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Boston Police Looks to Consultants for Guidance I I Get your :;>.,~c,·... f~-Iast-minute gifts I] Community Newspaper Company www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton DECEMBER 15 - 21, 1998 Vol. 3, No. 35 Two Sections 50¢ Funding approved for track removal Starting date still undetermined, despite decision By Debra Goldstein TAB Staf!Writer he Mo.Ssachusetts Office of Administration and Finance T Secretary Fred Laskey last week signed off on Brighton's A­ Line track removal project, releasing state funds to remove unused trolley tracks that run along Camb1idge, Washington and Tremont streets. The move ends nearly three decades of frustration for motorists who have been negotiating the neighborhood's rough roads since Kathleen Hester, mother of Allston murder ,·ictim Rita Hester, i~ comforted by her son, DarreU, left, and daughter, Eartha, after speaking to the crowd that 1969 - when the last trolley tra­ assembled at Allston 's Model Cafe for a candJelight vigil in Rita's memory. Rita Hester \\aS murdered on Nov. 28. versed the fonncr A-Linc. Although public transpottation advocates have lobbied to restore the A-Line service, many community members have 'Rita' murder mystery still unsolved complained about the tracks' pres­ ence on Brighton's three main thor­ oughfares, saying the tracks were a Friends and family lament death in her 21 Parkvale Ave. apartment on home in Connecticut. A handful of vigils, safety hazard and an eyesore. Saturday, Nov. 28. Police have not yet benefits and rallies have been held in her Last week's decision arrived rough­ death of Allston resident named any suspects in the case, which is memory over the last two weeks. ly I0 years after community members still under investigation. Most recently, a benefit concert with local and public officials first launched their By Debra Goldstein Members of Boston's transgender com­ band and female impersonators was held in fight to get the tracks removed. An TAB Staff Writer munity last week reacted with anger and her honor last Sunday night at Jacques, a unsigned contract had been sitting in he murder of Allston resident Rita sadness to the murder, and the media cover­ transgender club in Boston. Last Friday, the governor's Administration and Hester is stilI unsolved. age that has accompanied it. Dec. 11, the murder was at the top of the Frnance office since Oct. 28, when the T Rita. a transsexual whose birth Friends and family mourned Rita last agenda of activists who gathered outside the Massachusetts Highway Department's name was William Hester, was stabbed to Tuesday at a funeral held near her childhood MURDER, page 30 Board of Commissioners voted unani- TRA CKS, page 30 Boston police looks to consultants for guidance Police Department is still to ensure outside consultants to provide extra have increasingly open to the idea Department spends big money for the safety and well-being of the training and career development. of opening the department's doors .outside help to improve performance city's residents, combining the best ''It's just like any business going to outsiders for help. Boston, like neighborhood policing methods to a management consultant," said other cities across the country, is By Linda Rosencrance Gone are the days when an on­ from the past with modem technolo­ Sgt. Det. Margot Hill, the depart­ turning to these consultants to help TAB Staf!Writer duty officer carried a 6-foot blue gy. But training is no longer kept in­ ment's spokeswoman. "You don't it evaluate services, develop promo­ !though the mission of the and white pole to protect himself house as in days past, when young promote people to be managers tional tests, provide psychological Boston Police Department and a "police rattle" to call for assis­ recruits received basic training in without teaching them to be man­ services to officers and assist with A has always been to keep tance. Gone, too, are the days of the police academy, and received agers. We started about 10 years implementing community policing the city safe, you can rest assured merely patrolling the streets and any follow-up training from older, ago, when we used to send people - a holistic approach to law that this year's model is not your locking up bad guys. more experienced officers. to Babson College for training." enforcement that has officers work- father's police department. Today, the focus of the Boston Today, the department looks to Since that time, Boston Police CONSULTANTS, page 29 res s elea ed WORKING_"A_SE_CTl_ON_WO_RT_H _EM~~~~s~§: see page 15 (' l ( I I >, ''I t''' I j' I I J), I I I I Page 2 The Allston-Brighton TAB, December 15-21, 1998 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton EXTRA 100/oOFF ~ECTGIFfto choose when you ..___ ALL DAY can't choose a gift ._______ _, when you open MACY'S a Macy's charge account. ELECTRONIC See your Sales Associate for details. 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Sun.-Mon. 8-11 Tues. 8-12 Wed. 7-12 Thurs. 8-11 Fri. 8-12 Sat. 7-12•Boston Sun. 10-8 Mon. 9-10 Tues. 8-10 Wed. 7-10 Thurs. -Fri. 8-10 Sat. 7-10 •Shop Warwick Sun. 10-8 Mon. 9-11 Tues. 8-12 Wed . 7-12 Thurs . 9-11 Fri. 8-12 Sat. 7-12 I I • I ~ I I I 1 www.townonline.com/allstonbrighton December 15-21, 1998 The Allston-Brighton TAB, page 3 Court is expected to rule on eviction Construction of a new Brighton Center post office hinges on outcome of legal proceedings By Debra Goldstein TAB Staff Writer Brighton District Court judge is expect­ ed to make a ruling A this week on a proper­ ty dispute that is holding up con­ struction plans for a new Brighton Center Post Office. A sketch of the proposed Brighton post office building, as it would be seen from Washington Street. Frank Capaldi, who purchased the 418 Washington St building in practice at 418 Washington St. for As of May 1, Farber was claiming construction. The Postal Service's Brighton Center from Citizens Bank 20 years. Farber's five-year lease an entitlement to lease the 656- existing customer service center is this summer and planned to lease the expired April 30 and neither Citizens square-foot office spa€e for another "In order to get the located at 409 Washington St., property to the U.S. Postal Service, Bank nor Capaldi claim to have five years at a rate of $1 ,000 per proper amount of across the street from the existing has taken Dr. Arnold Farber to court accepted the tenant's submission of a month. He refused to consider mov­ distribution center - where mail is in an attempt to evict him from the new five-year lease. Farber has con­ ing and demanded more·than space it necessitated sorted and distributed - and pro­ site. He filed the court notice to begin tinued to occupy and pay rent for his $500,000 to vacate the premises. tearing down this posed new post office site. '"They're eviction proceedings on Aug. 17. office since then, on a month-to­ In his court documents, Farber going to maintain their current oper­ Farber is the onJy tenant remain­ rnonth basis. pointed to the plumbing and dental building," ations to the public," said Born. ing in the building. Capaldi pur­ The plaintiff, Capaldi, argued in equipment he had installed in his '"The post office needs more room chased the building with the intent court that Farber did not maintain office as justification for rejecting Stephen Born for their operations," said Born. The of tearing it down and building a the proper liability and property the buyout offers. Postal Service made a commitment state-of-the-art post office, connect­ damage insurance which was a If the court case is resolved soon, to keep their offices mBrighton ing to the adjoining postal distribu­ breach of the lease agreement, justi­ construction of a new post office Center to keep it accessible to the tion center building at 424 fying the termination of the lease. could begin as early as this spring. ''We could wrap up these docu­ public, Born explained. "In order to Washington St He has been work­ According to court documents sulr Architect Bargmann Hendrie + ments in mid to late January, and get the proper amount of space it ing with Brighton Main Streets and mitted by Capaldi, he and Citizens Archetype has been contracted for then it may take about a month to go necessitated tearing down this build­ representatives from the post office Bank offered to pay Farber $100,000 the project. Their composite draw­ out to bid," said Born. Once a con­ ing," said Born. to develop a design for the building to leave the premises, along with the ings of what the post office will look tractor is chosen and signs a contract Capaldi, under advisement of his since he purchased the property last option to relocate his business to the like are about 50 percent complete, for the project, demolition and con­ lawyer, had no comment about the June.
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