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ByMariaCramer

GLOBE STAFF

In 2014, whenCrash Line Produc-

tions was trying to set up its second

music festival of the year on City Hall

Plaza, Boston Police Commissioner

WilliamEvans wasn’t aware of the ten-

sionsbubblingbetween the company

and the stagehandsunionthat wanted

jobs at the concert, he testified Mon-

day.

“I had no clue that was even going

on,” Evans said via video in federal

court as testimony wrapped up in the

extortion trial of two City Hall aides

accusedof strong-arming Crash Line

into hiring members of the Interna-

tionalAllianceof TheatricalStage Em-

ployeesLocal 11 for the Boston Calling

festival.

“I wouldnever have anything to do

with that,” said Evans, who was called

to testify by lawyers for the defen-

dants, Kenneth Brissette and Timothy

Sullivan. “That’s way out of my league.

I had no clue who they werehiring or

who they weren’t hiring.”

Evans said all he caredaboutthat

summerwas the safety of concertgoers

at the popular festival, which motivat-

ed him to push back against Crash

Line’s plansat an acrimoniousmeet-

ing at Boston police headquarters in

August 2014,abouta week before the

festival.

Prosecutors have describedthe

Crash Line founders, Brian Appel and

MichaelSnow,asvictimsofBrissette

and Sullivan, who exploited the pro-

moters’ fear that the city might shut

downthe concert to forcethem into

hiring nine union workers just days

before the festival.

But Evans depicted a greedy con-

cert promoter who seemed morecon-

cerned with selling alcohol to maxi-

mizeprofits than working with police

to make sure the festival was safe.

Duringthe meeting, Appel com-

plainedthat without longer hours, the

concert would not be able to go on, Ev-

ans testified.“I remembertelling him,

‘If you have to make your money off al-

cohol,maybe you shouldn’t have the

event,’ ” Evans said.

Prosecutors have insinuated that

police changed the serving hours al-

lowedunderthe company’s liquor li-

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Evans

testifies at

City Hall

aides’ trial

Ex-commissioner

answers questions

aboutBoston Calling

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ANTUCKET— The kid speeding on the white,

high-powered jet ski has no idea he’s breaking the

law. And as he churns up a wideand turbulent

wake in Nantucket Harbor, he’s clueless that he’s

drawn the stern attention of thesewaters’ chief law

enforcement officer.

The harbormaster is not pleased.

Sheila Lucey, a woman who has madethe waterfront her liveli-

hood, is wearing a pink Coast Guard Academy ball cap, and she stares

out with steely blue eyes from the controls of her 23-foot

center-console patrol boat, her 10-year-old mutt, Chance, by her side.

And she barks a stern warning:“Hey!’’

“Hi,’’ the kid meekly responds. He’s too far away and incorrectly

assumesthis is a friendly mariner-to-mariner morning greeting.

It’s not.

“Nope,’’ Lucey says. “Not ‘hi.’ ’’

She pauses, and knowingthat she’ll see the kid again before the

summer’s through, turns the exchange into a one-woman, stage-whis-

pered, seafaring comedysketch.

“Stop!’’ she pretends to shout with a wide grin as the lucky kid

roars away. “Or I’ll say ‘Stop!’ again.’’

Her auburn hair pokes out from beneath her cap and blows in the

windand she flashesthe comfortable smileof a woman who’s lived

her life on the water and has seen it all.

Because she has.

“If I got lost at sea and I have to make one radio call, it would be to

Sheila,’’ said Jim McPherson, a retired Coast Guard captain and

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NANTUCKET’S

GUARDIAN ANGEL

NIC ANTAYA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Nantucket HarbormasterSheilaLucey, 54,waspatrollingNantucket HarboronMonday. Shewillbehonoredat a luncheonon

Wednesday for“herimmeasurablecontributionsto theislandanditsyouth.’’

ThomasFarragher

ByMatt Stout

GLOBE STAFF

Registry of Motor Vehiclesleaders

are meeting with local law enforce-

ment this weekto discuss how the

agency notifies authoritiesabout trou-

ble drivers, weeksafter dozens of police

chiefs said the RMVwasn’t regularly

alerting themas requiredby state law.

The meeting, scheduled for Thurs-

day at the Department of Transporta-

tion’s Park Plaza headquarters, comes

as the Registry faces intense scrutiny

over a raft of otheradministrative fail-

ures,namely that for yearsit ignored

notices from otherstates about traffic

violationsby Massachusetts drivers.

A Globe review of Massachusetts

policedepartmentslast month found

that the Registry has not consistently

sent notificationsof suspensions and

revocationsto localdepartments,even

though it’s required under a measure,

dubbedHaley’s law, that the Legisla-

ture passed after a 20-year-old Sharon

woman was struckand killed in 2014

by a driver with a suspended license.

ChelseaPolice Chief BrianKyes,

who is attendingthe meeting, said it

was at the Registry’s request and that

he believes it will include a “small

group” of officials, including acting

Registrar Jamey Tesler. The Globecon-

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Registry

officials

to huddle

with police

ByDeirdre Fernandes
GLOBE STAFF
Studentsattending the University
of Massachusetts system will be hit
with a 2.5 percenttuition increase for
the upcoming schoolyear, tippingthe
full cost of earning a degree on some of
the state’s publiccampuses closeto
$30,000 annually.
The University of Massachusetts
Board of Trustees last week approved
the tuition increase, the fifth in as
many years.The increasewill go into
effect for the academicyear that be-
gins this fall and will vary depending
on whichof the four campusesa stu-
dent attends,but amounts to more
than $300in additional tuition costs.

At the system’s flagshipcampus in

Amherst, tuition will increase to

$15,791,from$15,406annually, a

$385pricehike. But with fees, and the

cost of room and board, UMass Am-

herst officials estimate that the total

annualcost for an in-state student to

attendthe university will be $29,393.

At UMass Boston, whichis primarily a

commutercampus,tuition and fees

will amount to $14,600 next year, but

studentswho choose to live in the new

campus dormitory and participate in a

mealplancan expect costs to top

$29,900.

UMass president Martin Meehan

said the system tried to keep the tu-

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‘This isn’ta placewhere

youcanmake a mistake.

It’s not forgiving.You get

southof thisislandand

you’regoing to be south

of thisislandfor a long

time.’

SHEILA LUCEY,Nantucket

harbormaster, referringto thesea

UMass tuition hike puts cost at about $30,

2.5%

is thetuition hike

for theUniversity of

Massachusetts for

thisfall. Atthe

Amherst campus,

thisbringsthetotal

annualcostfor an

in-state student to

$29,

AtUMass Boston,

commuters willpay

$14,

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Protesterslet GovernorCharlieBaker knowtheir

feelingsduringUMassAmherst’s commencement.

Fifteen minutes be-
fore the Mass for the
repose of the soul of
Saoirse Kennedy
Hill got underway,
every seat inside
Our Lady of Victory
Church was taken.
Others stood
against the wallsof the old CapeCod
church that has seen so much loss
from just one family.
What was striking about the over-
flow crowd was the youth of so many.

Some of that was due to all those

young Kennedy cousins, who, when

you get themtogether, could fill a

small concert hall.

But it was more than just family.

It was an array of young friends that

Saoirse had picked up like a magnet

along the way, fromthe Cape, from

Ireland, fromBoston College, where

she was going to be a senior; young

people drawn to her upbeat nature,

her fierce loyalty to friends, her keen

sense of empathy, especially for those

who, like her, suffered from depres-

sion and other forms of mental ill-

ness.

Her father, Paul Hill, his heart

broken in a million pieces, noticed all

the youngpeople. He and Courtney

Kennedy, Saoirse’s mother, drew

some solace from that, and whenyou

have to bury your only child, you will

take solace wherever you can find it.

Paul Hill urged the young people

to go forward and multiply, spread

Saoirse’s ethos, which was to be a lit-

tle more patient, a little more toler-

ant, and a lot more kind.

Her uncle, Bobby Kennedy Jr., re-

membered that on Saoirse’s birthday

this year, she and her father deliv-

ered a bunch of pizzas to the nurses

at the maternity ward at the hospital

in Georgetown where she was born

22 years ago.

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Kennedy Hill leaves legacy of empathy and kindness

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