DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 FRIDAY JULY 16, 2021 DEALS OF THE THOR JOURGENSEN Swampscott COMMENTARY $DAY$ chief calls it A family’s love endures after 50 yearsPG. 3 With his open smile and Eastern Junior a career . High School baseball uniform, Terry Fin- nigan looks like every teenagerDEALS embracing By Tréa Lavery a summer lled with fun.OF His TH faceE is fro- ITEM STAFF zen in time in a small In Memoriam pho- tograph that will be published Saturday in SWAMPSCOTT — Police Chief Ron Madigan The Item along with these$ DAwordsY composed$ retired Thursday, ending 41 years of service at by his family: PG. 3 the town's police department. “It’s been 50 years since you passed… "I'm apprehensive a little bit, but I'm ready to The world changes reinvent myself and embrace civilian life," Madi- From year to year, gan said. "I've been doing this job a long time. I'll Our lives from day to day, miss the people I work with and the great town. But the love & It's a big transition, but I'm con dent I'm going Memory of you, DEALS to devote more time to my family life and pursue Shall never pass awayOF & THE my interests." COURTESY PHOTO | SCOTT FINNIGAN Will live in our hearts forever.” The chief was honored John Finnigan with wife, Paula; their sons, Terry, Patrick The Finnigans never $let Terry slip$ into with a small celebration the dim recesses of their memory.DAY He lives and John; and Kaylie Aiello, John’s ancee, and their chil- outside of Town Hall on in their hearts and in thePG. 3stories his dren, Caiden and Connor, gathered at the King’s Beach Thursday afternoon, brother, John, and sister, Margaret, told complete with ice cream seawall in Lynn on Sept. 12, 2020 to celebrate Terry’s mar- sundaes. athon run honoring his late uncle, Terence Finnigan. FAMILY, A6 Madigan, who grew up in Swampscott, started at the department when DEALS he was 23 years old. He SaugusOF THE joined in 1980 as a re- Chief Madigan serve of cer and was $rep’sDAY$ made a full-time patrol- PG. 3 man in 1982, according to a Facebook post by the PG. 3 department. He was appointed acting chief in May 2001 and chief in August of that year. reforms Police Capt. Joe Kable noted that there are no staff members left at the department who rejected worked there at a time when Madigan didn't, and said that 77 percent of the current of cers have By Sam Minton MADIGAN, A6 ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — State Rep. Donald Wong (R-Sau- . meanwhile, gus) is against new legislation that seeks to continue the live Nahant chief streaming of both infor- mal and formal House of Representatives ses- begins his sions, saying that it lim- its transparency in state By Sam Minton government. ITEM STAFF The order Wong is op- NAHANT — Austin Antrim is of cially the posing, House Bill 3930, would also authorize town's new re chief after receiving approval House committee chairs Wednesday night from the Board of Selectmen. to hold hearings allow- In a May Town Meeting, Nahant approved hir- ing for both in-person ing a full-time chief after only having a "working and virtual testimony chief." Antrim takes over for Dean Palumbo, who from the public on pend- recently retired after ing legislation. holding the working chief Wong's gripe, he said, position. is that the bill doesn't ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Board of Selectmen include additional re- Chair Joshua Antrim Nahant sculptor Ray Pisano inspects his completed sculpture of Freder- forms he is seeking to mentioned that Austin is ick Douglass after it was unveiled at Frederick Douglass Park in Central add to the proposed his nephew and that he Square on Thursday. rules package. Now that is very proud of him; the the state has reopened, elder Antrim abstained he is also calling for from discussion and vot- A legend lives on more transparency in ing. It was also a special how legislative sessions Chief Antrim moment for Selectman are conducted, he said. Mark Cullinan, who ap- Since the COVID-19 pointed Austin as a member of the re department in Central Square pandemic started, the House has been oper- "when he rst came out." By Sam Minton The memorial was placed so that it will Board Vice Chairman Eugene Canty said that he ating under emergency ITEM STAFF look over Frederick Douglass Park for didn't know the new re chief well, but that his rules which allow for years to come. members to partici- reputation has preceded him. LYNN — Nahant sculptor Reno “Ray” Pi- “If anything goes on here, I want him to pate in formal sessions "When I was looking through his resume, his ex- sano’s Frederick Douglass statue has nal- be a piece of it,” said Pisano, who could not as well as cast roll-call tensive education in the re arena, his experience, ly made its way to Lynn. nd a word in the English language to de- votes remotely. That his training, his grant procurements, everything's The sculpture of the late abolitionist lead- scribe the long-awaited event. COVID-era change has there including a lifetime goal to be a reman. We er with ties to the city was of cially mount- been extended until Oct. certainly have the right person," he said. “Finalmente,” said the Nahant resident, ed Thursday morning in the new Central 1, in a recent vote which ANTRIM, A6 Square park which bears his name. STATUE, A6 Wong also opposed. "It is unfair for legis- lators to continue oper- ating under a different Lynn English INSIDE set of rules now that the rest of the state has al- ready re-opened," said letterman jacket Wong. One of the reforms that Wong supported was at- hits home tempting to extend the By Allysha Dunnigan time requirement for ITEM STAFF all copies of bills to be made available to both LYNN — Lynn English High School the members and the letterman jackets can be found around public — currently, the the city, especially on Thanksgiving, but it is a rare nd in a place as far REFORMS, A6 away as Indiana. Somehow an English letterman jacket, sporting the name Fresco and ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK the number 37, was found in a thrift Cullen Pasterick tosses store in Crown Point, Ind. out a pitch at the Pine This rare Indiana nd wouldn’t Hill game Thursday. mean much to somebody unfamiliar with Lynn, but English graduate Mi- Police chael Battle — who now lives in Ken- Saugus re determined tucky — instantly recognized the large to be electrical. A5 ‘E’ and the maroon-and-gray colors. • Battle’s friend Charlie Hope, whom Garage door opener he recruited from Beverly to work for sparks re in Nahant. A5 ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON the state of Kentucky, was visiting a friend in Crown Point when he came Sports Michael Battle, left, of Shelbyville Ky., and formerly of Lynn and across the jacket in a store they were Peabody West hangs a 1978 LEHS graduate, returns a team jacket, which was found at on to beat Peabody in a thrift shop in Indiana, to Brian Fresco, a 2018 English graduate. 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Rhode Island Association Moloney, who has two an overhaul of the way ately higher rates than ed States is starting to Police responding to a of Realtors. degrees from the school, students are selected for their Black and Latino have an uptick in cases on 911 call at about 5:45 p.m. “The market is crazy became the rst woman admission to the city’s elite peers. average across the whole Wednesday found a man here, but you can still get to lead the campus when public schools based on The new policy replaces country. ... And therefore sitting outside the Somer- a lot more house for a lot she was appointed in grades, an entrance exam, a process that has been this may be spreading into ville home with a gun in less money than other 2015, and helped oversee and socioeconomic status. used for more than two de- Massachusetts, so we need his hand. He placed it on places,” Luis Mateus, who record gains in student “We have come to a place cades and allocated seats to increase our guard.” the ground when ordered owns a real estate com- enrollment, diversity, and where we are ready to to applicants in rank order Dr.