Hope you brought along a pooper scooper:
"Fitchburg kennel license applicant faces inquiry; City examining neglect allegations" by Bella TravagliniGlobe Correspondent March 09, 2015
With city approval for a new dog kennel pending in Fitchburg, one of three people involved in launching it faces allegations of animal neglect and cruelty stemming from her past tenure as the city’s part-time shelter manager and state officials issued an order that she and her partners stop selling dogs online because they are not approved.
Amy Egeland, former part-time manager of the Fitchburg Animal Shelter, and her boyfriend, Sean Stanton, a professional dog trainer and former part-time animal control officer for Holden, intend to open a dog day-care, boarding, and training facility with the property’s owner, Carol Stacy, who was the city’s longtime animal control officer until she retired in 2011.
Related: Boston Globe Animal Shelter
The new kennel at 939 High Rock Road, set on 5.3 acres of land with hiking trails and open fields, would be similar to a private facility Stacy had run there off and on for decades.
The city had leased part of the property from Stacy from 2011 to 2014 and used it to house a shelter for strays, which Egeland managed for two years before the city closed it and laid off Egeland after a state investigation concluded she had unlawfully euthanized a dog....
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Look at what he dug up this morning:
"Link to party sought after woman found unconscious" by Jan Ransom, Globe Staff March 09, 2015
EVERETT — Police are investigating whether there is a connection between a Friday night drinking party and the discovery of an 18-year-old woman lying unconscious two blocks away in a driveway on Appleton Street early Saturday morning.
The woman, who remained in critical condition Sunday afternoon at Massachusetts General Hospital, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, was suffering from hypothermia and alcohol intoxication when she was found about 6:45 a.m. in the driveway of a home on Appleton Street. She also was apparently the victim of an assault, according to a spokeswoman for the district attorney, who declined to provide any details on the attack.
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Everett police said Saturday that they believe the woman was coming from an underage drinking party when she was attacked. On Sunday, police said they were eyeing a house on Waters Avenue where the woman may have attended a party.
A man who would identify himself only as Ralph said on Sunday he had hosted a party Friday night at the Waters Avenue house and the woman was there. He said at one point she ran out of the house, but he gave no further details about what happened at the party.
Ralph said the woman is his friend, and they both attend Everett High School.
A high school kid hosted a party? Seems a bit strange for them to be owning or renting a house, no?
A neighbor who lives across the street and once went to a party at the house, said the woman often attends parties there.
The neighbor, who declined to be identified, said “she’s a good girl. I don’t see her doing anything bad.”
Neighbors on Waters Avenue say parties are frequently held at the house and they’ve seen teenagers drinking and smoking marijuana on the second-floor balcony.
On Sunday, liquor bottles could be seen scattered in the backyard and in a driveway next door to the three-story house. A vodka bottle sat atop the ledge of a back porch on the first floor of the house.
“I don’t sleep all night. There’s no respect,” said 42-year-old Paulo Santos, who has lived on the block for four years. “The last time there were almost 52 people, kids drinking alcohol and fighting in the street. It’s too much problems.”
Many residents such as Dorothy Long have complained to police.
Really? And not much done, huh? The vagaries of it all make me wonder jwho they may be protecting.
“That house has been a problem,” said Long, 75, who lives down the block, adding that she saw teenagers trickling into the house around 10:30 p.m. Friday. “These parents have got to get engaged. I hope and pray that little girl will be OK.”
Detectives with the Everett Police Department and State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office are investigating.
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Looks like this it it for the load I'm dropping today. Sorry.
UPDATE: “We always remember to pick up our dog’s crap.”
Sorry I forgot to.
