MONDAY JUNE 7, 2021 Lynn school superintendent proposes $180.7M budget By Allysha Dunnigan The schools received an in- funding represents the rst of conditioning. environments. ITEM STAFF crease of more than $14 million a seven-year commitment of the The district’s SOA plan fo- In regards to increasing per- in Chapter 70 funds for FY22. SOA, addressing longtime is- cuses on increasing personnel sonnel, the budget lists focusing LYNN — Superintendent Dr. During the 2019-20 school sues in the district. and services to support holistic on tier one supports that align Patrick Tutwiler has proposed year, the district engaged in a According to Tutwiler, the dis- student needs; inclusions and with social work caseloads, with a $180.7 million budget for the the National Association of So- scal year 2022 (FY22) — an in- broad-based effort to solicit in- trict has also leveraged Federal co-teaching for students with put and understand needs for grant funding and savings from disabilities and English learn- cial Workers recommending one crease of more than $10 million social worker for every 250 stu- compared to last year. the budget through a process the unique school structure ers; increased staf ng to expand required by the Student Oppor- during the pandemic, so pur- student access to enrichment dents. Tutwiler said the budget was The district also plans to im- tunity Act (SOA), but this SOA chases were made in technology and strategic planning to enable developed with contextual un- prove special education support funding was delayed due to the infrastructure, devices and pe- common planning for teachers; derstanding and re ects “deep by increasing staff to ensure the alignment with the district’s pandemic. ripherals, as well as upgrades and facility improvements to core values, mission and vision.” In the FY22 budget, state to heating, ventilation and air create healthier and safer school BUDGET, A3 Report says Vietnam air is less veterans noisy over memorial Swampscott coming to By Tréa Lavery ITEM STAFF Nahant SWAMPSCOTT — Despite the per- ception by residents that more and By Steve Krause louder airplanes have been passing ITEM STAFF over town on their way to and from Bos- NAHANT — It’s coming a year ton, the seeming increase is just that: a perception. later than planned — just one more Alice Stein, Swampscott’s represen- victim of the COVID-19 pandemic — tative on the Massport Community but next month, a memorial exhibit Advisory Committee, told the Select bearing the names of the more than Board last week that air traf c at Lo- 58,000 men and women who made gan International Airport is still down the ultimate sacri ce in Vietnam, approximately 44 percent compared to ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK will make its way to Nahant. 2019 due to the pandemic. Cam Cuzzi walks down the track to receive his diploma. The town, along with American “We are seeing what feels like in- Legion Post 215, will host The Wall creased volume and increased noise That Heals, a scaled replica of the disturbance in our home, but in reali- Vietnam Veterans Memorial that ty it’s a perception,” she told the board It’s on to the next chapter for rests in Washington, D.C., July 15- Wednesday. “We corresponded with the 18 at the Lowlands Athletic Field on FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Nahant Road. and they con rmed for us that there 329 Peabody High graduates The wall was supposed to come to have been no procedural changes. What Nahant last July but the pandem- is happening is the ight operators are By Daniel Kane truly special,” Mayor Edward A. Betten- ic forced postponement until this taking it upon themselves due to low ITEM STAFF court said. “By facing adversity head-on year. volume to have a little more exibility you and your classmates are better pre- PEABODY — Members of the Class of When fully assembled, the replica when ying.” pared, and stronger, for what lies ahead. 2021 marked a huge step in their lives of the wall stretches 375 feet and Stein explained that under normal Because the only constant in this world stands 7 ½ feet at its tallest. The ex- Saturday as 329 graduates crossed the conditions, pilots coming into the air- is change and the only certainty is uncer- hibit consists of the replica, mobile stage on Veterans Memorial Field and re- port use beacons and other technolo- tainty.” education center and information ceived their diplomas as a representation gy to navigate, but because there are Bettencourt wasn’t just there to con- tent and will be open 24 hours a day, of their achievements at Peabody High. fewer planes in the sky, they are able gratulate the class but to thank its mem- free to the public, beginning Thurs- But it wasn’t just their academic, ath- to navigate visually and don’t have to bers too. day, July 15 at midnight and ending letic or extracurricular achievements be- follow as rigid a path. “Throughout our history young people Sunday, July 18 at 2 pm. According to Stein, Massachusetts ing celebrated after a year where keeping have stepped up and answered the call to “The Nahant American Legion is Port Authority, or Massport, which the community healthy meant sacri ces service and sacri ce in one form or anoth- honored to have been chosen as one oversees Logan, is considering shift- from every one of them. er,” Bettencourt said. “Doing your part to of only two New England locations to ing ight paths of approaching planes “You stayed laser focused on your goals slightly north so that they travel and you have accomplished something GRADUATION, A3 MEMORIAL, A3 over the Nahant causeway instead of Swampscott. However, this change would not be approved or implemented STEVE KRAUSE until later this year. Asked how long it will be until the COMMENTARY airport is at normal traf c volume again, Stein said that there was no way to predict that. Lynn loomed “It’s an eight-ball that we don’t have,” she said. large in legacy Tréa Lavery can be reached at tlav- [email protected]. of attorney F. Lee Bailey Some things are etched into your con- sciousness forever. And the afternoon of Feb. 25, 1967, is one of them. It began innocently enough. There was snow on the ground, and my sister and I were shoveling it off our front walk. I seem to remember quite a few snowy PHOTO | TOWN OF SAUGUS days that winter. We lived in a quiet neighborhood, full The new hybrid police cars in Saugus come fully loaded with the lat- of single-family homes in a section on est technology. the Lynn-Saugus line called Lynnhurst. Therefore, to see patrol cars going up and down Bonavesta Street seemed Hybrid police cruisers highly unusual. But there they were. It didn’t seem ominous, though. Just weird. make debut in Saugus All of a sudden, my mother opened the front door and said, tensely, “you kids The purchase of the new patrol vehi- get in here.” By Steve Krause Naturally, we asked why. When you’re ITEM STAFF cles was approved by the Board of Se- 13 and 11, playing around in the snow is lectmen, Finance Committee, and Town SAUGUS — The folks in town will Meeting as part of an ongoing effort to fun, even if you’re shoveling it. soon learn that the word “hybrid” ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS “Never mind,” she said, still with way make continued public safety and capi- doesn’t simply mean a form of edu- tal improvements throughout the com- Senior Jess Reyes sneaks past the too much tension in her voice. “Just get cation when the world’s worst plague munity, Crabtree said. This investment juniors defense at the Lynn Classi- in here.” spreads among us. in new police cruisers will allow the Po- cal Powder Puff game. LOOK, A8. Mothers, I’m sure, were hustling their Town Manager Scott Crabtree and lice Department to replace current line kids inside all over Lynn that day. Soon the town’s selectmen have announced enough, we knew why. A day earlier, Al- cars with high mileage or that require the addition of four new hybrid police INSIDE bert DeSalvo, the “self-styled” Boston frequent maintenance, he said. cruisers to the police department’s pa- Strangler, as he’d been dubbed, had es- The four new 2021 Ford Police Inter- trol eet. The key aspect of the new, ful- Opinion Sports caped from the Bridgewater State Hospi- ceptor vehicles are fully marked and ly-furnished vehicles is the estimated To the class of The future is tal, where he’d been con ned after being equipped with the latest technology, 2021: Just bright for St. convicted of a series of sexual assaults. 1,276 gallons of fuel per year they will computers, radio communication, and show up for each Mary’s track. B1 save the town through hybrid power- other. A4 BAILEY, A2 train. CRUISERS, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 93° VOL. 142, ISSUE 153 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 72° COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY JUNE 7, 2021 OBITUARIES Jeannette L. “Jan” Solone, 89 Arthur Greenbaum, 79 1931 - 2021 1942 - 2021 PEABODY - It is with great SALEM - Arthur Greenbaum sadness that we share the of Salem, entered into eternal Defense news of the passing of our rest on June 3, 2021 at the age attorney F. mother, Jeannette (Jan) Solone of 79.