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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018 Lynn eld turns off water facility By Thomas Grillo Special District Meeting Monday night at when a standing-room-only crowd packed ITEM STAFF the Lynn eld Middle School, overwhelm- the LCWD’s hearing room to demand ingly supported a proposal by ratepayer clean water. Residents spoke of living with LYNNFIELD — In the face of erce op- Stephanie Rauseo to authorize funding up brown water and ruined laundry for years. position, the Lynn eld Center Water Dis- trict (LCWD) commissioners withdrew a to $250,000 for a study to replace or sup- They blamed the district for being unre- proposal for a $5.5 million ltration plant. plement the town’s water supply. sponsive. “The people have spoken,” said Com- The report is expected to be presented at The residents demanded answers to why mission Chairwoman Constance Leccese. an LCWD meeting next April. the water in their homes is brown, and “They have expressed their objections and Voter turnout was low. Of the 2,600 rate- sometimes black, making it undrinkable, we heard them. We are here to serve the payers, less than 9 percent of homeowners and ruining clothes. They asked what will ratepayers.” cast ballots. PHOTO | BOSTON HERALD Instead, the 230 voters, who attended the The issue came to a boil last summer LYNNFIELD, A3 Autumn Harris appears during her arraignment in Chelsea Trial Court Monday on vehicle homicide. Muscle Lynn floats a relaxers Waterfront and beer a deadly mix Master in Revere Plan By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF REVERE — Prosecutors say the 42-year-old Boston woman who allegedly struck ve pedestrians with her SUV on Route 145 Sun- day night, killing a 5-year-old girl and critically injuring a 2-month- old infant, may have been im- paired from a combination of beer, sleep medication, and CBD oil. The 5-year-old girl has been iden- ti ed as Adrianna Mejia-Rivera, a student at an undisclosed elemen- tary school in Revere. Autumn Harris pleaded not guilty to charges of motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Chelsea Dis- trict Court on Monday. Harris was held on $10,000 bail and ordered to remain drug- and alcohol-free if By Gayla Cawley The revised Waterfront Master Plan will build off of she posts that amount, according ITEM STAFF the 2007 Waterfront Master Plan, the city’s ongoing Wa- to the Suffolk County District At- Please join us to terfrontPublic Open Space Master Meeting Plan and recent develop- torney’s of ce. LYNN — The framework of the city’s future updated ment and public realm improvement proposals, accord- State Police said the collision oc- Waterfront Master Plan was laid out for the public for ing to aMonday, presentation of the plan. curred shortly before 5 p.m. Har- the rstdiscuss time on Monday nightthe at the future Lynn Museum. of “(We’re) trying to create a plan that is exible, but ris veered off the roadway at the The design team, Utile Inc., a Boston-based urban de- rm enoughDecember to ensure that really 10 important assets like intersection of North Shore Road sign and architecture rm, outlined a plan to transform open space are implemented, but other pieces are exi- onto the grass median strip, strik- the city’sthe 300-acre Lynn waterfront waterfront! site with residential, com- ble enough to permit growth and encourage and attract ing the pedestrians, who were at mercial, and industrial development while also creating growth,” said Matthew Littell, principal at Utile Inc., the crosswalk, with her 2015 Chev- open space and making it accessible to all residents. which was6PM selected - 8PM to compile the plan by the Economic rolet Equinox SUV. Today, most of the site contains giant retailers, and al- Development & Industrial Corporation of Lynn (EDIC/ most a quarter of it remains undeveloped, or contains Lynn Museum REVERE, A3 parking lots. For additional information please LYNN, A2 contact Mary Jane Smalley 590 Washington St. email: [email protected] Lynn, MA BILL BROTHERTON phone: 781-581-9399 INSIDE COMMENTARY Lynn eld Gas leak closes high Baby, it’s scold outside school for day. A6 Mother Sports Classical track ’Tis the season to be jolly? There’s not a snowball’s decreed that Frank Loesser’s 1944 song, “Baby, It’s teams sweep English wants to chance of that happening, thanks to the usual sea- Cold Outside,” is offensive and promotes date rape. in rivalry meet. B1 son’s bleatings by the PC police. I support the message, efforts and determination of give more Political correctness is out of control. We’re more the #MeToo movement, but this goes #TooFar. It’s St. John’s Prep aims to concerned about the bullying of a cartoon reindeer time to chill out! play a different brand (Rudolph) and the “predatory” ways of a man in a This is a song, people, and a witty one at that. Not of basketball. B1 than love popular song than we are about the fact that the everything has to be taken so literally and dissected world is going to hell in a handbasket. Lynn eld basketball By Steve Krause Radio stations in the U.S. and Canada have PC, A3 starting from scratch. B1 ITEM STAFF In “A Christmas Carol” the term “surplus population” is used to describe people who St. Stephen’s shows off have been marginalized in our current culture. its new self to Moulton It comes into play once, when Ebenezer Scrooge By Gayla Cawley ties, got to show them off. balks at giving money to ITEM STAFF Beacon owns the property charity because there are al- in partnership with St. Ste- ready prisons and workhous- LYNN — The $11 million phen’s Episcopal Church, es set up to take care of the redevelopment and reha- but the former provides ser- poor and the homeless. When bilitation of St. Stephen’s vices for residents. someone tells him some peo- Tower, an affordable senior The rehabilitation of the ple would rather die than go living community, was cel- 130-apartment building, to these places, he replies ebrated on Monday in a which took more than a that if that’s the case, they roomful of residents and year, included a new well- should do so “and decrease included a tour of the facil- ness center, computer the surplus population.” ity by U.S. Rep. Seth Moul- learning center, community Later, while the “Ghost of ton (D-Mass.) and Mayor rooms, a laundry room, and Rep. Seth Christmas Present” is edu- Thomas M. McGee. upgraded and handicap Moulton cating him on the plight of Renovations to the build- accessible units, according greets Mary C. Bob Cratchit and his fami- ing, the rst major rehab to Gina Martinez, develop- Ostrowski at ly, the spectre tells him he since it was built in the ment director for Beacon St. Stephen’s shouldn’t discuss things like 1970s, were completed two Communities. Tower on Mon- “the surplus population” years ago, but the event “We’re here today to cel- day. without knowing who, or marked the rst time the ebrate the redevelopment what, he is talking about. owners and managers of the ITEM PHOTO | property, Beacon Communi- MOULTON, A2 OWEN O’ROURKE ITEM SANTA, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 36° VOL. 141, ISSUE 3 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 26° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018 OBITUARIES George H. Byrne Leslie L. Labrecque, 81 Roger E. Dugas, 89 1937-2018 This is the story of blue. ATKINSON, N.H. — spending time with NEWBURYPORT — of Salisbury, and his George H. Byrne, a More importantly Leslie Louise (Grubb) her ve grandchildren It is with great sad- daughter Sheila Er- kind, remarkable soul he adored his friends Labrecque, age 81, and one great-grand- ness that the family ickson, her husband who lived a beauti- and family. Saturday of Atkinson, N.H., and daughter. She pas- of Roger E. Dugas, of Luke Erickson and ful life. His greatest evenings were often formerly of Lynn, died sionately followed Newburyport and for- their sons Jack and adventure began on spent at his favorite Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018 Boston sports teams merly of Marblehead, Samuel of Centrev- Dec. 5. He was sur- Italian restaurant with from a long-suffering and never missed announce his pass- ille, Va. rounded by loving the ones he loved. He illness. a Red Sox game on ing on Dec. 5, 2018 In addition to his family and friends was a dedicated and Leslie was born in television. (his 89th birthday). love of family, Roger when he passed loving husband and Arlington on Aug. 13, Leslie is survived Roger was born in had many passions away at Lowell General Hos- he was “bar none,” his chil- 1937. She was the daughter by her son, Greg A. Labrecque Lynn to Joseph A. Dugas and in life including horseback rid- pital. dren would say, the best father of the late John and Florence and his wife Cheryl of Grov- Anne E. (Hartnett) Dugas. He ing/jumping, riding his bicycle, A graduate of Saint Mary’s anyone could have asked for. Irma (Dorety) Grubb. She grew eland; a daughter, Lauren L. was the youngest of ve chil- hiking, gardening, and singing in Lynn, George was an out- He always exempli ed a self- up in Swampscott and was a (Labrecque) Blanchard and dren (Ruth, Antoinette, Paul with the Paul Madore Chorale standing athlete.
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