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Revised housing plan offered for Addison-Wesley site in Reading


Reading officials are considering a revised plan to rebuild the abandoned Addison-Wesley office park site that would provide more than 350 new homes, many of which would count toward the town’s state-mandated affordable-housing goal.

A father’s bicycle ride of thanks
During the tense days that doctors were treating his 6-month-old daughter’s cancer, Derek Jones saw a poster for the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge on the wall at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Violence, municipal strife land a town in trying times
Randolph is struggling through a tough year. Two fatal shootings in six days this summer capped a string of upsets — three other shootings, a fatal fire, a bruising failed override vote, and the deep budget cuts that followed. Add to that disciplinary hearings for two town officials, and the events of the past eight months have left the town …

Anti-Ch vez channel stays on
CARACAS — Venezuela’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an opposition-aligned TV channel will remain on cable for now, acting just hours before a government-set deadline that could have yanked it from the cable lineup.

State pension system takes hit in hedge fund collapse
The Massachusetts state pension system lost $30 million with this week’s collapse of Sowood Capital Management LP, the first evidence that public money also went down the drain when the $3 billion Boston hedge fund lost more than half its value in July.

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