August 22,
2007 — This JV Football player catches some air to come down with this
throw during JV Football practice on the Loop Road on Monday.
EMC Captures "Company of the
Year" Award for Network Storage and Management Software
Partners Validate EMC
Velocity² Partner Program
August
22, 2007 - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information
infrastructure solutions, today announced that its Velocity² Partner
Program received the highest marks in the two categories it competed in
the Annual Report Card (ARC) from CMP Channel's VARBusiness.
Winners were selected by VARBusiness editorial based on the
survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting
organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and
software developers. Now in the 22nd year, the VARBusiness ARC
Awards recognize outstanding partner programs and superb vendor service
in 15 product and service categories. The ARC awards were announced at
an awards ceremony held on August 21, at the CMP Channel's XChange '07
Conference in Orlando, Florida.
EMC received the number #1 ranking in the Network Storage and Storage
Management Software categories. The EMC Velocity² Partner Program, which
supports EMC’s channel strategy, is focused on developing a balanced
portfolio of motivated, loyal and self-sufficient partners by delivering
a robust program with rich financial rewards to support partner
enablement and provide partners with the opportunity to accelerate their
profitability with EMC.
“EMC is excited and honored to receive the highest ranking in the
VARBusiness ARC Awards for the two categories we competed in: Network
Storage and Storage Management categories. Since the VARBusiness ARC
Awards are based on partner feedback, these two awards validate the
important changes we have made to the Velocity Partner Program. EMC’s
Velocity Partners are befitting from our increased investment in the
channel that provides greater opportunities for them to increase
profitability and makes it easier for them to do business with EMC,”
said EMC’s Mitch Breen, Senior Vice President, Global Channel Strategy
and Sales.
Middlesex County Justice/Crime
DNA Points to
Somerville Man in Serial
Rape/Assault Investigation In
Medford And Somerville
CAMBRIDGE
– August 22, 2007 —
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone’s
office informed the public yesterday that a Somerville man has been
arraigned in Cambridge Superior Court in connection with a series of
alleged rapes and assaults of multiple victims in Medford and
Somerville.
Full Story
Ledge
on Spring Street Closes Both Lanes at Site
Crew needs both lanes
In an effort to expedite the final few hundred feet of water main
installation on Spring Street and allow one
lane of travel to be open again, crews will be working until 5:00 p.m.
and the road will remain closed until that time every day until the work
of removing ledge is completed, which is expected to take several days.
Due to the amount of rock and ledge that has been encountered in this
last stretch of the project, it has delayed the completion.
Please be advised that if you are traveling West on Spring Street you
will be able to get as far as Lyford Lane. If you are coming North on
Pond Street or East on Spring Street from the Upton side, you will be
able to get as far as the intersection of Spring and Pond. Every effort
is being made to complete the project as quickly as possible and to open
the road to one lane of traffic again.
~ Eric Carty, Water/Sewer Manager
Movies on the Common?
As the weather turns more like October than August, it might
seem like the wrong time for people to think about a summer
activity. But that's exactly what the Parks and Recreation
Department did last week when they considered changing the
location of the summer movies from behind the Doyle Gym to
the Common for more visibility.
Please read each possible answer and then weigh in with an
opinion----->
August 21,
2007 — The Hopkinton High School Varsity Football Team began practice on
Monday under the tutelage of Head Coach David Hughes for the 31st year
in a row.
Scott Mario Casassa, 51
Scott Mario Casassa, 51,
of Hopkinton, died unexpectedly, Sunday, August 19, 2007 in Martha's
Vineyard. Born in Virginia, he was the son of Bruce Dan and Priscilla
(Cheney) Casassa of Seabrook, NH. He was the husband toArlene (Lemoncelli)
Casassa of Hopkinton.
A resident of Hopkinton for 15 years, he grew up in
Seabrook, NH and had formerly lived in Dallas, TX and Grafton. A member
of St. John's Church in Hopkinton, he worked at the Raytheon Company for
21 years and was currently a materials engineer in the Marlborough
facility. He was also a member of the Management Organization at
Raytheon. He was a Hopkinton Youth Basketball coach. He graduated
Cornell University and had also received his MBA from the Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, TX.
ALL
INVITED TO ST. PAUL’S “WELCOME BACK SUNDAY”
SEPTEMBER 9
at 10:00 am
HOPKINTON, MASS. (August 21, 2007) -- St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 61
Wood Street (Rte. 135) will be kicking off its fall schedule with
“Welcome Back Sunday,” September 9. Church School registration will
begin at 10:00. Church School classes will be offered for children ages
three and up, and a Nursery will be provided for infants and toddlers.
Worship will begin at 10:30 a.m., with the children joining their
parents in the church at 11:15 for communion. The service will be
followed by fellowship and a pot luck brunch. Everyone is welcome!
Every Sunday at St. Paul’s is family-oriented, with Child Care, Church
School and Holy Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. After every service everyone is
invited to the Parish Hall for coffee hour and fellowship.
Middlesex County Justice/Crime
65-Year-Old Everett Man Ordered Held
Without Bail At Arraignment In Connection With Alleged Murder Of Ex-Wife
EVERETT
– Middlesex
District Attorney Gerry Leone’s office informed the public today that an
Everett man was ordered held without bail at his arraignment this
morning in connection with the alleged murder of his ex-wife, Dorothy
Philbrook, age 65, also of Everett.
George Philbrook, age 65, was arrested late
Friday night by Malden Police in connection with the shooting that
occurred earlier that evening. He was arraigned this morning in Malden
District Court on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm,
possession of a defaced firearm, carrying a firearm while intoxicated,
and resisting arrest. Presiding judge Lee Johnson ordered him held
without bail.
FULL STORY
Traffic
Stalls Hopkinton Square Project
Traffic
concerns at top of open issues
by Robert
Falcione
August 20,
2007 — Peter Markarian and Chuck Joseph, calling their partnership CJPM
Realty Trust, LLC, met again with the Planning Board this evening for a
continued public hearing on their bold plan to develop Hopkinton
Square, a 100,000 square foot shopping/office complex proposed for the
corner of West Main and South Streets. The pair has been before the
Conservation Commission, which has yet to issue a formal approval, and
the Board of Appeals, which approved the two proposed drive-through
windows, but restricted their uses to a bank, dry cleaner,
photo-processing, or drugstore/pharmacy. The use of a drive-through for
food would not have been allowed.
The partners explained that a shared parking plan with an abutter is
part of the recorded deeds. However, a memo from Town Planner, Elaine
Lazarus said that she would defer this ruling to the Zoning Enforcement
Officer.
Resident Jane Moran suggested that the Planning Board consider the
number of accidents that have occurred at the South and West Main Street
intersection. She also implored the board to force the developer to
install sidewalks, and make other safety improvements. Mrs. Moran is a
Southborough Police Sergeant.
At the last meeting, EMC Director of Real Estate and Planning, Lisa
Ferdenzi requested that the group provide screening for their adjacent
day care facility and an do an acoustical study. The partners have
promised screening on the property of the two abutters across West main
Street from the project to mitigate the effects of the project on that
part of the neighborhood.
"You provided screening for the West Main Street residents, but you
don't want to do that for EMC," she said. EMC is a Hopkinton-based,
South Street company that has boasted revenue of around $11 billion [not
a typo] in both 2005 and 2006. The company has a headquarters and a day
care abutting the proposed development, as well as many other buildings
further on up South Street.
Mr. Markarian said, "We believe it is adequate. We are not adding any
more than is there now."
Ms. Ferdenzi then turned to the Board and asked them to consider the
request. She also asked, "What did the consultants say about the left
turn onto South Street?" Ms. Ferdenzi, as well as this writer, has asked
that there be no left turn allowed coming out of the development onto
South Street, but that the traffic needing to travel east on West Main
Street exit the property on West Main Street instead.
Resident Bea McMullen agreed with this writer that the traffic coming
from the east should not be allowed to enter the property from West Main
Street, but should go up South Street and turn right onto the property
instead to prevent gridlock.
"The traffic is already horrendous. Why should they pay?" said Planning
Board Chairman, Mark Abate, defending the applicant.
The applicants were looking for a decision from the board this evening,
and some members appeared ready to vote until board member Carol DeVeuve
questioned the West Main Street traffic plan. The plan that was put in
place for the most recent reconstruction of the intersection has a 500'
long merge lane heading west, but the Hopkinton Square plan would
shorten that to 350' to accommodate a left turn lane.
"I want to see what FST [Faye Spofford and Thorndike, traffic engineers
for the town] says before I vote," Mrs. DeVeuve said.
"And the Police Chief," added member John Coolidge.
"My concern is that it doesn't seem adequate as it is, and now you're
cutting it down to 350'," she said. Traffic is often gridlocked
during rush hour at that merge, all the way back to the Route 495 light.
"I want to see the report," Mrs. DeVeuve said.
Vice Chair RJ Dourney and member Sandy Altamura agreed.
The board continued the Public Hearing until September 10, 2007 at 9:30
p.m.
Scott M. Casassa, 51
Scott M. Casassa,
51, of Hopkinton Died suddenly August 19, 2007 on Martha's Vineyard. He
is the husband of Arlene Casassa of Hopkinton. Arrangements are
incomplete at this time and under the direction of the Chesmore Funeral
Home of Hopkinton.
www.ChesmoreFuneralHome.com
When a cell phone goes through the washer
by Paul
McNamara, News Editor,
Network World
Desk phone rings. Wife on the line.
Her: "Don't know how it happened,
but the cell phone went through the
washing machine."
Me, sounding criminally dumb: "Is it
working?"
Her: "Uh, no, it went through the
washing machine."
(Only later did I think of the
snappy comeback: "And what exactly
do you mean by you don't know how it
happened? The thing didn't up and
leap into the washer, now
did it?")
Her next gambit is to rummage around
for a way to pin the rap on me.
Neither of us has much use for a
cell phone, so we share one, a
four-year-old, plain-Jane Nokia
3595. I hadn't used it in quite some
time. I didn't load the washing
machine. Ipso, facto ... It's a
half-hearted try on her part, which
she quickly abandons in favor of a
recovery effort.
Her: "Do you have anyone there who
might know whether it will dry out
or not?"
Me: "You mean like a Network World
Underwater Gadget Guy?" (No, I'm not
quick enough to have said that, but
it was the gist of this part of the
conversation and I wasn't taking
notes, so please work with me.)
Her: "Don't be a ..."
Me: "I'll ask around."
Tim's office is next door to mine,
so I ask Tim.
Me: "Tim, someone - I don't want to
say who - put our cell phone through
the washing machine. Any chance
it'll dry out?"
Tim: "Tell Julie that, yes, it'll
dry out."
Me: "And work again?"
Tim: "I think so. I've heard of it
happening. ... Who was it? ... Oh,
yeah, Neal; someone in Neal's family
did the same thing and I'm pretty
sure the phone worked again."
Never having been party to a
cell-phone washing previously, at
this point I'm somewhat startled to
learn that not only has it happened
before but it's happened to a
colleague right here in the office.
Since then I've learned that this
kind of goof is actually quite
common: A Google search for
"phone in the washer" turns up
9,000 pages of such soggy tales.
11:43 am A
caller reported that a man was exposing himself on the Loop Road...
8:22 pm
Sgt. Michael Sutton and Officers Linda Higgins and Timothy Brennan
responded along with the Fire Department to a motor vehicle versus a
tanker truck accident, with personal injury, on West Main Street...
4:12 pm A
caller reported hearing gun shots from shooters in the old pit property
on Fruit Street...
12:52 pm A
caller from Priscilla Road reported that she backed up into a 4 1/2 year
old girl...
ESL Presents You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 8
Enter
Stage Left Theater will be presenting You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown on
August 31 and September 1 at 8:00 p.m., and on September 8 at 2:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m. at St. John’s Parish Hall on Church Street in Hopkinton.
This popular musical, based on Charles Schultz’s Peanuts comic strip,
will be performed by ESL’s Summer Stock and features young performers
from Hopkinton, Hopedale, and Milford. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10
for students and seniors.
“This production of Charlie Brown is a pilot project,’” said Kelly
Grill, co-founder of ESL and the show’s director. "We have always wanted
to do a summer theater program that would be hands-on and educational
for the participants. We have the students making sets, costumes,
running props and even playing in the pit!. It is an extremely talented
group of young people – you don't want to miss it!”
Free Ride
August
19, 2007 — Ted Barker-Hook gives daughter Libby, 2 1/2, a ride inside
the gazebo on the Common while the band below on the ground. The
overgrown trees on the Common have made it difficult to see bands unless
they are at ground level.
Half in the
Bag
August 19,
2007 — The band called "Half in the Bag" brought their high-energy rock
and roll to the Common Sunday afternoon. See a couple of the songs they
played above.
Letters,
We've Got Letters...
August 19,
2007 — As in a certain comedy on the widescreen, CineramaTM
many years ago, it wouldn't take much to see the "Big dubya," as well as
a number of other letters, among the trunks of these arborvitae, a name
from the Latin, meaning "tree of life," at the Lake Whitehall Dam on
Saturday.
Serious
Accident on West Main
Woman
wearing seat belt survives head-on collision
August 18,
2007 — Rescuers received the call shortly before 8:30 p.m. this evening
for a tractor trailer vs. automobile accident on West Main Street, two
houses east of the School Street intersection. The vehicles only
traveled another 30 feet after colliding, according to witnesses.
The first rescuer on the scene found one adult female unconscious
in the automobile and called for Boston MedFlight Helicopter from
UMass Medical
in Worcester. Upton Police were also notified, and arrived on the scene
to provide additional manpower as both ends of the road were shut off.
Police and Fire personnel worked together at a rapid pace to place the
patient into the ambulance for transport to the heliport.
The helicopter arrived 3 minutes after the patient was brought to the
landing zone on South Street and transported the patient to UMass almost
immediately.
The tractor leaked an abundance of fluid, but it appeared to be coming
from the engine area and not the tanker, which had just been unloaded
of its petroleum product.
The driver regained consciousness and admitted to police that
she had become distracted by her cell phone and drifted into the
oncoming lane. She was wearing her seat belt, otherwise,
according to one officer, she could have been ejected from the vehicle
through the windshield.
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August
22, 2007 - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information
infrastructure solutions, today announced that its Velocity² Partner
Program received the highest marks in the two categories it competed in
the Annual Report Card (ARC) from CMP Channel's VARBusiness.
Winners were selected by VARBusiness editorial based on the
survey results of more than 5,000 systems integrators, IT consulting
organizations, value-added resellers (VARs), solution providers and
software developers. Now in the 22nd year, the VARBusiness ARC
Awards recognize outstanding partner programs and superb vendor service
in 15 product and service categories. The ARC awards were announced at
an awards ceremony held on August 21, at the CMP Channel's XChange '07
Conference in Orlando, Florida. 
Ledge
on Spring Street Closes Both Lanes at Site
lane of travel to be open again, crews will be working until 5:00 p.m.
and the road will remain closed until that time every day until the work
of removing ledge is completed, which is expected to take several days.
Due to the amount of rock and ledge that has been encountered in this
last stretch of the project, it has delayed the completion. 
Scott Mario Casassa, 51,
of Hopkinton, died unexpectedly, Sunday, August 19, 2007 in Martha's
Vineyard. Born in Virginia, he was the son of Bruce Dan and Priscilla
(Cheney) Casassa of Seabrook, NH. He was the husband toArlene (Lemoncelli)
Casassa of Hopkinton.
at 10:00 am
The partners explained that a shared parking plan with an abutter is
part of the recorded deeds. However, a memo from Town Planner, Elaine
Lazarus said that she would defer this ruling to the Zoning Enforcement
Officer. 
Enter
Stage Left Theater will be presenting You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown on
August 31 and September 1 at 8:00 p.m., and on September 8 at 2:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m. at St. John’s Parish Hall on Church Street in Hopkinton.
This popular musical, based on Charles Schultz’s Peanuts comic strip,
will be performed by ESL’s Summer Stock and features young performers
from Hopkinton, Hopedale, and Milford. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10
for students and seniors. 
