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Calvin, Emmanuel churches welcome new pastors
By MEGHAN KAVANAUGH
Valley Breeze Staff Writer
meghan@valleybreeze.com
CUMBERLAND – Two congregations in Cumberland have
welcomed new pastors who
were both ordained after working for decades in other careers.
The Rev. Paulo de Tarso
Rangel Ribeiro, the interim
pastor at Calvin Presbyterian
Church, was a law professor.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church's
new pastor, the Rev. Joan
Testin, taught music, social studies, religion and drama for 23
years.
The pastors, who were both
raised Roman Catholic, support
CHS thespians off to New England Drama Festival
progressive thought.
Calvin's divorce support
group is the only of its kind
in the area, Ribeiro said. And
Testin, who has been in a
relationship with her partner,
Barbara Mooney, for 25 years,
supports the Episcopalian
church's ruling that "all relationships based on love and mutual
fidelity are holy" and that civil
unions can be blessed.
See PASTORS, Page 22
No February
school vacation
in winter of 2014
Single March week off
likely in 2015
By MARCIA GREEN
Valley Breeze Editor
mgreen@valleybreeze.com
Valley Breeze photo by Elise Manahan
Cumberland High School's theater group is headed for the New England Drama Festival after
their performance of "Apartment 259" at the state competition won them one of the two top spots. Cast
and crew members are, in front from left, Alex Haupt, Kalli Mazzone, Abigail Pwyer, Alexander Diehl,
and Odile Modesto; in center, Michaela Hastings, Alyssa Tetreault, Micaila Sheridan, Meaghan Corse and
Jessica Zhong; and in rear, faculty adviser Robert DiMartino, director John Lincoln, Ben Emery and Stasha
Medeiros. Missing from photo are Hannah Dubois, Liz Lux, Sabrina Fauteux, Lynn Nachampasak and Lauren
Riley. See story on Page 11.
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Buses for Cumberland students attending outside charter,
parochial and private schools,
will run as usual.
Departures from traditional
February and April vacations
spring from concern raised by
committee member Linda Teel
who said she worried about lost
classroom learning time every
winter. That's especially true
next year, she said, when students are scheduled for two full
weeks off at Christmastime.
School Committee members
considered three different calendar options before choosing
See VACATION, Page 17
