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...editors: In an article on the Grant Street ash tree (“Cambridge Council Blasts Harvard in Tree Dispute,” news, Oct. 31), you quote Mary Power, Harvard’s Senior Dir.ector of Community Relations, rebutting neighbors’ claim that Harvard may bear responsibility for damage done to the buttress roots of the tree. Her claim is that decay had been detected back in 2004 and led Harvard’s “experts” to conclude that the tree was a safety hazard. We would like to respond to these somewhat vague...
...fight for a park gained heat last month, when the city cut down a 110-year-old ash tree near the sidewalk next to the construction site, despite protests from local residents...
Bankerd has started a petition calling for "Harvard University to relinquish the lot at the northwest corner of Grant and Banks for use as a public open space" to serve as compensation for the loss of the ash tree. As of last night, the petition—which sits on the ash tree stump—had 134 signatures...
...only does she look at the fashionable speech of 19th century England, when “flare up” was all the rage, she goes back to the king of pop, William Shakespeare, and even to ancient Pompeii, where volcanic ash preserved graffiti on the walls of the public baths...
...said that a study had found rot at the tree’s base in early 2004, and experts concluded the ash was a “safety hazard...