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1 Abington, Braintree, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hinghara, Holbrook, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Milton, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Quincy, Randolph, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth Voices Obituaries Calendar Sports Local Jobs 5 7 9 12 13 The Boston Globe Thursday, May 20, 2004 MARSHFIELD Tragedy spurs couple to help teens avoid deadly mistakes i V- "I Recount settles By Joanna Massey GLOBE STAFF of drinking at a Providence bar struck a guardrail on Interstate 95 in Foxborough. Corey Scanlon of Halifax, After Ken and Denise Brack's 18-year-old son was who was driving the car, pleaded guilty in March to killed in a drunk-driving accident, the Plympton cou- two counts of motor vehicle homicide while under the pie didn't do much talking at first. Now, a year and a influence of alcohol, and is scheduled to return to half later, they're reaching out to anyone who will lis- court for sentencing next month. Also killed in the ten, especially students at Silver Lake Regional High crash was 20-year-old Peter Shaughnessy of Pern- School, about the potential impacts of combining al- broke. The fourth occupant, Brendan Carey of Pem- electionfoy single vote cohol and atrip behind the wheel.

broke, survived. But theirs is not a traditional antidrinking mes- The accident, one in a string of Silver Lake student sage designed to scare kids away from experimenting deaths and injuries stemming from alcohol-related ac- with alcohol. cidents, left some parents feeling more needed to be "The reality is that kids are going to drink; they're done on a community-wide basis to prevent teenage going to make bad choices," said Ken Brack. "We drunken driving, said Karen deOgburn, a Kingston have to make sure those bad decisions don't turn into parent and co-chairwoman of the Silver Lake Parent Dashner tops newcomer in Planning Board race deaths. It's up to us to find a better way to prevent Teacher Organization.

these tragedies. At the Bracks' lead, parents began meeting infor- GLOBt STAI-F PHOTO MATTHtW J. LEE Five months after he graduated from Silver Lake mally this winter to discuss creating a regional group Ken and Denise Brack holding a graduation in 2002, Michael Brack died when a Jeep carrying dedicated to the issue, deOgburn said. picture of their son Michael, who was killed in him and three underage friends home from a night driving contract, Page 6 a drunk-driving accident in 2002. ItUHHIMMItlllirilltlllllHIItirilllllMMIIIIIIIIMMIfMIHIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllltllltllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllfllJ II I II III 1 1 nil nil 1 1 HI 1 1 1 III Ml II 1 1 1 III 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 II II I Ml Ml 1 1(1 II II II 1 1 ByJennAbelson GLOBE STAFF By just one vote, Roger Dashner emerged as the winner in the Marshfield Planning Board race after what town officials called the most dramatic recount in recent memory.

Dashner, who served as an associate member on the Planning Board for the past year, defeated political newcomer David Caron for the five-year term 1,129 votes to 1,128. "It certainly was a lot closer than I expected," Dashner said. "I'm just very glad to have a result and that the election came out to be a win for ffie." The race was declared a tie after the May 1 election, with both candidates receiving 1,125 votes, though there was some question about whether one absentee ballot was accurately counted, according to Town Clerk Patricia A. ill i flll Picco. There was no way to verify that vote because the ballot boxes are immediately locked in a vault at the end of an election, and Marshfield officials certified the race as a tie.

Dashner filed a petition for a recount several days later, prompting the town to unlock the boxes and 1 1 jj 1 -4 J- i "1fr Vj.n i-, 4 (Mi GLOBE STAFF PHOTOSTOM HERDE count each ballot by ROGER DASHNER handpiece-said. Glad to have a result" The voting machines had initially registered 466 ballots as blank. Following the three-hour recount last week, Picco certified four additional ballots for Dashner and three for Caron, providing the final one-vote margin. Caron, who moved to Marshfield last year, said he was disappointed with the results. "It was obviously a tight election," he said.

"I thought I would win." Before the recount was completed, Dashner said he was far from certain about his victory. "It's such a relief to have it over with," he said. A Marshfield conducted its last recount several years ago, but town officials said that contest, for a state representative race, was a far more decisive victory. Karen Home, vice chairwoman of the Planning Board, said she was surprised the Planning Board RECOUNT, Pag 4 Bernie McCourt, the Fore River Bridge tender from 1946 until his retirement in 1986, tipped his hat (below) during a round of applause after he raised the span for the final time on Tuesday. Its temporary replacement is visible behind the open drawbridge (above).

Bridge operator gets the last draw Fore River Bridge to be dismantled HOLBROOK till VB 1 ByJennAbelson GLOBE STAFF rship Hazy ownei IS -1m athleen Bagen used to think her father stood on top of ships and lifted open the Fore River with his large, clouds future of patchwork plots Fore River Bridge for the last time. The Route 3A drawbridge connecting Quincy and Weymouth is being torn down over the next few months, and the state held a ceremony to mark its final opening before the demolition begins. "It feels like home," said McCourt, of Quincy, smiling broadly in the small operator's booth, flanked by members of his family, friends, state officials, and even strangers. "It feels like I never left." It's been nearly 18 years since iAlU.afcn....,..ii.r.-. muscular arms.

Decades later, Bagen knows better, but she said she's still just as proud of Bernie McCourt, who worked as a bridge operator for 40 years. McCourt, 82, was honored Tuesday with the task of raising the McCourt retired, and he tipped his monumental day; it's history in the white MassHighway construction hat making," said state Representative to the crowd after they gave the slight James M. Murphy, a Weymouth man a standing ovation. Democrat "We're here to honor Bernie. It's a DRAWBRIDGE, Pag 8 HULL T7 Book sparks village reunion A tribute to two brothers rekindles shared memories By C.

Kalimah Redd GLOBE STAFF The swath of 40 acres along Route 37 is mostly wooded and, in some areas, unsightly, with an assortment of heavy machinery strewn about. But two local activists say the land could be a valuable asset for Holbrook. John Smythe and Paul Murray contend that the land, also known as Edge wood Park, could generate much-needed revenue. They question why town officials have allowed a business owner to continue occupying the land even though he pays taxes only on a small portion of the property. i But Town Administrator Phillip Warren Jr.

says it is unclear who owns the land, which includes 250 to 300 subdivided parcels that were supposed to have been given away in a company promotion about 100 years ago. Warren says determining the rightful owners of the parcels would be a costly expedition up to $2,000 each that the town cannot afford now. -y The issue has boiled over into several selectmen meetings recently, at which Smythe and Murray have demanded that the board take action. The men have begun circulating a petition requesting that the town use some of the funds received from a recent sale of properties seized for nonpayment of taxes to determine who owns the land in order to take control of it "The town should say, enough is enough," Smythe said, pointing out that Holbrook was struggling to deal with an estimated $1.4 million budget deficit by Monday's Town Meeting. "Something needs to be done." The town's proposed budget for next fiscal is $25.6 million.

Meanwhile, Wayne Crosby, the businessman who operates a construction and sewage company on the site, says he owns the property based on the state's Christine Wallgren GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Colleen Redman began writing The Jim and Dan Stories" as a way to manage her grief after two of her five brothers died a month apart in the summer of 2001. Over next two years, she recorded her recollections of Jim and Dan, the rest of her Irish Catholic family of 1 1, and the years they spent as part of the tightly knit Hull Village community in the 1950s and 1960s. When her book was published last summer, others who grew up in the village saw some of their own childhoods in Redman's descriptions of the old coastal forts and bunkers, swimming off the jetty, sledding in the cemetery, riding makeshift skateboards down Telegraph Hill. Such tucked away memories generated enough excitement to trigger plans for a village reunion this Memorial Day. Redman, who now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, is preparing to return for the event and will hold a book-signing while in Hull.

Fellow villagers, now spread across t' 1 South Shore and other states, also are preparing for the reunion. "The book has reconnected me and my whole family with lots of old friends and has created some new ones as well," Redman said in an e-mail message. "I've received lots of e-mails that start something like, You probably dont remember me, but Many of these correspondences are from friends that Jim or Dan grew up with." Whitman resident Betty Ann (Mitchell) Doherty read Redman's book shortly after it was published. Doherty's family lived in a house bordering the Hull Village playground in the 1950s and 1960s. Her parents still live there, and the playground has since been named after Doherty's father, William Mitchell, for his efforts as a baseball coach.

"All through the neighborhood, you would hear kids yelling and playing," Doherty recalled recently. "In every house, the Red Sox would be on TV and the fathers could be heard shouting at their TV screens. You'd stay out playing until the street lights came on. Then you knew you had better get in." While she was not a close friend of the Redman VILLAGE REUNION, Pag 8 YAW V. ULOBt SrAFf PHOTOTOM HtHUE Robert and Barbara Redman with a photo of their children, including two sons, Jim (far left) and Dan (far right), who died a month apart in 1991.

Their daughter Colleen (front re to, in vest) told story in a book. jn.