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~ . A-B has anew state ~PAGE3 .: :~) " ' .}: ...." ,: 1111 Community Newspaper Company • allstonbrightontab.com FlfIDAY: OCTOBER 12, 12, NO.9 . 40 Pages • 3 Sections 75¢ •• , SENTENCED , . Stabbing OLD! suspect gets six Inonths jail By Richard Cherecwlch Attorney Daniel STAFF WRITER F. Conley. The Brighton man was cha!Ee5 stem sentenced to six from an attack A months in jail and . on a Jamaica more than two years of proba Plain man at the tion after he pleaded guilty to Communily participating in the group beat CoUcge MBTA down and stabbing of a man at Darren station on an Orange Line subway station. Hemingway March 29. Darren Hemingway, 18, pleaded In addition to the six months guilty in Charlestown Municipal behind bars, Hemingway will be Comt last week to two counts of as on probation for two and a half sault and battery with a dangerous years after his release and is re- weapon, according to a press re lease from Suffolk County District ASSAULT, page 25 MCAS STARS Local K-8 school shines on state exam STAff PHOto BY 0IIIrII0 GOAOON outside their newly acquired school building Wadnesday aftemoon, Oct. 10. Mary Lyon students out-peifonn l .~ peers on MCAS School sale to close this week By Richard Cherecwlch • goal was tu put-something that was a com education classes and immigrant outreach Richard Cherecwlch them scored in the advanced STAffwmTER munity anchor back into the hands of the prOgranlS. STAff WRITER range, placing them in a tie for A fler nearly three years of Challeng~ community. PSF has always represen~ Negotiations stalled many times before Boston Public School students fourth best in the state. On the .l"\and countless hours of commitrnen the community voice and this will help us the group entered into a purchase and sale improved passing rates in nearly English exam, 92 percent of the and work, the Presentatioh School Founda make sure our vision becomes a reality." agreement with the archdiocese last year every subject at every grade level eighth-graders scored proficient t.on bas a monumental victory to celebrate, Tb~ archdiocese closed the school and that gave them one year to raise $1 million on the state-mandated MCAS None of the Lyon eighth-graders i. will acquire the former Our Lady of the parish in 2004, even locking .the doors two to buy the building. That agreement was set exams this year, but it was a who took the English, math and Presentation School building from th days before school was scheduled to end, to expire on Oct. 16. science exams failed . Brighton school that shined, post Archdiocese of Boston on Thursday or Fri Since th~ the community has worked tire "The agreement created an opportunity, ing some of the best nllmbers in "At all of the grade levels our day, sources close to the sale say. lessly tI:)~hase the property and create a and we needed to seize that .opportunity," the state. kids do extremely well, mostly ''Its overwhelming. Just wonderful,' community center offering pre-school, PSF chairman Kevin Carragee said. ''It because we we give them a . The eighth-graders at the Mary think I'SF president Jennifer Doyle said. "Our summer school, student enrichment, adult PRESENTATION, page 25 Lyon School·showed they· knew strong foundati on in reading, their arithmetic, as 54 percent of MCAS, page 24 Planning issues toP) at-large c uncil candidates' forum By Richard Cherecwlch seats up for grabs on Nov. 6 as well. Civic Association. stances on the neighborhood's isslles, On the issue of creating more open STAFF WRITER Wednesday night, eight of tbe nine Incumbents Felix Arroyo, ranging from zonIng and institutional ex space in A-B, Arroyo focused on his pm While Allston-Brighton residents are candidates for councilor at-large partici Flaherty, Stephen Murphy Sam pansion to public schools and affordable posal for creating a planning department focused on deciding who will be the next pated in a forum at the Brigh~>D Elks, Yoon and challengers Michael Cj>nnc,lly, housing. separate from the Boston Redevelop District 9 City Councilor to represent the sponsored by the Brighton AlMon Im Matthew Geary, Martin and Challenger William ESlJada did not ment Authority, saying it will allow neighborbood, there are four at-large provement Association and the Allston David Wyatt were able to their participate. DEBATE page 24 INSIDE CONVENIENCE C 'ONUNDRUM Scenic route Walgreens moving in, more traffic worries neighbors Richard Cherecwlch STAFF WRITER , utt just doesn't seem to ...~ . EDUCATION National pharmacy chain Wal , , greens plans to expand into All make sense to put a . ston with a proposed Union Walgreens smack dab Power to heel Square location, but the members of the Brighton Allston Improve in the middle of stores ~SEEPAGE 15 ment Association are not too keen 5E~ling the same stuff." on adding more traffic to the al- ready busy intersectiOQ. Pasquale, The proposed 14,000 square- _________Joan Allston _ PYCCKOE foot building will be erected at ' [1Je Landmarks Commission 465-475 Cambridge St. in place IIPHAO)KEHHE! haH already voted to allow the de of the Jim Did It sign company molition of the buildings, accord ~SEE PAGE 20, 21 building. The adjacent J:'/eon Williams building on Hano Street ing to Drew LeI! of OLC Devel • /iYrlac"u of AUston walks up Glenville Street on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 9 • will be demolished as well, mak opment Resources, the developer ing room "for a 35-space parking. of the project lot with entrances on both Hano '!be new building will feature a Commentary 10 and Cambridge streets. - BAIA, page 24 Community Notes 6 )I.\EL ~~ Call Fot oj Free Crime 4 CIIIIH WIUf :TU : llortgage Loans JW£UI/ Market An~lysisl \1 . ~ Laundry&.. Ubrary Notes 22 local knowledge. '. Cleaners Ontu~ IE Sports lExperienced answers. --~2t EducatIon 22 \~ Auto • Expert Cleaning Shawmut Properties . • Shirt Service 134 Tremont Street : Brighton 1 Work Injuries Peoples Oak Square YMCA 4 1 Federal SavIngs Bank 615 Washington St All work done on premises. Your Neighborhood Realtor® Ilrigh.on. MA 01/35 20 F'ranklin 51., Brighlon AiIs.oo 229 <11h Harvard Srretr 535 Was,hlngton 5treet • Brighron 435 Marke. Srretr 617·781-3515 Tel. 617·787·2121 www.ymcaboston.org (617) 787-8700 ~l (6 1 7)25+<J~=. prsb . com 617-254-9730 www.C2J!;.hawnrul.com 2007 I ". BRIGHTON.ALlSTONBy Bill M~::~ I ':~~L~SOCIETY Here '~ the answ~r to Ls week's contest (we decades. Adjacent Wade Street was also put J. Lewis Jr., a specialist in residential Thetand on which Hunningham Hall sits orig gave you the hint last webk): Hunningham Hall, through in 1897, but remained undeveloped until architecture. Lewis is credited with inally formed part of the Brown Estate. The at 2018 Commonwealth Ave., southeast comer of lll)ICb later. designed hundreds of private resi- Brown family resided in a farmhouse at the Wade Street, was built ~ 1897., shortly after the This structure is ope of the last vestiges of a and some 35 churches in the course of a northeast comer of ommonwealth Avenue and upper end of Common"lealth Avenue (the sec time wben tbe upper end of Commonwealth Av- career that extended from 1881 , Foster Street. By 1890, the parcel on which Hun tion extending from Chestnut Hill Avenue to the enue was :tined with large-scale private resi- graduated from the MIT architecture niogharn Hall would be built had passed into the Newton line) was widene/l in 1895. Hunningham denees. until his death in 1937. His most no- hands of developer Edward P Noyes, who subse Hall was the residence of Nathaniel B. Doggett, The Georgian Revival style Hunningbam work was Boston's Second Unitarian quently sold it to Margaret Wade, who laid out and continued in the D<\ggett family for three Hall was designed by leading Boston architect Wade Street. Hint: So widespread was Allston ci Winners Brighton's automotive supply indus f ext week's contest try, which was concentrated primarily This is the time the Marian Quinrz and Tom Mc- along the so-called Auto'. Mile on TAB has reaturMIthis install- Carthy, Wimwrs in the second lower Commonwealth and Brighton i Avenu ' in Allston, that related enter ':, .'. mentofthe The round are: prises Dligrated even into the Brighton , first time the were Bill Center area. Here we see a picture of Grant Ring and Bearings, with two Donovan, Woods, Jackie Vanas RINGS & BERRINGS Jn( employees standing on the sidew3!k outside the store (their identity unfor • tunately unknown). The date is 1950. ..... '", C:ontes1tsto return soon Can you identify the location? '-1; is giving you another crack at some of this year's Please e-mail your answer to all , c~;tj~~,~Th~e contests we're featuring a second time had be [email protected], fax it to tween zero and four the first time around We're reprinting the names of 781-433-8202 or call it in to 781-433- the folks who won the first time around, and they are not e.ligible to parqcipate 8365 . If you leave a message, I'!I<.... '-t' ... , .......' during this second round (we hope, though, that they won't give away the an spell your name slowly and swer to their friends! . As for the rest of you, let'S see if yOG were paying atten- and include your first and last name. tion. Brand-new . of the history contest will renlffi this month. Also leave your telephone number in case we need to contact you questions ahout your answer. All swers must be received by noon on Help t~e histot:'ic::al society Wednesday, Oct.