The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 77

TOOT Wmmh Boston Sunday Globe July 29, 2001 "x' Building boom Large office projects in l-arge omce projects "''VX'- Boxborough. headed by computer giant Cisco, have Precious tales Artist Raelinda Woad displays her creation "Celestial Diana," a piece of jewelry that contains one of her stories. Page 11 Game of life Bert Hammel Qeft), who runs the Academic Basketball Awareness Camp, plays ball with Leuvis Olivero. Page 10 the potential to transform this once-sleepy town into an office park community. Page 9 pi 1 lllllllllllllllllimillllllllllll IIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I IIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 HUM UN Illllllll minim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimih Early risen cat crowd.

i iv i y- to i parKmg 1 fr r- -W. i r-' Commuters find few spots By Alexander Reid GLOBE STAFF LITTLETON Commuters lucky enough to find a designated parking spot at the Foster Street depot follow one sacred rule: Arrive early. By 7 a.m., these coveted spots all 15 of them are usually taken. Latecomers must make do with parking in the muddy, potholed privately owned land running alongside the train tracks. Tm here at 6:30," said Ray Salvas, an architect from Hold-en and one of the successful early birds.

"My train leaves a little after 7. 1 dont have to be in town for work that early, but I get here early to guarantee myself a spot" With ridership on commuter trains climbing steadily more than doubling in the past 10 years the hunt to find a parking place for the day has taken on a new urgency. Touted as an environmentally friendly solution to the region's traffic woes, commuting by train was supposed to mean a short drive to a nearby terminal and a stress-free ride into downtown. But the morning hunt for parking has altered this picture. COMMUTER PARKING, Page 4 vr GLOBE STAFF PHOTOS JOANNE RATHE Bill Freitag, the owner of Rowley-based Country Gardens, feeding koi in a pond at his home.

Court hearing set in case over shuttle flights Backyard bandits Rustling suspected as tales surface about vanishing pond carp port their stock to national competitions, and even insure their animals with custom policies underwritten by Lloyd's of London. "Koi have really captured the imagination of people who are into art and living things," said Jim Riley, a former officer of the Mid-Atlantic Koi Club and a frequent judge in competitions. "In Asia, they see these fish as art, and there is an underground market for all art As people realize the value, there are more By Erica Noonan GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEXINGTON When dozens of valuable Japanese carp disappeared from a Lexington backyard pond earlier this month, police immediately became concerned that it was not a random act The disappearance has raised concerns that thieves of the expensive, brilliantly colored fish may be making their way toward Greater Boston garden ponds. One supplier has been getting two calls a day this summer from North Shore owners re By Kerry Drohan GLOBE STAFF BEDFORD In the case of Save Our Heritage, et al v. Federal Aviation Administration, opposing attorneys will appear Thursday before a three-judge panel of the US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston and have 15 minutes each to present legal arguments.

The political arguments may go on for years. The "petition for review" of the FAA's Oct 27, 2000, decision allowing Shuttle America to fly from Hanscom Field to New York's LaGuardia Airport is being watched closely for political implications far beyond the local level, according to parties on both sides. "Everyone wants to fly, but no one wants an airport," said Mark Cestari, vice president of marketing for Shuttle America. This kind of litigation and political interference could be problematic throughout the whole country not just at Hanscom. From a public policy standpoint if a slippery slope.

Air travel is becoming unbearable because of delays, and the problem wont go away. This is HANSCOM FIELD, Page Japanese carp swimming in Freitag's pond. porting missing fish, but he is skeptical that I 1 1 1 1 I I I I II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 IMI II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 thefts," he said. But the disappearance of koi from Lexington including a suspected theft four years ago from a nearby home has left experts questioning whether theft problems that have long plagued overseas collectors are spreading to the United States. KOI, Page 8 In Hollywood, the colorful Japanese carp has been considered a must-have by Ben Affleck, Ed McMahon, and Pamela Anderson.

Some koi enthusiasts pay as much as $100,000 for a single fish, regularly trans overseas koi thieves are mvolved. Koi, considered by many to be the Lamborghini of fish, are as much a sign of wealth and class throughout Asia and Europe as a high-end sports car. I 1 1 1 I I i I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i ri 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i ri 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 'I don't speak Spanish so I needed assurances that what I say is being translated precisely. 1 I ft' Marc Laplante City councilor Three enter race for Essex DA Greineder prosecutor among the candidates City Council answers call for Spanish translation By Caroline Louise Cole GLOBE CORRESPONDENT 4 LAWRENCE By October, after more than a year of discussion, the City Council in this majority Hispanic city expects to offer Spanish translation services at all public meetings. Controversial among some old-line English-speaking residents, the proposal to hire an English-Spanish interpreter at 7 I i New US Census figures place Lawrence's Hispanic population at 43,019, or 59.7 percent of its 72,043 residents, but city officials estimate that the number is actually closer to 70 percent.

While the total number of residents has remained unchanged in 10 years, officially Hispanics made up 41 percent of the city's population in 1990, according to Manny Ferreira in the city clerk's office. Alvarez-Rodriguez's initiative was adopted by a unani-SPANISH TRANSLATION, Page 5 ByJohnLaidler GLOBE CORRESPONDENT SALEM Last month, Norfolk County prosecutor Richard D. Grundy persuaded a jury to convict Dirk Greineder, a Wellesley allergist, of first-degree murder in the 1999 death of his wife, MabeL Now, Grundy will try to persuade another jury, the voters of Essex County, to elect him district attorney in 2002. Grundy, who put in 15-hour days during the Greineder trial, may have to toil as tirelessly in the political race. While he was occupied with the Greineder ESSEX DA, Page 7 a cost of about $300 per session Jllf a A1va GLOBE STAFF PHOTOWENDY MAEDA SHOW TIME Ashley Pickard and Becca Coile (seated) performing on Devon.

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