SOMERVILLE — A landowner is claiming in federal court that Somerville officials pushing the city's Union Square redevelopment plan illegally ordered the installation of curbs in front of several Webster Avenue garages, part of an effort to drive down property values in anticipation of an eminent domain land grab.
"I'm in a battle with the city," property owner George Hara told New Boston Post during a recent interview. "This is an exercise to diminish the value of the property. I've had meetings with several people at City Hall, all polite, all said they'd get back to me, but nobody is calling me back."
The report accuses seven faculty and staff members at the posh prep school in Concord, New Hampshire of serious sex abuse of students and five others of less serious abuse, with cases spanning from 1956 to 2009. A Boston law firm produced the report, the result of interviews with 40 alumni of the school; L. Scott Harshbarger, 75, a former Massachusetts attorney general, was the chief author of the report.
