DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2019 DEALS SaugusOF THE Guilty verdict in $DAY$ Peabody double-murder seesPG. 3 a By Thomas Grillo Assistant Dis- ITEM STAFF trict Attorney teachable Kate MacDou- SALEM — It took an Essex County Superior Court jury less than three hours gall shows the DEALS to convict a man in a grisly Peabody double murder case. shotgun used momentOF THE Wes Doughty, 42, faces life without the possibility of parole when he is sen- to kill Mark tenced Monday. Prosecutors convinced the panel that the Peabody man shot Greenlaw as she Mark Greenlaw, 37, execution-style, and then stabbed his ancee, Jennifer $ $ gives closing DAY O’Connor, 40, to death at a Farm Avenue crack house in 2017. in vaping arguments for PG. 3 “The verdict cannot bring them back,” said Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett in a tweet. “May their loved ones nd some peace in it.” the prosecu- In closing arguments Friday, Assistant District Attorney Kate MacDougall tion to the jury deaths held the shotgun used to kill Greenlaw and provided the 12-person jury with in the trial of Wes Doughty, By Bridget Turcotte graphic details of the crime. ITEM STAFF “He went downstairs with a revolver, but once there he switched to a shotgun who was found DEALS … because of how much bigger Mark Greenlaw was … and realized he needed guilty in the SAUGUS OF— Saugus THE wants a bigger gun to take down a bigger man,” MacDougall said. “He shot him at double-murder. to add the dangers of vaping to close range, in between the eyes, and shattered the bones in his face. This is a its school curriculum$ following$ PHOTO | RYAN McBRIDE, news of deathsDA linkedY to the GUILTY, A3 SALEM NEWS POOL PHOTO substance. PG. 3 The School Committee wants the lesson to begin with fourth graders, because they believe elementary school students in Lynn the district could be addicted to nicotine. DEALS “If you haveOF kids TH whoE are us- schools ing these, they could be very much addicted,”$DA saidY$ chair- woman JeanniePG Meredith.. 3 “It’s consider not easy to just say ‘now that we know it’s bad for you, you need to stop’. We knew this was crowd coming and it’s worse than we thought, I think.” Gov. Charlie Baker declared a control public health emergency in re- By Bella diGrazia sponse to public health concerns ITEM STAFF about unexplained vaping-relat- ed illness Tuesday. The sale of LYNN — With 4,924 new all vape products, including both high school students this tobacco and marijuana, will be year, the Lynn Public School prohibited until Jan. 25, 2020. administration knows there The Centers for Disease Con- is an overcrowding issue. trol and Prevention has con- The superintendent and rmed 530 cases of lung injury school committee members across 38 states. addressed the concerns at The State Department of Pub- Thursday’s meeting. lic Health mandated earlier School Committee mem- this month that Massachusetts ber Lorraine Gately intro- physicians immediately report duced the topic by saying any unexplained vaping-associ- she’s had teachers from ated pulmonary disease to the Lynn English call and tell department. As of Tuesday, 61 her they have upwards of cases had been reported. 40 students in a classroom. Many of the patients report- She said the administration ed recent use of Tetrahydro- needs to come up with ideas cannabinol (THC)- containing to alleviate the overcrowd- SENIOR PROM, REDEFINED products and others reported ing. using both THC and nicotine “We need to help these PondView Lodge members dance the day away products. No single product has people,” Gately said. “I can’t been linked to all cases. imagine teaching an honors By Bella diGrazia Friends Cathy Superintendent Dr. David physics class by myself with ITEM STAFF B. and Joan A. DeRuosi said the district’s 38 students in it. Something dance togeth- three home-school liaisons LYNN — Kenny Burton, 60, never went to his high school prom. But needs to be done. As an ed- er during can help educate fourth- and ucator, I don’t think I could Friday morning, he tied a bandana around his neck and got ready to enjoy their “senior” fth-graders about vaping. Two teach and reach all of these the dance with his “second family”. prom at Pond- liaisons were hired last year students.” For the fth year in a row, PondView Lodge Adult Day Health Center View Lodge and a third joined the team at The rst step of alleviat- hosted a senior prom for its elder members. This year was western-themed Adult Day the start of this school year. ing a problem is address- and Burton, with a shiver of excitement, said he spent the last few weeks Health Center One liason works with students ing it, said Superintendent getting his “get-up” together. Along with a bandana, he sported a cowboy Friday. at the elementary level, one at Patrick Tutwiler. He said hat, vest, and a silver-star sheriff-style badge. the middle school, and the third the current school year “I’ve been coming here for almost two years and this is my second prom,” ITEM PHOTO | works with high schoolers. has brought in 1,896 new BELLA diGRAZIA students to Lynn English, PROM, A2 VAPING, A3 1,697 to Classical, and 1,331 new students to Tech. There are 126 more fresh- men in this year’s class than INSIDE there were last year at Clas- Impeachment is food for thought sical, while at English there Saugus announcement supporting an impeachment inquiry are 151 more ninth graders Police department By Thor Jourgensen — about a 400 percent in- promotes ITEM STAFF into the revelation that Trump pressed Ukrainian crease over the 31 in 2018. two members. A6 President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate poten- LYNN — When it comes to Donald Trump, there tial 2020 Democratic rival and former vice president The numbers relate to the is no shortage of opinions and Brothers Deli diners students who walk into the LOOK! Joe Biden. served up their viewpoints on the Congressional in- buildings every day, Tutwil- Lynn Museum names Angelone said an impeachment process that could er said. He counted out the new director. A8 quiry into the president’s impeachment Friday. send Trump packing doesn’t make the United States students who attend classes “He hasn’t lived up to the title of what a president look good in the eyes of the world. But she thinks at Fecteau Leary Junior-Se- Sports should be,” impeachment supporter and Lynn resi- Trump, in word and deed, has become too much for nior Alternative School. 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B1-3 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2019 OBITUARIES Gracie Mae Wright, 80 City hit by explosions a year 1939-2019 LYNN — Gracie Mae Wright ago sees gas leak, evacuations of Lynn, 80, passed away Sept. 20, 2019. By Philip Marcelo Service information: ASSOCIATED PRESS Please join the family for a service at Goodrich Funeral BOSTON — A gas leak Home on Saturday Sept. 28, forced the temporary 2019 2-5 p.m. evacuation Friday of hun- dreds of residents from a Massachusetts city still reeling from a destructive series of gas explosions Liborio F. Cavallaro, 72 and res a year ago. 1946-2019 Residents in about 150 homes in Lawrence evacu- GENEVA — Liborio F. Cavalla- by his wife, Denise. ated in the early morning ro, 72, of Geneva, died Friday, Service information: Vis- hours after a police ofcer Sept. 27, 2019 at his home. itation will be Tuesday from smelled gas around 3:15 He was born Nov. 27, 1946 4-8 p.m. at YURS Funer- a.m. and alerted authori- in Lynn. The son of the late al Home 1771 West State ties, ofcials said. Frank and Genevieve Caval- Street (Rte 38) Geneva. Fu- The leak was located laro. neral services will be held and sealed off by 5 a.m., He is survived by his two 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Columbia Gas of Massa- daughters, Tara Kozlowski of the funeral home.