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Saugus School Board Passes $29.5M Budget MONDAY, JULY 13, 2020 Thanks to LHAND, a Circle of friends is College Bound By Gayla Cawley an experience like no other place would ITEM STAFF give us.” Lopez is one of ve girls who grew up LYNN — KIPP Academy Lynn gradu- together on Curwin Circle and went ate Dichanee Lopez credits a local youth through the LHAND College Bound pro- program with sparking her interest in gram at the same time, which aims to in- college. troduce youth to college at an early age When Lopez starts her freshman year and promote the value of education after at the University of Massachusetts Dart- high school. mouth this fall, it won’t be her rst taste Through the College Bound program, of the college experience. which is part of the LHAND youth pro- Lopez, 18, has been with College Bound, gram, children and teenagers visit local a youth program through the Lynn Hous- colleges regularly, interact with college ing Authority & Neighborhood Develop- students who also help mentor and tutor From left, LHAND Youth Director Cathy Rowe, Kenyeraliz Carrasquil- ment (LHAND) since elementary school. them throughout the school year and par- lo, Yarixza Ortiz, Alexia Romero, Marolyn Percel and Dichanee Lopez. “It opened my eyes about the opportu- The ve girls grew up together on Curwin Circle and went through the nities for college,” said Lopez. “It gave us COLLEGE, A3 LHAND College Bound program at the same time. Six options Oh, deer! Saugus for new school school in board Swampscott By David McLellan passes ITEM STAFF SWAMPSCOTT — There are six preliminary designs at three sites $29.5M in town, and any one of them could end up as Swampscott’s next ele- mentary school. budget The Swampscott School Building Committee, as well as architects By Elyse Carmosino from Lavallee Brensinger Archi- ITEM STAFF tects, and Hill International Inc. — the company managing the project SAUGUS — The Fiscal on behalf of the town — have been 2021 school budget has been narrowing options to come up with established. a preferred design for a school to re- The School Committee place Hadley Elementary School on made it of cial last Thursday Redington Street. by unanimously voting to Ultimately, the town will submit pass a budget of $29,575,250. a preferred design to the state this Before the vote took place, fall, and so far the options have been Pola Andrews, Executive narrowed to six. Of the six design Director of Finance, gave a options, three are at the current breakdown of the district’s Hadley Elementary School site, one fund allocations, which in is at the Swampscott Middle School, total comes to the amount 207 Forest Ave., and two are at the approved at Saugus’ town Stanley School, 10 Whitman Road. meeting June 29. The three Hadley Elementary Notable in comparison to School options include Option 1, past years, the FY21 budget a $64 to $75 million project that — which is more than $2 mil- would be an addition and renova- lion less than the $31,979,636 tion to the current building. The one proposed in January — option would be 85,000 square feet includes changes meant to to the three-story building. Stan- allow nancial exibility as ley and Clarke elementary schools the district prepares to re- would remain open, and fth-grad- open amidst the COVID-19 ers would still go to Swampscott pandemic this fall. Middle School under this option, as In particular, Andrews noted Hadley Elementary School would ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK a $189,912 reduction in regu- remain a K-4 school, but expanded. lar-day transportation, as well A white-tailed deer peeks its head over a rock at Gannon Municipal Golf as the elimination of athletics SWAMPSCOTT, A3 Course in Lynn Saturday. transportation, which was es- timated to cost $118,240. “Those two cost savings are pandemic measures, and we discussed the possibility of Opinion Nahant planning to ll shifting the funding should Words and symbols. A4 we get additional funding (or should) the pandemic end,” How coronavirus will empty Planning Board seat she said. reshape cities. A4 She added that the two Sports By Elyse Carmosino “We’re looking for someone who has experience items will at most be one- ITEM STAFF in things like real estate,” said Selectman Josh An- year reductions unless the Swampscott’s trim, one of several town of cials tasked with re- DiLisio looks to defend pandemic is to continue into NAHANT — Of cials are searching to ll a mid- viewing applicants. “Legal expertise is nice, and so Mass Am title. B1 the next scal year. term opening on Nahant’s Planning Board. is community spirit. It’s good to have some record “That (is), based on conver- Vacated in June by Gene Canty, who left follow- of community involvement, but certainly that’s not sations we heard, the best Gannon hosts rst ing the town’s annual election to serve on Nahant’s weekend of club necessary.” plan we have as of today,” she Board of Selectmen, the seat will remain open un- championship. B1 The Planning Board — which consists of seven said. til both boards vote on a new member early next month. NAHANT, A3 SAUGUS, A3 Peabody Area Chamber Free COVID-19 testing North Shore Labor LYNN — Lynn is one of eight commu- moves to new home nities to offer free COVID-19 testing Council keeps delivering through Aug. 14 as part of the state’s By Anne Marie Tobin ety. And that’s just in normal “Stop the Spread” initiative. By David McLellan through the fall, with the or- ITEM STAFF times. Testing will be offered seven days ITEM STAFF ganization looking to hire a But moving in a pandemic? a week through the Lynn Communi- part-time coordinator to keep PEABODY — Moving to a Julie Daigle, Director of ty Health Center in the Element Care LYNN — Since the begin- things running smoothly. new place usually involves a the Peabody Area Chamber parking lot, 9 Buffum St, and on Fridays ning of the COVID-19 pan- “We’re incredibly proud of lot of heavy lifting, literally. of Commerce, said that other through the Healthy Streets Outreach demic, North Shore Labor the program we built in re- From packing boxes to than having to sit through a Program, which will have a testing van Council volunteers have sponse to this crisis, and I’m changing over essential ser- month-long delay, the cham- set up in the parking lot at 100 Willow delivered more than 30,000 excited to see how it grows vices such as cable, electrical ber’s recent move across St./Liberty Street. pounds of food to Lynn res- under new stewardship,” Co- and telephone; or to arrang- town in the midst of the LCHC will also have a site at its sat- idents. hen said. ing for your mail to be for- COVID-19 crisis wasn’t such ellite location, 29 Market Square, from With such an obvious de- The North Shore Labor warded to the new address, a headache after all. Monday through Thursday. mand, Katie Cohen, North Council, one of nearly 500 there are plenty of moving “We were scheduled to See https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ Shore Labor Council ex- labor councils in the state, parts to coordinate. No doubt stop-the-spread for a complete list of lo- ecutive director, says the they elevate stress and anxi- PEABODY, A3 cations and times. program should continue FOOD, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 81° VOL. 141, ISSUE 179 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 67° COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, JULY 13, 2020 OBITUARIES Boston poised to enter third Katherine J. Johnson, 42 1977-2020 LYNN — Katherine Jean “Ka- phase of economic restart tie” Johnson, 42, passed away at her home in Lynn on Tues- BOSTON (AP) — A week Saturday. The number of “There are people who their visitor limits. day, July 7, 2020. after most of the rest of patients in intensive care have been gainfully em- The state has reduced Born on Oct. 12, 1977 at Massachusetts, Boston rose to 93 on Sunday, up ployed that all of a sud- by half the number of peo- Lynn Hospital to parents Da- is scheduled to enter the from 87 the previous day. den don’t have an income ple allowed in the parks vid and Marianne Johnson, third phase of its corona- The number of infections coming in that they were during the coronavirus growing up Katie attended virus economic restart on is thought to be far high- used to having,” according pandemic to allow for so- Lynn Public Schools and Monday. er because many people to Nancy Mellitt, the food cial distancing. spent her summers at Camp Under the plan, movie have not been tested, and bank’s director of develop- By Sunday morning, at Rotary in Boxford. Later grad- theaters, museums and studies suggest people can ment. least eight parks, includ- uating from Massachusetts historical sites, as well as be infected with the virus RHODE ISLAND ing Rocky Neck State Park College of Liberal Arts with a gyms, are among the busi- without feeling sick. Parking lots at every in East Lyme and Sher- degree in theater administra- nesses allowed to reopen state beach in Rhode Is- wood Island State Park in tion, she was a talented ac- with appropriate public Encore Boston Harbor land reached capacity Westport, were already at tress and singer, performing in health measures in place, became the second of Mas- Sunday as the tempera- capacity, NBC Connecti- many plays and musicals, and including social distanc- sachusetts’ three casinos ture soared to 93 degrees, cut reported.
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