Inflamatory columns run in this Wellesley family

Boston Herald columnist/ranter Howie Carr’s wife Kathy stole the spotlight this week with a controversial column of her own in the Wellesley Townsman about teenage drinking in town and the responsibility of parents to reign them in. Carr even turned photojournalist, sending along a picture of empty beer cans and alcohol bottles strewn along Benvenue St.  She wrote that her 2 older daughters asked her not to write the piece.

Townsman readers flooded the paper’s website with negative reaction to the column and the paper pulled them down. Townsman editor Cathy Brauner told the Globe that readers should instead express their thoughts the old fashioned way and mail or drop off letters to the Townsman.