COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER I COMPANY 0000000370 970513 I ••CR15 ~ILLIAH P . MARCHIONE JO KENRICK ST BRI~HTON MA 02135-3804 ALL THE PRESIDENTS' MOVIES ByDavidBrudnoy -- -------------------~---- nrr: 31 1996 JAN 6 1997 ' ' 1 r. ' ,, ~1G p l'i•'S , T (1 St>r tirJll', soc ALSO: The arts year in rev~ew Library branch proposed for Stop & Shop.:site • According to Sarah Leonard, the neighbor­ no word from Stop & Shop Shop too; parents could drop City asks supennarket hood services representative for Allston­ officials. · their kids off and go shop­ chain for space at former Brighton, Menino has asked Stop & Shop to "'Ibis would be a perfect ''This would be a ping." allow the city to site the new library branch location," said Paul Berkeley, perfect location." Several months ago, Ryerson Steel plant in its development in the former Ryerson president of the Allston Civic Allston-Brighton City Steel plant off of Western Avenue. Association and chairman of a Paul Berkeley, president, Councilor Brian Honan said By Linda Rosencrance Leonard said the mayor asked Stop & Shop community task force created Allston Civic Association the new Allston library would m StaJJWrikr for about 20,000 of the 34,500 square feet of to go iron out potential prob­ be constructed on the site of space adjacent to its main building. The space ifficult problems often need creative lems with the developer. "It ••••••••• the city's Department of IOlulions. Recently Mayor~ is currently intended for one or two smaller would be close enough to the. Public Works yard at the cor- M. Menino came up with juM such retail stores. Thomas Gardner Elementary School and St. ner of Everett Street and Western Avenue. LI bklll IO a difticult problem - where to Leonard said Meniao approached super­ Anthony's School. And it would be conve­ However. Leonard said the city was hav­ P""!"'!:.I. *""....... Allston martet officials about the idea nearly three nient for kids al, the Jackson Mann SchOOI in ing ttouble finding a new Joc:adM fiJr Cbo .• ft... Niic Library. weeks ago. At press time, there had been Union Square. lt would be great for Stdp & u-~- TABSlt#..,, ftermme lhan nine month.~ of protest and persistence, the protag­ onists in Allston-Brighton's biggest news story of 1996 are Abeaded for an encore in 1997. In a year where the old A-Line tracks were finally removed from Brighton Aven~. a decaying pond finally got the The Year In Review aaention of City Hall and Allston moved closer to finally getting a library, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center earned the most headlines in Allston-Brighton. The story appeared to have come to an end this fall, when the city sided with ~ Allston residents and voted against a plan ~ by Granada House to move onto Adamson '" Slreet But this complex story of backyard ~ politics ~ taken another tum. ~ An appeal by the operators of Granada ~ House is expected to be heard in Suffolk ~ Superior Court on Feb. 20. If the appeal is ~ .. granted. it would allow Granada House to The most dramatic story of l9% may well have been the redesign of local streets, following the removal of old, unused tracks. move into the home, and would come REVIEW, page 22 port the TAB -Community Food Drive 1996 see inside tor drop-off 1oca1ions DENTAL CARE ASSOCIATES Dr. James H. Chalmers, Jr., D.M.D. & Associates KITCHEN ~ 280 Washington St., Brighton, MA 617-783-0869 ~xciting New Menu! 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To us, curbside recycling By Marie leccese is much more acceptable. It's easier CNC Staff Writer and it's working." narrow majority of legis­ lators h$ already signed A on to a measure that ''This will be the top would expand the state's bottle and can deposit law to include wine, environmental priority liquor, juices, spring water, sports for next year on drinks and other beverages. But even though 91 of 160 state Beacon Hill. The more Although toll bootm have been removed from the Mimachusetts Turnpike recently, Gov. William Weld h8.1 suggeAed raising toll iq>itseiltalives and 21 of 40 state trash we bury, burn rates at the Allston-Brighton toll pla7.a. llCl'l8lors support the proposal, that • doesn't ncces.wily mean the bill and litter, the worse will become law. our environmental At some point in the long and lricky Beacon Hill legislative problems become." Free the Pike group ~. the biU could be killed in commiuee by a chairman who Amy Perry of the Massachusetts opposes it or blocked by a member Public Interest Research Group d die leadmhip. slams toll hike proposal A similar bill bu been filed every lelliol1 since 1991 and has failed to Coalition believes Boston and Cambridge via much to afford its share of the Big Dig." nllb it out d committee. "It's not as simple as they'd lead shorter trips on the turnpike and pay The Free the Pike Coalition, One d lhe bill's main sponsors, you to believe," said Chris Flynrr~ plan may draw considerably less ha~e been ambiva- working with a team of legislators lllle Sen. Loia Pines (D-Newton) president of the Massachusetts Food • lent about the toll system. spearheaded by Sen. Warren Tolman lllid ••pm confaenoe last week Association. 'rille question that commuters to But if tolls do double, Hubschman (D-Watertown), ~ fiJed legisJaDon 111111 im't libly IO happen in 1997. should be asked is this: What would its cause predicted that these once-siJent com­ that, if approved, would mmdafe lhe -n.it ia 1be first year in which we the public rather do, deal with their muters will protest loudly, giving elimination of all Mas&. Pike tolls by lm'VO I~ ofHOUBC members trash in a comprehensive fashion By Joseph Mont Jegs to a legislative proposal that 2003. ml Seilale menhn," Pines said, and use the recycling programs that TAB Staf!Writer would eliminate all Ma.'IS. Pike tol1s. Accmfing to Hubschman. die law "IDd in plll years we didn't have an have been started in cities and he possibility that the lbal aeml die 1\llllilUe.Aqill orpniald coddon chat aped this towns, or try to figure out which can " can fee for motorists travel­ shall become part of the state high­ Public lnlereSl Research Group, a deposit law - still known as "'The ing in and out of the Mass. Pike you need to raise tolls way SyslpD and~then:afta" be lobbying group that is leading the Bottle Bill" - took effect in 1983, through Allston-Brighton and to pay for the Big Dig mai11fai~ nl Imat- 1Qlh fbr the new law, said, "This Mac;sPIRG's Perry said, "dramatic Cambridge offers both bad news and tolls." will be die top environmental priori­ changes in the drink market have flCW opportunity for a group trying is absolute nonsense." ~ dle'Pih's Jmg-nnming claim iYfar next ymr on Beacon HilL The occurml. The sale of bottled fruit to eliminate tolls on the roadway. is that die TumpiU Ambmity ..­ IDDnl lralh we bmy, bmn and litter, drinks is up by more rhan 1,000 per­ According to Harold Hubschman, Harold Hubschman. co-chairman, larly issues new, nl •alMIXlllllly, should bonds so lhal it can remain in a"* die worse our environmental prob­ cent in that time. We contin­ co-chainnan of the Free the Pike Fre~ the Pike Coalition lelm become." ue the Bottle Bill's successes into Coalition. the proposal to raise tolls rl perpecual debt, lhcrc:by pmerving The retail and be~e industries BOTILE, page 9 is a setback from~ the group lhe need for tolls ..ensuring the thought it had made when Gov. continued growth rl its 1ucralive William Weld named state Secretary Toll increases for the bureaucracy.