Lynn Water, Sewer Rates on the Rise
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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019 Lynn Steve Krause water, A sad sewer chapter rates in Ortiz on the story rise The Bruins were about By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF wrap up their Game 6 win over the St. Louis LYNN — A four percent Blues Sunday night, and increase in the city’s water the predominant emotion and sewer rates was ap- was to get a good gloat on. proved on Monday night, The St. Louis Post-Dis- which will boost the aver- patch had committed a age residential customer’s classic “Dewey Defeats annual bill by about $28 Truman” gaffe by running to $32, according to Dan- an advertisement that MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION iel O’Neill, Lynn Water & congratulated the hock- Sewer Commission execu- ey team for winning the tive director. Stanley Cup — before the IN LYNN CLASSROOM O’Neill attributed the game even started. I have rate increase to an im- a friend out that way, By Thor Jourgensen Mendez is a U.S. Army sergeant Yissell Mendez pending 13-year, $200 and I was busy thinking ITEM STAFF who spent nine months deployed in and son Dan- million combined sewer of some Grade-A insults out ows (CSO) project Iraq before returning home late last niel embrace on I could send to her via LYNN — After nine months of that is scheduled to start month to Fort Bragg in North Car- Monday at the Facebook. talking to him on FaceTime about Lincoln-Thomson in June 2020 and the loss Then, word began his friends and fun at Lincoln-Thom- olina. of Garelick Farms, which School. Ramona ltering down that David son Elementary School and life with Danniel, a Lincoln-Thomson he said accounted for 7.5 Martinez, Dan- Ortiz was shot in the his grandparents, Yissell Mendez rst-grader, knew his mother was percent of revenue in the Dominican Republic. At wrapped her son, Danniel, in a hug coming home sometime this month. niel’s great-grand- Water and Sewer Com- rst, it didn’t sound all Monday afternoon and didn’t let go. But thanks to the collective efforts of mother, is at right. mission operating budget. that terrible as the re- “It was hard. I love what I do but grandfather, Felipe Fernandez, and The Lynn Water and ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON ports said he took a bullet I missed so many things in his life,” Sewer Commission will in his leg. Of course, all she said. REUNION, A3 increase rates from $10.58 of this is relative. He per 100 cubic feet to $11 got shot. That’s terrible per 100 cubic feet, or 748 enough. gallons, which will take We managed to get a effect on July 1. story in the paper prior to There’s been a 4 percent deadline, but it was short rate increase for the past and incomplete, as most three years, but O’Neill all breaking news stories said there had been zero are while they’re devel- increases in the previous oping. four years. Soon enough, those “We had four out of the reports started to change. last seven years, zero rate Now, they say he was increases, but the last shot in the back, and the three, we see there’s a bullet penetrated some tsunami on the horizon,” vital organs. O’Neill said. “We’ve got It sets your head spin- a $200 million price tag ning, doesn’t it? so we’re starting to ramp This wasn’t some drug up the rate a little bit to feud, where gun violence get there, so it’s affordable seems to be the preferred and reasonable.” method of retribution. The commission also At rst, it was thought approved an $82.26 mil- Ortiz was the victim of lion capital improvement a robbery gone wrong. plan for scal years 2020 But now we know he was to 2022, which includes targeted, or appeared to $54.6 million for CSO have been targeted, and funding over that time pe- this no accident. riod. Most of the time, some- But the biggest ques- one gets shot in some tion was whether the far-off place and we shake A Swampscott business panel would approve the our heads sadly and turn Lynn Water and Sewer the page of the newspa- Commission’s $30 million per, or, perhaps, resume story that’s t to print FY20 budget. sur ng our TV sets with The commission was the remote. By Bella diGrazia and Maddox and translates in Span- Co-founders deadlocked on its rst But this is the type of ITEM STAFF ish to “Look to the sea,” offers class- Sammia Atoui and vote, 2-2. Commission- thing that stops you in es, workshops and organized events Adrian Gonzalez ers Vincent Lozzi Jr. and your tracks because it SWAMPSCOTT — The town’s new- Walter Proodian voted to that introduce residents to four dif- opened MiraMar est business gives “Look to the sea” a just seems so impossible. Print Lab two approve the budget, while To use an interjection whole new meaning. ferent forms of print-making. weeks ago and are chairman William Trah- that he himself used after MiraMar Print Lab, Humphrey “Printmaking bridges people to- ant and David Ellis voted both excited to in- the Boston Marathon Street’s most recent establishment, gether,” said Gonzalez, who has a no. Richard Colucci was bombing, this is David F. celebrated its grand opening less Bachelors in Fine Arts from Tufts troduce residents absent. Ortiz we’re talking about. than two weeks ago with co-founders University, a diploma and 5th Year to the art form. David Travers, head of Big Papi. The man who Sammia Atoui and Adrian Gonza- Certi cate from the School of the nance for the Water and ITEM PHOTO | lez. The lab, in which the name rep- BELLA DIGRAZIA ORTIZ, A3 resents the name of their kids Amira SWAMPSCOTT, A2 LYNN, A3 Saugus trolley driver’s INSIDE Opinion A pathway to plan goes off the rails transforming lives. A4 By Bridget Turcotte of probation, according to Suffolk County Sports ITEM STAFF District Attorney spokeswoman Renee Na- Alcock, Ouellette deau Algarin. put Spartans in D2 BOSTON — A jury found a former He was additionally ordered by Judge MBTA trolley driver from Saugus guilty North semi nal. B1 Michael Ricciuti to pay a $5,000 ne and of fraudulently collecting workers’ com- $60,000 restitution. Classical baseball pensation and disability insurance after “We tried the case and we put on the best paying someone to wear a Michael Myers falls in extras. B1 defense that anybody could and the jury costume and attack him on the job. came back the other way,” said Attorney Fenwick baseball A Suffolk Superior Court jury found Michael Natola on behalf of his client. PHOTO | TRANSIT POLICE walks off against Thomas Lucey, 47, of Saugus, guilty of Lucey maintains that he is not guilty of Surveillance video captured the suspect in an Saugus. B1 workers’ compensation fraud, perjury, mis- the crimes, said Natola. alleged attack on an MBTA trolley driver ee- leading police, and two counts of insurance Shortly after midnight on Oct. 30, 2016, St. Mary’s softball fraud Friday. He was sentenced to three ing the scene. Evidence eventually pointed to handles Matignon. B1 years in prison, followed by three years PLAN, A2 an acquaintance of Thomas Lucey of Saugus. OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 77° VOL. 141, ISSUE 156 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 58° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019 OBITUARIES Baker urges tech leaders to Marie A. Meyer, 70 focus on education, housing Marie A. Meyer (O’Connell), age 70, died peacefully with family by her side at Kaplan I’ve said many times that tion results, Baker received Illinois and New Jersey, By Matt Murphy Family Hospice House. She STATE HOUSE I don’t think the solution 66.6 percent of the vote. where legislators have was the loving wife of Chris- NEWS SERVICE to Massachusetts issues or He encouraged business pursued tax and scal topher Meyer, with whom she problems is to raise taxes leaders to help him con- policies that have driven BOSTON — Even as shared 40 years of marriage. and I’ve said that many vince the Legislature to companies to move to oth- industry leaders warned Born and raised in Dorchester, times. And I continue to pass his “Housing Choic- er states like Tennessee, how the tax hike could she was the daughter of Daniel believe it,” Baker said. es” bill that would lower Georgia and Florida where erode the state’s econom- and Pauline O’Connell, and sis- The governor spoke to that threshold to a simple the tax burden is lower. ic strength, Gov. Charlie ter to Paul, Edward and Daniel. the Massachusetts High majority. “We could become Con- Baker steered clear in a Marie graduated from Cardi- Technology Council at its The governor, however, necticut in a New York speech to technology lead- nal Cushing High School and annual meeting Monday did not address the pro- minute,” said MHTC Ex- ers Monday of the million- worked for John Hancock for 17 at the Seaport Hotel. On posed surtax on wealthier ecutive Director Chris An- aires tax proposal that years. She moved to Nahant in education, Baker said his residents that High Tech derson, ticking off compa- will again be before the 1981 where she dedicated her bill seeks to provide addi- Council President Chris nies like Mercedes, Aetna Legislature this week.