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CityRegion News Bl-9, B12, E12 Starts Stops B2 New England News Briefs B2 Peaks Valleys B9 Bird Sightings E12 This Day In History El 2 Commitments BIO! Deaths C20 Weather E12! Education Ft Boston Sunday Globe February 15, 2004 1J State, city spar A student vanishes, and questions mount over who picks up the convention tab ft M' Woman who left crash had planned a getaway By Peter DeMarco GLOBE CORRESONDENT Six days have passed since college student Maura Murray crashed her car on a rural highway in northern New Hampshire and disappeared without a trace. But as family, friends, and investigators continue their search for the 21-year-old Hanson native, two questions continue to baffle them: Where was Murray going, and what was she running from? A junior in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's nursing program, Murray was doing well in school. She had a dedicated boyfriend, a loving family, and close friends. Her father, Frederick, had just told her he wanted to buy her a new car. But on Monday, Murray apparently decided she needed to get away from life for a while.

In short order, she withdrew a few hundred dollars from an ATM machine, packed her cellphone wall charger and her favorite stuffed monkey into her Saturn, e-mailed her professors to tell them she wouldn't be in class all week, and headed north for the White Mountains. Whatever her intended destination was, she never made it there in her car. At about 7 that night, while taking a sharp turn on Wild Ammonoosuc Road in Woodsville, N.H., Murray lost control and slammed into a snowbank. Shaken by the accident, and apparently intoxicated, Murray told a witness she didnt need help, local MISSING, Page B8 Searchers are scouring northern New England for Maura Murray, 2 1 who has been missing since Monday. political event Menino has long said that he would prefer not to commit city cash to the event and that he wants the state to make up any gap.

Governor Mitt Romney has come out strongly against any "political welfare" that would have state tax dollars supporting a four-day party celebration. The convention is coming to Boston as Romney tries to make a name for himself in national GOP circles, and he does not want to roll over to the Democrats on any issue. Yet Romney is only two years removed from his leadership of the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, where he looked to federal taxpayers to make ends meet. "Its an interesting political situation," said Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed fiscal watchdog group.

There's some truth to both of their cases. But in the end, there'll have to be some compromise to pay for the convention." Romney has been vocal and firm in his beliefs, starting even before he was inaugurated as governor in January 2003. Menino has been equally blunt: Since the state will see added sales tax revenue from the convention, the state budget should be a major source of extra cash and services the convention needs, he has said. But neither wants to be accused of skimping on security costs at the first political convention since the Sept. 11, 2001, CONVENTION, Page B5 Differences on whether taxpayers should pay By Rick Klein GLOBE STAFF Less than six months before Boston hosts the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the stage is set for a standoff over how much state and city taxpayers should have to chip in.

Convention organizers do not like to talk about it, but a gap of approximately $10 million looms large on their balance sheet money that will almost certainly have to be made up through some combination of city and state dollars. Sharp differences of opinion have emerged between state and city leaders as to who should pick up the lion's share of those costs. The battle pits a Democratic mayor and a Republican governor who view the convention in starkly different ways and who have different mixes of political ambition, pride, and fiscal prudence on the line. Mayor Thomas M. Menino worked hard to bring the convention to Boston.

As a lifelong Democrat, he sees it as a central part of his mayoral legacy. But he is also locked in tense negotiations with more than 30 city unions that are now without contracts, and that are ready to blast the mayor for using city funds on a If GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JONATHAN WIGGS A woman walks past one of the Main Street businesses in Berlin, N.H., that have closed in recent years. Prisons bring mill city's release Unemployment 15 Monthly, not seasonally 1 1 As paper industry struggles, future of Berlin, N.H., lies in corrections adjusted n.h. N.H. 10 US GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JOHN TLUMACK1 PROTEST TIPS Film student Mothra was among dozens of activists who gathered in a Back Bay church for a weekend crash course in protesting the Democratic National Convention.

B4 Colebrook 2 0 COOS COUNTY A ftrnuptan 0 99 '00 '01 '02 '03 Berlin's population Vt Berlin Lancaster jj) Gorham 10,331 Littleton Boy, 15, fatally stabbed outside Dudley station llhl i By Diane Allen GLOBE CORRESPONDENT BERLIN, N.H. Eddy L'Heureux was born and raised in this staunch French Canadian community, where the tall smoke stacks rival the White Mountains. Like so many other young men who grew up here, L'Heureux followed in his father's footsteps and went to work at the paper mill after graduating from high school. But when L'Heureux's son, Peter, started talking about what he might do for a living, L'Heureux suggested he consider another career path. "I had a feeling that the industry was dying," L'Heureux said.

"I should have followed my own advice." After 26 years in the paper-making business almost 20 years shy of the tenure his own father enjoyed before retiring L'Heureux was laid off. He was eventually called back, but by then he had decided it was time for change. So last year, L'Heureux became a correctional officer at Berlin's state prison for men just like his son, who began working at the prison in 2000. New Hampshire's northernmost city has long relied on paper mills for its economic lifeblood. But since the 1990 Census, the Coos County city has lost 12.6 percent of its population, dropping to 10,331 in 2000.

The troubled mills suffered a shutdown in 2001, and had not returned to their former strength when they were forced to lay off people just before this past holiday season. SOURCES: N.H. Office of State Planning; N.H. Employment Security, Economic, and Labor Market Information Bureau 1970s 1980s 1990s '00 GLOBE STAFF GRAPHIC SEAN McNAUGHTON By Jessica Bennett and Jack Hagel GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS A 15-year-old Roxbury boy was fatally stabbed last night outside the Dudley Square bus station the second teenager killed in street violence in two days, police said. Relatives identified the victim as Shawn Adams, a freshman at East Boston High School.

Adams was pronounced dead at 6:48 p.m. at Boston Medical Center from a stab wound to the chest, au thorities said. Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen OToole called the stabbing a "horrific hv cident" jj 'My heart goes out to the family ojj Shawn Adams," OToole said. "I just want to say that we will determine who is re sponsible for this murder we're com-; mitted to bringing the murderers of Shawn Adams to justice." According to MBTA and Boston police Adams was with a group of about nindj SLAYING, Pag B3. Many residents believe the future of Berlin, 15 miles north of Mount Washington and as close to Boston as it is to Montreal, lies in prisons.

The city already is home to the $30 million, medium-security Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility that opened more than three years ago in the Androscoggin River Valley. Now most of the community is embracing the construction of a $154.5 million federal correctional facility scheduled to open in 2008. BERLIN, PageB8 IMIIIIIIIMIIIIiniMMIIIMIIIItlllMMMIItMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIMIMIMIIIIItllMIIIIIIMIMMIHIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Northfield closure has blood boiling A i By Suzanne Sataline GLOBE CORRESPONDENT IIIIIIIMIMIIHIIilllllllllllMIIMIIIIIIHIMllUMHIHIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIt What's closed, open on Presidents' Day Holiday observed tomorrow Retail stores: Open at owner's discretion. Liquor stores: Open. Supermarkets: Open.

Convenience stores: Open. Taverns, bars: Open. Banks: Closed. Stock market: Closed. Municipal, state, federal offices: Closed.

Schools: Closed. Libraries: Closed. Mail: Post offices closed; express delivery only. MBTA: Subways, buses, commuter rail on Saturday schedule. Hingham and Hull commuter boats and inner-harbor ferry service from Charlestown to Long Wharf on weekday schedule.

No ferry service from Lovejoy Wharf. Call 617-222-3200. Boston traffic rules: Meters not in effect. All other rules apply. Trash collection: Regular pickup for Roxbury, Boston proper; all other collections a day late.

Regular Tuesday pickup for Charlestown. P. A 7 NORTHFIELD When half of Northfield Mount Her mon closes next summer, reminders of tea dances, May Day plantings, and Irish Dolben could disappear, too. i Dolben was a 1954 graduate of the former Northfield! School for Girls. After she died in 1985, her husband, Donl donated $1 million to create a library in her honor.

In a yea and a half it will no longer be a part of the school. "What damn fool would give money for a memorial to hii wife that would be used for just 15 years?" Don Dolben said The former trustee is angry with school leaders. "lb cavalier! ly abandon a campus without stating a purpose seems to bdl a breach of fiduciary duty, if not a legal duty then a spiritua one." In the staid world of boarding schools, the decision tc shut down the Northfield campus is a radical move for the 126-year-old Northfield Mount Hermon School. The boart of trustees' decision, announced three weeks ago, has drawn woe, invective, and threats to withhold donations. SCHOOL, Pag BU GLOBE STAFF PHO IUUINA KUUILK COOL DIP Participants run into the 35-degree water for the Passion Plunge at Nantasket Beach in Hull yesterday to benefit Special Olympics.

I Eileen McNamara is not writing today..