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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced via a prepared statement the opening of the second migrant center in the state in Wollaston on Monday.

The center will be based in vacant dorm capacity at Eastern Nazarene College and thus in middle of one of Quincy’s better as well as quiet residential neighborhoods. 

The faculty is slated to house as many as 58 immigrant families and so will likely result in as yet unknown impacts on the enrollment levels at Beechwood Knoll Elementary School, Central Middle School, and North Quincy High School.

While probably few relatively other problems may result from opening up this residential facility, one cannot help but assume that rolling out this announcement at least all but out of the blue on a Monday and thus at the start of the weekly news cycle will unintentionally help to fuel pushback from Wollaston residents over this done deal of a deal.

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Also disconcerting is no word out of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch about Governor Maura Healey’s announcement.

After all, Mayor Koch has long worked to curry favor with Governor Healey going back at least as far as during her tenure as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth in what one can only properly view as among the strangest of political bed partners.

In turn, one can thus only reasonably assume that the Governor probably gave Tommy a head’s up on opening up a residential facility for homeless migrants in all but literally the middle of a quiet Quincy neighborhood.

Then again, Mayor Koch did at least tacitly help to facilitate the opening of a residential drug rehab center elsewhere in Wollaston and so did the connected owner of the venue a solid as the owner was so able to score a tenant for his long all but vacant property. 

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Fortunately, after a rocky start, operation of this rehab facility was taken over by long-established and successful rehabilitation services provider.

On the other hand, Mayor Koch has spent upwards of a million or more, all costs duly counted, in his kochotic quest to fight the City of Boston’s plans to rebuild its Long Island Bridge so that it can resume ready access to Long Island so it can operate a drug rehab facility on the island for likely also many homeless individuals. 

After all, as much as a couple of miles or so away from the backyards of Squantum in the middle of the harbor is both too close and too much for Squantum residents, unarguable rights of the City of Boston to rebuild its bridge on its dime and so access its wholly-owned island notwithstanding.

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Accordingly, perhaps Governor Healey is now stealthily slipping a shiv into the soft underbelly of Mayor Koch on behalf of the City of Boston during a local election year.

Regardless, surely Mayor Koch is not exactly ecstatic over Eastern Nazarene’s involvement with the plans to open a migrant residential facility in a quiet and modestly residential Wollaston neighborhood in the wake of his doing the college a solid via his $6.8 million purchase several years ago of the long ongoing white elephant of a property at 180 Old Colony that Eastern Nazarene had long been trying to unload as well as Koch’s taking over a handful of years earlier of another white elephant property holding of the college to then repurpose as a part of the current Central Middle School campus.

Accordingly, Quincy Quarry will thus continue to monitor this breaking story and then report on any consequential findings as might be appropriate, especially as so far none of the other Quincy media have yet to report on the announcement of the impending opening of a migrant residential facility in heart of Wollaston.

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