Water Tower

Peter Keller had put bullets in his wife and his daughter, his cat and his dog. He didn't want to be found. But Troy Chaffee knew where to look for him. From photos discovered at Keller's home, King County sheriff's detectives deduced that he probably headed into the Cascade Mountains, to Rattlesnake Ridge, a tall hump of forested rock where he'd spent the past eight years building a remote bunker, an emergency shelter in the event of who knows...

Peter Keller had put bullets in his wife and his daughter, his cat and his dog. He didn't want to be found. But Troy Chaffee knew where to look for him. From photos discovered at Keller's home, King County sheriff's detectives deduced that he probably headed into the Cascade Mountains, to Rattlesnake Ridge, a tall hump of forested rock where he'd spent the past eight years building a remote bunker, an emergency shelter in the event of who knows...

You could spend much of your life in greater Boston and never venture into this small town dangling off Eastie into the harbor. Just over 1.6 square miles, it has no glitzy shopping complex, nor the orderly quaintness of Newburyport or even downtown Salem. Unless you live there, it’s out of the way, which is precisely its charm. Getting here is a deliberate act. With just two roads leading in and out (one from East Boston, the other from Revere), chances are you won’t arrive by accident.

Two more tests by the town's Water Department found levels of nonhazardous coliform bacteria in the public water supply that exceed acceptable limits. Taken on Jan. 4 and Jan. 18, the tests add to a string of coliform alerts in Medfield that goes back to last June. While the bacteria is not harmful, it can be an indicator of other potentially dangerous bacteria in water, officials said. Kenneth Feeney, superintendent of the Department of Public Works, said follow-up tests have shown the points where coliform was detected are now clear.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Tattered cotton balls on withered stalks appeared in the fields, and then a row of weathered signs advertising “moonshine jelly’’ and “fried pecans’’ as we reached the outskirts of Milledgeville. In the hard, unforgiving light of a winter afternoon, we drove between the small, cottage-style homes banked up on either side, past the Piggly Wiggly, and after making our way along the ubiquitous retail strip, located the entrance to Flannery O’Connor’s farm, Andalusia.

The town has issued another advisory on its drinking water, and is considering a plan to clean the system's water tower. The Water Department issued a statement Tuesday after its staff detected coliform bacteria in the water supply in a routine test conducted Dec. 7. The department had detected coliform at levels that triggered advisories every month from June through October. According to Ken Feeney, the town's public works superintendent, coliform bacteria are not considered harmful but they can be indicators of other potentially harmful organisms.

Two more tests by the town's Water Department found levels of nonhazardous coliform bacteria in the public water supply that exceed acceptable limits. Taken on Jan. 4 and Jan. 18, the tests add to a string of coliform alerts in Medfield that goes back to last June. While the bacteria is not harmful, it can be an indicator of other potentially dangerous bacteria in water, officials said. Kenneth Feeney, superintendent of the Department of Public Works, said follow-up tests have shown the points where coliform was detected are now clear.

Satellite images by DigitalGlobe; group portrait by Bob Packert; and Clooney photograph by Jonathan Hutson LATE-AFTERNOON LIGHT slants outside the windows of a Harvard Square conference room where half a dozen twenty- and thirtysomethings huddle around a table covered with laptops, several cups of coffee, and one falafel sandwich. It could be a grad student study session, at least until a young woman named Brittany Card stands up in front of a white board covered in drawings of soldiers and tanks in Sudan.

By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent If you find yourself near a Sofitel, a world-wide chain of luxury hotels, around Valentine's Day, you can snag a deal with the Sofitel Magnifique Romance package, which runs until the end of February and includes a discount room rate, chocolate of flowers upon arrival, a bottle of champagne, in-room breakfast and late check out. Among the properties featuring the package: Sofitel, Washington,...

Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco, Maine, plans to expand its water park before next season, adding a tower with six additional water slides. Officials say the tower will have two levels, with the tallest one reaching 60 feet skyward. People using the tallest tower will stand in clear capsules before the floor drops, sending them hurtling downward at 40 feet per second. Ken Cormier, founder and CEO of Funtown Splashtown, says the expansion will also include a water slide that goes through the loop of another.

The town has issued another advisory on its drinking water, and is considering a plan to clean the system's water tower. The Water Department issued a statement Tuesday after its staff detected coliform bacteria in the water supply in a routine test conducted Dec. 7. The department had detected coliform at levels that triggered advisories every month from June through October. According to Ken Feeney, the town's public works superintendent, coliform bacteria are not considered harmful but they can be indicators of other potentially harmful organisms.

You could spend much of your life in greater Boston and never venture into this small town dangling off Eastie into the harbor. Just over 1.6 square miles, it has no glitzy shopping complex, nor the orderly quaintness of Newburyport or even downtown Salem. Unless you live there, it’s out of the way, which is precisely its charm. Getting here is a deliberate act. With just two roads leading in and out (one from East Boston, the other from Revere), chances are you won’t arrive by accident.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Tattered cotton balls on withered stalks appeared in the fields, and then a row of weathered signs advertising “moonshine jelly’’ and “fried pecans’’ as we reached the outskirts of Milledgeville. In the hard, unforgiving light of a winter afternoon, we drove between the small, cottage-style homes banked up on either side, past the Piggly Wiggly, and after making our way along the ubiquitous retail strip, located the entrance to Flannery O’Connor’s farm, Andalusia.

DES MOINES — A teenage girl died yesterday when raging floodwaters swept three cars off a road near Des Moines, and hundreds had to evacuate their homes as widespread flooding struck Iowa after three nights of rain. In Ames, flooding contributed to a water main break that forced the city to shut off water to its roughly 55,000 residents and left the court at Iowa State University’s basketball arena under 4 feet of water. Rivers and creeks rose after storms dumped 2 to 4 inches of rain on central and eastern Iowa overnight yesterday, with 6 inches in some...

FRAMINGHAM - Back in 2006, painter Morgan Bulkeley had a party at his house in the Berkshires. He and several old friends were celebrating the opening of an exhibition of their work at a Great Barrington gallery. In the 1970s and '80s, Bulkeley and artists such as Scott Prior, Mark Cooper, and Gerry Bergstein shared a studio building in Cambridge, and at the time called themselves the Boston Ten. On Bulkeley's porch that day, Cooper shared paper and paints, and the group started passing one partially drawn work from one artist to the next.