Harwich student served with no-trespass ordersMonomoy sixth-grader receives no-trespassing notices requested by neighbors for cutting through a neighbor's yard on the way to the bus stop.
By Cynthia McCormick
WEST HARWICH — Monomoy Regional Middle School sixth-grader Autumn Blanchard is not the first youngster to be scolded for cutting through a neighbor's yard on the way to the bus stop.
But at age 11 she may be among the youngest children ever to receive a no-trespassing notice from the Harwich Police Department.
"I am beyond distressed by this situation," said Krystal Blanchard, Autumn's mother. "I can't imagine why it had to go to this level. Someone should have spoken to me."
The neighbors who took out the complaint spoke to school officials, who warned 11-year-old Autumn against taking a shortcut to a friend's house on the way to the bus stop.
But no one involved Krystal Blanchard, who said she already had been lobbying school officials for a bus stop closer to the family's rental home on Bells Neck Road.
"I found out about it when the police showed up at my door with a no-trespass order," Blanchard said of the March 2 visit. "It's making it a hostile environment for my child to go to school."
Autumn, a book-loving, homework-hating sixth-grader who moved into the quiet neighborhood with her mother in September 2015, received a total of three pink no-trespass notices that day.
Two of them were signed by Jacqueline Leger of Arbutus Lane and one by Leger's mother, Patricia Taylor, who lives next door to the Blanchards on Bells Neck Road.
According to both Blanchard and Taylor, Autumn would cut through Taylor's property to get to Leger's driveway so she could walk to the bus stop with Leger's daughter.
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