Monday, April 22, 2013
Hundreds came to Stoneham Monday afternoon to pay their respects to the late MIT officer.
Flags at half-staff, a police caravan leading a hearse and the Patriot Guard Riders lining Main Street in Red, White and Blue. A long, almost silent trail of mourners waiting to enter a local funeral home and a row of TV news trucks. Bystanders and passersby no longer have to ask, “What happened?” “What’s going on?” They know. It’s a scene that’s become all too familiar – Sunday in Medford, Monday in Stoneham and at Boston University and soon in Dorchester. On Monday in Stoneham, police paid respects to one of their own, 27-year-old Sean Collier, an officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot and killed Thursday night in his police car. Hundreds of others also attended the wake for Collier, a Wilmington native and …
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
See which Hollywood Actress is in the area.
Julia Stiles has been shooting her made-for-TV movie, “The Makeover,” throughout Boston this month, and now her project has landed next door to Arlington – in Somerville. Crews were scheduled to shoot at “inside locations” on Hudson Street, which parallels Highland Avenue just south of Davis Square in Somerville, Thursday and Friday, according to an announcement the city sent to neighbors. One neighbor who observed the film crew’s set-up said filming would take place at a house near the intersection of Hudson and Lowell streets. Indeed, the Somerville Board of Aldermen approved an event permit Thursday for the shoot, somewhat retroactively, for 73 Hudson St. and nearby 20 Vernon St. There was no word, as of Thursday morning, on whether …
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Rev. Paul A. LaCharite, 65, of Boston, was arrested Friday afternoon. He served as a minster at Saint James Episcopal Church in Somerville's Teele Square, and the alleged assaults began in the 1990s, according to the Middlesex District Attorney.
A former minister at Saint James Episcopal Church in Somerville's Teele Square, near the Arlington town line, has been arrested and accused of sexual assault on a child, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Rev. Paul A. LaCharite, 65, of Boston, was arrested Friday afternoon. The alleged assault began in the 1990s and took place over the course of 10 years, the announcement says. According to the announcement, Somerville police are investigating the case and are asking that anyone with information contact them at 617-625-1212 ext. 7220 or the Middlesex District Attorney’s child abuse unit at 781-897-8400. No one answered the phone at Saint James Episcopal Church Friday evening. Below is the …
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Paul Tranfaglia
12:51 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Officer Collier gave his life in the execution of his sworn duty to protect and to serve the public which-by all accounts to say nothing of his death-Officer Collier took very seriously. To belittle his sacrifice in any way, for any agenda or purpose is simply disgusting. more ›