But this time not because of past arrests. A probation worker at Charlestown District Court was arrested there yesterday on charges she helped her boyfriend sell OxyContin out of their East Boston apartment.

Michelle Kelly, 26, was arraigned this morning on a charge of distributing OxyContin within 1,000 feet of a school and 100 feet of a park, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. She had bail set at $1,000.

Her boyfriend, Paul J. Doherty, 28, was arraigned yesterday on 12 counts of distributing OxyContin and one count of trafficking in more than 14 grams of the drug, the DA's office says. He was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail.

Prosecutors say that Doherty sold about 100 OxyContin tablets to undercover State troopers on several occasions over the last half of 2008 - and charge Kelly was present for many of the deals at their Lexington Street residence. The DA's office says the charge against Kelly stems from a Dec. 22 incident in which Kelly sold an undercover two tablets of OxyContin because Doherty was not home.

Innocent, etc.

Mark Baard, who hails from across the Neponset, reports:

Here in Milton, we’ve been unable at times to get legitimate trash (with a $3 sticker affixed to it), picked-up.

Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo has proposed measures to keep Milton trash in Milton, such as video cameras and alarms at common dumping sites on the Boston side of the river.

From press release of Carla Howell's Center For Small Government

Today, at 10:30am at the Elections Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Carla Howell and several volunteers filed the last batches of validated signatures for this petition drive.

"We filed a bullet-proof, challenge-proof number of signatures for our ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax from 6.25% to 3%," said Carla Howell.

"We needed 66,593 validated signatures to qualify. Today, we turned in the last of over 75,978 validated signatures - 9,385 more signatures than the law requires."

More at... well, I would have thought it might be HERE, but the press release hasn't made it to the website yet. Anyway, I'm sure opinions abound, so have fun!

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

No doubt there's a reason the signals keep failing on the part of the line that kept getting shut down over several years to repair all the signals.