Friends of the Blue Hills continue to fight the request of the owner of the Lantana function hall in Randolph to turn 3 acres of the Blue Hills reservation into a parking lot.

The Globe has the details (note to Globe, as Matt King notices, you might want to do something about the URL on that story).

The Patriot-Ledger reports on an alleged interchange between former Brookline School Superintendent Richard Silverman and a School Committee member in Randolph, where he now works, over Silverman's request for a five-day bereavement leave:

"It is not the standard in industry," Silverman quoted Kenney as saying. "Besides, don't you Jews plant them within 24 hours?" ...

"I don't see any side curls on your head, so what the hell do you need five days of bereavement leave for?" ...

Three years after he was exonerated and released from jail.