FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 Momentum builds in West Lynn By Gayla Cawley 870 Western Ave. proved by the City Council on ITEM STAFF Two of the two-bedroom Tuesday night, is the fourth homes will be set aside for phase in the non-pro t hous- LYNN — A former brown- rst-time homebuyers, and ing agency’s $6 million re- eld site on Western Avenue development of a West Lynn will start to be developed will have an affordable com- ponent. The other four town- neighborhood referred to as into residential housing next Orchard Grove. month. house units will be listed as market-rate, and are expected Unlike the rst three phases Neighborhood Development of the project, which involved Associates, the development to cost between $350,000 to $375,000, according to Peggy transforming vacant General arm of Lynn Housing Author- Electric Company lots into 20 Phelps, director of planning ity & Neighborhood Develop- single-family townhouses, the ment (LHAND), plans to build and development for LHAND. A rendering of the townhomes that LHAND will build at 870 six attached townhomes at The project, which was ap- LYNN, A2 Western Ave. Nahant Notorious in Swampscott Contract won’t talk has waste begun in this Saugus chance Cicolini looks to extend Crabtree By Elyse Carmosino By Elyse Carmosino ITEM STAFF and Steve Krause ITEM STAFF NAHANT — Now that the town’s con- SAUGUS — If the Saugus tract with Waste Man- Board of Selectmen wants agement has expired, to retain Scott Crabtree as Nahant residents will Town Manager, it will have have a chance to give to let him know by next Au- their input on the com- gust. munity’s future waste Selectman Jeff Cicolini has collection efforts. already got the ball rolling “We felt that sud- on the subject, requesting a denly switching to meeting to discuss an exten- automated collection ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK sion of the contract that will without a true public A man walks past a display of prints commemorating Supreme Court Justice Ruth expire in August 2022. process and without Bader Ginsburg, reading “Rest in Power RBG,” in the window of MiraMar Print Lab However, Selectwoman an opportunity for the on Humphrey Street in Swampscott. Debra Panetta said Thurs- public to be involved day that it is written in would have been chal- Crabtree’s contract that he lenging,” said Town must be informed by August Administrator Tony Opinion of 2021 whether the board Barletta. “Over the Free COVID-19 testing Jourgensen: Thank you, wants to retain him next year, we’re going Aunt Jane. A4 “We need to let him know,” to be engaging the Panetta said Thursday. “He public in a process extended at health center LOOK has a family. It can be dif - about changing how Saugus Pumpkin cult when you have a job that we collect our trash.” Lynn, Revere and Saugus still in the red zone Patch returns. A8 ends at a certain time.” The June 30 expira- Broaching the subject at tion of Nahant’s con- COVID-19 map. last week’s Board of Select- tract with Waste Man- By Gayla Cawley Sports ITEM STAFF Although Lynn, Revere, and Saugus men meeting, Cicolini said he agement came at an KIPP football forced have kept their high-risk designation thought Crabtree had so far especially inopportune to wait on potentially After more than six months into the for another week, Lynn eld has im- done a good job of tying up time. historic season. B1 pandemic, Lynn, Revere and Saugus proved to yellow, denoting a moderate “loose ends” in the community Due to a national during his three-year tenure. are still seeing red, the state’s des- risk community. crisis in the waste and ignation for communities with the • “He’s got less than two recycling industry, the On the same day that the new DPH highest COVID-19 risk. years on his current con- cost of those services data was released, Gov. Charlie Bak- The latest Department of Pub- St. Mary’s tract,” Cicolini said. “I, for has increased sig- er announced the state’s “Stop the boys soccer one, wouldn’t want that un- ni cantly, forcing the lic Health (DPH) data, released on Spread” initiative has extended free Wednesday, shows that 15 commu- continuing to build certainty. I think he’s done TRASH, A2 nities are shaded red in the state’s TESTING, A3 with young squad. B1 a nice job wrapping up some loose ends with our existing contracts around town. “I think we can at least be- gin the dialogue of what that Lights, camera, and looks like and start the ball rolling on that.” The previous Board voted action in Lynn Woods unanimously in 2017 to ap- prove a ve-year contract for By Guthrie about 20, it was COVID-conscious. Mask SAUGUS, A2 Scrimgeour protocols were in place and strictly en- ITEM STAFF forced. Each new production requires a COVID-19 compliance of cer on set in LYNN — It was lights, camera, action, order to limit the project’s footprint and Wednesday afternoon as a lm crew its contact with the public. took over Ocean Street to shoot one of The scale of the commercial will be the rst projects in Lynn since the start dwarfed by a feature length Miramax of the COVID-19 pandemic. lm “Mother/Android,” set to be shot in In the coming month, several addi- Lynn Woods next week. tional lm projects are slated to shoot The “Mother/Android” crew has already in Lynn, marking the return of Holly- begun preparations for the shoot, creat- wood to the region. ing a base camp by the entrance to the The Ocean Street piece was a small- woods on Pennybrook Road. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK scale commercial shot over the course of This sci- thriller, starring Chloe two days on behalf of the Freemasons. Grace Moretz and directed by Mattson Several lm projects are slated to be lmed Among scenes shot was a clip that de- in Lynn this month including “Mother/An- Tomlin, depicts the plight of a young picted a Good Samaritan stopping to pregnant woman on a journey to escape droid” which has been recently setting up in assist a veteran. the Lynn Woods. While the project included a crew of FILMING, A3 Selectman Jeff Cicolini OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 75° VOL. 141, ISSUE 242 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ 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Groveland, formerly of Sau- thur Statuto and Phyllis Gaeta. for the former owner’s Cowdell. The redevelopment of gus – Mrs. Eleanor F. (Statuto) In lieu of flowers, donations fourth phase involves rede- non-payment of taxes (the Current Ward 6 Council- the Orchard Grove neigh- Bourgeois, age 92, died at the in her memory may be made veloping a former contami- city seized the abandoned or Fred Hogan, who picked borhood, from Oakville to Penacook Place nursing home to the Make-A-Wish Founda- nated lot, which last housed station for non-payment of up where his predecessor Minot and Bennett streets in Haverhill on Tuesday, Sep- tion at massri.wish.org. a gas station 20 years ago $2,296 in real estate taxes left off in terms of working to Western Avenue, began tember 22 nd. She was the Service information: Rela- and was cleaned up with a in 2012), said Cowdell, ex- with Phelps to address the in 2018. Phelps has said wife of the late Rene J. Bour- tives and friends are invited federal grant. plaining that the council concerns of residents who that LHAND became in- geois. to attend an hour of visita- “With all of the excite- turned the contaminated live in the neighborhood, terested in the abandoned Born and raised in Sau- tion in the Bisbee-Porcella ment of the large-scale de- land over to EDIC/Lynn in said it will be exciting to gas station site because it gus, Mrs. Bourgeois was the Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln velopments on the water- 2015 for clean-up. get some new families in was located in the same daughter of the late John and Ave., SAUGUS on Monday front and the downtown, From there, EDIC ap- his ward. neighborhood where the Eleanor (Reppucci) Statuto. from 10 – 11 a.m. A private oftentimes investments in plied for and received a “Two of the six town- agency had been trans- A graduate of Saugus High burial will take place at Pu- our inner neighborhoods $200,000 federal grant houses are going to be forming vacant GE par- School, Eleanor had been a ritan Lawn Memorial Park seem overlooked,” said from the EPA, which dedicated for first-time cels. resident of Saugus until 2007. in Peabody. Adhering to the Charles Gaeta, LHAND paid for a clean-up of the home buyers,” said Ho- At this time, there are Eleanor is survived by her guidelines of the state and executive director.