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Monday, October 10, 2011

Tell Me Something Good

French Cafe Society Arrives in Hamilton

Gertrude Stein's famous Paris salon played a part in the birth of novels by Hemingway and paintings by Picasso. With the start of Jolie Tea's new art and ideas salon, Hamilton is already seeing a bounty of work by local celebrated artists.

Wars aren’t started between sips of tea - poems are. So thought Amy Job, who opened Jolie Tea Co. six months ago in downtown Hamilton. A shop is for selling products, but in starting her business Job wanted to do something more, something to foster art and ideas. “I’m an underground Francophile,” said Job, explaining her motivation. “I’ve always loved the French café society and I want to try it here.” Part of that has been the the creation of “Jolie Tea Company Salon.” “It’s community outreach," she said, adding that it happens after shop hours. "There’s no charge." The shop has been "kind of my 20-year dream come to fruition,” Job said. Indeed the route to achieving it more strongly resembled that of a butterfly than that of a bee. “I …

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Jolie Tea Company and Gordon College

Friday, September 30, 2011

Patch Facts

Five Things You Need to Know Today: Sept. 30

An essential get-me-going daily morning column from Hamilton-Wenham Patch.

Today is Friday, Sept. 30. Here are five things you need to know: 1. Weather: The sun is expected to return on Friday. The forecast calls for temperatures close to 80 and gusty wind at times. 2. Operational audit: Friday is the deadline for school officials to submit the latest response to the operational audit of the schools, which was completed earlier this year as a way to find ways to save money and run the schools more efficiently. 3. Jolie Tea: Courtney Reid will be performing at Jolie Tea Co.’s salon night tonight. The Art Center teacher won a jingle contest put on by Folgers last summer and will be putting her talents on display. 4. Ships in a Bottle: Winson Morrill of Hamilton, who makes model ships in a bottle, was featured on …

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Memo: More Operational Audit Follow-up Results Expected by Sept. 30, Audit Review Focuses on Proposed Teacher Cuts, Jolie Tea Company, and 3 more ›

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Tell Me Something Good

Local Singer Captures the 'Here and Now' With Coffee Jingle Win

Known to Hamilton residents as an artist and teacher, Courtney Reid has taken Times Square and is ready for more.

Fans of Hamilton’s Jolie Tea Co. may well find something - or rather someone - new to fawn over later this month. Performing on Friday Sept. 30 at the second of the company’s ‘salon nights’ will be local, award-winning singer and songwriter Courtney Reid. A Virginian by birth, Reid currently calls Gloucester home but spends her days in Hamilton where she teaches painting and drawing at the Art Center. “She was my art teacher. For about four years I took art lessons from her,” Jolie Tea Co. owner Amy Job said of multi-talented Reid on a recent afternoon. As fate may have it, however, Reid’s career as an art instructor may prove to be short lived. In June, the singer experienced what pop artist Andy Warhol described as her “fifteen minutes …

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The Art Center, Jolie Tea Company, and Gordon College

Monday, August 8, 2011

Patch Facts

Five Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 8

An essential get-me-going daily morning column from Hamilton-Wenham Patch.

Today is Monday, Aug. 8. Here are five things you need to know: 1. Weather: Clouds with the chance of a shower will be the order of the day on Monday, with temperatures in the 70s getting close to 80. 2. Music Man: Wenham’s Brian Doser – the Music Man – makes one of his two weekly appearances at the Community House on Monday morning at 10 a.m. Kids are always entertained by the Music Man’s classic childhood tunes. There’s a recommended $5 donation. 3. Local Heroes: The Local Heroes Pajama Storytime continues on Monday night with Amy Job of Jolie Tea Co. reading stories to preschoolers at 6:30 p.m. at Hamilton-Wenham Library. Kids are encouraged to come in their pajamas. It is open to the public, does not require registration and is free. 4…

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IMAGE GALLERY: The Music Man Brian Doser, Music Man, The Community House of Hamilton & Wenham, and 6 more ›

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Week in Review

A Look Back at 5 Top Local Stories Last Week

The "Week in Review" wraps of some of the major stories from Hamilton and Wenham.

Each Sunday, Hamilton-Wenham Patch takes a look back at the week in local news. Here’s a look at some of the top stories on the two towns in the past week. 1. New look and size selected for Wenham Town Hall sign Years of discussion and debate came to an end this week when the Historic District Commission and Town Hall and Police Station Building Committee reached agreement on the look and size of a new Wenham Town Hall sign. Right now, the large white sign with black writing simply says “Wenham Town Hall.” The new sign will be smaller and include the town seal at the top and say “erected 1855” at the bottom. It will be 18 inches narrower than the existing sign. 2. School Committee sets deadline for continued operational audit response The …

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After Years of Debate, Wenham Town Hall to Get Smaller Sign, Wenham Town Hall, Memo: More Operational Audit Follow-up Results Expected by Sept. 30, and 11 more ›

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