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Athol student’s
engineering team
is 2nd at national
competition
LOWELL — Athol resident Noah Meunier was
part of a team of UMass
Lowell students recently
placing second in a national engineering competition
that challenged them to design and test a concept for
a wind-energy system that
could be used in real-world
situations.
Known as “Team WindHawk” — a play on the
name of UMass Lowell’s
sports teams, the River
Hawks — the engineering and business majors
were invited to participate
in the U.S. Department of
Energy Collegiate Wind
Competition 2016 after the
agency reviewed UMass
Lowell’s project proposal
for the contest. As a result,
the agency awarded the
team $19,961 through the
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Athol, Mass., Friday, July 15, 2016
By PHILIPPE SOTTO, RAPHEL
SATTER, JAMEY KEATEN
and LORI HINNANT
Associated Press
said he had drawn a gun on
them. The truck’s front windshield was riddled with bullets.
Video footage showed the
truck driving slowly down the
southern French city’s famous,
palm tree-lined Promenade
des Anglais boulevard, which
had been sealed off and turned
into a pedestrian-only party
zone.
German tourist Richard
Gutjahr filmed the moment
when an unidentified motorcyclist rode alongside the truck
and grabbed hold of the driver’s door as two other police
officers on foot nearby fired a
single shot each at the driver’s
windscreen. But the truck accelerated through an intersection into screaming crowds,
where Gutjahr could hear the
final confrontation involving 15
to 20 seconds of gunfire.
“Police were everywhere in
town for the day. They clearly
saw he was a danger, because
that truck should never have
been on the road,” said Gutjahr, who took cover as police
started shooting because he
feared the truck might contain
a bomb.
“France was struck on the
day of its national holiday,
July 14, the symbol of liberty,”
French President Francois
Hollande said as he denounced
“this monstrosity.”
Hollande said it was not clear
whether the driver had accomplices. The Paris prosecutor’s
office opened an investigation
for “murder and attempted
murder in an organized group
linked to a terrorist enterprise.”
No group has claimed responsibility for the carnage,
but French officials called it an
Webster and Worcester.
As part of Congressman
McGovern’s third annual tour,
he will lead a roundtable with
state and local leaders to talk
about how the summer food
program helps communities in
need and visit summer meals
sites at schools across the region. Joining Congressman
McGovern on the day-long
tour will be:
• Kevin Concannon, USDA
Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services.
• Kurt Messner, USDA
Northeast Regional Administrator Food and Nutrition
Service.
• Candice Stoiber, USDA
Northeast Region Director
Special Nutrition Programs
Division, Food and Nutrition
Service.
• Rob Leshin, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Ed. Acting
Director of the Office for Nu-
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Armory vandals to face charges, town is
seeking $15,000 in restitution for damages
partment received a call at
12:30 a.m. on the morning
of Monday, July 4, that the
armory had been vandalized. As a result a track was
conducted by K-9 Orka, her
first for the department,
which led to the arrest of
three of the individuals. An
additional two were later issued summonses to appear
as well. According to Town Administrator Diana Schindler,
who reported on the incident at Wednesday night’s
selectboard meeting, the
vandals pried bricks from
the building’s façade and
then threw them through
the door and windows on
the front of the building. Schindler toured the
building to view the damage and found that the mason work is now deteriorating faster as a result of the
vandals removing the bricks.
She also noted additional
damage found inside the
armory due to the company
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undeniable act of terror. The
assault on revelers rocked a nation still dealing with the aftermath of two attacks in Paris last
year that killed 147 people and
were claimed by the Islamic
State extremist group.
“Terrorism is a threat that
weighs heavily upon France
and will continue to weigh for
a long time,” Prime Minister
Manuel Valls said after Hollande called an emergency government meeting Friday. “We
are facing a war that terrorism
has brought to us. The goal of
terrorists is to instill fear and
panic. And France is a great
country, and a great democracy, that will not allow itself to
France Page 5
SCENE OF ATTACK — Emergency services vehicles work on the scene after a
truck, left, plowed through Bastille Day revelers in the French resort city of Nice,
France, on Thursday. France was ravaged by its third attack in two years when
a large white truck mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks
in Nice, killing at dozens of people as it bore down on the crowd for more than a
mile along the Riviera city’s famed seaside promenade. Sasha Goldsmith via AP
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France reels as Bastille Day truck attack kills
84 in Nice; state of emergency is extended
NICE, France (AP) — A
Tunisian living in France drove
a large truck through crowds
celebrating Bastille Day along
Nice’s beachfront, killing at
least 84 people, many of them
children, according to police
and hospital officials. The
slaughter ended only after police killed the armed attacker in
a hail of bullets.
French leaders on Friday extended the country’s 9-monthold state of emergency and
vowed to deploy thousands of
police reservists on the streets
after Thursday night’s massacre of pedestrians leaving a
fireworks display for France’s
independence day.
Video shot by bystanders
shows the truck coming unStudent Page 5
der police gunfire as it drives
through an intersection into
the pedestrian promenade.
Crowds flee in panic, taking
shelter in shops, hotels or leaping off the elevated pavement
onto the beach below. Police
finally surround the stationary truck and fatally shoot its
By JARED ROBINSON
driver.
ADN Staff Reporter
Police identified the atORANGE — With the for- tacker as Mohamed Bouhlel, a
merly mighty Millers River 31-year-old Nice resident, and
now drawn down to something more indicative of a
muddy brook, Peak North
America owner Sean Ashcroft
WORCESTER — On
approached the selectboard Monday, July 18, CongressWednesday night to discuss man Jim McGovern (MA-02)
augmenting his lease agree- will kick off his third annual
ment to operate out of the riv- Summer Food Rocks Tour to
erfront boathouse. highlight the U.S. Department
Ashcroft told the board that of Agriculture’s national Sumwith the river level down he is mer Food Service Program
unable to operate his business, and how it helps ensure that
and therefore unable to fulfill low-income students in Massathe lease agreements agreed chusetts do not go hungry durupon in the spring. Since the ing the summer months when
news broke of the river being school is out of session.
This year’s tour includes vislowered Ashcroft has been
working with the North Quab- its to Athol, Turner Falls, Ware,
bin Chamber of Commerce to
find alternative locations for
him to do business. One such
location, Ashcroft said, was
Lake Rohunta. As Lake Rohunta is owned by an associaBy JARED ROBINSON
tion, those negotiations are still
ADN Staff Reporter
ongoing. ORANGE — In the case
The reason Ashcroft apof the July 4 vandalism to
proached the board was to
the Orange Armory on East
ask permission to rent selfMain Street, five juveniles
propelled watercraft at Lake
appeared in court for a
Mattawa. show cause hearing ThursAshcroft’s plan is to bring a
day. At that hearing enough
trailer with boats to the north
evidence was presented that
side of the lake, near the boat
painted the five as the culramp, and rent them from
prits and, as such, criminal
there during his regular busicharges will now be filed
ness hours Thursday through
against them. Sunday. Orange Police AdminSelectman Walter Herk
istrative Assistant Brenda
expressed his frustration that
Anderson said that the deAshcroft had to come before
the board in the first place. “If
we wanted to lower that river
it would take five years but the
federal government comes in
Boat rental
service moves
to Mattawa
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World leaders express horror
at attack; sympathy for France
NICE, France (AP) —
World leaders are expressing dismay, sadness and
solidarity with France over
the attack carried out by a
man who drove truck into
crowds of people celebrating France’s national day
in Nice, killing at least 84
people:
———
UNITED STATES
President Barack Obama
condemned what “appears
to be a horrific terrorist attack” in Nice.
“Our
thoughts
and
prayers are with the families
and other loved ones of those
killed,” he said.
Noting that the attack oc-
curred on Bastille Day, the
French national holiday,
Obama praised “the extraordinary resilience and
democratic values that have
made France an inspiration
to the entire world.”
Secretary of State John
Kerry called it a “horrendous attack in Nice. ... I was
proud to stand alongside
French leaders earlier today
at Bastille Day celebrations
in Paris, and the United
States will continue to stand
firmly with the French people during this time of tragedy.”
Both presidential candi-
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Man shoots at officers, is killed
BALTIMORE (AP) —
Baltimore police officers
responding to the sound of
gunshots near an apartment
building fatally shot a man
who fired at them with an
AR-15-style rifle, authorities
said early Friday.
No officers were wounded nor anyone else in the
shooting Thursday night in
a neighborhood on the city’s
west side, police spokesman
T.J. Smith said. He added
that it wasn’t immediately
clear why the man had begun
shooting.
Four plainclothes officers
riding in an unmarked car
heard gunfire coming from
the building about 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, Smith said at a
news briefing. The officers
drove toward the sound and
when they arrived, they saw a
man shooting an AR-15-style
weapon, according to Smith.
Smith said the man started
firing toward the officers,
and two returned fire.
The suspect was shot at
least once and retreated to
the apartment building, according to the spokesman.
He didn’t immediate identify
the officers, the man or the
races of those involved but
held up a picture of what he
said was the rifle recovered
afterward.
The shooting comes a
week after police shootings
of two black men, one in
Louisiana and the other in
Minnesota, stoked outrage
among many in the AfricanAmerican community and
protests around the country.
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DAMAGED — The Orange Armory was damaged by vandals on the morning of
July 4. It was found that bricks were removed from the front of the building and
then thrown through the windows. A track was conducted by Orange Police K-9
Orka resulting in three juveniles being arrested and an additional two being
summonsed to court. The town is seeking $15,000 in restitution. Photo by Josh Talbot
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Obituaries
& Services
John Rimsa
SEMINOLE, Fla. — John
Rimsa, 82, of Seminole, Fla.,
died July 7, 2016, in Pinellas
Park, Fla.
He was born in Athol on
Aug. 16, 1933, son of the
late Frank and Anna (Shesaka) Rimsa.
John
graduated
from Fitchburg Teachers
College and got his doctorate of education at the
University of Florida. He
taught chemistry and physics at Mahar Regional High
School, Cape Cod Community College and St. Petersburg Jr. College until he retired. He also served in the
Army for two years.
He loved to travel the
planet.
John is survived by his
sons, David, Dan and Carl;
brothers, Ben, Peter and
Donald; and his companion,
Madeline Kooper.
Funeral services will be
held today, Friday, July 15,
at 2 p.m., at Memorial Park
Funeral Home, Pinellas
Park, Fla.
GCE info session
at Fitchburg
State Aug. 9
FITCHBURG — Learn
about the educational opportunities available at Fitchburg
State University when the Office of Graduate and Continuing Education (GCE) hosts an
information session on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 5 p.m.
The free session, where attendees will have the opportunity to speak with advisors,
program chairs, financial aid
representatives and register
for classes, will take place in
Hammond Hall on the Fitchburg State campus.
GCE at Fitchburg State offers more than 45 graduate
and undergraduate degree
and certificate programs. There will be special information sessions beginning at
5:30 p.m. for the LPN to BS in
nursing bridge program, online RN to BSN, online MBA,
Master of Science in Nursing
(forensic); graduate special
education (dyslexia specialist, moderate, severe, guided
studies, reading specialist and
BCBA graduate certificate),
now delivered as an online
hybrid; education (early childhood, elementary and middle
school); counseling; and BS
in early childhood education
(birth to 8 concentration).
Those who attend the information session who haven’t
yet applied for admission to
Fitchburg State can have their
$40 admissions application
fee waived for their fall 2016
or spring 2017 applications.
Applications must be received
by Sept. 9 to qualify for the
waiver. Visit fitchburgstate.edu/gce/
infosession to register for the
information session or call
978-665-3182 for more details.
Daily News
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Worcester sheriff’s K-9 to get body armor
WEST BOYSLTON —
The Worcester County Sheriff’s Office has announced
K-9 Maya, a 2-year-old single-purpose trailing bloodhound, will receive a bullet and stab protective vest
thanks to a charitable donation from the non-profit organization Vested Interest
in K9s Inc.
K-9 Maya’s vest is being
sponsored by the Vested
Interest in K9s Inc.’s 2015
“Santa Paws and Grinch”
fundraiser hosted by Especially for Pets in Medway,
and will be embroidered
with the sentiment: “In
memory of K-9’s Molly and
Adam.”
Vested Interest in K9s Inc.
is a 501c(3) charity located
in East Taunton, the mission
of which is to provide bul-
Friends of Athol
Hospital holds
supper meeting
ATHOL — The monthly
meeting of the Friends of
Athol Hospital was held on
July 12, at their first supper
meeting.
Pizza, dessert and beverages were provided by the
hospital dietary team. New
members were welcomed
and minutes of the June
meeting were read.
The next fundraising
event will be a bus trip to
Foxwoods Casino on Saturday, Aug. 29, with the
bus departing from Athol
Hospital at 7 a.m. The cost
includes the bus trip and a
buffet at the casino. Reservations should be made as
soon as possible, as this is
a very popular trip and the
bus will fill up fast. Call Pat
Lussier at 978-249-1145 to
reserve a space.
Other upcoming events
include a raffle of 100 gallons of heating oil. The
winner will be drawn at the
Fall Festival in downtown
Athol in September. It will
be announced when tickets
will go on sale. On Oct. 29, the Friends
will host a jack-o-lantern
contest and festival with
some special guests. Details will be forthcoming.
Also, a paint and sip party is planned for November,
with participants learning
to paint a holiday snowman
on a lighted canvas and
enjoying a glass of their favorite wine. The date of the
event will be announced
soon, as well as when tickets will be available.
As always, the Friends
group invites everyone
from the North Quabbin
area to join and get involved in supporting and
promoting Athol Hospital. The hospital will soon
break ground on a new,
state-of-the-art emergency
department and medical offices. The Friends of
Athol Hospital hope to be
able to make an important
contribution toward the
cost of this project and appreciate the support of the
area communities.
let and stab protective vests
and other assistance to dogs
of law enforcement and
related agencies throughout the United States. The
non-profit was established
in 2009 to assist law enforcement agencies with this
potentially lifesaving body
armor for their four-legged
K9 officers. Since its inception, Vested Interest in K9s,
Inc. has provided over 1,900
protective vests in 49 states
through private and corporate donations at a cost of
over 1.7 million dollars. All
vests are custom made in
the U.S. by Armor Express
in Central Lake, Mich.
The program is open to
dogs actively employed in
the U.S. with law enforcement or related agencies
who are certified and at
least 20 months of age. New
K-9 graduates, as well as
K-9s with expired vests, are
eligible to participate.
The donation to provide
one protective vest for a law
enforcement K-9 is $1,050.
Texas father, son
among France
attack victims
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
An Austin-area father and
son who were vacationing
in Europe with their family
are among the victims of the
deadly truck attack in Nice,
France, relatives said Friday.
Sean Copeland, 51, and his
son Brodie, 11, were killed
Thursday evening in what
French authorities have described as a terror attack,
family friend Jess Davis said.
“We are heartbroken and
in shock over the loss of Brodie Copeland, an amazing son
and brother who lit up our
lives, and Sean Copeland, a
wonderful husband and father,” the Copeland family
said in a statement released
by Davis. “They are so loved.”
Davis said the Copeland
family from Lakeway, 20
miles northwest of Austin,
were on a European vacation
that began in Spain with the
running of the bulls in Pamplona.
“Then on to flamenco dancing in Barcelona and they had
been celebrating Bastille Day
in Nice when this unthinkable and unfair act of terror
took Sean and Brodie from
the world far too soon,” Davis
said. “It is a terrible loss.”
State Department spokesman John Kirby said earlier that two Americans were
among the at least 84 people
killed, but he didn’t identify
them citing privacy.
Davis said the surviving
Copeland family members
remain in Nice and are “overwhelmed and don’t want to
deal with media inquiries.”
Friday, July 15, 2016
Parish
Road
01436
Meeting
at Gale, festival chairperson 939-8550
canceled
St. Martin’s Parish
FESTIVAL
10 am - 2 pm
Otter River
Sportsman’s Club
Lord Road, Otter River
BBQ chicken dinner ($8)
served noon - 1 pm.
To reserve meal tickets,
call 978-939-5588.
Hot dog lunch and snacks
available all day.
Chinese Auctions
Major Prizes
Children’s Activities
50/50 raffle
Baked Goods
Games of chance & skill
Music and More!
Car to be displayed
ATHOL — The L.S.
Starrett Company is now
sponsoring a NASCAR
Whelen Modified Tour race
car.
The car — the No. 4
Mystic Missile — will be on
display, and driver Jimmy
Blewett will be on hand for
a meet-and-greet on Friday,
July 22, at 1 p.m., at the
company headquarters on
Crescent Street.
Field trip
TEMPLETON — The
Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society of Gardner has planned a field
trip to tour the facilities of
the Narragansett Historical
Society on Tuesday, July 26,
from 7 to 9 p.m.
Those interested in taking part or obtaining more
information should contact
Janet Fortunato at [email protected].
The Narragansett Historical Society is located at 1
Boynton St., on the Templeton Common.
State
Police
Log
Saturday, July 9
2:27 a.m. - A vehicle operated by Ursula Rice, of
Leominster, was in an accident on Route 2 at Exit 23 in
Gardner. A citation was issued
for a marked lanes violation.
10:20 a.m. - Cory Butler,
26, of Gardner, was arrested
in Gardner on charges of
possession of a Class D substance with intent to distribute
and failing to inspect a motor
vehicle.
Tuesday, July 12
9:44 a.m. - Benjamin J.
Priestly, 46, of 220 Pleasant
St., Orange, was arrested in
Orange on a warrant for two
counts of assault and battery,
and a warrant for charges of
assault and battery, resisting arrest and disturbing the
peace.
AREA — Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise,
partly cloudy, with a low around 63. Southwest wind around
5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Saturday: A slight chance of showers between
noon and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise,
increasing clouds, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Saturday Night: Patchy fog after 4am.
Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Light
northwest wind. Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the
morning. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around
61. Monday: A chance of showers between 11am and noon,
then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Chance of precipitation
is 40%. Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. Chance of
precipitation is 40%. Tuesday: A chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Chance
of precipitation is 30%. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with
a low around 59.
Almanac - Sun rose 5:25. Sun sets 8:24. Length of day 14
hours, 59 minutes. Full moon, July 19. New moon, Aug. 2.
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The Numbers Game, Night:
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Any 2 digits
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Any 1 digit
$6
Any Order
All 4 digits
$197
1st 3 digits
$110
Last 3 digits
$110
Exact Order
All 4 digits
$5,350
1st or last 3
$749
Any 2 digits
$64
Any 1 digit
$6
Any Order
All 4 digits
$446
1st 3 digits
$125
Last 3 digits
$250
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Tuesday2898
Monday6791
Sunday5477
Saturday6191
Friday3738
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Tuesday, July 12
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Thursday, July 14
8 a.m. - Caller reports lost
dog, Pleasant Street. It is a German short-hair pointer. Officer
checked area; not seen.
8:54 a.m. - Traffic stop, Daniel
Shays Highway.
9:12 a.m. - Traffic stop, Daniel
Shays Highway.
9:28 a.m. - Traffic stop, Daniel
Shays Highway.
9:54 a.m. - Traffic stop, Pleasant Street.
10:48 a.m. - Assisted Athol
Fire Department with transport
of Section 12 patient from Drury
Avenue location to Athol Hospital.
11:08 a.m. - Subject to station
with wallet found near Country
Convenience, South Main Street.
12:06 p.m. - Detail officer reports passing motorist advised
him there was a coyote near the
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Animal control officer advised.
Area checked; spoke to people
at vegetable stand. No animals
in area.
12:14 p.m. - Suspicious vehicle reported near Branch Bridge.
Described as tan sedan. Officer
sent. Gone on arrival. Unclear as
to whether it had been in Athol or
New Salem.
1:18 p.m. - 911 caller requested medical assistance, Ridge
Road. Call transferred to AFD.
1:28 p.m. - Follow-up, Main
Street. Gathered video surveillance.
2 p.m. - Officers stood by
while party removed property
from residence and property
was loaded onto truck, Chestnut
Hill Avenue. Advised party to not
step on caller’s property due to
“no trespass” notice.
2:12 p.m. - Caller reports small
brown dog is lost somewhere in
area of Pequoig Avenue. Advised to check with ACO, as no
reports have been received of
loose dogs.
3:39 p.m. - Walk-in requested
assistance.
4 p.m. - Sex offender information given to walk-in.
4:15 p.m. - Walk-in requested
assistance. States party is threatening him after she moved out of
his home. Advised to call if she
returns and causes disturbance.
5:37 p.m. - Conducted radar
enforcement due to complaints
about speeding vehicles, Silver
Lake Street.
5:44 p.m. - 911 mis-dial, Silver
Lake Street. No emergency. Female was concerned about party
who was supposed to be home
two hours prior. Provided assistance with locating party.
6:03 p.m. - Walk-in requested
assistance. Stood by while property was picked up.
6:46 p.m. - Caller reports two
male parties fighting behind
building, Pleasant Street. At 6:52,
911 caller reports two parties
fighting across the street from
his house. Simple assault and
battery. Parties advised to stay
away from each other. One party
taken by ambulance to AH.
7:26 p.m. - Caller requests
welfare check on party who is
not answering phone, Carol
Circle. Made contact. Caller was
advised phone is not working.
8:09 p.m. - Caller reports red
pickup truck struck her car and
party continued to head uptown,
Main Street. Truck took off driver’s side mirror on vehicle. Unable to locate; no plate number
obtained.
8:54 p.m. - House check, Pine
Ridge Road.
9:08 p.m. - Traffic stop, Main
Street. Stopped for screeching
tires as it left Cumberland Farms.
9:53 p.m. - Caller reports
disturbance, Pleasant Street.
Continuation of earlier incident.
Subjects sent on way. Spoke to
management regarding incident.
10:40 p.m. - Alarm, Pinedale
Avenue. Spoke to owner who
accidentally set off alarm.
Today, July 15
2:57 a.m. - Traffic stop, Cres-
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Weds.7896
Tuesday4665
Monday6743
Sunday3617
Saturday6430
Friday8982
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Saturday, July 9
Saturday, July 9
3-10-31-36-38; MB-3
7-15-20-30-34,
Wednesday, July 13
no winner
10-22-35-38-39; MB-1
Athol Police Log
AND
CHICKEN BBQ
Saturday, July 23
ATHOL — Due to a lack
of agenda items, the selectboard meeting set for Tuesday, July 19, has been canceled.
Each vest has a value between $1,795 to $2,234 and
an average weight of 4 to 5
pounds. There are an estimated 30,000 law enforcement K-9s throughout the
U.S.
“The Worcester County
Sheriff’s Office is very appreciative of the Vested Interest in K9s organization
for their generous donation
of a bullet and stab protective vest for our K-9 Maya.
Our K-9s work very hard
each day facing challenging
situations and keeping us
safe; it’s extremely important we do all we can to help
keep them safe in the line of
duty,” said Worcester County Sheriff Lew Evangelidis.
For more information or
to learn about volunteer
opportunities, call 508-8246978. Vested Interest in K9s
Inc. provides information,
lists events, and accepts taxdeductible donations of any
denomination at www.vik9s.
org or mailed to P.O. Box 9
East Taunton, MA 02718.
Meetings Reminder
cent Street. Stopped for revoked
insurance. Female driver did not
have license. Vehicle towed. Party to be summonsed.
4:53 a.m. - House check,
Batchelder Road.
5:58 a.m. - Out-of-town hospital called to request notification
be made to wife of patient they
are treating, Cass Circle. He was
in a motor vehicle accident and
wife was not answering phone.
They wanted her to call hospital.
Advised female party of same.
Accident
ATHOL — At 11:38 a.m.,
Thursday, a tractor trailer operated by Earl D. Lizotte, of
Sinclair, Maine, struck a street
sign at Main and Pleasant
streets.
The Department of Public Works was notified of the
damage. No injuries resulted.
No citations were issued.
Sunday, July 17
Royalston
Energy Committee, 3
p.m., town hall.
Monday, July 18
Erving
Selectboard, 7 p.m., town
hall.
Orange
Elementary School Committee (executive session),
1 p.m., superintendent’s office.
Phillipston
Assessors, 6 p.m., assessors office.
Selectboard, 7 p.m., town
hall.
Royalston
Broadband Committee, 7
p.m., town hall.
Warwick
Selectboard, 6 p.m., town
hall.
Meeting notices and
agendas for Athol, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston and Royalston can
be viewed online at www.
mytowngovernment.org.
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Obituaries
& Services
Gloria M. Maguire
ORANGE — Gloria M.
(Simonelli) Maguire, 88, of
East Road, died Thursday
evening, July 14, 2016, at
Athol Hospital. Funeral arrangements are
pending with Witty’s Funeral Home, 158 South Main
St., Orange.
United Way backpack drive under way
GREENFIELD — The
annual “It’s Blooming
Backpacks” backpack and
school supply drive is under
way by the Women’s Way,
a program of United Way
of Franklin County. Every
August, the Women’s Way
and community supporters
of the popular event come
together at the garden in
Historic Old Deerfield to
socialize, while supporting
the needs of local schoolage youth. Farm tours set for August
ORANGE — Free tours
of the neighboring Seeds of
Solidarity and Little White
Goat Dairy farms will be
held Saturday, Aug. 6, at
the following times:
• 10-11.30 a.m.: Seeds of
Solidarity Farm Tour, 165
Chestnut Hill Rd. (Seedsofsolidarity.org) — Farmers Ricky Baruc and Deb
Habib offer this tour of
their vibrant farm, featuring innovative no-till
and low-maintenance gardens, solar greenhouses,
energy-efficient buildings,
and solar electric and hot
water systems. Also learn
about Seeds of Solidarity’s educational programs
that “awaken the power to
‘Grow Food Everywhere’ to
transform hunger to health
and create resilient lives
and communities.”
• 1-2.30 p.m.: Little
White Goat Dairy at Heritage Fields Farm Tour, 309
Gidney Rd. Orange. (Littlewhitegoatdairy.com) —
Walk the pastures and ex-
perience the raw goat milk
and fermented milk products dairy. Farmers Rachel
and Bruce Scherer will talk
about the microbiome of
the soil, the animals, and
people’s own bodies — and
how they all interrelate for
healthy systems from the
ground up.
No pre-registration is required for the tours; come
for the morning, afternoon
or both. Enjoy an optional
potluck lunch at Seeds of
Solidarity in between tours.
Fabulous farm-fresh products will be available for
purchase at both locations.
Seeds of Solidarity and
Little White Goat Dairy
are among the organizers
of the 18th annual North
Quabbin Garlic and Arts
Festival, on Sept 24 and 25.
Visit garlicandarts.org for
the full list of 2016 exhibitors, program, entertainment, and travel/parking
info. Visitors to the website
can also sign up to volunteer.
Petersham Police Log
Thursday, June 16
8:24 a.m. - Officer advised
of possible domestic incident
across from police station,
East Street.
8:26 a.m. - Caller reports
female was at his door on the
previous day stating she wanted him to take a survey for a
company out of Chicago, Old
Hardwick Road.
12:37 p.m. - Motor vehicle
investigation, location not listed in log.
12:46 p.m. - Alarm, Prospect Hill Road. False alarm.
8:03 p.m. - Alarm, North
Main Street.
Friday, June 17
9:46 a.m. - Assisted Barre
police with arrest, Barre common.
11:43 a.m. - State Police
report there is a search in
progress for man out New
Hampshire who is suicidal,
Route 32A and Old Hardwick
Road. His boat was discovered in water there. SP K-9 on
scene. At 12:23, request made
to contact police in Jaffrey,
N.H., in reference to any recent social media hits. Jaffrey
unaware and officers tied up.
SP in Belchertown requested
to check island at reservoir.
No contact on ATV. Air patrol
done.
6:09 p.m. - Responded to
Hardwick Road location.
7:24 p.m. - Officer out with
vehicle; sounded like there was
a party in the woods cutting
down tree, Monson Turnpike
Road. Tree on party’s property.
Saturday, June 18
8:11 p.m. - 911 hang-up,
New Salem Road. Voicemail
on call back. Spoke to party
reporting erratic driver in area
of Harvard Pond. Officer out
with vehicle.
Monday, June 20
3:08 p.m. - State’s Department of Children and Families
requested history for address,
Popple Camp Road.
Tuesday, June 21
1:20 a.m. - Athol Police requested assistance with K-9
with regard to locating elderly
male. Services rendered.
Wednesday, June 22
12:19 p.m. - Walk-in reports
possible brush fire, Route
32A. Rangers and officer sent.
Nothing located. At 1:11, officer requested fire department
be toned to meet at Gate 40
at Quabbin Reservoir to assist
with locating and extinguishing
fire there. Fire located in area
of Dana Common on path near
water. About an acre in size,
not moving, edges out.
4:31 p.m. - Attempt to serve
summons, East Street.
4:37 p.m. - Summons
served, West Street.
6:32 p.m. - Summons
served, East Street.
Thursday, June 23
12:34 p.m. - Detective from
Somerville Police requested
listing for involved party, East
Street. Information given. Party
called back to request officer
give notice for party to call
him. So done. No one at home.
Message card left.
2:36 p.m. - Tractor trailer
with brake problem, North
Main Street.
3:56 p.m. - Homeowner to
be shooting; wanted police
aware, Hardwick Road.
6:01 p.m. - Gardner Police
requested officer get firearms
registered to male party that
were left at his friend’s house,
Popple Camp Road. So done.
9:14 p.m. - State Police report 911 call from party complaining about operation of
motor vehicle, Route 122. Area
checked; no contact.
Friday, June 24
2:05 a.m. - Alarm, East
Street. False alarm. Alarm
company to be notified.
9:05 a.m. - Report of loose
horse, Doe Valley Road. Owner
located same at 9:09.
9:27 a.m. - Officer picking up
ATV that was serviced, Barre.
2:48 p.m. - Officer picked up
paper that looked to be recyclable from side of Nichewaug
Road. It was either dumped or
had fallen off a car.
3:26 p.m. - Motor vehicle investigation, location not given
in the log.
5:02 p.m. - Five baby raccoons in road, Route 122. ACO
sent. Raccoons moved into
the woods. Environmental Police advised to leave them be.
Saturday, June 25
10:38 a.m. - Caller reports
two loose donkeys in his yard,
Briggs Road. He believes they
belong to neighbor but can’t
reach neighbor by phone. ACO
advised and en route with halters to help secure donkeys.
9:03 p.m. - Report of fireworks, Tom Swamp Road.
Unable to locate. Spoke to
party who also heard them and
thought they were in Athol.
Sunday, June 26
9:50 p.m. - Barre Police report tree down with wires involved, Old East Street. Found
tree limb touching wire; all
houses had power.
Monday, June 27
7:20 a.m. - Tree on wires and
blocking most of road, East
Street. National Grid advised.
3:07 p.m. - Officer behind
vehicle that might be connected to trash dumping incident,
New Athol Road.
6:11 p.m. - Caller reports she
is at house to clean it and there
are tracks in driveway that are
not from her, Nichewaug Road.
She wanted someone to check
it out to make sure there was
no one inside.
9 p.m. - Notified of vehicle
repossession, Hardwick Road.
11:53 p.m. - Caller reports
male party went to residence
accusing caller of hacking his
Facebook page and stealing a
phone, East Street. State Police responded and on scene
upon officer’s arrival.
Tuesday, June 28
7:27 a.m. - Female fell, Oliver Street. Athol Fire Department transported party to
Athol Hospital.
11:32 a.m. - Report of horse
attacked by something over
night, Nelson Road. Animal
was taken to Tuft’s. Officer
contacted Environmental Police and both were waiting for
veterinarian’s report as to what
type of attack/injury it was.
2:23 p.m. - Officer checking
for tracks of animal that attacked horse, Nelson Road.
This year’s main event
is Thursday, Aug. 4, from
5:30 to 7 p.m. In addition to the cost to attend,
those participating are
asked to bring one or more
backpack(s) filled with
school supplies. The address location
will be given at the time of
RSVP. To RSVP, call 413772-2168 or email info@
uw-fc.org.
Backpacks filled with essential school supplies are
distributed to children and
youth throughout Franklin County, via the United
Way of Franklin County’s
27 partner agencies.
Backpacks come to the
United Way in different
ways. Traditionally, an individual donor will take on
the task of buying and filling a backpack. Other ways
include: Groups of coworkers or friends collaborate on filling a few bags,
companies donate supplies
or empty backpacks, businesses and organizations
have a school supply drive
in the workplace; holding
a “stuffing party” to fill
backpacks with supplies,
both of which can be purchased by the company or
donated; and collecting
monetary donations.
Every backpack counts,
and as one dad said last
year, “Not only are the
supplies important, but
you may have just saved
the reputation of a child.”
Since the first annual
“It’s Blooming Backpacks
in 2005, over 2,500 backpacks with a value of nearly $200,000 have been donated and distributed. In
2015, nearly 500 backpacks
were collected, with a goal
to reach 600 this year. For
more information, visit uwfc.org/its-blooming-backpacks, call 413-772-2168 or
email [email protected].
Orange Police Log
Thursday, July 14
8 a.m. - Warwick Police
Department is looking for
contact information, East
River Street. Same provided.
10:05 a.m. - Medical
emergency, Fairman Road. 2:52 p.m. - Motor vehicle
lockout, Daniel Shays Highway. Entry gained.
2:55 p.m. - Caller reports
a red Honda XR80 was stolen Monday night, caller will
look for vehicle identification
in his paperwork, Orange
Airport. Report taken. 3:08 p.m. - Walk-in for escort while her daughter retrieves property from a residence, North Main Street.
On arrival no one was home
and the party was advised to
contact officer when she attempts to go back to the residence to retrieve property. 4:34 p.m. - Athol Police
Department looking for assistance as they are responding to a possible domestic incident with a male
subject holding a knife, Freedom Street, Athol. Found no
knife was involved. Peace
restored. 5:45 p.m. - Caller reports
truck with trailer at location,
Bartlett Lane. Found to be
subject from real estate with
paperwork to be there working on property.
6:59 p.m. - Burglar alarm
at Harris Manufacturing,
Prentiss Street. Building
checked and found secure.
Attempts made to contact
key holder. 7:10 p.m. - Orange Fire
Department responding to
lightning strike and tree on
fire, East River Street. On arrival fire was out. OFD handled. 8:30 p.m. - Motor vehicle
lockout with kids in car, East
Main Street. Entry gained. 11:30 p.m. - Traffic stop
for marked lanes violation,
East Main Street. Operator
had trouble navigating due
to heavy fog, no signs of impairment. Warning issued.
Today, July 15
5:45 a.m. - Traffic stop
for speeding, Daniel Shays
Highway. Warning issued. The Village
School’s
Children’s Book
of the Month
CALENDAR REMINDERS
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Friday, July 15
3-4 p.m. — Game Day, Petersham Memorial Library, 23 Common St. Games include Sorry, Uno, Trouble, Scrabble and Clue.
3-6 p.m. — Petersham Friday Market, on the common. Locally grown produce, crafts, live music by Jubilee Gardens Trio.
6-9 p.m. — Friends of the Erving Library Summer Potluck
Dinner, Erving Senior/Community Center, 1 Care Dr. (off Route 63
North). Bring your favorite summer dish and the recipe to share.
After dinner, Mackensey Bailey will demonstrate a variety of cake
decorating techniques using fondant. Participants can decorate a
cake. Register at the library or call: 413-423-3348
7:30 p.m. — Orange Community Band Concert, Butterfield
Park Bandstand, East River Street, Orange.
7:30 p.m. — “The Old Homestead”, Potash Bowl, Route 32
across from Town Hall, Swanzey, N.H. Admission by donation.
Band concert by local town band 45 minutes prior to curtain and
between Act I and II. This year will be the last continuous performance. Rain date: Sunday, July 17. Info: 603-352-4184 or www.
oldhomesteadswanzey.com
Saturday, July 16
7 a.m. — New Salem Old Home Day, on the common. Info:
[email protected].
9 a.m.-Noon — St. John’s Thrift Shop, St. John’s Episcopal
Church, Park Avenue, Athol. Info: 978-249-9553
9 a.m.-6 p.m. — “Deliver for Our River” Cleanup Day, Millers
River shore and riverbed, Orange.
Noon-4 p.m. — Museum Celebration, Petersham Historical
Society, 10 North Main St.
5 p.m. — 1794 Fundraising Dinner at New Salem Old Home
Day, 1794 Meetinghouse, on the common, New Salem.
7:30 p.m. — “The Old Homestead”, Potash Bowl, Route 32
across from Town Hall, Swanzey, N.H. Admission by donation.
Band concert by local town band 45 minutes prior to curtain and
between Act I and II. This year will be the last continuous performance. Rain date: Sunday, July 17. Info: 603-352-4184 or www.
oldhomesteadswanzey.com
Sunday, July 17
9 a.m. — Trap Shooting, Orange Gun Club, off West River
Street. Info: 978-467-6076
10 a.m.-1 p.m. — Sporting Clays, Petersham Gun Club, Nelson Road. Info: 978-249-7445
1-4 p.m. — Museum Open, Swift River Valley Historical Society, 40 Elm St., New Salem
1-6 p.m. — Playing for Paint Benefit for the Wendell Meetinghouse, outside Deja Brew Pub, Wendell. Featuring Bear
Mountain Boys, Josh Levangie, Frances Doughty, Richard Chase,
Bill Klock, Shelley Hines and Friends including Carrie Ferguson.
1:30-3:30 p.m. — Craft Day with Maggie, Erving Public Library, 17 Moore St. Learn to make a potato print or summer sand
sculpture.
4 p.m. — 1794 Meetinghouse Concert, 1794 Meetinghouse,
on the common, New Salem. Performance by Gathering Time
with Mara Levine. Tickets available at the New Salem General
Store, online at www.1794meetinghouse.org and at the door.
School choice openings
PETERSHAM — The
Petersham Center School
is accepting students in
first, second, third and sixth
grades under the school
choice program.
If interested in sending a
child or multiple children
to the Petersham Center
School for the 2016-2017
school year, send a letter
of interest to Joanne Menard, Principal, P.O. Box
148, Petersham, MA 01366
or email to mrsmenard@
petershamcenterschool.
org. Include in the letter
the child’s name and date
of birth, and all contact information.
Students are admitted
to the Petersham Center
School on a first-come,
first-served basis. For questions, contact Menard at
978-724-3363, Ext. 0.
Following are the openings for each grade:
• First grade — two
openings;
• Second grade — one
opening;
• Third grade — three
openings;
• Sixth grade — three
openings.
FITCHBURG — The
Montachusett
Regional
Planning Commission will
meet Tuesday, July 26, at 7
p.m., at 1427R Water St.,
with a light supper at 6:45
and the following agenda:
Minutes.
Treasurer’s report — Approval of cash schedules;
bank forms.
Administrative
matters
— Proposed policy amendment for temporary employees; fiscal year 2017 revenue
update; salary scale revision
report; action on MRPC
monthly meetings: meeting day and start time, and
monthly versus quarterly;
employee attendance report
on Esri User Conference;
employee attendance report
on GMS Annual Summit.
Status reports — Geographic
information
systems;
planning
and
development; transit; transportation.
MRPC meeting agenda
Vacation Bible
School
Book reviewed by
Shannon Johnson,
2nd & 3rd grade teacher
‘Raymie Nightingale’
By Kate DiCamillo
———
Sometimes unexpected summer friendships make a big
difference in a child’s life. This is the case for Raymie, who
becomes a member of an unlikely trio of girls during the
summer of 1975. Set in a small town in Florida, the three
girls, dubbed the Rancheros, help each other solve problems and forge a strong bond. “Raymie Nightingale” is the latest book by Kate DiCamillo. Reminiscent of her first novel, “Because of Winn
Dixie,” it deals with the topic of loss and new friends. The
main character, Raymie, is trying to make sense of her life
and the world around her. It’s a well-written page-turner
with intriguing characters and a plot that draws the reader
in.
Raymie decides to take baton-twirling lessons at the
champion baton twirler Ida Lee’s house where she meets
Louisiana and Beverly. She feels a strong need to learn how
to twirl a baton so that she can enter and win The Little
Miss Central Florida Tire Contest. The problem is that they
never seem to get much twirling accomplished and Raymie
wonders if she’ll ever learn to twirl. She wants to enter the
contest in hopes that she’ll win it, and then her father will
see her picture in the paper and come back to live with her.
Beverly is a snarky, lock-picking ‘thief’ whose aim is to
sabotage The Little Miss Central Florida Contest, which
she tells Raymie and Louisiana right from the start. Louisiana is a quirky, loving girl who lives with her eccentric
grandmother and they are always ‘on the run’ from Marsha
Jean (who never appears in the story), so that she doesn’t
have to go live in the county home. Raymie is dealing with
the loss of her father, trying to figure out why he left and
how to get him back. She bonds with the two girls and learns
important life lessons as they get into some tricky situations
together.
Kate DiCamillo once again has children facing some
tough life lessons, but as in other books, interlaces the serious subject with doses of humor. Raymie is a likable main
character, whose inner dialogue helps the readers get a
sense of some of the people around her town and those who
have influenced her. From Mrs. Borokowski, the neighbor
who has Raymie cut her toenails, to Mr. Staphopoulos who
gives her life-saving lessons and tells her to be a problem
solver, we see how those influences shape her decisionmaking as she tries to figure out how to help herself and her
newfound friends.
This is DiCamillo’s best book since “Because of Winn
Dixie.” The characters are easy to relate to and the quick
chapters make for a fast read. It’s a great read for ages 9
and over. ORANGE — A Vacation Bible School, “Cave
Quest,” for children four
years of age through the
sixth grade will be held
Aug. 1 through Aug. 5, at
the Mission Covenant and
Bethany Lutheran churches at Cheney Street and
Pleasant Street, respectively, from 8:30 a.m. to noon
each day.
The registration date
is Saturday, July 16, from
8:30 to 10 a.m. For more information, call the Mission
Covenant Church at 978544-2803.
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Classes
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Experienced Meditators
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Established 1934
Serving The Interests Of The North Quabbin Region
Including the towns of Athol, Orange, Warwick, Erving, Wendell, New Salem, Royalston, Phillipston and Petersham
Richard J. Chase, Jr., Publisher
Deborrah L. Porter, Editor
Jacqueline Caron, Advertising Manager
Robert A. Perkins, Production Manager Emeritus
Data on civilian deaths from drone
strikes raise hard questions
I
n a show of shocking imprecision, the
White House recently released statistics on the number of civilians killed by
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen
and Africa during President Obama’s
seven years in office.
The imprecision is evident in two
ways, and it encourages practical and
philosophical questions about the
drone attacks that play a large role in
America’s war on terrorism.
First, there are the statistics themselves. They’re an insult to the word
“estimate.” According to the administration’s first-ever report of this kind, as
few as 64 and as many as 116 non-combatants have been killed, along with between 2,372 and 2,581 enemy combatants, in 473 unmanned aircraft strikes
aimed at suspected terrorists and their
leaders.
That’s quite a range: 64 to 116.
Americans wouldn’t accept such inexactitude in a calorie count; we certainly
shouldn’t accept it in a casualty count
of apparently innocent people.
And an accurate number of dead civilians may not fall within that range,
given that independent organizations
that keep track of reports of U.S. drone
strikes believe the real toll is as high as
about 800. The website Long War Journal counts 207 civilian deaths in Pakistan and Yemen, the think tank New
America counts 216 in those countries,
and the news organization Bureau of
Investigative Journalism says the range
is 380 to 801.
Second, there’s what the statistics say
about those drone strikes.
Part of the supposed point of using armed drones is that compared to
bombs from manned aircraft, they’re
more accurate at hitting small targets.
Collateral damage is supposed to be
minimized. Civilian deaths should be
few -- the strikes more humane.
But these numbers, especially the
larger private estimates, suggest that
advantage is overstated.
The implications are fodder for critics of President Obama’s stepped-up
use of drones. Maybe that’s why the administration rolled out the numbers on
the Friday before the Fourth of July.
Note that the numbers don’t include
civilian deaths from drone strikes in
Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria. They cover
only places where the U.S. is not engaged in active hostilities.
To his credit, the president issued an
executive order on the day of the data
release making protection of civilians a
priority for military planning. But good
intentions won’t satisfy those who say
drone strikes, controlled by personnel at video screens thousands of miles
away, sanitize the tragedy of civilian casualties.
While Americans debating how to
fight terrorism may disagree on how
many dead foreign civilians is too many,
we shouldn’t ignore the question of
drone-strikes’ big-picture effectiveness.
Do they debilitate the enemy and discourage would-be terrorists? Or does
anger at the killing of civilians drive
more young men and women toward
terrorist recruiters? Isn’t the killing of
civilians what we’re fighting against?
Last month, this editorial board
called on Congress to give the president
authority to use military force against
ISIS. At the same time, the board said
U.S. leaders must clearly delineate our
aims -- as well as limits that keep military and police action within the bounds
of American values.
They can begin to better define the
mission by asking hard questions about
the vague, barely believable data released on July 1 and the drone strategy
itself.
Christie ally guilty, squeezed
airline for route to second home
By MICHAEL CATALINI
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) —
A political mentor of Gov.
Chris Christie who headed
the agency that oversees
New York City-area airports admitted Thursday
that he used his position to
get United Airlines to run
direct flights to South Carolina so that he could easily
visit his vacation home.
David Samson, the Republican governor’s appointee to lead the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, pleaded guilty to a
bribery charge, acknowledging that he schemed with a
lobbyist to delay approvals on a project as a way
of pressuring the airline to
re-launch the money-losing
flight.
The ex-lobbyist, Jamie
Fox, was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery,
but his lawyer said he would
fight the charges. Fox, a
Democrat, went on to work
for Christie as the state’s
transportation commissioner after ending his work for
United.
Samson and Fox “both
should have known better.
They both did know better,”
Reprinted from the Orange County Register
U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman
Distributed by Creators.com
said. “It was an unacceptable abuse of public authority.”
Fishman also announced
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year after United conducted
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of them has been charged
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that it accepted
By Jeanne Phillips
This is in response to the responsibility for certain
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“Pick up the poop” letter in conduct that led to the flight
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I was recently approached
by a neighbor of mine telling
DEAR ABBY: My hus- interest in further contact. me of a resident who resides
on Enfield Drive who has
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By HOLLY RAMER
DEAR ABBY: My hus- been complaining of dog
child. His mom, who was
Associated Press
married, had an affair with a band and I divorced 10 poop in/on the road.
Apparently, this nearby
married man, which result- years ago. There were no
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N.H.
ed in his birth. His mother’s children involved. After neighbor assumes or was
(AP) — Jessie Levine
told
that
it’s
just
my
dog
husband put his name on the divorce, we would ocsmiles and shakes her head
the birth certificate, but casionally get together for doing all the pooping when
when she hears the outgoing
there
are
many
other
dog
as a kid, Pete had contact a meal. It was during those
voicemail message on her
owners
also
walking
their
from time to time with his times that we managed to
iPhone.
dogs
in
this
area
at
all
hours
biological father. Both dads work through our issues
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of
the
day
on
a
daily
basis.
and move forward with our
have since passed away.
fast!” she marvels. “That
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how
can
any
neighPete has known for years separate lives.
person never, ever expected
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that his biological father
to talk like this.”
my
dog?
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had an older son, but he mained in contact occaThe message was recordpoop”
letter
is
misinformed
doesn’t know if the son sionally to say happy birthed before Levine was diagand
farfetched.
knows he exists. Pete now day or update the other on
I live on a cul-de-sac con- nosed with Lou Gehrig’s
thinks he may have found work. We are also friends
sisting
of: Enfield Drive disease, or ALS, in early
his half-brother online and on Facebook, but our conPrescott
Lane and Dana 2015, and before the prowants to reach out to see if tact does not involve disRoad.
This
is a woodsy area gressive motor neuron discussion of love interests,
he wants a relationship.
which is why many neigh- ease caused her speech to
How do we even begin to family, etc.
become slow and slurred.
Eight years ago, I met a bors and distant residents
broach this with the halfBut as her ability to talk dechoose
to
walk
their
dogs
brother? Is it worth it? wonderful man who accepts
teriorates, she’s exploring a
here.
I
myself
don’t
see
the
Could it cause more dam- me for who I am. He also
new way to restore her voice
pooping
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done
on
any
age than good? If you were understands and supports
via speech synthesis, or the
private
property(s).
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far
my husband or his half- the type of contact I have
artificial production of huas
health
walks
go,
I
rarely
brother, would you want to with my ex. My beau and I
man speech.
see
anyone
on
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pursue this? — FAMILY have finally decided to take
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the plunge and be mar- or Dana Road without a
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around for decades, but as
dog
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health
walk.
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devices shrink in size, efabout whether to contact a for letting my ex-husband However, I do see scooters
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and
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can’t see how reaching out ally. Because you are on
based in Edinburgh, ScotKathy
Howard
would be harmful to the speaking terms, call him
Orange land, created a voice for
man. A way to do it would and share the happy news.
the late film critic Roger
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be for Pete to send him an I think he will appreciate
Ebert several years before
On
Jan.
12,
1773,
the
first
email or a letter, explain hearing it straight from
his death in 2013 by mining
who his biological father you, just as you would if the public museum in America
was organized in Charles- commentary tracks he’d rewas and ask if there is any situation were reversed.
corded for movies.
ton, S.C.
Letter to the Editor
‘Love child’ plans approach to
half-brother he never met
enhance its compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption program policies and
procedures.”
A spokesman for Christie
— Fishman’s predecessor
and the leader of presumptive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump’s
transition team — didn’t
return a call or email seeking comment. The governor
has now seen five close allies
or high-level appointments
either be indicted or plead
guilty to federal charges.
Samson, who served as
New Jersey’s attorney general in 2002 and 2003, led
the governor’s transition
team in 2009, and Christie
appointed him to the Port
Authority chairman’s post
in 2011.
Samson admitted that he
conspired with Fox to pressure United to reinstate the
“chairman’s flight” to Columbia, South Carolina, not
far from Samson’s vacation
home in Aiken, by removing
from a board agenda discussion of a hangar that United
wanted at Newark Liberty
International Airport, Fishman said.
Around the same time,
Chicago-based United was
also pressing for concessions from the agency, including rent reductions and
a commuter rail-line extension that would connect the
airport directly to lower
Manhattan.
“I hope they dance to my
tune---let me know if there’s
a way to keep the pressure
on this issue: it will save me
a lot of heartache,” Samson
wrote in one email to Fox
released by prosecutors.
United at first declined to
renew the route because it
was a money loser but then
did because of the pressure,
prosecutors said.
Samson took the flight,
which left Thursday evening
and returned Monday morning, 27 times between Octo-
Technology gives unique voices
to those who can’t speak
But VocaliD, a Belmont,
Massachusetts, company, is
taking a different approach
by creating custom voices
using just a small sample
from the recipient, even if
they can’t speak.
Starting with just a tiny
snippet of someone’s voice
— a few seconds of saying
“Ahhhh” — the company
matches recipients with a
“donor voice” — in Levine’s
case, maybe a relative —
and then blends the two together. The result is a sound
file that can be plugged into
any text-to-speech device.
“I have two sisters, one of
whom has a lisp like I have,
which I had before I had
ALS. The other one, we all
have this stuffiness to our
speech,” said Levine, 45, the
manager of Sullivan County,
New Hampshire. “It never
occurred to me that I could
use their voices, adapt it to
me, and then be able to use
that.”
Company founder and
CEO Rupal Patel is a
speech technology professor on leave from Northeastern University. Her
research found that people
with severe communication
disorders preserve the ability to control aspects of their
voices, such as pitch and
loudness. Those characteristics — what Patel calls the
“melody of speech” — are
also important for speaker
identity, she said.
ber 2011 and January 2014.
United ended the flights
three days after Samson resigned in March 2014 in the
wake of the George Washington Bridge lane closure
scandal that led to criminal
charges against three other
Christie allies.
Samson wasn’t charged
in the bridge investigation,
in which the Christie allies were accused of closing
lanes leading to the bridge
to exact revenge against
a politician. But an email
from a Port Authority official to a Christie aide, both
of whom were later charged,
described Samson “helping
to retaliate” after Port Authority executive director
Patrick Foye ordered the
lanes reopened.
The bridge investigation,
combined with an earlier
audit that called the Port
Authority “challenged and
dysfunctional,” trained a
spotlight on the powerful
agency and eventually led
to questions about Samson’s
interactions with United
Airlines.
“It undermines the already eroded confidence
the public has that government is being operated for
their benefit,” said New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a Democrat who
helped lead an investigative
committee that investigated
the bridge case. “The governor is either a bad judge of
character when it comes to
making high level appointments or is not as forthcoming as he’d like us to
believe.”
Prosecutors will recommend that Samson get a
sentence of probation to 24
months behind bars under
a plea agreement. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 20.
Samson left the courthouse
after posting $100,000 bond
and surrendering his passport.
Fox’s attorney Michael
Critchley said his client
would never jeopardize his
reputation by engaging in illegal behavior and that the
flight discussion was part
of an arrangement that he
thought was appropriate.
———
Associated Press writer
Maryclaire Dale, in Philadelphia, contributed to this
story.
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he said. Herk said he was in
favor of Ashcroft’s request as
long as it does not become a
traffic concern. Town Administrator Diana
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can still make use of the river
in any way. Ashcroft replied
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like the ability to hop off the
boards into the river. He said
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the increased risk of someone
landing on debris that might
be on the shallow river bottom. Schindler said that the
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in town advertising the move
of Peak North America’s
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unanimous approval and to
make things legal, agreed to
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received the necessary permits from the state. Appointment
The board voted 2-0 to appoint Tom Forest to the planning board. Forest was not
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Reinig has stated in the past
that she feels the individual
seeking appointment should
come before the board. She
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Ukraine.
Some people tried to escape
into the water when they saw
the careening truck, according
to Eric Ciotti, a lawmaker who
represents Nice.
“A person jumped onto the
truck to try to stop it,” Ciotti
told Europe 1 radio. “It’s at
that moment that the police
were able to neutralize this
terrorist. I won’t forget the
look of this policewoman who
intercepted the killer.”
Flags were lowered to halfstaff in Nice, Paris, Brussels
and many capitals across Europe. Hollande announced a
three-month extension to the
state of emergency imposed
after the Nov. 13 attacks on
Paris that killed 130 victims
and the government declared
three days of national mourning to begin Saturday.
Estrosi said some of the
city’s 1,200 security cameras
had pinpointed the moment
the attacker boarded the
truck, far from the seaside “in
the hills of Nice” and could
follow his path to the promenade. Estrosi called for the
investigation to focus on any
accomplices.
“Attacks aren’t prepared
alone. Attacks are prepared
with accomplices,” Estrosi
said. “There is a chain of complicity. I expect it to be un-
stated that she had hoped to
address a concern that there
is not a broad enough representation of residents on the
planning board. Selectman Richard Sheridan is also the chair of the
planning board and said that
Forest has been to the last two
planning board meetings and
that board fully endorses his
appointment. “He was the superintendent for cemeteries for a hundred years,” said Herk. “Over 30 years,” corrected
Sheridan, adding that Forest’s
tenure working for the town
was one for the longest ever
seen. Regarding Reinig’s concern, Herk said “He’s a lot
mote broad than Richard.”
Sheridan added that he and
Forest do not often agree on
things. Sheridan also noted
that Forest is one of the few
town volunteers who has tak- FLOWERS LAID — People stand by flowers laid
near the scene where a truck mowed through revelen a land law course. From Page 1
Orleans, La.
“The wind competition
was the best experience of
my college years. It taught us
the importance of teamwork,
communication and meeting
quality standards and deadlines, things you don’t normally get to do inside a classroom,” said Team WindHawk
member Christian Bain of
Reading, who plans to pursue
a career in the renewable energy sector.
Team WindHawk designed
two types of wind-energy systems that could be used by
the Army. The first consists
of an inflatable kite with dual
wing-mounted turbines that
could produce up to 6 kilowatts of electrical power. The
kite, which measures 13 feet
wide, would be tethered to the
ground with a 1,640-foot-long
cable and could be deployed
or stowed in less than a halfhour. The second system is a
network of ground turbines
with a combined output of 4
kilowatts of electricity. Each
ground turbine would be
mounted on a lightweight,
portable truss tower.
The students received guidance from UMass Lowell
faculty and researchers from
the Natick Soldier Research,
be destabilized.”
Hollande and Valls rushed
to Nice, 690 kilometers (490
miles) south of Paris, to offer
their condolences after the
emergency meeting. They visited wounded people in two
hospitals, including a facility
where officials said they had
treated about 50 children and
teenagers for a wide range of
injuries.
Hollande told reporters Friday that about 50 people were
still “between life and death”
after the attack.
Politicians said the truck
knocked over and crushed
pedestrians over a distance of
two kilometers (1 ¼ miles).
Broadcast footage showed a
scene of horror along Nice’s
famous promenade, with
broken bodies splayed on the
asphalt, some piled near one
another, others bleeding onto
the roadway or twisted into
unnatural shapes.
The regional president,
Christian Estrosi, told BFM
TV that “the driver fired on
the crowd, according to the
police who killed him.” He
said more than 10 children
were among the dead, which
also included two Americans, Moroccans and Armenians and one person each
from Russia, Switzerland and
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Development and Engineering Center, who work together through the Harnessing
Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers
(HEROES) initiative. The
partnership seeks to improve
the performance and protection of U.S. troops.
The team also benefited
from the expertise of UMass
Lowell faculty and researchers involved in the university’s Center for Wind Energy
and the WindSTAR Industry/University Cooperative
Research Center. These national ventures are working
to advance the science behind
wind-turbine systems and the
wind-energy industry overall. “Our students as a team
really excelled in integrating
the technical aspects of the
project with the business plan
and presented them successfully to the judges,” said team
adviser Christopher Hansen,
an assistant professor in
UMass Lowell’s Mechanical Engineering Department
who works in WindSTAR and
the Center for Wind Energy.
Other faculty advisers included Prof. Christopher
Niezrecki,
chairman
of
UMass Lowell’s Mechanical
Engineering
Department;
Mechanical Engineering Associate Prof. David Willis;
Plastics Engineering Associate Prof. Stephen Johnston;
Michael Darish, a faculty
member in the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department; and Tom
O’Donnell, director of UMass
Lowell’s Innovation Hub and
a visiting professor of management and entrepreneurship. Offering technical advice to the team along the way
were Army Capt. Christopher
O’Brien and advisers from
Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering
Center and Fort Belvoir in
Virginia.
Guidance and sample materials for designing the inflatable kite were provided by
Federal-Fabrics-Fibers Inc.
(3F) of Lowell.
The students developed
their project in UMass Lowell’s College of Engineering
Makerspace, which offers
both space and technology to
promote collaboration in engineering and other sciences,
3D printers, stations for electronics and machining, whiteboards and conference areas.
Meunier is majoring in
business administration.
ers in Nice, southern France on Friday. A large truck
mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day
fireworks in Nice, killing more than 80 people and
sending people fleeing into the sea as it bore down
for more than a mile along the Riviera city’s famed
waterfront promenade. AP Photo/Francois Mori
Reaction
dates also condemned the attacks, with Republican Donald Trump declaring “this is
war” and Democrat Hillary
Clinton vowing “we will not
be intimidated.”
Clinton said “every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France,
and we say with one voice: We
will not be intimidated. We
will never allow terrorists to
undermine the egalitarian
and democratic values that
underpin our very way of
life.”
Trump, who postponed
plans to announce his vice
presidential pick because of
the attack, said “this is war. If
you look at it, this is war coming from all different parts.”
———
BRITAIN
British Prime Minister
Theresa May is calling for
nations to “redouble” efforts
to defeat violent extremists
following the attack in Nice.
She called the attack “horrifying” and said Britain will
stand with France in its time
of mourning.
“We must redouble our efforts to defeat these brutal
murderers who want to destroy our way of life,” the new
prime minister said Friday.
———
GERMANY
Chancellor Angela Merkel
pledged
solidarity
with
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renting the space for roller
skating not adhering to their
part of the rental agreement
regarding the upkeep of the
building. The total damage caused
by the vandalism is estimated to cost around $15,000,
which the town will seek
as restitution through the
court system. Likewise,
Schindler will also contact
the town’s insurance provider about filing a claim for
the vandalism. Because of their age, the
alleged vandals’ names are
not being release but Anderson confirmed them to
all be male, and that they
were two 14-year-olds and
two 13-year-olds from Orange, and one was a 14-yearold from New Salem.
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France in the aftermath of
the attack, saying “Germany
stands at France’s side in the
fight against terrorism.”
Speaking on the sidelines
of a summit in Mongolia,
Merkel added: “I am completely convinced that we will
win this fight despite all difficulties.”
On a state visit to Uruguay,
German President Joachim
Gauck said Friday that “the
14th of July, the day when
France celebrates its national
day, represents the values of
the French Revolution, which
are our values as well.”
“An attack on France,
therefore, is an attack on the
entire free world,” he said.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry flew the French flag in
solidarity with its neighbor,
and flags on all public buildings were ordered flown at
half-staff.
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ITALY
Italian Premier Matteo
Renzi says a response to the
Nice attacks is a “moral duty”
and is vowing not to leave
Italy’s neighbor alone. In a
Facebook post, Renzi said the
pain of the attacks was made
worse because so many children were killed and maimed
on France’s national holiday.
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France has lived with soldiers in the streets since the
Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, and
much of the country experienced increased security during the monthlong European
football championship that
concluded July 10.
Damien Allemand, a journalist for the Nice-Matin
newspaper who was at the
waterside, said the fireworks
display had finished and the
crowd had got up to leave
when they heard a noise and
cries.
“A fraction of a second later, an enormous white truck
came along at a crazy speed,
turning the wheel to mow
down the maximum number
of people,” he wrote in an online account. “I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its
route. Heard noises, cries that
I will never forget.”
On video, one person could
be heard yelling, “Help my
mother, please!” A pink girl’s
bicycle was overturned by the
side of the road.
Hollande said, despite the
attack, France would bolster
its presence in Iraq and Syria,
where he said earlier that
military advisers would be on
the ground to help Iraqis take
back the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul.
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Lefty on top: Mickelson
maintains lead at Troon
By PAUL NEWBERRY
AP National Writer
TROON, Scotland (AP) — On
a rainy day at Royal Troon, Phil
Mickelson finally ran into a bit of
trouble.
He still managed to stay out front
in the British Open.
After coming within a lipped-out
putt of a major championship scoring record in the opening round,
Mickelson had to scramble a bit to
escape with a 2-under 69 on Friday.
He was at 10-under 132 midway
through the tournament, heading
to the weekend with a shot at becoming the oldest Open champion
since Old Tom Morris in 1867.
Mickelson turned 46 last month.
Morris was 46 years and 102 days
old when he triumphed at nearby
Prestwick 149 years ago.
Making the turn at the far end of
the course, Mickelson was 3 under
for the round, five shots clear of
the field and looked on the verge
of blowing it open. He nearly made
a hole-in-one at No. 8 — the famed
“Postage Stamp” hole — his ball
rolling right up to the edge of the
cup for a tap-in birdie, roughly the
length of a postage stamp.
But, with the rain coming down
harder, the inward nine was tougher on Mickelson. He narrowly
missed a gorse bush at No. 12 and
took his first bogey of the tournament. He made another at the
15th after driving into the rough
and coming up 40 yards short of
the green with his approach. He
could’ve had a third bogey at the
par-3 17th after dumping his tee
shot into a deep bunker, but a brilliant sand wedge to 2 feet allowed
him to save par.
It was a far cry from Thursday,
when Mickelson didn’t come close
to making bogey on his way to a
record-tying 63. He could’ve been
the first player to shoot 62 in a major championship, but a 16-foot
birdie putt at the final hole lipped
out, sending Mickelson’s caddie
tumbling to the ground and Lefty
grabbing his head in disbelief.
As Mickelson headed to the
clubhouse to dry off, Henrik Stenson was his closest challenger. The
Swede, looking to give his country
its first major championship by
a male golfer, turned in the best
round of the morning starters with
a 65 to close within one shot of the
lead.
It was Stenson’s best round ever
at the Open in his 12th appearance.
Mickelson already has five major
titles, the most recent coming at
the 2013 British Open.
Having already won the claret
jug, he is more relaxed going into
the weekend.
“It’s a lot easier having already
held it,” Mickelson said. “Winning
the Open was the greatest challenge of my career, and I’ve already done it. I would love nothing
more than to add another one. But
knowing I’ve already done it takes
the pressure off.”
Mickelson was the eighth player
to open a major with a 63. He became only the third to break par in
the next round.
Among the other early finishers,
Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark was
three shots off the lead after a 68,
while defending Open champion
Zach Johnson was in the mix again
with a 70 that left him five shots behind.
AP Source: Broncos now offering
$70M guaranteed to Von Miller
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Pro Football Writer
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) —
The Denver Broncos have upped
their offer to Von Miller by offering to guarantee the Super Bowl
MVP a record $70 million of the
six-year deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The
Associated Press.
The person spoke to the AP on
condition of anonymity to share
candid details of the blockbuster
offer that also was reported by
ESPN and the NFL Network.
The sides have until 4 p.m. EDT
Friday to get a signed deal into
NFL headquarters.
Miller’s agent, Joby Branion,
and the Broncos agreed to the parameters of a six-year, $114.5 million deal last month but Miller’s
camp held out for more guaranteed money.
The June offer included $38.5
million in guarantees over the first
two years, another $1.3 million in
workout bonuses, plus the chance
to earn another $19.5 million in
guaranteed money in 2018.
General manager John Elway
reignited talks last week when he
offered to move up guaranteed
money in Year 3 to next March.
This week, he upped the overall
guaranteed money.
Elway’s offer now far surpasses
the $63 million in guarantees that
Philadelphia’s Fletcher Cox received last month and represents
the most money ever offered a
non-quarterback in the NFL.
The latest proposal checks off
all the boxes for Miller — the biggest overall contract for a non-QB
in league history, most guaranteed
money for an NFL defensive play-
er and a benchmark deal that raises the bar for the next superstar.
Franchise players have to sign
long-term deals by 4 p.m. EDT
Friday. Without a signed contract
delivered to NFL headquarters by
the deadline, they would only be
allowed to play the 2016 season
for their tender, $14,129,000 in
Miller’s case.
That’s something Miller has insisted he won’t do. Last month, he
threatened to sit out the season
absent a blockbuster deal.
The star of Super Bowl 50
skipped the Broncos’ offseason
program, only joining his teammates for their White House visit
and ring ceremony. But Miller
stayed in tip-top shape, in part by
participating in “Dancing With
The Stars.”
Miller predicted peaceful contract negotiations 12 hours after
spearheading Denver’s 24-10 win
over Carolina in the Super Bowl
when his two sack-strips of Cam
Newton led to both of Denver’s
touchdowns. But things got thorny
last month. After details of Denver’s June 7 offer became public,
Miller cropped Elway from a photo on his Instagram account and
then said there was no way he’d
play this season on the franchise
tag.
As negotiations reignited, Miller’s teammates expressed confidence things would work out.
“I think it will happen because
me and Elway went down to the
wire last year,” said receiver Demaryius Thomas, who signed a
$70 million deadline deal (including $43.5 million guaranteed) in
2015 with only about 30 minutes
to spare.
Tour de France to continue as
planned after attack in Nice
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN
AP Sports Writer
LA CAVERNE DU PONTD’ARC, France (AP) — The Tour
de France rode on as planned Friday, with thousands of fans lining
the roads and amid reinforced security a day after the deadly attack
in Nice.
France was reeling again after
a large truck mowed through a
crowd of revelers gathered for a
Bastille Day fireworks display in
the Riviera city of Nice, killing at
least 84 people on Thursday night.
The attack, on France’s national
holiday, followed attacks last November in Paris that killed 130.
But the carnage did not deter
fans from showing up in numbers
at the starting line in the small
town of Bourg-Saint-Andeol.
“We can’t let our guard down,
but it was important that they
continued the race,” said Bruno
Pruvost, a 56-year-old fan. “Otherwise, it would be too easy for
them.”
Defending champion Chris
Froome, the race’s current leader,
posted a picture of the blue, white
and red French flag on Twitter on
Friday and wrote: “Thoughts are
with those affected by the horrific
terror attack in Nice.”
Froome was scheduled to compete in the race’s first time trial
later Friday after organizers decided the hilly 37.5-kilometer (23mile) leg to La Caverne du PontD’Arc in the Ardeche region will
go ahead following an emergency
meeting with authorities.
There was a moment of silence
at the start, several hours drive
from Nice, and Tour director
Christian Prudhomme said there
will be a ceremony with a minute’s
silence at the finish as a tribute to
the victims.
“Today, we want to pay homage to the victims with dignity,”
said Prudhomme, wearing a black
armband around his blue shirt and
holding back tears. “We have been
asking ourselves if the race should
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STILL ROLLING — Phil Mickelson of the United States smiles as he walks off the 18th green
after completing his second round of the British Open Golf Championships at the Royal Troon
Golf Club in Troon, Scotland, Friday.
AP Photo/Ben Curtis
Red Sox acquire Pomeranz from Padres
By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston
Red Sox acquired All-Star Drew
Pomeranz from the San Diego Padres on Thursday night, adding a
third left-hander to the rotation as
they push to return to the playoffs
after consecutive last-place finishes.
Boston sent righty Anderson Espinoza to San Diego. The
18-year-old righty was ranked the
No. 15 prospect in the country by
Baseball America.
“We think (Pomeranz) makes
us better now,” president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski
said in a conference call with reporters. “We know there’s a sacrifice for the future.”
Pomeranz, 27, who will make his
Boston debut Wednesday, is 8-7
with a 2.47 ERA in 17 starts for
San Diego this season. He pitched
a scoreless inning in Tuesday night
in the All-Star game.
“He’s not an easy guy to deal,”
Padres general manager A.J. Preller said. “Any time you have a lefthanded starter who performs the
way he has, resulting in an All-Star
berth, you have to feel very good
about the return that you’re getting.
“I think it says a lot to Espinoza
as far as what our guys thought
about him. From that standpoint,
we looked at it that it’s something
where we’re getting a premium
guy.”
Pomeranz joins fellow lefties
David Price and Eduardo Rodriguez in a Boston rotation that includes Rick Porcello and AL ERA
leader Steven Wright. Except for
Wright, all have been inconsistent
this season, and injuries to closer
Craig Kimbrel and setup man Junichi Tazawa threatened to further
strain the rotation.
“There are only a couple of
pitchers we thought had a chance
to be available that we thought
would give us an upgrade on our
pitching staff,” Dombrowski said.
It’s the fourth trade in a week
for Dombrowski, who also made a
big splash in the offseason by sign-
Pomeranz Page 7
NEW ADDITION — National League’s Drew Pomeranz, of the
San Diego Padres, throws during the fourth inning of the MLB
baseball All-Star Game, Tuesday, in San Diego. Pomeranz was
traded to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for top prospect Anderson Espinoza on Wednesday.
AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi
Earnhardt scratched with concussion symptoms
in the race car when the doctors
say I’m ready,” Earnhardt said.
Earnhardt Jr. at least twice in
his career hid concussion symptoms to avoid being removed from
his car. In 2012, he sought medical
attention several days after a crash
at Talladega because of symptoms
he knew were concussion-related.
During that examination, it was
determined he’d suffered two concussions in six weeks and was sidelined for two weeks of healing.
NASCAR required the next
year for drivers to submit a baseline neurocognitive assessment.
When a driver in NASCAR can’t
return his damaged car to the garage, a trip to the care center is
required, and under a new threestep process, if a driver shows any
indication of a head injury they go
immediately to a hospital. Concussed drivers must be cleared
by a neurologist or neurosurgeon
before they can get back in a race
car.
The 41-year-old Earnhardt is
winless this season and 13th in the
points standings. Because he will
not start every race, Earnhardt
will need a waiver from NASCAR
to compete in the Chase for the
Sprint Cup championship, if he’s
meets other eligibility requireSCRATCHED — Dale Earnhardt Jr. waits by his car before the ments.
start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona In- Hendrick Motorsports will proternational Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Earnhardt will miss vide an update next week on EarnLOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Dale
Earnhardt Jr. has dropped out
of the Sprint Cup race Sunday at
New Hampshire Motor Speedway
because of symptoms of a concussion.
Earnhardt was evaluated in
Charlotte, North Carolina, this
week and doctors did not clear
him to race. Hendrick Motorsports said Thursday it had no
timetable for his return.
Alex Bowman will drive in his
place.
NASCAR’s most popular driver,
Earnhardt was involved in a 22-car
wreck in Daytona this month and
also wrecked last month at Michigan International Speedway. He
says he was feeling fine last week
and thought the problem was allergies. When that didn’t help, he
met with a neurologist.
Earlier this year, Earnhardt
pledged his brain to researchers
looking into the connection between concussions and traumatic
brain injuries.
“I’m looking forward to treatment with the goal of getting back
Sunday’s race in New Hampshire with concussion symptoms.
AP Photo/John Raoux
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Training clinic owner sues MLB, alleging illegal hacking
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of a training and sports medicine clinic sued Major League
Baseball and several of its employees Thursday, claiming they
caused the company’s social media accounts to be illegally hacked
during the sport’s Biogenesis investigation.
Neiman Nix, a 29th-round draft
pick of the Cincinnati Reds in
1998, and his DNA Sports Performance Lab, claimed an MLB
investigator misrepresented herself as law enforcement and MLB
intimidated the company’s clients
and hacked accounts on YouTube,
Facebook and PayPal. The allegations are similar to those filed in
a suit two years ago that was dismissed.
Vincent White, Nix’s new lawyer, said former MLB investigator
Ed Dominguez is cooperating and
will testify MLB employees “illegally gained access to electronic
accounts of individuals they investigated through various exploits
and phishing schemes. We believe
these tactics may have extended to
players, team staff and ownership
groups.”
The suit admits Nix and his company used Bioidentical Insulin like
Growth Factor (IGF-1), which is
derived from elk antlers and is on
baseball’s list of banned substances.
MLB called the suit “frivolous.”
“Mr. White’s purported source
for this lawsuit is a disgruntled
former MLB employee who was
terminated for cause,” it said in a
statement. “Mr. White has been
threatening to file this lawsuit for
months in an attempt to coerce
MLB into paying his client. MLB
considers the allegations in this
lawsuit, including the allegations
relating to the hacking of DNA
Sport Lab’s social media accounts,
to be sanctionable under New
York law.”
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Baseball Expanded Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division
W
Baltimore 51
Boston
49
Toronto
51
New York
44
Tampa Bay 34
Central Division
W
Cleveland 52
Detroit
46
Kansas City 45
Chicago
45
Minnesota 32
West Division
W
Texas
54
Houston
48
Seattle
45
Oakland
38
Los Angeles 37
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East Division
W
Washington 54
New York
47
Miami
47
Philadelphia42
Atlanta
31
Central Division
W
Chicago
53
St. Louis
46
Pittsburgh 46
Milwaukee 38
Cincinnati 32
West Division
W
San Francisco57
Los Angeles 51
Colorado 40
San Diego
38
Arizona
38
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40.560 2 —
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54 .386 17½ 15½
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7-3
8-2
5-5
1-9
Str Home Away
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W-4 30-20 19-18
W-1 27-20 24-20
W-2 23-18 21-26
L-6 18-28 16-26
L Pct
36.591
43.517
43 .511
43.511
56.364
GBWCGB
— —
6½
4
7
4½
7 4½
20 17½
L10
4-6
5-5
3-7
6-4
7-3
Str Home Away
L-2 26-16 26-20
L-1 23-16 23-27
L-1 29-13 16-30
L-1 24-22 21-21
W-2 19-27 13-29
L Pct GBWCGB
36.600 — —
41.539 5½
2
44.506 8½
5
51 .42715½ 12
52 .416 16½
13
L10
3-7
6-4
5-5
3-7
5-5
Str Home Away
L-2 29-15 25-21
W-1 28-19 20-22
W-1 22-20 23-24
L-1 17-26 21-25
L-2 16-26 21-26
L Pct GBWCGB
36.600 — —
41 .534
6
—
41.534 6 —
48.467 12
6
58 .34822½ 16½
L10
6-4
6-4
6-4
7-3
4-6
Str Home Away
W-3 27-15 27-21
L-3 26-20 21-21
W-3 24-19 23-22
W-1 21-23 21-25
W-1 13-34 18-24
L Pct GBWCGB
35.602 — —
42 .523
7
1
43.517 7½ 1½
49 .43714½ 8½
57 .36021½ 15½
L10
2-8
6-4
8-2
3-7
3-7
Str Home Away
W-1 26-14 27-21
W-2 19-26 27-16
L-1 24-20 22-23
L-2 23-22 15-27
L-3 18-25 14-32
L Pct GBWCGB L10 Str Home Away
33 .633 —
— 8-2 W-4 29-17 28-16
40 .560 6½
— 7-3 W-3 30-18 21-22
48.455 16
7 3-7 L-1 20-22 20-26
51 .427 18½
9½ 5-5 L-3 20-25 18-26
52.422 19 10 2-8 L-4 15-32 23-20
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Texas (Perez 7-5) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-6), 2:20 p.m.
Boston (Rodriguez 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-8), 7:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Gallardo 3-1) at Tampa Bay (Archer 4-12), 7:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Kennedy 6-7) at Detroit (Verlander 8-6), 7:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Carrasco 5-3) at Minnesota (Santana 3-7), 8:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 2-4) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 6-4), 10:05 p.m.
Toronto (Stroman 7-4) at Oakland (Mengden 1-4), 10:05 p.m.
Houston (Fister 8-6) at Seattle (Paxton 2-3), 10:10 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Texas (Darvish 2-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 7-5), 2:20 p.m.
Boston (Rodriguez 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-6), 4:05 p.m.
Toronto at Oakland (Gray 3-8), 4:05 p.m.
Houston (McCullers 4-3) at Seattle (Iwakuma 9-6), 4:10 p.m.
Baltimore (Tillman 12-2) at Tampa Bay (Moore 5-6), 6:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Bauer 7-3) at Minnesota (Duffey 5-6), 7:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Duffy 4-1) at Detroit (Pelfrey 2-8), 7:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Shields 4-10) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 4-9), 9:05 p.m.
Marcos Baghdatis advances
to Hall of Fame semifinals
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)
— Fourth-seeded Marcos
Baghdatis of Cyprus beat
seventh-seeded Dudi Sela of
Israel 6-2, 7-5 on Thursday
to advance to the semifinals
in the Hall of Fame Tennis
Championships.
Third-seeded Gilles Muller
of Luxembourg and sixthseeded Adrian Mannarino
of France reached the quarterfinals. Muller topped Victor Estrella Burgos of the
Dominican Republic 7-6 (7),
6-4, and Mannarino rallied to
edge Australia’s Sam Groth
7-6 (6), 6-3.
The 31-year-old Baghdatis kissed the court when the
match ended after giving a
long embrace at the net to
longtime friend Sela. The
Cypriot is seeking his fifth career ATP title.
“We know each other from
a very young age,” Baghdatis
said. “A lot of emotions.”
Playing on the stadium
court two days after calling a
side court “ridiculously bad,”
the 28-year-old Mannarino
lost the first three games of
the opening set and fell behind 5-1 before rallying on
Newport’s grass courts.
The tournament is held on
the grounds of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Marat Safin and Justine
Henin head the 2016 class
that’s set to be enshrined during a center-court ceremony
Saturday.
Play was delayed for nearly three hours by rain after
Mannarino won the first set.
Second-seeded Ivo Karlovic of Croatia, a finalist in
Newport the last two year,
had his quarterfinal match
against Switzerland’s Marco
Chiudinelli postponed until
Friday.
Mannarino said that playing inside the stadium helped
him relax.
“For sure, I know that the
stadium court is much better
than the other court,” he said.
“I knew that today was going
to be some real tennis on the
court. That’s pretty important
to me.”
Tour
continue and after consulting with authorities we have
decided that it should. The
Tour de France will continue in a subdued and solemn
manner.”
The publicity caravan,
which precedes the riders
on the stage route everyday
handing out free gifts and
souvenirs and blasting loud
music, rode silently Friday.
Security had already been
reinforced at the Tour this
year, with France in a state
of emergency since the
Paris attacks. The threeweek race is protected by
an unprecedented force of
23,000 police officers, including SWAT-like intervention squads, while security
guards perform bag checks
and pat downs at the start
and finish of every stage.
Eric Luzet, the police’s
liaison officer to the Tour,
told The Associated Press
that extra security measures
were implemented overnight, with 600 police officers in charge of security for
the stage.
“We have adjusted our
measures after what happened in Nice,” Luzet said.
“They have been deployed
at the start and finish of the
stage, and along the 37.5-kilometer of the route.”
Bauke Mollema, who
was involved in a crash with
Froome inside the last kilometer of Thursday’s Stage
12 at Mont Ventoux when
US men still team to beat at Olympics
By BRIAN MAHONEY
AP Basketball Writer
A weakened U.S. basketball team believes it’s still the
strongest one in the Olympics.
LeBron James, Stephen
Curry and enough stars to fill
an All-NBA team passed on
playing, leaving the Americans with a roster that falls
short against the Dream
Team comparisons they always face.
But the U.S. doesn’t need
to beat the Dream Team, or
to be one. It just has to be the
best in Brazil.
“I respect the guys that declined the opportunity, but
I think we still have a great
team here, a lot of talent,”
center DeMarcus Cousins
said. “We still have the same
goal in mind, winning the
gold medal.”
The Americans remain
favored to do that, which
would give them three in a
row. Some things to watch as
they try:
THE U.S. ROSTER
While they’re not the
Dream Team, the U.S. squad
in Rio is still an impressive
group of players. The team
includes: Golden State’s
Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green;
New York’s Carmelo An-
By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Basketball Writer
No team has been more
dominant at the Olympics
over the past 20 years than
the U.S. women’s basketball
team, winning five straight
gold medals.
They’ll try and keep that
streak going in Rio.
“Training time is always
our biggest challenge,” said
three-time gold medalist
Sue Bird. “When you get
to the medal rounds it’s
one and done, but we have
a lot of experience in those
games and look to continue
our recent success.”
The Americans have
won 41 consecutive Olympic contests dating back to
the bronze medal game in
1992, winning by an average
of nearly 30 points a game.
With nine players, including Bird, Diana Taurasi and
Tamika Catchings, returning
from the London Games,
the U.S. is a heavy favorite
to win another gold medal.
Olympic newcomers Elena Delle Donne, Brittney
Griner and Breanna Stewart will add a dynamic mix
to the veteran core.
The only potential thorn
for the U.S. is lack of training time. While most other countries get to spend
months together preparing,
the U.S. will get about two
weeks before its first game.
“I’m hoping that they remember some of the stuff
that we did last year at the
World Championship and
a couple years ago at the
celebrating, loving each other,” he posted on social media. “And never giving up.
I’m thinking about Nice.”
After 71 riders reached
the finish, Portuguese national champion Nelson
Oliveira had an early best
time of 51 minute, 46 seconds. Froome will be the
last starter as he wears the
yellow jersey with a 47-second lead over Adam Yates.
Edward Theuns, a Belgian rider with the TrekSegafredo team, dropped
out of the race after a crash
and was taken to the hospital while French competitor
Thibaut Pinot did not start
after catching a cold in the
Pyrenees.
Pomeranz
ing Price to a seven-year,
$217 million free-agent contract. The Red Sox acquired
third baseman Aaron Hill
from Milwaukee, second
baseman Michael Martinez
from Cleveland and righty
Brad Ziegler over the last
seven days without giving up
any major leaguers.
They have also managed
to hang onto most of their
top prospects. Espinoza was
5-8 with a 4.38 ERA in 17
starts for Single-A Greenville this season.
He was ranked as the No.
3 prospect in the Red Sox
system and the No. 4 pitching prospect in the country, according to Baseball
6, the day after the opening
ceremony, and the medal
games are Aug. 21, the day
of the closing ceremony.
ROLLING INTO RIO
The U.S. has won 63
straight games, 45 in FIBA
competitions and 18 in exhibition play.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Carmelo Anthony will
become the first U.S. men’s
player to appear in four
Olympics, and become the
most decorated men’s basketball Olympian ever if the
U.S. wins a medal. He has a
bronze from 2004 and golds
in Beijing and London.
THIRD TIME THE CHARM?
Spain sure hopes this is the
year it can break through,
after pushing the U.S. deep
into the final minutes of the
last two gold-medal games.
The Americans emerged
with a 118-107 victory in
2008 and held on to win 107100 in London. The Spanish
bring back veterans such as
Pau Gasol, Jose Calderon
and Juan Carlos Navarro for
a final shot.
GOODBYE, GOLDEN GENERATION
This certainly seems like
the end for Argentina’s
greats, who won gold in 2004,
bronze in 2008 and narrowly
missed another medal when
they finished fourth in 2012.
Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola
and Andres Nocioni are
back, with Scola chosen as
Argentina’s flag bearer.
BEST FIRST-ROUND DAY
Group B has some intriguing games on Aug. 13. Spain
meets Lithuania in a rematch of the 2015 EuroBasket championship game, and
Brazil and Argentina renew
a fierce rivalry that’s seen
one knock the other out of
the last three major international tournaments. Argentina eliminated Brazil in the
2010 world championship
and 2012 Olympics, while
the Brazilians — coached by
Ruben Magnano, who led
Argentina to its 2004 gold —
ended the Argentinians’ stay
in the 2014 Basketball World
Cup. Croatia and Nigeria
meet in the nightcap.
MEN IN THE MIDDLE
Spain is keeping Marc Gasol on its roster for now and
Australia is doing the same
with Andrew Bogut, hoping
their centers can return from
injuries during the NBA
season. France has added
Utah’s Rudy Gobert to its
Rio roster after his recovery
from injuries kept him out
of the Olympic Qualifying
Tournament it won in early
July.
Olympics and maybe February at that little training
camp that we had,” U.S.
coach Geno Auriemma
said. “Fortunately, they’re
a lot of the same players
that played. So we haven’t
changed a whole lot. But
there’s not much time and
there’s not much that you
can do to get ready. You just
have to trust that they’re ...
They never let you down.
They always seem to respond when you need them
to.”
The U.S. is in a difficult
group with Serbia, China,
Canada, Spain and Senegal.
“Obviously we’re in a
tough group,” Auriemma
added. “Because anytime
you have the European
champions like Serbia already in the group and Canada, the Americas champion, those are two really
good teams. And then you
add in China and Spain.”
Here are a few other
things to watch for in women’s basketball at the Olympics:
A LITTLE REVENGE
The U.S. is also out for a
little bit of revenge. The last
time they played in Brazil at
the 2006 World Championship, they lost to Russia in
the semifinals. It was their
only defeat in either the
Olympics or worlds since
1992.
“I hadn’t thought about
that until you brought it
up,” Bird said laughing.
“The fans down there definitely know their basketball
and like rooting against us.
As the deficit against Russia
grew, the cheers started getting louder for them.”
MEDAL CONTENDERS
While the gold medal is
most likely a foregone conclusion, the other two spots
on the podium are up for
grabs. France was the silver
medalists in 2012 and Australia has won either a silver
or bronze at every Olympics
since 1996. Other candidates for a medal could be
Serbia, which won the European championship, and
Canada.
US women look to win sixth consecutive basketball gold
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a TV motorbike was forced
to stop on the road because
of fans congestion, said his
“thoughts are with the people in Nice.”
Froome was awarded the
same time as Mollema after
he was forced to wait for a
replacement bike following
the incident, a decision that
left Mollema unhappy. But
the Dutch rider put his rivalry with Froome aside.
“I couldn’t sleep yet and
now read about something
more important than the
Tour,” Mollema wrote on
Twitter. “ ... crazy world.”
French climber Romain
Bardet also expressed sadness over the attack.
“Being French, gathering,
thony; Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving; Toronto’s Kyle Lowry
and DeMar DeRozan; Indiana’s Paul George; Dallas’
Harrison Barnes; Chicago’s
Jimmy Butler; Sacramento’s
DeMarcus Cousins and the
Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan.
THE FORMAT
Two six-team groups. Each
team faces the others in its
pool, and the top four teams
in each advance to the quarterfinals.
Group A features the U.S.,
Serbia, France, China, Australia, and Venezuela.
Group B is Spain, Lithuania, Brazil, Argentina, Croatia and Nigeria.
WHICH GROUP IS TOUGHER?
Group A is more topheavy, with the U.S., Serbia
and France finishing 1-2-3
in the Basketball World Cup
two years ago. But Group B
appears to be deeper, with
Spain (No. 2), Lithuania (3),
Argentina (4), Brazil (9) and
Croatia (12) all among the
top dozen ranked teams in
the world.
GRAB A SEAT, THIS WILL BE A
WHILE
The Olympic basketball
tournament runs nearly the
entire length of the Games,
making the first round of the
NBA playoffs seem speedy.
Competition begins Aug.
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America.
“He’s a youngster that we
liked a great deal,” Dombrowski said. “He was a few
years away from the major
leagues. Not somebody that
we wanted to give up.”
Preller, who traded Kimbrel to Boston over the offseason, has now traded two
All-Stars in two weeks; he
sent closer Fernando Rodney to Miami on June 30.
Pomeranz is under Boston’s
control through 2018.
To make room for Pomeranz on Boston’s 40-man roster, infielder Josh Rutledge
was transferred to the 60day disabled list. He has left
knee tendinitis.
Lawsuit
Nix and his lab sued MLB,
Major League Baseball
Properties, Major League
Baseball Enterprises, then
Commissioner Bud Selig
and MLB investigator Awilda Santana on Feb. 18, 2014,
in Florida state court, alleging defamation, slander and
tortious interference. MLB
senior vice president of investigations Dan Mullin and
senior director of investigations George Hanna also
were defendants.
The case was dismissed
that Nov. 6 by Circuit Judge
John W. Thornton, who said
the plaintiffs and their lawyers never served the suit on
the defendants and failed to
show up for scheduled case
management conferences.
Thornton wrote “this
court’s patience is at an end”
and then added, referring to
the time it took for the case:
“TWO HUNDRED SIXTY
ONE (261) to perfect service in this case. At no times
has a summons in this case
ever been issued.” He also
said the plaintiffs and their
lawyers failed to show up for
scheduled case management
conferences.
“At that time the case
wasn’t ripe,” White said.
“Frankly, the cooperation
of the investigators we have
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today makes or breaks this
matter.”
The new suit, filed in U.S.
District Court in Manhattan, claims tortious interference under Florida and New
York law and lists MLB,
Selig, new commissioner
Rob Manfred and Santana
as defendants along with
MLB vice president of information security Neil Boland.
Mullin and Hannah were
terminated by MLB two
years ago.
White did not identify
others in addition to Domin-
guez who were cooperating.
“Mr. Dominguez is the
most outspoken but we expect other investigators,
based on our communications with them, to also be
testifying,” he said.
White also represents
former Mets closer Jenrry
Mejia, who was banned for
life in February following his
third positive drug test.
The Biogenesis investigation led to the suspensions
of more than a dozen players, including Yankees star
Alex Rodriguez.
Earnhardt
hardt’s status for the July 24
race at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway.
“I’m proud of Dale for
standing up,” team owner
Rick Hendrick said. “The
number-one priority is his
health, so we’re going to give
him all the time he needs.
We completely support the
decision by the doctors and
will be ready to go win races
when he’s 100 percent. In
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the meantime, we have full
confidence in Greg (Ives)
and the team, and we know
they’ll do a great job.”
The 23-year-old Bowman
has not raced in the Cup series this season and had no
top-10 finishes in 71 starts
over the 2014-2015 seasons.
He drives part-time in the
second-tier Xfinity Series
for Earnhardt’s JR Motorsports team.
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Georgia executes man for
beating friend to death
By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) —
Georgia executed a man early
Friday who was convicted of
beating a friend to death during an argument after a night
of partying more than three
decades ago.
John Wayne Conner, 60,
was put to death by injection
of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of fatally beating his friend J.T. White
during an argument after a
night of drinking and smoking
marijuana in January 1982.
The execution was the sixth
in Georgia this year and the
most in a calendar year in the
state since the death penalty
was reinstated nationwide in
1976. Georgia executed five
inmates last year and in 1987.
Only five states have carried out death sentences this
year for a total of 14. Aside
from the five already put to
death in Georgia, six inmates
have been executed in Texas
and one each in Alabama,
Florida and Missouri.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday declined to grant him
clemency. The board is the
only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence.
The Georgia Supreme
Court in a 5-2 decision on
Thursday rejected Conner’s
appeal of a lower court ruling
and declined to halt his execution. Conner’s attorneys had
argued he was ineligible for
execution because he’s intellectually disabled, that his
trial attorney was ineffective
and that executing him after
34 years on death row would
amount to unconstitutional
cruel and unusual punishment.
Justice David Nahmias
wrote in a dissent that he
would have stayed the execution and allowed Conner to
appeal on the question of
the constitutionality of his
execution after 34 years. He
was joined by Justice Robert
Benham.
Conner’s attorneys also
filed a challenge in federal
court Thursday making similar arguments about the constitutionality of executing him
after more than three decades
on death row. A federal judge
rejected that challenge.
Conner’s lawyers argued
that he was raised in poverty
in a home where extreme
violence and substance abuse
were the norm. He also exhibited signs of mental impairment that led his teachers to
believe he was intellectually
disabled from an early age, his
lawyers argue.
The U.S. Supreme Court
denied his requests for a stay
of execution Thursday night.
In a clemency petition, his
lawyers described Conner’s
father as someone who was
feared by the community and
his family, who regularly cut
his wife and children with a
knife and fired a gun at them.
As a result, Conner “fell into
the pattern modeled by those
in his family,” his lawyers
wrote in a clemency application.
But his trial lawyer was
young and inexperienced and
didn’t present any evidence or
call any witnesses during his
trial or sentencing. A combination of ineffective lawyers,
a lack of resource for defense
investigation and strict procedural rules, meant the appellate courts also didn’t hear
evidence of his traumatic upbringing and mental impairment, his lawyers argued.
His difficult background
and mental impairment do
not excuse what he did, but if
that evidence had been presented, Conner might have
been spared the death penalty, his lawyers argued.
Conner spent the evening
of January 9, 1982, drinking
and smoking marijuana at a
party with his girlfriend and
other friends, including J.T.
White. They then returned
to the home Conner shared
with his girlfriend in Milan,
about 150 miles southeast of
Atlanta.
His girlfriend went to bed,
and Conner and White took
a nearly empty bottle of bourbon and left on foot in search
of more alcohol. Conner told
police he and White were
walking down the road when
White told Conner he wanted
to sleep with his girlfriend.
That led to a fight, during
which Conner told police he
hit White with the bottle and
beat him with a stick, the documents say.
LEGAL NOTICE
MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in
a certain Mortgage given by ARTHUR S JOHNSON and RUTH A
JOHNSON to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as
nominee for Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., its successors and assigns, dated March 18, 2008 and recorded with the
Franklin County Registry of Deeds at Book 5479, Page 127 subsequently assigned to Bank of America , N.A. successor by merger
to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans
Servicing, LP by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc
by assignment recorded in said Registry of Deeds at Book 6149,
Page 210 subsequently assigned to Selene Finance LP by Bank
of America , N.A. successor by merger to BAC Home Loans
Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP by assignment recorded in said Registry of Deeds at Book 6610, Page
105; of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for
breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose
of foreclosing same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 AM on
July 22, 2016 at 91 Mountain Road, Erving, MA, all and singular the
premises described in said Mortgage, to wit:
A certain lot or parcel of land with all the improvements thereon located in Erving, Franklin County, Massachusetts, located
on the easterly side of Mountain Road, known and described
as “Lot 1” (ONE), on that certain plan entitled: “Land in Erving,
Massachusetts for Arthur D. Johnson and Maureen L. Johnson,
October 2002, Scale 1” = 100 ft” said plan was recorded in the
Franklin County Registry of Deeds on October 15, 2002 at 12:16
pm in Plan Book 111, Page 40. Subject to and with the benefit of
restrictions, rights, agreements and encumbrances of record in
so far as the same may be in force and effect. Being the same
premises conveyed to Arthur S. Johnson and myself by deed of
Arthur D. Johnson and Maureen L. Johnson dated January 5,
2007 and recorded with the Franklin County Registry of Deeds in
Book 5252, Page 65.
The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit of
all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, liens, attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to M.G.L.Ch.183A, unpaid taxes,
tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and assessments, rights of
tenants and parties in possession.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00)
in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or money order will be required to be delivered at or before the time
the bid is offered. The successful bidder will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement immediately after the close
of the bidding. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid
within thirty (30) days from the sale date in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory
to Mortgagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to
bid at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale
and to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral announcement made before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale
is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be
entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall
have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee
or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the premises
contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error
in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.
Other terms if any, to be announced at the sale.
Selene Finance LP
July 1, 8, 15, 2016
Present Holder of said Mortgage,
By Its Attorneys,
ORLANS MORAN PLLC
PO Box 540540
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: (781) 790-7800
15-010788
Phoenix serial killer shooter
leaves trail of grief, fear
By TERRY TANG
Associated Press
BOOT DRIVE — A boot drive to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation was part of the recent
open house held by the Athol Fire Department at
the uptown station. Photo by Brian Gelinas
Property owners: Get
off my lawn, Pokemon!
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
and MAE ANDERSON
AP Technology Writers
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
As throngs of “Pokemon
Go” players traipse around
to real-world landmarks in
pursuit of digital monsters,
some ticked-off property
owners are asking to have
their locations in the fictional Poke-verse removed.
For Valerie Janovic, a
19-year-old psychology major at Brandeis University,
the game went too far when
the image of a poison-gasemitting pocket monster
called “Koffing” was pictured near the U.S. Holocaust museum’s exhibit on
World War II gas chamber
victims. Her online petition
to have the site removed
from the game has collected more than 4,500 supporters by Thursday.
“I just don’t think people
should be playing a game
where people remember
people who suffered and
were tortured and who
died,” she says.
Besides the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, several
churches and cemeteries
including Arlington National Cemetery want their
in-game locations removed
to keep crowds of players
away.
The addictive, locationaware smartphone game
gives digital incentives like
“Pokeballs” as rewards for
visiting real places. The
locations, known as “Pokestops” and “Gyms,” are
based on landmarks submitted by players of Niantic’s
earlier game, “Ingress.”
Niantic offers a form to
request exclusion, but it’s
neither automatic nor guaranteed. It’s a mystery how
quickly, if at all, Niantic will
respond. Several requesters said they got a stock response saying, “Thank you
for reporting this PokéStop/
Gym. We will review and
take appropriate action.”
At first, web designer
Boon Sheridan was just
mildly annoyed at the traffic and cars that blocked the
driveway to an old church
that has become his home
in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
It was labeled a “Gym”
where players pit their
Pokemon, or pocket monsters, against each other in
battle. His attitude changed
when his virtually obsessed
visitors began leaving behind physical trash.
“There’s a lovely public
park across the street so
we’ve suggested (the developers) adjust the GPS coordinates,” he said.
At the East Renton Community Church in Renton,
Washington, players have
come by day and night,
sometimes leaving the gates
open, a potential invitation
to criminal activity, office
manager Rona Heenk said.
“We can’t possibly monitor it all the time, and we
don’t have a way to discern
whether or not the adults
who are coming to play the
game are just here to play
or ‘casing’ our location,”
Heenk said.
Mobile Memorial Gardens, a cemetery in Mobile,
Alabama, had a dozen gamers show up Wednesday,
some walking around burial
plots with cellphones in
hand, others driving aimlessly down roads. President Timothy Claiborne
said he’s all for people having fun, but would prefer
they have it at a local park.
“This is private,” he said.
“I owe it to the families we
serve to provide a sense of
decorum here.”
Ryan Calo, a University
of Washington law professor, said private property
owners may adopt a “Pokemon No Go” policy and
bar players from physically
entering their building or
grounds. But he said there’s
no legal right to compel the
game’s creators to remove
a location from its lines of
code.
“It’s important to note
that the Pokemon are not
there on the property,” he
said. “What’s happening is
that a particular location
triggers the display of a digital monster on your phone.
The monster is only on your
phone.”
Niantic, which has Japanese game company Nintendo as a major investor,
didn’t respond to requests
for comment.
To be sure, gaining designation in the game as a
“Pokestop” or “Gym” can
be beneficial. Cafe owners
have set up in-game lures
to attract unique digital
creatures in the hopes potential patrons with real
money chase them into the
store. The Adventure Park
playground in a forested
part of Maryland invited
“Pokemon Go” players to
come to take advantage of
its lures this weekend and
get $5 off admission.
Niantic CEO John Hanke
told The Financial Times
that the company was sell
sponsored locations in the
game, much like it did with
its previous game.
Clever coders like Manmeet Gill, a 13-year-old
high school student in Sydney, Australia, even found
evidence in the “Pokemon
Go” app code that burger
giant McDonald’s may be
preparing to sponsor locations in the game. Included in the code is text that
reads “Sponsor.Mcdonalds.
POKEMON--STORE” and
a logo of its double arches. Although McDonald’s
spokeswoman Lisa McComb said she didn’t have
any news to share, Gill said
it was “highly unlikely” such
code was there by accident.
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AP Technology Writers Brandon Bailey in San
Francisco and Barbara
Ortutay in New York contributed to this report. Anderson reported from New
York.
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PHOENIX (AP) — In a
blue-collar Phoenix neighborhood known for gang
and drug violence, Margarito Castro’s 19-year-old son
Manny was learning to be
a welder just like his father.
Father and son carpooled together to work until June 10,
when Manny was shot dead
as he sat in his car in front
of his girlfriend’s house by a
suspect identified this week
as the city’s first serial killer
in a decade.
Now Margarito Castro
goes to visit Manuel “Manny” Castro Garcia’s grave
daily, mystified why someone
targeted his son and six other
people since March. Police
say all were killed by a thin,
lanky man with a handgun
who is probably in his 20s
and that there is no known
motive.
He is possibly Hispanic,
like many of the 208,000
people living in the Maryvale
neighborhood where all but
one of the killings happened
after dark and just before
dawn.
Shootings often ring out at
night in Maryvale, a neighborhood of strip malls and
auto parts stores where most
of the stucco single-story
homes feature bars on windows and chain-link fences
protecting yards.
People who don’t live in
the neighborhood frequently
avoid driving through it at
night, but Margarito Castro
said his son never got involved
with crime or gangs. And a
police detective who went
through the young man’s belongings and pored over his
social media accounts told
Castro he couldn’t figure out
why someone would want to
kill his son.
“He was a good boy,”
Castro said from under the
shade of a tree in the cemetery, where he tries to stay
half an hour on every visit
despite temperatures hitting
110 degrees.
The six killings in Maryvale
— and one in another working class neighborhood about
10 miles away — come after
six people were killed and 19
wounded in 2005-2006 series
of seemingly random shootings that terrorized Phoenix.
But those happened all
around the sprawling city of
1.5 million spanning more
than 500 square miles. Airport janitor Dale Hausner
and his roommate Sam Dietman, a petty criminal, were
given life sentences. Hausner
committed suicide in prison
by overdosing three years
ago.
All of the latest victims
were Hispanic or black, and
one was a 12-year-old girl.
The men and women were
shot outside homes as they
stood or sat in cars by a
suspect or suspects firing a
handgun from inside a car
described as both light and
dark or while on foot near
the victims and then fleeing
in the car, police said.
“We’re talking about people outside of residential areas or outside of a home in
the street, next to the street,
with a description of a suspect that drives up, gets out,
almost without any prior contact just starts shooting and
then flees in that vehicle,”
Phoenix police Sgt. Jonathan
Howard said.
He added: “Everybody
has reported one person.
Some of our witnesses have
reported that they believe
there were additional people
or another person in the car,
and certainly we’re keeping
an open mind.”
A 16-year-old boy and a
21-year-old man were also
shot but survived. One of
them gave enough information for police to create a
composite sketch of the suspect with short-cropped dark
hair. Police have few other
leads about the suspect and
the vehicle and are appealing
to the public for tips.
So far, officers have not
identified a motive, unsettling Maryvale residents
who say gunfire at night is
relatively routine but call the
latest killings scarier because
they’re not attributed to the
neighborhood’s longstanding
problems with drug violence
and gang members settling
scores.
At the community YMCA,
employees now take extra
care to make sure that children are picked up by parents or relatives they know
and the employees themselves leave the building as
a group instead of heading
outside on their own, YMCA
worker Jenny Mendez said.
LEGAL NOTICE
MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale
contained in a certain mortgage given by DANIEL R. WHITE AND
MARGARET WHITE to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated
February 23, 2005 and recorded in Worcester County (Worcester
District) Registry of Deeds in Book 35793, Page 134 of which
mortgage Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for
Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-OPT2, Asset Backed
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-OPT2 is the present holder
by assignment from Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option
One Mortgage Corporation to Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company, as Trustee for Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series
2005-OPT2, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005OPT2 dated October 15, 2012 recorded at Worcester County
(Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book 50080, Page 45, for
breach of conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of
foreclosing the same, the mortgaged premises located at 560
Conant Road, Athol, MA 01331 will be sold at a Public Auction
at 1:00PM on August 12, 2016, at the mortgaged premises, more
particularly described below, all and singular the premises
described in said mortgage, to wit:
A certain parcel of land with buildings thereon, situated
on the southeasterly side of Conant Road in the southerly part of
Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwesterly corner thereof at an iron
pin in the southeasterly line of Conant Road at a corner of land
now or formerly of Ralph A. Parker & Carol J. Meacham;
thence South 56 degrees 17’ 09” East by said Parker &
Meacham land, 531.82 feet to an iron pin in land now or formerly
of Laroy A. Ellinwood and being the northeasterly corner of
other land now or formerly of Rural Housing Improvement, Inc.,
and being shown as Lot “8” on a plan hereinafter referred to;
thence North 73 degrees 21’ 17” West by said Rural Housing
Land and Lot “8”, 548.83 feet to an iron pin in the southeasterly
line of Conant Road;
thence North 31 degrees 45’ 59” east, 47.29 feet;
thence North 24 degrees 51’ 31” East, 14.05 feet to an iron
pin at a corner of land now of the aforementioned Parker &
Meacham and the point of beginning.
For mortgagor’s title see deed recorded with the
Worcester County (Worcester District) Registry of Deeds in Book
21828, Page 37. See also Deed(s) recorded in said Registry in
Book 33639, Page 184 and in said Registry in Book 42627, Page
112.
The premises will be sold subject to any and all unpaid
taxes and other municipal assessments and liens, and subject
to prior liens or other enforceable encumbrances of record
entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and subject to and
with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, reservations and
conditions of record and subject to all tenancies and/or rights
of parties in possession.
Terms of the Sale: Cash, cashier’s or certified check in the
sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the time and
place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder (the mortgage
holder and its designee(s) are exempt from this requirement);
high bidder to sign written Memorandum of Sale upon
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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2016
Venus and Mercury Alliance. There’s something to be gained
by losing. What do you need to get rid of? That’s the big question in your mind during this square of the sun and Uranus. An
alliance of Mercury and Venus offers the perspective to answer
the question well. Step back and rise high until what comes
into view could also be noted by a bird.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re helpful. You realize when a
person needs help but isn’t saying, or perhaps even knowing,
that this is the case. In today’s instance it’s best to wait for the
request, otherwise you’ll over-help, which helps no one.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your group is strong and so is its
persuasion, but you are among the strongest minds in it. Instead of falling into the “group think,” you’ll be a thought leader,
showing the way for your crew.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You tell your stories to friends in
a lighthearted social manner, but you’re also very aware of
the light these anecdotes cast on you. You’re the consummate
politician!
CANCER (June 22-July 22). People are still asking you what’s
going to happen. They want information that is perhaps best
spoken by time itself. You may have a compelling feeling about
the future, but you certainly don’t want to spoil the ending.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The ones who seem like they have it
all together may not have it all together, not by a longshot. But
they have it enough together in a few areas to help you in the
way you need right now, so go with that.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Real life is not a drill. There are no
dress rehearsals. Each moment is distinct and impossible to
do over. But don’t let that make you so nervous that you don’t
participate. Messing up is half the fun.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). To pretend to know is a very common thing for children to do. It’s part of the can-do spirit. Without a little arrogance, no one would dare. People around may
pretend too much today though, and that makes for problems
if you buy in.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Do you care more about who
gets the credit, or do you care more about what gets done?
Both sides of the equation are important now, but things will
turn out best when you decide which matters more to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). This project you’re involved
in is getting hard, weird, awkward, maybe even painful. You’ve
known failure, you’ve had setbacks, but you’re not even close
to being finished. In many ways you haven’t even started!
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have the right to be different, and knowing this makes you feel free -- even if what
you are most compelled to do is make the same choice as the
others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s comforting to have a friend
on your side; however, what you need more than comfort now
is the eye of discernment, the heart of justice and the voice of
knowledge -- however friendly or unfriendly it may be.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You may feel slightly reckless,
and it’s time to rein it in. You didn’t get where you are without
exercising a degree of self-control. If you can control a little,
you can control more.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 16). In some way you’ve been mismatched, but that’s all about to change. There’s a sparkle in
your eye, and it draws in the people who can most make you
happy. The journey of getting to know yourself helps matters
now through September. Experiment, dare and, most of all,
break free from a situation that has become something of a
trap. Leo and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 44,
12, 22 and 18.
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 15, 1976, a 36-hour
kidnap ordeal began for 26
schoolchildren and their bus
driver as they were abducted
near Chowchilla, California,
by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell.
(The captives escaped unharmed; the kidnappers were
caught.)
On this date:
In 1799, French soldiers in
Egypt discovered the Rosetta
Stone, which proved instrumental in deciphering ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In 1870, Georgia became
the last Confederate state to
be readmitted to the Union.
Manitoba entered confederation as the fifth Canadian
province.
In 1916, Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero
Products Co., was founded in
Seattle.
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover announced he
was slashing his own salary
by 20 percent, from $75,000
to $60,000 a year; he also cut
Cabinet members’ salaries by
15 percent, from $15,000 to
$12,750 a year.
In 1948, President Harry S.
Truman was nominated for
another term of office by the
Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.
In 1954, a prototype of the
Boeing 707, the model 36780, made its maiden flight
from Renton Field south of
Seattle.
In 1964, Sen. Barry M.
Goldwater of Arizona was
nominated for president by
the Republican national convention in San Francisco.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon delivered a televised address in which he
announced that he had accepted an invitation to visit
the People’s Republic of
China.
In 1979, President Jimmy
Carter delivered his “malaise” speech in which he lamented what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America.
In 1985, a visibly gaunt
Rock Hudson appeared at a
news conference with actress
Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering
from AIDS).
In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill
Clinton was nominated for
president at the Democratic
national convention in New
York.
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its debut on cable and the Internet.
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hacking scandal. Jennifer
Lopez and Marc Anthony
announced they were breaking up after seven years of
marriage. The Atlanta Braves
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franchise history with an 11-1
rout of the Washington Nationals.
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challenging his critics, President Barack Obama launched
an aggressive and detailed
defense of a landmark Iranian nuclear accord during
a White House press conference, rejecting the idea that
the agreement left Tehran on
the brink of a bomb and arguing the only alternative to the
diplomatic deal was war.
Today’s Birthdays: Author
Clive Cussler is 85. Actor
Ken Kercheval is 81. Actor
Patrick Wayne is 77. Actor
Jan-Michael Vincent is 72.
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is 50. Rock musician Phillip
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Condition) is 49. Actor-comedian Eddie Griffin is 48.
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Thought for Today: “If you
have knowledge, let others
light their candles with it.”
— Margaret Fuller, American journalist and social critic
(1810-1850).
New JFK Jr. doc looks
back at ‘America’s prince’
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press
BOSTON
(AP)
—
“America’s prince” is getting a new documentary.
“I Am JFK Jr. — A
Tribute to a Good Man,”
which hits select theaters
on July 22, captures the
fascination with John F.
Kennedy Jr., from his early days toddling around
the White House to his
death in a plane crash in
1999.
Network
Entertainment’s Derik Murray
made the film in the
mold of his other “I Am”
movies, including “I Am
Bruce Lee,” ‘‘I Am Chris
Farley” and “I Am Evel
Knievel.” It also airs on
Spike TV at 9 p.m. EDT
on Aug. 1, and a DVD release is set for Aug. 16.
The film captures JFK
Jr. as “John John,” the
tousle-haired toddler of
the late President John F.
Kennedy and Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, saluting his father’s casket after the 1963 assassination.
Highlights include his
time as an assistant district attorney in New York
City, his 1988 People
magazine “Sexiest Man
Alive” cover, and his 1995
debut as publisher of the
splashy but short-lived
magazine George.
Interspersed are snippets of interviews with
celebrities and politicians
who knew him well. They
include supermodel Cindy
Crawford, who famously
posed as a midriff-baring
George Washington —
complete with powdered
wig — for the inaugural issue of George; actor Robert De Niro; boxer Mike
Tyson; journalist Christiane Amanpour; Hustler
magazine publisher Larry
Flynt; former Brown Uni-
versity roommate Chris
Oberbeck; Grateful Dead
songwriter John Perry
Barlow; and others.
Not surprisingly, the
film focuses on JFK Jr.’s
death at age 38 on July 16,
1999, when the single-engine private plane he was
piloting from New Jersey
to Martha’s Vineyard en
route to a family wedding
on Cape Cod crashed into
the Atlantic.
Killed with Kennedy
were his wife, Carolyn
Bessette, and her sister,
Lauren Bessette.
Friends, acquaintances
and pundits reflect on a
life cut short and speculate what he might have
become.
President, for instance?
A clip of an interview
that JFK Jr. gave to Oprah
Winfrey is telling. She insists he surely must have
thought about running for
office, and he responds,
somewhat coyly, “There is
this great weight of expectation and anticipation.”
But maybe not.
“John was smart enough
to know, ‘I’m junior. I’m
not my father,’” another
presidential son, Michael
Reagan, says in the film.
“I believe that he had
greatness in him,” CNN
journalist Chris Cuomo
tells the producers. “And
I don’t give a damn if that
meant anything about
politics.”
———
Online: http://www.iamjfkjr.com/
Film trailer at https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=iBkNbYHxxNw
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Follow Bill Kole on
Twitter at https://twitter.
com/billkole. His work
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william-j-kole.
Rolling Stones front man Mick
Jagger expecting his 8th child
Mick Jagger’s representatives say the rock legend
is expecting his eighth
child.
The
representatives
confirmed a report by
People magazine and other media outlets that Jagger’s girlfriend, Melanie
Hamrick, 29, is pregnant.
Jagger, the 72-year-old
frontman of the Rolling
Stones, already has seven children — Georgia,
James, Jade, Elizabeth,
Lucas, Karis and Gabriel
— who range in age from
45 to 17.
W magazine, which reports on fashion and celebrities, says Hamrick is
a ballerina who has performed with the American Ballet Theatre in New
York.
In May, fellow Rolling
Stone Ron Wood became
a father again at 68 after
his wife, Sally Humphreys,
gave birth to twin girls.
Prince Harry has HIV test; results OK
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has
taken a nearly instant HIV
test as part of his campaign
to raise awareness about
the virus.
The results of the simple
finger-prick test were negative and Harry seemed
relieved to find that he was
not infected with the virus.
Harry admitted before the
test that he was nervous.
The test at a sexual
health clinic in London
was filmed and broadcast
Thursday.
It takes only a few seconds and a small amount
of blood for the test to be
carried out.
Harry has followed the
example of his late mother,
Princess Diana, and sought
to ease the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.
———
On Jan. 2, 1921, religious
services were broadcast on
radio for the first time as
KDKA in Pittsburgh aired
the regular Sunday service
of the city’s Calvary Episcopal Church.
On Jan. 12, 1976, mystery
writer Dame Agatha Christie died at age 85.
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Services
and Repairs
MCLAUGHLIN PAVING— Driveways, sidewalks and parking lots.
Over 30 yrs. experience. Call for
free estimate (978)544–3281.
Custom Homebuilding,
Additions, Decks, Siding
Kitchen & Bath Remodeling.
MCS #062506, HIC #117243
(978)544–7221
LEBLANC ENTERPRISES—
Rubbish removal. Weekly curbside pick-up. All other debris and
cleanouts (978)249-4061.
BOB'S PAINTING— Interior/ exterior. Free estimates. Insured,
40+ years experience. Bo b
Blaser (978)249-5703, (978)4135536.
KK ROLL OFF CONTAINERS—
Construction, demo, roof debris,
household clean out. Karl
Knechtel (978)944-3004,
(978)248-9894.
HEATHCLIFF
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Services
and Repairs
RENT- A- HANDYMAN— Home
carpentry, sheetrock, painting,
repairs, property maintenance.
Reasonable, reliable. References. (978)544-7455 or
[email protected].
S & S APPLIANCE
447 Main St., Athol
WE OFFER ALL MAJOR
APPLIANCE SERVICE
In Home & Shop
Call (978)249-7535
Web Site www.ssappliance.com
BURNER GUYS— 24 Hour Oil
Heat Service. Repair/ Installations. Tune-up/ Cleaning. Licensed/ Insured. (978)249-4440.
Visa/ Mastercard Accepted. License #BU104752.
BARTLETT'S PLUMBING
AND HEATING
Drain Cleaning, Gas & Oil,
Service/Repairs,
Installation/Cleaning
Free Estimates, Lic. #30155
CALL (978)249-0004
For Emergencies (978)846-9840
PETERSHAM
SANITARY SERVICE
Septic Tanks Pumped
Out by Modern Vacuum
Pressure Method
(978)724-3434
A. F. MALLET EXCAVATING—
Septic systems, excavating, site
work and driveway repair. Free
estimates. Fully licensed and insured. Andy (978)790-8667, Tom
(978)503-8959. License
#114914.
FURNITURE REFINISHING—
Stripping, repair and restoration.
For experience and care, free estimates, pick up and delivery call
Rosanne Amodeo (978)5448237.
HURLBURT
Building Contractors
www.HBCLiving.com
LeRay
Handyman Service
Jason (978)724-4550
CAPONE PAINTING— & Wallpapering. Custom ceilings. Exterior power washing and more
(978)894-5107.
(978)249-6064
BRUCE RAULSTON
PLUMBING & HEATING
New Homes, Remodeling,
High efficiency oil & gas boilers,
water heaters. Gas piping
Service & Repair
(978)249-3339 Cell (978)413-4498
MA J#23699
STEVE'S WOODWORKING
Cabintry, Kitchens, Carpentry,
Paint & Repairs. Lic. #059527
Reg. #11262 Insured
(508)222-1633
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Instruction
PIANO, ORGAN— Keyboard. All
ages. Classical, pop, theory, harmony. Janet Paoletti
(978)249–9254.
MUSIKIDS— Piano, violin, guitar and vocal instruction. All ages
and levels. Victoria BartlettRoche (978)249-7771.
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Boats & Marine
Equipment
Sail Boat– Fiberglass 12 ft complete. Free or Best Offer
(978)-544-7747
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Bicycles
23
Pets
& Supplies
BARK'N BEAUTIES— Mobile
grooming van. Specializing in
handling cats. We conveniently
come to you (978)399-3893.
28
Lawn &
Garden Care
THE GARAGE— One Barre
Road, Junctions 122 and 32,
Petersham. (978)724-3237. Full
service auto repair.
SEAMLESS GUTTERS— Installations and Cleaning. Leaf Guard
Available. Exterior Power Washing. Free Estimates.
www.ahoseamlessgutters.com.
(603)496-7627.
SUNRISE LANDSCAPING—
Spring/ fall clean ups. Fertilizer
programs, grub control, pruning,
mowing, mulch, dethatching
(978)544-2097.
HANDYMAN $10/ HR— All kinds
of repairs. Door adjustments,
rooms (walls) painted. Cell
(978)846-9730 (978)633-4187.
MASON FOR HIRE— Chimney
repair and rebuild. Keystone
w a l l s w a l k w a y s a n d s t a i r s.
Foundation restoration over 30
plus years experience. Call (978)
780-4406
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Professional
Services
DENNIS BRAMHALL BUILDER
Custom Homes, Barns,
Garages, Remodeling,
Additions, Roofing, Siding,
Decks, Replacement Windows
Fully insured and free estimates
CSL #070066, HIC #131173
Quality, honesty and hard work
(978)544-1579
KK BUILDERS— Custom
homes, garages, additions and
decks. Everything from floors to
roofs. Fully insured. CSL
#090276, HIC #151230. Karl
Knechtel (978)944-3004.
WRIGHTS WELDING
(978)249-4023
Welding of all Kinds
J&R TREE SERVICE— Tree
and brush removal, storm clean
up. Free estimates. Fully insured.
(978)895-9690, (978)544-5410.
BUCKLES
WEATHERHEAD
STORAGE
5x5, 5x15, 10x10,
10x15, 10x20, 10x30
Storage units available.
(413)423-3831
25 Years Experience
New & Old Construction
Generator Back-up Systems
Service Upgrades
Fully Insured. Free Estimates.
Lic. #E38511
BARK MULCH— And wood
chips. Rough Cut Lumber, North
Dana Road, New Salem
(978)575–0475.
(978)249-5125
BABY BLUES
Rich Harrington
Journeyman Electrician
MOUNT TULLY— Pet Hotel/
Store. Boarding, Daycare,
Grooming for dogs and cats.
Fish, reptiles, birds, feeds.
(978)575-0614. Open 7 days.
INSURED - HIC #176734
By Dean Young & Mike Gersher
By Dik Browne
By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman
By David Gilbert
Firewood
for Sale
CORDWOOD— (978)249-2650.
ATHOL GLASS COMPANY—
63 Main Street. Home and Commercial. Screens and New Windows (978)249-4872.
(978)544-3798
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J. SAULT DRYWALL— Sheetrock installed and finished. Refinish plaster walls and ceilings to
look new. Textures, painting
(978)544-2613.
MONGOOSE— Mountain bike.
19.5 frame with rock shok. Asking price $125 (978)724-3222.
Full service disposal
Weekly pick ups
HÄGAR the Horrible
Professional
Services
•General Contractors
•Home Builders
•Post & Beam Construction
•Siding •Decks
•Windows •Roofing
HIC# 182241 CSL# 07081
"Our Quality Beats Any Price"
RUSS PEARSON
RUBBISH REMOVAL
BLONDIE
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CHEAP CUTS— Grass cutting,
trimming bushes, lawn maintenance in general. Most lawns $20.
Power washing, driveway sealing. Lowest prices in town. Call
Jim (413)230-6779.
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Household
Goods
WHOLESALE CARPET— Service. 35 years experience. Call
Bruce (978)249-6331.
LYESIUK'S FLOORING— Sales
and Service. Carpet, vinyl, laminate, hardwood and more. Free
estimates. Please call Nick at
(978)575-0606.
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Building
Materials
NATIVE LUMBER— Pine
boards, hemlock dimension, hard
and soft wood beams and timbers. Wood chips, bark mulch.
Custom sawing. Monday thru Friday 8:30-4:00, Saturday, 8 to 12.
Rough Cut, Old North Dana Rd.,
New Salem (978)575–0475.
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Firewood
for Sale
LOG LENGTH FIREWOOD—
Heyes Forest Products. Call for
delivery: (978)544-8801. VisaM/C accepted.
FIREWOOD— Call Adams Logging, evenings (978)544-8148.
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Moving
& Storage
REGAL STORAGE
CENTERS LLC
Self Storage Units
*Special small moving boxes*
*All you need with a Rental*
32 Brown Street
Athol, MA 01331
(978)249-2600
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Wanted
to Buy
COINS, POSTCARDS— Pre
1973 baseball cards. Stamps,
local history (978)249-0156.
NORTH QUABBIN— Antiques
Cash paid for good used furniture, antiques, collectibles, silver, gold, coins, glassware, pottery, quilts, jewelry, frames, tools,
and toys. We buy attic, cellar &
barn contents. Top dollar paid!
Call (978)544-2465.
ALWAYS BUYING— Antiques
and collectibles. Furniture, old
advertising signs, store fixtures,
carpenters and machinist tools,
lathes. Farm machinery, military
souvenirs, jackknives, license
plates. Books, postcards, picture
frames, art, comic books, toys,
jewelry, glassware, dishes ,
lamps, one item or complete estate clean outs. Please call
(978)544-6683.
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Antiques
WE BUY ANTIQUES— Used
furniture, gold and silver jewelry,
coins, vintage toys. One piece or
e n t i r e e s t a t e . C a l l P a u l at
(978)502-5008. 5 E. Main Street,
Orange.
OVER 40 YEARS— In the Antique Business. One item, your
collection, or total estate clean
out. Houses, barns, factories,
etc. Appraisals available. Please
call for prompt and friendly service (978)544-6683.
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Income
Tax
VALLEY TAX SERVICE— 2428
Main Street, Athol. Call day or
night (978)249-2888.
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Office Asst., Salesman,
Auto Techs, Body Man &
Service Writer Needed
Grace Quality Cars
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SALES PERSON WANTED—
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MACHINE OPERATORS— Immediate opportunities for top
Manufacturers. Previous manufacturing experience preferred,
willing to train. (413)774-0118.
ATHOL CREDIT UNION— Is
looking for an entry level loan
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helping people? Attention to detail, a willingness to learn and a
positive attitude are required for
this position. Please email your
resume to [email protected] if
you think this is the position for
you.
ATHOL CREDIT UNION— Outbound Sales Representatives.
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full time pay promoting our
products and services by phone.
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not required. Afternoon, evening
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PCA NEEDED— Athol, evenings Monday and Tues, 5:30 to
9:30 Wed, Thurs and Fri 5:00 to
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FIRST MONTH FREE— Great
Location! Hillcrest Plaza, 815
square foot, reception room. Two
offices, hallway, storage room,
A/C, excellent parking. Contact
Don (978)544-3770.
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Lots &
Acreage
NARTOWICZ TREE SERVICE—
Pruning, removals, chipping.
Fully Insured (978)219-9951.
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Mobile
Homes
BARRE— $34,900 for a 14'x66'
home with a 12'x20' addition on
over 1/4 acre located at Waterwheel Village, with 55+ better
mobile home community surrounding a wilderness pond. Call
Paul at (978)355-3454.
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Apartments
for Rent
ATHOL— 3 rooms furnished. 1st
floor. Heat, hot water and rubbish removal. No pets. $600/
month (978)249-9093 8am- 8pm.
ORANGE— Stone Valley Road.
1 bedroom, 1.5 baths. Heat, hot
water, electric, A/C, trash pickup,
appliances and laundry facilities.
No pets. $900, first and last required. Call (413)422-2193.
ORANGE CENTER— 2nd floor 2
bedroom. Friendly apartment
building, no utilities included.
$775/ month. (978)724-4118.
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Apartments
for Rent
ORANGE— Stone Valley Road.
2 bedroom, large deck. Heat, hot
water, electric, A/C, trash pickup,
appliances and laundry facilities.
No pets. $1,000, first and last required. Call (413)422-2193.
ATHOL— Five bedroom, heat,
hot water, stove and refrigerator
included. Washer, dryer hookups. No pets, no yard. First, last,
references required. $1,000.00
per month. Email [email protected]
ATHOL— 2- 3 bedroom, from
$795. Includes hot water. Parking, clean, deleaded. No dogs.
Near new library. (978)297-3149
or (978)943-6208.
ATHOL— 3 Bed for $730.00+, 1Bed for $535.00+, Orange- 3 Bed
for $730.00+, See Videos and
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ATHOL— Peaceful, quiet, spacious, one bedroom. Private
driveway, one person only. No
pets. $700 plus utilities.
(978)249-3999.
ATHOL— 2 bedroom townhouse apartment. Uptown,
deadend street. Washer dryer
hookups. Off street parking. No
smoking, No pets. $750.
(978)345-2411.
ORANGE— Large one bedroom.
Washer/ dryer hookup. No utilities. Off street parking. Trash removal. $575 per month, first, last,
security and references.
(978)249-5184, (978)249-8019.
ATHOL— 1 bedroom. Washer/
dryer hookups. Off street parking. Spacious backyard. No Pets.
First, last, security. $550/ month.
Call Bryan (413)835-5589.
ATHOL— 4 bedroom. New bathroom and kitchen. Walk in
pantry. Three season porch off
master bedroom. Off street parking, washer/dryer hookups. Section 8 encouraged. $1,000/
month. No utilities. Available immediately. (978)873-1133.
DOWNTOWN ORANGE— 2
bedroom. Coin-op laundry, rear
parking, heat, and hot water included. Call (617)690-8157.
[email protected].
ATHOL— Single Room, short or
long term occupancy, $125$150 weekly. Income verification
required. Call Beremco Property
Management, Inc. (978)4236773.
ORANGE— Large two bedroom
townhouse. Built in 2004. New
kitchen appliances and carpeting. Off street parking for four
cars. Full basement with laundry
hookups. $900 per month.
(978)270-1582.
ATHOL— One bedroom. No
pets. $650 per month. Hot water
included. Gene (413)532-2842.
ATHOL— Renovated 3 bedroom on first floor. Heat included.
Off Street parking. No Pets.
Available July 18th. Proof of Income and previous payment verification. $900. (617)785-0217.
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Houses
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WARWICK— One bedroom year
round cottage, with appliances.
(978)544-2560.
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ATHOL— Room. $465 per
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(978)297-3149 or (978)9436208. ALSO 2 room, living
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bath. Call Sherry (978) 939-3652
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France’s Hollande criticized
for having expensive barber
By THOMAS ADAMSON
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande doesn’t look like a man who
spends 10,000 euros ($11,000) a month on
his hair.
Yet the deeply unpopular Socialist leader, who was elected on a populist mandate
of taxing the super-wealthy, is embroiled in
an embarrassing scandal over the exorbitant price of his hair care that detractors
have dubbed #Coiffeurgate.
The topic was, well, so topical that he had
to address it Thursday in his traditional
Bastille Day televised interview — a moment Hollande had hoped to use to show a
dignified front ahead of France’s next general election in May.
Hollande defended his spending on the
presidential barber, reminding the nation
that since being elected in 2012 as a selfstyled “Monsieur Normal” and defender of
the poor, he has cut his own salary by 30
percent, reduced the Elysee Palace budget
by 9 million euros and cut its staff by 10
percent.
“You can reproach me on anything you
like, but not on that,” he said, visibly uncomfortable with the subject.
Declaring that he was not the person responsible for overseeing his cranial grooming arrangements, Hollande said “concerning the hairdresser’s costs, we used to
use external contractors until now, and I
preferred that it was handled from here.”
Critics expressed surprise that a leader
whose hair is thinning could spend so
much per month preening, when a posh
men’s haircut in Paris costs about 50 euros ($56). There was no suggestion that
the money was being used for hair plugs or
other surgical hair costs.
Detractors noted that Hollande was
elected because comments such as “I do
not like the rich” marked a strong contrast
with the bling-bling image of his conservative predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, who
loved flashy jewelry and fancy restaurants.
The barber’s monthly paycheck also
has to stick in the craw of French workers, coming on a day when Hollande was
defending his government’s divisive labor
law reforms, which have triggered crippling strikes across the country for weeks.
The new laws make it easier to hire and
fire workers and to expand a normal work
week.
French media calculated that Hollande’s
monthly hair maintenance is nearly four
times that of an average French worker’s
salary.
The Bastille Day interview — on France’s
independence day — follows the country’s
famed national military parade down the
grand Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris. If
polls are to be believed, this could be Hollande’s last Bastille Day as France’s leader.
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Quiet Cruz weighs role in
Trump convention revolt
By STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sen. Ted
Cruz is refusing to condemn a rebellion
against Donald Trump at the Republican
National Convention as the fiery Texas
conservative weighs his political future
against the prospect of a national Republican embarrassment.
Cruz’s continued public silence, as his
loyalists actively plotted to undermine
Trump on Thursday, irked Trump allies
and Republican leaders alike, all eager
to avoid a public spectacle when the
four-day gathering formally begins on
Monday. Yet having accepted a speaking
slot on the main stage, there are signs
the 45-year-old senator is willing to cooperate with Trump’s campaign — privately, at least — even as he works to
sustain his popularity among anti-Trump
conservatives.
Activists loyal to Cruz on Thursday
waged a messy battle over convention
rules that could free delegates to disregard the results of state-by-state primary
contests, among other changes. The rebels face long odds, but even a small rebellion could embarrass the Trump campaign and party leaders during an event
designed to demonstrate party unity.
“Cruz could put a stop to it,” said Iowa
Republican national committeeman
Steve Scheffler.
“He’s not building any good will,”
added Steve Duprey, Scheffler’s counterpart in New Hampshire.
Yet both Trump and Cruz camps suggest that they are working together more
than many believe.
Cruz will not openly encourage an outright rebellion to unbind delegates under any circumstances, according to advisers for both camps. And beyond that,
he has signaled a willingness to lean on
troublesome delegates privately to ensure a smooth convention if necessary.
The advisers spoke on the condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to share private discussions. Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort disputed the notion that the Texas senator
isn’t doing enough to stop the rebels.
“Cruz and Trump got along very
well for most of the primary season,”
Manafort told The Associated Press on
Thursday. “The party’s coming together.”
Any cooperation may be born from
the fact that Trump controls the speaking program for the national convention,
an unrivaled opportunity to connect with
millions of party activists and average
voters alike.
SUMMER BOOK CLUB — Robyn Patriquin, 5th grade teacher at the Royalston Community School, has worked hard over the course of the school year
with her students to build community and a love for reading. Students were so
engaged and excited about book clubs, they didn’t want them to stop over the
summer. Students approached Patriquin at the end of the year in hopes she
would meet with them over the summer months to continue reading and talking about books. Students met with Patriquin at the Athol Public Library last
week for their first summer book club meeting. Left to right — Emma Sherman, Emma Martin, Zoe Wilder, Rebecca Nano.
School photo
NEIGHBORHOOD MOVING/GARAGE SALE TAG & BAKE SALE
Across street from
99 Cailan Way, Athol
TAG SALE
Athol Glass
Past Golf Course off Conant Rd.
Hamilton Ave., Orange
Sat. & Sun. 8-?
Come One, Come All!
Something For Everyone!
YARD SALE
709 North Orange Rd., Athol
Saturday, 8-1
Some tools, Lawn Mower, Household
items. Everything else!
No Early Birds!
YARD SALE
67 Dinsmore St., Athol
Saturday, 9-4
Rain or Shine
Saturday, 8-?
Everything Must Go!
YARD SALE
237 South St., Athol
Saturday, 8-2
Everything Priced To Sell!
245 Hayden St., Orange
Saturday, 8-?
Furniture, yard tools, household items,
sewing supplies. Cheap!
TAG SALE
3 FAMILY TAG
SALE
Fill A Bag Clothing, Furniture, Toys,
Baby Items, Video Games, Home
Decor, Tools and More!
TAG SALE
108 & 91 Cass Circle,
Athol
Sat., 8am to 1pm
Household items, tools, X-Box
360 games, misc. items.
“CLEANING OUT” HUGE MULTI FAMILY
TAG SALE
YARD SALE
Some furniture, Pfaltzgraff Village dishes,
old glass, pottery, lighting.
Everything must go!
24 North Main St., Orange
Saturday, 9-2
Saturday, 7-?
Lots of items. Proceeds go to
Athol Animal Shelter
550 Silver Lake St., Athol
Saturday, 8-2
Furniture, Tea Cup Sets, Red Hat Stuff,
Iron Garden Bells and Signs and Much,
Much More!
SALE
Saturday, 8-4
1946 White Pond Rd., Athol
Braided rugs, chairs, jewelry, mens and womens
clothing, household, collectibles, 9 ft. drafting table.
YARD SALE
Saturday, 7-2
108 Wilson Ave.,
Athol
A Little Bit of Everything For Everyone!
TAG SALE
DEADLINE
THURSDAYS
10:30 a.m.
22 Orange St., Athol
Saturday, 8-2
Commercial Bunn Coffeemaker.
Something for everyone!
STATION TOUR — Children from the Athol Salvation Army’s day camp on
Thursday toured Athol’s uptown fire station. Front, left to right — Lily Buzzard, Gianna Ramos, Jake Buzzard, Brandon Adams. Standing — Day camp
counselor Mark Watson, Salvation Army Lt. Mike Buzzard, firefighters Chad
Girard and Eric Jack, Aedan Erickson, Salvation Army Lt. Jen Buzzard, firefighter Kevin Horrigan.
Photo by Brian Gelinas
Britain’s top envoy is anything but diplomatic
By GREGORY KATZ
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — He’s
insulted everyone from the
president of the United
States to the people of Papua New Guinea. Now the
remarkably
undiplomatic
Boris Johnson, his political
career miraculously revived,
has become Britain’s top
diplomat.
The reaction to his surprise appointment as foreign
secretary in British Prime
Minister Theresa May’s new
Conservative Cabinet has
been swift and blunt: His
French counterpart called
him a liar, the Germans say
he’s irresponsible, and a
British legislator believes it’s
the worst political appointment since Roman emperor
Caligula made his horse a
senator.
And those are Britain’s allies talking.
May came to power with
a reputation for acting with
careful calculation, but with
her choice of the voluble,
publicity-craving Johnson as
Britain’s representative on
the world stage, she appears
to have thrown her customary caution to the winds.
Instead of choosing a team
player, May chose a politician who prides himself on
being different.
So different he insulted
President Barack Obama by
making fun of his ancestry.
So tone deaf he also wrote
an extremely vulgar limerick
about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, using
debasing sexual imagery to
mock the leader of a mostly
Muslim country.
Johnson, 52, was a prominent leader of the successful
“leave” campaign to take
Britain out of the European
Union who harbored his own
leadership hopes, making
him a factor for May to deal
with as the new prime minister tries to unify the sharply
divided Conservative Party.
But her decision to put
Johnson on the world stage
dealing with foreign leaders
is raising questions, largely
because of Johnson’s propensity for saying exactly
wrong thing at the wrong
time, sometimes in the most
provocative way.
In France, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault
Thursday branded his British
counterpart a liar.
“Did you all see what his
style was like through the
campaign? He lied a lot to
the British. Now, it’s him
with his back against the wall
to defend his country and to
clarify his relationship with
Europe,” Ayrault said.
The French minister said
he needs a negotiating partner who is “clear, credible
and reliable” for the upcoming negotiations on Britain’s
stated desire to leave the
28-nation EU.
Others took a more conciliatory view with the belief that Johnson as foreign
secretary would be more
temperate than his previous
incarnations as Johnson the
journalist, Johnson the legis-
lator or Johnson the London
mayor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed inclined
to let bygones be bygones
even though Johnson had
described him as a “ruthless
and manipulative tyrant”
and suggested he looked like
a Harry Potter character, the
wizened elf Dobby.
“The burden of his current
position will undoubtedly,
certainly, lead him to use a
bit different rhetoric, of a
more diplomatic nature,”
Putin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said Thursday.
When it comes to U.S.
Democrats and Republicans,
Johnson seems an equal opportunity offender.
There was no word from
Hillary Clinton’s camp on
whether she had forgiven
his 2007 description of her
as resembling “a sadistic
nurse in a mental hospital.”
And Donald Trump didn’t
indicate his feelings about
Johnson’s statement that he
would avoid certain parts
of New York City because
of the “real risk of meeting
Donald Trump.”
After Obama in April said
he hoped that Britons would
vote to stay in the EU, Johnson described America’s first
black president as a “partKenyan” with an “ancestral
dislike of the British empire.”
Many British commentators questioned the wisdom
of insulting the leader of
Britain’s most important
ally.
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Trump VP announcement
put off, France attacks cited
By JULIE PACE and
JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Donald Trump abruptly postponed plans to announce his
vice presidential pick following a day of rampant speculation, citing the “horrible
attack” in Nice, France, that
left scores dead.
Trump had planned to hold
his first event with his yet-tobe-named running mate Friday morning in New York.
He announced the change of
plans Thursday evening on
Twitter.
The stunning announcement raised questions about
the status of Trump’s selection process. Indiana Gov.
Mike Pence had emerged
as a late favorite for the job,
though Trump said he had
not finalized the pick and
advisers cautioned he could
change his mind.
“I haven’t made my final,
final decision,” Trump said
on Fox News Channel. He
said that while his running
mate selection would “absolutely not” be changed by the
France attack, he did not feel
it was appropriate to hold a
news conference in its aftermath.
Dozens of people were
killed late Thursday in the
French resort city of Nice
when a truck drove onto a
sidewalk and plowed through
a crowd of Bastille Day revelers who’d gathered to watch
fireworks. Trump told Fox
News after the attack that
if he’s elected president he
would ask Congress for a declaration of war on the Islamic
State group.
Democrat Hillary Clinton, also appearing on Fox,
said the U.S. needs to “stand
strongly” with France and
said she would intensify efforts to put together a more
effective coalition against terrorism.
In addition to Pence,
Trump’s vice presidential
shortlist included former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie, according to
people familiar with the candidate’s thinking.
After spending much of
Thursday in Indianapolis,
Pence flew to New York late
in the day, according to a
Republican familiar with the
process. Indianapolis television station WTHR posted a
video showing Pence arriving
at a private airport outside
New York early Thursday
evening.
Trump did not say when he
planned to announce his running mate. He’s up against a
clock: The Republican convention kicks off in Cleveland
Monday.
Top party officials are already in Cleveland, grappling
with a rules fight that could
increase the odds of nationally televised clashes at the
convention. Late Thursday, a
committee at the Republican
National Convention defeated an effort by conservatives
who want to let delegates
vote for any presidential candidate they’d like. Conservatives hoped that would lead
to delegates blocking Trump’s
nomination.
The convention and vice
presidential announcement
give Trump back-to-back opportunities to reassure Americans — as well as leaders
within his own party — that
he’s prepared for the presidency.
Pence, a staunch conservative who served six terms in
Congress, is seen as a running
mate who would have the
backing of GOP leaders and
ease some of their concerns
about Trump’s political inexperience and volatile temperament.
He has influential allies
in Trump’s inner circle. But
some of Trump’s children,
who have been closely advising their father, are said to favor different candidates.
Campaign
chair
Paul
Manafort was among those
urging caution in assuming
any decision Thursday, saying on Twitter that Trump’s
choice “will be made in the
near future.”
As the day began, it appeared the decision would
come quickly. Gingrich, the
fiery Republican who helped
define the political battles of
the 1990s, told The Associated Press that Trump was supposed to let him know something in the afternoon. But by
early evening, Gingrich told
the AP he had heard nothing
from Trump or others in the
campaign.
Other Republicans with
knowledge of the process said
there had been no calls to
Christie, either.
The top contenders have
been vetted by a top Washington lawyer and all have spent
time with Trump in recent
days. But the final decision
rests with the candidate, who
is known for making decisions
more on instinct than other
factors — and for sometimes
changing his mind.
Trump was in California
Thursday for several fundraisers. His schedule put him
at a distance from many of
his closest advisers, including
Manafort and his three oldest
children.
Pence is running for reelection, but Indiana law prevents him from seeking two
offices at once. He faces a
Friday deadline to withdraw
from the governor’s race.
The paperwork has been
drawn up for him to take that
step, according to a Republican, who insisted on anonymity because that person was
not authorized to publicly
discuss the plans. However,
those documents have not
been filed.
FESTIVE HATS — Counselor Alicia Riddell and her Group 2 campers recently made 4th of July hats at
the Athol Recreation Commission’s Summer Playground. Submitted photo
UMass trustees vote to hike tuition by 5.8 pct.
By STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — The
University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees
has voted to hike tuition
at the five-campus system by 5.8 percent for the
2016-2017 academic year.
The hike will result in
an average tuition increase of about $756 this
year for in-state undergraduate students.
UMass President Marty
Meehan said the tuition
increase was critical to
maintaining the university system.
“I believe that in following this course, we will
be preserving the quality
that the citizens of the
Commonwealth need and
expect,” Meehan said in a
written statement.
The new tuition rates
were approved Thursday
on an 11-2 vote.
Tuition, across the system, will now average
$13,862 for in-state undergraduate
students.
The highest tuition will
be $14,590 at the Amherst campus. The least
costly tuition will be at
the Dartmouth campus at
$12,783.
The trustees also approved increases in room
and board rates for the
upcoming academic year.
Meehan said the university is facing a $3.5
million reduction in its
state appropriation for
the current fiscal year at
a time when he said the
system is experiencing
significant expense pressures.
Meehan said those pressures include obligations
relating to a third year of
contracts for unionized
employees, debt service
for capital projects, and
fringe benefits for employees, which combined
will cost an additional
$107 million this year.
He said the tuition increase is part of “a twopronged approach” to
close an $85 million
shortfall and balance the
University’s budget.
HOLYOKE,
Mass.
(AP) — A six-hour standoff between police and
an armed and distraught
veteran barricaded inside
his Holyoke home has
ended with no major injuries.
Police Chief James
Neiswanger says the
standoff ended at about
1 a.m. Friday when police
used beanbag rounds to
disable the man when he
stepped outside with a
rifle on his chest.
The man was taken to
the hospital for evaluation but there was no word
on any criminal charges.
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Insurance Agency has donated $500 to the Athol
Community Elementary School’s Fill Our Bookshelves Committee to provide new books for the new
elementary school opening in September. Funding
for the construction of the school does not provide
for the purchase of books. Each student will have a
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Meehan said the shortfall will be closed by
“spending reductions and
efficiencies” totaling $65
million and the tuition
hike, which is expected to
bring in an extra $23 million.
The $65 million in reductions and efficiencies
include staff reductions,
hiring freezes and other
personnel actions worth
$28 million and “administrative restricting, expected to save $15 million.
The board of trustees
had held off on the tuition hike vote until after lawmakers approved
— and Republican Gov.
Charlie Baker signed —
a new nearly $39 billion
state budget for the fiscal
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beanbags guns
to end standoff