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The funeral will be held Friday from Fiske Funeral Home, 1356 Main St., with a Mass at 11 a.m. in Our Lady Immaculate Church, 192 School St. Burial will be at the convenience of the family in Holy Hood Cemetery, Brookline. Calling hours at the funeral home are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.

The current staffing levels for the department are three people per shift. Firefighters work 10-hour day shifts and 14-hour night shifts. One of the firefighters on duty serves as a dispatcher. The other two respond to ambulance or fire calls, but are able to only respond to one incident at a time. Firefighters argued that having less than four firefighters per shift affects fire safety and costs the town money as it is unable to respond to as many ambulance calls. The firefighters were defeated at every turn in the meeting. Early in the meeting, Mr. [Jeffrey Raymond] attempted to get $70,000 deleted from the Fire Department budget and $60,000 from the selectmen's budget. The money was to be revoted when the minimum manning article was considered. Voters rejected both requests, keeping the Fire Department and selectmen's budgets as recommended. Also approved at the meeting was a proposal to temporarily suspend adding 10 percent of ambulance revenues to the Athol Fire Department ambulance account. The Finance Committee supported the article saying there was enough money in reserve at present for ambulance needs. The money will go into the town's general fund to be available for other needs.

John L. Weatherly, 59, pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter, assault and two counts of failure to appear during an hourlong hearing before Douglas County Circuit Judge Joan Seitz on Thursday. Weatherly, a veteran who flew a cargo plane in Vietnam, suffered a panic attack while filling out admission forms at a VA hospital in Roseburg, said his lawyer, Daniel Bouk.

Research on toxic solvents that have leaked into bedrock below the Howard County landfill in Marriottsville shows there is no \"catastrophic problem\" compared to common contamination such as a gasoline station leak, a consulting firm has told the Howard County Council. Charles R. Faust, principal hydrologist for GeoTrans Inc., a ground water contamination consulting firm based in Sterling, Va., addressed the council Tuesday night. He said that among the problems he has studied in his 12 years of experience, toxins below the Alpha Ridge Landfill in Marriottsville, a few miles from Sykesville, are at comparatively low levels. The county executive and council learned of them later from Dr. [Donald L. Gill]. He obtained the results from John J. O'Hara, county chief of environmental services, in October after Dr. Gill noticed a drilling rig for the deep well on the landfill's northwest corner.

That assessment angered anti-landfill activists Donald L. Gill and L. Scott Muller, who believe the problem of the toxic solvents, which they say will eventually leak into residents' water supply, is much worse than the consultants portrayed. Dr. Gill said that while capping the landfill will prevent more rainwater from getting into it, it will not prevent heavier-than-water solvents from continuing to leak into residents' water supply. Mr. [John J. O'Hara] said the county plans to drill an additional 10 to 15 deep wells around the rest of the landfill. He said the wells could also be used to pump out contaminated water for treatment. After the meeting, he estimated that it would take about three months before the wells are drilled.

[Kate Welland] is off on a two-week trip to Switzerland when [John Newland]`s birthday rolls around. He reluctantly celebrates with friends in a club, alternating glasses of Wild Turkey and lines of cocaine in the men`s room. Disgusted with himself, he flees. After he passes out, Timothy, one of his friends, takes him to a vacation house in the area of northwestern Connecticut where Newland`s family used to summer.