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...Cambridge bidding commissioner, calling the facility a danger to public safety because of its lack of a sprinkler system, two weeks ago denied Middlesex Country a permit for the 150-inmate jail, which is located on the 17th though 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse...
...state panel stated that "the absence of a sprinkler system does not creat or contribute to the endangering of public safety...
However, Peter A. Vellucci, a member of the East Cambridge Citizens Planning Team, which is leading opposition to the jail, said that Alberti's original decison was based on the fact that the absence of a sprinkler system makes the jail a fire hazard. Vellucci says he remains optimistic that Alberti will oppose occupation of the jail as long as there are no plans to install a sprinkler system...
...Upstream, however: the Alley production is perhaps as ambitious a staging as has ever been attempted by a regional theater. The playwright's River Orb has been regurgitated into a 20,000-gal. tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system has been installed to re-create a summer downpour. Ayckbourn has directed, as he did in Scarborough, and his players move as effortlessly as their roles-and their wayward craft-will allow...
...Cambridge City Solicitor Russell B. Higley said yesterday that the sprinkler requirement does apply to the jail because it was not occupied until after 1975, even though the building's lower floors have been in use since 1974 The code refers to a lot's date of occupancy and not its date of construction, Higley said...