Week in Review: Capuano Throws a Green Line Change-Up; ATM Robbed; Alleged Predator Arraigned

Here are the top headlines from Medford this week:

There's a very real possibility the Green Line extension won't be built, according to Rep. Michael Capuano. In a visit to the Somerville Board of Alderman Thursday, Capuano painted a bleak picture of funding for the project, and suggested a change of plan: Extend the Green Line to Washington Street and Union Square stations in Somerville, and build a few commuter rail stops further along. "To me, it's not all or nothing; something is better than nothing," he said.

As demolition work goes on inside 21 Main Street, Maury Carroll continues to work on the permitting process for the new Carroll's restaurant planned to open there. Carroll's will feature about a 140-seat capacity, a bar area and three large windows facing the Mystic River, Carroll said in a phone interview Wednesday.  , but it's going to take a little longer to get everything in order, he said. "We'd like to open at the end of January," Carroll said. "That may be in a perfect world. When you're building, you’re at everybody’s mercy."

A man who allegedly blackmailed a Medford teen into having sex with him was arraigned in Superior Court on eight charges Thursday. Bail was set at $5,000 for Thomas Hutchinson, 19, of Tewksbury, according to a press release from the office of Middlesex County Attorney Gerry Leone. Hutchinson allegedly used multiple aliases through a social networking site to coerce a 15-year-old Medford girl to send him nude photos. He used the photos to blackmail the girl into having sex with him, prosecutors said.

Dorothy (Munn) Lyons, a native of Medford who now lives at in Lynnfield, was a nurse stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese struck in a surprise attack that brought the U.S. into World War II. Lyons was not in a position to see the actual planes and explosions that morning. Instead, Lyons recalled that "we knew something was going on" when "they gave us those helmets." A short time later, Lyons was treating men who had been wounded in the first U.S. engagement of World War II. Lyons recalls that in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, the mood was not actually one of anger, but more of shock. "You were relieved you had gotten through - I think you were more in shock. You just never thought it was going to happen," she told Patch.

Medford Square ATM Robbed: Local police and the FBI are investigating a robbery of the Bank of America ATM on High Street over the weekend, police said. The machine was broken into either late Friday night or early Saturday morning, Police Capt. Kevin Faller said. It's unclear at this point how much cash was taken, he said. "The machine was compromised and they were able to take an undetermined amount of cash," Faller said. "We are now working with the FBI bank robbery task force to investigate."