TALK of the TOWNS Nothing Major As Marblehead Meets Tonight
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MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 TALK OF THE TOWNS Nothing major as Marblehead meets tonight By Gayla Cawley The $89.2 million budget Ginn said there’s always capital improvements for ITEM STAFF up for approval includes some concern about the public buildings. the $36.5 million budget quorum. Last year, Town Voters will be asked to MARBLEHEAD — for the schools. Meeting proposed reduc- appropriate $494,699, so Town Meeting members To start the process, ing the quorum, but 700 the town can recondition will be asked to approve 300 registered voters are people showed up, and a front end loader and buy an $89.2 million budget required to attend. Last that warrant article didn’t a backhoe for the highway and presented with four week, at a candidates fo- go forward. department and purchase citizens’ petitions tonight. rum, Jackie Belf-Becker, There are 33 articles on a mini excavator for the Town Meeting will con- chairwoman of the Board the warrant tonight. drain department, among vene at 7 p.m. at Marble- of Selectmen, said she was Voters will also be asked other equipment requests. head Veterans Memorial concerned there wouldn’t to approve funds to pur- Members will be asked Middle School auditorium, be a quorum. Town Ad- chase equipment for sev- 217 Pleasant St. ministrator John Mc- eral departments and for MARBLEHEAD, A7 Something special in Saugus By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — A Special Town Meeting, as request- Lynn mother ed by Town Manager Scott Crabtree, will begin Mon- day night at 7:30. walks for healing The Annual Town Meet- ing will be pushed to the By Thomas Grillo Betty Cooper, following Monday, May 8. Unfinished businesses ITEM STAFF holding a will be taken up a week picture of It has been two decades since following the meeting. The her daughter Cheryl Senn was stabbed to process can continue until death by her husband. Cheryl Senn June 30, said Crabtree. But the passage of time hasn’t who died at The purpose of the Spe- lessened the grief for her moth- age 29 back cial Town Meeting is to be er, Betty Cooper. in 1997, will able to close the meeting “It was really hard for me participate and allocate funds sooner, when it was first happened, she in the HAWC rather than waiting for was my first born,” she said. walk on the Annual to close, Crab- “But even now, it’s tough for me Sunday in tree said. to put into words the grief I still memory of her Members will first take feel every day.” daughter. up six articles, all submit- On Sunday, Senn and other ted by Crabtree. victims of domestic violence ITEM PHOTO | “These articles that I’m were remembered in the 25th OWEN O’ROURKE asking for sort of stay in Anniversary of Walk For HAWC line with what our prior- (Healing Abuse Working for ities are,” said Crabtree. Change). The nonprofit, which “We’re continuing to take has offices in Lynn, Salem, action to build the town’s Gloucester and Beverly, hoped financial health and sta- to raise more than $100,000 for bility, improvements for services and support to victims our infrastructure.” of domestic abuse in two dozen The first asks for money North Shore communities. to be transferred into the Founded in 1978, the charity stabilization fund. assists survivors by helping to He is also requesting file restraining orders and seek funds for repairing and treatment for victims. HAWC maintaining the parks provides emergency family shel- and playgrounds, and ter for people at risk of homeless- additional funds for the ness because of domestic abuse. design, construction and Nearly 1 in 3 women and 1 in repair of town parks and 5 men in Massachusetts experi- playgrounds. The sixth enced rape, physical violence or article is requesting mon- stalking by an intimate partner, ey to make capital im- according to Jane Doe Inc. Since provements to the town’s 2003, there have been 327 homi- Lincoln Avenue pumping cide victims linked to domestic station. violence. The pumping station, Peter Eugene, 45, was found which Crabtree said has guilty of Senn’s murder and not seen major improve- is serving a life sentence at ments in more than a de- ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole. cade, is in need of repairs Town Administrator Jeffrey Chelgren and Town Moderator David Con- Cooper said her son-in-law was and upgrades. He said the lin, top, during the amendment process for article ten at Nahant Town jealous because her 29-year-old existing station is worth Meeting on Saturday. daughter had returned to school, and was making plans to launch SAUGUS, A7 a career as a real estate agent. Nahant shows up and speaks out Despite the grief, Cooper said she remains active in the cause By Leah Dearborn to cast ballots for several for the creation of a plan to end domestic violence. INSIDE FOR THE ITEM board positions. of action for the property, “I don’t want this to happen to An article regarding the passed after significant anyone else,” she said. “When I In Lynn LOOK! NAHANT — It was a parcel of land known as discussion and more than see young ladies going through Brian Wilson at Lynn An evening of busy day for voters in Na- the same thing, I tell them to the Coast Guard Hous- a half-dozen amendments City Hall Auditorium. A3 Changing Lives. A8 hant on Saturday, with get out before it’s too late.” • ing project was one of the to its language. Former Item building In Sports residents turning out to more contentious issues Its passage will result in Thomas Grillo can be reached sold for second time. A5 A special win for speak their minds at a raised at the meeting. at [email protected]. Lynn eld. B1 lengthy town meeting and The article, which called NAHANT, A7 Lynn teachers step up on May Day Malden Catholic By Gayla Cawley in the fight for dignity, re- said their contract expired families deserve safe, wel- to add girls school ITEM STAFF spect and a living wage for in Aug. 2016. coming schools, and educa- MALDEN — Malden Catholic is moving for- workers. The annual event “It’s been a difficult time tors deserve a fair contract LYNN — Lynn teachers ward with its plan to open the Malden Catholic takes place in cities nation- for kids and we want to re- to support the work we do will participate in today’s School for Girls in September 2018. wide. affirm our love for teaching May Day March in support with our students.” “The Malden Catholic Board of Trustees has of their students and for a Brant Duncan, president all of our students, from “Our teachers and sup- enthusiastically voted to move forward with our fair contract. of the Lynn Teachers Union, across the world,” said Dun- port staff are proud to work plans for a Girls School,” said Board Chair Jim The “May Day March for said Lynn teachers have can. “Diversity is one of our with students from all over Donovan in a school statement. Immigrant and Worker marched annually in the many assets here in Lynn, the world,” reads the no- The School for Girls will be in the current Rights” is scheduled for 4 event, but this year, there’s so it’s two-fold. We march in tice. “We believe our schools school building in an area where Xaverian p.m. at City Hall. Activists some focus with regards to support of our students and should be safe havens for Brothers lived on campus. The girls will have are inviting people from all their contract. The union for a fair contract.” children and their families, a separate wing and some facilities, like the backgrounds to celebrate has been in contract negoti- The Lynn Teachers Union, and we deserve a fair gymnasium and the auditorium, will be used by Lynn’s history as a home for ations with the School Com- in their notice for the event, immigrants and as a leader mittee since September. He said “our students and their TEACHERS, A7 CATHOLIC, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 56° VOL. 139, ISSUE #123 LYNN .........................................A3 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 51° OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017 OBITUARIES Winter lingered in Barbara Full Curtin, 82 Patricia A. Tierney, 59 New England, and MARBLEHEAD — loved spending time LYNN — Patricia A. plays and concerts Barbara Full Curtin, 82, with friends over a (Hart) Tierney, 59, and was a member passed on April 15, cup of coffee and, of Lynn, died Satur- of the North Shore so will the mud 2017, at Spaulding during the summers, day afternoon at the Social Meetup club. By Patrick Whittle vice in Caribou, Maine. Hospital, Cambridge, relaxing with them on Blueberry Hill Nurs- In her younger days, ASSOCIATED PRESS Caribou got nearly 125 inches (317.5 centimeters) Mass. comforted by Preston Beach. ing Home in Beverly she spent time at NEW GLOUCESTER, family. Barbara was She was prede- following a brief ill- Westward Shores in Maine — Spring is in the air. of snow this winter, 15 born in Salem to Fred- ceased by her par- ness. She was the Ossippee, N.H. where But mud is on the ground, inches (38.1 centimeters) eric W. Full and Miriam ents, husband and former wife of Robert she enjoyed water and will be for a while.