But there were dozens of other events both big and small that helped weave the local fabric of 2009. Gov. Deval Patrick spent a day here visiting with business, government and arts representatives. The Provincetown Cemetery filled up, leading to a discussion on how to expand the burial grounds. A new ladder truck was delivered, replacing the one destroyed in an accident last year. The Bradford pear trees that line the sidewalk to Town Hall were saved. And off-leash beach rights were restored to dog owners.

Here is a look at some of the stories that had a significant impact on life in Provincetown over the past year.

Reworking a school system
After years of avoiding the subject, town residents and a new school superintendent convinced the school committee to directly address restructuring the school district. As the student population continued to decrease, residents overwhelmingly voted at the April Annual Town Meeting to establish a regional school district planning committee to explore the possibility of merging Provincetown’s schools with the Nauset Regional School District. The three-person committee’s report is supposed to be presented at the 2009 ATM.
However, it took until Oct. 13 for the committee to hold its first meeting, a delay that concerned both selectmen and Town Moderator Irene Rabinowitz, who appointed the committee. As a result, selectmen voted unanimously in July to send a letter to the school committee urging action. Since then, school committee chair Peter Grosso stepped forward to be the district’s representative on the committee and two residents, Alex Brown and Barbara Rushmore, volunteered to serve.

Shortly after that, in November, the new school superintendent, Dr. Beth Singer, proposed that the school committee hold its own talks about the future of the school district. After a lengthy and often emotional discussion, committee members agreed to organize a series of workshops open to the public that begin planning for the future of a different school district.

In tourism
The 2009 tourism season in Provincetown was a mixed bag but there were some sighs of relief that it wasn’t worse in this uncertain economy.
Booking rates for vacation rental homes on Cape Cod and the Islands were down 5.7 percent over the 2008 season, according to WeNeedaVacation.com, an Internet vacation booking site. A cold and wet June and half of July discouraged visitors but great weather through the rest of the summer and into the fall helped increase those numbers.

Still, the tourists who did arrive kept a strong grip on their wallets, cutting back on shopping across the board from artwork to fudge, based on reports from several local business owners, And many visitors who normally would have booked a week’s stay in town reduced that to four or five nights; there were often last-minute weekend vacancies available.

Retail stores reported revenue declines between 20 and 30 percent. But based on anecdotal evidence, it seems that the number of daytrippers was about even with last year. At the town’s municipal parking lots, the number of drivers was almost flat compared with the same April through August period in 2008.

“The overall picture was not great,” Provincetown Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Candy Collins-Boden said, referring to visitor spending. “But Provincetown could have done worse.”

Town Hall restoration
The last phase of the $6.54 million repair and restoration of the 123-year-old building began on Aug. 25, after voters approved funding at both the April Annual Town Meeting and the June Special Town Meeting. Phase 2, which will renovate and restore the interior of the historic building, as well as replace outdated electrical and heating systems, will take approximately one and a half years to complete.

Park project
Ambitious planning on the part of town leaders ran into resistance from some residents over a proposal to turn the municipal parking lot into a waterfront park, transportation gateway and visitors center. As part of that proposal, public parking would be moved to a proposed parking structure to be built on the site of the Duarte’s parking lot at the corner of Bradford and Standish streets. The idea of adding a 700-car, multi-level parking facility on the Duarte’s property — assuming the town was successful in purchasing it — worried some residents but selectmen said no design would be finalized without a series of public forums. In the meantime, the town is waiting to hear if its application for $25 million in federal stimulus money to pay for the project will be approved, a decision that is expected in February.

As the market turns
Although the takeover of the former Grand Union grocery store on Shank Painter Road by Stop & Shop actually took place on Dec. 12, 2008, the impact of the renovation of the town’s only grocery store was fully felt in 2009. The produce was fresher, there were more items available and a new, expanded pharmacy was built this past year. There were some complaints that it was taking longer to fill drug prescriptions over the summer months, however, prompting selectmen to write a letter of concern to the new managers.

Pharmacy no more
The reason there was a crush at the Stop & Shop pharmacy was largely due to the new market buying the prescription business of long-time Adams Pharmacy, which took the word “pharmacy” off of its sign. Adams, in business in Provincetown since 1875, sold that part of its business to Stop & Shop in March.

Art barn
Another change in a long-time fixture in Provincetown was the sale of the barn that housed the legendary Hawthorne School of Art and gave birth to Provincetown’s reputation as an international art colony. It was sold by its long-time owner Olga Opsahl-Gee, who with her late husband, Peter Gee, operated the art school since 1994. The new owner, Joshua Prager, has not revealed what he plans to do with the barn, although he said he would use it as a residence part of the year and have arts programming there the rest of the time.

Pru Sowers can be reached at psowers@provincetownbanner.com

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Edwardsville, Ill. (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 3, 2009 — The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy has been awarded — along with the Saint Louis University Department of Pharmacology and Physiology — a $974,024 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study ways of relieving chronic pain through new approaches in treating neuroinflammation.

Funding for the NIH grant was made possible in part by federal stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Professor Daniela Salvemini, an associate professor of pharmacological and physiological science at the SLU School of Medicine, and William Neumann, an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the SIUE School of Pharmacy, are the project’s principal researchers who will be studying how “peroxynitrite” (produced in the body in inflammatory settings) can actually cause chronic pain when the body produces too much of the chemical.

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According to the research abstract filed by Salvemini and Neumann, chronic pain is a global problem but in the United States alone one third of Americans suffer from it. However, about 30 percent of those chronic pain sufferers report that drugs now available on the market do not help the problem.

“When you have inflammation in the body,” Neumann explained, “reactive oxygen species and free radicals are produced, which can lead to formation of the neurotoxic molecule, peroxynitrite. Normally, these reactive molecules are kept under tight wraps by the body’s own antioxidant defense systems.

“But, if these systems become compromised, as in a state of chronic pain, it actually can make the problem worse. We’ll be looking at creating a synthetic enzyme that will go in and destroy the peroxynitrite.”

Over the past decade, Salvemini’s pioneering research led to the discovery of peroxynitrite. “We discovered the substance … which turns out to be very important in the development of pain and inflammation. If we target that molecule, we hope we can find new therapies with fewer side effects,” said Salvemini.

“Currently, pain is often poorly managed. Our hope is to find better ways to eliminate human suffering.”

The two-year grant is being administered through the NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal And Skin Diseases. “By using various accepted lab methods, we will try to create in rats arthritic conditions and see how they react to the pharmacology we introduce,” Neumann said. “The broad potential therapeutic use of these new analgesic agents we’re proposing is not a part of current pain management drugs,” he said.

“Our team will draw upon previous breakthroughs in the development of free radical targeted therapies but we will go further in creating a new approach to combat the problem without some of the current side effects of current pain management drugs.”

William Neumann received a bachelor of science in Chemistry from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1983 and a doctorate in 1987 from UM-St. Louis, where he worked on synthetic methodologies directed at preparing antitumor cyclopentanoid natural products. Since then, he has conducted research in both the diagnostic imaging and therapeutic pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining the SIUE School of Pharmacy he spent the majority of his industrial career at Monsanto corporate research and later Pharmacia, leading the new synthetic methods group. He also is currently adjunct professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Saint Louis University. Professor Neumann’s research interests are structure based drug discovery and catalytic antioxidants. At SIUE, he teaches Biochemistry and Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics: GI/Rheumatology/Pulmonary — Medicinal Chemistry.

Daniela Salvemini received her BSc in pharmacology in 1987 from King’s College London and her doctorate in pharmacology in 1990 at the William Harvey Research Institute, University College in London. After four years of post-doctoral fellowship, Salvemini joined the private sector where she spent more than a decade working on drug discovery and development of novel anti-inflammatories and analgesics. She came to Saint Louis University in 2005. Salvemini’s research achievements are reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications, reviews and lectures in the field of pain and inflammation and several international awards including the prestigious Novartis Award in pharmacology.

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MANCHESTER COLLEGE TO LAUNCH SCHOOL FOR PHARMACISTS IN FORT WAYNE

(Nov. 3, 2009) Elgin, IL — Manchester College will begin the accreditation process for a School of Pharmacy in Fort Wayne, Ind., with unanimous appro val given by its Board of Trustees. Manchester College is a Church of the B rethren-related school in North Manchester, Ind.

The college plans to enroll its first students in the four-year Doctor of P harmacy program in the fall of 2012. This is the 121-year-old baccalaureate college’s first venture into a doctoral program and into a satellite campu s. It will be the only Doctor of Pharmacy program in northern Indiana.

“Graduate education for pharmacists is a natural fit with Manchester Colleg e,” said president Jo Young Switzer. Manchester has a strong reputation in the sciences, particularly for preparing students for medical and graduate school. The college also emphasizes service learning.

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Fort Wayne is a natural fit for the new venture. In addition to numerous me dical facilities and opportunities for pharmacy practicum experiences, Fort Wayne offers many amenities attractive to the school’s 250 students, 40 fa culty and staff members, and their families.

“The decision by Manchester College to start a PharmD program in Fort Wayne is a wonderful investment of financial and intellectual capital in our cit y,” said mayor Tom Henry. “As the health care sector continues to grow in F ort Wayne and northeast Indiana, Manchester College’s expansion of professi onal programs is going to be key in creating the highly skilled, highly edu cated workforce employers demand.”

The average starting salary for pharmacists exceeds $100,000 and demand in the highly competitive profession is expected to grow more than 20 percent in the coming decade, said Switzer. The college’s research indicates many p harmacy graduates–who come from throughout the nation–remain in the commu nities where they study. Said Switzer, “During our exploration, many told u s that this project aligns well with other initiatives undertaken in northe ast Indiana to strengthen the economy here.”

Admission to Manchester’s new school will require two years of pre-pharmacy coursework. The college will add that program to its undergraduate curricu lum in North Manchester and its students will compete with pre-pharmacy stu dents from other colleges and universities for seats in the School of Pharm acy.

The college has not finalized its plans for a Fort Wayne site for the new s chool, which will require at least 35,000 square feet for classrooms, offic es, and laboratories. The pharmacy school will be a part of Manchester Coll ege and governed by the college’s Board of Trustees.

The search for a founding dean and building of a leadership team will begin immediately. That team will begin preparing the school’s application for a ccreditation.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to continu ing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and Pietist faith t raditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches. It celebrated it s 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts some 125,000 members across the Unit ed States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.

(This release was provided by Jeri S. Kornegay, Director of Media and Publi c Relations, Manchester College.)

For more information contact:

Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Director of News Services
Church of the Brethren
1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120
800-323-8039 ext. 260

cobnews@brethren.org

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Doctor of Pharmacy
COLCHESTER, Vt., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Following nearly two years of
planning, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences opened its Vermont
Satellite Campus today, welcoming 70 students in the inaugural class. The
campus, located in scenic Colchester, Vermont, is home to the only pharmacy
program in the state. 
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The ACPHS-Vermont campus offers a four year program culminating in a Doctor of
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.). The Pharm.D. is the degree required to practice pharmacy
in the United States. Students entering the program have completed a minimum
of two years of college coursework, with prerequisites that include biology,
chemistry and physics.

The members of the incoming class were selected from more than 1,200
applicants. They represent 20 states (including three students from Vermont)
and 16 countries. Their average age is 25 years old.

"When we announced plans to open the campus, Vermont was one of just three
states without a pharmacy program [Delaware and Alaska are the others]," said
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences President James J. Gozzo. "Now
that the campus is established, we look forward to becoming an important
contributor to the state's growth by helping address Vermont's existing
pharmacist shortage and conducting advanced pharmaceutical and biotech
research."

Research will be an important part of the teaching and learning taking place
at the College. Many of the 12 ACPHS-Vermont faculty are actively pursuing
grants and awards. The College has also joined the Vermont Biosciences
Alliance and hosted that group's first event in June 2009. The Alliance seeks
to strengthen Vermont's bioscience industry by helping facilitate
collaborations among researchers in higher education, health care, government
and the private sector.

Robert Hamilton, Pharm.D., will serve as the Vermont campus' Associate Dean
and Chief Administrative Officer. He will be responsible for all academic,
professional and community activities for the campus. Dr. Hamilton has served
many roles during nearly 30 years at ACPHS, including chair of the department
of pharmacy practice, director of the post-baccalaureate Pharm.D. program and
director of the College's continuing professional development program.

"We have assembled an exceptional group of students and faculty and provided
them with resources that are on a par with the best programs in the country.
Everyone on the campus is excited about being involved with a program that has
the potential to positively impact the health of Vermonters and people
throughout the country," said Dr. Hamilton.

The College plans to add 70 students in each of the next three years, bringing
the total enrollment to 280 students by the 2012-13 academic year. Additional
faculty and staff will be hired as new classes are enrolled.

About Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Founded in 1881, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is a private,
independent institution committed to the advancement of health. The College
has academic programs and research activities spanning the full spectrum of
pharmacy and health sciences - from drug discovery to patient care.  Nearly
1,600 ACPHS students are pursuing a wide range of career pathways in health
related fields through degree programs in pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences,
biomedical technology and health and human sciences. The College's main campus
is located in Albany, New York; its satellite campus is in Colchester,
Vermont. For more information, please visit www.acphs.edu.

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College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Work: (518) 694-7394, Mobile: (518)
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St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the Washington University School of Medicine have reached an agreement to swap about 1.2 acres in the Central West End.

Under terms of the deal, the college is acquiring two separate surface parking lots from Washington University. The lots are located on the southwest and northwest corner of Parkview Place and Taylor Avenue.

In return, Washington University will receive a lot at 4520 Forest Park Ave. The building currently at that site is being demolished Thursday.

“In acquiring the two parking lots, which are adjacent to campus, St. Louis College of Pharmacy has an opportunity to grow and meet the needs of future students and its faculty and staff,” President Thomas Patton said in a statement.

With a current record enrollment of 1,234 students, the college said it is nearing maximum capacity.

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