TUESDAY JUNE 29, 2021 ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS From left, Laura Guba, Niam Ball, Heidi Hiland and Ryan and Jade Tisdol rally in front of the Lynn District Court to call for the charges Mayoral candidate Michael Satterwhite speaks about his plans for against Ernst Jean-Jacques, or Shimmy, to be dropped before the trial. making Lynn more equitable and affordable at a meet and greet at Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. on Munroe Street. Protests continue over Candidate Satterwhite arrest in Swampscott talks equity, affordability By Tréa Lavery December of 2020. In videos from the By Tréa Lavery for residents to achieve stability and ITEM STAFF incident, an 80-year-old Trump sup- ITEM STAFF success. He said he likes to think of the porter is shown throwing water at issue as “equitable” housing instead of LYNN — More than six months af- Jean-Jacques, and he moves his hand LYNN — Mayoral candidate and “affordable” housing. ter a Black Lives Matter activist was toward her. School Committee member Michael “Just because it’s affordable, doesn’t arrested at a protest in Swampscott, Police and the woman involved in Satterwhite met with voters Monday mean it’s housing we want people liv- supporters are continuing to ask for the incident, Linda Greenberg, say to talk about how the city can improve ing in,” he said. the charges against him to be dropped. that Jean-Jacques punched her; Jean- equity for its residents. He explained that in many situations, Ernst Jean-Jacques, also known as Jacques and his supporters maintain During a meet and greet at Land of a the only housing available to those who Shimmy, was arrested and charged that he simply tried to take the water Thousand Hills Coffee Co. on Munroe are low-income or below the poverty with assault while counter-protest- Street, Satterwhite spoke specifically ing at a pro-Donald Trump rally in PROTESTS, A7 about the importance of affordability SATTERWHITE, A6 STEVE KRAUSE COMMENTARY The heat is on Salem Dislike. expands Detest. pre-K By Sam Minton But hate? ITEM STAFF SALEM — Early educa- tion will look different in Really? the 2021-22 school year. The city of Salem an- nounced that it is intro- Hate. It is the ultimate ducing a new early-ed- four-letter word. Never ucation partnership mind all the ones we’re program for the upcom- not supposed to say on TV, ing school year as it hopes or in polite company or in to strengthen access for the comments section of 4-year-olds in the city. certain online forums. With the new program, None of them mean Salem hopes to improve anything beyond their and better align the qual- strict definitions. They’re ity of early education as just words. They’re con- well as ensure that all sidered “dirty” because families have access to some prude, somewhere early childhood educa- in another era, deemed tion. them so. Mayor Kimberley But hate. You can write Driscoll said she hopes that anywhere. There ar- ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS to best serve every child en’t any built-in censor- Beachgoers flock to Nahant Beach to escape the heat. The Tuesday forecast calls for more in Salem and have ev- ship devices that expunge of the same. eryone on the same level the word from the pub- entering the city’s school lic forum. And there are system. The mayor wants plenty of things to hate. any family who is in- You can hate broccoli. INSIDE terested in full-day pre- Hate the Yankees. Hate Girls Inc. honored for literacy school to have access to country music. Hate your Opinion the program. next-door neighbor (but Swampscott should By Allysha Dunnigan Celebrate Literacy Day event, which “As a district with a don’t forget to say Grace) embrace the future. A4 ITEM STAFF will be held on Sept. 1 at the Lynn Mu- wide diversity of learn- and hate, albeit momen- seum. ers, including both socio- tarily, the guy who cuts LOOK! LYNN — Girls Inc. has been selected Celebrate Literacy Day committee economically and cultur- you off in traffic. Two local seniors as the recipient of the 10th annual Ex- Chair Saritin Rizzuto said the board ally, we are constantly But we don’t really awarded GLSS cellence in Literacy Leadership Award, hosts a big event every year to raise striving to ensure that “hate” any of the above, scholarships. A8 given by the Celebrate Literacy Day money for the selected nonprofit. The we serve every family do we? I’ll grudgingly eat committee. recipient changes annually, she added. and every child equita- broccoli, even if I don’t Sports Selected from a pool of five candidates, Nonprofit representatives are bly and to the best of our enjoy it as much as eat- Bishop Fenwick first-time award recipient Girls Inc. will ing, say, a chocolate do- baseball wins Division 3 receive 85 percent of funds raised at the GIRLS INC., A6 PRE-K, A7 nut from Kane’s. I dislike North title. B1 the Yankees as an entity even if I can like some of their players. No, I do not CORRECTION like country music, but Peabody’s Manning-Martin on the run hearing the name Kenny Due to incorrect infor- Chesney, or seeing him, mation provided to The By Anne Marie Tobin served the city as an elect- residents’ quality-of-life is- doesn’t put me into a mur- Item, a story on Page ITEM STAFF ed official for 22 years. sues while keeping an eye derous rage. I don’t have 1 of Saturday’s paper A fifth-generation “Pea- on taxes. She said her full anything against any of indicated that Coco PEABODY — Anne record demonstrates her my neighbors, and a good body-ite,” she is currently in Alinsug is the the first Manning-Martin, the lon- commitment to being a con- hand gesture takes care her seventh term as council- openly-gay candidate gest-serving councilor on or-at-large. Before that, she stant voice of reason on the of the traffic situation. in Lynn’s history. In What happened Satur- Peabody’s City Council, an- served eight years on the council. fact, John Ladd, who “I am a strong financial day in Winthrop, when a is also openly gay and nounced Monday she is run- School Committee. Anne watchdog with a detailed KRAUSE, A6 married, ran for coun- ning for reelection. Manning-Martin sees her- cilor-at-large in 2017. Manning-Martin Manning-Martin has self as a strong advocate for MANNING-MARTIN, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 96° VOL. 142, ISSUE 172 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 75° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY JUNE 29, 2021 MASSACHUSETTS BRIEFS Spilka nixes It’s wicked hot in New where nurses have been Patients at St. Vincent the suspect’s writings or England, too on strike for nearly four are being cared for by where they were found. months made a new of- temporary replacement She cautioned that the Baker’s sales PORTLAND, Maine (AP) fer over the weekend in nurses, but the hospital investigation is in its ear- — New England start- an effort to end the work has also hired new perma- ly stages, but said that ed off the week with heat stoppage, but the nurses’ nent nurses. Some staff “these families deserve tax plan advisories as the hottest union appeared skeptical. nurses have also crossed answers and we will find Nurses at St. Vincent the picket line. out what happened here.” weather of the year envel- By Steve LeBlanc Baker’s proposal when it Hospital in Worcester The strike is now the Green retired from state oped the region. ASSOCIATED PRESS reaches them. went on strike March 8 second longest nurses’ police in 2016 and worked While the Pacific North- “I don’t think we need demanding better staffing strike in state history, ac- in law enforcement for west is experiencin g re- BOSTON — The top two months to incentiv- ratios, which they said is cording to the Massachu- nearly 40 years, said Mas- cord heat, the other side of Democrat in the Massa- ize people to spend when necessary to ensure pa- setts Nurses Association. sachusetts State Police the country — the North- chusetts Senate on Friday there’s that much pent-up tient safety. Col. Christopher Mason. east — was also dealing dismissed a proposal by demand,” Spilka said. “A with heat on Monday as The offer made Sunday Racial motivation being probed Green was shot outside Republican Gov. Char- lot of my colleagues and temperatures climbed into includes better resource his home, Mason said. in shooting of 2 Black people lie Baker to expand the I feel this is not the best the mid-90s. nurse staffing, pay rais- “Trooper Green was state’s annual two-day way to help our residents It’s a good day to “hide in es, health insurance pre- WINTHROP, Mass. (AP) widely respected and sales tax holiday to a two- and small businesses the basement, at a beach mium improvements for — Authorities are inves- well-liked by his fellow month event this year — right now.” or under a sprinkler,” said some nurses, and security tigating whether a man Troopers, several of whom dealing a possible fatal The state has a 6.25 Margaret Curtis, meteo- enhancements, St. Vin- who killed two people in yesterday described him blow to the plan. percent sales tax on most rologist for the National cent said.