Jockeying Begins to Fill Ward 6 Council Seat Will Be Tough to Contain
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018 Jockeying begins to ll GaylaGay Steve CawleyCaw Krause Ward 6 council seat By Bella diGrazia right people in the city,” said Capa- ing to a Daily Item report. They are ITEM STAFF no. “I think he could hit the ground also co-founders of Lynn’s Stop the She He running and would work well with Violence initiative. LYNN — One month after Peter the rest of the councilors.” But other candidates also want Capano won a seat in the Legisla- Hogan has been in sync with the seat. said said ture, candidates are already vying many of Capano’s priorities, he Donald Castle, a founding mem- for his Ward 6 City Councilor seat. said. Together, they helped revital- ber of Protect Our Reservoir-Pre- Capano, who will step down from ize the Warren Street and Bennett serve Pine Grove, a grassroots orga- Yanks Sox the council in November to repre- Street playgrounds and proposed nization that helped defeat a $188 sent the 11th Essex District, said if plans for the 13-year, $200 mil- million plan for two middle schools Steve grew up in Lynn, Gayla grew up in Con- he gets his way, activist Fred Ho- lion project to separate sewer and last spring, is interested; David El- where people aren’t only necticut and in terms of gan will take over. rainwater systems, protecting the lis, who serves on the Lynn Water Boston sports fans. They sports, the Nutmeg State “Fred just has a feel for the neigh- oceans and other bodies of water worship the teams. is tantamount to a politi- borhood and relationships with the from improper discharge, accord- COUNCIL, A3 Ask anyone what their cal battleground. plans are during a New The only time you’re not England Patriots game reduced to tears of sheer and you’d be hard-pressed ennui when it comes to to nd someone who Connecticut is at a bar won’t be perched in front when the Red Sox are of a TV, unless they’re playing the Yankees. actually at the stadium. Then, it can get pretty It seems like anyone in intense. the Bay State who lives This is also true if within a 50-mile radi- you’ve ever had the us of Boston considers experience of sharing themselves residents and your alma mater with nding a non-Red Sox fan someone from New around here is rarer than York. These interloping the Baltimore Orioles New Yorkers swarm all winning a game this around us, pronouncing season. the name of our fair city And as far as most “Borstin,” and bragging obnoxious sports fans on all things Yankee (I go, Boston fans are more don’t notice a lot of Mets than giving New Yorkers fans in this group, but a run for their money. the Mets are beyond evil Take a game last week whereas the Yankees are at Fenway Park between simply evil). Generally it’s the Red Sox and Yankees Yankees and Giants fans — Giancarlo Stanton hit who rumble around as if a home run and a Red they’ve been blessed with Sox fan not only threw special chrism that allows the ball back from the them to be obnoxious at Green Monster seats, but the sign of a baseball or the ball hit Stanton as he football uniform. was running around the Now to the matter at bases. hand. Who’s going to win I’m that rare New York this series? Out of sheer Yankees fan living in the patriotism, I have to go ITEM PHOTO | ROBERTO SCALESE Greater Boston area, but with the Red Sox, but it doesn’t really count. I’m don’t think it’ll be easy. On its side on First responders were on the scene at a car crash on Andrew Street a Lynn transplant who In any other year I’d be in Lynn Thursday, where a car ended up on its side near the Eastern a side street Bank building. At least one driver was taken to the hospital in an YANKEES, A3 RED SOX, A3 ambulance. Police warn of attempted INSIDE Shovel snow or shovel Opinion Jourgensen: An abduction in Peabody astounding (e)state out dough in Swampscott of affairs. A6 By Thomas Grillo cle,” according to a Peabody Pub- By Bella diGrazia with special needs or circum- ITEM STAFF lic Schools incident report. ITEM STAFF stances. Swampscott “We are a small town with con- Upon hearing the command, Car break-in suspect SWAMPSCOTT — The town’s PEABODY — Police and the strained resources, but we still the boy ran back to the school, caught in the act. A8 new Snow Safety Plan is going Center Elementary School have need to be mindful of the resi- the grandmother told police. to ne residents who don’t shov- issued a warning about an at- dents who need help,” said Town Also in the car, the boy told his Sports el out their sidewalks, unless tempted abduction on Tuesday. grandmother, was a white fe- Marblehead volleyball they are approved for a hard- Administrator Sean Fitzgerald. In a letter that went home to male passenger in her late 20s overcomes slow start to top ship waiver. The waivers have a hard dead- parents on Wednesday, of cials or early 30s, with short, dark Swampscott. B1 The Snow and Ice Bylaw was line of Dec. 1 and will be re- said they are investigating an hair. approved at a town meeting in viewed by Gino Cresta Jr., the incident near the school on Ir- “The incident, if proven true, May, and requires that all prop- town’s Department of Public ving Street. may jeopardize Peabody school erty owners clear out the snow Works (DPW) director. He said A grandmother called police to children and is being brought and ice adjacent to their proper- there will be a waiver fee of $25 say her grandson, a student at to your attention so that you ty in order to ensure safe travel per person and if a resident is the school, was approached by can take precautions that you for pedestrians. At a Board of denied one, an appeal can be a “light brown” man in his late deem necessary,” the letter said. Selectmen meeting on Wednes- made after 14 days. He expects 20s or early 30s driving a blue “Please notify friends and neigh- day night, the four members in to have a decent number of Honda sedan after dismissal bors … if you have or discover attendance unanimously voted waiver applications, given this on Tuesday at 2:50 p.m. and or- in favor of hardship waivers for dered him to “get into the vehi- PEABODY, A3 the disabled, elderly, and others SWAMPSCOTT, A3 Mayor Brian Ar- rigo speaks about the new mural of historic West Revere, painted by Debbie Bar- rett-Cutulle of Saugus, during its unveiling on Thursday. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK By Bridget Turcotte at the U.S. Highway 1 underpass near Paws photographs and other pieces of memora- ITEM STAFF and Play Dog Park. Its design was crafted bilia, and Barrett-Cutulle had free reign after several meetings with the West Re- to choose what spoke to her, said project Art imitates REVERE — A mural was unveiled Thurs- vere Neighborhood Group and later the Re- planner Elle Baker, who works in the city’s day afternoon, transforming a once dreary vere Mural Group. Of ce of Strategic Planning and Economic underpass on Sargent Street into a place “Creative minds such as hers can take a Development Department. life in Revere for art and celebration. place (that’s) a little drab and turn it into a A photograph of a young boy with his dogs The historic mural was created by Saugus place of beauty,” said Mayor Brian Arrigo. artist Debbie Barrett-Cutulle and installed Neighbors came to meetings bearing old REVERE, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE ......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B4 HIGH 58° VOL. 140, ISSUE 250 LOOK! ................................... A4-5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-8 LOW 44° OPINION ...................................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018 OBITUARIES Harold J. Thibodeau, 89 Roger H. LeBrasseur, 71 Evelyn R. Conklin, 71 DANVERS — Mr. many years in the LYNN — Roger H. wife Donna, of Lynn, LYNN — Evelyn R. wife Linda; two sis- Harold Joseph Thibo- Town of Danvers and LeBrasseur, age 71, and Alan LeBrasseur (Hawley) Conklin, ters; Rose Stratford deau 89 of Danvers Ft. Myers Florida in of Lynn died peace- and his wife Dolores age 71, of Lynn, for- and her husband and Ft. Myers, Fla., the winters. He was fully, under the care of Lynn, 2 sisters; merly of Somerville, James of Weymouth beloved husband of devoted to his wife, of Compassionate Connie Melanson died unexpectedly on and Maria Hawley of Mary Rosalyn (Thi- children and grand- Care Hospice, at the of Lynn, and Dianne Tuesday at Whidden Weymouth; as well beau) Thibodeau, children and will be Blueberry Hill Nurs- Pomakis and her hospital in Everett. as several nieces and died Tuesday, Octo- deeply missed. ing and Rehabilita- husband Art of Cape Born in Boston she nephews. She was ber 2, 2018 at Win- Harold is survived tion Center, Beverly. Cod, and many lov- was the daughter of the sister of the late chester Hospital. by his loving wife of Born and raised ing nieces, nephews, the late Warren R. Warren R. Hawley, Jr. Born in Lynn, he was the son 64 years, Mary Rosalyn (Thi- in Lynn, Roger was the son grandnieces and grandneph- and Irene M.