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DEDHAM SQUARE COUNTRY STORE

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND NEWS TIPS can be sent to editor Andrea Salisbury at 781-433-8322 or dedham@cnc.com.

Going local year round

Sunday market features treats, sweets and meats
By Andrea Salisbury
STAFF WRITER

Tip leads to the arrest of robbery suspect

Police say Georgia woman was staying at the Fairfield Inn
By Edward B. Colby
STAFF WRITER

Greg Agnew had a plan to pick up where the popular summer farmers markets left off and make sure everyone is still warm. All it took was a little patience, a lot of time and some elbow grease. I saw the enthusiasm of the summer farmers market and wanted to continue it throughout the year, the 22-year-old said, standing at the back of the Odd Fellows Hall as customers moved around the room picking up breads, cocoa mixes and preserves. Weve been working on it since November with concepts, ideas, labor. It is an intensive project. It has been a journey. With new floors and a fresh coat of paint, the Westwood resident has worked with the landlords, Dedhams branch of the Independent Order-Odd Fellows, on High Street to fit his needs for the indoor country market. Overall it had been late nights, he said. Going from work to here, to bed and then to work by 7 the next morning. Michael Froimowitz, building committee chairman for the Odd Fellows, said the market has been a perfect fit for the spot and the Square as the farmers market is good for the entire community, he said. In its second month, the Dedham Square Country Store has seen a steady stream of Sunday shoppers looking for all-natural, fresh, local food, Agnew said. And with new local vendors popping up each week it isnt a wonder why. Manning the table closest to the door, Agnews father, also named Greg, makes a promise. Thats going to be the best cherry preserve you ever tasted, he said to a customer, who ended up buying a case of jelly and preserves. The senior Greg Agnew runs LemonThyme Farm in Hanson and said that he is his own best customer, as he eats everything he sells. I know what goes in them, he said with a smile. At the next table, Ed Lawton of Lawtons Family Farms, 70 North St. in Foxborough, boasts that his cheese spread has a non-processed taste and a bite of lemon. Lawton said that the farm is one of five surviving dairy farms in Norfolk County and has been in his family for seven generations. Continuing with the family theme, Dartmouths Ed Jacobs said his wife decided a few years back to follow her dream and start a granola company. With flavors like Fig n Nuts, Jammin, A Choc-work Orange, and Mac Daddy, Jacobs says The Best Damn Granola Companys natural granola is packed with attitude and taste. The Best Damn Granola is cooked in small batches in a shared-use kitchen in Dartmouth. According to its Web site, the Dartmouth Grange shared-used kitchen is rented out to local farms for cooking, cleaning and food preparation. Perhaps the biggest draw of the afternoon was Arlingtonbased Best Friends Cocoa. In her
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PHOTOS BY SEAN BROWNE

Bread, cheese, granola and jams were just some of the locally made products available at the Dedham Square Country Store in the Odd Fellows Hall on High Street. Below, Monika Wilkinson of Dedham checks out Best Damn Granolas offerings.

Dedham Square Country Store

When: Sundays through May Where: 626 High St. Open: 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Information: Greg Agnew, 781-326-8944 Online: www.dedhamsquare countrystore.com

cocoa colors, Linda Guttman, the queen of cocoa, said she doesnt know why people dont drink her product year-round. If people drink coffee in February, why cant they have cocoa in May? she asked while readjusting the display of Marshmallow Cloud, Raspberry Truffle and Cinnamon Twist. Guttman said she once worked as a massage therapist and would offer the cocoa to her clients. Then one year when she went to place an order, Guttman said she discovered they were going out of business. So she bought the company. Six years later, her cocoa is sold in grocery stores nationwide. But Guttman is still the biggest fan, starting each morning with a cup of Cinnamon Twist, ending the day with Raspberry Truffle and filling in the gaps with a mug of Marshmallow Cloud. She said the Dedham Square Country Store has been wonderful. There is no place in Dedham where you can get this variety, she said, gesturing to the other vendors. Everything is really top notch. The younger Greg Agnew agreed. He said he hopes the

Police said an anonymous tipster led them to the Fairfield Inn last weekend to arrest a 24-year-old Georgia woman wanted for armed robbery taking her into custody after they used a ruse to get a male companion out of their hotel room. Samantha Sanford of 52 Shope Ridge Road in Ringgold, Ga. was arrested and given a charge of fugitive from justice on a court warrant, said Lt. Robert Nedder. She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment in Dedham District Court last Monday, and is due back there for a status hearing March 30, but could be picked up by Georgia authorities in the meantime. Nedder said that last Saturday Detective Robert Walsh spoke with someone from the Norfolk House of Correction who had received an anonymous phone call telling him that a woman named Sanford was staying at the Fairfield Inn, at 235 Elm St. The caller said Sanford was wanted for an armed robbery in Dalton, Ga., and that she would be with a black man named Ramon, Nedder said. Dalton is the Carpet Capital of the World. The small town of Ringgold a little farther up I-75 in northwest Georgia is where the famed Great Locomotive Chase of the Civil War ended in 1862. Walsh got in touch with a Dalton detective, who gave him all the personal identifying information for Sanford and a color booking photo from 2007, Nedder said. When Walsh and two other Dedham police officers went to the Fairfield Inn on Saturday, the hotel had no record of Sanford or any man named Ramon, Nedder said. But on Sunday, a hotel manager phoned

Walsh and told him that on Friday police had actually been called there for a domestic dispute between a white woman and black man. But when police went there that day, the couple was gone, Nedder said. The manager told Walsh the room was under the name of Samantha Wynn. After speaking with Georgia authorities again, Walsh found out that Sanford had previously been married and that her married name was Samantha Wynn, Nedder said. At about 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, five officers went back to the Fairfield Inn to begin surveillance of the room she was supposed to be in, Nedder said. They used a ruse and were able to draw the male party out of the room, Nedder said. That man, Ramon Walker, 37, of 1850 Washington St. in Boston, was detained in the stairwell, he said. Walsh and Detective Daniel Panciocco then went to the room and knocked on the door, which was answered by Sanford, who was taken into custody without incident, according to Nedder. Walker had a Social Security card with a different name, and claimed he was that person, also 37 years old, Nedder said. But police called numbers in his phone and were able to identify him as Ramon Walker, and saw that he had the number 6 tattooed on the left side of his neck, just as Boston Police had told them, Nedder said. The suspect eventually said his name was Ramon Walker and that he had outstanding warrants, Nedder said. Walker has one warrant from Plymouth Superior Court for cocaine trafficking, and four warrants for breaking and entering into a building in the daytime, according to Nedder. Two of those warrants are from West Roxbury District Court, one is from Quincy District Court, and one is from Suffolk Superior Court, he said. Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby can be reached at 781-433-8336 .

market, which will run until May and is open Sunday afternoon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will grow in the coming years. I can see this become a country store, he said. Not just a special event on Sunday but a destination. Dedham Transcript editor Andrea Salisbury can be reached at asalisbu@cnc.com.

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