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...second site, on a marshland between Milton and Dorchester, was proposed last December by Governor Volpe. But Milton selectmen and Dorchester state legislators raised an outcry against it, and Volpe dropped the issue...
Volpe's message recommends a marshland area on the Neponset River near Dorchester and Milton, now owned by the MDC, as the site for a new $6 million MBTA transit facility. It would replace the Bennett St. yards in Cambridge, the planned site for the library. It is clear that the marshland area is the best location for the new yards in metropolitan Boston. The results of a survey, to be released this week; show that no houses will be destroyed and no town lands used up. Earlier surveys have shown that the 12-acre Bennett St. site...
...neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that he has made a moral commitment to the Library. Now he has made a legislative commitment. He must carry it through...
Ayeleth Hashachar (in Hebrew, the Morning Star) is one of Israel's oldest kibbutzim. In 1916 it pioneered the settlement of the Huleh Valley, then largely marshland. The kibbutz proper-living quarters, communal dining hall, stables, cowpens, storage facilities--lies two miles from the muddy Jordan River as it flows south toward the Sea of Galilee. The Jordan River forms the border between Israel and what used to be Syria...