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I have just finished looking over Gatehouse's Application for tax credits that the town received this week. Let me know if anyone wants to look it over.

It is in a 5" notebook that I guess contains 1,000 pages. 

My major take away was how much money there is for Gatehouse via those tax credits.  For the first phase, which is the first half of the project, the Federal tax credits were about $8.5m. and the state tax credits were about $3.4m.  For that first phase, of half the project, the sources and uses summary shows costs of about $13m., most of which are paid for by those tax credits.  The permanent financing was put at only $750,000. 

The other thing that especially interested me was the chart showing that the rents will be subsidized by 30% for most and by 60% for the five most subsidized units.  A $1500 apartment actually will rent for either around $1000 or $500.

The hunt takes its first break at the Medfield State Hospital
  Horses snorting from the exercise.

Hunt is about to start.

Farm kids in Minnesota

You can never underestimate the innovativeness of American Farm Boys:

At a high school in Minnesota, a group of male students played a prank .
They let three goats loose inside the school.

But before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the
goats: 1, 2 and 4.

School Administrators spent most of the day looking for No. 3.

Richard DeSorgher has announced that he is running for selectman in the municipal election that will be held on the last Monday in March.  Ann Thompson currently holds the seat for which Richard will run.  Ann has not yet announced whether she will run.  Richard served as a selectman many years ago.

I just learned that there is an on-line school called Medfield Technical College.  I wonder if it was started by someone from town, or someone who watches Disney movies?  Looks like an on-line school, but Googel maps showed half a dozen locations around Greater Boston.

Intel is marketing a new chip that it calls “Medfield” too – that has to be a former resident working at Intel.

Baxter Park's walkways were lined with luminaries in honor of veterans this evening.  The event was organized by Michelle Doucette! for the Women's  Auxiliary of the Legion.

The report on the MSH environmental  clean up of the hazardous materials was presented by John Thompson, chair of the town's SHERC, and Commissioner Cornelison.

Seven sessions of mediation have been held and more are still needed.  The goal to date has been to better define the facts.

To that end, new testing has been jointly determined as being needed, and was recently conducted.  The new testing included:!
1 – test pits checking for asbestos in the C&D area
2 – tests for other hazards in the C&D area
3 – testing in the river to determine the best way to remove the oil that is there.

Those test results are not back as yet.

John Thompson opined that the process of dealing with the MSH clean up is at a point equivalent to being in the fourth quarter of the game.  John says that they have moved beyond the disputes, to the area of solutions.

Youping of Donut Express did this great cake.  Looked fantastic and tasted really good too.