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02-14-2018
Gene Rano, 66, underwent surgery to remove a blockage in his esophagus Tuesday and found his back door open when he and his son returned home later in the afternoon. Rano’s home was ransacked and three computers - which contained several family photos -, two digital cameras, a flat screen TV, an alarm clock, jewelry, cash and his medications were stolen, he said.
“It’s just so depressing,” said Rano, who is confined to a wheelchair, has a heart condition, is partially blind and recently had a stroke. “My son said ‘Dad you don’t want to go in there’ when we got home.”
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02-14-2018
TONESS: This neighborhood used to be called French Hill. Councilor Vigeant — whose family originally hailed from France — grew up here.
And so did Gene Rano, who’s sitting on a neighbor’s front porch.
GENE RANO: Anything that goes wrong in this town, they always blame an immigrant. It’s more like the people who’ve been here 30, 40 years who are upset….because you got young people from foreign countries that are here, buying homes, trying to earn a living and raise their families. If a property’s for sale and somebody wants to move in, it don’t matter where they come from. They’re paying their bills and paying their taxes. Leave ’em alone.
TONESS: Rano’s family is from Italy, and he says his parents still speak with thick accents. Back when he was growing up in French Hill, Rano says neighbors blamed the Italians — and anyone who wasn’t French or Irish –for problems in the neighborhood.
CLARIFICATION: The host whose local-access cable television show in Marlborough went off the air after he allegedly urinated on a Brazilian flag says he was not pulled off the air but suspended the program voluntarily.
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