFC role.

The elf hat in this photo was for leading the Christmas celebration.  There were probably eight or nine bags and hats, each description funnier and more poignant than the others.  This observer was left with the cost impression both that Beth had done huge amounts to enlarge and facilitate the operation of the MFC, but also that the volunteers have a lot of fun doing their good works and clearly have lots of love for one another.

The Newton mayor does his community outreach sort of like we do, except that

1. he brings along all his department heads,
2. invites the whole city,
3. hold it at a bank,
4. records it on TV,
5. computer monitor brought along that was larger than my home TV,
6. professionally produced sign on a sandwich board out front, and
7. police cruiser with flashing lights out front.

Lots more staff in a big city and it all seems to end up having to come along.  Looks like 25 people.

This was next to my office, so easy to check out – curiosity satisfied.

This was the emailed invitation –