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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2019 VFW post City councilor sours on Garelick plan By Gayla Cawley Garelick is currently zoned to allow tness center. no longer ITEM STAFF only dairy manufacturing. A.W. Perry But it is other proposed added uses that representatives told the Item last month Starbard takes issue with, such as a con- LYNN — Ward 2 City Councilor Rick their plan is to initially use the 17-acre tractor’s storage yard, warehouse used for Starbard is opposed to a zoning change part of property for light industry with a future storage, ambulance service, motor vehicle proposal from a developer seeking to pur- goal of transforming the site into a mixed- chase the Garelick Farms site that he says storage yard, a parking lot for automo- use development with waterfront apart- biles and commercial vehicles, and truck Swampscott would essentially allow for the waterfront ments, retail, restaurants and possibly a repair facility. property to be turned into a “junkyard.” hotel. A.W. Perry, a Boston real estate rm, The zoning change proposed by the rm “This sends me the message that not package has signed a deal to purchase the Garelick includes extending existing uses allowed only could the Garelick site be a junk- Farms plant on the Lynnway, but compa- in the city’s “waterfront zone 3 district,” yard, but it’s asking us to change that By Bella diGrazia ny representatives have said their deci- located on the southeast side of the Lyn- whole district to allow that use,” Starbard ITEM STAFF sion to close on the property is contingent nway, to the Garelick site. Under the pro- said, explaining the district also stretch- upon a proposed change in the zone ordi- posal, the developer is seeking to allow es around Marine Boulevard, Blossom SWAMPSCOTT — The town’s VFW nance that would have to be approved by for light manufacturing, hotels, an apart- post is safe. For now. the City Council. ment house, assisted living facility and GARELICK, A3 The Board of Selectmen opted out of a Town Meeting vote authorizing the sale of both the town-owned VFW property and the neighboring C & L Package Store. Four of the ve select- A lm men at Wednesday’s meeting agreed more time was needed to discuss the right options for the town’s veterans. leads to If approved, the adjusted warrant article would allow for the sale of just the liquor store property on New a ght in Ocean Street. “We need to go through the process of discussing what could be done for Lynn eld veterans before making a decision on the property,” said Selectwoman By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF Naomi Dreeben. Selectman Donald Hause was LYNNFIELD — When against the motion. He said he is not Time Magazine reported 18 proactively advocating for selling the Gloucester teens got preg- VFW, located on Pine Street, but he nant in an alleged pact in wanted the town to have exibility 2008, the local reporter who in the event a developer proposed broke the story wanted to set improvements to the post or a better the record straight. piece of land where it could move. But little did Kristen Els- Town Administrator Sean Fitzger- worthy know the road to do- ald said the goal was to nd a buyer ing so would put her father that could enhance and expand vet- in the hole for nearly $1 mil- erans’ services offered at the post. lion and tear two Lynn eld “If we were to create the veter- families apart. ans’ service agency of tomorrow, The drama began in the how would we do that while think- summer of 2008, when Els- ing about providing more than a bar worthy, then a reporter at they can go to on a weekend night?” the Gloucester Times, spot- Fitzgerald asked during an interview ted an item on the School with the Item. “Active membership Committee agenda that had down there has declined, and while Page 1 potential. It refer- I appreciate the inspired work vets enced a sudden rise in preg- continue to engage in there, we want nancies at Gloucester High to be more careful in thinking about School. what they need.” Full STEAM ahead Elsworthy penned a story with the headline: “Spike in SWAMPSCOTT, A3 Gloucester High pregnancies alarms of cials.” The story with art in Nahant went viral. National TV and print By Bella diGrazia Unicorns, a shark named Bub- Johnson journalists invaded the usu- ITEM STAFF bles and a narwhal were among School ally quiet shing community the creatures created by stu- third-grader at the northern end of Route NAHANT — Brooklyn-based dents. Vera Conley 128. The accounts breath- artist Wes Sam-Bruce had John- “It’s so much fun that you can lessly reported the number son Elementary students ying leaps into make your own project and do of pregnancies that year was through the air on Thursday. the air as she your own thing,” said third-grad- “dives into quadruple the usual num- Sam-Bruce, a Peabody Essex ber. All but one of the girls Museum artist-in-residence, was er Anna Fox. “You can draw a dog work” during in the ocean if you want.” a workshop who become pregnant were invited to the school by the Nah- 15, the other was 16. Most Pan Manadee, vice president of with Brook- ant Education Foundation (NEF) got pregnant by their boy- the NEF, said the organization is as part of its Tombolo Project lyn-based friends. One of the fathers all about enrichment, especially ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK launch. He was originally sup- artist Wes is reportedly a 24-year-old posed to work with the kids on an when it comes to promoting the Sam-Bruce on The Board of Selectmen opted homeless man. outside, interactive, temporary “A” in Science, Technology, Engi- Thursday. But it was then-Principal out of a Town Meeting vote au- art exhibit, but that got post- neering, Art and Mathematics Joseph Sullivan’s comments thorizing the sale of both the poned to the fall because of rain. (STEAM). Art is so important, ITEM PHOTO | to the Time reporter that town-owned VFW property and Instead, he worked with students she said, and it’s sort of the glue SPENSER HASAK ramped up the coverage. the neighboring C & L Package while they made art depicting NAHANT, A3 He said the girls confessed Store. their favorite creatures. to making a “pact” after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies. INSIDE Sullivan told Time that Lynn eld nearly half of the expecting students were involved in Opinion the pact. He said the girls Scoring a touchdown went to the school clinic at Tracy. A4 swings into multiple times for pregnancy tests and seemed more upset Jourgensen: when they weren’t pregnant Saugus gives Summer than when they were. Some history its due. A4 of the girls reacted to the By Thomas Grillo news they were pregnant Sports ITEM STAFF with high ves and plans for Tringale dazzles baby showers. in shutout of LYNNFIELD — Third-grader Sabrina Hay- Such comments unnerved Marblehead. B1 man could hardly contain her excitement Elsworthy, a Lynn eld resi- Wednesday. dent, who doubted they were The 9-year-old Summer Street Elementa- true. ry School student and her classmates blew “At the time, teen pregnan- bubbles to celebrate the ribbon cutting for a cy had experienced a giant new swing set. increase nationally and it “Without the swings, recess was really bor- made sense to explore why ing,” she said. “I almost always play on them, it was happening,” she said. even at home, because they’re so much fun.” “Instead, it became a hys- The bright blue set, complete with one terical witch hunt, the girls handicapped accessible seat, was a gift from were vili ed in the press by Everett Bank. The Summer Street Parent judgmental coverage. I don’t Teacher Organization (PTO) came up with think these girls got togeth- the idea and raised $15,000 to prepare the er and said, ‘Let’s all get 50-by-100-foot spot in front of the K-4 school. pregnant and raise our kids PTO co-presidents Kathryn Price and Pa- together.’” ITEM PHOTO | THOMAS GRILLO mela MacDonald were on hand for the un- Elsworthy thought it could veiling. Kindergartners at the Summer Street Elementary be a teachable moment for School celebrate the opening of a new swing set by LYNNFIELD, A3 blowing bubbles. FIGHT, A2 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! ................................... A7-8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 69° VOL. 141, ISSUE 136 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 53° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 ENTERTAINMENT .......................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2019 OBITUARIES Senator eyes ‘broad consensus’ John R. Imbriano Jr., 80 on Education Committee bill LYNN — Mr. John R. Imbri- ano Jr., age 80, formerly of By Katie Lannan Malden, died peacefully, sur- STATE HOUSE rounded by his loving family NEWS SERVICE on Tuesday, May 14 at the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. BOSTON — Lawmakers He was the devoted husband on the Education Com- of Anita L. (DiGregorio) Imbria- mittee are aiming to put no, with whom he shared more forward a bill next month than 57 years of marriage. overhauling the state’s Born in Malden, he was the school funding formula, son of the late Giovanni and the panel’s Senate chair Maria (Moscaritolo) Imbriano. said Thursday as teachers, John was a graduate of North- students and other advo- eastern University. cates descended on the He worked as a production State House to continue control manager for RCA/GE the push for reform.

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