Stirring strings at ensemble concert
The 25-member New England String Ensemble (left) opened its 13th season Sept. 30 at the Rogers Center for the Arts in North Andover with a beautiful performance of four pieces by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Osvaldo Golijov and Pyotr Tchaikofsky.
Attended by close to 200 people of all ages, the near 90-minute concert was recorded by WGBH 102.5 for rebroadcast. The same concert was performed the following day at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall to a full house. NESE Co-founder and Executive Director Peter Stickel of Wakefield welcomed guests as they arrived.
Monitoring wells coming to test for contamination
Last night the Conservation Commission heard a request from Brown and Caldwell engineering firm of Andover, on behalf the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department, to install monitoring and testing equipment in and around Lake Quannapowitt to ascertain the levels of groundwater and lake sediment contamination.
The Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department (MGLD) hired Brown and Caldwell to help them comply with an order from the state to clean up an old sediment deposit that has covered parts of the Lake bottom and possible surrounding areas since the 1920s.
Brown and Caldwell came before the Conservation Commission for a Request for Determination of Applicability, to ascertain that the work they want to do “is subject to the Wetlands Protection Act,” they wrote in their application.
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Cop killer got state house duties: ‘Tough on crime’ Healey/Romney administration doled work to violent criminals
Though Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey attacks her gubernatorial rival as soft on cons, her administration assigned a Boston cop killer to a light-duty prison clean-up crew that once broomed trash from the State House, the Herald has learned.
Terrill Walker - the triggerman who murdered veteran BPD Detective John Schroeder during a Nov. 30, 1973, holdup at a Roxbury pawnshop - is an inmate at the Boston Pre-Release Center, which correction officers call a “bed and breakfast” for privileged cons.
Walker, 50, is paid by the Romney-Healey administration’s Department of Correction “community work crew” that maintains the State House, Forest Hills cemetery and the Emerald Necklace parks.
News that a convicted cop killer is working in a public setting outraged BPD union leaders yesterday as Healey and her running mate, former state police Col. Reed Hillman, lobbied for law enforcement endorsements.
It also came as she launched a new TV ad attacking rival Deval Patrick for representing a Florida cop killer as a lawyer in the past.
“You can’t profess to be tough on crime and turn around and allow this stuff to happen. You simply can’t have it both ways,” said Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Tom Nee. “This is an insult to the Schroeder family and to every working cop in the commonwealth.”
Michaels Stores shareholders approve sale
DALLAS --Michaels Stores Inc. shareholders voted Thursday to approve sale of the arts-and-crafts retailer to two private-equity firms.
Michaels had valued the deal at $44 per share or about $6 billion when it was announced in June.
The company said Thursday that the sale to Boston-based Bain Capital Partners LLC and New York-based Blackstone Group is expected to close by Nov. 4.
Michaels said holders of about 79 percent of eligible shares voted, and most favored the sale.
(Sources: Wakefield Observer, Wakefield Daily Item, Boston Globe, Boston Herald)
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