Hiking columnist hikes Mount Success in Mahoosuc Range — see page 13 THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021 VOL. 30 NO. 31 BERLIN, N.H. 752-5858 FREE $22m in state investments to benefi t Coos parks BY BARBARA TETREAULT the state park system which is receiving $22.6 mil- ture. Much of the money will go to state parks in THE BERLIN SUN lion in federal funding to allow the state to make Coos County including Jericho Mountain State Park COOS COUNTY — These are exciting times for needed improvements to its aging park infrastruc- see PARKS page 6 Police train with transit van Supreme Court hears ‘Fallen 7’ driver’s request BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN SUN CONCORD — After hearing oral argu- ments Tuesday, the state Supreme Court must now decide whether the truck driver implicated in the “Fallen 7” collision is enti- tled to an evidentiary hearing on whether he can be released on bail. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 25, has been held at the Coos County Jail in West Stewart- stown for two years in preventive detention while waiting for trial in the crash that killed seven motorcyclists to get underway. Three times, Coos County Superior Court Justice Peter Bornstein has denied his request for an evidentiary bail hearing. Zhukovskyy of West Springfi eld, Mass., has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of negligent homicide, negligent homicide-DUI, and manslaughter in the June 2019 crash that killed seven members of the JarHeads Motorcycle Club on Route 2 in Randolph. Killed were Albert Mazza, 59, of Lee; Daniel Pereira, 58, of Riverside, R.I.; Michael Ferazzi, 62, of Contoocook; Aaron Perry, 45, of Lee; Desma Oakes, 42, of Concord; and Edward and Tri-County Community Action Program lent its North Country Transit bus to the Berlin Police Department for its barricaded subject and Joan Corr, both 58 of Lakeview, Mass. hostage rescue training.The bus will be used next by the fi re department for extraction trainings. (COURTESY PHOTO) see FALLEN 7 page 8 Dummer selectmen seek public input on ATVs BY WILLIAM CARROLL have scheduled a public hearing July 21 at 6 p.m. Select board member Dave Dubey said in an THE BERLIN SUN to discuss possible changes to the town’s current interview Tuesday night that the town has received DUMMER — The Dummer Board of Selectmen all-terrain vehicle ordinance. see DUMMER page 7 CALL US TO BOOK ALL Morency LLC YOUR TRAVEL PLANS. Gayle Baker's Valley Travel BerlinDailySun.com Trucking • Excavating • Paving 603-447-8860 • [email protected] Local In Berlin • 603-752-4244 Page 2 — THE BERLIN SUN, Thursday, July 1, 2021 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DIGEST–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Cosby freed 3DAYFORECAST THEMARKET SAYWHAT... N.H. COVID-19 after court Tomorrow Today DOW JONES “The dead cannot cry out Wednesday High: 64 overturns High: 82 210.22 to 34,502.51 for justice. It is a duty of the Coos County new cases: 1 Chance of rain: 19% Low: 55 living to do so for them.” Sunrise: 5:04 a.m. Coos County new deaths: 0 Sunrise: 5:04 a.m. NASDAQ — Lois McMaster Bujold conviction Sunset: 8:32 p.m. New N.H. cases: 28 24.38 to 14,503.95 PENNSYLVANIA (NY New N.H. deaths: 1 Tonight Times) — Bill Cosby had his Saturday Total cases: 99,504 conviction for sexual assault High: 61 S&P overturned by a Pennsylvania Chance of rain: 89% High: 64 5.70 to 4,297.50 Total deaths: 1,372 appeals court on Wednesday Sunset: 8:32 p.m. Low: 55 and was freed from prison, a dramatic reversal in a case had represented the fi rst ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– NATION/WORLD –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– high-profi le sexual assault trial to unfold in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. Cosby had served three years of a three- to 10-year prison sentence at a maxi- mum-security facility outside Rumsfeld, Defense secretary Philadelphia when the sev- en-member Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby, 83, had been denied a fair trial in 2018. The ruling upended the legal case during Iraq War, dead at 88 against Cosby brought by prosecutors in Pennsylvania that began with his arrest in TAOS, N.M. (NY Times) — Donald Rums- A staunch ally of former Vice President Hussein, the Iraqi leader, had been harboring 2015 on charges of drug- feld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Dick Cheney, who had been his protégé and weapons of mass destruction. ging and sexually assault- Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, who pre- friend for years, Rumsfeld was a combative “A conclusion by our enemies that the ing a woman at his home in the Philadelphia suburbs 11 sided over America’s Cold War strategies infi ghter who seemed to relish confl icts as United States lacks the will or the resolve to years earlier. in the 1970s and, in the new world of ter- he challenged Cabinet rivals, members of carry out our missions that demand sacrifi ce At the end of the trial in rorism decades later, the wars in Afghani- Congress and military orthodoxies. And he and demand patience is every bit as danger- April 2018, the jury con- stan and Iraq, died on Tuesday at his home was widely regarded in his second tour as ous as an imbalance of conventional military victed Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent in Taos, N.M. He was 88. the most powerful defense secretary since power,” he said. “It may well be comforting assault against Andrea Con- The cause was multiple myeloma, said Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. to some to consider graceful exits from the stand, to whom Cosby had Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family. Like his counterpart of long ago, Rumsfeld agonies and, indeed, the ugliness of combat. been a mentor and who was Encores are hardly rare in Washing- in Iraq waged a costly and divisive war that But the enemy thinks differently.” at the time a Temple Univer- sity employee. ton, but Rumsfeld had the distinction of ultimately destroyed his political life and out- In his 2011 memoir, “Known and Unknown,” In 2019, an interim court being the only defense chief to serve two lived his tenure by many years. But unlike Rumsfeld, more than four years out of offi ce, had upheld the trial verdict. nonconsecutive terms: 1975 to 1977 under McNamara, who offered mea culpas in a 2003 still expressed no regrets over the decision to But the Supreme Court, the President Ford, and 2001 to 2006 under documentary, “The Fog of War,” Rumsfeld invade Iraq, which had cost the United States state’s highest court, agreed to consider the case, and President Bush. He also was the young- acknowledged no serious failings and warned $700 billion and 4,400 American lives, insist- at a hearing in December, est, at 43, and the oldest, at 74, to hold the in a farewell valedictory at the Pentagon that ing that the removal of President Hussein some of the court’s seven post — fi rst in an era of Soviet-American quitting Iraq would be a terrible mistake, had justifi ed the effort. “Ridding the region of justices questioned prose- nuclear perils, then in an age of subtler even though the war, the country learned, had Saddam’s brutal regime has created a more cutors sharply. menace by terrorists and rogue states. been based on a false premise — that Saddam stable and secure world,” he wrote. MOUNTAIN VALLEY MALL CINEMA 7 MOUNTAIN VALLEY MALL CINEMA 7 32 MT. VALLEY BLVD. 603-356-6703 32 MT. 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