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S2 (3Md S(iafth ONLINE TODAY boston.comregion Calendar Voices Sports Obituaries 9 11 12 13 GlobeWatch: Got a problem? SouthTalk: Local message boards Contacts: E-mail reporters, editors Browse: Find other regional news The Boston Globe Thursday, September 21, 2006 fjV DEDHAM The most important goal for me is never to create another victim. Anthony Williams, convicted rapist and inmate at the treatment center No easy access to rail station Road isolates 'smart growth' site 1 1 i 4 in i II. 4 By Robert Freer GLOBE CORRESPONDENT The state Office for Commonwealth Development considers the new apartment complex called Jefferson at Dedham Station a "smart growth" project because of its proximity to the commuter rail station. Just steps away, across Rustcraft Road, is the weekday stop for 19 Boston-bound trains, which reach Back Bay in about 20 minutes. But in a spin on the old saying "you can't get there from here" the only authorized route from the apartments to the station is a nearly 3-mile ride along local roads, a state highway, and an interstate highway, through two stoplights, and around a rotary.

If you have to park, the fee is $2. An alternative, and very unofficial, route to the trains is a walk or sprint across busy Rustcraft Road, then through a hole in the chain-link fence that runs along the edge of the tracks. All of which calls into question the "smart growth" designation at least for the moment. State and local officials agree that access to the station known as Dedham Corporate Center Station, because of a nearby office complex needs to be improved, and they say it will be eventually. "When you have that many people in that many units, the idea is for them to keep their cars in the garage," said Dedham Selectman James A.

MacDonald. 'If they have to drive to the parking lot to take the train, it doesn't make any sense." Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Mas-DEDHAM, Page 5 PHOIOS BY TOM HERDEGLOBE STAFF INSIDE THE WALLS Top left, Administrative Captain Sheila Smith talks with an inmate watching TV in a treatment center housing unit Top right, a corrections officer walks between buildings. Bottom right, inmates make traffic signs in a shop. Bottom left, a mural adorns a corridor wall. On front lines in battle to curb sexual crimes Treatment Center tries to prepare offenders for life on the outside FOXBOROUGH Sdiool chief makes an abrupt exit cycle that had landed them in the facility.

Williams, who spent his youth immersed in a criminal culture on the streets of Boston, read aloud the things he used to tell himself before committing a crime, vulgar characterizations of his female victims and excuses for his felonies. He said he is learning to recognize his rationalizations and curb his behavior. "When you find these thoughts going on in your head, they are like red flags. You can pick them up and then stop," he said. "The most important goal for me is never to create another victim." By Robert Preer GLOBE CORRESPONDENT BRIDGEWATER Behind the walls of the Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous, about a dozen men sat in a group therapy circle one recent afternoon in attempts to untangle their pasts.

Nearby, other men clad in drab prison garb hunched over texts or wrote in notebooks. Sitting next to each other at a table were Anthony Williams, 39, and Jerry Iininger, 55, both convicted rapists. Together they were going over a writing exercise designed to help them break the In the state's highly charged campaign to curb sexual crimes, the Massachusetts Treatment Center at the Bridgewater Correctional Complex is on the front line. The facility houses 625 men. They are not there for having racy online chats with undercover officers, or circulating pornography.

They have committed crimes with real victims. Nearly all have been convicted of rape, molestation, or other sexual assaults. They may be the most reviled members of society. When they are released, as most will be someday, they may be shunned and even hounded by their TREATMENT CENTER, Page 4 Leaf peepers should find brilliance in their backyards By Sandy Coleman GLOBE STAFF The troubled Foxborough school district is again in search of a superintendent. This week, just a month into the new school year, School Superintendent Kathleen I.

Tyrell and the School Committee agreed to end her employment, effective immediately. Tyrell's last day on the job was Monday, the same day that the School Committee met in a private executive session and then announced the end of her eight-year tenure. "Philosophical differences between the committee and the superintendent about what is best for the Foxborough public schools have made it clear that this is the right move for both parties," said School Committee chairwoman Martha Slattery, reading a statement to an audience of more than 40 attending the regular committee meeting. After the meeting, Slattery would not elaborate on what those differences were and said she would not reveal the vote SUPERINTENDENT, Page 8 By Sandy Coleman GLOBE SOUTH In Myles Standish State Forest, along Route 3, and in the Blue Hffls Reservation, the seasonal drama has started. Fiery reds are tinting treetops and simmering yellows are brightening bushes, as summer flowers the region, quality viewing can be found at Myles Standish in Carver and Plymouth, Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Borderland State Park in North Eas-ton, F.

Gilbert Hills State Forest in Foxborough, Mas-sasoit State Park in Middleborough, Ames Nowell State Park in Abington, and Wompatuck State Park in Hingham. Unfortunately, Freetown State Forest is not at its color best this year because hungry caterpillars damaged many oak trees in the area, said Joe Perry the service forester based at Myles Standish. The oaks are already brown or have lost their leaves there. The good color expected across most of the region FOLIAGE, Page 8 make their exit The local fall foliage show promises to be a good one, say forestry experts; no need to travel to Vermont to peep at leaves this year. Despite some caterpillar damage to oak trees in Though oaks were damaged by caterpillars, maple leaves will provide color this fall.

LOBESTAFFFIIE MARSHFIELD Inside From sixth grade to Beacon Hill Fueling competition In battle by gas stations to offer the best prices, drivers are the winners. Starts Stops, Page 3 Up in arms Criticism of the veterans agent 0 1 1 ident, who is warmly remembered by former students as an inspiring teacher, is now charting the course of a politically powerful and sometimes controversial union. On a recent afternoon, Wass was busy moving into her new office on Beacon Hill, almost literally in the shadow of the State House, where she hopes to use the union's considerable muscle to improve conditions for teachers and other members. She was elected to By Matt Carroll GLOBE STAFF It's been a long journey for Anne Wass from teaching sixth-graders in Hanover for more than three decades to win-PrOIlle ning election this spring as president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the largest teachers' union in New England. The 57-year-old Marshfield res a two-year term in May after serving four years as vice president.

Being a teacher or union leader was not on Wass's career list as she was growing up in Albany, N.Y. Although both parents had school-related jobs her mother was a teacher and her father a truant officer she originally dreamed of becoming a doctor. But even as a first-grader, she loved to play school, and yea. i lat-TEACHER, Page 7 1 i Middleborough. Page 8 Winning numbers Vin Hickey, head football coach at Blue Hills Regional Technical School, is nearing a significant 1 CYRUS MOUHIADtR FOR THE BOblON GLOBE milestone, sports, Page 12 Anne Wass in her new office as Teachers Association president.

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