After a night of partying in June, a Worcester police officer was rushed to the hospital and has remained on paid administrative leave for months as the.
WORCESTER Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit.
“We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018.
Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers whose credibility was suspect.
Records obtained by the Telegram & Gazette show that Early would, within a month of receiving Pineiro’s complaint, assign a prosecutor to look into its claims and add a section to his website referencing a “Litigation Integrity Division.”
Valley Bounty: For Whately greenhouse grower, satisfaction from the start
Flower starts in one of David Wojciechowski’s greenhouses at Harvest Farm. Harvest Farm Greenhouses
David Wojciechowski began the farm in the late 1970s with business partner Gary Gemme. Above, a variety of shade plant starts in one of Wojciechowski’s greenhouses at Harvest Farm. Harvest Farm Greenhouses
Published: 2/19/2021 2:54:15 PM
Even as ice blankets everything at Harvest Farm Greenhouses in Whately, signs of spring are already starting to peek out of the soil in their heated greenhouses that is. Here, the first batch of seeds were planted in January.
“We get the early stuff going then, like the cabbage and the kale,” says owner David Wojciechowski. Once these cold-hardy veggie seedlings or “starts” are large enough to be sold and transplanted outdoors (perhaps under row covering or other cold-weather protection), “that’s when we move in the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant,