GateHouse News Service New England Budget • Oct. 5, 2007
Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at gatehousenewsservice.com. Please submit stories below no later than 6 p.m. local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. Questions?
Contact: Chris Biondi, (508) 626-4343, cbiondi@gatehousemedia.com
Notes
1) In addition to sports copy that will move this weekend via the pro sports e-mail group, the news service will move photos of Red Sox Game 2 tonight - some during the game - and game photos from Patriots-Browns Sunday. Look for them under the team tabs at the news service site.
2) Tomorrow evening a story and photos will move from the Ledger on funeral of Ciara Durkin.
News
FOR MONDAY PUBLICATION: WEEKLY STATELINE/MASSACTION PACKAGE
STATELINE - Doug Rubin, brought in last April to oversee a huge staff shakeup as Patrick suffered one humiliating public relations fiasco after another, originally said he'd stay just long enough to right the ship of state. But with his six-month anniversary on the job coming up on Oct. 16, Rubin now says he'll stick around as Patrick's chief of staff and right-hand man.
Patriot Ledger, Benner, 18 inches, 6 p.m.
With logo and small Rubin notch shot
MASSACTION - A look at the week ahead.
MetroWest Daily News, Parietti, 6 p.m.
With logo
SOLDIER WAKE - The wake for the Quincy female soldier killed in Afghanistan will be held Friday. What is the community response, and what questions are still outstanding?
Patriot Ledger, Goulart, 10inches, 9 p.m.
With photos
PRIESTS AT A BAR - Advance of "Theology on Tap" - a program, led by a Quincy priest, in which people discuss politics over beers. The group is coming to Bad Abbot's bar, with none other than Cardinal O'Malley as the featured guest Wednesday.
Patriot Ledger, Schoberg, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With photos
60 MILES IN PAIN: GIRL BREAKS ARM, JAW BUT CHAPERONES PUT HER ON A BUS HOME - A 12-year-old middle-school girl had to travel more than 60 miles by bus bleeding and with a broken arm and jaw after falling from a cliff during a class trip to Purgatory Chasm in Sutton - a hiking and rock-climbing park - on a school trip. Even though injured and bleeding, Peart's parents claim school officials, including a nurse who was on the trip, didn't call for an ambulance, and even scolded one of their daughter's friends after she used her cell phone to call for help. She was treated later at Children's Hospital in Boston for a broken jaw and arm.
The Enterprise, 18 inches, on wire now
HUNDREDS HELP LAY MOHEGAN CHIEF STURGES TO REST - About 700 people came to pay their respects to the man who shepherded the Mohegan tribe through federal recognition and towards owning and operating the Mohegan Sun casino.
Norwich Bulletin, Jacobson, 4 inches, on wire now
With photo
CAPE COD LANDSCAPE THAT INSPIRED EDWARD HOPPER MAKES 'MOST ENDANGERED' LIST - A state historic preservation organization named the "Hopper Landscape" as one of the top 10 most endangered resources for 2007 this week.
Cape Codder, Desroches, 15 inches, on wire now
With photo and list of most endangered in Mass.
EXPERTS: NO ONE NOTICED DRUNK FIREMAN? SCITUATE MAN'S LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED AFTER OUI IN MARSHFIELD - Boston Firefighter Paul Cahill, who reportedly had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when he was killed on the job, reported for work an hour before the fatal fire. Alcoholism experts say there was no way someone should have missed the fact that he was intoxicated.
Patriot Ledger, Jennifer Mann and Julie Jette, 20 inches, on wire now
With mugs and sidebar
COUPLE IN SUV PLUNGE DIE - Two workers from Nepal whose car plunged into Plymouth Harbor Sept. 26 have died at Boston Medical Center.
Patriot Ledger, Jette, 12 inches, on wire now
With photos to come
STRANDING GROUPS MERGE TO RESCUE HUNDREDS OF MARINE MAMMALS IN MASS. - You might say it was a whale of an idea; merging the Cape Cod Stranding Network and Yarmouth-based International Fund for Animal Welfare.
The Register, Eldred, 25 inches, on wire now
With photo
'SACCO AND VANZETTI' SCREENING TO EXPLORE FAMOUS CASE - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed 80 years ago for a 1920 armed robbery and double-murder, but their lives and trial are still discussed today - from debates about their innocence to questions over the fairness of their trial.
Milford Daily News, Crocetti, 18 inches, on wire now
With photo
BRISTOL COUNTY DA MAKES EMPLOYEE ALTRUISM MANDATORY - he first-year district attorney announced an initiative Thursday that requires everyone on his staff to volunteer 26 hours per year toward a Bristol County cause.
Herald News, Richmond, 15 inches, on wire now
With photo and editorial (see below)
ELDERLY DRIVERS: STOP OR LET GO? - Good to localize. Statistically, 45- to 75-year-olds are among the safest drivers, and the medical community tends to think testing drivers over 80 is a good idea.
Bedford Minuteman, Ball, 40 inches, on wire now
With photo
Business
JORDAN, SOUTH SHORE HOSPITALS LOOK AT WAYS TO SHARE RESOURCES - The leaders of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and Jordan Hospital in Plymouth have decided that they will work together instead of competing with each other for patients.
Patriot Ledger, Chesto, 12 inches, on wire now
PAPER AND FOOD COMPANY - Taunton-based Perkins is no longer just a paper company. It's
one of the largest food distributors around, with 650 employees and $400 million in sales.
Patriot Ledger, 6 p.m.
With photos
Opinions
MADDOCKS: DEVICE INTRODUCED TO SLOW RUSH TO JUDGMENT IN CONGRESS - Saying that his company was the victim of "a rush to judgment" by a Congressional committee, the head of Blackwater USA introduced plans to build a circular intersection on the congressional floor that he said would slow the judgment of his inquisitors, which he said "was in the best interests of this country and Blackwater USA.
CNC, on wire now
COYLE: FURNISHING A WORLD SERIES WIN - You may recall some months ago, when Barry (or was it Elliot), donned a Red Sox jersey and taped a commercial announcing that Jordan's Furniture would be giving furniture away if the Red Sox won the World Series.
CNC, on wire now
With mug shot to come
EDITORIAL: DA KEEPS PROMISE ON COMMUNITY SERVICE - Consider this a challenge to local political leaders and candidates: Follow Sutter's lead, make a similar commitment and then institute a similar program.
Herald News, on wire now
EDITORIAL: FIREFIGHTER AUTOPSIES - There are a lot of troubling questions regarding the reported autopsy results showing alcohol and cocaine in the blood of two Boston firefighters killed in August. But as upsetting as those questions may be to the families of Paul Cahill of Scituate and Warren Payne, a one-time Canton resident, the public deserves answers as to how impaired these men were when they died and how their conditions could have escaped fellow firefighters and supervisors.
Patriot Ledger, 6 p.m.
MAHONEY CARTOON - SS Phelan bears down on God Ship Koch (Quincy mayor's race.)
EDITORIAL: TOLL HIKES - Increases in Mass. Turnpike tolls announced this week are lower
than some feared, but they could be avoided altogether -- and they may get far worse.
MetroWest Daily News, 6 p.m.
EDITORIAL: CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE - As children's health insurance grows into a major campaign issue distortions of fact are growing as well.
MetroWest Daily News, 6 p.m.
HOLMES COLUMN: The Praying Indians return to Natick.
MetroWest Daily News, 6 p.m.
Sports
A PRO SPORTS BUDGET will be e-mailed this afternoon
A STORY OF CLEVELAND AND ITS ROMEO - The Belichick coaching tree has wilted a bit of late. After posting 6-10 and 4-12 records in his first two years in Cleveland, Romeo Crennel knew his limb was getting shaky as well. But the Browns are looking much healthier now.
MetroWest Daily News, Flynn, 22 inches, on wire now
Lifestyles
HOP ON OVER TO THE LILY PAD FOR SOME INDIE MUSIC - It must be frustrating for Boston-area bands and musicians to have to tell someone they're from Boston, only to be compared to the Dropkick Murphys or Aerosmith.
Cambridge Chronicle, Dunning, 18 inches, on wire now