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Mixed reviews for making Crest and Bradstreet Avenues one-way By Tara Vocino
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or a 60-day trial period, two streets near the MBTA station will soon become oneway so that Beachmont residents will have enough room to park their cars on the street instead of the sidewalk. According to Traffic Commission Chairman Paul Argenzio, who is also the Department of Public Works Superintendent, Bradstreet Avenue will now be one-way in an easterly direction toward the water from Atlantic Avenue – for a 60-day trial period. Crest Avenue will now be one-way running westerly from Bateman Road – also for a 60-day trial period. However, the change won’t be effective for a couple of weeks, as signs have to be installed, Argenzio said Friday morning. Traffic commissioners also voted Thursday night during a public hearing to make the north side of Frye Street Renne Wolfe (third from right) celebrates her 100th Birthday at the Jack Satter House recently. no parking, according to ArShe is shown with her great-granddaughterby her side and Satter House Director Steven Post, genzio. Mayor Brian Arrigo, State Representative RoseLee Vincent, School Committee member Carol Thirty-year Crest Avenue resTye, and Councillor John Powers. idents Kim and David Lyons
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were at the public hearing to see what changes were being made regarding the decision for temporary or permanent one-way enforcement. “Some residents would prefer a twoway in the easterly direction,” Kim Lyons said at the podium. “A one-way vote will result in a longer commute home.” Her husband, David, said that unfortunately there isn’t a good solution, because their street, which has approximately five houses, is narrow. They weren’t there to speak in opposition necessarily, but rather to note there are pros and cons to having Crest Avenue traffic run in either one or both directions. “However, it will make the traffic flow better,” David Lyons said. “If it stays one-way, we won’t have to park our cars along the sidewalk.” David Lyons said fire engines, plows and trash trucks have a tough time squeezing onto the street. Fire Chief Christopher Bright, who serves on the Traffic Commission, agreed.
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By Tara Vocino Chelsea man is being held on $100,000 cash bail at the Suffolk County Jail on charges of armed assault to murder and carrying a firearm without a license, after a reported shooting and stabbing in a second-floor apartment kitchen at 16 Pleasant St. in Revere at approximately 3:15 a.m. on Saturday. The alleged shooting victim, Steven Mejia, 27, of Chelsea, who witnesses say is suspect Hector Emilio Hernandez’s cousin, remains hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jorge Ariel Zarzar, 23, also of Chelsea, who was reportedly stabbed and carjacked in Chelsea earlier that night, was transported to Beth Israel Hospital, for stab wounds. MGH Senior Public Affairs Officer Julie Cunningham said Mejia remains in fair condition,
A Revere police cruiser is shown in the rear of 16 Pleasant St. days after Hector Emilio Hernandez allegedly shot his cousin, Steven Mejia in what was allegedly a gang-related incident.
as of Wednesday afternoon. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Senior Media Relations Specialist Lindsey Diaz-MacInnis said Wednesday afternoon that she didn’t have any information immediately available about Zarzar’s condition on Wednesday afternoon. According to Suffolk Coun-
ty District Attorney Press Secretary Jake Wark, during Hernandez’s arraignment on Monday in Chelsea District Court, Judge Dunbar Livingston ordered Hector Emilio Hernandez, 24, of Chelsea, to stay away from Mejia, Zarzar, the
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