DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 SATURDAY MAY 29, 2021 DEALS OF THE McGee proposes $407 million budget Swampscott$DAY$ PG. 3 By Allysha Dunnigan a balanced budget despite the The proposed FY22 bud- city’s share of health insur- ITEM STAFF challenges brought on by the get allocates $180.7 million ance costs, maintains a more schools COVID-19 pandemic. to the Lynn Public Schools, realistic snow and ice budget, LYNN — In his $407 mil- McGee presented the bud- $8.5 million for capital im- and directs more funding to lion budget proposal for fiscal get last week to the City provements and $500,000 “quality-of-life” infrastruc- to combat year 2022, Mayor Thomas M. Council, which will begin to for the formation of an un- ture improvements. DEALS McGee touted his administra- hear from department heads armed crisis response team. “Coming into office in 2018, tion’s “careful fiscal planning” about their individual bud- It also fully funds the city’s OF THE I knew there were significant COVID slide over the past three years, gets at a council meeting next net school spending require- $ $ which he said has resulted in Tuesday. ment, “correctly” budgets the BUDGET, A6 DAY By Tréa LaveryPG. 3 ITEM STAFF SWAMPSCOTT — The school dis- trict will offer a six-week academic program this summer to help students get back on trackDEALS after disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program willOF run forTHE four hours a day from July 5 to Aug. 13 and will be available for students$DA Ygoing$ into grades one through 12.PG. The 3 adminis- tration has reached out to students who have been identified as needing academic support to invite them to the program, but expects to open it up to all district families in the coming weeks. DEALS “We have a more robust, in my opin- ion, learning loss OFsummer THE program than what DESE (Department$ $ of Ele- mentary and SecondaryDA Education)Y is offering,” said SuperintendentPG. 3 Pamela Angelakis at Wednesday’s School Com- mittee meeting. “We’re really excited.” The program will be project based, with students working on “high-in- terest” projects along with academic instruction in writing, reading and math. High-school students will be able ITEM PHOTO | TRÉA LAVERY to recover missing credits or earn an additional semester’s worth of credits Volunteers placed flags on the graves of U.S. military veterans at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn. toward graduation. Students will be graded on a pass/fail basis. The program will offer 200 seats to district students, and if those seats are Memorial Day marks a return to tradition not filled by invited students they will be offered to anyone who is interested. ITEM STAFF REPORT in 2021, just days after the state was forward to a time where we can all re- Dr. Jean Bacon, the district’s director set to fully reopen. ally join together in bigger groups and of teaching and learning, said the dis- When residents and public officials Locally, Marblehead, Nahant, Pea- bigger numbers,” said Lynn-Swamp- trict is working with families who may pause to remember the fallen on Me- scott Veterans Services Director Mi- be taking vacations or may be unable morial Day this Monday, they will be body, Saugus and Swampscott will chael Sweeney. “It’s good to be able to to attend for one of the six weeks, al- doing so in a much more traditional hold live ceremonies. However, out of an abundance of caution, Lynn, Lyn- do something to honor the fallen.” lowing them to enroll for the remain- fashion. In Lynn, Sweeney said the city’s vet- der of the program. Students who are While most communities on the nfield and Salem have opted to once again honor their fallen virtually, ei- erans services department is hosting a unable to attend for more than one North Shore held their ceremonies pre-recorded virtual ceremony which week are being accepted on a case-by- ther with a pre-recorded event or one virtually last year at the height of the will be online at lynntv.org and posted case basis. COVID-19 pandemic, many have opt- that will be streamed live. ed to return to in-person ceremonies “I’m really looking forward to moving MEMORIAL DAY, A7 COVID, A6 SOPHIE YARIN COMMENTARY For some, pandemic shutdown meant slim down By Steve Krause spent heavily across the board, Accepting ITEM STAFF from $3,000 cardio machines to $20 yoga mats. They also used One of the most frequent com- their legs, whether walking, run- the plaints during what has now be- ning or hiking. Yellowstone Na- come a 15-month COVID-19 shut- tional Park recorded its busiest down is that people were lulled September and October on record unaccepted into sedentary lifestyles, rarely last year, and conscientious fitness going out and even exercising advocates embraced other outdoor Generations before COVID-19 more infrequently. activities to escape the boredom of cast its long shadow over Amer- Naturally, there’s a Yang to the sitting around the house. ican life, graduation had been a Yin. With less activity came more That national trend carried over big, big deal. pounds. All of a sudden, COVID-19 locally, too. Peabody’s Rich Lynch The coronavirus may have became “the COVID 19,” as in bought himself a Peloton exercise changed the way we celebrate pounds. And for some it was even bike, and now he swears by them. achievements and accomplish- more than 19. In the last year, Lynch, a soft- ments, but it hasn’t changed Things may be loosening up in ware engineer whose office is in people’s spirits. terms of the relaxation of social Woburn, was — like a lot of people Around the country — but protocols and the lifting of mask — relegated to working remotely especially in Massachusetts, a mandates. But for many, the dam- when the pandemic shutdown be- veritable cornucopia of colleges age has been done. gan. — the celebratory atmosphere However, out of this pandemic “In the beginning, we ate too reaches a fever pitch right shutdown came a fair number of much, drank too much, couldn’t around Memorial Day week- success stories. Gyms may have go to the gym, stuff like that. So end. been locked down for most of last I packed on the weight. But last I recently saw how Lynnfield year, but Americans who wanted June, something clicked in … I — or needed — to stay in shape pulled together a COVID-com- COURTESY PHOTO | RICH LYNCH was going back and forth about pliant graduation event in lieu found other ways to condition getting a Peloton, and finally went of a formal — and crowded — their bodies. Peabody’s Rich Lynch, an avid cyclist, said he indoor celebration. The town During the pandemic Americans switched to the Peloton during the lockdown. EXERCISE, A6 opted to laud its high-school seniors by throwing a “parade of destinations” down the main streets in town, with graduates encouraged to rep their new INSIDE Legislators primed for economic recovery schools in their respective cloth- Opinion ing and the decoration of their Shribman: Timeworn By Tréa Lavery normal,” said state plan for Peabody’s Cen- cars and bikes. perspectives must be ITEM STAFF Sen. Joan Lovely. “As tennial Park, as well as It was a clever way to get the we progress forward, I funding for the Home balanced with modern PEABODY — The students, who definitely haven’t judgment. A4 will be working closely Works program, which seen much of each other in the city’s Massachusetts with my legislative col- provides education for past few months, to learn where LOOK! House and Senate del- leagues, regional lead- children living in emer- their friends and classmates Lynnfield hopes shoppers egation have plenty ers and stakeholders gency shelters, and for would be headed in the fall will go for a spin. A8 of planned legislation, to make sure there are child sexual abuse pre- without getting them all within • from budget amend- safeguards in place to vention. infecting distance. Salem set to celebrate ments to proposed bills. support families, busi- In addition, she se- After all, one of the most excit- the arts again. A8 “It’s a very busy time nesses, employees and cured funding in the ing moments of “Senior Week” is in the legislature as all residents.” state’s Economic Devel- that breathless reveal of where Sports the Senate undertakes Lovely has proposed we’re off to next. English baseball rallies opment bill for the Pea- ITEM FILE PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK its FY22 budget debate a budget amendment body Trolley, which will It makes me remember my back twice to beat rival and the Commonwealth that would provide Classical. B1 Joan Lovely YARIN, A7 moves toward its new $75,000 for a master RECOVERY, A6 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 51° VOL. 142, ISSUE 146 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 49° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY MAY 29, 2021 OBITUARIES MASSACHUSETTS BRIEFS Boston schools work with Boston students The ofcers involved sign, however, has been expands investigation into had been nationally recog- were identied as Ron- muted because the me- Deborah Lynne Bradley-Potter nized. ald Cunningham and Isi- morial’s creation in the 1949 - 2021 student counseling “It’s unfortunate to see it ah Callahan. Both red aftermath of the Civil War come to an end under these their weapons. They gave was championed by prom- BOSTON (AP) — The Born October 2, 1949, the circumstances,” her state- medical aid at the scene inent Black Bostonians of Boston school system is ex- ment said.