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2009 optimism on fallen rig
L. Pontchartrain
Bay St. Louis
s
Biloxi
Mobile
a
Pensacola is lost amid advancing ooze
Mi s d
Mississippi Sound
Mobile Bay
By Cain Burdeau analysis dated February 2009,
and Holbrook Mohr BP repeatedly suggested it was
ew
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April 30 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ble, for an accident to occur that
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Sound Gulf of Mexico
ssi MOUTH OF THE MISSIS- would lead to a giant crude oil
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oil locations, of a catastrophic accident at an fisheries.
South offshore rig that exploded, caus- BP’s plan filed with the federal
Pass April 22 to
April 30 ing the worst U.S. spill in dec- Minerals Management Service
0 30 mi ades along the Gulf Coast and for the Deepwater Horizon well
0 30 km April 22 endangering shoreline habitat. says repeatedly that it was
Oil rig THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the 52-page exploration Dr. Erica Miller of the Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research gives
SOURCE: NOAA plan and environmental impact Turn to Oil/Page A7 Pepto-Bismol to an oil-covered northern gannet in Fort Jackson, La.
Odgren
Doctor tells
Call to duty gets life
of serving in sentence
Afghanistan Defense calls
By Craig S. Semon
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF term ‘barbaric’
WORCESTER — When Anthony By Lee Hammel
S. Lapinsky volunteered his medical TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
services to the military, he had no
idea he would be dropped into the WOBURN — Convicted of first-degree
middle of Afghanistan, be a member murder, John Odgren yesterday was giv-
of the only surgical team in a en a mandatory sentence of life in prison
100-mile radius and provide the first without the possibility of parole.
level of care to wounded soldiers. The 19-year-old from Princeton had been
With rockets flying overhead and convicted the day before in Middlesex Dis-
into the base, and their share of trict Court by a jury that took a day-and-a-
would-be terrorists strapped with half to reach its decision. The jury fore-
bomb vests coming to the fortified woman called out in a firm voice “guilty of
gate, it was much more than Dr. premeditated malice aforethought and
Lapinsky expected, but in the end it extreme atrocity and cruelty.”
gave him a renewed and added re- The defense admitted that on Jan. 19,
spect for God, country, family and 2007, Mr. Odgren, then 16, used a 13-inch
what it truly means to be “safe and kitchen knife to kill fellow Lincoln-Sud-
sound.” bury Regional High School student James
“We all were armed and we car- Alenson, 15, whom Mr. Odgren had never
ried our weapons,” Dr. Lapinsky met. But the jury did not accept the
said. “I didn’t realize how dangerous defense theory that Mr. Odgren was not
it was in that country just to be
there. The violence, it can be ran- Turn to Odgren/Page A7
dom, and also, if you just take stuff
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HUDSON — Two adults were By Jay Lindsay
found stabbed to death early THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
yesterday morning at a condo-
minium complex at 200 Man- BOSTON — A “catastrophic”
ning St. break Saturday in a relatively
Middlesex District Attorney new, 10-foot-wide steel pipe ren-
Gerard T. Leone termed the dered the water undrinkable in
incident a homicide investiga- Boston and more than two dozen
tion and asked the public for as- of its suburbs, forcing Gov.
sistance. No arrests have been Deval L. Patrick to declare a
made, according to Cara state of emergency.
O’Brien, a spokeswoman for Mr. The state issued a boil-water
Leone. order for drinking water in the
The identifications of the vic- 30 affected communities, which
tims, discovered at 3:30 a.m., include 2 million people in
were not released yesterday, 700,000 households. None of the
pending notification of next of communities was in Central
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statement last night. The water comes from the
During the day, yellow crime Quabbin Reservoir and the
scene tape cordoned off Build- Wachusett Reservoir and flows
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87-unit condominium complex A car from the lot at Madison Place is placed on a Falcon Recovery tow truck. ton area.
consisting of three brick build- The Massachusetts Water Re-
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WORCESTER — On weekday what the people who park in the
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Motor Vehicles parking lot walk toward the RMV or else-
downtown often full, some mo- where don’t know is that they’re
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Neighbors: Woman mother of girl, 3 Friends
spray-painted
By Scott J. Croteau believe it until I see her at the wake. She a rock in
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF was part of our lives and now she’s gone. Marlboro with
She’s too young.” messages for
HUDSON — Friends and people living Friends spray-painted a rock in Marl- Trisha Ben-
at the Emerson Gardens condominium boro along Route 85 with Ms. Bennett’s nett and
complex on Manning Street have identi- name and the name of Angel, the man Angel, who
fied the woman who was killed early Sat- friends said was also killed. Candles and are said to be
urday morning as Trisha Bennett, a other items were left outside the condo- the homicide
20-year-old mother of a 3-year-old girl. minium complex where Ms. Bennett victims.
Police and the Middlesex district attor- lived. One pink ribbon said, “Rest in
ney’s office have not officially named Ms. Peace Trisha.”
Bennett or the man found dead in a third- State and Hudson police continue to
floor apartment Saturday morning. investigate what authorities called the
Friends of Ms. Bennett identified the man “suspicious deaths” of the man and the
found dead as Angel. woman. Both were found with stab
FACEBOOK PHOTO “All day yesterday (Saturday) I was wounds inside apartment 28A at 200 Man-
Trisha Bennett was identified as bawling my eyes out,” said Kelly Gorman,
one of the victims. a friend of Ms. Bennett. “I probably won’t Turn to Victims/Page A4 T&G Photo/DAN GOULD
Coeds Death of devoted family man
Feds plan
face
rape relief well
danger
5.2% on campus
report assaults
to plug leak
By Lynne Klaft
Effort off Louisiana coast
CORRESPONDENT
WORCESTER — Hannah, a
21-year-old area college student,
could take up to 90 days
was not raped and assaulted by By Leslie Kaufman
a stranger jumping out of the and Joseph Berger
bushes on a dark night; she was THE NEW YORK TIMES
sexually, emotionally and phys- 5 The movement: The spill,
ically abused by her boyfriend. NEW ORLEANS — As Presi- emanating from a pipe 50 miles
Hannah (not her real name) dent Barack Obama traveled to offshore, was creeping into
was in what she described as a T&G Staff/CHRISTINE PETERSON Louisiana on Sunday for a first- Louisiana’s fragile coastal wetlands
“physical, sexual, emotional, Grieving at the site of the accident that killed Charles Melkonian are, from right, Sean MacDonald, hand briefing on the Gulf of as strong winds and rough waters
financial and spiritually” abu- Zachary A. Harvard, Charlie Melkonian, the victim’s father, and an unidentified woman. Mexico oil spill, federal officials hampered cleanup efforts.
sive relationship with a boy- in Washington said they were
friend. putting their hopes on drilling a 5 The timing: Oil could hit the
And she became part of the
statistics that show that the col-
lege years can hold sexual
assault danger for women.
The statistics for women who
A son lost parallel relief well to plug the
unabated gusher. Drilling such
a well could take three months.
“The scenario is a very grave
scenario,” Interior Secretary
shores of Alabama and Mississippi
today.
5 The hope: The objective of drilling
a relief well parallel to the original rig
would be to pour concrete into the
have been sexually assaulted
while in college are high.
Because of that, area colleges
Biker slid into railroad car Ken Salazar said on the NBC
news program “Meet the Press.”
“You’re looking at potentially
damaged well and plug it.
and agencies spend time and By Priyanka Dayal 90 days before you get to the ulti- at the mouth of the Mississippi
money to educate young women
on this danger, and to protect
them.
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‘ He didn’t smoke, he didn’t
drink, he just turned 21 …
‚ mate solution, which is drilling
a relief well 31⁄2 miles below the
ocean floor. In that time, lots of
River to waters off Florida’s
Pensacola Bay.
The spill, emanating from a
WORCESTER — Charles Melkonian
An oft-cited U.S. Department held the railroad track and wept. oil could spread.” pipe 50 miles offshore, was
of Justice study found 3 percent Under the beating sun, as rail cars ZACHARY A. HARVARD The National Oceanic and At- creeping into Louisiana’s frag-
of female college students passed slowly on nearby tracks, the fa- mospheric Administration on ile coastal wetlands as strong
reported being raped or experi- COUSIN OF VICTIM Sunday restricted fishing for at winds and rough waters ham-
ther grieved at the place where his son
encing an attempted rape. died Saturday. least 10 days in waters most pered cleanup efforts. Oil could
“A local university recently Shane A. Melkonian, 21, and two It took firefighters an hour and a half to affected by the oil spill, largely
surveyed 700 students in a two- friends were riding motorcycles on a extricate him. He died, even though he between Louisiana state waters Turn to Louisiana/Page A6
month time frame and found stretch of pavement between two sets of was wearing a helmet.
that 5.2 percent” or 36 students railroad tracks off 150 Blackstone River Blood stained the rocks under the rail
“reported incidents of sexual Road just before 6:30 Saturday evening, car yesterday.
assault. This is a problem,” said according to fire officials. Mr. Melko- Friends and family of Mr. Melkonian,
Kim L. Dawkins, executive nian, of Worcester, allegedly popped a the father of a 2-year-old boy, came to the
director of the Rape Crisis Cen- wheelie, fell off his bike, slid and struck a rail yard to pay their respects. They
ter of Central Massachusetts. stationary freight car. His head was called Mr. Melkonian’s death a freak and
“It’s a public health crisis,” trapped between a rail and a chute at the
bottom of the car. Turn to Melkonian /Page A4
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Gunshot
victim Times Square bomb suspect arrested
dies of Pakistani who bought SUV grabbed at JFK By Tom Hays tional Airport and was stopped, and paid cash. The man lives in
Agents
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wounds and Colleen Long
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NEW YORK— A suspect in
said the official, who spoke to
The Associated Press early
today on the condition of ano-
nymity. The suspect has not
Connecticut.
The SUV was rigged with a
crude propane-and-gasoline
bomb. It had cheap-looking
a 24-hour
operations
center at
FBI head-
Buddy may face last weekend’s failed car bomb
attack on Times Square was tak-
been named. He is being held in
New York.
alarm clocks connected to a
16-ounce can filled with fire-
quarters in
the Chel-
murder charge en into custody late Monday
while trying to leave the coun-
Law enforcement officials say
the suspect is a Pakistani who
works.
The car’s last registered
sea section
of New
By Scott J. Croteau try, an official said. recently returned from a trip to owner was questioned Sunday York.
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF The suspect, a Pakistani, was Pakistan and bought the 1993 by investigators, and said he
identified at midnight Monday Nissan Pathfinder used in the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WORCESTER — Authorities at John F. Kennedy Interna- failed car bomb three weeks ago Turn to NYC bomb /Page A8
confirmed yesterday 19-year-old
Brandon A. McNeil, the man
Former
shot in the head Thursday night
inside a Laurel Street apart-
ment, has died.
Today, the man accused of Trying to protect a coastal paradise
shooting him
city man
will face a mur-
der charge in
Central Dis-
trict Court, po-
lice said yester-
enters
day. Alexander
Elicier, the
17-year-old
arrested in the
shooting, was
Mr. Elicier
Fla. race
charged last
week on related offenses.
Police confirmed Mr. McNeil
was pronounced dead at 2 p.m.
Friday. Authorities said Mr.
McNeil lived at 1 Hitchcock
Road, Apt. 6.
Mr. Elicier was arraigned Fri-
Now a Democrat,
day in Central District Court on
seven charges including armed
recently a resident
Turn to Shooting/Page A6 By Shaun Sutner
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Worcester-bred billionaire investor
Jeff Greene — a flamboyant figure who
has hobnobbed with former Hollywood
Photos/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS madam Heidi Fleiss and boxer Mike
Workers place oil containment booms Monday around the central marshes in St. Bernard Parish, La. Tyson — has jumped into the race for
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of the gulf’s rich fishing grounds Friday with a seven-minute video, just
and could also spread to the busy shipping lanes at the mouth of hours before Florida’s deadline.
the Mississippi River, tying up the cargo vessels that move He will face off against U.S. Rep.
millions of tons of fruit, rubber, grain, steel and other commod- At left, oysters from the Louisiana Kendrick Meak in the Democratic pri-
ities and raw materials in and out of the nation’s interior. coast. Above, workers build a con- mary, the winner of which will face Gov.
tainment chamber that will be used Charlie Crist, who just switched from
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Pakistan native trained at terrorism camp
By Tom Hays U.S. citizen who recently spent Customs and Border Protection
and Larry Neumeister five months in Pakistan, was agents were on the lookout for
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS arrested on terrorism and weap- Shahzad, they recognized his
ons of mass destruction charges name on a passenger manifest
NEW YORK — Seized from a for trying to blow up the crude and ordered the flight stopped so
plane about to fly to the Middle gasoline-and-propane bomb they could arrest him.
East, a Pakistan-born man amid tourists and theatergoers Authorities shed little light on
admitted training to make Saturday evening. what might have motivated
bombs at a terrorism camp in his He was in custody after being Shahzad — who since moving
native land before he rigged an hauled off a Dubai-bound plane from Pakistan to Connecticut
SUV with a homemade device to at Kennedy Airport that he had had acquired a master’s degree
explode in Times Square, au- been able to board Monday night in business administration and Photos/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
thorities said Tuesday. despite being placed on the fed- Above left, Faisal Shahzad is seen in a photo from the social networking site Orkut.com. At right, FBI
Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized eral “no-fly” list. Because U.S. Turn to Terrorist/Page A8 agents search a house where Shahzad lived in Bridgeport, Conn.,
College
Students fee hikes
shape coming
a symbol Public campuses
losing federal funds
Medical school By John J. Monahan
gets its mace TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
BOSTON — With federal stimulus funds for cam-
puses drying up, students at the state’s colleges and
By Lisa Eckelbecker universities, including all of those in Central Mas-
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF sachusetts, are facing steep increases in school fees
T&G Staff Photos/RICK CINCLAIR this year, according to campus officials.
Worcester Technical High School students Lucas The University of Massachusetts Amherst cam-
WORCESTER — When the University of Lagares and Brendon Bermudez, with instructor pus is preparing to hike fees by $1,100 per student
Massachusetts Medical School wanted an Brian Cummings, work on the ceremonial mace, next year as the amount of federal stimulus funding
ornate, ceremonial staff that could be carried at seen at left. falls from $72.9 million this year to as little as $5.3
the head of its commencement procession this million next year.
year, it didn’t have to look far for a manu- be working on something that’s going to be around The loss of federal money will result in a net loss to
facturer. — who knows? — a couple hundred years.” the Amherst campus of $44.8 million in federal and
In fact, the university only had to look to a Ceremonial maces are symbols of authority, state funding, when a $19 million hike in state fund-
classroom about two miles away. often used in legislative or academic events. Some of ing called for in the House-approved budget is fig-
For the last three to four weeks, machine tech- the UMass campuses have long had their own maces, ured in.
nology students at Worcester Technical High but the Worcester campus has apparently never While that amounts to a 14 percent cut in com-
School have been milling cedar and etching owned one. bined state and federal funding for UMass-Amherst,
brass for a ceremonial mace that will make its Several times in the past, the Worcester campus state community colleges are facing overall cuts of
debut at the medical school during its June borrowed the Amherst campus’s mace, but that was 13 percent in the coming year.
commencement events. always an odd fit for the medical school because the While the House approved state funded increases
“They loved working on it,” Michael T. Hurley, Amherst mace is decorated with agricultural sym- for the colleges, its budget lowered federal stimulus
the high school’s machine technology department bols, according to medical school officials. Medical allocations for state campuses from the already deep
head, said yesterday of the students. “When they cuts in campus stimulus finds called for by Gov.
found out where it was going, they were honored to Turn to Ceremonial mace/Page A8 Deval L. Patrick in his earlier budget proposal.
Fees have gone up at about the rate of inflation
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over onto afternoon turned wild yesterday when center in the Athol Police Station, town.
these two high winds and a thunderstorm riding a tracked reports of damage using global One family of raccoons was left home-
cars. cold front blew through the area, down- positioning software, adding reports on less when a large branch on an ancient
ing dozens of trees and power lines. downed trees and power lines as they maple tree broke off and fell across New
Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Lozier said came in from police, firefighters and Sherborn Road. Police Lt. Kevin Heath
the storm, which hit about 4:15 p.m., Public Works Department workers. Cars said he was heading home and had just
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“People are not happy that send their children to school —
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increase while they are conserv- yellow bus brings them home.
ing water,” said Michael Most of the time, that’s a fair
Potaski, chairman of the Board assumption.
of Selectmen in Uxbridge. His But occasionally, parents
town recently approved a nearly have cause for suspicion or
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to almost an additional $37 on young or has a disability that
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Turn to Water rates/Page A10 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS might be all
A cart drives past a house in Peshawar, Pakistan, owned by the family of New York’s Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad. that a parent
Water usage has to go on.
A recent case
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5 The claim: Authorities say Gates Lane School of Interna-
NEW YORK — The Pakis- Shahzad, the 30-year-old son of a tional Studies reported a
tani-American accused of the retired air force official in Pakistan, teacher to the state after the
failed Times Square car bomb- launched the bomb plot alone almost teacher allegedly dragged a
ing is believed to have been immediately after returning to his 4-year-old autistic student by
working alone when he began Connecticut home in February from the arm for six or seven feet
planning the attack almost the visit to his native land. while yelling at him.
immediately after returning The state Department of Chil-
Online from a five-month visit to his
native land, authorities said
5 The screening: When Shahzad
returned from Pakistan in February,
dren and Families and the Wor-
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They said they have yet to U.S. Customs because of rules put in teacher was substantiated; both
Heading out: It’s that time. find a wider link to extremist place after the attempted terrorist cited confidentiality concerns.
Check our video intro to week- groups. attack on Christmas Day. However, Stephanie Stanley,
end activities found in GO! Two new surveillance vid-
5 The return: Customs officials the mother of the student, did
eos emerged of the bomb sus- say the report has been substan-
pect, Faisal Shahzad. Police
noticed Shahzad came back to the tiated.
told The Associated Press that
U.S. without his family and without a Stacey DeBoise Luster, the
one video shows him in a THE NEW YORK TIMES return plane ticket. school district’s human re-
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WORCESTER — Two veteran ents, community partners and 10,800
principals will be the new lead- principals, Ms. Boone said.
ers of the city’s worst-perform- Denise Bahosh, principal of
ing elementary schools come Union Hill, will become curri-
July, Superintendent Melinda culum coordinator at a collab-
J. Boone announced last night. orative of which Worcester is 2:30 p.m.
She told the School Commit- part and which serves students
tee that Marie D. Morse, princi- with disabilities and behavio- 10,595.82
pal of Clark Street Develop- ral problems. Ninety-eight per- CLOSE
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June E. Eressy, currently a
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Chandler Elementary Commu-
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To qualify for $3 million in Angela Greiner said she is days in Wall Street history Thursday and sent the Dow Jones
federal money to turn those worried the district won’t find industrials to a loss of almost 1,000 points, nearly a tenth of their
schools around, the district had another principal of Ms. value, in less than half an hour. It was the biggest drop ever
to reassign the current princi- Morse’s caliber. Jonathan Choi during a trading day.
pals. Mark Berthiaume, princi- said staff are acting more like The Dow recovered two-thirds of the loss before the closing bell,
pal of Chandler Elementary, but that was still the biggest point loss since February of last year.
will become community and Turn to Principals /Page A10 10,200 The lightning-fast plummet temporarily
knocked normally stable stocks such as Proc- Below, trader
ter & Gamble to a tiny fraction of their former Steven Rickard
Senior housing
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“Today ... caused me to fall out of my chair in the S&P 500
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automated orders were activated by errone-
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St. Casimir Church is for sale billion, instead of $16 million, worth of futures, and that was
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attached hall, into 35 apart-
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sociologist Pepper Schwartz, thinks based on detailed questionnaires com- percent of the respondents said nonmar-
NEW YORK — Americans 45 and older financial stress is a prime culprit. pleted last year by 1,670 people 45 and ital sex was wrong. That figure dropped
are far more open to sex outside of mar- “The economy has had an impact on older. The AARP, which represents 40 to 22 percent in the new survey.
riage than they were 10 years ago, but these people,” she said. “They’re more million Americans older than 50, con- Yet sexual activity — marital or not —
they’re engaging in sex less often and liberal in their attitudes, yet they’re hav- ducted similar surveys on sexual atti- seems to be less frequent overall for this
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Best jump
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Sister Sandra Napier,
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spring that she my got what it needed in April:
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Mr. Fredette, net 290,000 jobs, the biggest
who lives in monthly total in four years. It
Worcester, is showed employers are gaining
retiring from confidence as the recovery
his Westboro takes deeper root.
position this People who had given up on
year, according finding jobs are gaining confi-
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Mr. Fredette posted on Vene- for work. That’s why the unem-
rini’s website. ployment rate rose from 9.7 per-
He did not return calls for com- cent to 9.9 percent and will
ment yesterday, which was the likely increase.
feast day of the order’s founder, Especially encouraging was
St. Rosa Venerini. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS that the job gains came largely
Mr. Fredette has been princi- from private employers, the
pal of Gibbons Middle School It was not a good night for local backbone of the economy. They
since 2001. His earlier positions sports fans. The Sharks were boosted payrolls by a surpris-
included vice principal and eliminated in the AHL playoffs ingly strong 231,000, the most
English department head at by the Manchester Mon- since March 2006.
Westboro High School. archs 2-1 in overtime; the The new jobs, generated by
In a press release, Mr. Fredette Bruins lost to the Flyers sectors across the economy, are
said he was “humbled and hon- 5-4 in overtime, but lead the first sign that the recovery
ored. I look forward to becoming the Flyers 3-1 in their is adding significant numbers
part of a vibrant community series; the Celtics were of new jobs — even if not
based on a 65-year tradition of thumped by the Cavaliers enough to absorb the influx of
academic excellence and Chris- 124-95 and are down 2-1 in
tian values. This will be a chal- the playoffs, and the Red Sox Turn to 290,000 jobs/Page A7
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didn’t pick up anything.” her Facebook page. “I want people to
Foggy He believes his mother was a some other token of affection. A who raised nine children, mostly take me seriously,” she said.
19-year-old college student who mother’s action or inaction leaves on her own, in Brooklyn. And it is not just her behavior she Min Liu
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EPA All in good form AG links
regs Pakistani
brew up
costs Taliban to
Cities, towns
brace for hikes
By Priyanka Dayal
car bomb
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Attack on US soil
City and town officials are
bracing for new stormwater and
wastewater regulations from
the U.S. Environmental Protec-
marks new chapter
tion Agency that could cost mil- By Anne Flaherty
lions of dollars more than what THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
cities and towns are now spend-
ing. WASHINGTON — Saying they obtained
The EPA is renewing storm- new evidence, senior White House officials
water permits for most Massa- said Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban were
chusetts communities this year, behind the failed Times Square bombing.
and some permits for wastewa- The attempt marks the first time the group
ter treatment plants will also be has been able to launch an attack on U.S. soil.
up for renewal. Municipalities And while U.S. officials have downplayed the
usually fund stormwater costs threat — citing the bomb’s lack of sophisti-
through their general funds, cation — the incident in Times Square and
while the cost of wastewater Christmas Day airline bomber indicate grow-
treatment is covered by sewer ing strength by overseas terrorist groups
bills. linked to al-Qaida even as the
Together, it means residents CIA says their operations are
of many cities and towns will be seriously degraded.
paying more. The EPA is not The finding also raises new
providing funds to cover the questions about the U.S. rela-
costs. T&G Staff/JIM COLLINS
tionship with Pakistan,
“It’s going to be very costly which is widely known to
and very burdensome for com- WORCESTER — Williams College women’s crew team won the Varsity Eight Grand Finale in the ECAC National have al-Qaida and other ter-
munities that are having a very Invitational Rowing Championships Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond. So what did coxswain Becka Light get for her rorist groups operating
difficult time already,” said good work? A traditional toss into a very cold lake. See Sports for more on the competition. within its borders.
Robert J. Moylan Jr., Worces- Holder Concerning the Pakistani
ter’s commissioner of public Taliban, Attorney General
works and parks, a frequent Eric Holder said: “We know that they helped
facilitate it; we know that they helped direct it.
Can’t-deny insurance is pricey
Turn to EPA regulations/Page A4 And I suspect that we are going to come up
with evidence which shows that they helped to
finance it. They were intimately involved in
this plot.”
John Brennan, the president’s homeland se-
By R. Alonso-Zaldivar curity and counterterrorism adviser, made
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some children still may be locked out similar remarks, linking the bomber to the
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
Online WASHINGTON — Health insurance Neither official said what the new evidence
telegram.com cuts a dividing line right through the requires insurers to accept all children recently and was told Andrew prob- was.
Thompson family. regardless of medical history. But the ably would have to have his own policy. Faisal Shahzad, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani
Video: Watch and listen to the Parents Mary and Joe have cover- law doesn’t limit what the companies “I could be looking at a $500-a-month descent, is believed to have spent five months
age, as does older daughter Sarah. But can charge, and the Thompsons fear policy for just the two of them,” she in Pakistan before returning to the United
harmonies of the Marlboro siblings Andrew and Emily have been that could leave them in the same pre- said. States in February and preparing his attack.
High School A Cappella Choir. turned down because of medical condi- dicament: still no insurance for two The Thompsons buy their own Shahzad has told investigators that he
tions even though both lead fairly nor- children because it costs too much. health insurance. Joe is a self-em- trained in the tribal areas of Waziristan,
mal and active lives in Overland Park, “If that’s the way it’s going to shake ployed home remodeling contractor where both al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban
Kan., a Kansas City suburb. out, it’s not really that helpful,” said and Mary helps with the business. operate. He was arrested aboard an Emirates
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Yesterday’s Yes, it would show Your opinion Weather Page B1 drunken driving, Page B1
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Kagan a scholar
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over a different slant
Pick would be 3rd woman
milk By Ben Feller
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Introduc-
ing his Supreme Court nominee
to the nation, President Barack
Buying clubs Obama on Monday portrayed
Elena Kagan as a guiding force
for a fractured court and a cham-
may be over pion of typical Americans. She
would be the youngest justice on
the court and give it three
By Bradford L. Miner women for the first time in his-
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF tory.
Less excited, Republican sen-
HARDWICK — Their passion is raw ators said they would give the
milk, but Raymond and Pamela Rob- nomination a long, hard look in
inson along with two dozen other certi- potentially contentious sum-
fied raw milk producers see a move by mertime confirmation hearings.
the state to put a stranglehold on “raw One declared he would oppose
her, but Democrats hold a strong THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
milk buying clubs” as a raw deal.
The bottom line for the Robinsons is majority of Senate seats, making Elena Kagan stands Monday with
that more than half their income from eventual approval likely. President Barack Obama and
daily production of 20 to 25 gallons of In choosing Kagan, the U.S. so- Vice President Joe Biden.
unpasteurized milk comes from agents licitor general and a former dean
who buy milk at the farm to deliver to of Harvard Law School, Obama had the ability to do. The presi-
those who can’t or don’t want to make sought someone he hopes will dent, who said Kagan has “one of
the trip themselves to the Jackson Road seal majority votes on a divided the nation’s foremost legal
organic farm. court, as the retiring Justice
“More than 50 percent of our custom- John Paul Stevens sometimes Turn to Kagan /Page A6
ers either share a ride to the farm or pay
someone to pick up the milk for them,”
Mrs. Robinson said.
The Hardwick couple is not alone in
depending on a network of “raw milk
clubs” to distribute their product. Many
other certified raw milk producers rely
When the frost
on sales to individuals who pick up milk
Turn to Raw milk/Page A7
Joe Kessler, left, of Gloucester, watches Monday as Suzanne, from Eastleigh Farm in
Framingham, grazes near the Statehouse, part of a raw milk rally.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
is on the flowers
Raw milk sales laws Topsy-turvy temps bounce around
U.S. as of April 15, 2010
By Bill Fortier rologist in the Taunton office of
Ray Robinson Retail sales legal Farm sales legal Legal as pet food TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF the National Weather Service,
of Hardwick Herd shares* legal No law on herd shares* Raw milk sales illegal said the average date of the last
stands beside ME After one of the warmest killing spring frost in Central
WA VT Aprils on record and a little Massachusetts is May 7.
a vat of raw ND
MT NH more than a week after the tem- And, as cold as it was expected
milk. Sales of MN
his farm’s raw OR WI NY MA perature soared to 90 degrees, to be this morning, most people
ID SD MI RI some people in the area looking would take today’s weather
milk could be WY PA CT
cut in half if IA NJ out their kitchen window this when it is compared to May 9-10,
NE OH
IL IN DE morning may be surprised to 1977, when 12.7 inches of snow
new state NV UT WV VA MD
regulations CO KS KY see some frost on early bloom- fell at Worcester Regional Air-
MO
CA NC ing plants and flowers. port during a late-season storm
are adopted.
TN SC While area residents may that caused major damage to
OK AK
AZ NM GA have been spoiled by a warm fully leaved trees and many
MS AL
spring that has caused vegeta- power failures.
TX LA
tion to bloom two to three weeks A freeze warning that runs
FL
early, gardeners and weather through 8 a.m. today was issued
AK watchers say the recent cold by the NWS last night because
*Herd sales are agreements where weather is not that unusual.
consumers pay a farmer a fee for
boarding their cow, or share of a cow, In fact, Charlie Foley, a meteo- Turn to Cold /Page A8
HI caring for the cow and milking the cow.
The cow share owner then obtains (but
does not purchase) the milk from his own
cow. Reported
high Above average May
84° 86°
JOHN FERRARONE Source: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR. 90°
Reported high, low
and average temperatures
80° 77° 76° 76° and today’s
72° predicted range
Man guilty of aggravated rape, other charges 70°
60°
65°
68°
65° Daily
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temp 59°
MAY 2
By Scott J. Croteau Outside Worcester Superior lowered his head when the first 56° 59° 53° 54°
Court the victim told a reporter the guilty verdict was read aloud. 52° 49° 53°
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF 50° 52°
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MAY 3
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MAY 6
WORCESTER— The retired “Right now, I’m numb. I did this of aggravated rape, four counts of
MAY 5
school teacher raped three years ago for all women, to protect all women assault and battery on a person over
40° low
42°
MAY 7
MAY 1
MAY 8
TODAY
by Michael T. Bresnahan in her from him and hopefully some oth- 60 or disabled, two counts of assault
30°
35° 34°
Winchendon home wept and hugged ers,” she said. and battery on a person 14 or older
MAY 9
MAY 10*
friends and family yesterday after a The jury of nine men and three and one count each of home inva- Source: National Weather Service
T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR.
12-member jury found her assailant women deliberated for about four sion, kidnapping, armed assault in a
guilty of aggravated rape and mul- hours after closing arguments yes- * As of 4 p.m.
tiple other charges. terday morning. Mr. Bresnahan Turn to Rape/Page A7 Mr. Bresnahan
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No debate on immigration
Council:
and save Arizona law
Murray backing not city’s
regional concept
business
By John J. Monahan By Nick Kotsopoulos
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BOSTON — Cities and towns WORCESTER — The City
facing lower revenues and Council last night used a par-
increasing costs for basic ser- liamentary procedure to stop
vices may soon look to regional- in its tracks a move for it to go
ize local 911 and police dispatch, on record in opposition to the
public health inspection, prop- controversial new immigra-
erty assessment and public tion law in Arizona.
works operations. By a 7-4 vote, the council
It is an approach that Lt. Gov. overturned Mayor Joseph C.
Timothy P. Murray is pushing O’Brien’s ruling that discus-
as a way for cities and towns to sion of the Arizona law was
avoid loss of valued local ser- germane to city business.
vices while coping with tighter That ruling was challenged
budgets, less state aid and by District 3 Councilor Paul P.
higher fixed costs. Clancy Jr., who argued the
Hometown pride and the de- immigration issue did not fall
sire for local control have ham- under the council’s jurisdic-
pered regionalization efforts tion, according to its rules.
among city and town operations Rule 33 prohibits any pet-
in the past. But Mr. Murray said ition or resolution from being
technology improvements, ex- T&G Staff Photos/JIM COLLINS taken up by the council, if the
amples of successful regionali- subject matter does not fall
zation programs around the Tea party supporters of the Arizona immigration law, at right, including Ralph Belmore, head of the Greater Marlboro Tea Party, argue
state and the country, as well as yesterday with Rosana Washington, 17, of Worcester, left, who is opposed to the law. Turn to Immigration/Page A5
the need for more efficiency are
forcing communities to take a
new look at regionalization.
Regionalization, he said, even
in the best economic times, can
make sense.
Passion from both sides,
“But obviously in the worst
Turn to Regional /Page A6 but all stays peaceful Stephanie
Katz, left, of
Worcester,
an oppo-
nent of the
By Lee Hammel in the face of federal inaction on illegal Arizona
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF immigration. immigra-
After the council majority muffled tion law, is
WORCESTER — More than 150 supporters of the city taking a stand — flanked by
people demonstrated in front of City Mayor Joseph C. O’Brien, Councilors- an uni-
Online Hall before the City Council took up
a resolution to boycott Arizona
at-Large Frederick C. Rushton and
Michael J. Germain, and District 1
dentified
tea party
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Top pix: Our online photo galler- controversial immigration law. tea party members brought their of the law.
There were competing chants and “Don’t Tread on Me” flag back to the
ies give you the best in local placards among a crowd nearly sidewalk in front of City Hall and
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WASHINGTON — Bad wiring
Bloody days loom
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Even a dead battery, of all THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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New disclosures Wednesday WASHINGTON — The war in
revealed a complex cascade of Afghanistan will get worse before it
deep-sea equipment failures gets better, President Barack Obama
and procedural problems in the warned on Wednesday, but he declared
oil rig explosion and massive his plan to begin withdrawing U.S.
spill that is still fouling the forces next year remains on track.
waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Standing alongside Afghan Presi-
threatening industries and T&G Staff Photos/RICK CINCLAIR dent Hamid Karzai, Obama said, “What
wildlife near the coast and on Friends of Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Church members have petitioned the Vatican to save the Fitchburg church from closing. I’ve tried to emphasize is the fact that
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The public also got its first over the next several months.” The two
look on Wednesday at oil gush- leaders spoke at a White House news
Appeal to Vatican
ing from the broken pipe that conference as U.S.-led forces in Afghan-
rests nearly a mile under water istan prepare to push hard into the
as BP PLC, the well’s operator, Taliban’s birthplace in Kandahar Prov-
released a video taken by a ince in June. The campaign for Kanda-
remotely controlled camera. Oil har, already under way in districts out-
flowing from a break in the yel- side the city, is expected to be among
the bloodiest of the nearly nine-year-
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Struggle to keep church open old war.
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TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF When they learned March 7 their The Sacred
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FITCHBURG — Above the door as bers of Sacred Heart Parish immedi- Jesus
you enter the sanctuary of Sacred ately took action, sending an appeal Church in
Heart of Jesus Church is the Latin to Bishop Robert J. McManus, argu- Fitchburg.
phrase, “Haec Est Domus Dei.” ing that their church is financially
“This is the House of God” is its solvent, in an area of Fitchburg that
equivalent in English, but unless an is seeing residential growth, which
appeal by parishioners to the Vat- should translate into more parish-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ican is successful, Mass will be cele- ioners, and has an active member-
In this photo made Tuesday from brated there only eight more times ship willing to carry many of the
video, oil leaks into the Gulf of before the church is closed by the burdens of running a church.
Mexico from a pipe that was sup- Worcester Diocese in a consolida- Barry Walker of the Friends of Sa-
posed to pump oil from the sea tion of churches in the city that will cred Heart, a group formed when it
floor before the oil rig sank. reduce Roman Catholic churches was learned the church would be
from eight to four. The diocese also closed, said the appeal was rejected THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
plans to close St. Bernard, Immac- President Barack Obama and Afghan-
ulate Conception and Holy Rosary Turn to Vatican/Page A8 istan’s President Hamid Karzai at a joint
news conference Wednesday.
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car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested They were arrested on immigration violations said investigators believe there is evidence that
Thursday in a series of raids across the Northeast — administrative, not criminal, charges. They the men were providing Shahzad, a Pakistan-
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Time to mourn, time to heal
Street memorials
bring up issues
of respect, safety
By Bronislaus B. Kush
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER — The blood that had spilled
T&G Staff/DAN GOULD onto Hollis and Gates streets after Jose L.
Meagan Meador helped oversee Rivera was shot to death April 6 washed away
Picaro’s recovery at Cummings long ago.
School of Veterinary Medicine. But more than a month after that chaotic
night, reminders of the 22-year-old’s slaying
Equine
remain in plain sight to residents of the
University Park area of Main South.
Spray-painted graffiti featuring “R.I.P.”
messages in Spanish and English vividly mark
gunshot the sidewalk and street near the intersection
where the young man died.
Half a block away, a
collection of T-shirts,
survivor empty liquor bottles
and votive candles sit
near his home at 67 Hol-
lis St.
a miracle “This is a way we can
remember him,” said
18-year-old Cassandra
Gonzalez, whose boy-
Picaro the horse friend was a friend of
Mr. Rivera.
has a new home It didn’t take long for
the “street memorial”
By Bradford L. Miner marking the death of
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF T&G Staff/JIM COLLINS “Pavo” or “Pavi” Riv-
era to materialize.
STURBRIDGE — Picaro Carol Neske, a resident of the Gates and Hollis streets neigh- Shortly after his body
grazed the clover-rich lawn of 5 Families of slaying victim, borhood, was one of the first people to see Jose Rivera’s body in was taken away by au-
Ross Haven farm yesterday the street. The memorial of liquor bottles, flowers and testimonials thorities, grieving fam-
morning, oblivious to all the
accused clash during arraignment, is gone, but “RIP” and protestations of love for the victim, seen in ily and friends dropped
PAGE B1
media attention, showing no photo at right, are still visible.
sign of the January violence Turn to Street
that launched a recovery odys- T&G Staff/STEVE LANAVA memorials/Page A7
sey some say is nothing short of
miraculous.
“It’s really the only thing
Immigrants
Immigration’s tough complexities
about this story that has a silver
lining,” observed Tom Kep-
peler, spokesman for the Cum- to Mass. and Arizona
mings School of Veterinary Number of immigrants in thousands
and percent for 1995, 2000 and 2007
Medicine at Tufts University in
Arizona Massachusetts
Grafton, watching
14-year-old Paso Fino stallion
the
Immigrants Patchwork attempts to fix broken system
697
Immigrants by state
nibble.
Owned by the late Michael S. to Mass. and Arizona 816
13%
14.2%
Share of
Number of immigrants in thousands 891 Number of Immigrant
and percent for 1995, 2000 and 2007 639 By Elaine Thompson
Khoury, 69, and Joyce M. non-English-speaking students unex-
14.2% Immigrants population
Khoury, 66, of 19 Woodchuck TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF pectedly showing up in schools, acci-
Lane, Spencer, Picaro was shot Arizona 10.5%
Massachusetts dents involving people driving without 1. California 9,980 27.6%
twice in the head on the morn- 697
8 692
As the grandson of Italian and Por- licenses, and injured workers afraid to 2. New York 4,105 21.6%
13.6%
14.2% 537 tuguese immigrants, state Rep. John 3,453 19.1%
ing of Jan. 14. Mr. Khoury shot 816 pursue their right to workers’ compen- 3. Florida
13% 12.2% V. Fernandes has seen the great con- sation because they are in this country 4. Texas 3,438 14.8%
891
Turn to Picaro/Page A8
14.2%1995
tributions made in Milford by immi- illegally. 5. New Jersey 1,869 21.6%
639 2000 2007
grants who have come here legally as “I would acknowledge immigration is
10.5% 6. Illinois 1,702 13.5%
Index
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537
692
13.6%
they pursue the American dream of a
Source: Center for Immigration Studies
better life. LANDGREN JR.
T&G Staff/DON
a valuable tool in our economy and
achieving the goal of our socioeconomic
But during the past several years Mr. Fernandes society. But uncontrolled immigration
7. Georgia
8. Massachusetts
9. Arizona
953
897
891
10.2%
14.2%
14.2%
ENTERTAINMENT B8 12.2% while working in local government can have a negative impact. I can prove
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1995 2000 2007 his community from overcrowded housing, Turn to Immigration/Page A6 Source: Center for Immigration Studies analysis
of March 2007 Current Population Survey
CROSSWORD........C6 NATION/WORLD ..A3 Source: Center for Immigration Studies T&G Staff/STACEY ARSENAULT
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Obama says ‘I will not
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By Erica Werner neering feat a
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS mile below the
water surface.
WASHINGTON — Declaring They were gin-
himself as angry as the rest of gerly moving
the nation, President Barack joysticks to
Obama assailed oil drillers and guide deep-sea
his own administration Friday robots and
as he ordered extra scrutiny of thread a mile-
drilling permits to head off any long, 6-inch
repeat of the sickening oil spill Obama tube with a rub-
in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers ber stopper into
worked desperately to stop the the 21-inch pipe gushing oil from
leak that’s belching out at least the ocean floor — a task one ex-
210,000 gallons of crude a day. pert compared to stuffing a cork
As Louisiana wildlife officials with a straw through it into a
reported huge tar balls littering gushing soda bottle.
a beach, BP PLC technicians
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College of the Holy Cross coxswain Chris M. Hayden, center, assists in launching the boat during team practice Wednesday at the
Donahue Rowing Center on Lake Quinsigamond in Shrewsbury.
His own way
Holy Cross coxswain powers past disability T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN
Dawn Giovannucci, owner of A Diamond in the Ruff in Northboro, with
By Jennifer Toland of it hasn’t disabled him from doing any-
her Bichon Frise, Samantha, and a pile of dog hair.
‘HowwaydoIthings ishow to the
I
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WORCESTER — Holy Cross’ eight-man
only know
shell teeters near the dock on top of Lake
things.
‚ do
Quinsigamond and it takes a sure, steady
hand to balance the long, narrow boat just
star baseball pitcher,” Hayden said, “but
not everyone can do every sport and my
parents taught me you have to find what
you’re suited for.”
Groomer collects
to get in and out of it.
Chris Hayden has spent his lifetime
figuring out how to do things his own way
CHRIS M. HAYDEN
HOLY CROSS COXSWAIN
Hayden played soccer through his
freshman year at Chaminade High School
in Mineola, N.Y., and then, on the advice
dog hair for oil spill
and taking his seat in HC’s varsity eight of his uncle, joined the rowing team.
boat is one of those things the senior cox- Not only is Hayden the perfect size for By Priyanka Dayal boxing it up and sending it to a
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF warehouse. There, volunteers
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“Think about standing up and sitting and thoroughly engaging young man, (he actually has to carry a weight to get up
Dawn Giovannucci often won- booms, which will be sent to the
down in the boat without using your sometimes uses the word “disability” to the 125-pound minimum), he has the
ders how she can help. This Gulf of Mexico to help soak up
arms,” Holy Cross rowing coach Todd when telling his story, but being born ideal personality for the job. Make no mis-
time, she’s doing her part by some of the crude oil that has
Pearson said, “that’s what Chris does — without a right arm and with a truncated
holding on to something she been gushing from an underwa-
he just pops in and jumps back out.” left arm with just three fingers at the end Turn to Hayden/Page A7
usually throws away. ter well since April 20.
Ms. Giovannucci, owner of a It’s part of an effort led by Mat-
Northboro dog spa, is collecting ter of Trust, a San Francisco-
Popular tax breaks likely to be extended the hair and fur that falls to the
floor after she grooms a canine, Turn to Gulf /Page A7
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the advocates call affordable hous- Zitomersky, who, along with Ms. tions are in Section B.
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Current average teacher load by subject area
English Math Science Soc. Stud. For. Lang.
Cuts affect Worcester high schools
Burncoat 99 93 87 92 90
Doherty 98 105 94 108 101
North 105 107 90 111 80
By Jacqueline Reis
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
One way of coping is evening out course loads
South 84 81 86 80 94
Technical 104 109 103 106 WORCESTER — The budget process can who under contract can serve up to 125 stu- ity to small learning communities, a system
shine a light in unlikely corners, and many dents at a time, roughly 25 in each of five that broke the school down into academies
Proposed average teacher load by subject area of those corners are in the city’s high classes. designed to help personalize education at
English Math Science Soc. Stud. For. Lang. schools this year. At Worcester Technical High School, the 1,300-student high school. Most of the
Burncoat 109 103 95 118 108 To cope with a projected $8.6 million bud- Doherty Memorial High School and North city’s high schools tried to implement the
Doherty 106 114 102 108 115 get deficit, the school administration has High School, it isn’t unusual for teachers to same thing with help from a Carnegie Foun-
North 105 107 90 111 120 proposed cutting 140 positions, including 22 serve at least 100 students in a semester. But dation grant that ended in 2006. Not all of the
central office and systemwide positions and at South High Community School, teachers academies have endured, said Brian A.
South 101 112 93 112 94
31 secondary school teachers. One of the in four core subjects have average student Allen, the district’s chief financial and oper-
Technical 108 114 108 106 ways it’s doing that is by evening out the loads in the 80s.
Source: Worcester public schools T&G Staff/STACEY ARSENAULT course load across high school teachers, Part of that is because of the school’s fidel- Turn to Cuts/Page A8
Blaze under investigation after six towns respond
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Tube fitted into leaking pipe
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well out of the Gulf of Mexico,
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funnel the crude into a tanker sea. After several setbacks, the
ship after more than three contraption was hooked up
weeks of failures. successfully and funneling oil
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ALAN BRACKETT ever, and researchers said the out how much oil its contrap-
A four-alarm fire destroyed this large barn yesterday as firefighters from six towns battled the blaze in Dudley. black ooze may have entered a tion is sucking up.
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BP PLC engineers remotely commercial fishing and the
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had worked since Friday to
place the tube into a 21-inch Turn to Spill/Page A6
Buildings damaged, Tot put on life support
large barn ravaged
By Kim Ring
after fall from window
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF By Scott J. Croteau still outside the home yesterday
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF afternoon.
DUDLEY — A four-alarm fire destroyed a large barn and According to authorities, the
damaged several outbuildings yesterday as firefighters WORCESTER — A child’s mother, Andrea Nelson-
from six towns battled the blaze on Ramshorn Road. 23-month-old boy who fell from a Binienda, was taking a nap
The fire started about 4 p.m. Dudley Fire Lt. Paul three-story window on Clifton while her 31⁄2-year-old daughter
Konieczny said several callers reported a barn on fire at 110 Street Friday afternoon was and son were sleeping in their
Ramshorn Road, an outlying area not far from the Charl- declared brain dead a day later, room. The daughter woke her
ton town line. then placed on life support, mother up and said something
Lt. Konieczny said the fire went to a fourth alarm before T&G Staff/CHRISTINE PETERSON
according to police. about the little boy.
the first truck arrived. He said firefighters found the Lt. Jack Dewan works to detach a hose. What’s left of the The boy, identified by author- Ms. Nelson-Binienda went
80-by-110-foot barn ablaze, with flames pouring from it. burned barn is seen in the background. Several 911 ities as Everett Nelson- into the children’s room, saw
calls reported the fire, which quickly involved other Binienda, fell from the third- the boy was missing from the
Turn to Blaze/Page A5 buildings at 110 Ramshorn Road in Dudley. floor apartment window at 32 crib and noticed the window
Clifton St. around 3:40 p.m. Fri-
day. Police crime scene tape was Turn to Fall/Page A5
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Plumes pose new peril CSX link
Underwater
ooze nears
search
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By Jeffrey Collins
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elusive
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ROBERT, La. — With BP finally
Latest proposal:
gaining some control over the
amount of oil spewing into the Gulf
of Mexico, scientists are increas-
$10M-$12M bridge
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By Nick Kotsopoulos
spilled crude could get caught in a TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
current that would carry the mess
all the way to the Florida Keys and WORCESTER — The search for a new road-
beyond, damaging coral reefs and way connection from Shrewsbury Street to
killing wildlife. Franklin Street to replace Putnam Lane, which
Scientists said the oil will move would have to be closed to accommodate CSX
into the so-called loop current soon, Corp.’s freight yard expansion, is proving to be
if it hasn’t already, though they as elusive as a pot of gold at the end of a
could not say exactly when or how rainbow.
much there would be. Once it is in After having reviewed and rejected 10 previ-
the loop, it could take 10 days or ous options — six that included building a
longer to reach the Keys. bridge over the freight yard and others that
“It’s only a question of when,” included building a tunnel beneath it — public
Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP America Inc., testifies Monday at the Senate committee on
said Peter Ortner, a University of works officials last night unveiled five more
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill.
Miami oceanographer. potential connection alternatives to Putnam
In the month since an offshore Lane.
drilling platform exploded, killing 5 Resignation: The federal official An image pro- But of those five, the joint City Council
11 workers, BP has struggled to stop overseeing offshore drilling announced vided by the committee reviewing the CSX expansion plan
the leak, trying in vain to activate his departure Monday in fallout from the NOAA shows a appeared interested in just one. Even that one
emergency valves and lowering a Gulf oil spill and criticism that federal shallow-water has some issues, not to mention a hefty price
100-ton box that got clogged with icy regulators have been too cozy with coral reef in the tag.
crystals. Over the weekend, the oil industry. Page A6 Florida Keys. Under the latest proposal, a new road would
company finally succeeded in Worries escalated be built from Shrewsbury and Adams streets to
using a stopper-and-tube combina- Monday about the
tion to siphon some of the gushing rent will draw the crude through ooze reaching a Turn to CSX/Page A8
oil into a tanker, but millions of the Keys and then up Florida’s major ocean
gallons are already in the Gulf. Atlantic Coast, where the oil might current that could
The loop current is a ribbon of
warm water that begins in the Gulf
of Mexico and wraps around Flor-
ida. Some scientists project the cur-
avoid the beaches of Miami and
Fort Lauderdale, but could wash
Turn to New peril/Page A6 Photos/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
carry it through
the Florida Keys
and up the East
Coast.
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Remember when? Check our TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF director for the U.S. Department of basic medical procedures.
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depicting Central Mass. sites presidential election, Richard S. country, he oversees HUD programs University of Massachusetts
of yesteryear. Walega watched all of the candidates and services and serves as a liaison to Medical School chancellor
closely. He was particularly local officials, members of Congress, Michael F. Collins wrote that
impressed with one of them, Sen. developers, customers and other the first step to reforming the
Barack Obama. stakeholders. state’s health care system is
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Now Mr. Walega works for that urban development and improving T&G Staff/TOM RETTIG Mr. Collins said the time is now to pull back
Lock in your price president. cities,” Mr. Walega said in a recent Richard A. Walega, New England the curtain on the confidentiality agreements
until 2012! “It’s really a dream come true for interview. “Now I have a chance to do regional director for HUD, speaks to that cloak the price agreements made between
me,” he said. Worcester Housing Authority Execu-
The 60-year-old Westboro resident Turn to HUD/Page A6 tive Director Raymond V. Mariano. Turn to Medical costs/Page A7
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Yesterday’s No, juveniles
Your opinion Rapist gets 55 years in prison, Investigators: Apartment from which
question should not be Yes, it should Today’s question Page B1 boy fell was a mess, Page B1
Should states be treated as adults be a matter of Should Worcester tap its
able to sentence 44.5% state law reserve fund to prevent WORCESTER WEBSTER
juveniles who
haven’t killed to 55.5%
more cuts in education?
See story on this page,then No finding in case of man who Ex-school worker gets probation
life sentences
without parole?
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Mayor: Tax hike could save teachers
By Nick Kotsopoulos
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER — Mayor Joseph C. O’Brien has
140 school jobs on chopping block The mayor initially raised the idea of an addi-
tional tax increase for education after the City
Council received a briefing on the status of the
School Department’s fiscal 2011 budget from Su-
broached the idea of tapping deeper into the city’s as a way to help offset an $8.6 million budget manager’s) deci- perintendent Melinda J. Boone. Several other
tax levy reserve — in addition to the $2 million shortfall the schools are facing next fiscal year. 5 The protest: More than 100 sion to raise school officials and members of the School Com-
increase already recommended by City Manager The mayor applauded City Manager O’Brien for teachers, students and union leaders taxes to main- mittee also attended the session.
Michael V. O’Brien — as a way to avoid the loss of recommending, as part of his fiscal 2011 budget rally for more school funds. Page A6 tain core (mu- “This is a poor budget, make no mistake about
classroom teacher and tutor positions. proposal, a $2 million tax increase to address oper- nicipal) services it,” said School Committee member John F. Mon-
Mayor O’Brien said he hopes his proposal ational and capital project needs on the city-side of and fund a long-term investment in repairing our fredo. “It does not meet the educational needs of
receives serious consideration from his col- the municipal government. He believes some con- streets and sidewalks is the right thing to do. But I our children.”
leagues, adding that the school system can ill sideration for additional revenues also needs to be feel we may need to seriously look at making a As a way to increase revenue for the school
afford to lose another 31 secondary teachers and 72 given to the public schools. similar investment on the school side, even it if budget, Mr. Monfredo suggested that the city
tutors. They are among the 140 positions in the “We’re making some difficult choices on our means tapping more into our tax levy a little bit.
School Department that are on the chopping block budget,” Mayor O’Brien said last night. “(The city The future of the city is tied to its schools.” Turn to Tax hike/Page A6
Gang
Digging the ice By Bill Fortier ICESCAPE NASA
Climate change
beckons researchers
Arctic Ocean
Beaufort
Sea
terror
tactics
In summer 2010 Chukchi
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
RU
will conduct ICESCAPE Sea
Area
alleged
SS
(Impacts of Climate on of detail
IA
WORCESTER — Clark University’s Karen E. Frey is taking an- EcoSystems and Chemistry
other cruise this summer. of the Arctic Pacific Environ- ALASKA CANADA
While many people associate cruises with leisurely days on the ment) which will study
deck of a ship in some tropical place, Sutton resident Ms. Frey, 33, an climate change impacts on Anchorage
assistant professor of
geography at Clark
Arctic eco-systems. aboard
the Coast Guard Cutter Seward Juneau Knife attacks
University’s Gradu- Healy, United States' newest
ate School of Geogra-
phy, will be taking
and most technologically
advanced polar icebreaker.
Unalaska
Gulf of
Alaska
July 22
Arrive
outside theater
June 15 Seward
two of her doctoral Depart By Scott J. Croteau
students to study ice 180° 170° 160°W Dutch Harbor 140°W TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
in the cold Arctic 150°W
waters north of WORCESTER — The Kilby
Alaska for 37 days in Arctic Ocean Street gang is terrorizing people
75°N
June and July. July 1-3 Beaufort through stabbings, shootings
Ms. Frey, along July 4-13 Eddy Sea and attacks, according to police
Sea ice chasing
with Clark Graduate sampling statements filed in Central Dis-
School students trict Court against Daniel Gra-
July 1-3
Christie L. Wood, 26,
WRANGEL
Ice extent jales, a Kilby Street member
of Boston, and Luke
ISLAND
July 1, 2009 charged with stabbing two peo-
D. Trusel, 27, of Pax- ple in Millbury earlier this
ton, will join approxi- Barrow month.
mately 50 scientists Chukchi June 27-30 In a lengthy statement of facts
70°N Sea June 23-27 Point Barrow
who will leave Dutch Conductivity, ‘hot spot’ by Millbury Detective Kimberly
Harbor, a windswept July 18 temperature, transect Brothers, she states Worcester
Chukchi June 21 depth survey
fishing port in Alas- Chukchi police know the gang well, and
‘hot spot’ ‘hot spot’
ka’s Aleutian transect the May 8 stabbings at the
T&G Staff/CHRISTINE PETERSON Islands, on June 15
transect ALASKA Blackstone Valley 14 Cinema de
Professor Karen Frey aboard the 420-foot RUSSIA June 20 Lux movie theater were an
Kotzebue
Bering
and two doctoral U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. Ms. Wood and Mr. Trusel are on Kotzebue transect attempt to intimidate and place
students from Clark track to get their doctorates in 2013, according to information on Uluen people in fear.
University have won a Clark University’s website. Transect The two stabbing victims at
grant to travel aboard “Every scientist on the Healy has their own niche,” Ms. Frey said. 65°N A path, usually the movie theater at the Shop-
Strait
an icebreaker this “What we’re going to be doing is a little piece of the pie.” straight, across a pes at Blackstone Valley were
summer to study Many climate experts and scientists say the Arctic is experi- Nome region of interest, not gang members, but lived in
climate change north encing climate change at a rate more noticeable than other places that will be used Plumley Village.
Bering Sea for sampling.
of Alaska. Still, according to the detec-
Turn to Ice researchers/Page A7 Sources: NASA; U.S. Coast Guard; University of California San Diego
T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR. Turn to Gang/Page A6
Massachusetts census results
Final census participation by mail results, 2000 vs. 2010
By county Franklin
Essex
2010 71%
2000 74%
Many yet to be counted By city and large town
Leominster
Lowell
2010 64%
2000 67% Lawrence
2010 59%
2000 59%
2010 80% By Aaron Nicodemus Pittsfield 2010 72%
2000 74% Middlesex 2010 76% 2000 76% Boston
2010 74% TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
2000 79% 2010 61%
Berkshire Hampshire Worcester 2000 76% Suffolk Framingham
2010 61% Worcester 2000 59%
2010 73% 2010 80% 2010 75% In some Worcester neighborhoods, just over half of
2010 68% 2010 73%
2000 72% 2000 60%
2000 79% 2000 77% the residents returned a census form to the govern- Springfield 2000 69% 2000 74%
ment. 2010 69% Barnstable
Plymouth 2000 71% Taunton
U.S. Census enumerators will be spending a lot of 2010 73%
Norfolk 2010 74% time in the tracts that cover Harding Street in Kelley 2010 66% 2000 76%
Hampden 2010 75% 2000 76% 2000 71%
2010 76% 2000 77%
Square, and Hammond Street in Main South, where
2000 77% Barnstable about half the residents did not return a 10-question
Bristol 2010 73% Mr. Galvin census form. Fall River New Bedford
2010 72% 2000 72% Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2010 64% 2010 66%
2000 75% About 45 percent of residents living around St. 2000 68%
T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR. 2000 68%
Dukes John’s Cemetery did not return their census forms,
Nantucket
Results for Dukes and Nantucket counties not available
Turn to Census/Page A7
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Senate Ways and Means Committee budget bill:
Hurdle Senate gets gloomy budget Compared to the final fiscal 2010 budget
■ Reduces unrestricted local aid from
$936 million to $899 million
■ Cuts spending on Lottery advertising,
reducing the account to $1 million
remains Slashes in spending across the board By John J. Monahan
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
■ Cuts Department of Environmental
Protection's budget to $47.4 million,
from $53.4 million while boosting the
Department of Public Utilities budget
from $10.2 million to $10.7 million
■ Level-funds agencies implementing reform
laws, the State Ethics Commission and the
state Office of Campaign and Political
Finance
on CSX BOSTON — Senate budget
writers are offering no rescue
for cities and towns facing deep
The gloomy budget outline
comes as the state is facing a
reduction in federal stimulus
schools.
School funding cuts will be
limited in some communities,
■ Cuts funding for the Judiciary by
more than $8 million, to $744.2 million
■ Reduces spending on district
attorneys by about $500,000, to $92.1
■ Bumps Inspector Gen. Greg Sullivan's
budget up to $2.9 million, from $2.74 million
■ Slashes the Bureau of State Office
Buildings budget from $12.3 million to $9.9
million
project
cuts in local aid starting July 1. funding that helped keep state including Worcester, by a com-
Their budget proposal aid for education level-funded mitment to maintain the legally million ■ Raises spending at the Group Insurance
unveiled yesterday would cut the last two years. required minimums for state as- ■ Cuts administrative spending by Commission, an agency relied upon to help
spending almost across the That on top of depressed reve- sistance to education, known as Patrick's office from $5.19 million to curb growing health care costs, from $1.4
board and spur up to 1,500 state nues from payroll, sales and foundation levels. $4.8 million billion to $1.65 billion
■ Increases spending in accounts ■ Spends $255 million from various
Road, bridge employee layoffs, but would pre-
serve remaining rainy day
income taxes linked to high
unemployment will mean 4 per-
As a result, Worcester will see
only a slight reduction in school under Secretary of State William
Galvin's office from $35.7 million to
reserve accounts, up from $114 million in
fiscal 2010
reserves as insurance against cent cuts in aid to municipal op-
problems cited further economic downturns. erations and also state aid to Turn to Senate budget/Page A7 $40.25 million
Source: State House News Service T&G Staff
By Nick Kotsopoulos
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER — While City
Manager Michael V. O’Brien
has committed to coming back
to the City Council in three
weeks with a deal to address
issues associated with CSX
Corp’s. freight yard expansion
Struggle to heal the world
plan, some doubts are being
raised about whether the big-
gest obstacle — finding a new
Books tell of
roadway connection from
Shrewsbury Street to Franklin Partners in
Street — can be achieved.
The biggest challenge city and
state officials are encountering
Health effort
in mapping out such a roadway
is the topography of that area By Nancy Sheehan
and meeting design criteria for TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
road and bridge construction.
As of now, it appears the only
way a new roadway connection
‘It’s and writeeasy to say ‘Ohoffthis has
failed’
just too
the Haitians and say
The baby was 2 weeks old. Its
mother was one of the thou-
could be built is if some of those
criteria are eased. But that
would come with some liability,
‘It’s just a nightmarish mess.’
‚ sands who died in Port au Prince
Jan. 12, the day of Haiti’s mas-
sive earthquake.
making it difficult to get state A friend of the mother took the
and federal support for the pro- TRACY KIDDER baby to Dr. Christine Purington,
ject, according to Robert L. Moy- who was part of a group from
lan Jr., commissioner of public UMass Memorial Health Care
works and parks. Inc. who came to help the devas-
To facilitate CSX’s $100 mil- tated country. Dr. Purington
lion expansion project — the could see the baby was starving.
There was formula. But there
Turn to CSX project/Page A10 were no baby bottles. They
would have to improvise. Syr-
inges were used to get the life-
saving fluids into the infant.
“It was one small thing, but it
did make a huge difference,’’ Dr.
Purington said. She didn’t speak
Creole, the language of the
woman taking care of the baby,
but words were not needed.
Online “You could see through eye con-
telegram.com tact that she was just so very
grateful,” she said. “Then there
Beetle battle T&G Staff/CHRISTINE PETERSON
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Civic leaders pick home for med school chancellor
By Shaun Sutner Proposed UMass Medical “The chancellor’s relocation
to Worcester is good news for
School chancellor’s residence
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Collins have made a $775,000 of- comes after several years of urg- and chancellor in September
fer on a six-bedroom, five-bath- ing by Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Mur- 2008. A board-certified internal
Lock in your price room Colonial on 10 acres at 72 ray and other local leaders, who medicine physician, he and his
until 2012! Flagg St. and are scheduled to have argued that establishing a wife live on Boston’s Beacon T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN
sign a purchase and sale agree- permanent chancellor’s resi- Hill.
ment this week, medical school dence would tighten the fast- This home on Flagg Street in Worcester is expected to become the
officials said. growing school’s ties to the city. Turn to UMass/Page A7 University of Massachusetts Medical School chancellor’s residence.
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Buddha pays a visit Senate OKs
banking bill
Brown joins Dems in vote
By David M. Herszenhorn sis, but also re-
THE NEW YORK TIMES shapes the role
of numerous
WASHINGTON — The Senate federal agen-
on Thursday approved a far- cies and vastly
reaching financial regulatory empowers the
bill, putting Congress on the Federal
brink of approving a broad Reserve in an
expansion of attempt to pre-
5 Worst over government dict and contain
oversight of Brown future debacles.
for New England, the increas- The vote was
PAGE A14 ingly com- 59 to 39, with four Republicans,
plex bank- Scott Brown, the freshman from
ing system and financial mar- Massachusetts, Susan Collins
kets. and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine,
The legislation is intended to
prevent a repeat of the 2008 cri- Turn to Bank bill/Page A6
Study detects
ovarian cancer
By Marilynn Marchione The study, in more than 3,000
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American women, is not big
enough to justify screening with
Researchers may finally be this method now. But doctors
closing in on a way to screen are encouraged because it con-
healthy women for ovarian can- firms early results from a much
cer — a disease that rarely larger study under way in
shows symptoms until it’s too England that will give a clear
late to cure. answer in a few years.
A simple blood test, followed More important, the U.S.
by ultrasound exams as needed, study suggests that this
found deadly tumors before approach can find aggressive
T&G Staff Photos/RICK CINCLAIR they caused symptoms and tumors — the ones that threaten
Henry Khuu of Worcester, left, and Thich Nu Dai Hieu of Texas clean the jade statue of Buddha yesterday at the Linh Son Temple. without giving too many false lives — without putting many
alarms, doctors reported Thurs-
Four-ton jade statue here to promote peace day. Turn to Ovarian/Page A5
By Bronislaus B. Kush
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF Digging may solve
WORCESTER — On any given day, hundreds of
motorists zip along the three-lane stretch of Gold
Star Boulevard near the Harr auto dealerships, with
few of them knowing that a Buddhist house of wor-
a grave injustice
ship sits nearby. By Kim Ring Robert Johnson, the assistant
It’s understandable, given that the Linh Son Tem- TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF facilities director, placed the
ple is in a cottage tucked snugly on a small parcel at stone there over what he
Gold Star and Ruthven Avenue that is surrounded by SHREWSBURY — A flat gran- thought was an empty grave.
businesses. ite stone engraved with the Somewhere in that graveyard
But folks, very shortly, are going to take notice. name Elizabeth Campbell Elizabeth Campbell is buried,
The giveaway? marks a spot in Hillside West but records never indicated
The 12-foot, 4-ton statue of the Buddha that will sit Cemetery on the grounds of the where. The records did show
outside the temple through June 5. Glavin Regional Center in that the spot where Mr. Johnson
The large statue — made of rare, translucent jade Shrewsbury. placed the stone was empty — or
Buddhist monks and laypeople gather yesterday as the statue of and valued at $5 million — is touring the world to During a rehabilitation of the
Buddha is unloaded and put on display. promote universal peace. cemetery about a decade ago, Turn to Hill/Page A5
“The Jade Buddha for Universal
Buddhist Buddhism’s Peace” drew crowds totaling at
least 4 million as it made its
heartland Russia Fundamental way through Asia, Australia
and, most recently, some
Present day Japan Principles East Coast American
Mongolia cities.
Circa 400 B.C. S. Korea The Four Noble Truths Worcester is the only
Life is suffering New England stop for
ASIA
The cause of suffering is craving the statue, which was
Lumbini China blessed by the Dalai
Tibet Suffering can be eliminated by extinguishing craving Lama.
The Buddha’s
birthplace Nepal Craving can be eliminated through the Eightfold Path The Venerable Man
Taiwan
Shing, an assistant at
India Myanmar The Eightfold Path Buddhist philosophy to end suffering the temple, said the
Laos Right Right conduct Right timing of the tour is
Bodh Gaya Thailand
Vietnam understanding mindfulness important, given that
Site of the Buddha’s Right livelihood people in Worcester,
enlightenment Right intent Right effort Right Turn to Buddha/Page A5
Cambodia concentration
Sri Lanka Right speech T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN
Source: National Geographic T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR.
Allen Gontz from University of Massachusetts at Boston’s Envi-
ronmental Earth & Ocean Sciences department explains the ground-
penetrating radar images.
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are state’s
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Banking regulators figure out. These are the bank and mar- how to rein in complex, previously and prescriptive and when to give the
shared the blame for the financial crisis ket overseers — the Federal Reserve, the unregulated securities, how to liquidate regulators latitude.
healthiest that buckled Wall Street. Now they’re the
ones lawmakers are counting on to give
final shape to the new overhaul of finan-
cial rules.
Office of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency, the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission — who took a beating for not
overseeing Wall Street more strictly and
large, interconnected failing financial
companies, even how to protect consum-
ers, the bureaucracies in charge of set-
ting the rules get plenty of discretion.
“There is room for imposing more
duties and responsibilities on the regu-
lators, and the bill contains a number of
steps to do that,” said Assistant Treasury
In section after section of the massive for failing to see the danger before it Lawmakers and Obama administra- Secretary Michael Barr. “But we also
Mass. Health 1,560-page Senate bill, lawmakers leave
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struck in 2008.
When it comes to key decisions about
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Council award
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Short cuts
WORCESTER — Think of the
healthiest school system in the
state, and what comes to mind:
Armies of varsity athletes?
Heart defibrillators in every
classroom? Cafeterias that offer
egg-white omelets and steel-cut
oats for breakfast?
How about Worcester? The
Massachusetts Health Council
announced this spring that the
city’s school system is the first
recipient of its Healthiest A car passes under the bridge on Putnam Lane.
T&G Staff/TOM RETTIG Time vs. money in CSX road battle
School System award, which
Keeping Shrewsbury and Franklin streets connected
will be given in the fall. It isn’t
for having the healthiest stu- By Steven H. Foskett Jr.
dents but for its many efforts to Proposed plans for road and bridge linking Franklin and Shrewsbury streets to replace possible closing TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
make them healthy. of Putnam Lane so CSX can access its planned maintenance building more easily
“They’re just doing really all WORCESTER — This is a city that loves its shortcuts.
the right things to reach out to Properties that could Belmont St. 9 Whether its getting from the West Side to Greendale in 30
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prevention and wellness. 639 Franklin Street old saying, you actually can “get there from here.”
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sal breakfast program, which . Corporation’s expansion up Shrewsbury Street,
659 Franklin Street
continues through the summer Tam which would call for an end to one of their
p a St Wells St.
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Signs of
The Pill turns 50 cover-up
in Haitian
Worcester-area researchers played vital role
Birth
control
1870
1873
killings
Congress makes the
timeline 1880 distribution of birth
control illegal.
After earthquake, prison
inmates’ escape plan
1890 turns disastrous, deadly
1903
Gregory Pincus is born in By Deborah Sontag
1900 New Jersey to Russian and Walt Bogdanich
Jewish immigrants THE NEW YORK TIMES
1912 1917 LES CAYES, Haiti — When
Margaret Sanger trains as a nurse 1910 Sanger meets Katharine the earth shook violently on
and dreams of a “magic pill” to McCormick, another birth control Jan. 12, the inmates in this
prevent. pregnancy. activist, at a lecture in Boston. southern city’s squalid prison
clamored to be released,
1921 1920 1934 screaming: “Help! We’re going
Sanger founds the American Pincus makes national headlines by to die in here.”
Birth Control League, which achieving in-vitro fertilization of
Elsewhere in Haiti, inmates
became the Planned Parenthood rabbits at Harvard University.
Federation of America. 1930 were fleeing largely undeterred.
Dr. Min-Chueh Chang Dr. Gregory Pincus But here, where the prison itself
1943 1938 sustained little damage, there
Pincus and Hoagland form the Pincus moves to Worcester after he is not was no exit. Instead, conditions
re-appointed at Harvard. He joins fellow researcher By Karen Nugent “Margaret Sanger approached
Worcester Foundation for 1940 TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF Dr. Pincus at a Manhattan dinner worsened for the inmates, three-
Experimental Biology at Clark. Hudson Hoagland at Clark University in Worcester. quarters of them pretrial detai-
party, and she was very taken with
1953 1947 When faced 50 years ago with him,” said Thoru Pederson, a Uni- nees, arrested on charges as
Sanger introduces Pincus 1950
1951 The foundation moves moral concerns about his discov- versity of Massachusetts Medical petty as loitering and locked up
to McCormick, who agrees Prompted by Sanger, Pincus and to Shrewsbury. Pincus ery of a birth control pill, Dr. Gre- School professor who headed the indefinitely alongside con-
to fund his research. Chang begin work on hormones and Hoagland are joined gory Pincus had a simple response: Worcester Foundation from 1985 to victed felons.
involved in contraception. by Dr. Min-Chueh Chang. “I invented the pill at the request of 1997. “She was trying to get some- After the earthquake, guards
1960 1960 1954 a woman.” body interested in oral contracep- roughed up the noisiest inmates
The FDA approves Enovid, John Rock and Pincus conduct That woman, it turns out, was tives, and he was very charismat- and consolidated them into cells
the first birth control pill.
1966 the first clinical trials of the pill. birth control pioneer Margaret ic.” so crowded their limbs tangled,
1965 Sanger dies at age 86. Sanger, who for decades had been The foundation’s name was former prisoners said. With
The Supreme Court 1970 searching for a pregnancy preven- changed to the Worcester Founda- aftershocks jangling nerves, the
overturns a law making it 1967 tion pill. Ms. Sanger knew another tion for Biomedical Research and inmates slept in shifts on the
illegal for unmarried women Pincus dies at 64 of a bone marrow disease early feminist, New York philan- moved to UMass Medical School in ground, used buckets for toilets
to use the pill. caused by exposure to lab chemicals. thropist and scientist Katharine Worcester in 1997. and plotted their escape.
1980 McCormick dies the same year, at 92.
1980 1982
McCormick, who eventually bank- Ms. Sanger convinced the aging The escape plan, set in motion
After health concerns about rolled the work of Dr. Pincus and Mrs. McCormick, who had mar- on Jan. 19 by an attack on a
the pill surface, lower dose Hoagland dies at age 82. Dr. Min-Chueh Chang and their ried into a wealthy Chicago family, guard, proved disastrous. With
pills are introduced. 1990 1991 colleagues at the Worcester Foun- to come to Shrewsbury in 1953 to Haitian and United Nations po-
Chang dies at age 82. dation for Experimental Biology in meet with Dr. Pincus and his col- lice officers encircling the
prison, the detainees could not
Sources: Planned Parenthood 1997 Shrewsbury. league and foundation co-founder,
get out. For hours, they ram-
of Northern New England,
The Worcester Foundation moves to the University of How the various players got Hudson Hoagland, whom he met
Clark University, Worcester 2000 Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, and is renamed together to create what became while both were students and paged, hacking up doors and
Foundation for Biomedical burning records, until tear gas
Research, Worcester the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research. known as the “pill” — 50 years old researchers at Harvard Univer-
this month — was a perfect planet sity. They eventually left Harvard finally overwhelmed them.
Telegram & Gazette, U.S.
Center for Disease Control
2010 alignment, or maybe just happen- In the end, after the Haitian
and Prevention. 2010 Approximately 100 million women worldwide use the pill. stance. Turn to The Pill/Page A8 police stormed the compound,
dozens of inmates lay dead and
Turn to Haitian prison/Page A11
Con artists frustrate victims
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to military U.S. Joint Chiefs of unraveling similar tales of heroism Mr. McManus also claimed degrees cocted yarns of military valor to woo
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Leaders lack revenue loss plan
if reduction to 3 percent passes
By Steve LeBanc everything would be on the table.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Baker’s lack of a plan is shared by
independent candidate Tim Cahill
BOSTON — It’s the fiscal elephant and incumbent Democrat Deval
in the room, a ballot question that Patrick.
would cut the Massachusetts sales Cahill, who also supports rolling
tax rate by more than half, and none the sales tax back to 5 percent, said he
of the state’s top political leaders has will “enforce the will of the voters
come up with a plan to deal with it if it and will wait to see what they
passes. decide,” but hasn’t outlined what he
That includes the major candi- would cut to make up for the sudden
dates for governor, all of whom say loss of revenue.
they oppose the initiative to reduce Patrick, who supports returning
the sales tax rate from 6.25 to 3 per- the sales tax rate to 5 percent after the
cent, a move that would cost the state state fully recovers from the reces-
up to $2.4 billion in annual revenue sion, also has yet to detail how he
beginning Jan. 1. would cope with the cut, but warned
What if voters approve it anyway? through his campaign that a cut to 3
Well, the candidates say they’ll cross percent “would have a devastating
that bridge when they come to it. impact on the essential services that
“If that’s the decision they make, everyone in the Commonwealth
we’re all going to have to deal with it relies upon.”
in state government one way or an- The lack of planning doesn’t end
other,” said Republican candidate with the candidates for governor.
Charles Baker, who supports rolling
the rate back to 5 percent. “Of course Turn to Tax/Page A6
Growing oil spill
hits birds, marshes
Officials ponder varied rescue strategy
By Greg Bluestein looking the same way because of a
and Matthew Brown well that has spewed untold millions
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of gallons of oil since an offshore rig
exploded more than a month ago.
BARATARIA BAY, La. — As offi- A mile-long tube operating for
cials approached to survey the dam- about a week has siphoned off more
age the Gulf oil spill caused in coas- than half a million gallons, but it
tal marshes, some brown pelicans began sucking up oil at a slower rate
couldn’t fly away Sunday. All they over the weekend. Even at its best,
could do was hobble. the effort did not capture all the oil
Several pelicans were coated in oil leaking, and the next attempt to
on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, stanch the flow won’t be put into
T&G Staff/RICK CINCLAIR their usually brown and white feath- action until at least Tuesday.
ers now jet black. Pelican eggs were With oil pushing at least 12 miles
WORCESTER — Massachusetts Environmental Police Officer Andrew P. Beaulieu places a strap around a tranquilized
glazed with rust-colored gunk, and into Louisiana’s marshes and two
black bear that climbed into a tree Sunday in the neighborhood of Moreland and Walter streets. The young male bear,
new hatchlings and nests were also major pelican rookeries now coated
which officials said weighed 60 to 80 pounds, was lowered to the ground and loaded into a truck, but died before it could
coated with crude. in crude, state officials said they are
be released in the northern part of the county, according to environmental police. Tests will be conducted to determine
It is unclear if the area can even be taking part of the response to the
the cause of death.
cleaned. It is also unknown how
much of the Gulf Coast will end up Turn to Spill/Page A6
Hospital employees Salon owners feel burned by tanning tax
authorize a strike By Danielle M. Horn
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By Kim Ring the hospital’s The annual backlash to indoor tanning is as pre- personal
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF negotiating dictable to Eric Nordstrom as the yearly influx of trainer and
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WORCESTER — About 1,300 row, and “if season. Kelly Han-
UMass Memorial Health Care they start mak- As his business picks up this time of year, so do the son of
workers, represented by United ing serious pro- medical studies that condemn his industry. Making Thompson
Food and Commercial Workers gress” a strike headlines last month was a study from the Archives evens out
Union Local 1445, rejected a pro- could be of Dermatology, which found that 40 percent of col- her tan on
posed two-year contract yester- averted. lege students who tan are addicted to tanning. one of the
day, potentially setting the He can notify This year, however, Mr. Nordstrom and fellow tan- fitness
stage for a strike. Mr. Belanger the hospital at ning salon owners have an added obstacle to running center’s
Union Vice President Doug- any time now of a planned their businesses. Starting July 1, a 10 percent tax is tanning
las A. Belanger said 97 percent strike and must do so 10 days set to be imposed on indoor tanning services. To help beds.
of the employees who voted “au- before such an action takes expand health coverage to uninsured Americans, leg-
thorized us to strike.” Mr.
Belanger said he will meet with Turn to UMass Memorial /Page A6 Turn to Tanning/Page A4 T&G Staff/STEVE LANAVA
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Airport
justices
order sale deal
inquiry
Probation dept.
tagged
hiring practices
By Steve LeBlanc
at $17M
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Massachusetts
Financial relief
Probation Commissioner John
O’Brien said Monday that he
was shocked by a court deci-
sion to suspend him from his
for city hailed
job and order an investigation By John J. Monahan
into the agency’s hiring and TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
promotion of probation offi- T&G Staff Photos/RICK CINCLAIR
cers. BOSTON — The city of Worcester has
Chief Justice Margaret Mar- A decrepit backstop stands on an old baseball field at Cookson Park where T Jablanski hopes to establish a fenced dog park. completed negotiations with the Massa-
shall and Chief chusetts Port Authority for the sale of
Justice for Ad- Worcester Regional Airport to the state,
Pet park eyed
5 Cahill: ministration and effective July 1.
Patronage is Management Under the agreement, which must be
part of politics, Robert Mulligan approved by the Worcester City Council,
Page A5 announced the the Massport board of directors and the
suspension in a Federal Aviation Administration, the city
joint statement, will get $17 million worth of cash pay-
citing published reports detail- ments and permanent land transfers.
ing management practices The agreement provides for continued
within the Probation Depart- future use of the facility as an airport, and
ment. would transfer ownership, operational
“We are deeply concerned
with not only the proper admin-
istration of the Probation
Group By Danielle M. Horn
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
authority and debts from the airport to
Massport, an independent state agency
that operates Logan International Airport
ORCESTER — Above Southbridge Street, overlooking
wants to
W
Department, but with how such and Hanscom Field.
reports may affect the public’s Interstate 290, lies a slightly overgrown field that bears the Massport Executive Director Thomas J.
perception of the integrity of all signs of its former purpose as a baseball field. Kinton Jr. said yesterday that by July,
Accessible to pedestrians, beaten-down shady paths lead
aspects of the judicial branch,”
the top justices wrote.
They said O’Brien has been
make area visitors to the tucked-away field, known to those who live
in and explore the College Hill neighborhood.
A rusty backstop separates brush from
users are not likely to notice any change in
the operation of the airport, but Massport
is committed to further development of
placed on administrative leave,
effective immediately.
O’Brien said he was disap-
for canine an acre of grass and dirt, which used to
host baseball games within walking
distance of the College of the Holy Cross.
corporate air service and expanded
Turn to Airport/Page A6
pointed with the court’s deci-
sion. He said the agency has an
extensive hiring process and
friends This is Cookson Field, a “field of
dreams” of sorts to College Street resi-
dent T Jablanski and the small group of
Terms of the Worcester
every one of his appointments
has to be approved by Mulligan, Rotmans Fitton
area residents who envision a greater Regional Airport
transfer to Massport
who also has to approve that Field purpose for the empty field. Mrs. Jablan-
the hiring process had been College ski is leading an effort to establish a
Square Holy fenced-in, off-leash dog park that would
Cross Operating expense
290 be the city’s first. reimbursement, 2004-2010 $3.4 million
Colle
Turn to Probation inquiry/Page A5
St.
She sees the backstop gone, replaced
Debt service expense
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Car
$4 million
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reimbursement, 2004-2010
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dogs from small ones. She can picture
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running about freely as she socializes bond payments
Kendig St.
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with neighbors she otherwise would not T Jablanski walks her dog, Val- $5 million
Online Cookson
have met.
“The city of Worcester doesn’t have a
entino, in Cookson Park in
Worcester.
Retiree expenses
Subtotal before deductions $15.5 million
telegram.com Field Dutton St. single legal area where you can bring Deduction for fair market value of water tank, public
Video: Don’t miss our latest Ma Electric St. your dog to run,” said Mrs. Jablanski, president of the newly formed park and environmental issues -$1.1 million
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College Hill Canine Park Association. “We have the oldest park in the
lineup of online videos that nR Subtotal $14.4 million
d. country (Elm Park); why wouldn’t we have a dog park, too?”
St.
includes Elgin Park, Putnam Proposed A lot has to happen before the College Hill Canine Park Associ- Total payments to city $14.4 million
dog park
t.
Lane and a unique Murdock ation’s vision becomes reality, but Mrs. Jablanski said she is commit-
nS
ted to bringing the group’s plans to fruition. The association has a
Value of industrial park
pto
High pitcher. parcels retained by Worcester $2.6 million
WORCESTER handful of active members, each of whom is responsible for a particular
Ham
Total value to Worcester in cash payments & permanent
T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR. Turn to Dog park/Page A8 land transfers $17 million
Source: Office of City Manager Michael V. O'Brien
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By Erica Werner Obama will also request $500 million for law thrust the border problem into the pub-
and Jacques Billeaud border protection and law enforcement ac- lic spotlight.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tivities, according to lawmakers and admin- Indeed, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer credited
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WASHINGTON — Under pressure to take The president’s action comes as chances compelling Obama to act. Signing the law,
action, President Barack Obama on Tues- for comprehensive immigration reform, Brewer said in a statement, “clearly ignited
day ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to Obama’s long-stated goal, look increasingly the talk of action in Washington for the
boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, dim this election year. Obama has been all people of Arizona and other border states.”
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State is Biotech
keeping
MCAS
Swim city prologue is given
By Jacqueline Reis
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
a boost
WELLESLEY — The state is
not planning to scrap the Mas- Gateway Park
sachusetts Comprehensive
Assessment System tests, the gets $6.6M
education commissioner told
the state Board of Elementary By Aaron Nicodemus
and Secondary Education yes- TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
terday.
The federal government is of- WORCESTER — The key to
fering a grant to encourage the success of Worcester Poly-
states to develop a common technic Institute’s Gateway
assessment, and Massachusetts Park, say those whose busi-
is working with at least 25 states nesses and academic endeavors
to do just that, said Mitchell D. thrive there, is collaboration.
Chester, commissioner of Ele- When Gov. Deval L. Patrick
mentary and Secondary Educa- visited the park yesterday, he
tion. He sees it as a way to do wanted to know what makes the
development work that the state place tick. The state’s $1 billion,
otherwise could not afford and 10-year Life Sciences Initiative
to create assessments beyond has already given more than
the MCAS, which $119 million to the biotechnol-
ogy industry in Central Massa-
Turn to Standards/Page A6 chusetts, including yesterday’s
announcement of $6.6 million
Race to the Top fund for a new building at Gateway
Park.
A competive grant authorized under the Mr. Patrick said he wanted to
American Recovery and Reinvestment T&G Staff/TOM RETTIG
Act of 2009 S. Chris Worthen, of Waterford, Conn., installs tile at Bennett Field pool in Worcester. Turn to Gateway/Page A5
Purpose: Encourages and rewards
states that ... Institute Park
1. Create conditions for education
innovation and reform
2. Improve student achievement
Wheels to Water program expands WORCESTER
Hum
bold
t St
.
3. Improve graduation rates
t.
open July 1. The program, which
‘
ry S
4. Ensure student preparedness for By Danielle M. Horn With cuts across the requires preregistration, targets Lancaster St.
sbu
college and careers TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
youngsters ages 7 to 17 who live near
board, there are not many
Sali
5. Reform four core education areas: the pools closed last year.
a. Adopt international standards and WORCESTER — With beach-
alternatives for children in “With cuts across the board, there
assessments that prepare students friendly weather this week a remind- are not many alternatives for chil-
Grove St.
for college and the workplace er that summer is just around the cor- dren in the summer, particularly
the summer, particularly
b. Build data systems that measure ner, organizers of the city’s Wheels to
‚ when pools are closed,” said Gordon
Concord St.
student success and inform teachers Water program are continuing their Hargrove, executive director of Gateway Park
and principals in how they can efforts to ensure inner-city kids have when pools are closed. Friendly House, a program partner
Prescott S
t.
improve their practices swimming opportunities in July and that is coordinating transportation.
c. Increase teacher effectiveness and August. GORDON HARGROVE The city has obtained $335,000 in
achieve equity in teacher distribution Established last year by City Man- donations this year, significantly
ager Michael V. O’Brien as an alterna-
FRIENDLY HOUSE
more than the $275,000 that covered 70
d. Turn around lowest achieving
Lin
tive for children and teenagers after operating costs, site supervisor sti-
schools
co
budget challenges forced the closing Wheels to Water will offer inner-city pends and transportation last sum-
ln
Awards: $20 million to $700 million
St
of the city’s nine pools, the donation- kids access and free bus transporta- mer. Funding is coming from UMass
.
Eligibility: 50 states, District of funded swimming and recreational tion to five private pools, four city Memorial Common Pathways, a New laboratory and office building
Columbia and Puerto Rico. First round program will increase this year in beaches, the Greenwood Spray Facil- group of foundations including the WPI Life Sciences
winners were Delaware and Tennessee. size and scope. ity and the city’s new $2.5 million and Bioengineering Center
Massachusetts is preparing its second Starting July 6 and ending Aug. 15, Crompton Park Pool, which is set to Turn to Swim/Page A6
application. Parking garage
Source: U.S. Department of Education Buildings for future development
T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR.
Source: WPI T&G Staff/DON LANDGREN JR.
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his co-workers at rig owner Dozens of witness statements
Local NEW ORLEANS — As the
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig
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ed 93 degrees at Worcester
Regional Airport just before 2:30
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record for the day, but the high-
est temperature recorded this
month in the city since record-
blocked keeping began almost 120 years
ago.
Rebecca Gould, a meteorolo-
gist at the Taunton office of the
By John J. Monahan National Weather Service, said
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF the previous high May temper-
ature of 92 degrees was recorded
BOSTON — Senate Demo- May 19, 1962, and on May 31, 1944.
crats yesterday blocked a Re- The previous record high tem-
publican budget amendment to perature for May 26 was 90
require federal immigration degrees.
status checks for Records have been kept in
anyone seeking Worcester since 1892, Ms. Gould
state services, 5 The said.
instead substitut- The airport, which has an ele-
ing their own set
House: CORI vation of about 1,000 feet, is usu-
of requirements
reform gets ally several degrees cooler than
for immigration
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The Republican bid for new Chris Farley of Athol, a pitcher with the Worcester Tornadoes, holds his hands out while being sprayed with water by a lawn sprinkler during was 97 degrees; unofficially it
immigration checks was simi- team practice Wednesday at Assumption College. was 98 degrees in Auburn.
lar to a bill from state Rep. Jef- Elsewhere, the National
frey L. Perry, R-Sandwich, that Weather Service said the mer-
narrowly failed in the House cury hit 95 degrees at T.F. Green
last month. It would have
required that state officials
check the immigration status of
Going green takes a very big, hot hit Airport, breaking the old record
of 91 degrees set May 26, 1965.
A temperature of 98 degrees
people applying for state ser- was recorded at Bradley Inter-
Record high
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Measure would rein in spending across the board immigration checks on people charged
with crimes and debarment of contrac-
BOSTON — The state Senate yester- tors using illegal labor.
day approved measures to stop illegal major shift in state tolerance of illegal not going to give in-state tuition rates to steeper fines for driving without a li- Another initiative would set up a
immigrants from accessing state immigrants. people here illegally,” he said, running cense or falsely obtaining state IDs and 24-hour toll-free tip hot line to report
healthcare, welfare, housing, unem- Senate Minority Leader Richard R. down the list of restrictions included in driver’s licenses. suspected employment of illegal immi-
ployment and in-state tuition programs Tisei, R-Sandwich, said the measures, the measure. Immigration status checks would be grants, and the attorney general would
as part of a budget amendment that adopted with a bipartisan 28-10 vote, Provisions of the measure would pre- required for MassHealth medical ser- be directed to work with the federal
would also crack down on employment include “almost every proposal we vent people and businesses from regis- vices for low-income residents, as well Justice Department to improve en-
of illegal immigrants. have been fighting for the last five tering a motor vehicle without a driv- as for unemployment benefits and forcement of federal immigration laws.
The changes, if approved by the years,” to combat illegal immigration. er’s license and Social Security or tax housing assistance. Provisions would
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The Unum inks
Roadways,
lure of sunshine CitySquare
agreement
campsites
Building lease sparks
will be busy hopes for construction
By Steven H. Foskett Jr.
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF By Lisa Eckelbecker
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ore people will be traveling
M Memorial Day weekend, and
more of them will be going
camping.
WORCESTER — More than a year after it
first agreed to lease space in the stalled City-
Square development, disability insurer Unum
And with only a slight chance of Group has again committed to the downtown
showers predicted Saturday, the project by signing a
National Weather Service seven- lease with City-
day forecast calls for a mostly dry Square’s new devel-
weekend, with mostly sunny skies oper.
forecast for Sunday and Monday. Unum yesterday
According to AAA, 32.1 million signed a 17-year lease
travelers nationwide are taking a of a 200,000-square-foot
trip away from home this weekend, building that will be
an increase of 5.4 percent over 2009. constructed on Foster
The number of people taking a trip Street, said J. Chris-
by car in New England is expected topher Collins, senior
to rise 8 percent over last year. vice president and gen-
Around 28 million people nation- T&G Staff/TOM RETTIG eral counsel of Unum
wide will be taking a trip by car, Cheryl R. Kane of Southboro and her dog, Angel, relax at Otter River State Forest campground in Templeton. US, a segment of Chat-
according to AAA. tanooga, Tenn.-based ARTIST’S RENDERING
And compared to last year, more Unum. The lease Unum signed a lease
of the traveling Massachusetts resi- of stay reserved right now; last year the kickoff to the summer camping “Midweek is a great time for includes parking ga- for a building that will
dents will be camping at state at this time there were 124,415. season at the 29 state camping sites camping,” Ms. Williams said. “It’s rage space for 860 vehi- be constructed on Fos-
parks, according to the state Ms. Williams wouldn’t officially that take reservations, she said. quieter, and there are more options cles and was signed ter Street.
Department of Conservation and speculate on why camping reserva- While Memorial Day kicks off the in terms of reservations. There are after five months of
Recreation. tions are up, but said that people do season, it’s actually easier to get lots of beautiful parks to go camp- negotiations between Unum and the project’s
Catherine Williams of the DCR seem to be staying close to home on camping reservations for during ing in.” new developer, CitySquare II Development Co.
said statewide camping reserva- vacation as family budgets remain the week, she said. For example, Getting to destinations this week- LLC, which is financially backed by an invest-
tions are up 6 percent over last tight. Salisbury Beach is booked for the ment arm of Hanover Insurance Group Inc. of
year. She said there are 131,853 days Memorial Day weekend marks whole season on weekends. Turn to Holiday/Page A10 Worcester.
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dire new government estimates knows if it has cut off the oil that leaking crude.
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2,900 Top of the class at Wachusett Regional High School Oil still
fail final
MCAS gushing
test try into Gulf
Big roadblock
is science section BP struggling
By Elaine Thompson
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF to plug leak
Nearly 3,000 members of the By Clifford Krauss
class of 2010 in the state, about 10 and Jackie Calmes
percent of them in Worcester THE NEW YORK TIMES
County, will not get diplomas
because they failed part or all of HOUSTON — BP engineers struggled
the Massachusetts Comprehen- Friday to plug a gushing oil well a mile
sive Assessment System test or under the sea, but as of late in the day they
an alternative portfolio assess- had made little headway in stemming the
ment taken by severe special flow.
needs students. Amid mixed messages about problems
The students were given one and progress, the effort — called a “top-
last chance to pass the MCAS kill” — continued for a third day, with
April 14 in order to receive T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN engineers describing a painstaking proc-
diplomas with classmates. Paxton twins Christopher Coyne, left, and Joshua Coyne are valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, at Wachusett ess of trying to plug the hole, using differ-
Since that opportunity, 2,933, or Regional High School this year. ent weights of mud and sizes of debris
4.3 percent of high school such as golf balls and tires, and then
seniors, have failed to pass one watching and waiting. They cannot use
Co-leadership
or all subjects of the test. brute force because they risk making the
According to the state Depart- leak worse if they damage the pipes lead-
ment of Elementary and Second-
ary Education, 1,690 have not Turn to Everyone/Page A12
passed any subject; 794 have
passed English/language arts,
but not science-technology-
engineering; 349 have only
passed ELA; and 100 have passed
math only.
Gifted twin graduates couldn’t be closer
Out of 4,119 seniors statewide
who had not passed the science By Lee Hammel musicians. Wachusett band Director
exam before, 1,230 took the ret- TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF 5 Area college and high school Miriam J. Jensen said, “They’re spec-
est April 14, of which 630, or 51 tacular. They’re two of the brightest,
percent, passed. Patricia Mos- PAXTON — Most families would be
commencements, PAGES A5, A6 most talented young men I’ve ever
tue, director of testing and pretty happy about having one of had in my teaching career”—and
their children finish first or second in that’s 30 years.
Turn to MCAS/Page A12 their high school class. They’re very genuine, very compas- The grades of the fraternal twins
The Coyne family has two sons who sionate, very hardworking,” said Alli- are separated by as little as is their
are the valedictorian and the saluta- son L. Connors, their guidance coun- age: Joshua is 1 minute older. Out of a
torian at Wachusett Regional High selor. “They’re just real down-to- “perfect” grade point average of 100,
School in Holden this year. And it’s earth kids and yet brilliant at the Christopher, a Telegram & Gazette
not really to anyone’s surprise. same time. student achiever, has 102.4 and is val-
Faculty members at the high school “They’re funny, they’re sweet, edictorian; Joshua, the salutatorian,
tend to talk in superlatives about they’re going to go on to do great has 102.3.
Christopher W. and Joshua D. Coyne, things,” and, she added, “They’re Grade point averages are weighted
Online 18-year-old twins who live at 19 Wilde-
wood Drive.
very kind.”
Three-time varsity volleyball play-
so that advanced placement classes — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama takes a tour of
telegram.com “They’re both fantastic kids. ers, the Coynes also are outstanding Turn to Twins/Page A12 areas affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill
yesterday in Port Fourchon, La.
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Truck crash snarls traffic
By Linda Bock
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF Morning rollover clogs turnpike
CHARLTON — An early truck near the Charlton Plaza, onlookers or the beginnings of
Follow us at morning accident yesterday on traffic remained at a crawl on normal holiday traffic,” State
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torists that reverberated on the roadways in the region. the eastbound delays were pri-
Pike and local roadways State police reported a 12-mile marily because of the two lanes
ANNIE’S MAILBOX...A8 ENTERTAINMENT....A8 throughout the day. traffic backup on the eastbound that were closed for several
BRIDGE..................B7 HOROSCOPE...........B7 Though the three eastbound side of the Mass Pike, and a four- hours because of the accident.
CLASSIFIED............C2 LOTTERIES.............A2 T&G Staff/DAN GOULD lanes of the Massachusetts mile backup on the westbound Traffic also slowed on second-
COMICS .................B6 MONEY ..................A9 Turnpike closed because of the side yesterday afternoon. ary roads, notably Route 20.
CROSSWORD..........B6 RELIGION..............A10
DEATHS.................A4 STOCKS.................A9
The eastbound lanes of the Massachusetts Turnpike were at a accident were reopened after “It‘s difficult to determine if
EDITORIALS ..........A11 TELEVISION ...........B5 standstill yesterday after a truck crash near the Charlton Plaza. crews removed an overturned the westbound traffic is due to Turn to Traffic /Page A12
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Local Troubled rig had
stories several red flags
By Ian Urbina
REGION THE NEW YORK TIMES
Author McGinness is just WASHINGTON — Internal
documents from BP show that
doing his job, Sarah. there were serious problems
and safety concerns with the
Dianne Williamson Deepwater Horizon rig far ear-
lier than those the company
column, Page B1 described to
Congress
WORCESTER last week.
The prob- The
Students participate in lems
23rd annual Art All-State, T&G Photo/MARK C. IDE
involved the documents
well casing
Page B1 Staff Sgt. Frank Lopez, having recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, enjoys time yesterday with his family, daughters Celenia, 6, and the show that in
front left, Rebecca, 11, and his wife, Brandy L. Lopez, at their home in Webster. blowout pre-
venter, March, after
WINCHENDON which are
several
The Winchendon School
Homefront support
considered
critical piec-
holds graduation es in the weeks of
ceremonies, Page B1
chain
events that
of
problems on
led to the di-
saster on the
the rig, BP
rig.
The docu-
was
Group assists families of soldiers deployed overseas ments show
that in
struggling
March, after
several
with a loss of
Online Impact on child of By Bill Fortier gle-family home for several years, and the
furnace of the home broke down last
weeks of ‘well control.’
telegram.com TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF problems on
deployment WEBSTER — The past year has not been
November just as winter was about to set-
tle in.
the rig, BP
was strug-
Video: Watch recent Central (From perspective of caregiver)
easy for Brandy L. Lopez, 31, of 10 George And that’s when Operation Homefront, a gling with a
Massachusetts slideshows Pct. responding "true"
Active Reserve St. and her daughters, Rebecca, 11, and nonprofit San Antonio-based organization loss of “well 5 BP: Gulf well
and videos online. Go to Feels proud 97.1% 98.5%
Celenia, 6. that supplies financial and emotional sup- control.” plug attempt fails,
telegram.com and select Mrs. Lopez’s husband, Staff Sgt. Frank port for the spouses and families of soldiers And as far PAGE A8
Feels lonely 82.5% 69.2% Lopez, 39, a heavy equipment mechanic for deployed overseas, where the war against back as 11
Photos/Video tab. More responsibilities at home 63.1% 76.9% the 101st Engineering Battalion of the terrorism is being waged, stepped in. months ago,
Takes more care of siblings 58.0% 64.5% National Guard, based in Whitinsville, has Mrs. Lopez, who has been working as a the company was concerned
Also Online Doesn't enjoy activities as much 40.8% 29.7% been at Camp Liberty near Baghdad for substitute employee this year as a cafeteria about the well casing and the
about a year. This was her husband’s sec- worker for the Webster School Depart- blowout preventer.
Acts more independently 74.8% 89.1% ond deployment in Iraq. Along with the ment, contacted Jennifer L. Cesaitis, a fam-
4 Going to the movies is Acts more mature 75.7% 85.9%
On June 22, 2009, for example,
approximately 180 soldiers in the unit, he ily assistance specialist for the National BP engineers expressed con-
easy if you start with tele- Gets more easily upset or agitated 65.1% 66.2% returned home last week. Guard regional headquarters on Skyline cerns that the metal well casing
gram.com. Go online for Source: "Understanding the Impact of Deployment on He is planning to march in tomorrow’s Drive in Worcester. Ms. Cesaitis put her in that the company wanted to use
Children and Families," 2008, Rand Center for Military
movie reviews and times. Health Policy Research Memorial Day Parade. might collapse under high pres-
T&G Staff/STACEY ARSENAULT The Lopez family has lived in their sin- Turn to Homefront/Page A12 sure.
MONEY .....................D1 TRAVEL.................M1
DEATHS....................B6 TONIGHT’S TV ........N8 Turn to Oil rig/Page A8
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LOCAL NEWS ............B1
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AUTOMOTIVE AND
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SECTION E Polito running hard in treasurer’s bid
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Karyn Polito Shrewsbury candidate wooing Dems, independents
✔ Moonroofs 1995-1998
✔ Truck Bed Covers Shrewsbury selectman By Shaun Sutner
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
CAMPAIGN
✔ Sat Radio November 1998
Auburn • 832-2131 Worcester • 756-8563 Runs for legislative office for first time, losing to John Evangelista, owner of the vener-
Guy W. Glodis for 2nd Worcester District state able Parkway Diner, strode into the
Senate seat wood-paneled back room of his gelista, as well as independent voters
1993-2000 54-year-old eatery in Worcester’s Little who traditionally swing elections in the
Shrewsbury Town Meeting member Italy during a recent weekday lunch state, will be crucial to Ms. Polito in her
hour and gave a big hug to a longtime quest to become the first Republican to
1999-2000 customer, Republican state Rep. Karyn win state office other than governor or
Massachusetts Lottery Commission member E. Polito of Shrewsbury. lieutenant governor since former trea-
November 2000 Mr. Evangelista, normally a steadfast surer Joseph D. Malone was first
Runs unopposed for 11th Worcester House seat, Democrat, told Ms. Polito that he’d be elected in 1990.
and is unopposed in next four elections happy to hold a campaign sign for her at Many political observers give her a
the Hyannis Rotary on Cape Cod this good shot in what appears to be a wide-
2001-present summer, or do anything she needs in open election season.
Massachusetts House of Representatives: 11th
her campaign for state treasurer. First off, she has no shortage of cash.
Worcester District representing Shrewsbury and
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part of Westboro “She needs to be there to take care of A prolific fundraiser during her 10 T&G Photo/RICK CINCLAIR
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T&G Staff our money,” he said. State Rep. Karyn E. Polito talks about her
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City gets OK to raze
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Sheriff candidates react to idea of
Memories of war still making prisoners pay, Page B1
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51-year reign ending for the ‘Poppy Lady’
Leda E.
VFW Auxiliary quorum problem cited ‘Everybody looks for me. ‚
Lovett, 95, By Karen Nugent because it cannot meet the six-mem- LEDA E. LOVETT
Clinton’s TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF ber quorum required to hold meet-
SPEAKING OF HER ROLE AS POPPY LADY
“poppy ings. Mrs. Lovett said she can barely
lady,” will be CLINTON — This morning’s get five members to attend now.
on hand Memorial Day ceremony at Central Nevertheless, she had no problem stuffed into her donation cans. The
today at Park marks the end of Leda E. Love- this month selling her usual allot- money helps needy veterans and their
8:30 a.m. tt’s 51-year reign as Clinton’s “poppy ment of 1,000 plastic “Buddy Poppies” families.
with the lady.” She will be on hand at 8:30 a.m., at a dollar apiece — as she has for the The Ladies Auxiliary membership,
Buddy with the Buddy Poppy basket on her last 50 years. In fact, she has raised she said, has dwindled from 25 during
Poppy arm, selling them for the last time. $22,000 in the past 22 years alone by the last few years.
basket on She’s not quitting because she’s 95. selling 1,000 poppies annually from But that didn’t deter Mrs. Lovett, a
her arm. Sadly, the sales cannot continue the big box that arrives each spring at cheery woman with sparkling blue
after the Veterans of Foreign Wars her Myrtle Street home. Last year, eyes, from manning her usual spots.
Post 523 Ladies Auxiliary, of which she ran out of poppies, but still raised
T&G Staff Photos/TOM RETTIG Mrs. Lovett is president, is disbanded an additional $162 from money Turn to ‘Poppy Lady’/Page A6
Stress
of debt No relief seen until August
persists Anxiousness,
Poll reflects
uneasy mood
misery grow
By Jeannine Aversa
along Gulf Coast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Ted Anthony
WASHINGTON — The econo- and Mary Foster
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
my trudges ahead yet debt dogs
many Americans, stressing
BOOTHVILLE, La. — There is still a hole in the
them out even as they firm up
Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there
their own financial foundations.
is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After
There are new jobs produced
trying and trying again, one of the
but old worries persisting for
world’s largest corporations,
people despite belt-tightening
backed and pushed by the world’s 5 More trouble:
and boosted savings, according
most powerful government, can’t Hurricane season
to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
stop the runaway gusher. poses new
About 46 percent of those sur-
As desperation grows and eco- complications,
veyed say they’re suffering from
logical misery spreads, the oper- Page A6
debt-related stress, and half of
ative word on the ground now is,
that group described their stress
incredibly, August — the earliest
as a “great deal” or “quite a bit.”
moment that a real resolution could be at hand.
On the other hand, about 53 per-
And even then, there’s no guarantee of success.
cent say they feel little or no
For the United States and the people of its belea-
stress at all.
guered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil
That’s in line with findings
and anger lies dead ahead.
from last year, even though
Oh ... and the Atlantic hurricane season begins
times seem better today: The
Tuesday.
economy is growing and gener- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The latest attempt — using a remote robotic
ating jobs, and households have
made progress in repairing their
Jolie Van Gilder, left, holds her mother’s hand Sunday during a rally in New Orleans against BP PLC and the Gulf
oil spill. Turn to Gulf/Page A6
Turn to Debt/Page A4
Travel season appears to be on upswing Spending by domestic
travelers in Worcester County
(in millions) $671.9 $688.9
$638.1
Online
By Lisa Eckelbecker
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Regional officials cautiously optimistic chusetts by U.S. residents
totaled $13.5 billion. Travel $568.2
$602.7
spending in Worcester County
telegram.com Encouraged by signs that con- was a lack of consumer confi- dropped 8.9 percent to $704.4 bil- totaled nearly $689 million in
sumers are itching to hit the dence last year, but people are lion in 2009 from 2008. Not count- 2008, the fifth-largest amount of
Video: Check our interview road, the region’s travel indus- feeling more confident.” ing foreign visitors, travel travel spending among counties
with Gov. Deval Patrick. try is looking forward to a sum- No one is predicting a record spending by U.S. residents in that year. Travel also supported
mer travel season that just year. Unemployment in Massa- 2009 was down an estimated 7.9 about 5,400 jobs and $140.8 mil-
might be stronger than last chusetts remains high. There’s percent to $610.2 billion. lion in payroll, and it generated
ANNIE’S MAILBOX.C8 ENTERTAINMENT B6 year’s “staycation” summer. still plenty of economic uncer- That kind of downturn hurts nearly $14.7 million in taxes for
BRIDGE................C9 HOROSCOPE .......C9 “The conventional wisdom is tainty. But any bump over last Massachusetts, where travel local communities, according to
CLASSIFIED..........C8 LOTTERIES .........A2
COMICS ...............C6 MONEY...............B7 there’s a pent-up demand for year would be significant for an and tourism is the third-largest the U.S. Travel Association.
CROSSWORD........C6 NATION ..............A3 vacations and getaways,” said industry that has suffered. industry. “The industry is seeing
DEATHS...............B4 TELEVISION ........C5 Betsy Wall, executive director The U.S. Travel Association In 2008, the most recent year improvements, but they’re 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
EDITORIALS .........A5 WORLD ..............A3 of the Massachusetts Office of estimates that total travel for which statistics are avail- Source: U.S. Travel Association
Travel and Tourism. “There spending in the United States able, travel spending in Massa- Turn to Travel/Page A4 T&G Staff/STACEY ARSENAULT
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