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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019 Parents heated over cold school in Lynn Saugus By Gayla Cawley cial media with some upset that their kids Powers said the rst oor was coldest at 58 ITEM STAFF were being marked absent and others citing degrees and temperatures got warmer far- police: a lack of communication from the school dis- ther up in the building. But the entire build- LYNN — Students at Sewell-Anderson El- trict on the heating issue. Parents received a ing wasn’t only 60 degrees, she said. ementary School didn’t get much relief from phone call on Tuesday night asking the kids frigid temperatures earlier this week when Temperatures at Sewell-Anderson ranged to dress warmly at school the next day. from 58 degrees at the front of the building Pay up boiler issues left some areas of the school without heat on Tuesday and Wednesday. Deputy Superintendent Kimberlee Powers to 66 degrees toward the back of the build- As school administration of cials scram- said school of cials had been working dili- ing and in classrooms higher up, according bled to provide a temporary and long-term gently on Tuesday and Wednesday to resolve to School Committee member Brian Castel- to slow heating solution, some parents felt school the heating issue when it became apparent. lanos. should have been canceled on Wednesday “We felt, obviously, we were looking to re- According to the Lynn Public Schools “Lack and opted to keep their kids home or dismiss solve the situation,” Powers said. “By mid-day of Heat Policy,” if a temperature of 60 degrees down them early. (Wednesday), we were in a much better place. Some parents posted their concerns on so- Today (Thursday), the building is warm.” SCHOOL, A3 By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — The Police Wading in the water Department will need funding for a dedicat- ed traf c unit to enforce several new, lower speed limits in town, said Chief Ronald Giorgetti. “It’s not as simple as say- ing ‘this is the salary for two new of cers,’” Gior- getti told the Item Thurs- day. “There’s the bene ts, the cost of training. It’s a lot more than just salary.” The Board of Selectmen voted to lower the speed limit to 25 miles per hour on Central Street Wednes- day night. This was the - nal road the board set out to take up after a group of residents petitioned for slower speeds. The panel voted unan- imously in December to lower the speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour on Bisbee Road, Hanson Road, Iron Works Way, Cider Mill Road, Vinegar Hill Drive, and Hitching Hill Road. Earlier this month, they did the same for Essex Street, Main Street, and Lincoln Avenue. On behalf of the chief, ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Lt. Arthur Connors told the Board of Selectmen Lynn resident Cindy Bragan, an employee with Complete Staf ng on Munroe Street, works to get a water pump Wednesday night that Gi- running to clear the ood in the parking lot behind the building on Thursday. A Beyond Walls mural by artist orgetti’s position had not Sipros serves as the perfect backdrop for the wet conditions. changed. “He believes the speed limits are appropriately INSIDE set, but they’re not post- Peabody council ends brew-ha-ha ed,” said Connors. “He suggests that we post the speed limits.” By Thomas Grillo urged the four council members who earlier voted no, The current speed limit, ITEM STAFF to rethink their vote. which changes eight times “I’ve had lots of different feelings over this: anger, PEABODY — In a lengthy debate where tempers on Central Street, was ad- hurt, and frustration,” he said. “This is an issue of opted in 1968. The signs ared, the City Council reversed itself and approved helping people and that’s why we run for public of ce.” were either never posted a plan to turn a former coffee shop into eight low-cost Moutsoulas blasted the four councilors who had op- or were taken down over studio apartments. posed the measure including Turco, Ward 6 City Coun- the years. If the speed Earlier this month, William Skouras failed to win cilor Mark O’Neil, Ward 2 Councilor Peter McGinn, limit is not posted, it is 30 enough votes to replace his shuttered Peabody Coffee and City Councilor-at-Large Thomas Rossignoll, say- miles per hour by default, House with apartments. The rare reconsideration vote ing they hadn’t spent any time in Ward 3. But he later said Connors. won by a single vote of City Council President Jon Turco. apologized. “The only thing the chief Before the vote, Ward 3 Councilor James Moutsou- recommends is, if the speed las, whose district includes the Walnut Street property, PEABODY, A3 limit is dropped to 25, that we would need addition- al funds in the budget for BELLA DIGRAZIA a dedicated traf c unit to enforce it,” said Connors. COMMENTARY “And if you do lower it, you are going to increase traf- c congestion on Central Olivia Street. You’re all Saugus residents. You know what Sports the traf c is like.” could Saugus girls In 1968, there were a lot basketball stays less cars on the road, said hot with win over Selectman Jeff Cicolini. have English. B1 “Roll forward 50 years and things have changed,” Lynn he said. “Unfortunately, been me Dental clinic expected we haven’t changed with to open at the times.” What happened to Olivia former Lynnway As traf c commissioners Ambrose could have hap- Sportscenter. A2 for the town, Cicolini said pened to me. the Board of Selectmen Boston was up in arms last Opinion has a responsibility to weekend with the disappear- Area businesses unite Jourgensen: The protect the public. ance of the 23-year-old whose mini-Combat Zone only intention was to enjoy a that wasn’t. A6 SAUGUS, A3 Saturday night out with her for shutdown relief twin sister and friends. She was found alive three days By Bella diGrazia, Senate rejects dueling Lisa Spina- later, having been held, al- Thomas Grillo, plans to end shutdown. A8 le, co-owner legedly, against her will in Thor Jourgensen, of Spinale & Richmond Pharmacy the Charlestown apartment and Steve Krause Company, is Free prescription pick up and delivery of 38-year-old Victor Pena. ITEM STAFF YMCA in several commu- offering free Hours: Olivia’s disappearance nities, have offered dis- haircuts to happened after a night out Local businesses are counted or free services Mon. to Fri. - 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. pitching in to help federal federal em- at Hennessy’s, a bar where for an estimated 2,500 ployees out of I hang out quite frequently. employees who have gone federal workers on the Sat. and Sun. - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. without paychecks in the work during She was reportedly asked North Shore who are fur- the shutdown. 499 Eastern Ave., Lynn to leave by a bouncer after month-long U.S. govern- loughed or working with- 781-592-4172 having one too many, which ment shutdown. out pay. ITEM PHOTO | Restaurants, lenders SPENSER HASAK In business for 75 years diGRAZIA, A3 and others, including the RELIEF, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A7 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 40° VOL. 141, ISSUE 41 LOOK .................................... A4-5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 20° OPINION ...................................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019 OBITUARIES June Hubbard, 84 Janet M. Vnook, 58 Robert Gillespie, 84 LYNN — Miss June the Bennett Family of LYNN — Janet May was also a pet owner SAUGUS — Robert Gilles- by his son Brian Gillespie, one Hubbard, age 84, Swampscott, the Fer- Vnook, age 58 years, and loved her four pie, formerly of East Boston grandchild and four brothers, of Lynn, died on nald Family of Lynn, of Lynn, died Sun- dogs, they were like and Revere, age 84, died on John, William, Arthur and Al- Wednesday, Jan. 23 and the Bath Family of day, Jan. 6, at Salem her children. Wednesday, Jan. 23 at his bert. at Salem Hospital. New Jersey. She also Hospital after a brief In addition to her home in Saugus. Service information: Rel- Born in Lynn and leaves her devoted illness. She was the mother and Brian Born in Boston, he was the atives and friends are invit- a lifelong resident of caregiver, Erica West- longtime companion she is survived by son of the late John and Mary ed to attend visiting hours the city, she was the field of Gloucester. of Brian D. Lothain of two sisters, Lorraine (Frazier) Gillespie. He worked in the BISBEE-PORCELLA daughter of the late Service informa- Lynn, with whom she Bucklin of Marble- as a postal clerk for the Unit- Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln Roland and Nora E. tion: Her visitation spent more than 30 head, Dorothy Kotter ed States Post Office, Airport Ave., Saugus, on Sunday, (Burke) Hubbard. She gradu- will be held on Monday, Jan. years. of Munich, Germany, and two Division at the Logan Airport 4-8 p.m. Funeral from the ated from Lynn English High 28 starting at 9 a.m. in the Born in Revere, she was the nieces, Danielle and Adrien postal facility. He was a U.S. funeral home on Monday at School and from Burdett Col- CUFFE-MCGINN Funeral daughter of Karin H. (Lend- Bucklin. Army, Korean War veteran and 9 a.m., followed by a funer- lege, Lynn. Home, 157 Maple St., Lynn, fahrt) Vnook of Lynn, and the Service information: Me- had been a resident of Sau- al Mass in St.