State Seeking U.S. DOT Role
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A A u iHanrtiPBtPr Mpralft Saturday, Aug. 26, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents NEW RT. 6 TACK TAKEN State seeking U.S. DOT role By Rick Sdntos Manchester Herald I I*’ Department of Transportation is asking H “.‘■^"sPortation Secretary Thomas Larson to nn-i" overturn a decision blocking the ^ ® *0 build a Route 6 expressway. Bill Kiesh, a spokesman for the state DOT said Friday that the DOT has already sent a letter to Larson requesting assistance. The DOT is appeal ing a decision by the New England Division of the Army Corps of Engineers against granting a wetlands permit for the expressway project. The New England Division of the corps, in >a decision released Aug. 4, said that the state DOT’S plan to fill in 77 acres of wetlands for the 11.8-miIe expressway from Bolton Notch to Windham was unacceptable and that the road should be widened instead. The DOT is appealing that decision to the corps national chief of engineering in Washington But in an interview last week, John Hall, chief of the corps regulatory branch in Washington, D.C. said the chief of engineering will probably not overturn the ruling. He said he spoke on behalf of the chief of engineering. Both the state DOT and the Federal Highway Administration say that the plan to widen the road will result in more traffic accidents and fatalities than the expressway plan Kiesh said the DOT has not yet received a response from Larson. In a related development, a group opposing the Route 6 plans is asking the state DOT to abandon the alternative proposal to widen the road. Bob Reutenauer, of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, said the widening plan would affect nearly 100 residential, commercial and historic properties. Dozens of homes and acres of land along the path expressway have already been taken by the state for the project The Connecticut Citizen Action Group had ^ccessfully waged a battle to have the wetlands permit for the expressway plan rejected. In a ^tter sent to DOT Commissioner j. William Burns Fri^day the group wrote. “ We are writing to you m light of the recent Army Corps of Engineers’ decision concerning the Route 6 expressway project and your insistence that the only alternative is the construction of a Berlin Turnpike style highway that Z h ? residential, commercial and historic properties.” The letter continues, “ For 20 years, your department has used the conditon of Route 6 as a Reginald Pinto/MancheSte^^Sm reason to build a new expressway: and for 20 years JUST PEACHY — Brian Tedford, 6, of 21 the Eighth Utilities District Friday. fmnrnv!*!virtually nothing to Bond St., samples some peach short It conditions. The expressway is dead. Organizers said the event attracted It IS time for you to direct the resources of our state cake at the 40th annual Peach Festival in more than 4,000 people. 1 Please see RT. 6, page 3 A Au REGIONAL Weather Record bond Saturday, August 26 Lapointe pleads innocent W c**tif* force Mi for doytMor c o w Sm k m i amA iciii|r,oiurr s set in city Bv Nancy Concelman statement. scene was “ completely stained with blood” and had four cuts in |C»f1b<MiT 6 5 ^ I Manchester Herald Morrissey said Lapointe kept using the word “ blackout” during the center, Novitch said, but she could not determine the blood HARTFORD — A Manchester his confession, telling Morrissey murder case type on the garment. man accused of murdering his at least twice that he didn’t recall Blood stains found on an wife’s grandmother two years the events of the evening. HARTFORD (A P) — A convicted rapist who had Boston I 76°1 Lapointe is described by his envelope in Martin’s living room To>on>o[ 75° ago pleaded innocent to four been free while awaiting trial on another rape I could have been a mixture of counts of murder and six lesser brother Rosair Lapointe as charge was ordered held on $1.6 million bond Friday blood type 0, Martin’s blood type, charges in Hartford Superior slightly retarded because of brain in the murder of a bank executive who was and type A, or a mixture of blood Court Friday. operations. apparently kidnapped on her lunch hour and shot to Yotfcl 78" I type A and body fluids, Novitch Richard Lapointe, 43, of 75 Lapointe left the police station death in a city park. said. Union St., entered his pleas after at around midnight July 4 after Hartford State’s Attorney John Bailey said he A tla n tic During closing arguments, Cul Superior Court Judge Harry being there about eight hours, believed the bail set for Daniel J. Webb, 27, was the O c e a n ligan said he could not present Hammer ruled that probable four of which he spent talking to highest ever in Hartford County. W aaftkylool 82° | strong evidence against the find : ^ VV ^ cause exists to try Lapointe for Morrissey, the detective Webb is charged in the death of Diane Gellenbeck, ing of probable cause to try his the murder of Bernice Martin, 88, testified. 37, of Newington, a vice president at Connecticut eia«e aocu-w* Culligan asked why Lapointe client for murder and felony on March 8, 1987. National Bank who was last seen alive when she left murder. Lapointe requested a jury trial. was allowed to leave the police for her lunch break Thursday. But he said Lapointe should not A pre-trial hearing has been station. Morrissey said police At about 1 p.m. Thursday, police responding to be tried for capital murder, which scheduled for Oct. 16. Lapointe is were waiting to get an arrest reports of gunshots found her bullet-riddled body, is defined in state statutes as a Weather being held at Bridgeport Correc warrant. fully clothed except for shoes, lying near the golf Beryl Novitch, a lead criminol murder committed in the course tional Center on $500,000 bond. course in Keney Park. Police were awaiting test ogist with the State Police Fore of sexual assault. Manchester and vicinity: Today, sunny. High 70 Police said Martin had been results to see if she had been raped. Culligan argued that according to 75. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Saturday night, stabbed, strangled and sexually nsic Laboratory in Meriden, A spokesman for the bank said Ms. Gellenbeck testified earlier in the hearing to Lapointe’s July 4 confession, he clear. Low near 50. Sunday, sunny. High 75 to 80. assaulted before a fire was set in was single and had worked for the bank for 16 years. that semen found on Martin’s murdered Martin after sexually Northwest: Today, sunny. High in the middle 70s. her apartment at 251A North About four hours later, after police surrounded his bedspread came from a man with assaulting her. No evidence was Northwest wind around 10 mph. Saturday night, Main St. to cover up the crime. Bloomfield home, Webb turned himself in at blood type A, but that blood found presented to show that Martin clear. Low 50 to 55. Sunday, sunny. High near 80. Manchester police arrested La Hartford police headquarters. on Martin’s sheets and pillow was was murdered during the sexual Coastal: Today, sunny. High in the middle 70s. pointe July 5 and charged him The attack in the park bore an eerie resemblance type 0, Martin’s blood type. Variable wind less than 10 mph becoming southwest with first-degree murder, felony assault, Culligan said. to the 1984 kidnap and rape that landed Webb in Morrissey testified that in Judge Hammer decided that 5 to 15 mph during the afternoon. Saturday night, murder, arson murder, capital prison. He was convicted of abducting a woman June, Lapointe voluntarily gave under a Supreme Court ruling on clear. Low 55 to 60. Sunday, sunshine giving way to murder, first-degree arson, first- from the Hartford Civic Center parking garage, The Aoaoclated Preoa police a saliva sample that capital murder, the charge is some high cloudiness. High near 80. degree assault, first-degree as taking her to Keney Park and raping her twice. Novitch said showed he has blood sault of a person over 60 years of valid if sexual assault is Police have not confirmed that Ms. Gellenbeck LIFE IS A CARROUSEL — This one of tne rides at the Caledonia County age, first-degree sexual assault, type A. attempted. was kidnapped Thursday, but two legal sources said Fair in Lyndonville, Vt. During cross examination by youngster shows why it’s called a Air Quality third-degree sexual assault and Culligan also argued against she was kidnapped at the Civic Center garage Culligan, Novitch said the Man merry-go-round Thursday as she enjoys kidnapping. the arson murder charge, citing before she was taken to the park. chester Police Department had If convicted of those charges, the state medical examiner’s NEW HAVEN. Conn. (AP) — The ragweed-pollen Lapointe could receive the death given her two other samples of “ Based on her (appointments) calendar, there count for Connecticut on Friday was 60 and the saliva to test, one of which autopsy report, which said Mar was no reason for her to be in the park at that time,” penalty. tin died of asphyxiation by mold-spore level was moderate, reported the During testimony at a probable showed blood type A. said Hartford police Lt. Frederick Lewis. The strangulation and smoke Hospital of Saint Raphael. cause hearing Friday, Detective A knife blade found in the sprawling public park in Hartford’s North End is Anti-abortion group disciaims inhalation.