Dog Sees God’ Be Landscaped and Offer Parking for 238 Vehicles
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Our opinion: Lynn should get rid of its residency requirement. Page A6 FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019 ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Imagine if the Lynn waterfront were different ... LYNN — A transformed waterfront has tween the General Edwards Bridge and to the community and give the public a Open Space Master the ability to enhance the city of Lynn, and the Department of Conservation and Rec- chance to take advantage of a waterfront would include public access, parks, and reation’s (DCR’s) Nahant Beach Reserva- that has been closed off for years, he said. Plan would focus new development all coming together. tion. “It’s been years of discussion and years on public access That’s the vision laid out in the Lynn Wa- Mayor Thomas M. McGee said the plan of a larger vision of much greater use of terfront Open Space Master Plan, which will lay the groundwork for, and add sub- the length and breadth of our waterfront,” focuses on increasing open space and pub- stantial value to, waterfront properties McGee said. By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF lic access for the city’s 305-acre waterfront that will be developed in the future. More site, from southeast of the Lynnway be- open space and access would add value WATERFRONT, A3 Civil Rights Saugus essay pays off receives at Classical $1M for By Bella diGrazia ITEM STAFF RiverWalk LYNN — One Lynn Classical High School student is using history to make a difference. By Bridget Turcotte Junior Joseph Severe took home the Fred- ITEM STAFF erick Douglass Bicentennial Award at the re- SAUGUS — The Seaport Eco- gional National History Day competition last nomic Council has awarded the weekend in Stoneham. The award included a town $1 million for the Ballard $1,000 scholarship. Half of the money is dedi- Street RiverWalk project, a local cated to creating a Civil Rights section in the development project that spans LCHS library. The other half can be used at Severe’s discretion. the Saugus River. “My plan is to take $100 of my $500 and The money will be put toward buy even more books for our library,” he said. the nal design and construction “What’s the point in investing in myself when of the rst phase of the project. it doesn’t bene t anyone?” Despite years of effort, the town’s What will he do with the rest of his cash? Se- lobster eet has been reduced to vere said he hopes to start a new program at 20 licensed commercial shermen. the school called The Giving Tree, for students The town now believes it is essen- who are less fortunate or are looking for a safe tial to introduce new facilities and place to hang out. businesses to help bolster the eet, “I was inspired to do it after what happened Town Manager Scott Crabtree said to the homeless citizens of Chicago during the in a statement. With the grant polar vortex,” he said. money from the Seaport Economic The 17-year-old’s winning research project Council for the design and permit- was 20 pages long and 2,487 words. His hy- ting for a new RiverWalk, Crabtree pothesis, “Emmett Till was the catalyst for the believes the reinvigoration of Lob- Civil Rights movement,” exposed the triumphs sterman’s Landing is possible. and tragedies of the 1950s and 1960s. The proposed RiverWalk will When Severe rst wrote the essay, it was not ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK connect the town-owned boat great, he said. It was a paper for class and he ramp, Lobsterman’s Landing, and ended up with a grade of 70. Lynn Classical High School junior Joseph Severe has been the bike and pedestrian lanes With help from his history teacher, Dena awarded the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Award at the planned as part of the Belden Bly DiPardo, who spent Wednesday awaiting the regional National History Day competition and plans to use Bridge project. It will also improve part of his scholarship to create a Civil Rights section in the ESSAY, A3 school’s library. SAUGUS, A3 Peabody council will determine if over-55 condos are King By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF PEABODY — It will be up to the City Council to decide whether the vacant J.B. Thomas Hospital becomes an over-55 community. The panel is expected to consider whether to amend the zoning from a one- and two-fami- ly home district to one that allows multifamily housing. Hemisphere Development, a Chinese company with an of ce in Boston, has proposed King’s Res- idence, 120 studio, one- and two-bedroom condo- miniums starting at $400,000. If approved, the hospital on King Street would be demolished. In its place would rise three WORKING FOR ‘PEANUTS’ four-story brick and wood-frame buildings about a foot shorter than the hospital. The parcel would Arts After Hours stages ‘Dog Sees God’ be landscaped and offer parking for 238 vehicles. Hemisphere Development bought the two- and The summary: “When CB’s (Charlie Samantha Laney as three-story brick campus in 2017 for $1.9 million Brown’s) dog dies from rabies, CB begins Tricia and Ashleigh PEABODY, A3 to question the existence of an afterlife. Reade as Marcy re- BY BILL BROTHERTON His best friend is too burnt out to provide hearse a scene from any coherent speculation; his sister has “Dog Sees God: Con- LYNN — Arts After Hours kicks off its gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recent- fessions of a Teenage INSIDE ninth season on March 15, with “Dog Sees ly been institutionalized; and his other Blockhead” at Opinion Sports God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.” friends are too inebriated to give him any LynnArts. Jourgensen: A recipe Peabody’s dream This dark comedy, written by Bert V. Roy- sort of solace. But a chance meeting with for rumination. A6 season ends. B1 ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE al, reimagines characters from Charles M. an artistic kid, the target of this group’s Schulz’s popular comic strip “Peanuts” as Krause: Alex Trebek is Lynn Jets fall ne’er-do-wells and lost souls. AAH, A3 a national icon. A6 to Lowell. B1 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A7 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 38° VOL. 141, ISSUE 77 LOOK! ................................... A4-5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 27° OPINION ...................................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 ENTERTAINMENT .......................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019 OBITUARIES Norma K. Poole, 98 Christopher J. Coffey, 54 Gloria N. Bossidy, 88 1930-2019 NAHANT — Norma served as Meeting SWAMPSCOTT — and his wife Susan, Gloria N. (Mulvey) sons, James Soucy K. Poole, of Nahant, Hostess every year Christopher J. Coffey, and Michael Coffey (Soucy) Bossidy, 88, and his wife, Karen age 98, died Tues- while providing the age 54, of Swamp- and his wife Kath- died on Monday, of Groveland and Mi- day, March 5 at the Invocations. She was scott, died Wednes- leen; his mother-in- March 4, 2019 at chael Soucy and his Academy Manor in the Nominating Com- day in Salem Hos- law and father-in-law, the Lawrence Gener- wife, Sarah of East Andover after a brief mittee Chairman for pital after a lengthy Vera and Thomas al Hospital. She was Wake eld, N.H.; one illness. She was the many years and was illness. He was the Fintan Harling; his the wife of the late sister, Patsy Penney wife of the late Ernest made an honorary husband of Jean C. brother-in-law, An- James E. Soucy, with of Spring Hill, Fla.; C. Poole, with whom member in 1999 for (Harling) Coffey, his thony T. Harling; his whom she shared 54 three grandchildren, she shared 66 years 40 years of service. high school sweet- sister-in-law, Caro- years of marriage, Ryan Soucy and his of marriage. In 1970, she served on the heart, with whom he shared line F. Malone and her hus- and also was the wife of the wife, Tracy of Merrimac and Born in Lynn, she was the Board of Directors of the Lynn nearly 30 years of marriage. band Patrick; as well as many late T. William Bossidy, who Kaitlyn and Micheala Soucy daughter of the late Samuel Cancer Association, and was A lifelong Swampscott res- cousins, nieces and nephews, died in 2010. of East Wake eld, N.H.; two F. and Marguerite A. (Davis) the corresponding secretary ident, he was the son of the two great-nieces and one Gloria was born on June 13, great-grandchildren, Nora and Kinsman. She attended Lynn for several years followed by late James S. “Lou” and Eileen great-nephew. 1930 in Lynn and was the Thomas Soucy of Merrimac. schools and graduated from honorary membership through F. (McGinn) Coffey. Christopher Service information: His daughter of the late Francis She was also predeceased by Lynn English High School, 2017. was a graduate of Swamp- funeral will be held on Mon- H. and Jenny (Giguere) Mulvey. her brother, Francis Mulvey. Class of 1937. She also at- Others achievements in- scott High School, Class of day at 9 a.m. from the SO- She was a graduate of Lynn Service information: Call- tended Boston University cluded: Lynn Daily Evening 1982. LIMINE Funeral Home, 67 English High School. ing hours will be held on for two years. She moved to Item Clubwoman of the Year in He had worked for the Unit- Ocean St. (Route 1A), Lynn, She was employed as a Monday, March 11, 2019 Nahant in 1949, and resid- 1963, Volunteer of the Year at ed States Postal Service in followed by a funeral Mass housekeeper for Country Man- from 10-11 a.m.