SHUT THE CATHOLIC PRIEST UP Page 1()()()()Large crowd had forced prior postponement While Morrison, a resident of 13th Road, said her family gets blown out of bed by airport noise, MacMullen, an Old Colony Lane resident, said she doesn’t hear that happening at all, even when she’s home all day. 372 By Lydia Mulvany Posted Dec. 2, 2008 @ 12:01 am Updated Dec 2, 2008 at 2:21 AM Marshfield Although Kelly Morrison and Dottie MacMullen both live near Marshfield Municipal Airport, their views on the noise coming from the airport are different. While Morrison, a resident of 13th Road, said her family gets blown out of bed by airport noise, MacMullen, an Old Colony Lane resident, said she doesn’t hear that happening at all, even when she’s home all day. Morrison and MacMullen were just two of the speakers during a four-hour public meeting with the board of selectmen that drew more than 100 residents to the Martinson Elementary School auditorium Monday night to hear a presentation by the airport commission. The meeting had been postponed from Nov. 17 and moved to Martinson after the crowd failed to fit into the selectmen’s hearing room at town hall. Residents, commission members and representatives from Shoreline Aviation, the company which runs the airport for the town, gave testimony about whether the airport was creating too much noise, whether it was an asset to the taxpayers in the town, whether more jet engine planes would be using the airport due to a proposed extension of the runway and what power, if any, the town and Shoreline had over the situation. Shoreline Aviation manager Ann Pollard said the proposed installation of 300-foot safety areas and a 336-foot runway extension would bring the airport into compliance with Federal Aviation Administration standards, and that the airport would not be handling any aircraft it cannot handle now. She said activity levels have actually been down recently, compared to the late 1990s, and that levels usually fluctuate with the economy. “Marshfield Airport will never be more than a small, general aviation facility. Jet Blue, FedEx and Boeing and others do not have their sights set on operating out of our airport, despite many recent rumors,” she said. “It’s not a build-it-and-they-shall-come kind of expansion.” Residents Jim Knapp and Brian McCarthy accused authorities of letting jets degrade the quality of life in South Marshfield. “(Jets) wake up everybody in my neighborhood,” Knapp said. “They have no consideration for the people in our area.” “I’ve been in town 30 years, and when that airport was first built, jets were prohibited. Jets got somehow authorized into the airport without notifying the residents,” said McCarthy. “Youre here to make money, you’re not here to save us.” In response to comments about eliminating jets from the airport, Pollard said there was a resolution at Town Meeting in 1971 to prohibit jets, but that it was illegal then, as it is now. She said what determines the type of craft an airport receives is whether or not the plane can operate safely, and, legally, airports cannot discriminate beyond that. Resident Stephen Lynch and selectmen Chairwoman Katie O’Donnell engaged in a shouting match after Lynch asked the commission whether anyone had called the Archdiocese in Boston to prevent a priest from coming to the meeting or threatened residents giving out brochures with lawsuits.
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