![]() ![]() Money managers who help the rich get richer are doing pretty well themselves. Unlike the virtual billionaires, titans of manufacturing continue to prosper. There clearly are still fortunes to be made in such necessities as real estate and healthcare. Buyout king Thomas Lee ($1.2 billion) made like Johnny Damon and split for New York.īut most of our entrepreneurs endure-and profit. Casino baron Sheldon Adelson, who once drove his purple Rolls-Royce home to Newton, took his $15.6 billion to Las Vegas, where he owns the Venetian. Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, now worth $8.4 billion, moved to Beverly Hills. Others took their green to greener pastures. ![]() David Wetherell of CMGI, for example, saw his stake in the company plummet from $2.1 billion to $100 million in less than a year. Not everybody at the top has fared so well since we last produced this list. Over the past two decades the wealthiest households in this state have seen their incomes rise five times faster than the poorest and twice as fast as those in the middle class. That’s more per capita than in Los Angeles, Chicago, even New York City. Today nearly one in 20 families here is worth at least $1 million. It’s been that way for two centuries, ever since Salem’s Elias Hasket Derby’s profits from the China trade made him America’s first. ![]() “It is a small populace in our school that is painting a bad picture,” Potteiger said.Massachusetts has always had more than its fair share of millionaires. Potteiger said a small number of students – perhaps a dozen in the high school population of 550 – are the focus of the administration’s concerns about current heroin use in Brandywine. Frederick IV said a preliminary hearing originally scheduled for Wednesday was postponed, but that no new date had been set. A spokeswoman for Magisterial District Judge Victor M. There were 26 such deaths in 2014.Īt Brandywine, Julia Koch, 18, of Longswamp Township, was arrested in the school on Thursday and charged with manufacture, delivery or possession with the intent to manufacture or deliver and other drug offenses. He said, “They came in the next morning and the guy was laying here.”Įight people died from heroin-related causes in Berks in the first four months of the year, according to coroner’s records. When they watched security video of the area, Lamonto said, it showed that on Wednesday night, a man sat down at a picnic table, took his belt off and used it to “tie off” his arm, then injected himself with a needle. In an interview, the owner of the business, Joe Lamonto, said employees coming to work at Innovative Machining Technology that morning found the body. Township police said they were dispatched to the scene at 6:15 a.m. Information from the Berks County coroner’s office indicated a 28-year-old man was found dead on May 7 of a suspected overdose on the property of a private company in Colebrookdale. The needle and packets were laying there,” said Babb, who declined to be more specific. One suspected overdose in Colebrookdale Township was fatal. ![]() The company responded to about six, he said, and “at least three or four were heroin.” The company serves all of Topton and Lyons boroughs and Longswamp Township, as well as parts of Rockland, District and Maxatawny townships.Ī spate of overdoses also occurred in the Boyertown area.ĭave Babb, executive director of Boyertown Lions EMS, said the first full week of May was the worst he could remember in terms of overdoses. Tyler Bard, chief of EMS at Topton Community Ambulance Service, said his company was dispatched to four or five overdoses in a matter of days in early May, including the one at the high school. The latest incidents at Brandywine came amid a burst of heroin-related incidents in the eastern part of Berks. “I said then, this is not a ‘light switch’ fix,” Potteiger said. They came about 14 months after a string of heroin deaths prompted about 600 people to attend a community meeting on heroin in the middle school auditorium. On Tuesday, Brandywine Heights Superintendent Andrew Potteiger described new measures that include hall patrols by a security guard as well as a greater state police presence. Nonetheless, a high school student overdosed on heroin last week and, two days later, an 18-year-old was charged with selling heroin to two other students. The district has held mentoring sessions for parents, open houses and meetings with many agencies, all to fight substance abuse. Brandywine Heights Area School District has held mock bedroom searches where parents poke through furniture and laundry looking for heroin paraphernalia. ![]()
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