Byline: Rita Savard
Oct. 9--CHELMSFORD -- For 20 years, it was like the boy who cried wolf.
"Again and again, they said it was going to happen but it never did," recalls Carol Cleven, a Chelmsford resident and former state representative.
Today, skeptics can banish their reservations as shovels hit the dirt for the groundbreaking of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail -- a 25-mile multiuse trail that took more than two decades to materialize.
An idea that began in the mid-1980s to transform Chelmsford's abandoned railroad tracks into a recreational path is moving ahead without any hitches, according to the Massachusetts Highway Department.
In August, MassHighway ...