Revere School Makes the Grade Nationwide Dinosaur Avoids Extinction in Saugus
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 Revere school makes the grade nationwide By Gayla Cawley said Revere Superintendent Dianne Kelly. ITEM STAFF “This is national recognition for Re- vere,” she said. REVERE — Revere High School has re- Revere High School has about 2,000 ceived national recognition as a “School students. Many of the school’s immi- of Opportunity.” grant students came with gaps in their The high school is one of only eight education, leading the school to estab- schools in the country to receive Gold-lev- lish a Newcomers Academy. A cross-dis- el recognition, a national designation that ciplinary team supports the students honors public high schools that partici- in the academy, where teachers employ pate in practices that build on students’ culturally and linguistically responsive strengths and create supported learning practices based on the student’s level of opportunities for all students. English-language pro ciency and their There were 150 schools across the coun- academic needs. try competing for the recognition and only Revere High School was one of two New England high schools to receive two schools in New England were awarded, REVERE, A7 a 2016 Schools of Opportunity Gold award. PHOTO | PAULA MULLER Lynn looks for middle ground By Leah Dearborn FOR THE ITEM LYNN — Lynn residents ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE are not happy with the James Walsh got a parking ticket from the proposed sites for poten- tial new middle schools. State Police for parking next to the Nahant The second public fo- sign while he unloaded political signs from his rum on a replacement for car. Pickering Middle School took place before a packed room Wednesday night in Running the newly-opened Mar- shall Middle School’s caf- Dinosaur avoids eteria. Project architect Gene circles around Raymond of Raymond De- sign Associates, Inc. said extinction in Saugus school overcrowding is a free speech major reason for the need By Bridget Turcotte The orange dino- to build one, or possibly By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF saur at Route 1 two, new schools. He said ITEM STAFF Miniature Golf & the district is projected to SAUGUS — Route 1 Miniature Golf & Batting Cag- Batting Cages grow by 757 students by NAHANT — Hillary Clinton supporter James Walsh es will close permanently next weekend but the icon- in Saugus. the year 2020. ran into trouble last week as he prepared to hold a “No ic orange dinosaur won’t travel far. Potential sites at Mag- Trump No” sign at the Nahant Rotary. The park opened in 1958 and includes an 18-hole nolia Park, Parkland Av- The 73-year-old retiree and chairman of the Nahant Dem- miniature golf course, batting cages and Dairy ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE enue, McManus Field and ocratic Town Committee said a state police of cer gave him Castle ice cream stand. It’s best known for the or- Gallagher Park were dis- a $30 ticket for parking on the grass near the rotary as he ange dinosaur that has towered over Route 1 for cussed before a sizeable unloaded 3-foot-by-4-foot “Hillary” signs for more than a generations. crowd that nearly lled dozen supporters. The group intended to do the standout at The park and adjacent properties will soon be the cafeteria. the busy intersection on the Lynn-Nahant border. transformed into Essex Landing, designed by BMA The proposed choices “I got the strong sense that I was getting ticketed be- Architectural Group. The $120 million development drew almost unanimously cause I had a ‘United Against Trump’ sign on my wind- will include 250 one-bedroom apartments in four negative responses from shield,” he said. buildings, two hotels, retail space and garage parking meeting attendees, espe- The mini political drama unfolded Friday afternoon in seven buildings. cially the Parkland Ave- when Walsh arrived at the Nahant Causeway. He pulled Michael Barsamian, a partner in the project, said nue and Gallagher Park his 2015 silver Hyundai onto the grass near the tennis he purchased the orange dinosaur — he won’t say for sites. courts to unload the signs. how much — and plans to install it next to the new Residents lined up to list Walsh said he had just brought one sign to a supporter hotel along with a pitch and putt net. concerns that ranged from when he spotted the of cer with the ticket book in hand. environmental destruc- “I asked what was up and he said I couldn’t park DINOSAUR, A7 tion to lack of transparen- there,” he said. “When I told him I was just unloading cy in the development pro- some signs, he said I need permission to hold a sign cess to issues with traf c. on Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) “Our area’s beautiful,” property. He also said they had arrested someone about INSIDE said Basse Road resident, 18 months ago who refused to stop holding a sign or Marie V. Muise about the handing out pamphlets.” In Peabody In Opinion In Sports Parkland Avenue site, Man sentenced to prison Counting St. Mary’s boys NAHANT, A7 on child porn charges. A2 on Cresta. A4 cruise past Fenwick. B1 LYNN, A7 Cracking a cold one Demonstrating for old times’ sake Humanity in Peabody By Bill Brotherton By Adam Swift ITEM FEATURES EDITOR ITEM CITY EDITOR LYNN — At last year’s PEABODY — Charlene “History and Hops” fund- Cruz could only stare in raiser at the Lynn Muse- wonder as Habitat for Hu- um, then-nascent Bent manity volunteers trans- Water Brewing Co. made formed her Sanborn Street quite a splash. house on Wednesday. “We didn’t even have “My husband passed any beer a year ago to away four years ago, that’s bring there,” said John why I needed help,” said Strom, master brewer Cruz. “I was praying all and co-owner, stand- the time, saying to my ing in front of the large husband that the roof was stainless steel mash tun getting bad, it was not at the brewery’s Com- leaking, but it was bad. I mercial Street headquar- couldn’t close the windows; ters. “But the enthusi- it was cold and the house asm about our brewery needed a lot of work.” was incredible.” Due to her roof’s struc- In May, Bent Water tural failures and the opened its taproom off home’s old, inef cient ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE the Lynnway and it’s windows, Cruz also strug- ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE been a spectacular suc- Master brewer/co-owner of Bent Water Brew- gled with extremely high Luis Choro shingles the roof of the house at cess. On Friday night, an ing Co. in Lynn, John Strom, left, describes the energy bills. fermentor to Drew Russo and Carolyn Cole of Sanborn Street in Peabody as part of a Habi- BENT WATER, A7 the Lynn Museum. HUMANITY, A7 tat for Humanity project. OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HIGH 68° VOL. 138, ISSUE 241 OPINION ...................................A4 DIVERSIONS .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 LOW 50° POLICE/FIRE .............................A3 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B5-7 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 OBITUARIES Peabody man sentenced to John Nicosia, 60 1955-2016 prison on child porn charges LYNN — John Nicosia, age 60 SOLIMINE FUNERAL HOME, years, of Lynn, died Monday, 426 Broadway on Friday A Peabody man was sen- raphy and one count of dren naked, posing and leted the application and Sept. 12, 2016, at the Kaplan from 1-2 p.m. Please omit tenced on Wednesday in possession of child por- engaging in sexual acts. cleared his phone’s inter- Family Hospice House in Dan- flowers. Memorial dona- U.S. District Court in Bos- nography. He admitted to viewing net history. vers. He was the husband of tions may be made to the ton for possession of child Prosecutors said start- images of child pornogra- Catherine Neal Nicosia. charity of your choice. Di- A further investigation pornography, according to ing three years ago, phy on a website and to revealed that Lynch had Service information: Vis- rections and guest book at the U.S. Attorney’s office. Lynch began receiving viewing child pornogra- itation will be held in the www.solimine.com. been employed at the Patrick Lynch, 24, was emails containing images phy on his laptop while at Greater Beverly YMCA sentenced to six years in of children as young as a Boy Scout camp in New and had recently begun prison and 10 years pro- one-year-old being sex- Mexico, police said. bation by Judge Richard ually exploited. During Lynch also communicat- employment with Bean- Arthur C. Townsend, 90 Stearns. Upon release, a search warrant of his ed online with children stalk Adventure Ropes 1926-2016 Lynch must register as a home, Lynch told law en- and exchanged sexually Course in Reading. sex offender. forcement officers that he explicit images, according The case was brought as SWAMPSCOTT derly. Mr. Townsend In June, Lynch plead- received emails contain- to police. Prior to law en- part of Project Safe Child- — Mr. Arthur C. loved fresh water ed guilty to one count of ing pictures of naked ele- forcement executing the hood by U.S Attorney Car- Townsend of Swamp- fishing. He was also receipt of child pornog- mentary school-aged chil- search warrant, Lynch de- men M. Ortiz. scott, died Sunday, an accomplished fly Sept. 11, 2016, at fisherman who tied home after a brief his own flies. Mr. illness. He was the Townsend was an Police chief recently honored husband of the late auditor for the New Barbara A.