Selectmen voted unanimously Monday to execute a temporary easement with the Wildlands Trust. The easement will allow vehicles to pass over a small portion of the organization’s land at 0 Anchorage Lane, off of St. George Street. A small corner in the back of that property abuts that part of the school land near the current middle school football field. The easement will be approximately 15 feet at the widest point.

Anne Antonellis lives and breathes this town. Around town, she’s known as the Ambassador of Duxbury -- and rightly so. The Clipper caught up with Anne during one of her infrequent breaks and asked her how she does it all.

People have called you the “unofficial Ambassador of Duxbury” how do you feel about that title?

I think it’s funny.  I am very proud to live in Duxbury. My father decided to move us here when I was 10-years-old and I fell in love with the town. So I guess I am proud to have made a little mark in Duxbury’s history.

(One class starts the Newport to Bermuda race in a swirl of colors.)

Roughly 160 sailboats left Newport on Friday, June 15 bound for Bermuda. There were actually 10 “participants” from Duxbury, but not all of them sailed: nine made the race and one started them all.

Bill Walker’s Med Spirit, a Wellborn 92 skippered by Mike D’Amelio of Marblehead, broke their own boat record by four hours in the Open Division to a mere 44 hours. They were first in class and first to finish in their class and fifth overall out of 159 boats. Their average speed over the course was 14.5 knots, with a top speed registered as 23. With all of this they were not first, Rambler made it in 39 hours, breaking the Newport to Bermuda time record by 14 hours at an average speed of 16 knots. Fourteen boats broke the elapsed time record.

The Town of Duxbury filed a civil suit against former Town Counsel Robert Troy in Plymouth Superior Court on Wednesday after its motion to add Troy as a third party complaint in the Johnson Golf Management suit was denied in Middlesex Superior Court on Friday. Read the full story in the next edition of the Clipper.

(A lightening strike at the North Hill Golf Course on Wednesday, July 18 struck a tall pine tree and disrupted the irrigation system. Photo by Paul Coutoumas)

A severe weather front moving across the South Shore on Wednesday temporarily knocked out Duxbury’s 911 services and resulted in lightening strikes on four residences.

The Town’s motion asked the judge for permission to file a third party complaint against Troy, seeking “contribution for and indemnification against any liability that the Town may incur” in the case of a decision against the Town in the suit.  The plaintiff, Johnson Golf Management, agreed to the motion by the Town to include Troy as a defendant, but the judge denied the request saying that it was filed too close to the October trial date.

(An ironic scene of contradictions as a motorcycle transporting bare mannequin legs drives next to a motorcycle with a burka-clad passenger. Not all women in Kabul wear burkas, but all wear long pants or dresses, long-sleeved tops and headscarves. Many men wear traditional long white tops and matching pants or Western style long slacks. The only bare legs to be seen in Kabul are on this bike.)

One of the first things I learned upon arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan is that driving appears riskier than threats of terrorism.

The roads are a high speed free for all of cars, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, donkey carts, human pushcarts and pedestrians. Most cars have steering wheels on the left but there are numerous cars from Pakistan with right-side steering. Nearly every vehicle is a Toyota because as Razia Jan said, the parts are available. Drivers are either stopped in rush hour traffic or driving as fast as possible to catch up to or zip around other cars, people or whatever is in the road. Packed minivans whiz around with the doors wide open to accommodate an overload of passengers. I may have been the only person in Kabul wearing a seatbelt and wasn’t embarrassed to do so.

(The crew of “The Way, Way Back” film shoot a scene on Powder Point Bridge.)

One of the stars of the made in Massachusetts film, “The Way, Way Back” will be Duxbury’s own Powder Point Bridge.

The crew of the movie was in town last week shooting a pivotal scene for the Steve Carell movie that uses the bridge as a scenic metaphor.

(Colin Congdon demonstrates shooting while instructor Dave Mello explains what kickback is.)

Colin Congdon, 11, held the butt of the rifle against his shoulder. Focused, he took a couple of deep breaths as he gently squeezed the trigger.

Congdon, along with 20 other 11-14 year olds, was at the Marshfield Rod and Gun Club last Friday where the group learned gun safety as part of a week-long summer camp sponsored by the Duxbury Police Department. Administered by Officers Friend Weiler and Tim Wigmore, the camp’s goal is to show what police officers do on a daily basis and get kids excited about the criminal justice system.

The curriculum included a visit to the Duxbury Fire Department and ride-along with the Harbormaster to demonstrate how the departments work together; an intensive work out with physical education teachers at the high school; a tour of the Plymouth County House of Correction where the kids spoke with inmates, used a police simulator to make fake arrests and practiced different police situations; and of course a visit to the police station where they were shown a day in the life of a cop.

Paul Mabey, of Keene Street, has lost a few pounds in the past year and it’s not from dieting. Longtime Duxbury resident and a pharmacist in Hingham for the past thirty-two years, Mabey spends hours of his free time walking the streets of our town picking up litter. Paul tells us how he became involved with the Duxbury Litter Patrol and shares his passion for keeping things green.