Cape Cod House Hunt: Former Truro schoolhouse blends traditional and contemporary design
TRURO Perched on a hill near the center of town, the former Obadiah Brown School and Sacred Heart church was transformed into a beautiful residence and workspace about 20 years ago.
Since then, it has been the realm of Margaret Frances MacNeil, the well-known interior designer, and her company, MFM Interiors. MacNeil was deeply involved in the redesign of her home, which also features a freestanding guest cottage that can be rented.
MacNeil plans to stay in Truro, and said she has loved working and living in the space.
Kevin Condon’s idea for a new way to pay for gas developed over the course of many slow Friday commutes from Boston to his former home in Truro.
It started, as so often happens, as a way to solve an entirely different problem. A businessman with experience in transportation and public policy, Condon wondered how to get people to buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. Could a variable gas tax be instituted that was tied to the efficiency of a vehicle? Could there be a way to identify a vehicle at a gas pump?
“There is no more price sensitive place in the world than a gas pump,” he said.
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A Dennis lawyer, and former Truro town attorney, who had his license to practice suspended for his involvement in a scheme to wring as much money out of a dying client as possible was reinstated to the bar last month.
Jamie Veara was barred from practicing law in 2018 after he, along with fellow attorney Gerald Nissenbaum, charged the estate of Kenneth Simon Sr. half a million dollars as the Harwich Port financial manager lay dying in a nursing home in 2005.
Veara was appointed to be Simon’s guardian and racked up more than $500,000 in a mere 83 days at what the Board of Bar Overseers said were clearly excessive rates. The board said the fees were 33% higher than Veara’s normal fees, despite him having no experience in that area of the law.