Hopkinton Town Manager charged in fatal crash

[Ian David]

Hopkinton official is charged in fatal crash
Town manager remains in coma

By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent | May 23, 2007

While he lay in a coma in Rhode Island Hospital yesterday, Hopkinton's new town manager was charged with vehicular homicide and scheduled to appear in court next month.

Anthony J. Troiano, 51, of East Sandwich, who was a driver in a car crash last week that left a 69-year-old woman dead, was also praised as a hard worker and family man.

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State Police said Troiano was driving his 2004 Hyundai sedan on Route 6A in Bourne at 11:18 p.m. May 15, when he tried to pass another car.

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Berents, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from her car and was pronounced dead at the scene, State Police said.

State Police charged Troiano with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, speeding, failure to pass safely, and a marked lane violation, said Trooper Eric Benson.

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By ANDY THIBAULT
The Cool Justice Report
www.cooljustice.blogspot.com
Oct. 17, 2006

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Historic vegetation has been a long-time and grave concern for Troiano.

Big Anthony Troiano, as recently as this week, is reaching out to the media, inviting selected press to his cabana and pool area for a viewing of the Enfield Montessori School. Troiano is also - incorrectly - calling the improved parking plan an expansion. Will Big Anthony be offering a cigar to any special guests who might show up?

Perhaps Big Anthony meant what he said to the Historic District Commission a couple years ago:

"The school refused to accept the commission's ruling. It's like a teacher telling a child no. Why does the school continue to return again and again when they have been told that the application is not appropriate for the Enfield Historic District … Once this paving is accepted, no one can stop the school from fulfilling their intent to asphalt their backyard total. This is their way of coming back through the back door to the large addition to the school built.

"The school made their own problems," Big Anthony Troiano continued. "If you wish the school to grow as it has in the past, the most sensible thing to do is find another location out of this Historic District to build a brand new beautiful school. Or do the most obvious thing. Use the empty buildings across the street owned by the Felician Sisters."


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http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/2007/05/phony-tony-redux-and-prior-comments.html



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Also around this time, as we began the new millennium, Anthony Troiano stepped out of the shadows. Troiano, who lives next door to the school, became one of its most vehement opponents. The developer and prominent businessman spoke publicly against plans to move the parking area away from the highway to the back of the school. He said "historic vegetation" would be destroyed. Yet, when Troiano developed the parcels that now house Enfield Federal Savings Bank and a health care center, it was OK to tear down an historic blacksmith shop. Others who tried to develop those parcels before him were unsuccessful.

When Anthony Troiano talks, people jump. For most, he is the straw that stirs the drink.

One exception is Sister Mary Anastasia, who has taught at Enfield Montessori for more than 38 years. Sister Anastasia told us she turned down Troiano's offer to buy the 11-acre parcel.

"He insisted that we have plenty of buildings across the street, and that we could solve all our problems by moving," Sister Anastasia said.

Troiano was not pleased by the refusal to sell.

"He told us," Sister Anastasia said, "we would run out of money before he does," an apparent reference to ongoing legal battles.

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http://www.andythibault.com/columns/enfieldjudgeinfavorofschool-09-27-06.htm



Another Chief State's Attorney's Investigation Proceeds …
by: tntcomm82
Tue May 08, 2007 at 21:07:56 PM EDT
Are Enfield's Tallarita
And Westbrook's Raffa
Soulmates? Separated At Birth?

The primary criminal investigator for the Westbrook case is the primary criminal investigator for the Enfield case.

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