DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 DEALS CouncilOF THE $DAY$ approvesPG. 3 Marshall DEALS developerOF THE By Allysha$ DunniganDAY$ ITEM STAFFPG. 3 LYNN — The City Council has approved a $2.5 million bid from a development company seeking to transform the former Thurgood Marshall MiddleDEALS School property on Porter Street OFinto affordableTHE se- nior housing. Approved on Tuesday night, the bid from East Boston$DA YCommuni-$ ty Development CorporationPG. 3 was selected from ve bidders who re- sponded to a Request for Propos- als (RFP) the city released last May, which aimed to redevelop the site into age-restricted affordable housing for thoseDEALS 55 and older. The East BostonOF group TH plansE to use the current building for its housing development$ and$ meet ITEM PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ the city’s requestedDA dateY of around The Frederick Douglass Park in downtown Lynn is now of cially open to the public. 180 days to close on PGthe. 3sale of the property. It was the third RFP the city has Park is a monument to Lynn’s history issued for the property; the past two attempts to sell the building By Allysha Dunnigan were unsuccessful. Ward 2 Councilor Rick Starbard, ITEM STAFF Frederick who chairs the council’s Public LYNN — After two years in the making, the Frederick Douglass Park on the corner of Union Property and Parks subcommittee, Douglass said he spent a day touring other and Exchange streets will of cially open to the public during a dedication ceremony on Wednes- memorialized properties that East Boston Com- day at 10 a.m. munity Development Corporation in Central Square The park was built by Minco Corporation, the developers of the North Harbor site, as an agree- has built, saying that they have DOUGLASS, A6 “done a remarkable job of convert- ing old school buildings into hous- ing, particularly senior housing.” Starbard said the property has been a blight to the neighborhood Swampscott Salem Five purchases since the school closed in 2015 and is also a major security issue with the number of res that have Library Lynch Insurance Agency happened there, along with peo- ple breaking into the building and By Allysha Dunnigan Salem Five Insurance has more than stealing copper. director ITEM STAFF 60 employees in six locations, and part- “The sooner we can free ourselves ners with dozens of carriers to meet the from this property … the better off SALEM — Salem Five Insurance, speci c personal and business needs of we’ll be,” Starbard said. a subsidiary of Salem Five Bank, an- its customers. City Council President Darren set to turn Cyr, also ward councilor for the nounced on Thursday that it has ac- A. James Lynch President Maura P. area, said he knows nding a bid- quired Lynn-based A. James Lynch In- Lynch said they have always put their der for this property has been a surance Agency Inc. customers and employees rst, and the page Lynch Insurance was founded in 1952 long process, but the wish of the “know Salem Five shares these values neighborhood is to keep this devel- and has steadily grown since. and will help make sure that our cus- Andrew Drayer, senior vice president opment as senior housing. By Sam Minton tomers and employees are taken care of Councilor-at-Large Brian Field ITEM STAFF of strategic growth for Salem Five Insur- as they have always been.” ance, said the partnership with A. James said East Boston Community De- President of Salem Five Insurance Ge- velopment Corporation was very SWAMPSCOTT — Alyce Deveau, a Lynch will provide customers with more rard “Jay” Boyle said “we look forward speci c in their plan regarding xture at the Swampscott Public Li- choices while maintaining the “same to serving A. James Lynch customers what they’re going to do for future brary since 1983, plans to retire this great service that they have always en- fall. joyed.” INSURANCE, A7 MARSHALL, A6 While Deveau has been the library director for the past 25 years, her total years of service are nearing an impres- sive four decades. She started off work- ing as a part-time assistant, then be- Keeping his eye on came an assistant librarian, and then the head of circulation before assuming her current position. Lynn eld’s past Deveau said she will be retiring from her position as library director some- By Sam Minton time in October, but still hopes to be a ITEM STAFF part of some of the book groups, while LYNNFIELD — Preserving history is no easy task, also giving some space to let the new but it’s something Kirk Mans eld has been tasked with director feel at home. nonetheless. She is also looking to put more time While he’s been involved with the Lynn eld Historical into Seaglass Village. Deveau de- Commission for only about two and a half years, he has scribed the group as being set up “to quickly established himself as the go-to man when it help seniors stay in their homes.” With comes to Lynn eld’s history, serving as chair for the last the project just getting started, Deveau two years. DEVEAU, A7 He joined the commission when Steve Richard per- suaded him to get involved. A short time later, then- chair Steve Todisco stepped down, opening an unexpect- ITEM PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ ed door for Mans eld. From left to right, Donald Martin, Steve Todisco, Doreen “Steve brought me onto the commission and then DiFillippo, John Michalski, Karen Nescembeni and Kirk pushed me to take the chair after Steve stepped down,” Mans eld gather at the newly-installed Pope Richard HISTORICAL, A6 Lynn eld Historical Center sign. SOPHIE YARIN ON STYLE INSIDE: Opinion Shribman: Next year’s Catcallers are cramping my style midterm battles are already underway. A4 My best friend and I are of two minds about the other person needs to grow some self-es- catcalling. She assumes the rare attitude of teem, and fast. LOOK! attery, even pride, when a stranger compli- I know how she feels, but I’m not interested Diverse People United in arguing her side of things. Catcalling makes ments her. I, on the other hand, am known to to host ‘Youth Rising no sense to me. The comments I’ve heard on spend the rest of the day engaged in one long Summit’ in Lynn. A8 rant about gender politics if someone even the street in no way encouraged me to dress ITEM FILE PHOTO looks at me for too long. more revealingly; actually, they’ve trained me, and countless others, against it. Sports In spite of this rather crucial difference in Swampscott Library Director The thing is, I wasn’t born with a sense of Dream season comes to a Alyce Deveau plans to retire this opinion, my friend and I both love and, oddly close for Peabody West. B1 fall. enough, respect each other. But we both think YARIN, A6 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 90° VOL. 142, ISSUE 211 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 66° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 OBITUARIES Attorney general sues Boston Andrew J. Leydon, 60 LYNN - Andrew Jude “Andy” police over records request Leydon, age 60 of Lynn, died on Friday, August 13, 2021, BOSTON (AP) — The said in a statement. "That's and mounting a legal ght some records, but not all of at home, with his family at his Massachusetts attorney especially important when to keep his job. them. side, after a courageous battle general has sued the Bos- it comes to promoting The attorney general's White was appointed by with cancer. ton Police Department over public con dence in law complaint stems from a me- former Mayor Marty Walsh Born and raised in Lynn, he its refusal to comply with enforcement. Following re- dia request made in March — now U.S. labor secretary was the son of the late John peated failures by the Bos- for White's internal affairs M. Leydon and Jeanne (Hub- public records requests re- — and red by acting May- ton Police Department to records from the 1990s. bard) Leydon Murphy. He at- garding red police Com- or Kim Janey. When WBTS-TV, also tended Lynn Schools and was missioner Dennis White. produce these records, we Janey in a statement known as NBC10 Boston, a graduate of Lynn Classical The complaint led are seeking an order from thanked Healey, saying the High School, class of 1979. Thursday asks the state the court that they must be did not get a response for public's right to know must He earned a Bachelor’s De- Superior Court to con rm turned over." two weeks, the station went be balanced with the right gree from Framingham State that the documents are Boston police said they to the supervisor of Public to privacy of survivors of College class of 1985 and a public records and that po- could not comment on Records, who twice ordered domestic violence. Master’s Degree in Informa- lice are obligated to release pending litigation. the department to respond "I respect the judgment of tion Systems from Penn State them. White was appointed to the request, according to the Of ce of the Attorney University in 1997. Prior to re- "Our state's public re- commissioner in Febru- the attorney general's com- General, and I've instruct- turning to Lynn, he had lived in Leydon and his wife Sandra of cords law is in place to en- ary, but placed on leave plaint.