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November 19, 2009

By Ethan Forman The Salem News Thu Nov 19, 2009, 12:15 AM EST

DANVERS — Like a proud parent following her child in a parade, Marie Oliver walked nearly two miles Tuesday morning behind a flatbed truck ferrying the town Christmas tree from her yard on Ralph Road to Danvers Square.

She carried a digital camera to record the Forestry Division crew as it cut down the approximately 40-foot white fir, chopped off 10 feet from its massive trunk, then loaded it on the truck.

The arrival of the tree is a ritual that takes place each year in mid-November. The last two trees were hoisted from a home on Carolyn Drive, not far from the Department of Public Works yard on Hobart Street.

This year, it came from Marie and Wayne Oliver's yard just off Route 114, not far from Peabody.

Oliver said the town asked if she would be willing to donate the tree. She was glad to see it go because it had grown too big for her yard.

At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dave Ambrose, Brian Richard and Arthur Balser arrived, along with an Electric Light Division crew to make sure the tree would clear any wires. Oliver said she had coffee and doughnuts waiting for the crew.

Staff writer Ethan Forman can be reached at 978-338-2673 or by e-mail at eforman@salemnews.com.

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A Salem mother today denied hitting a kindergarten student, saying she simply held her face to get the girl’s attention while demanding that she not hit her son.
Dominique Hans, 38, of 8 Heritage Drive, pleaded not guilty in Salem District Court to charges of assault and battery and being disorderly, stemming from an incident on board a school bus on Proctor Street Thursday.
Police and prosecutors say Hans marched on board the bus, ignoring a driver’s request to stop, and asked her 6-year-old son to point out a child he said had hit him earlier this week.
“I didn’t hit that little girl,” said Hans.
Hans told reporters outside court that she was upset after she said school officials failed to respond to her complaint about the earlier incident involving her son.
“I understand her position,” Hans said of the mother of the little girl. “I trespassed. I felt I needed to protect my son, which (the driver) did not do for him.”
Hans remains free on $1,000 cash bail posted last night at the Salem policestation. Judge Robert Brennan ordered her to have no unsupervised contact with children under 12 except for her own, to stay away from the girl’s school bus stop, the girl and her family, and to follow any orders issued by the Department of Children and Families while the case is pending.
She is due back in court on March 15.
For more on this story, see tomorrow’s Salem News.

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