Brighton gets (yearlong) j p on bicentennial ... I nCommunity Newspaper Company Vol. 10, No. 23 44 Pages 3 Sections 75¢ ..... ::.... ... ... Bestfriend almost visited deadly apartment By Audltl Guha STAFF WRITER .R obert Joseph is a lucky man. The 45-year-old Arlington resident was Julio Ceus' best friend and could've been in the apartment where the Allston resident was fatally shot Sunday night "I don't know what happened," a distraught Joseph said. "I talked to him at about 7 p.m. and he asked me to stop by. I was so tired I said I would call him later." Joseph went home after work about 9:30 p.m. and tried calling his friend several times on his cell phone and wondered what was wrong since he usually answered. "Later that night I was sitting in my room watching TV, when his brother called and said, MURDER, page 10 Allston knows all about murder By Amanda Patterson CORRESPONDENT he murder of two people in their homes this ... T weekend was the first murder in Allston in almost a year. Many residents were shocked at the violence, and a look at the recent neighbor­ STAFF PW\10 BY DAVE G<lRDON hood murder show it is no Mayberry RFD. e two people were shot and killed Sunday. • In February 2005, a man was shot and killed .out~ide the Paradise on Commonwealth Avenue. The police found Alexander Gonzales, 32, fa e I <lo' n on lhe sidewalk with a head wound at 2 a.m. Feb. 4. He \his pronounced dead at Beth By Audltl Guha 'Then he heard the ~irens and saw the street "It · a sketchy house," she said. 'There are al­ Deaconess Medical Center. STAFF WRITER flo6ded \\ith police crwsers. way guys hanging out on the stoop and going Gonzales was denied admission to a reggae isa Ottaviana, 29, was lying down SunJay Smoking a cigarette outside her building Moixlay throu the garbage." show around 1:50 a.m. because the club was L night in her Kelton Street apartment when night, next do::r to 244 Kelton St, where two resi­ Po ·ce evidence stickers were still on cars on closing at 2 a.m., according to Paradise General she heard some loud sounds. deris were fatillly shot thi5 week, Ottaviana looked the o er side of the street at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Manager Rebecca Nolan. "It sounded like fireworks and I didn't thtnk at the )ellow police tape SUITOUiding the sidewalk, and sersby slowed down to stare at the build­ A gun believed to be the murder weapon was much of it," she said. the truck and floodlights and shook her head NEIGHBORHOOD, page 10 HISTORY, page 10 . I Turns out, plenty of use c ying over spilt cyanide By Audltl Guha herited the problem fron- the in Suffolk Superior Co properly store and manage hazardous Company spokesman Arthur Trapot­ STAFF WRITER owners. cording to a press release. waste in violation of Mass. DEP regula­ sis said the firm generates no such waste Days after the Allston-Brighton TAB The fiim discharged p)llutants with­ 'This settlement will e ance and pro­ tions. and were swprised to learn this them­ published an article about environmental out a permit from i~ fac.lity at 76 Ash­ tect important waters of the common- The company, which manufactures selves, as it only releases sterilized water pollution, an Allston company has been ford St.. Allston, mto the Charle River wealth, including the arles River, medical and laboratory equipment such coming in contact with metal. fined $35,000 on charges of unlawful in viol;ttion of the Oean Water A.,.c~ ac­ from pollution," Reilly "d. "We are as sterilizers for universities and hospi­ He added the firm unknowingly inher­ discharge of pollutants into the Charles cordin to a l.'Omplaint fil1!d by Attoroey pleased to take this action o help remove tals worldwide, allegedly produced in­ ited the waste with the site when the River laced with cyanide. Gener.ti Tom Reilly, on behalf of the De­ pollutants from our en · ent." dustrial wastewater which included family-owned business took off in 1973. Consolidated Machine Corp. said it in- partm nt of Emironmenial Protecnon, Reilly alleges the com any failed to cyanide-bearing wastes. DUMPING, page 15 Wicked cool Allege'I Wiers National music had tE~enage mag likes local singer's 'Vibe' help, cops say """SEE PAGE35 By Audltl Guha robbing and fatally stabbing 31- PYCCKOE STAff fl -L year-old Heureur Previlon early Two Boston men charged \\ ith on the morning of Aug. 25. I1P A" lfE robbing and killing a cabdriver in Proseeutors charged the 16- .... SEEPAGE32 Brighton last year may have had year-old as an accessory. a shocking accomplice, if prose­ As their case moved to Superi­ cutors are to be believed. They or Court, prosecutors announced TlllfiWEEK. ... charged a 16-year-old girl with that a juvenile girl walked to the going back to the crune scene and cab sh<itly after the mwtler and Commentary 12 looking for an) clues left behind retrieve(l items the defendants Convnunlty Notes 28 by the stabber left at the scene at the request of Jashawn Robinson; 21. of the alle~ed killers. Crime 7 Brighton, and Cleveland Martin, Pre''ilon, a Chelsea resident, PHOTO BY MATIHEW HEALEY 19, of Dorchester, were held was found dead that morning in­ ln&-year--0ld Eliza Ladell-Mauro of Brighton, front, screams while Kerry Riley, 10, hangs on as the o friends sled at Rogers Park on Sunday. 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C2 I shawmul. com 7 98238 60009 2 § ~FDIC. 617-713-4300 Page 2 Allston-Brighton TAB Friday, January 13, 2006 www.allstonbrightontab.com ~~--;:--~~--~~-t--~-:-~~~~~~-t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~----:--'-~~~~:....:..:..::===::::::E::::::::.:=::.:..::.::: Not an u:gl~ due Group ofSl1Jans now calls Che tnut Reservoir home " By Diane Cordova said it is unlikely this is the swans' Perkins explained why the CORRESPONOENT first visit to the reservoir. swans would come to the reser­ A bevy of swans has made "It's entirely possible the same voir. Chestnut Hill Reservoir in adults or other swans visited nu­ ''They were moving around-it>'. ' Brighton its temporary home. merous times before people start­ cally and investigating this reser: The group includes about five ed noticing them. Swans are long­ voir as a potential feeding an&or · adult swans and 15 cygnets, or lived and tend to remember places nesting area. They don't usuaIJ.y young swans. they have been before," said stay at one pond for the entire wm'; Their fairly recent emergence Perkins. ter," said Perkins. "In the winter,'' astonishes some city folks. it's all about food. That's tlleit "I was shocked. I never remem­ More aliens only real objective." ' bered seeing swans in there ever," According to Perkins, the Their diet includes, but is rlbt • said Rosie Hanlon, a longtime res­ swans at Chestnut Hill Reservoir limited to, aquatic plants and vati- '. ident of Brighton who has been have another side to them. ous aquatic invertebrates, accotd- 1 visiting the reservoir her entire ''We're talking about a nonna­ ing to Perkins. "' ' life., 'It's a thing of beauty for tive species, mute swans. They "Most swans are near the [East] : me.'' can create problems for the native Coast. They tend to gravitate on t:>r · Hanlon, who usually walks wildlife, plants and animals and near the coast. The reservoit i ~ around the reservoir every morn­ the overall ecosystems," said close enough to the coast to make ing, said she started noticing the Perkins. ''They're very large, terri­ it a likely location to find swans," · swans last spring, and noticed the torial and aggressive around their said Perkins. young swans started appearing in territories. In the end, Chestnut Hill Reser­ October. 'The bottom line is the U.S. voir serves only as a temporary" Another visitor to the reservoir, Fish and Wtldlife Service is trying home for the swans. "' Maggie Sullivan, was exercising "I hadn't been "'alking here for strange," Jd Sullivan, a Newton swans until the past year, to corttrol their numbers, and "If the reservoir freezes up, they~ when she first spotted the swans a while. There were tons of them J'l!Sident. Massac usettsAudubon Society's Mass. Audubon Society supports will probably move to saltwater• Dec.23. yesterday. I thcught it wac; Although people haven't no- staff o thologist, Simon Perkins, that effort." somewhere," said Perkins. ·~;. Parochial school or paving parking lot~ ·' By Audltl Guha landscaping it to make it as beauti­ himself an for graduates to study opment from the one it proposed ing that's currently under-utilized.