The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 2005:
A WEARY SINGER CHASES `IDOL' DREAMS OF STARDOM
Sep 01, 2005; ... FOXBOROUGH I lay on the couch last May watching the season finaleof my favorite show, "American Idol." The pop star wannabees andtheir weekly performances have been a staple of my Thursday nightssince the show debuted four seasons ago. After Carrie Underwood became the fourth ...
CALL ME OLD-FASHIONED, BUT . . .
Sep 01, 2005; ... Items from my catalog: - Call me old-fashioned, but I find it stomach-turning thatCosmopolitan editor John Searles, while recommending "summer reads"on CBS's "The Morning Show," hypes his own novel "Strange But True":"This is my favorite book on the list, because it's written by ...
FRAME OF REFERENCE THAT LITTLE BOX AROUND YOUR ARTWORK CAN BE PRICEY, EVEN CONFUSING. WHAT'S INSIDE, AND IS IT WORTH IT?
Sep 01, 2005; ... The mats buckled, the photographs bubbled, and Philip Greenspun, aCambridge photographer, learned an important lesson about pictureframing: "You get what you pay for." Greenspun no longer looks for the cheapest framer. Nor does he doit himself. At one time, he bought mats and ...
VOICES IN THE CROWS THEY CAME, THEY WAITED, AND THEY SANG FOR A CHANCE TO BE THE NEXT AMERICAN IDOL
Sep 01, 2005; ... FOXBOROUGH When it was all over, after Comfort Lassana puteverything she had into her a cappella rendition of Gloria Gaynor's"I Will Survive" and was politely told, "You're not what we'relooking for," she had no regrets about sleeping overnight in the windand rain for a chance to be the ...
SUMMER SIZZLED THANKS TO SEDGWICK
Sep 01, 2005; ... "The Closer" has been the cable hit of the summer. Since June, ithas consistently topped the cable Nielsen ratings, at times drawingmore viewers than its network competition. And since "The Closer"completely and utterly belongs to Kyra Sedgwick and her tour de forceperformance, that ...
DUCHY'S SON SIMPLY GRAND
Sep 01, 2005; ... NEW YORK Are they dancing in the streets in Luxembourg? Are there streets in Luxembourg? Can a tennis court be squeezed into Luxembourg, or will it lapover into Belgium or Germany? Such questions were bound to arise yesterday when folks awakenedto learn that a mouse ...
GAME HAS MEANING TO SOME
Sep 01, 2005; ... FOXBOROUGH Patriots coach Bill Belichick describes James Sandersas a "professional." That would be 21-year-old James Sanders, the rookie safety fromFresno State, and the youngest player on the two-time defending SuperBowl champions. Whether Sanders is a star of the future ...
LOOK OF A WINNER HAIR-RAISING EFFORT BY MILLAR (2 HRS) POWERS RED SOX
Sep 01, 2005; ... Several folks living in Encino, Calif., even those non-baseballfans, know of Kevin Millar. That's because of a beaming, blond womanwho, in most encounters, announces with notable enthusiasm, "I'mKevin Millar's mom." Of late? "She's been incognito," Millar said. "I haven't ...
MORNING GLORY FOR WOODS
Sep 01, 2005; ... NORTON For breakfast, there was a bagel and a 3-wood. Just not atthe same time, of course. Instead, Tiger Woods put down his breakfast, ripped his drive offthe first tee (for the record, it slid slightly right, into rough),then returned to his food. By the time he had taken the ...
THE IPO PATH LESS TAKEN
Sep 01, 2005; ... Perhaps you missed this: Dover Saddlery Inc. of Littleton isplanning to go public. The paperwork for an initial public offering by a company thatmade less than $2 million selling saddles and other equestrianequipment last year would not normally rate special attention. But ...
FDA OFFICIAL QUITS OVER PILL DELAY
Sep 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON A senior Food and Drug Administration officialresigned yesterday to protest the agency's refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception. Susan F. Wood, director of the FDA's Office of Women's Health,detailed her decision in an e-mail to co-workers ...
AN INSURANCE NIGHTMARE SOME EAST COAST HOMEOWNERS MAY FIND GETTING POLICIES HARDER
Sep 01, 2005; ... Hurricane Katrina is shaping up to be one of the costliest stormsin US history, and it may exacerbate problems for homeowners acrossthe Eastern Seaboard in getting insurance. Insurers are likely to raise prices in the Southeast, industryexecutives said, as companies try to protect ...
PHOENIX BUYS INTO EL PLANETA
Sep 01, 2005; ... Mirroring a national scramble for Spanish-language newspaperreaders, Phoenix Media/Communications Group, parent company of TheBoston Phoenix, has purchased a 35 percent stake in El Planeta, thelargest Spanish-language weekly in the Boston area. Officials atHispanic News Press of ...
WAL-MART OPTS TO PASS ON DOWNTOWN CROSSING
Sep 01, 2005; ... Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday confirmed the company met withBoston officials about opening a store in Downtown Crossing, but saidit is not interested in the location. The statement comes about a month after Wal-Mart executivesapproached the city to discuss moving into one of the ...
ERROR TRIGGERS FALSE ALARM ON ENCEPHALITIS IN IPSWICH
Sep 01, 2005; ... When Ipswich officials were alerted by the state late Monday thata dreaded mosquito-borne virus was detected in their community, theyscrambled to notify thousands of residents, then sprayed the entiretown with insecticide that night. But the alert turned out to be a bureaucratic ...
REBUILDING TO REQUIRE HISTORIC EFFORT
Sep 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON President Bush yesterday vowed to rebuild New Orleans,a herculean task beyond anything that civil engineers have faced inUS history. "New communities will flourish and the great city of New Orleanswill be back on its feet, and America will be a stronger place forit," ...
CHIMP GENOME COULD REVEAL HUMAN SECRETS
Sep 01, 2005; ... What sets us apart from apes? At latest count, about 4 percent ofour DNA. Scientists announced yesterday that they had completed analysis ofthe genome of a chimpanzee, humanity's closest genetic relative, andfound that the gap between humans and chimps is about 10 timessmaller ...
FOR THE RECORD
Sep 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page 1 story inyesterday's Globe about an increase in gun seizures and shootings inBoston ...
TROUBLED PARKS AGENCY TO GET CHIEF
Sep 01, 2005; ... Governor Mitt Romney is expected to name a new commissioner forthe state Department of Conservation and Recreation today, turning toa Brookline environmentalist and lawyer to mend an agency critics sayis beset by internal strife and a decaying park system. Stephen H. Burrington, ...
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD, WOUNDED
Sep 01, 2005; ... MONTAGUE There are so many dead soldiers that Leo Parent isrunning out of space and miniature American flags to memorializethem all. He has a near-daily ritual: Rise around 6 a.m., watch CNN for thebody count, get to the memorial, place a few more flags in theground, and ...
CLINIC DOCTOR'S DEATH RAISES QUESTIONS
Sep 01, 2005; ... Dr. Michael J. Folino Jr., the popular medical director of aDorchester health clinic, committed suicide last week, his lawyersaid, rather than face public disclosure of a secret he had beenkeeping for months: He faced a criminal charge that he downloadedchild pornography onto his home ...
GAS PRICES EXCEED $3; US TO TAP OIL RESERVES
Sep 01, 2005; ... Gasoline soared above $3 a gallon at many Boston-area servicestations and around the country yesterday as the impact of HurricaneKatrina spread quickly from wholesale to retail markets, provokingcomplaints from motorists already straining after a summer of record-high ...
`RECOVERY WILL TAKE YEARS,' THOUSANDS FEARED DEAD FROM STORM; RESIDENTS RELOCATING
Sep 01, 2005; ... BATON ROUGE, La. The grim enormity of the devastation inflictedby Hurricane Katrina became apparent yesterday in battered, reelingNew Orleans, where Mayor C. Ray Nagin estimated that thousands oflives had been lost. State officials announced plans to bus 23,000residents from the ...
FOR PATRICK, IT'S A START
Sep 01, 2005; ... Deval Patrick's fund-raiser Tuesday night at Cesaria, a CapeVerdean restaurant on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester attracted thesort of crowd often absent from the Massachusetts political scene.That is to say they were young, and almost all people of color. Many of them freely ...
FOR THE RECORD
Sep 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of incorrect information provided by thestate Department of Public Health, an item in the New England inBrief column in yesterday's City & Region section ...
FOR THE RECORD
Sep 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, the headline on a storyin yesterday's City & Region section on a shake-up in the ...
N.H. PROBES POLICE SHOOTING OF MASS. MAN
Sep 01, 2005; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Friday, September 2, 2005:Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday'sGlobe about the police shooting of a Massachusetts man during anarrest misidentified the police department involved. The officer isfrom the Barrington Police ...
THE ARTISTS' LAST STAND
Sep 01, 2005; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Saturday, September 3, 2005:Correction: Because of a reporting error, an article in Thursday'sLiving/Arts section about artStrand, a new gallery in Provincetown,misidentified the gallery's landlord as Pasquale Natale. Natale is anartist who had a studio ...
MERGED SPRINT NEXTEL WILL SWEETEN WIRELESS PLANS
Sep 01, 2005; ... Newly merged wireless providers Sprint and Nextel plan to combinesome of the most popular offers from each other's calling plans andbegin offering them to subscribers today as part of the combinedcompany's first large-scale consumer marketing effort. The first piece of the campaign ...
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Sep 01, 2005; ... AMESBURY MAYORAL DEBATE SET The Amesbury Taxpayers Association isscheduled to host one of the city's upcoming mayoral debates onWednesday. According to ATA director Chris York, six candidates haveagreed to participate. The debate will be moderated by the League ofWomen Voters ....
BERTON MERRETT, 85, CEMETERY WORKER
Sep 01, 2005 ... Berton L. Merrett Sr., of Everett, a former employee of Wood lawnCemetery, died Aug. 26 at the Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett.He was 85. Born and raised in Indiana, Mr. Merrett moved to Everett 39 yearsago and worked at the cemetery in Everett for 38 years. He leaves ...
SECURITY CAMERAS INSTALLED
Sep 01, 2005; ... CHELSEA Police Chief Frank Garvin said city workers have installed about20 of the 34 digital surveillance cameras that will be used tomonitor activities in certain neighborhoods. Although City ManagerJay Ash said in July he expected the cameras to be up and running inthe middle ...
BEVERLY HIGH ACCREDITATION IS STILL IN DANGER
Sep 01, 2005; ... Beverly officials have launched an aggressive effort to retain thehigh school's accreditation, issuing a 26-page letter detailing howthe city is addressing problems with the substandard building. School leaders hope the letter will convince the Commission onPublic Secondary ...
AID EYED FOR LOGAN IMPACT
Sep 01, 2005; ... Winthrop officials are pushing the state to increase the annual$251,000 paid to the town for the last 24 years to compensate forLogan Airport's impact on the quality of life. One of the town's chief negotiators said the agreement, which isrenewable every five years and has remained ...
LESS TRASH, MORE RECYCLING
Sep 01, 2005; ... AMESBURY The Amesbury's Public Works Department will beginoffering curbside recycling to downtown businesses Sept. 12 to offsetthe loss of one trash pickup a week. The city also will be enforcing long-standing trash pickup limitsat the request of its waste company, which says it ...
HIGH SCHOOL ACCREDITATION STILL IN DANGER
Sep 01, 2005; ... Beverly officials have launched an aggressive effort to retain thehigh school's accreditation, issuing a 26-page letter detailing howthe city is addressing problems with the substandard building. School leaders hope the letter will convince the Commission onPublic Secondary ...
AUTHORITY AIMS TO OUST MEMBER
Sep 01, 2005; ... SAUGUS In an unprecedented move, the Board of Selectmen onTuesday will consider removing a Saugus Housing Authoritycommissioner from office, allegedly for misconduct and neglect ofduty. Carmine J. Ciampa, 71, is accused by his fellow commissioners of"confrontational and ...
SCHOOL ACCREDITATION STILL IN DANGER
Sep 01, 2005; ... Beverly officials have launched an aggressive effort to retain thehigh school's accreditation, issuing a 26-page letter detailing howthe city is addressing problems with the substandard building. School leaders hope the letter will convince the Commission onPublic Secondary ...
NEIGHBORS CHIME IN ON BELLS
Sep 01, 2005; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Sunday, September 4, 2005: Correction: Because of incorrect information provided by the stateDepartment of Public Health, a community briefing item in Thursday'sGlobe North misstated where officials found the first Essex Countycase of Eastern equine ...
A FRESH CANVAS FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
Sep 01, 2005; ... Standing in their bedrooms, the teenage girls are given 11 secondsto grab a precious possession and leave. Val Sapozhnikova, 17,snatches a photograph of herself dressed as a snowflake, when she wasa toddler living in Russia. "My mom made my costume and it was really special," ...
E-ZPASS SIGNS ARE CONFUSING
Sep 01, 2005 ... Having had occasion to pass through the tollbooths at both theHampton and Hooksett toll plazas during recent weekends I could notagree more with the comments quoted in your article ("Nothing's E-Zabout pass system in Hampton," Aug. 25). The same comments could be made about the ...
GRANITE STATE'S TOLL SYSTEM HAS MISSED CONCEPT ENTIRELY
Sep 01, 2005 ... Phil Santoro's article really hits the mark. As a Massachusettsresident living only 4 miles from the border, I use the toll roadoften. Right now, my time is worth more than themoney I would save byusing tokens. I postponed trips to New Hampshire and Maine for weeks,waiting for E-ZPass ....
GOAL IS LESS TRASH, MORE RECYCLING
Sep 01, 2005; ... The Amesbury's Public Works Department will begin offeringcurbside recycling to downtown businesses Sept. 12 to offset the lossof one trash pickup a week. The city also will be enforcing long-standing trash pickup limitsat the request of its waste company, which says it has been ...
REVOLUTIONARY TOUR
Sep 01, 2005; ... If you are fascinated by the feats of General John Glover duringthe Revolutionary War, or want to learn more, visit Marblehead onLabor Day. Judy Anderson , curator of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion, leads amorning tour of local sites associated with Glover. The general and his ...
BORN TO BE A RINGER LUCIA, 14, MAKES QUICK WORK OF TITLE
Sep 01, 2005; ... SAUGUS - J.J. Lucia is patiently answering questions about howhe became a boxing champion. Although the answers rolling off histongue are adequate, it is really his hands that are doing thetalking. With each question about his fights, he pummels the punchingbag in front of him with ...
LYNN GALLERY GIVES YOUNG ARTISTS ROOM TO GROW
Sep 01, 2005; ... Standing in their bedrooms, the teenage girls are given 11 secondsto grab a precious possession and leave. Val Sapozhnikova, 17,snatches a photograph of herself dressed as a snowflake, when she wasa toddler living in Russia. "My mom made my costume and it was really special," ...
AUTHORITY SEEKS OUSTER OF CIAMPA
Sep 01, 2005; ... In an unprecedented move, the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday willconsider removing a Saugus Housing Authority commissioner fromoffice, allegedly for misconduct and neglect of duty. Carmine J. Ciampa, 71, is accused by his fellow commissioners of"confrontational and threatening" ...
NEW LYNNFIELD AD KNOWS THE SCORE
Sep 01, 2005; ... If the Lynnfield football team is to improve on its 0-11 mark oflast season, it's going to have to score more points. The Pioneersrang up only 100 points last season, the lowest total in the Cape AnnLeague. That's where new athletic director Neal Weidman comes in.Weidman, who replaced ...
LEARNING THE ROPES
Sep 01, 2005; ... Thirty North Shore high school and college students spent a daylast month developing leadership, communication, and teamwork skillsthrough completion of a ropes course and other outdoor adventures atthe Gordon College Outdoor Recreation Center. Participating studentsincluded Amanda ...
OIL COSTS THREATEN SCHOOLS HEATING MAY DRAIN DISTRICTS' BUDGET
Sep 01, 2005; ... As relief workers in Louisiana and Mississippi scramble to helpthose devastated by Hurricane Katrina, educators in Boston's northernsuburbs are trying to calculate the cost of the storm here at home. Foremost on their minds: Soaring oil prices and their impact onlocal school ...
EGRETS - AND BIRDERS - FLOCK TO PLUM ISLAND
Sep 01, 2005; ... Brian O'Neill was downing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich withroot beer when the evening came to a quiet climax. Responding to some invisible cue, about 70 snowy egrets the sizeand shape of slender seagulls took off toward the setting sun from apond they'd been fishing in to ...
PUMPWATCH: CLIMBING, AND MORE TO COME
Sep 01, 2005 ... The price of gas rose an average of 7 cents a gallon over the pastweek at six gas stations surveyed north of Boston. The average priceof regular unleaded for Massachusetts gas stations was $2.61, whichremained unchanged from last week, according to AAA Southern NewEngland. This price is ...
CLOSE ENCOUNTER REVISITED N.H. TEEN'S 1965 SIGHTING BECAME BLUEPRINT FOR UFOS
Sep 01, 2005; ... Forty years ago this Saturday, New Hampshire teenager NormanMuscarello walked down a dark country road into weird history. In thewee hours of Sept. 3, 1965, the 18-year-old Muscarello set out tohitchhike home from Amesbury to Exeter. At about 2 a.m., he waswalking on a deserted stretch ...
FLEDGLING FILMMAKER OFFERS REMAKE OF SCORSESE CLASSIC YOUNG FILMMAKER UNVEILS `THE KING'
Sep 01, 2005; ... Hollywood director Martin Scorsese has been in Boston for weeksworking on his latest movie, "The Departed." But it is likely he hasno idea that just a few miles south, a young filmmaker has beenfollowing in his footsteps or at least retracing them. Nick Colia, an 18-year-old from ...
ACT NOW: LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO WAIT
Sep 01, 2005; ... Don't wait to do the things that matter. On Aug. 7, the day Peter Jennings died, my mom and dad, mydaughters, my wife, my stepkids, and I boarded the Norwegian Sun inVancouver, bound for Alaska. My old man carried with him one suitcase and one 2-centimetertumor in the lower ...
SCHOOLS TURN TO EBAY WITH SURPLUS STUFF
Sep 01, 2005; ... Pembroke Public Schools has found a new way to get rid of surplusequipment: sell it on eBay. This summer, Pembroke's leftover inventory included a bulkyprinting press, a spare door, and tools that were used in shopclasses decades ago. The question was, what to do with the ...
FREE FERRY OPENS ISLANDS TO KIDS
Sep 01, 2005; ... Hundreds of South Shore youths have visited islands in BostonHarbor free of charge this summer, thanks to a program coordinated bythe Island Alliance organization and subsidized by the Harbor Expressferry service. The program, which is more than 10 years old, allows ...
PROJECT AIMS TO RESTORE MARSH `FIXED' BY ARMY CORPS IN '50S
Sep 01, 2005; ... Fifty years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the TownRiver and spread hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil overBroad Meadows, smothering the soggy wetlands along the start of theHoughs Neck peninsula. Then, for good measure, the federal agencyplanted reed-like phragmites ...
HEARING ON HOWELL
Sep 01, 2005; ... ABINGTON HEARING ON HOWELLA town-owned computer used by the formerSewer Department superintendent, James Howell, contained hundreds ofimages of women undressing, along with files for his personalbusiness, according to testimony at a hearing last week. KristenO'Sullivan, ...
HIGH SCHOOL SHOWING ITS AGE, NORWOOD WEIGHS RENOVATIONS
Sep 01, 2005; ... The oldest wing of Norwood High School opened in 1926. Classroomsthroughout the building are undersized, and the wiring is outdated.When the heating system breaks, maintenance workers improvise areplacement part since originals are no longer manufactured. It is one of the few ...
LIGHTNING STRIKES HISTORIC BUILDING
Sep 01, 2005; ... The owners of a historic downtown building hit by lightning onAug. 14 are still waiting for damage estimates. Manny Pacheco Jr., whose family owns the Pacheco's Hardwarebuilding at 7 Freeman St., said, "We have fire damage and waterdamage. The lightning ...
LITTLE PROOF QUINCY REALLY NEEDS CROSS-CITY CONCOURSE
Sep 01, 2005; ... According to recent news stories ("Proposed cross-city road gainstraction," Globe South, Aug. 18), the proposed Quincy concourse isright on track and badly needed to save downtown. Seems City Hall hasbeen trying to find a way to connect downtown to Route 3 since theSoutheast Expressway ...
BROCKTON RUNNERS MOTIVATE THEMSELVES
Sep 01, 2005 ... Jose De Pina believed there was only one way to prepare for hissenior cross-country season at Brockton. During the summer, De Pina and senior teammate Nate Brown encouraged the rest of the boys' cross-country team to commit tosummer training: sessions stretching an average of 500 ...
CORNELIA PULLIA, 88; OWNED BEAUTY SHOP
Sep 01, 2005; ... BROCKTON Cornelia (Beneduci) Pullia, former owner of the BelmontBeauty Shop in Brockton, died Aug. 14 at the Good Samaritan MedicalCenter in Stoughton. She was 88. Mrs. Pullia was born and raised in Brockton, and graduated fromBrockton High School in 1934. Shortly after ...
INSIDE
Sep 01, 2005 ... PUMPWATCH Gasoline prices are showing a slow but steady rise, increasing anaverage of 2 cents per gallon over the past week. Page 3 ACT NOW Life is too short to wait to do the things that matter, writesPaul Della Valle in a Suburban Diary. Voices, Page ...