Sentinel & Enterprise (Newspaper) - January 30, 2002, Fitchburg, Massachusetts FOOD Appetizing recipes for people with diabetes Page All SUPER BOWL XXXVI Cheering the Pats and feeding the fans Special Section inside Interim THE VOICE OF 1O9D THE VOICE OF MOUTH MASSACHUSETTS SINCE 1838 2 24 Pages Sentinel a Enterprise graphic KEITH MORIARTY AP PHOTOS The next big Who will lead Patriots to Super Bowl Belichick slated to announce his pick for starting QB today By Benjamin Cole com Even if the rest of the country does not give them much of a chance in day's Super local New England fans are that the Patriots can tain the magic that has throughout their acle Lady Knights notch a win in memory By Chad Garner com LUNENBURG Nothing needed to be The chalkboard inside the Lunenburg High Memorial Gymnasium said it There a message was dis- played in memory of 16- year-old Myles who died hi a car accident Friday Lady This game is 4 you Myles The Lunenburg despite holding back its emotions out the rode the tails of senior center Jane who poured in 22 of her 24 points in the first half and hauled in 10 rebounds en route to a lopsided 51-19 tory over C foe Hudson Tuesday definitely just played through it and stuck er said talked about it during school whether or not we were going to The boys decided not but we definitely wanted to be together tonight and all play as It's been iy hard for The Blue Knights are on the season at overall and 8-0 in the is a mentally tough group they always have said Lunenburg coach Kevin It's been really a tough atmosphere Please see LUNENBURG A7 we all know who is going to but the tion Who will be the quarterback to lead the Patriots to the promised Patriots Coach Belichick was to announce today his decision on who will be the starting terback in the Super During the regular Tom Brady led the Patriots to an 11-3 record as starting quarterback after Drew Bledsoe was 0-2 at the On Sunday against the after Brady was forced from the game with a left ankle injury in the second Bledsoe filled in Just after entering the Bledsoe completed his first three pass one for a Some said the so-called million looked as though he never missed a even though he had not played in a game in 126 Please see PATRIOTS A7 Sentinel 5 Enterprise CHENG This Titan caliber semi-automatic five rounds of ammunition and the emptied clip are in the custody of the Police Department after being confiscated Tuesday from two Brown Middle School suspended after bringing gun to school Robert Mills FITCHBURG A pair of Brown Middle School students who had a loaded gun hi school are facing criminal charges and expulsion after other administrators and police took quick action A loaded caliber semi-automatic handgun was confiscated from the students around 1 p.m. The ages 12 and 13 and both in sixth were arrested shortly after fellow students reported one of them had displayed the gun during police Capt. Mark W. Louney He said there was a round in the gun's so it could have fired if the trigger had been pulled As of Tuesday police had not fired the handgun to see if Louney described it as an older Principal Bernard A. DiPasquale said no one was He said the 13-year-old brought the gun to then gave it to the 12-year-old, who hid it in a binder in an attempt to keep his friend out of lunch one of the boys told another student he had a gun and showed him the end of the DiPasquale didn't brandish it or take it I think he just brought it in to show The principal ed the gun as soon as he found it. School officials and police said the incident was handled exactly as it should have been by everyone involved DiPasquale said he was very of the students who reported the presence of a weapon in Pease see GUN A7 We will President urges Congress to fight terror globally in State of Union address By David Espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON Summoned by dent Bush to fight the and growing of a united Congress is eager to But Democrats have their own ideas when it conies to fixes for the Since Sept. 11, has been no light between us in this war on House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt said Tuesday night in his party's response to Bush's State of the Union But when it comes to the Missouri Democrat values call for helping the not just large corporations and the most Both sides set out to dramatize their own priorities on the morning after the president's speech before a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television ence counted in the Bush was embarking on a two-day tour to three southern states to promote his including economic stimulus Democrats arranged a meeting in the Capitol with former Enron Corp. ees men and women who suffered strophic losses in their retirement accounts when the company Bush got a welcome fit for a hero day night as he entered a packed House chamber to deliver his Lawmakers gravitated to the center aisle to shake his hand as he made his way to the nation is at our economy is hi and the civilized world faces AP PHOTO President Bush gives his first State of the Union address Tuesday night on Capitol as Vice President Dick Cheney unprecedented he said in a ly worded making a fist and tapping lightly on the podium for he quickly added the state of our union has never been Moments to more he will prevail in the and we will defeat this Please see BUSH A8 Lawmakers offer differing options to overhaul bilingual education By Erik Arvidson Sentinel Enterprise State House Bureau BOSTON While many state lawmakers are opposed to a ballot tion that would scrap the state's bilingual education key differences are emerging between those legislators over how to reform the A compromise filed Tuesday by the co-chairmen of the Education Committee received only lukewarm support from several key including Rep. Antonio a central figure in the bilingual education Cabral said while he agreed for the most part with a proposed by chairmen Rep. Peter J and Sen. Robert A. D- the ed parents of English students little input over how their children would be way the Education Committee is proposing it leaves it totally up to the superintendent of Cabral doesn't allow parents We believe choice is It's the linchpin of this of creating that local Cabral and Sen. Marc R. are sponsoring a that ly mirrors the proposal from the Education except that it allows parents to directly choose among bilingual program Please see A8 INSIDE TODAY'S SENTINEL ENTERPRISE A Librarian to the lower level of the Ashby Pree Library a spiral i LOCAL Ashty voters reject LOCAL New candidate Lunenburg Selectman Ronald Lamothe an- his candidacy for state representative for the newly formed 37th Middlesex District Page AS SPORTS FHS racks up a win The Fitchburg High School varsity ball team beat St 78-58- Page Bl The Nevada boxing commission voted 4-1 to deny boxer Mike Tyson a license to fight Lennox VISIT Us ONLINE AT with a chance of snow Business Classified crossword B5 Editorial A6 Entertainment B4 Food Local A2 B7 A8 Sports TV B5 Benefit Concert March 2, 2002 Featuring the Symphony See page B12 for 1EWSP4PERS
