Asch, a former librarian at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, and Meltz, the chief of police at the Bedford Veterans Administration Medical Center in Massachusetts, were arrested last week and charged in a plot to kidnap, rape, torture and kill women, children and infants.
The best of Boston's bicycle trails is the Minuteman Bikeway, which starts in Arlington (near Alewife station), leading five miles to historic Lexington center, then traversing an additional four miles of idyllic scenery before it terminates in the rural suburb of Bedford.