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DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 DEALS OF THE Saugus wants to pull deceased dealer’s license City$DA mayY$ By Bridget Turcotte empty and the business is no longer in ex- but (the transaction) must be approved by PG. 3 ITEM STAFF istence, yet Johnson said he has seen titles the Board of Selectmen and that has not oc- and sales documents indicating that the curred,” Johnson wrote to the panel. join ght SAUGUS — Massachusetts State Police business has fraudulently purchased vehi- Selectmen called a show cause hearing are investigating fraudulent auto purchas- cles at auction from other dealers as recent- Wednesday night, but it was pushed back ing and sales by a used car dealership on ly as March. The person, or people, purchas- until the panel’s next meeting because no- for more Route 1 and recommending the town take ing and selling the vehicles is using a stamp body showed up. DEALS away the business’s licensing. purporting to be the owner of Route 1 Auto “Even though we reached out to the li- OF THE Ed Brown, the owner of Route 1 Auto Sales. Johnson sent copies of the documents cense holder, you can see that they’re not school Sales, died last summer, according to a let- to the town. here,” said chairwoman Debra Panetta. $ $ ter obtained by The Item from Trooper Rob- The agency is recommending the town’s Panetta and Town Manager Scott Crab- DAY ert Johnson. Since his death, the license has Board of Selectmen revoke the auto license tree recommended referring the issue to the PG. 3 been held by his wife, Beverly. issued to the business. funding The building and the property are both “I understand that the license can be sold, SAUGUS, A3 By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN —DEALS Mayor Thomas M. Parts of McGee is supportive of a po- tential lawsuitOF threeTHE gateway city mayors have threatened$ Swampscott to le if they’re$DA notY satis ed with efforts toPG. x 3the state’s outdated education funding formula. As for Lynn’s interest powerless in potential litigation, he said “all options are on the table” at this point. for a day The BostonDEALS Globe reported on WednesdayOF theTHE mayors of By Bella diGrazia Brockton, New Bedford and ITEM STAFF Worcester said$ at a press$ con- ference that DAthey Ywould le SWAMPSCOTT — A power outage left litigation if thePG. state 3 legisla- more than 2,000 residents in the dark ture failed to follow through late Wednesday night and wasn’t fully on promised changes to the restored until Thursday afternoon, forc- 1993 foundation budget for- ing the town to close the post of ce and mula, which would potentially Clarke Elementary School for the day. result in a signi cant increase The outage was the result of an inci- in state funding to Massachu- dent caused by a worker from Newport setts school districts. No dead- Construction Corporation, which was line was given for when those hired by MassDOT to pave Paradise changes would need to be seen Road. It occurred shortly before 11 p.m. by. on Wednesday, according to Town Ad- The formula hasn’t been up- ministrator Sean Fitzgerald. dated since it was established, “It was reported to me that one of the leaving districts, especially trucks leaving the site left a dump buck- low-income ones such as Lynn, et up and drove away, clipping the pow- spending signi cantly more erlines,” said Fitzgerald. than the foundation budget as- Not only were the powerlines clipped, sumes municipalities need to but a pole was snapped and the trans- educate its special education former fell to the pavement and students, English language smashed, according to DPW Director/ learners (ELL) and low-in- Assistant Town Administrator for Oper- come students, and for health ations Gino Cresta. Crews from Nation- insurance. al Grid, Verizon and Comcast were also “Obviously, the formula from on scene lending a hand, said Cresta. 1993 is impacting communi- Newport Construction Corporation ties like Lynn in a substantial did not immediately return a call seek- way,” McGee said. “It’s proba- ing comment. bly a $47 million gap between The power, which was down from the what should be funded and Olmstead District to Vinnin Square, what we’re getting right now was fully restored just before 5 p.m. … I think at this point, the city Thursday. John and Colette Green live is looking at all alternatives to at the top of Mount Road Wood and said, PHOTO | JOHN GREEN make sure we get the result Crews work to replace the snapped pole and broken transformer SWAMPSCOTT, A3 that led to a power outage in Swampscott. LYNN, A3 RAW invites alumni to INSIDE Opinion Jourgensen: The sea Party with a Purpose and Swampscott. A4 By Bella diGrazia graduated from art school con- Lynn ITEM STAFF tinue to create,” Miller said. “It Dominican national also allows alumni to continue pleads guilty to fraud, LYNN — Alison Miller knows to stay connected to RAW and identity theft. A6 rsthand that alumni will al- gives them the opportunity to ways have a home at Raw Art Sports give back.” Works. Marblehead Miller has been involved The money from the auc- boys lacrosse with RAW for almost two de- tioned pieces will go toward outlasts Peabody. B1 cades, after becoming a mem- funding RAW’s various pro- ber at 14 years old. Now, at grams and bringing in more Classical baseball wins 33, she is a full-time RAW art students off the waitlist. Alum- second straight. B1 therapist and one of a dozen ni artists will also get a portion alumni taking part in the Door from their sold pieces, Miller Lynn’s Gasper 2 Door showcase, which will said. discusses his sports feature and auction art pieces Every Sunday, for the last upbringing. B1 ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK created by the artists during six months, the 12 artists have the annual BASH fundraiser met up at RAW to work on their Raw Art Works art therapist and Door 2 Door artist Alison Miller Krause: What on this Saturday. stands with one of her pieces that will be auctioned off during Earth happened “Door 2 Door helps those who RAW, A3 the BASH: Party With a Purpose on Saturday. to the Celtics? B1 Lynn of cials like what EDIC Executive they see from Cobbet Hill Director James Cowdell, left, By Gayla Cawley which was constructed in the 1930s, and Lynn Mayor ITEM STAFF was converted to apartments 31 Thomas M. Mc- years ago. Gee, right, listen LYNN — Lynn Mayor Thomas M. When WinnCompanies bought as WinnCompa- McGee and other guests from the the 117-unit housing complex in nies Executive city toured what they called a “huge December 2016, it was in physical Vice President housing investment” Thursday af- and nancial disrepair, as there Michael O’Brien ternoon, the $18.7 million rehabil- was a lot of debt on the property speaks to them itation of Cobbet Hill Apartments, that was not being serviced, ac- about the newly which offers affordable housing to cording to LeAnn Han eld, project renovated Cobbet seniors and families. manager and vice president of de- Hill Apartments. The 18-month project, complet- velopment for WinnCompanies. ed over the fall, marked the Essex “The building was, for all intents ITEM PHOTO | Street building’s rst major reno- SPENSER HASAK vation since the former high school, COBBET HILL, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! ................................... A7-8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 59° VOL. 141, ISSUE 130 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 52° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 ENTERTAINMENT .......................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 OBITUARIES Kenneth C. Roy, 77 Small businesses want state 1941-2019 SALEM — Kenneth C. Roy to ease up on costly reforms died peacefully in his home in Salem on the morning of By Chris Lisinski attempt — could cut into Wednesday, May 8, 2019. He STATE HOUSE retirement savings when was surrounded by his wife NEWS SERVICE owners sell their business- and five sons. He was 77 es. One question posed to years old. BOSTON — With min- Spilka, after listing the Mr. Roy was born on Oct. 17, imum-wage increases al- wage increase and a paid 1941 in Salem, to his parents ready locked in for years family leave program, Aurele and Verdie Roy. He grew to come and a new push concluded: “When does it up in West Lynn and attend- for a surtax on high earn- stop?” ed St. Mary’s High School. ers underway, Senate “Some of the minimum He graduated with a degree President Karen Spilka wage, paid family and in history from St. Anselm told small business own- medical leave — that was College and earned his law ers on Thursday that she all part of the grand bar- degree from Boston University would continue to work gain and getting rid of School of Law. toward compromise even time-and-a-half (pay) on After working in the Mas- as lawmakers consider Sunday,” Spilka answered. sachusetts State Attorney how to bring in new rev- “There were business sons Charlie, Alex and Oliver of General’s office, Mr. Roy went enues. groups at the table there. Danvers, Matthew and his wife into private practice, starting Spilka, the keynote That is a compromise that and operating his own gener- Mary and their two sons Bai- speaker at the annual PHOTO | SHNS was done.” al practice on Broad Street in ley and Miles of Beverly, Brian Small Business Day, out- and his wife Sarah and their Some of Spilka’s re- Lynn for more than 30 years.

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