SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 Barstool bellies up for Student Opportunity Act Marblehead restaurant sees support in Salem By Mike Alongi owned by Gino Scalzi, offers a casual By Anne Marie Tobin passed by the Massachusetts Senate ITEM STAFF family style atmosphere specializing ITEM STAFF Thursday, just one day after the House in southern Italian cuisine speci cally of Representatives took similar action. MARBLEHEAD — The COVID-19 BOSTON – A bill designed to help Sa- from the Calabria region of Italy. The bill has gone to Gov. Charlie Baker pandemic has taken a big toll on a num- lem students defray the increasing costs Casa Mia is losing a few thousand dollars for his consideration. ber of industries and businesses over the of obtaining — and paying for — a col- a week just to stay open, and the restau- The bill was introduced by State Sen- past year, with the restaurant business lege education took one step closer to be- rant asked for help to secure its payroll for ator Joan B. Lovely and Representative being one of the hardest-hit. coming a reality. the next four weeks and pay its January Paul F. Tucker For places like Marblehead’s Casa Mia H4041, an Act authorizing the Salem rent. That would give the place a chance “As Senate Vice Chair of the Education Cucina Italiana, the loss of revenue from Scholarship and Education Commit- to meet payroll requirements and save the Committee, I am grati ed that this session indoor dining has been hard to ght. tee to provide scholarships from funds Casa Mia Cucina Italiana, which is MARBLEHEAD, A3 set aside for educational purposes, was SALEM, A3 A rst: Taking plunge personally Lynn leads Congress six local trumps red COVID Trump Overrides veto communities of defense bill Lynn eld, Peabody, By Matthew Daly ASSOCIATED PRESS Revere, Saugus, and WASHINGTON — Con- Swampscott also at risk gress on Friday overrode President Donald Trump’s By Gayla Cawley veto of a defense policy bill, ITEM STAFF a rst by lawmakers since he took of ce nearly four Lynn, Lynn eld, Peabody, Revere, Saugus, years ago. and Swampscott are in the red for another In an extraordinary New week, indicating communities that are at the Year’s Day session, the Re- highest risk for COVID-19 spread. publican-controlled Sen- Lynn, Lynn eld, Revere, and Saugus all ate easily turned aside the have triple-digit daily incidence rates, in veto, dismissing Trump’s terms of how many cases those communities objections to the $740 bil- are averaging per 100,000 residents each day. lion bill and handing him a And Lynn, with an infection rate of 13.92 stinging rebuke just weeks percent, has the fourth-highest positive test before he leaves the White rate in the state over the past 14 days, ac- House. cording to the state Department of Public Trump had no immediate Health. comment, but had lashed Lynn reported 154 new cases Thursday, a out at GOP lawmakers day after matching its single-day high for ahead of the vote, charging cases over a 24-hour period — the city report- on Twitter that “Weak and ed 196 new cases Wednesday. tired Republican ‘leader- The city’s caseload climbed to 11,476 on ship’ will allow the bad De- Thursday and an additional death was re- fense Bill to pass.” ported to bring the death toll in Lynn to 157. Trump called the looming A total of 1,986 cases are active and 9,333 override vote a “disgraceful people have recovered from the virus, accord- act of cowardice and total ing to city data. submission by weak peo- While cases have continued to surge in ple to Big Tech. Negotiate Lynn, the city’s daily incidence rate declined a better Bill, or get better over last week, from 124.5 to 101.7 new cases leaders, NOW!” ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK per 100,000 residents over the past 14 days, The 81-13 vote in the Nahant’s annual “Freezin’ for a Reason” Polar Plunge Fundraiser was called according to the DPH. Senate followed an earli- However, the positive test rate in Lynn in- er 322-87 override vote in off this year due to concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic, but that wasn’t going to stop John Barrette of North Reading, and his sons Sam, 21, Max, 19, creased from 13.1 percent to 13.92 percent the House of the widely this week, according to the DPH. popular defense measure. and Nolan, 13, from taking the dive into the frigid waters off of Short Beach for the third year in a row. The Barrettes plunged in honor of John’s brother, Lynn City Hall will remain closed to the The bill af rms a 3 percent public and will continue providing services CJ, who died a few weeks ago at the age of 60. “He would have been here if he pay raise for U.S. troops remotely to residents until Jan. 19, according could’ve, so we’re gonna run in the ocean and remember their uncle CJ,” said and guides defense policy, to Mayor Thomas M. McGee’s of ce. cementing decisions about John. The Barrettes were joined by a handful of other locals who wanted to troop levels, new weapons keep up the tradition of kicking off the new year with a plunge. COVID, A3 systems and military read- iness, personnel policy and other military goals. THOR JOURGENSEN Senate Majority Leader Pope-Richard Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., COMMENTARY said before the vote that Congress has passed the family National Defense Authori- zation Act every year for 59 They truly years in a row, “and one way legacy is or another, we are going to delivered complete the 60th annual memorialized NDAA and pass it into law before this Congress con- Like everyone else, the highlight of By Anne Marie Tobin cludes on Sunday.” my 2020 Christmas was being alive and ITEM STAFF The bill “looks after our healthy and seeing the people I love LYNNFIELD — Every town has brave men and women alive and healthy. them, those special individuals and who volunteer to wear the But a close runner-up was watching families whose legacies are indelibly uniform,’’ McConnell said. with amazement as an army of deliv- etched into the community’s identity “But it’s also a tremendous ery people managed to drop a seeming- opportunity: to direct our ly-endless stream of boxes onto porches for generations to come. national security priorities and doorsteps. For many residents in Lynn eld, to re ect the resolve of the In a year when the pandemic deliv- such is the case with members of the American people and the ered a collective shot below the belt to Pope/Richard family, who were hon- evolving threats to their malls and stores, Americans let their ored by the Select Board at its most safety, at home and abroad. ngers do the walking and spent their recent meeting. It’s our chance to ensure we money online. In a unanimous vote in response to keep pace with competitors Those millions of purchases, made a proposal submitted by the Histor- like Russia and China.’’ through mobile devices, laptops and ical Commission, the Lynn eld His- The Senate override was desktop computers, meant that someone torical Centre now has a new name delayed after Sen. Bernie had to process each order, box it up for — the Pope-Richard Lynn eld His- Sanders, I-Vt., objected to shipping, and send it to a gift recipient torical Centre. Historical Commission Chairman TRUMP, A2 WORKERS, A3 Kirk Mans eld said the commission has been searching for a way to hon- ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK or the memory of Steve Richard, a longtime member of the Historical Opinion Lynn Salem The Lynn eld Historical Centre will be re- Shribman: Hope rides Lynn’s 2nd Guests at new hotel Commission who died March 24 at named the Pope-Richard Lynn eld Histori- the age of 58 from COVID-19. Sadly, on optimism in the recreational marijuana scramble to escape cal Centre in honor of Steve Richard and his just ve days later, Richard’s father, new year. A4 store opens. A5 re. A5 99-year-old father, Earl, who died from COVID ve days apart back in March. LEGACY, A3

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Marie McGovern, 88 Robert J. “Bob” Vautour, 90 1932 - 2020 1930 - 2020 WICHITA - Marie Leonie Mc- MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA - Govern passed away peacefully Robert J. Vautour, 90, passed December 22, 2020. She was away on December 22, 2020, born November 13th, 1932. in Vitas Hospice Care, Rock- Service Information: A ledge Florida, with family by Funeral Mass will occur his side, after a brief illness. Wednesday, January 6, 2021 He was the loving husband of at 10:00 AM at Catholic Lucille (Leblanc) Vautour, with Church of the Magdalen. whom he shared 65 years of Those that can not attend marriage. Born in Lynn Ma, may watch the Mass through February 16, 1930, he was the Youtube at https://youtu. son of the late Emile and Eva be/0n_oM5E4q9Y Robichaud Vautour Leblanc, Fond memories and ex- and stepson of Alphee Leb- pressions of sympathy may lanc. Bob spent his childhood be shared at www.MyLakev- between New Brunswick Cana- iewFuneralHome.com. da and Lynn Ma. He served in the US Army from 1952-1960, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Jonathan Vautour and Korean War and was Katrina, Christopher honorably discharged. Vautour and wife Alex, For many years he en- Janelle Ouellet and Lillian (Bodnaruk) Bruni, 97 joyed his lake home in husband Joel, Steven 1923 - 2020 Sandown NH and after Vautour and wife Kris- retiring in 1997, spend- tin, Evan Vautour and LYNNFIELD - Lillian Bruni ing his winters in Merritt Island wife Elizbeth. Great grandsons, passed on to eternal life on Florida with family and friends. Bradley and Chase Ouellet. His PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS December 2nd, 2020 at the Bob loved bowling, golf, read- sister Lorraine Cottrell and hus- age of 97. Lillian was the last ing and watching sports. He band Mickey. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., arrives as Senate Re- of her generation and the be- also enjoyed dancing with his He also leaves behind many publicans hold leadership elections, on Capitol loved matriarch of her large, wife Lucille. Bob worked as a sister and brother in-law’s and Hill in Washington. Congress overrode Presi- tight-knit family. She is joined welder for many years. He was nieces and nephews. dent Donald Trump’s veto of a defense policy in Heaven by her husband, a member of the Franco Am- He was predeceased by his bill on Friday. Louis J. Bruni; her son, Michael vets and Knights of Columbus son James and also his sisters T. Bruni; her cherished parents, of Lynn and also the Moose Bertha Fuller, Theresa Langlais, Alec and Anna Bodnaruk; and Lodge in Florida. He enjoyed Marie Scarmoutsis, his broth- her much-loved brothers and spending time with his family, ers, Roger Vautour and Paul A rst: Congress sisters, Andrew, John, Tommy, especially his grandchildren Leblanc. Victoria, and Maria. She leaves and great grand children. In He will be missed by all who behind her children, Thomas addition to his wife Lucille, Bob knew him. M. Bruni and his partner Kay is survived by his sons Don- Service Information: Pri- trumps Trump Onan of Roslindale; Carol A. ald and wife Janice of Ames- vate burial will be held at a Bruni of Melrose; Stephan L. bury, Steven and wife Holly of later date. TRUMP Earlier this week, 130 Bruni of Gray, Maine; and Su- Sandown. His grandchildren, san Maria Lagorio of Amesbury. humor was often accompanied From A1 House Republicans voted against the Trump-backed Lillian will be dearly missed by by the wink of an eye. Lillian moving ahead until Mc- her loving grandchildren: Cath- frequently encouraged us to Connell allowed a vote on COVID relief checks, with “take care of each other.” Lil- leen Forand and her husband Christine Booras, 91 a Trump-backed plan to many arguing they were Eric, Christine Fiorentino and lian had quite the sense of ad- increase COVID-19 relief unnecessary and would her husband Thomas, Michael venture and was able to travel LYNN - Christine “Tena” Boo- payments to $2,000. Mc- increase the federal bud- Bruni and his wife Lauren, Eric with her husband and friends ras, 91, passed peacefully on Connell did not allow that Bruni, Stephan Bruni, Maria often. Most notably, at the age get de cit. The Demo- Thursday at MGH with her chil- vote; instead he used his Gritz and her husband Clay- of 87 she embarked on a trip cratic-controlled House dren at her bedside. Married parliamentary power to ton, Peter Lagorio, and Grego- of a lifetime to Ukraine, which approved the larger pay- for 60 years to the late Chris- set a vote limiting debate ry Lagorio. Lillian was blessed included a 12-hour train ride tie “Chris” Booras, Christine on the defense measure, ments, but the plan is all with eleven great-grandchil- from Kiev to her father’s child- resided in Lynn after moving overcoming a libuster but dead in the Senate, dren and many nieces and hood village. There, she was from Greenwich, CT after high threat by Sanders and another sign of Trump’s nephews who will remember welcomed by many members school, where she was voted Senate Democratic leader her fondly. Family and friends of her extended family whom fading hold over Congress. “Best Dancer.” She loved to Chuck Schumer of N.Y.. alike remember Lillian’s joy, un- she met for the very first time. Only seven GOP sena- dance and met Dad at a Greek Without a bipartisan conditional love, acceptance, Baba, we will always Love You tors voted with Trump to dance. agreement, a vote on generosity, patience, respect More. Though her body failed, her the bill could have been oppose the override. Forty for traditions, and sense of hu- Service Information: The mind was sharp as a tack, and delayed until Saturday Republicans voted for the mor. She loved parties, danc- family will have a private fu- our link to the past. Our neigh- night. Lawmakers, how- override, along with 41 ing, cooking, especially recipes neral service. Should friends bor once said that Tena was ever, agreed to an imme- Democrats. Sanders and from her Ukrainian heritage, and family desire, remem- “the one” that everyone want- diate roll call Friday once babies, hugs, the smell of fresh brances may be made to ve other liberals who op- ed at their parties. She loved the libuster threat was basil, shopping, nature, and, the March of Dimes, Dona- posed the defense bill also to entertain and we have many stopped. most of all, her family. She was tion Processing Center, P.O. voted against the override. fond memories of celebrations Tena had a passion for fash- Trump rejected the de- quick to compliment, a gifted Box 673667, Marietta, GA and parties, game nights, Mon- ion, and you would be hard fense measure last week, Besides his concerns storyteller, and a social butter- 30006, in honor of Lillian’s day night dinners, and holi- pressed to ever find her with- saying it failed to limit about social media and fly. Lillian kept a well-stocked love of babies. To send on- days. If you stopped by their out her hair done, earrings social media companies military base names, pantry and was glad to see her line condolences, please vis- house unexpectedly, which adorned, nails polished, or he claimed were biased grandchildren and their friends it www.vertuccioandsmith. Trump also complained people often did, you were gra- nicely dressed with perfect jew- against him during his rummaging through it when- com. Funeral Arrangements that the bill restricted ciously greeted with food and elry. She loved the beach and failed reelection cam- ever they liked. At the dinner entrusted to the care and his ability to withdraw drink. Her best friends were we fondly remember spending paign. Trump also op- table, she encouraged us to direction of the Vertuccio & known as “The Club.” In her 91 evenings during the summer posed language that al- thousands of troops from eat to our heart’s content and Smith, Home for Funerals of years, she was always the voice at Nahant beach with a pic- lows for the renaming of Afghanistan and Germa- to laugh often, and her sassy Revere. of optimism, her favorite saying nic basket. Our parents were military bases that honor ny. The measure requires “Things will always work out, snowbirds to Florida for 30 Confederate leaders. the Pentagon to submit they always do.” years. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Ok- reports certifying that Her greatest love was family Having to say goodbye is dif- la., chairman of the Sen- the proposed withdrawals and friends and she was keen ficult during this pandemic, but ate Armed Services Com- Theresa E. Gately, 91 at keeping us all together. She we hope to have a celebration mittee and a close Trump would not jeopardize U.S. 1929 - 2020 never forgot a birthday, chris- of her life when it is safe to do ally, hailed the override national security. tening, graduation, anniversa- so. Her twinkling brown eyes vote. Trump has vetoed eight LYNN - Theresa E. (Deveau) ry, or any important occasion. and ready smile will be sorely “Today, the Senate sent other bills, but those were Gately, age 91, passed away on She helped immigrants from missed. She did no harm and a strong message of sup- all sustained because sup- December 28, 2020 at Salem Greece, friends of friends, and helped so many. port to our troops,’’ Inhofe porters did not gain the Hospital. She will be sorely missed said. “Not only does this relatives, to navigate their way two-thirds vote needed in She was the beloved wife upon arrival, helped them with by her three children, Gingi bill give our service mem- of the late Harold J. Gately, Jr, English and drove people to and her partner Marge Tuite bers and their families the each chamber for the bills for whom she waited so many the hospital to have babies or of Swampscott, Catherine and resources they need, but to become law without years to be reunited with. get help when sick. her husband Brian Donnellan it also makes our nation Trump’s signature. Born in Lynn, MA on April She was the President of of Middleton, her 2 grandchil- more secure — pushing Rhode Island Sen. Jack 17, 1929, she was a daugh- the PTA, headed up the church dren that were the light of her back against China and Reed, the top Democrat ter of the late Thomas C and Russia (and) strengthen- PTO, and an active member of life, Nicholas and Sophia, her on the Senate Armed Ser- Cleophas (LeBlanc) Deveau. the Philoptochos Society She son Ted Booras of Lynn and 2 ing our cyber defenses.’’ Theresa was a graduate of St. organized so many school and grandchildren ToniAnn and Ted- Trump has succeeded vices Committee, called Mary’s Girls High School, Class church fundraisers long before dy, and her niece Ginny Dunton, throughout his four-year Trump’s Dec. 23 veto a of 1947, and then went on to you could group text or set up and great nieces and nephews. term in enforcing party “parting gift” to Russian attend Felt and Tarrant Comp- a sign up site, organizing every- She was predeceased by her discipline in Congress, President Vladimir Putin tometer School in Boston. She thing by old fashioned phone. sister Olga Anganis, and be- with few Republicans will- “and a lump of coal for our was employed at GE in Lynn for She loved the annual Greek loved niece Cathy Plourde. ing to publicly oppose him. troops. Donald Trump is many years. picnic at St. George. Service Information: Fu- The bipartisan overrides showing more devotion to In her free time, Theresa Hemeon; her great grandchil- Prior to marrying, Christine neral services will be held at on the defense bill showed loved knitting and gardening. dren, Julian Gately, and Vivian worked at GE for years where the Parker Funeral Home 35 the limits of Trump’s in- Confederate base names She also loved to travel, going Gately, as well as many nieces, she made many lifelong dear Franklin St. Lynn on Tuesday  uence in the nal weeks than to the men and wom- to Nova Scotia on numerous nephews, cousins, and friends. friends. One of the highlights at 11:00 AM, following the of his term. en who defend our nation.” occasions, as well as making it Theresa was the dear sister being that she met the mov- guidelines for social dis- to Ireland over twenty times in of the late Rosemary Quinn, ie star Ronald Reagan, with tancing set forth by the CDC her life. Although she was of Leah McGuire, Alice Forand, whom she shared the same and the Lynn Board of Health French Canadian descent, The- Eleanor Peters, Blanche Dono- birthday. She was one of the concerning Covid. Visiting resa was named Irish Woman van, and Rosalie Kurpiel. first work at home mothers hours will be on Monday call 781-593-7700 ext. 2 of the Year in 2005, by the La- Service Information: running our late father’s oil from 4:00 – 7:00 PM. In lieu to start your dies Ancient Order of Hiberni- Friends and family are invit- business from the house. 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Steve was better known as the The Item. for shipping millions of Richard’s wife, Karen Na- genius behind the His- COVID-19’s March de- orders without, it seems, scembeni, also contracted torical Society’s popular but flung back the curtain barely missing a beat. I the virus and spent 31 Country Store held annu- masking the American ordered a flag from a com- days in a medically-in- ally at the Meeting House economy and scared most pany in Seattle and told duced coma, followed by for more than 60 years. of us with the realization myself, “Shoot, I’ll never months of recovery before Her ham and baked-bean that the simple, almost see this by Christmas.” finally returning home. dinners were second to automatic acts of buying Wouldn’t you know the “The Pope/Richard fami- none, so much so that if groceries, restocking toilet thing arrived in my office ly (is) truly an inspiration you didn’t get there early, ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK paper and paper towels on December 24. to anyone who has ever you were out of luck, as and obtaining any num- American highways, lived in this town,” Man- The Lynnfield Historical Centre will be re- ber of other essentials she often was sold out by named the Pope-Richard Lynnfield Histori- secondary roads, Main sfield said at the meeting. early afternoon. depends on a giant, most- Streets and city streets, cal Centre in honor of Steve Richard and his ly-unseen army of people “We truly believe that by After Edith’s death, country lanes and subur- 99-year-old father, Earl, who died from COVID who work in warehouses renaming this … it really Steve and Earl contin- ban cul-de-sacs are the five days apart back in March. and drive all manner and would be the best way to ued her Country Store workplaces for long-haul size of delivery vehicles honor Steve and his wife tradition and were regu- said Nascembeni. “Thank to carry on the tradition of truck drivers, delivery — not to mention farmers Karen, Steve’s sister Do- lars at Historical Society you for even considering my fellow historians,” add- men and women and peo- and factory workers. reen (DiFillippo) and the meetings. Steve was also this. Their generations of ing that when he arrived ple like the guy I spoke to During my morning rest of the Richard fami- the keeper of the candles. service to the town contin- to sort through the can- who was logging the first ly. It will really give us a Every holiday season, he ue with Doreen’s children walk two days before dles, he was disappointed Christmas I said hello to hour of a 12-hour day. chance to really get people took great pride in placing and fiancees, who are real- to see that the lights were Maybe it had to do to understand who the the candles in the Meeting ly involved with the Coun- a United States Postal mismatched and bulbs Service carrier who told with the pandemic, but it Popes were and who the House windows for all to try Store and a number of were missing. seemed like every manner Richards were and what me he would still be on see and enjoy. other things here in town. “Something seemed of truck and delivery ve- they did for the communi- his appointed rounds late During the public hear- It’s really an honor.” wrong because Steve hicle got thrown into ser- ty.” that evening. ing portion of the meet- This year’s holiday sea- would have never used vice this holiday season to Edith Pope Richard and ing, Select Board member Multiply that son was bittersweet as the them. I immediately called ship boxes from Point A to Earl Richard were mar- Dick Dalton read a letter hard-working carrier by Country Store was can- his wife ... and asked if she Point B. It reminded me of ried for 68 years before submitted by Mansfield celed. But one tradition a million and you begin to had the lights,” said Man- grasp the complexity in- the Dunkirk evacuation Edith died in 2017 at the on behalf of the Historical near and dear to Steve sfield. “She didn’t have volved in ensuring a mod- in spring, 1940 when the age of 90. Edith was born Commission. Richard’s heart continued. them, but coincidentally, ern economy functions British assembled a rag- and grew up on Pope Farm “As you can see, the Pope “Steven loved the simple and delivers the goods, tag fleet to rescue their on what is now the site of and Richard families were elegance that a candle in a she had just bought new pandemic or no pandemic. army trapped in northern the Summer Street School. an integral part of our window offered at Christ- lights, so she gave me the If you want a real clear France. Pope Farm had been in her town’s history and what mas time,” said Mansfield. lights from their house. look at how the U.S. econ- Lives and a nation’s fu- family since 1870. She met better way to honor them “That is why he took such Now I truly feel that Steve omy works, take a multi- ture hung in the balance Earl, a World War II veter- by renaming the Histor- pride in lighting up the is a part of the Meeting day train trip across part during that heroic endeav- an, in October 1949, later ical Centre after them,” Meeting House on Lynn- House!” of our continent-sized or 80 years ago. Obviously, marrying him and raising Mansfield wrote. field Common, a tradition “We all go by Town Com- country. As you clatter the stakes weren’t as high a family in Lynnfield. Following the vote, Se- passed down by his moth- mon and think of Steve and rock along the rails, during this holiday sea- The Richards became lect Board Chair Chris er, Edie.” and his family and the you pass by acres of ware- son, but I’m one guy who fixtures at community Barrett expressed the This year, it was Mans- many years of dedication houses and truck termi- is grateful to everyone events and also served town’s gratitude to Na- field and Steve’s wife Kar- of preserving that nation- nals. Freight trains pass who works a warehouse on more boards, commis- scembeni. en, who carried the torch. al historic site,” said Bar- you with flatbed after flat- shift or drives a truck or sions and committees that “It was my pleasure,” “Tonight, I was honored rett. bed loaded with trailers dons a USPS or delivery or container boxes full of service uniform. goods. You may not be magi- Lynn leads six local The hard-working peo- cians, but it felt like mag- ple dressed in postal ser- ic every time I saw a new vice blue and United Par- box on the porch. Thank cel Service brown are the you. tip of the economic iceberg Thor Jourgensen can be red COVID communities when it comes to feeding, reached at tjourgensen@ clothing and filling shop- itemlive.com COVID cases,” said Michael Cole, Peabody (4,050 cases, dents and 7.76 percent, From A1 a spokesman for McGee, 230 deaths) has not up- the town’s respective daily noting that the decision to dated its numbers since incidence and positive test There will be no in-per- keep city buildings closed Wednesday. The city’s dai- rates both declined this Student Opportunity son access to City Hall was made in consultation ly incidence rate is 88.6 week, according to town during that time period with the Lynn Depart- new cases per 100,000 res- and DPH data. and staff will continue to ment of Public Health. idents and its positive test Swampscott (598 cases, Act sees support work remotely so city ser- Revere, another COVID rate is 8.65 percent over 11 deaths) has reported vices can continue, accord- hot spot, reported 109 the past 14 days, accord- 48 new cases since Mon- SALEM tion Committee to fulfill ing to McGee’s office. new cases on Thursday to ing to city and DPH data. day, and remains in the From A1 its mission by maximiz- The Lynn Public Library, bring the city’s numbers Saugus (2,318 cases, red this week with a daily ing the resources devot- another city building, an- to 6,928 cases and 121 48 deaths) reported no incidence rate of 69.2 new we have passed major ed to needy and worthy nounced Thursday that it deaths, according to the change in its case or death cases and a positive test statewide legislation in students. According to will be closed and curbside city website. numbers on Thursday. rate of 5.19 percent over the Student Opportunity the city’s website, since services will be suspend- Like Lynn, the daily in- The town’s daily incidence the past 14 days, accord- Act and a vital local bill 2003, the committee has ed until Tuesday, Jan. 20, cidence rate in Revere de- rate and positive test rate, ing to the DPH. to help Salem students awarded nearly $80,000 as advised by the city of creased this week, but the 104.6 new cases and 10.51 Marblehead (698 cases, continue their academic in scholarships to Salem Lynn. All due dates have city saw a slight increase percent respectively, both 31 deaths) has reported 45 careers in college,” said students graduating from been extended until Fri- in its positive test rate. decreased this week, ac- new cases since Monday, Lovely. “The economic Salem High School, Salem day, Jan. 22, according to a The daily incidence rate cording to the DPH. and Nahant (133 cases, impacts of the pandem- Academy Charter School, notice from the library. decreased from 135.1 to Lynnfield reported 19 six deaths) reported no ic have exacerbated the and other schools. Schol- “It’s because of the holi- 110.9 new cases per day new cases and an addi- change in its numbers on challenges families face arship amounts vary from day increase we’ve seen so this week, while its pos- tional death on Thursday Thursday. in helping their children year to year, based on the far, as what looks to be an- itive test rate increased to bring the town’s total Gayla Cawley can be with their educational number of applications. other post-holiday surge, from 12.23 percent to numbers to 692 cases and reached at gcawley@item- pursuits, so I am pleased The committee is com- that this bill will allow the and the anticipation of 12.29 percent, according 20 deaths. At 101 new live.com. Follow her on posed of residents ap- Salem Scholarship and a continued increase in to the DPH. cases per 100,000 resi- Twitter @GaylaCawley pointed by the Mayor and Education Committee the confirmed by the City flexibility to assist stu- Council, as well as a desig- dents.” nee of the Superintendent. Lovely and Tucker in- Barstool bellies up for Its members monitor the troduced the bill follow- ing a 9-0 July 18 Salem funds’ balances, engage City Council vote for a in efforts to increase do- Home Rule Petition on the nations to the funds, and Marblehead restaurant scholarships. Lovely rep- evaluate applications for resents the Second Essex awards from the funds. MARBLEHEAD Mr. Beast and a number of district, which consists of “I’m grateful to Rep- From A1 others. the cities of Beverly, Pea- resentative Tucker and Casa Mia’s full donation Senator Lovely for their next four weeks of income body and Salem, along was ready in less than a with the towns of Danvers support in advancing this to help make it through the day. When Portnoy con- legislation. I also would rest of the winter. and Topsfield. Tucker rep- tacted Scalzi to let him like to thank the mem- That’s where The Bar- resents the Seventh Essex know the good news, both district, which includes all bers of the Scholarship stool Fund came in. Started and Education Commit- by Swampscott native and sides could hardly contain of Salem. their excitement. “I was pleased to work tee, who first proposed Barstool Sports founder/ this measure and have chief of content Dave Port- “You guys are the ex- with the City of Salem officials including Mayor advocated for its adop- noy and powered by The act type of restaurant we Driscoll and Sen. Lovely tion,” said Salem Mayor 30-Day Fund, The Barstool want to help,” Portnoy to file legislation support- Kim Driscoll. “This law Fund was set up to help said to Scalzi in a video ing scholarships for needy will give the committee small businesses around ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK call. “Our plan is to help students,” said Tucker. more options in order to the country deal with the you guys get through the Marblehead’s Casa Mia Cucina Italiana re- “Thanks to Mayor Driscoll fund scholarships for de- consequences of the pan- next few months until ceived a donation from Swampscott native and and the City Council for serving Salem students demic. Portnoy’s rules to things clear up.” Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy through making this a reality and going on to college.” qualify for the fund were the Barstool Fund. “It’s greatly appreciated Gov. Baker for deciding Salem residents are simple — businesses can and it’s greatly needed,” invited to donate to the a 60-percent drop in sales other celebrities to contrib- whether to sign our legis- only qualify if they are still said Scalzi. Salem Scholarship Fund since the end of October ute to the fund. Since start- lation into law.” paying their employees. Casa Mia will now be The passage of H4041 by clicking on the donate and the more-than $10,000 ing on Dec. 17, The Barstool “Beyond that, it’s just able to remain in opera- will enable the Salem button at www.salem.com/ the restaurant spent on Fund has raised more than finding out what (busi- tion without worry over Scholarship and Educa- scholarship. personal protective equip- $16 million and helped 58 nesses) need the money the next few months, and ment, custom plexiglass di- businesses remain in oper- for,” Portnoy said in a vid- many other businesses eo statement introducing viders and hand sanitizer. ation. Donations have come LAW OFFICES OF around the country are the fund. “Do they need “The money from Barstool from a total of more than JAMES J. CARRIGAN benefiting from the same rent relief, tax relief — is going to go to keep every- 130,000 individual contrib- generosity thanks to The • Social Security Disability what can we do to help one on the payroll and just utors, including celebrities • Workers Compensation them stay in business un- make it through the winter,” such as NFL stars Tom Barstool Fund. • Accidents til the pandemic is over?” Scalzi said in his video. Brady, Julian Edelman and To learn more about the 25 years located across Scalzi made a video to Portnoy, who has 1.9 mil- Greg Olsen, UFC President businesses in need and Home delivery from Lynn District Court talk about how the pan- lion followers on his person- Dana White, “Bar Rescue” to make a donation to subscribers 15 Johnson St. demic has affected Casa al Twitter account (@stool- star Jon Taffer, ESPN host The Barstool Fund, vis- Get FREE access 781-596-0100 it https://www.barstool- to the e-edition on JAMES J. CARRIGAN Mia, discussing the diffi- presidente), sent out a call Scott Van Pelt, philanthro- ANNE GUGINO CARRIGAN culties in keeping his12 to action to his followers, his pist Bill Pulte, restaurateur sports.com/the-barstool- LISA A. CARRIGAN, OF COUNSEL employees on the payroll, friends in the industry and Guy Fieri, YouTube star fund. www.jamescarriganlaw.com [email protected] A4 SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 OPINION

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E¤¥¤ M. G DIRECTORS President and Publisher Edward L. Cahill Hope rides on optimism M¦Ÿ H. SŸŸ Chief Executive O cer John M. Gilberg Edward M. Grant E C J. SŸ E. K¡ Advertising Director News Director Gordon R. Hall 110 Munroe St. W J. K TŸ  J ¡¢ Monica Connell Healey P.O. Box 5 Chief Financial O cer Editorial Page Editor J. Patrick Norton now that new year is here Lynn, MA 01903 J N. W  C  T¡£ Michael H. Shanahan Chief Operating O cer Chairman Community Relations Director Customer Service New year, new presi- bring to the solution the can be a form of denial. Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. PUBLISHERS dent, new prospects, new qualities of head and heart It surely was for Her- Horace N. Hastings, 1877-1904 attitude. which were shown by the bert Hoover, who said in Connecting Charles H. Hastings and Wilmot R. Hastings, 1904-1922 All Departments: Charles H. Hastings, 1922-1940 At least that is the hope, men who, in the days of November 1929, as the Ernest W. Lawson, 1940-1960 a resource that Ameri- Washington, rounded this Great Depression gath- 781-593-7700 Charles H. Gamage and Peter Gamage, 1960-1982 Peter Gamage, 1982-1991 cans from Emily Dickin- Government, and, in the ered force, that “any lack Ext. 2 Peter H. Gamage, 1991-1996 son (who wrote during days of Lincoln, preserved of confidence in the eco- Brian C. šayer, 1996-1999 Classified/Legal Advertising Bernard W. Frazier Jr., 1999-2005 the depths of the Civil it.” nomic future or the basic [email protected] Peter H. Gamage, 2005-2014 War that hope was “the Now let’s skip ahead to strength of business in the United States is foolish.” Subscriptions John S. Moran, Executive Editor, 1975-1990 thing with feathers -- that the case of Dwight D. Ei- [email protected] perches in the soul”) to Bill senhower, dismissed at In May 1930, he reported: Clinton (who in his 1992 the end of his adminis- “While the crash only took Circulation Democratic nomination tration as little more than place six months ago, I am [email protected] acceptance speech spoke a genial golfer but now convinced we have now Ext. 3 of his Arkansas hometown ranked as a top-10 pres- passed the worst and with Newsroom and said, “I still believe in ident, in part because of continued unity of effort [email protected] a place called Hope”) have how he steered the coun- we shall rapidly recover.” [email protected] summoned to approach try through chilly Cold He was wrong both times, Ext. 4 a difficult and dangerous War waters and in part be- like Mr. Trump when he cause of how he used opti- sought at the outset of the Sports EDITORIAL world. [email protected] Now, with vaccines head- mism as a leadership tool. COVID pandemic to argue ing to the drugstore, with Though he was, as the that it would swiftly dis- Ext. 5 a new Congress and pres- great presidential schol- appear. Retail and Online ident taking power, and ar James David Barber Now the country looks Advertising New Year’s with the darkest day of wrote nearly a half-centu- to Mr. Biden, whose opti- [email protected] the winter 10 days in the ry ago, “often irritable and mism seems encapsulated ADVERTISING past, there is reason to feel depressed,” he “often dis- in his frequent assertion Ernie Carpenter Jr. resolution No. 1: a fresh sense of optimism. played optimism; he was that “We’re Americans.” Director of Advertising And optimism is more certainly no Gloomy Gus That is a shorthand politi- and Business Development, ext. 1355 than a feeling. It is a tool. in the White House.” cians employ to refer to the [email protected] Please mask up That tool has been har- Indeed, Robert F. Brun- can-do American spirit that Ralph Mitchell nessed by American pres- er, dean emeritus of the tamed a continent, won two Sales Representative, ext. 1313 idents who faced grave Darden School of Busi- world wars and, through [email protected] Editorial from the Baltimore Sun crises, from Abraham ness at the University of the tinkering of imagina- Eric Rondeau editorial board Lincoln (speaking of the Virginia and a student of tive prairie pioneers and Sales Representative, ext. 1280 “better angels of our na- presidential leadership, the insights of garage high- [email protected] One can sense the eye-rolling out there: Is this ture”) to Franklin Roos- argued that “Eisenhow- tech visionaries, built an Patricia Whalen really going to be another editorial about the need evelt (who said the nation er’s warmth and optimism economic powerhouse. Sales Representative, ext. 1310 to cover one’s mouth and nose in public settings only feared “fear itself”) were instruments of his But the “We’re Ameri- [email protected] during the COVID-19 pandemic? Or wash one’s to Ronald Reagan (who political influence.” Hecans” talisman goes only BUSINESS OFFICE hands? Or keep appropriate social distance? To campaigned on the notion wrote a scholarly paper on so far, sufficient perhaps which, we can happily reply: Why yes, it is. Be- of “morning in America”). the power of “Eisenhower’s on the stump in the pri- Susan J. Conti cause reminders of lifesaving practices are not Controller, ext. 1288 It is no coincidence that smile” in the White House. maries. Real optimism re- [email protected] unlike a mother’s love: best when offered uncon- these presidents occupy Donald J. Trump, whose quires substantially more: ditionally and frequently. three of the top nine posi- smile was seldom seen Gen. Eisenhower’s smile, Ted Grant You know you need to do this and why. The virus Publisher, ext. 1234 tions in the latest poll of during his presidency, Mr. Reagan’s upbeat coun- [email protected] is highly contagious, it will take months yet for presidential historians. was not exactly an avatar tenance, perhaps the opti- the vaccines to begin protecting the wider popu- Two of the others in of optimism in the White mism in Romans 8:18: “For Marian Kinney lation, and you have an obligation to yourself, to ext. 1212 that top rank provide case House. But not all presi- I reckon that the sufferings [email protected] your family, to your friends and to your communi- studies worthy of atten- dents were. of this present time are not Will Kraft ty to try to limit the spread as much as you can. tion from Joseph. R. Biden John Adams was opti- worthy to be compared Don’t take our word for it. The Centers for Dis- Chief Financial Officer, ext. 1296 Jr., who in less than three mistic as a revolutionary, with the glory which shall [email protected] ease Control and Prevention, the National Insti- weeks becomes the na- writing his wife, Abigail, be revealed in us.” tutes of Health, the U.S. Public Health Service tion’s 46th president. the day after the prom- Theodore Roosevelt, de- Paula Villacreses and leading epidemiologists are in agreement on One of them is Theodore ulgation of the Declara- scribed by University of A/R Specialist, ext. 1205 this point. The dissenters are mostly in the crack- [email protected] Roosevelt, whose passage tion of Independence, “[T] Virginia political scien- pot territory. More than 326,000 Americans have to the White House pro- hrough all the Gloom, I tist Sidney Milkis as “the Mike Shanahan died from the virus. vides us with a lesson in can see the Rays of ravish- first modern president of Chief Executive Officer, ext. 1956 But in case there are still doubters, please con- [email protected] the virtue of optimism as ing Light and Glory.” But the United States,” today sider the recent findings in Howard County, Mary- a presidential attribute. that didn’t last. The great is criticized for primitive Carolina Trujillo land, where officials decided to test for COVID-19 He took office after the historian Gordon S. Wood views on race, promiscu- Community Relations Director, ext. 1226 antibodies in the general populace and in the [email protected] assassination of William wrote that soon thereaf- ous use of executive orders county’s public safety departments. The presence Jim Wilson of antibodies proves someone has been exposed to McKinley in Buffalo, a ter, “whatever optimism and an assertive foreign Adams had had for the re- policy that bordered on Chief Operating Officer, ext. 1200 the virus. dark moment in the coun- [email protected] try’s history. In his first finement of the American ethnic chauvinism. But he What did they find? Firefighters, police and oth- CIRCULATION ers who just happen to scrupulously follow these State of the Union Ad- character was gone.” also was a master of opti- best hygiene practices as part of their job had a dress, he spoke of being Woodrow Wilson was an mism. In his second State Lisa Mahmoud in “the shadow of a great idealist but not really an of the Union Address, he Manager, ext. 1239 much lower infection rate than the average coun- [email protected] ty employee or resident despite their very public calamity” and added om- optimist, which is why he said the following: jobs. It wasn’t even close. Less than 2% of 600 inously: “When we turn set out Fourteen Points; “Ours is not the creed CUSTOMER SERVICE public safety workers tested positive for the anti- from the man to the na- he wasn’t optimistic that of the weakling and the tion, the harm done is so nation-states would be- coward; ours is the gos- La’ Mosha Ball bodies. Other government workers came in at 3.5 Customer Service, ext. 1276 percent and about 3.2 percent of the county has so great as to excite our grav- have properly without pel of hope and of trium- [email protected] far been diagnosed with COVID-19 (which doesn’t est apprehensions and to guide rails -- which is one phant endeavor. We do not GRAPHICS even include people who had mild cases but were demand our wisest and way to define liberalism. shrink from the struggle never tested). most resolute action.” John F. Kennedy, too, was before us.” Trevor Andreozzi Look, we understand coronavirus fatigue. And And yet a year later, TR, an idealist, but he found Words to quote. Words to Designer [email protected] all the attention given vaccinations may cause fueled with optimism, ac- little in his presidency ex- live by. Words Mr. Biden some to believe they can let their guard down. knowledged that there cept Project Mercury to be needs to add to, in his own Sean Casey Don’t be among them. The life you save may be were “many problems for optimistic about; the race voice, for our own time. Designer your own. Just as firefighters wear proper gear us to face at the outset of question, which he ad- A Swampscott High [email protected] before entering a fire, they take appropriate pre- the 20th century -- grave dressed directly only late School Class of 1972 grad- NEWSROOM cautions during a pandemic. problems abroad and still in his presidency, showed uate, David M. Shribman Mike Alongi Be like a firefighter. Mask up, wash up and keep graver at home.” Then he little reason for optimism, is the Pulitzer Prize-win- Sports Editor, ext. 1228 at least 6 feet of distance from others. If that swiftly added: “But we and he faced serious chal- ning former executive [email protected] sounds like a scolding parent, well, thanks, we’re know that we can solve lenges in Cuba, Berlin, editor of the Pittsburgh Elyse Carmosino flattered by the comparison. them and solve them well, Laos and Vietnam. Post-Gazette. Follow him Reporter, ext. 1264 provided only that we Sometimes optimism on Twitter at ShribmanPG. [email protected] Gayla Cawley Reporter, ext. 1236 [email protected] Cheryl Charles News Editor, ext. 1278 [email protected] Olivia Falcigno Photographer, ext.1224 [email protected] Spenser Hasak Photographer, ext. 1332 [email protected] Thor Jourgensen Editorial Page Editor, ext. 1267 [email protected] Daniel Kane Sports Reporter, ext. 1228 [email protected] Steve Krause News Director, ext. 1229 [email protected] Alex Ross Intern [email protected] Guthrie Scrimgeour Reporter, ext. 1222 [email protected] Anne Marie Tobin Assignment Editor, ext. 1307 [email protected] TECHNOLOGY Tim Noyes Director ext. 1247 TO SUBMIT YOUR LETTERS, PLEASE MAIL TO THE DAILY ITEM, P.O. BOX 5, LYNN, MA 01903 OR EMAIL TO [email protected] [email protected] SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 THE DAILY ITEM A5 POLICE/FIRE

All address information, particularly Rockaway Court, was arrested LYNNFIELD belonged to him and his son. A report of a loose dog on SAUGUS arrests, reflect police records. In the and charged with malicious He said the males were un- Central Street Thursday at event of a perceived inaccuracy, it damage to a motor vehicle Alarm successful and left in a black 11:24 a.m. The dog, believed to Accidents is the sole responsibility of the con- Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Lincoln sedan. They were re- be a Golden Retriever mix was A report of an accidental portedly trying another car at reunited with its owner. A report of a motor vehicle cerned party to contact the relevant Kenneth Nelson, 59, of 7 Franklin St. Court, was arrest- alarm at Lynnfield High School, the bottom of the hill before the crash with injuries at 2:36 p.m. police department and have the ed and charged with larceny 275 Essex St. at 5:37 a.m. turn onto Neptune Road. An of- PEABODY Wednesday at 62 Walnut St. A department issue a notice of correc- under $1,200 and on warrant Thursday; at Sweetgreen, 675 ficer reported there was a mis- three-car crash was reported. tion to the Daily Item. Corrections or charges of three counts of MarketStreet Wednesday at understanding and the person Accidents A report of a motor vehicle clarifications will not be made without operation of a motor vehicle 5:10 a.m. thought his neighbor’s car was crash at 3:32 p.m. Wednesday express notice of change from the ar- with a suspended license, un- the one he was supposed to be A report of a motor vehicle at Square One Mall at 12:01 resting police department. insured motor vehicle/trailer, Complaints picked up in. crash at 1:46 p.m. Wednesday Broadway. A report by a concerned cit- at 11 Andover St. and 11 Pound number plate violation to con- A caller reported he was ceal ID, number plate violation, izen Thursday at 6:16 a.m. on Lane; at 3:32 p.m. Wednesday Alarm LYNN unhappy with the service he Beacon Street. The caller re- at Turnpike Car Wash at 80 unregistered motor vehicle, A report of a burglar alarm at received at the Apple Store at ported that she was on her daily Newbury St. marked lanes violation, failure PetSmart at the Shops at Sau- Arrests MarketStreet Wednesday at walk and could not tell if anoth- to stop/yield, and misuse of a gus, 358 Broadway Thursday at 2:02 p.m. er person had waved back at Breaking and Entering Frismant Macario Pojoy, dealer number plate at 4:11 4:36 a.m. ; at Panera Bread, 647 A report of speeding dump her. The person was contacted 18, 10 Estes St. was arrest- p.m. Wednesday. trucks using J-brakes on Main A report of a breaking and Broadway Thursday at 1:39 a.m. ed Friday at 7:08 a.m. and and reported he was well and entering at 12:40 p.m. Thurs- Street Wednesday at 9:46 a.m. was waiting for the sun to rise. charged with liquor, person Accidents on Main Street. day at 33 Raymond Circle. A Complaints A report of two young males under 21; marked lanes vio- A report of a dog in a motor past break-in to the residence A report of a motor vehicle attempting to enter two parked lation; negligent operation of vehicle Wednesday at 5:23 in was reported. Police reported A report of a suspicious per- crash at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday cars Wednesday at 7:09 p.m. a motor vehicle; operating un- the parking lot behind Davios’s the incident stemmed from son Thursday at 6:28 a.m. at at 48 Ladd Hill Road; at 6:35 at Tidewinds Terrace. The caller der the influence, liquor, and Restaurant at MarketStreet. a past dispute between a Walgreens in the area of 1228 said the cars belonged to him consumption of alcohol from p.m. Wednesday at Chestnut A report of youths walking on couple, which involved items Broadway. A 911 caller reported an open container. and Howard streets; at 6:39 the ice at Pillings Pond on Sum- and his son. After talking with that were taken from the res- a female was standing on the Chayane Rios, 32, of 64 p.m. Wednesday at Boston and mer Street Tuesday at 1:09 p.m. the suspects, it was determined idence. fence in the median attempting Chatham St., was arrest- Franklin streets. that it was a mistake and not an to cross the highway. The person ed Friday at 2:36 a.m. and A report of a motor vehicle attempted car break. Complaints was gone on arrival. charged with assault and hit and run crash at 5:11 p.m. MARBLEHEAD A report of suspicious activ- battery, family/household; Wednesday at 5 N Common St.; Theft A report of suspicious activity ity Thursday at 12:28 a.m. at assault with a dangerous at 6:44 p.m. Wednesday at 72 Arrest at 7:38 p.m. Wednesday at Wil- 5 School St. A 911 caller re- A report of an attempted lar- weapon; strangulation or suf- Silsbee St. Zackary Pavia, 25, of 19 Vine lard and Pulaski streets. A call- ported a male sitting in a motor focation, and intimidation of ceny at 10:54 a.m. Wednesday er reported he saw two young vehicle in her driveway. St., Apt. 1, was arrested on a on Stonybrook Road. a witness, juror/police/court Complaints warrant at 3:49 p.m. Wednes- males take off from the area A report of suspicious activ- officer. day. after stepping outside to smoke ity Wednesday at 9:19 p.m. at Samantha Miele, 21 was A report of a disturbance NAHANT a cigarette. He said he was 1500 Broadway. A caller report- arrested Friday at 11:23 a.m. at 12:21 a.m. Thursday at 63 Accidents concerned about the encounter ed that a male in a blue SUV and charged with assault and Hamilton Ave. Complaints because of the recent catalytic in the parking lot at Lowe’s was battery, domestic. A report of a motor vehicle converter thefts in the area. having an argument with an Renate Cignarella, 24, of Theft crash at 6:08 p.m. Wednesday A citizen walked into the sta- A caller reported an in- employee and threatened to 14 La Grange Terrace, was on Washington Street. tion lobby Thursday at 5:26 p.m. toxicated male was in the harm him. arrested Thursday at 9:43 A report of a larceny at 1:30 to inquire about a previous mat- apartment at 59 Walnut St. A report of a disturbance at p.m. and charged with as- p.m. Wednesday at 257 Chest- Complaints ter the police had responded to. and was possibly carrying a 4:41 p.m. Wednesday at 172 sault and battery on family/ nut St.; at 1:33 p.m. Wednes- No further action was taken and box cutter or hammer at 2:41 Lynn Fells Parkway and 285 household, assault and bat- day at 14 La Grange Terrace; A report of suspicious activi- the person resumed her walk. p.m. Thursday. Police report- Main St. A caller reported a tery with a dangerous weap- at 4:28 p.m. Wednesday at ty at 7:09 p.m. Wednesday on A report that a postal worker and ed the parties were separat- demonstrator with a bullhorn on, and a threat to commit 17 Manson St.; at 8:56 p.m. Tidewinds Terrace. A caller re- patron at the Nahant Post Office ed and the male was eval- was causing a disturbance. Po- a crime. Wednesday at Richdale at 229 ported three young males tried on Nahant Road Thursday at 4:28 uated, but refused medical lice reported the demonstration Shawn Dennis, 54, of 24 Broadway. to enter two parked cars that p.m. were not wearing masks. treatment. was peaceful. Guests at new Lynn’s second recreational Salem hotel marijuana store opens

By Gayla Cawley scramble to ITEM STAFF LYNN — Residents who make a purchase at the city’s escape fire newest recreational mari- juana shop on Oxford Street will be treated to a unique “Hopefully they let us By Guthrie transaction experience. Scrimgeour back into our rooms soon,” While certain cannabis ITEM STAFF said Hudak. “It’s a little products are displayed in cold out here, right?” SALEM — Hampton Inn glass cases on the sales A group of about 20 guests were unpleasantly floor, the actual items cus- guests and onlookers surprised at around 1:30 tomers will be purchasing gathered with her and p.m. Thursday when they are housed out of sight Chesley, watching black had to evacuate the new on the second floor of the hotel due to a fire on the smoke billowing from the adult-use shop, Ethos sixth floor. room from the ground Cannabis, which opened Alberto Chesley, who below as a fire crew, po- last Monday. was visiting family for lice and EMS worked the Once customers select the holidays from South scene. their desired product from Carolina and staying on Firefighters inside the the store’s menu, which ITEM PHOTOS |SPENSER HASAK building broke the win- includes multiple strains the sixth floor of the hotel, Alex Hardy, president of Massachusetts for Ethos Cannabis, stands in was in the middle of shav- dow of the room where the of cannabis items rang- fire had originated, show- ing from $10 to $65, their the company’s new shop on Oxford Street in Lynn. The shop opened on ing when he heard the Monday, making it Lynn’s second recreational marijuana business. sound of a distant alarm. ering an unfortunate car purchase will be delivered “At first it sounded like parked underneath with in a non-traditional way, lengthy state approval pe- an alarm clock,” he said. glass. according to Alex Hardy, riod through the Cannabis “Then I heard someone A crane lifted some men Ethos’ president of Mass. Control Commission. pounding on my door.” up to the window, where “When someone places Ultimately, Hardy said He opened it to see they cleared away more an order, it comes shooting Ethos needed to invest more a hallway full of black glass with a long pole. down the chute,” said Har- than $1 million into the 193 smoke. According to Deputy Fire dy, referring to the plastic Oxford St. property, which Chesley reported that Chief Scott Austin, who chute that extends from had been vacant for more the fire alarm in his own directed the effort, the the second-floor storage than a decade and had fall- room did not go off until blaze was extinguished in room to the sales register. en into a state of disrepair. he had already opened the less than five minutes. Ethos Cannabis, which “The building had been door. EMS on the scene re- restricts sales to people 21 abandoned,” said Hardy. “It The air conditioning and ported that there were no and older, is the second rec- was a complete disaster. We heating units in his room injuries. reational marijuana store to gutted it all the way back to were also not functioning, Guests were allowed open in Lynn. Apothca, locat- the brick and started over.” he said, and he wondered back into the hotel later ed on the Lynnway, was the The downtown Lynn Ethos Cannabis budtender Cecily Ortiz of Re- if these issues were con- in the afternoon, though city’s first medical and recre- store is the third dispen- vere, right, asks if customers Imani Balboni, nected. they had to be relocated to ational store — the two com- sary Ethos Cannabis has left, and Allannah Mills, both of Lynn, need any “I’m like halfway shav- different floors. ponents of which opened a opened in Massachusetts. help making their selections as they shop. en right now,” said Ches- Hudak caught a glimpse year apart in the fall of 2018 The company opened a ley, watching firefighters and 2019 respectively. medical and adult-use light shining through our product standards. We take of the room where the fire south-facing windows.” a lot of pride in our product.” work the blaze from the had started when she was “It’s the second store dispensary in Watertown street below at around 2 that’s opened,” said James last July and a cultivation Ethos’ Massachusetts dis- Hardy also touted the collecting her things. pensaries, including Lynn, knowledge base of the p.m. Thursday. “Luckily, I “The whole room was Cowdell, EDIC/Lynn center and adult-use store have this mask on.” executive director. “It’s in Fitchburg this past Oc- feature products sourced Lynn location’s staff, many decorated for Christmas,” from a wide assortment of whom are from the city Jen Hudak, a Salem she said. “There were much-needed revenue tober, Hardy said. for the city and there are of “high-quality cannabis and have prior experience resident who was stay- knickknacks all over Ethos, a multi-state com- several more stores in the flowers” grown in the com- in the cannabis business. ing at the hotel as a safe- the TV stand, and bells pany with operations and ty precaution due to a pipeline. Everything that investment interests in pany’s cultivation center in While he acknowledges hanging from the shower COVID-19 scare, had just we’ve seen shows that Massachusetts, Pennsyl- Fitchburg, according to a the challenges that the hooks, and a little Christ- gotten out of the shower there’s a strong demand so vania, Maryland, Florida, company press release. COVID-19 pandemic has mas village. It was decked and was responding to that trend will continue.” and Arizona, is targeting The stores also carry brought to businesses, out to the nines. And ev- some emails with a towel Eight businesses have a January or early Febru- products from well-known Hardy expects that once wrapped around her hair, erything was just black been granted permission ary opening for a medical brands like Happy Valley, people get to know their when she heard her alarm from the fire.” from the Lynn City Coun- marijuana dispensary in Incredibles and ACS. The product, Ethos will be suc- go off. Hudak reported that she cil to open recreational Dorchester, Hardy said. current menu showcases cessful in Lynn. “I got dressed imme- had heard from the ho- marijuana stores, but as “The Lynn location com- multiple strains of flower As someone who aspired diately, and as soon as I tel staff that the fire had of this week, only two are plements our other geo- that cover a wide range of to work in the cannabis opened my door I could started because of a can- currently operating. Each graphic locations by extend- profiles, the company said. business long before the smell smoke,” Hudak said. dle in a room. approved cannabis busi- ing our reach to customers While its prices may be drug was legalized, Hardy “Everyone came running The hotel, which fea- ness is required to enter north of Boston,” said Har- in line with other local is a big believer in the com- out at the same time and tures 113 rooms and into a host agreement with dy. “We put a significant marijuana stores, what pany’s mission, which is to we all made a beeline to 56 apartments, along a the city, which requires amount of time and effort to sets Ethos apart, from a help individuals feel and get out as fast as we could, three-story garage, was them to provide the city restore an old building that product standpoint, is how live better through their because the whole hallway opened to the public this with six percent of their had fallen into disrepair. the company has curated experiences with cannabis. was just being engulfed in fall. annual gross revenues. “Our dispensary features its menu, Hardy said. “It’s a product that’s fun, smoke.” Austin reported that the Following city approval some of the original charm “We don’t take a lot of but it’s also a product that She exited the hotel onto cause of the fire is still un- for Ethos’ new store last of the exposed brick and products just to have a lot of can help people,” said Hardy. Dodge Street, still holding der investigation. January, the company tile entryway and com- products on the menu,” said Gayla Cawley can be her towel, and was grate- Guthrie Scrimgeour embarked on a two-year bines it with more mod- Hardy. “We specifically work reached at gcawley@item- ful to hotel staff who gave can be reached at gscrim- process that included ex- ern features including a with third-party vendors live.com. Follow her on her a blanket. [email protected] tensive construction and a lofted ceiling and natural who are comparable to our Twitter @GaylaCawley. A6 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021

NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS State trooper shot and injured; Massachusetts minimum order Wednesday, said wage increases to $13.50 it “provides yet another tool to ensure that health suspect apprehended BOSTON (AP) — The care providers across the new year has brought an- Granite State are able to other minimum wage in- maintain workforce and SPRINGFIELD, (AP) striking a 26-year-old Christopher Gardner, 31, the injured officer, but said crease in Massachusetts. continue to provide qual- — A Massachusetts state trooper in his left leg while of Springfield, has been he’s assigned to the agen- Starting Friday, the ity care as we distribute trooper was shot and in- he was in his police cruiser. charged with two counts of cy’s Springfield barracks minimum wage is $13.50 jured New Year’s Eve in A responding Spring- armed assault with intent per hour, up from $12.75 the COVID-19 vaccines.” and recently graduated Springfield, and the sus- field police officer provid- to murder, unlawful pos- per hour. The order followed one pect has been arrested, ed emergency medical aid, session of a firearm, and from the State Police Acad- Tipped employees’ min- he issued Dec. 10 that au- state police said. including applying a tour- other charges. emy. imum wage will raise thorizes certain nursing The officer was shot while niquet. The trooper was He’s being held at the State Police Superinten- from $4.95 to $5.55 per students to obtain a tem- hour and they must make responding to a shots-fired taken to Baystate Medical Ludlow House of Cor- dent Christopher Mason porary license. alert at around 11:25 p.m. Center in Springfield and rection on $150,000 cash $13.50 per hour when said in a statement the in- their tips and wages are on Thursday in the west- has since been released, bail and will be arraigned Apartment complex fire cident is a reminder that combined. Employers ern Massachusetts city. police said. Monday in Springfield Dis- “no tour of duty is routine must make up the differ- displaces 30 residents State police said a male The suspect, meanwhile, trict Court. It’s not clear if ence if the tips don’t bring or predictable for law en- suspect fired two rounds was arrested after a foot Gardner has a lawyer. the worker to $13.50 per LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) — at the responding officers, chase. State police did not name forcement officers.” hour at the end of a shift. An apartment building Under a 2018 law, the fire early Friday morning state’s minimum wage in Rhode Island has dis- Man arrested after police will continue to bump up placed 30 residents, offi- each year until it reaches cials said. $15 in 2023. The fire was reported In 2022, it will raise to $14.25 per hour and the around 1 a.m. at a 12-unit standoff, shelter-in-place order tipped minimum wage apartment complex in the will bump up to $6.15 per Manville section of Lin- NEWBURYPORT (AP) Police say the 57-year- blocks away, potentially shelter-in-place order for hour. coln, WJAR-TV reports. — A man who barricaded old man, who they didn’t armed. the area lifted after a few Firefighters battled himself in his home and identify, had refused to Newburyport Police hours. Driver killed, passenger heavy smoke and flames, prompted a brief shelter- allow police to enter his requested support from Police say the man is injured in highway crash but no injuries were re- in-place order in a Massa- home as officers investi- state police and the currently at the Anna ported. One person was chusetts town was placed gated a reported break-in Northeast Massachusetts STOUGHTON (AP) — Jaques Hospital in New- rescued by firefighters us- in custody Friday, police at a nearby gas station Law Enforcement Council A Boston man died in a ing a ladder after getting said. earlier Friday. to help convince the man buryport for evaluation. multi-car highway crash trapped on the third floor, The incident happened Police said witnesses to come out. They say the man is in Stoughton on New Friday morning in New- saw a suspect matching The man was ultimate- known to police and that Year’s Eve, Massachu- WPRI-TV reports. buryport near the New the man’s description run ly taken into custody no charges have yet been setts State Police said The Red Cross said in a Hampshire state line. into a residence a few without incident and the filed. Friday. statement it is assisting The crash happened at 20 adults and ten chil- about 11:30 p.m. Thurs- dren. day on Route 24 near exit The state Fire Marshal Governor Baker signs 20. Police said 34-year-old is investigating what Brandon Rose lost control of his car and struck a caused the fire. The build- guardrail and then anoth- ing has been determined wide-ranging health care bill er vehicle. a total loss, officials told They said Rose was then WPRI-TV. Gov. Charlie Baker a study on the effects of es are minority owned and munity’s response to the he was struck by a third signed a wide-ranging COVID-19 on the health 48 percent are owned by pandemic, is taking medi- vehicle, a Jeep driven by Newport Polar Plunge goes health care bill Friday care system, among other women, officials said. They cal leave. a 32-year-old Milton man, that he says will codify in steps. include restaurants and “I’m exhausted,” Fram- as he exited his car. virtual in 2021 law many of the emergen- “This legislation applies bars, personal services ingham Director of Public Rose died from his in- The annual New Year’s cy changes made to the lessons learned during and retailers. health Sam Wong told the juries and a 25-year-old state system in response the pandemic to make The first round of grants Day polar plunge in New- MetroWest Daily News by passenger suffered mi- to the coronavirus pan- long-lasting changes in the announced last week to- port went virtual this phone on Wednesday. “I’m nor injuries. The drivers demic. way people access health taled nearly $49 million year because of the pan- physically, mentally and of the other vehicles in- The Republican said the care services,” said House in support of 1,158 Massa- demic. even sometimes spiritual- volved were not injured. new law extends require- Speaker Ronald Mariano, chusetts small businesses. Police say the cause of ly exhausted. I have given “A Wish Come True” ments for all insurance a Quincy Democrat. The grants of up to the crash remains under everything I’ve got for the says it won’t host the ben- carriers in Massachusetts BAKER ANNOUNCES $75,000, but not more investigation. to cover COVID-19 testing AID FOR BUSINESSES than three months’ op- city for the past 10 months efit plunge at Easton’s Beach for the 17th year, and treatment. It also in- Massachusetts is dis- erating expenses, can be and then some, and it has Pedestrian struck, killed in creases insurance cover- tributing another $67 mil- used for payroll and em- taken a toll on my health but is instead asking peo- age for telehealth services, lion to almost 1,400 small ployee benefit costs, mort- and it is to the point where Massachusetts ple to dump a bucket of ice which have become vital businesses to help them gage interest, rent, utili- I have to take a step back.” DARTMOUTH (AP) — water on themselves and during the pandemic. survive the coronavirus ties and interest on other Wong said he was also A pedestrian was struck share the video on social Baker’s office said the pandemic, Gov. Charlie debt obligations. frustrated by the ineq- and killed by a car on media with the hashtag law also expands the scope Baker announced Thurs- FRAMINGHAM New Year’s Eve in Dart- “#AWCTPolarPlunge.” of practice for nurse prac- day. HEALTH DIRECTOR uities and politics of the mouth, Massachusetts, titioners, other specialized The grants are part of TAKING LEAVE pandemic. The organization is also police said. nurses and optometrists, the a $668 million relief A city’s public health His last day is Thursday. encouraging participants Wendy Tolley, 56, of New takes steps to protect package announced last director, stressed by 10 Assistant Director Al- to challenge family and Bedford, had been walk- consumers from surprise week. months of nearly nonstop exandra DePalo will take friends to participate and ing on a road when she medical bills, and calls for About half the business- work handling the com- over for Wong. raise funds for the orga- was hit at around 10 p.m. Thursday, police said. She nization, which grants later died of her injuries. wishes for children facing Chewy sends pet paintings to The car was driven by life-threatening illness- a 24-year-old Dartmouth es in Rhode Island and resident, police said. No southeastern Massachu- charges has been filed as setts. keep customers from straying of Friday morning. Police The benefit drive, in- say the investigation is spired by the ALS Ice ongoing. By Joseph Pisani Bucket Challenge, runs ASSOCIATED PRESS Maine orders more vaccines through the month of NEW YORK — Danielle January. Schwartz didn’t ask for an State health officials Last year, 5,000 people oil painting of her cat. But have ordered tens of took the plunge in New- she loves the portrait of thousands more doses of port and raised $27,000 COVID-19 vaccines. Stinky that hangs in her for the organization. upstate New York home, The Maine Center for a surprise gift from an un- Disease Control and Pre- likely place: an online pet vention has placed an Vermont town overturns store. order for 17,075 vaccine emergency orders It’s one of the more than doses with federal au- 1,000 free paintings that thorities, the state De- A Vermont town has vot- Chewy sends to select partment of Health and ed to overturn in its com- customers each week — Human Services said munity Gov. Phil Scott’s even during the pandem- Thursday. emergency orders issued The order is the fifth ic — tapping into people’s with the intention of pro- obsession with their fur in a series of vaccine re- tecting the state during children and, it hopes, quests that state officials winning customers for will file in the coming the COVID-19 pandemic. life. weeks and represents the The select board in In the cutthroat world maximum number of dos- Stamford, a town of about PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS of online shopping, that es available to Maine for 800 people along the Mas- personal touch and a bit Danielle Moore poses for photos with Kana and also paintings of the pet new vaccines, the agency sachusetts border, voted of kitsch is how Chewy Australian cattle dog in Dallas. said. 3-2 on Tuesday to “termi- is looking to stand out The order is expected nate” the governor’s re- to arrive early next week among the competition, works of art. tising — a trend the com- two years later into a pub- strictions. which has only gotten and will comprise of 8,775 Eric Sheridan, a sales pany noticed when it first licly-traded company now Select board member stiffer as more people shop specialist from Lee, Flor- started shipping them out. worth about $40 billion, doses from Pfizer and 8,300 doses from Moder- Daniel Potvin said that online and add pandemic ida, asked for a portrait “Customers were going even though it has never na. quarantine requirements, pets to their families. Pet through the Twitter ac- bananas,” says co-founder made a profit. Combined with prior restrictions on large fam- ownership is expected to count of Gozer, his Boston Ryan Cohen, who helped Amazon and Chewy orders, Maine expects to grow 4 percent in 2020, terrier with more than come up with the idea in dominate the online pet ily or public gatherings, the first increase in sever- have enough doses to vac- 3,000 followers. A Chewy 2013 before leaving the supplies industry, with and face mask require- al years, according to the cinate about 81,850 peo- representative mes- company. Amazon’s market share at ments violate the state’s Petco Foundation. ple in the first four weeks saged back: “My paws are Chewy was founded in more than 50 percent and constitution because they Chewy’s strategy seems of distribution, officials 2011, marrying the fast Chewy’s at 34 percent, ac- were imposed without to be working on Schwartz, crossed that we’ll be able said. whose blue-eyed cat likes to send you one.” It arrived delivery of Amazon with cording to retail consult- normal due process of law. to rub up against the a month and a half later. the friendliness of a local ing firm 1010data. But New Hampshire issues order But in a letter to town “Christmas came early,” pet store. It also aimed to the pandemic has been painting from his cat tree. for nursing help officials, Assistant At- “I just want to buy ev- Sheridan tweeted from grab a piece of the fortune especially good for Chewy torney General Matthew erything from them,” she Gozer’s account. Americans spend on their as people avoid physi- Gov. Chris Sununu has Phillips said Vermont law says. “They’re a big com- Not everyone is delight- pets, which was expected cal stores. Its stock price issued an executive or- does not give the town au- ed by getting a mystery to total $99 billion in 2020, more than tripled in 2020. pany. I was shocked that der authorizing certain thority to terminate the portrait — the company according to the American Sales soared 45 percent they did something so per- military service members state of emergency. sonal.” acknowledges that some Pet Products Association. in the August to October and emergency medical The letter did not say The portraits have be- confused customers send Pet store chain PetSmart quarter. And it added 5 technicians to temporari- come a hit on social media, them back. But many who bought Chewy in 2017 for million new customers ly work as licensed nurs- what the state would do where people share imag- get a pet portrait docu- more than $3 billion to in the last year, bringing ing assistants during the should the town continue es of them or beg for their ment it for social media, grow its online business, its total customer base to coronavirus pandemic. to maintain it can termi- pets to be turned into giving Chewy free adver- but then spun Chewy off nearly 18 million. Sununu, who issued the nate the order. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 THE DAILY ITEM A7 Andre Hill’s loved ones mourn loss of ‘a chess-playing mind’

By Farnoush Amiri east side. He graduated and Andrew in the early 1990s and Welsh-Huggins earned certification in ASSOCIATED PRESS business management and culinary arts at COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Hocking College in south- — In late May, Andre Hill eastern Ohio. and his roommate Donyell Hill — “Dre” to friends Bryant watched in shock, and “Big Daddy” to his PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS along with the nation, the video of a Minneapolis three grandchildren — Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga. (left) and Sen. David police officer pressing his worked at many restau- Perdue, R-Ga. (right) will both be on the ballot knee on George Floyd’s rants around Columbus in Tuesday’s runoff elections in Georgia. neck for minutes, even over the years either as a as Floyd pleaded that he chef or manager, including couldn’t breathe. Buffalo Wild Wings and Nearly six months lat- Popeyes, and franchises of two smaller chains, Cook- Stakes high for er, Bryant, 42, sat alone PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS on the same couch in his er Restaurant and the Old home in Dublin in subur- Attorney Benjamin Crump (left) discusses the Bag of Nails. ban Columbus watching police shooting of Andre Hill at a news confer- He was a skilled soul Senate runoffs body camera footage of ence attended by Hill’s daughter, Karissa (cen- food chef but enjoyed try- a police officer shooting ter) and sister Shawna Barnett. ing all styles of cooking. and killing his friend of 22 “You name it, he makes years. Christmas money. He remembering Hill — a fa- it,” said Michael Henry, 49, in Georgia “I mean, it just still didn’t do anything,” a ther and grandfather — as who attended high school doesn’t even feel real,” woman inside the house a man devoted to his fami- with Hill and later shared private jet. Bryant said. “It just seems shouted at police after- ly, an always-smiling opti- an apartment. He add- By Russ Bynum ASSOCIATED PRESS As for the challengers, kind of crazy.” ward. mist and a skilled trades- ed: “That was his passion Ossoff and Warnock are Columbus Officer Adam Coy, who had a long his- man who dreamed after right there, cooking.” SAVANNAH, Ga. — Two seeking to become the first Coy, who is white, fatally tory of complaints from years of work as a chef Later, Hill joined Henry months after the November Democrats to win a U.S. shot Hill, who was Black, citizens, was fired Dec. 28 and restaurant manager at Airnet Systems in Co- elections, Georgia voters Senate election in Georgia early Dec. 22 as Hill for failing to activate his of one day owning his own lumbus, a transportation have unfinished business. since 2000. emerged from a garage body camera before the restaurant. company that shipped The outcome will deter- If he defeats Perdue, Os- holding a cellphone in his confrontation and for not “I consider him an every- packages and mail, includ- mine partisan control of soff would be the Senate’s left hand and his right providing medical aid to thing man,” his 27-year- ing overnighting checks to the U.S. Senate and how youngest member at age hand obscured. He was Hill. old daughter, Karissa Hill, banks. There, he met Bry- lawmakers deal with a new 33. His introduction to visiting a family friend at Beyond an internal po- said Thursday. She added: ant, bonding over a game White House. politics came as a college the time. lice investigation, the “It’s hard to say what he of chess. The two hit it off, Republican Sens. David students when he interned Police had responded to Ohio attorney general, the did, because he did every- eventually moving in to- Perdue and Kelly Loeffler for Georgia U.S. Rep. John U.S. attorney for central thing.” gether and becoming more a neighbor’s nonemergen- are both on the ballot Tues- Lewis, the Democrat and Ohio and the FBI have be- Hill, 47, grew up in the like brothers than room- cy complaint about some- day in runoff elections be- civil rights hero who died mates, said Bryant, who one stopping and starting gun their own probes into Eastmoor neighborhood cause neither got enough in July. Ossoff runs a com- a car outside. the shooting. of Columbus, a racially met his girlfriend of four votes Nov. 3 to win outright. pany that produces docu- “He was bringing me Family and friends are mixed area on the city’s years through Hill. Democratic challengers mentary films and ran for a Jon Ossoff and Rapha- House seat in 2017, which el Warnock have raised he lost but proved a formi- S&P 500 ends at another record staggering sums as they dable fundraiser. try to capitalize on Presi- In the wide-open race for dent-elect Joe Biden’s nar- Loeffler’s seat, Democratic row victory in Georgia over leaders united early to en- high as tumultuous 2020 ends GOP President Donald dorse Warnock, pastor of Trump. the Atlanta church where Here’s a look at how By Damian J. Troise advisor at Northern Trust Martin Luther King Jr. two key Georgia elections preached and one of Geor- and Alex Veiga Wealth Management. pushed into 2021, who’s ASSOCIATED PRESS The virus pandemic gia’s best-known Black running and what’s at ministers. Warnock’s ac- shocked markets early in stake. Wall Street closed out a the year. The S&P 500 fell tivism from the pulpit on tumultuous year for stocks WHO’S RUNNING? 8.4 percent in February, issues such as bail reform with more record highs Both of Georgia’s Senate then plunged 12.5 percent and expanded voting rights Thursday, a fitting coda seats weren’t supposed to have become centerpieces of in March as the pandemic to the market’s stunning be up for grabs in 2020. his campaign — just as his essentially froze the global comeback from its historic Perdue is wrapping up a sometimes fiery sermons economy. Businesses shut plunge in the early weeks six-year term. The Repub- have provided ammunition down in the face of the of the coronavirus pan- lican was first elected in for attacks by Republicans. virus threat and tighter demic. 2014 after running as a po- WHY IS GEORGIA government restrictions. The benchmark S&P litical outsider and former STILL VOTING? 500 index finished with People shifted to working, CEO of Reebok and Dollar Georgia law requires a gain of 16.3 percent for shopping and doing pretty General. In his first term, candidates for Congress much everything else from Perdue became known as the year, or a total return PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS and state offices to win by of about 18.4 percent, in- home. one of Trump’s chief de- getting more than 50 per- cluding dividends. The The dire economic situ- Wall Street closed out a year that saw a breath- fenders in the Senate. cent of the vote. Otherwise, Nasdaq composite, pow- ation weighed heavily on taking nosedive in markets in the spring as the The race got shaken up in races get forced into a run- ered by high-flying Big almost any company that coronavirus took hold followed by steady gains August 2019 when fellow off between the top two fin- Tech stocks, soared 43.6 relied on direct consum- in the months that followed as hopes built for GOP Sen. Johnny Isak- ishers. percent. The Dow Jones er spending or a physical an eventual return to something like normal. son announced he was re- In November, Perdue fin- Industrial Average gained presence, including air- signing because of failing ished 88,000 votes ahead 7.2 percent, with Apple lines, restaurants, hotels fallout from the pandem- the economy. Investors health. Georgia’s governor of Ossoff but fell just short and Microsoft leading the and mall-based retailers. ic widened, leaving many also flocked to big tech- appointed Loeffler to fill the of a majority with 49.7 per- way. Volatility spiked. The long-term investors look- nology companies such as seat, but she would have to cent of the vote in a three- The market’s mile- Dow had several day-to- ing on as their gains af- Apple and Amazon and run in the November elec- way race that included stone-setting finish fol- day swings of about 2,000 ter a blockbuster 2019 for smaller companies like tion to fill the last two years Libertarian Shane Hazel. lows a mostly upward points. And the S&P 500 stocks evaporated. Five Grubhub and Etsy that of Isakson’s term. A runoff was virtually grind for stocks in recent rose or fell by at least 1 months later, the market were poised to take advan- Like Perdue, Loeffler’s assured in the special elec- weeks, fueled by cautious percent on twice as many recouped all of its losses. tage of the shift to working background was in busi- tion for Loeffler’s seat. Be- optimism that the U.S. days in 2020 than it did, “It was probably very and shopping from home. ness rather than politics. cause she was running to economy and corporate on average, since 1950. hard to imagine get- The S&P 500 jumped Before joining the Senate, complete her predecessor’s profits will bounce back in The VIX, which mea- ting those back in such a 12.7 percent in April. she worked at Interconti- unfinished term, state law 2021 now that the distri- sures how much volatility short period fo time,” said From there, markets dis- nental Exchange, a compa- requires a political free- bution of COVID-19 vac- investors expect from the Shawn Cruz, senior mar- connected from the rest of ny founded by her husband for-all with multiple Re- cines is under way. S&P 500, climbed to a re- ket strategist at TD Amer- the still-reeling economy that operates the New York publicans and Democrats “We came into the year cord high 82.69 in March itrade. and pushed higher in fits Stock Exchange. One of the sharing the ballot. Loeffler expecting slow growth and and remained above its Wall Street’s recovery and starts as vaccine de- Senate’s wealthiest mem- and Warnock were the top it turned out to be the fast- historical average for was due in large part to velopment progressed and bers, Loeffler has spent finishers out of 20 candi- est bear market recovery much of the year. unprecedented actions analysts and economists more than $20 million of dates, with neither getting in history,” said Sunitha The wave of selling ac- from the Federal Reserve looked ahead to the even- her own cash running and more than one-third of the Thomas, national portfolio celerated as the economic and Congress to support tual end of the pandemic. traveled the state in her vote. Should vaccine volunteers Give the gift of local news now get the real thing?

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By Robert Bumsted and Jim Mustian ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets and an eerie quiet as the final moments of 2020 ticked away. PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS This was New Year’s Eve in the age of Seventh Avenue is mostly empty during what would normally be a Times COVID-19. Square packed with people, late Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in New York, as Crowd control gave way celebrations have been truncated this New Year’s Eve due to the ongo- to crowd prevention, as ing pandemic. police closed the Cross- roads of the World to vehicles and onlookers New Year’s revelries muted by hoping to catch a glimpse of the glittering, crystal ball that still descended virus as curtain draws on 2020 down a flagpole to mark the stroke of midnight. By Frank Jordans and ities urged residents blared and people drank, Would-be partygoers were Derek Gatopoulos to stay home to see the but dancing was strictly urged to watch the ball ASSOCIATED PRESS seven minutes of pyro- prohibited. drop on television. technics that lit up the The gleam of Las Vegas Still, modest throngs This New Year’s Eve Sydney Harbor Bridge brought a similar crowd, of people gathered just is being celebrated like and its surroundings. with tens of thousands outside the police perime- no other in most of the In New York’s Times of people walking on the ter, which took on the feel world, with many bidding PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Square, the ball dropped Strip by early evening of a tailgate as midnight farewell to a year they’d like always, but police despite a plea from the neared. Many said they In this photo combo, on top, a New York Po- prefer to forget. fenced off the site synon- governor to avoid gather- wanted to end a chal- lice Department K-9 officer walks with his dog From the South Pacific ymous with New Year’s ings. lenging year on their own along Seventh Avenue, in New York’s Times to New York City, pan- Eve to prevent crowds of South Africans were terms. Square on Dec. 31, 2019, during New Year’s Eve demic restrictions on open any size from gathering. also urged to cancel Small groups of revel- celebrations. In bottom photo, Seventh Avenue air gatherings saw people Another of the world’s parties. Many instead lit ers, some wearing glittery is mostly empty during what would normally turning to made-for-TV most popular places to be candles as a way to honor hats, filmed their distant be a Times Square packed with people, late fireworks displays or on December 31, Dubai in health workers and peo- view of Times Square on Dec. 31, 2020, in New York, as celebrations have packing it in early since the United Arab Emir- ple who have died in the their phones and broke been truncated this New Year’s Eve due to the they could not toast the ates, pressed ahead with COVID-19 pandemic. out in cheers at midnight. ongoing pandemic. end of 2020 in the pres- its revelry despite a surge In many European There were kisses and ence of friends or carous- of infections. Images countries, authorities toasts, but police quick- preventing crowds of any months, and New Year’s ing strangers. of masked health care warned they were ready ly broke up the crowds size from gathering at the Eve proved no different As midnight rolled from workers briefly lit up Burj to clamp down on revelers gathered along Broadway spot of what is usually for a city that’s count- Asia to the Middle East, Khalifa, the world’s tall- breaching public health after the ball fell. the nation’s biggest New ed over 25,000 deaths Europe, Africa and the est tower, before fireworks rules, including nightly One reveler, Daniel Year’s Eve party. blamed on the virus. The Americas, the New Year’s exploded in the sky over curfews in France, Italy, Camacho, 36, of Manhat- Some celebrity perform- blocks surrounding the experience mirrored na- the building. Tens of thou- Turkey, Latvia, the Czech tan, described the expe- ers took to stages set up in ball drop were blocked tional responses to the vi- sands of people flooded Republic, and Greece. rience as “anticlimactic” the mostly empty square off, leaving a scene that rus itself. Some countries the streets and squares “No one will be on the given the small crowd. to sing to a small group of Police Commissioner and cities canceled or marked out for social streets after 10 p.m. “I’m just glad it’s over,” masked essential work- Dermot Shea described as scaled back their festivi- distancing were largely (Athens) will be a dead he said of 2020. ers. In the final minutes “surreal.” ties, while others without ignored. city to make sure no more Preparing for the worst, before midnight, Jennifer Even a group of Nation- active outbreaks carried Still, the pandemic restrictions are imposed,” the New York Police Lopez sang the Aero- al Guardsmen engaged in on like any other year. robbed the night of its said Greece’s public Department deployed its smith classic “Dream On” fighting the coronavirus Australia was among freewheeling spirit. Au- order minister, Michalis bomb-sniffing dogs and beneath a blast of confetti. since March was denied the first to ring in 2021. thorities implemented a Chrisohoidis. sand-filled sanitation A brief burst of fire- entry. In past years, 1 million raft of anti-virus mea- France’s government trucks intended to guard works blasted and more “It just would have been people crowded Sydney’s sures to control rowdy flooded the streets with against explosions. But confetti flew as the count- great to ring in 2021 the harbor to watch fireworks. crowds in downtown 100,000 law enforcement the department’s play- down hit midnight. New York way,” said Billy This time, most watched Dubai. At luxury bars officers to enforce the book included an unusu- The coronavirus has Merola, a Marine from on television as author- and restaurants, music nationwide curfew. al mandate this year: upended public life for Long Island. Last of singing McGuire Sisters, Phyllis dies in Las Vegas at 89

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©2021 AccuWeather, Inc. SPORTS B SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 Lynn boxer Danny Avery dies at age 60 By Mike Alongi ished his professional ca- ITEM SPORTS EDITOR reer with a 7-4-1 record. He won his debut ght Lynn boxer Danny Av- against Leo Costello on ery, who fought 13 profes- June 19, 1980 at the Uni- sional bouts during a ve- versity of Puget Sound year career in the 1980s, Fieldhouse in Tacoma, died Thursday. He was 60 Wash. He fought several years old. ghts in New England, Avery was born in San earning wins against Pe- Diego, but he made the dro Torres in Hartford, move to Massachusetts Conn., Mike Thomas in when he became a profes- Providence, R.I. and Jer- sional boxer. He lived in emiah Santiago in South Lynn while training with Yarmouth, Mass. the Petronelli brothers Even closer to home, he out of Brockton, who were fought once in Lynn at the also the trainers of Inter- Deja Vu Motel — earning national Boxing Hall of a win over Clyde Rooney Famer and Massachusetts in August 1982. native Marvin Hagler. Avery, a southpaw, n- AVERY, B2

ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK St. Mary’s sophomore guard David Brown Jr. scored a career-high 32 points in a win over rival Bishop Fenwick Friday afternoon. St. Mary’s boys basketball notches rivalry win over Fenwick By Mike Alongi the rst half. some great shooters who son. “This year I told him ITEM SPORTS EDITOR “We knew coming in were able to knock those that we’re going to need that Fenwick had been shots down.” him to score at times and PEABODY — The St. playing some good bas- Sophomore guard David he’s really starting to buy Mary’s boys basketball ketball and they were av- Brown Jr. led the way for into that. The best part team came to play Friday eraging around 80 points the Spartans offensively, about this group is that afternoon, notching a 87- (per game), but we know putting up a career-high they’re all great friends 70 win over rival Bishop that they don’t want to 32 points to go along with and none of them cares Fenwick in a New Year’s play a fast-paced game,” six rebounds. who takes the open shot. Day bout. The Spartans said St. Mary’s coach “For as long as I can re- It was great as a coach COURTESY PHOTO came out fast and played Dave Brown. “So our idea member, he’s been the and as a dad to see David Lynn boxer Danny Avery (right), who fought tenacious defense from was to come in and take guy to always make the step up like that.” in 13 professional ghts from 1980-1985, died the opening sequence, as many quick shots as extra pass and the correct Thursday at the age of 60. only allowing 27 points in possible, and we’ve got play,” Brown said of his SPARTANS, B2

Celtics close out a marathon week with a loss NFL union president JC Tretter offers suggestions for 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS “We are the only major sports league with an off- NFL Players Association season program,” he add- President JC Tretter is ed. “The most physically calling for the signi cant demanding sport is the reductions in offseason only league that brings work forced by the pan- their players back for ex- demic to continue in fu- tra practices outside of the ture years. season. The argument in The Cleveland Browns favor of these offseason center posted his thoughts practices is based on the on the union’s website assumption that players Thursday. He cited chang- need reps during OTAs to es in the collective bar- gaining agreement develop and learn while reached early in 2020, and teams need the practices the subsequent COVID-19 to (jell). Yet, the lack of alterations. OTAs this year demon- “The COVID CBA forced strated that those theories signi cant changes, and it aren’t substantiated. New has shown us another way and rst-year head coach- players and teams can es had success. Newly as- successfully prepare for sembled teams had suc- and play in the NFL,” cess. Rookies stepped in Tretter wrote. “This year and played at a high level has brought less time at all across the league.” practice than ever before. Tretter reasons that We had no offseason prac- NFL players are profes- tices, fewer training camp sionals and know how to practices and no presea- remain in shape and cog- son games. While some nizant of the playbook feared that those changes throughout the offseason: would lead to a sloppy “We do not need to be 2020 NFL season, our col- brought in during April- lective level of play across June to practice against the league has actually each other - it’s simply un- never been higher. necessary.” “I believe the changes NFL Commissioner Rog- implemented this season er Goodell has said that have demonstrated that some of the procedures we can put an entertain- adapted in 2020 would ing product out on the make sense to carry into eld while further reduc- the future. He speci cally ing wear and tear on our mentioned remote learn- players’ bodies.” ings during the pandemic. Tretter emphasized the “Our experience with the need to reduce all offsea- offseason training and do- son programs, which typi- ing that virtually, I think PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS cally begin in early spring our clubs got comfortable Jaylen Brown takes the ball up the  oor during a game against the Detroit Pistons Friday and last through mid- with a lot of that,” Goodell night. Brown scored 25 points as the Celtics lost to the Pistons by a score of 96-93. It was the June, including organized said. “And I think you’ll Celtics’ fourth game in ve days this week. team activities and man- see more of that, which I datory minicamps. think will be productive.” B2 SPORTS THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE SATURDAY St. Mary’s at Bishop Feehan (6) Boys Hockey TUESDAY Hamilton-Wenham at Lynnfield (12) Boys Basketball Girls Hockey Manchester-Essex at Lynnfield (6) Bishop Fenwick at Bishop Stang WEDNESDAY (11:30) Boys Basketball St. Mary’s at Austin Prep (5) Archbishop Williams at Bishop Fen- SUNDAY wick (6:30) Girls Hockey Girls Basketball Archbishop Williams at Bishop Fen- Bishop Fenwick at Archbishop Wil- wick (9) liams (6:30) Boys Hockey MONDAY Bishop Fenwick at Medford (7) Boys Basketball Lynnfield at Newburyport (7) Bishop Feehan at St. Mary’s (6) Girls Hockey Girls Basketball Arlington Catholic at St. Mary’s (4)

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE NATIONAL CONFERENCE East East W L T Pct PF PA W L T Pct PF PA yx-Buffalo 12 3 0 .800 445 349 Dallas 6 9 0 .400 376 450 Miami 10 5 0 .667 378 282 Washington 6 9 0 .400 315 315 New England 6 9 0 .400 298 339 N.Y. Giants 5 10 0 .333 257 338 N.Y. Jets 2 13 0 .133 229 429 Philadelphia 4 10 1 .300 320 398 South South W L T Pct PF PA W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 423 348 yx-New Orleans 11 4 0 .733 449 330 Tennessee 10 5 0 .667 450 401 x-Tampa Bay 10 5 0 .667 448 328 Houston 4 11 0 .267 346 423 Carolina 5 10 0 .333 343 369 Jacksonville 1 14 0 .067 292 464 Atlanta 4 11 0 .267 369 370 North North W L T Pct PF PA W L T Pct PF PA yx-Pittsburgh 12 3 0 .800 394 288 yx-Green Bay 12 3 0 .800 474 353 Baltimore 10 5 0 .667 430 300 Chicago 8 7 0 .533 356 335 Cleveland 10 5 0 .667 384 397 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 393 440 Cincinnati 4 10 1 .300 308 386 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 342 482 West West W L T Pct PF PA W L T Pct PF PA zyx-Kansas City 14 1 0 .933 452 324 yx-Seattle 11 4 0 .733 433 348 Las Vegas 7 8 0 .467 402 447 L.A. Rams 9 6 0 .600 354 289 L.A. Chargers 6 9 0 .400 346 405 Arizona 8 7 0 .533 403 349 Denver 5 10 0 .333 292 414 San Francisco 6 9 0 .400 353 364 Sunday’s Games Green Bay at Chicago, 4:25 p.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 4:25 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Las Vegas at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Carolina, 4:25 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Houston, 4:25 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Southwest Division W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Philadelphia 4 1 .800 — New Orleans 3 2 .600 — Brooklyn 3 2 .600 1 San Antonio 2 2 .500 ½ Boston 3 3 .500 2 Houston 1 2 .333 1 New York 2 3 .400 2 Dallas 1 3 .250 1½ Toronto 1 3 .250 2½ Memphis 1 3 .250 1½ ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Southeast Division Northwest Division W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Bishop Fenwick senior captain Max Grenert (right) had a double-double with 18 points and 10 Orlando 4 1 .800 — Minnesota 2 2 .500 — rebounds in a loss to St. Mary’s Friday. Atlanta 3 1 .750 ½ Utah 2 2 .500 — Charlotte 2 2 .500 1½ Portland 2 2 .500 — Miami 2 2 .500 1½ Denver 1 3 .250 1 Washington 0 5 .000 4 Oklahoma City 1 3 .250 1 Central Division Pacific Division St. Mary’s boys basketball takes home a W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Indiana 4 1 .800 — L.A. Clippers 4 1 .800 — Cleveland 3 2 .600 1 Phoenix 4 1 .800 — Chicago 2 3 .400 2 Sacramento 3 2 .600 1 Milwaukee 2 3 .400 2 L.A. Lakers 3 2 .600 1 New Year’s Day victory against Fenwick Detroit 1 4 .200 3 Golden State 2 2 .500 1½ Friday’s Games Toronto at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. SPARTANS bounds, while senior cap- From there, the Spar- that we needed to see Detroit 96, Boston 93 Sunday’s Games Memphis at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Boston at Detroit, 3 p.m. From B1 tain Alex Gonzalez had tans continued to extend them compete as hard as Miami at Dallas, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 6 p.m. two points and eight re- their lead behind the they could the rest of the Atlanta at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Denver at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Sophomore guard Ali bounds. strong guard play of way,” Moran said. “They L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 8 p.m. Utah at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Barry added 14 points and “St. Mary’s is a great Brown Jr., Batista and Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Dallas at Chicago, 8 p.m. came back well and the L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 8 p.m. three rebounds, while se- team and they’ve got some Barry. By halftime, St. compete level remained Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. Portland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. nior guard Sammy Batista really quick guards, and Mary’s was in full control Portland at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Monday’s Games high, and that’s all you Saturday’s Games Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. had 11 points and four re- they were able to take us with a 48-27 lead. can ask for in a game like Sacramento at Houston, 5 p.m. Cleveland at Orlando, 7 p.m. bounds. Junior forward off of our game a bit,” said “We’ve got some really that.” Charlotte at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Henri Miraka (10 points) New York at Indiana, 7 p.m. New York at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Fenwick coach Kevin Mo- good guards on this team,” But in the end, the depth Oklahoma City at Orlando, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Miami, 7:30 p.m. and sophomore forward ran. “Our guys competed Brown said. “We’ve got and talent of the Spartans Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Houston, 8 p.m. Nick Sasso (seven points, hard the whole way, but four guys who have been was just too much to han- three rebounds) played we knew this was going to in the program for a bunch dle. St. Mary’s stretched well off the bench. be a tough game. The good of years and they know TODAY IN SPORTS its lead to as many as 31 For Fenwick, junior Mike part is that playing how we want to play, and sioner Bowie Kuhn for tampering Jan. 2 Yentin paced the offense against competition like they’ve all got the ability points early in the fourth in the free-agent signing of Gary 1961 — George Blanda passes for with 19 points and six re- that is only going to make to shoot and to take it off quarter before coasting to three touchdowns and kicks a field Matthews. a 17-point victory. 1982 — Rolf Benirschke’s 29-yard bounds. Senior captain us better in the long run.” the dribble.” goal and the extra points to give Max Grenert had a dou- The game was back and While St. Mary’s contin- Fenwick (2-1) is back in the Houston Oilers a 24-16 victory field goal at 13:52 of overtime ble-double with 18 points forth to start, with the ued to extend its lead in action Wednesday (6:30) over the Los Angeles Chargers in ends one of the wildest and high- when it hosts Archbishop est-scoring playoff games as the and 10 rebounds, while Spartans holding a slim the second half, Fenwick the first American Football League Williams. championship game. San Diego Chargers beat the Miami junior captain Jason Ro- 13-7 lead in the opening never stopped competing. St. Mary’s (2-0) hosts 1965 — The New York Jets sign Dolphins 41-38. San Diego’s Dan mans had 13 points and minutes. St. Mary’s went “The game started get- Alabama quarterback Joe Namath Fouts completes 33 of 53 passes five rebounds. Sophomore on a bit of a run to end the ting away from us a bit Bishop Feehan Monday for a reported $400,000, the most for 433 yards and three TDs. Miami guard Che Hanks added first quarter and led 28- late in the third quarter, (6) at Conigliaro lucrative rookie contract in football quarterback Don Strock completes 12 points and two re- 10. and we just told the guys Gymnasium. history. 29 of 43 passes for 403 yards and 1966 — Jim Taylor and Paul Hor- four TDs. nung gain 201 yards on four inches 1984 — Miami defeats Nebraska Lynn boxer Danny Avery dies at age 60 of snow at Lambeau Field to lead 31-30 in the Orange Bowl to win the Green Bay Packers to a 23-12 the national championship. victory over the Cleveland Browns 1985 — Nevada-Las Vegas beats AVERY Revere’s Wonderland Ball- uary 20, 1985, was against Casino in Atlantic City, and their third championship in five Utah State 142-140 in triple over- From B1 room. International Boxing Avery lost via technical years. time as both teams set an NCAA He closed out his career Hall of Famer and four- knockout in the fourth 1977 — Atlanta Braves’ owner Ted record for total points. The Runnin’ Four months later in with his final four fights weight world champion round. It was the second Turner is suspended one year by Rebels score a record 93 points in December 1982, Avery de- coming in Atlantic City, Pernell Whitaker. Staged fight in Whitaker’s Hall of Major League Baseball Commis- the second half. feated Manuel Madera at N.J. His final fight, on Jan- at Harrah’s Marina Hotel Fame career.

TV/RADIO SATURDAY 8 p.m...... Michigan St. at Nebraska...... Big Ten Network 12 p.m...... Elon at Northeastern...... NESN TV 8:30 p.m...... Boise St. at San Jose St...... FS1 12 p.m...... Wisconsin at Penn State...... Big Ten Network NBA 10 p.m...... Nevada vs. New Mexico...... CBSSN 4 p.m...... Lehigh at Lafayette...... CBSSN 5 p.m...... Sacramento at Houston...... NBATV 10 p.m...... San Francisco at Gonzaga...... ESPN2 4:30 p.m...... Saint Joseph’s at Rhode Island...... NBCSN 7:30 p.m...... Toronto at New Orleans...... NBATV 10 p.m...... Stanford at Oregon...... ESPNU 5:30 p.m...... Ohio State at Minnesota...... Big Ten Network Men’s College Basketball Women’s College Basketball 6 p.m...... Navy at Bucknell...... CBSSN 12 p.m...... Creighton at Providence...... Fox 12 p.m...... Bellarmine at Louisville...... ACC Network 6 p.m...... So. Illinois at Drake...... ESPNU 12 p.m...... DePaul at St. John’s...... FS1 College Football 6 p.m...... Wake Forest at Georgia Tech...... ACC Network 12 p.m...... Elon at Northeastern...... NESN Plus 12 p.m...... Taxslayer Bowl: N.C. State vs. Kentucky...... ESPN 7 p.m...... Houston at SMU...... ESPN2 12 p.m...... Louisville at Boston College...... NESN 12:30 p.m...... Outback Bowl: Mississippi vs. Indiana...... ABC 7:30 p.m...... Northwestern at Michigan...... Big Ten Network 12 p.m...... Memphis at Temple...... ESPNU 4 p.m...... Fiesta Bowl: Oregon vs. Iowa State...... ESPN Women’s College Basketball 12 p.m...... Missouri at Arkansas...... CBS 8 p.m...... Orange Bowl: Texas A&M vs. North Carolina...... ESPN 12 p.m...... Clemson at Miami...... ACC Network 12 p.m...... Texas at Kansas...... ESPN2 Men’s Hockey 12 p.m...... Duquesne at Dayton...... CBSSN 12:30 p.m...... Duquesne at George Washington...... NBCSN 12 p.m...... World Juniors: Russia-Germany...... NHL Network 12 p.m...... Houston at UCF...... ESPNU 1 p.m...... Florida A&M at South Carolina...... SEC Network 3:30 p.m...... World Juniors: Finland-Sweden...... NHL Network 1 p.m...... Kentucky at Mississippi St...... ESPN2 1 p.m...... Texas A&M at Florida...... SEC Network 2 p.m...... Clemson at Miami...... NESN 7 p.m...... World Juniors: Canada-Czech Republic...NHL Network 2 p.m...... Boston College at N.C. State...... ACC Network 2 p.m...... Iowa at Rutgers...... ESPN2 10:30 p.m...... World Juniors: US-Slovakia...... NHL Network 2 p.m...... DePaul at Marquette...... FS1 2 p.m...... LSU at Florida...... CBS Men’s College Hockey 6 p.m...... Northeastern at UMass...... NESN Plus 2 p.m...... George Washington at Fordham...... CBSSN 2 p.m...... TCU at Kansas St...... ESPNU 7 p.m...... Vermont at Providence...... NESN 3 p.m...... Georgia at Auburn...... SEC Network 2 p.m...... Virginia Tech at Virginia...... ACC Network Women’s College hockey 4 p.m...... Georgia Tech at Notre Dame...... ACC Network 2:30 p.m...... Davidson at VCU...... NBCSN 4:30 p.m...... Maine at Northeastern...... NESN 5 p.m...... Michigan at Northwestern...... ESPN2 3 p.m...... Ohio at Ball State...... CBSSN Men’s Soccer 5 p.m...... Missouri at Arkansas...... SEC Network 3:30 p.m...... Auburn at Texas A&M...... SEC Network 7:30 a.m...... Leeds United at Tottenham...... NBCSN Women’s College Hockey 4 p.m...... Colorado St. at San Diego St...... CBS 10 a.m...... Sheffield at Crystal Palace...... NBCSN 4 p.m...... Maine at Northeastern...... NESN 4 p.m...... Notre Dame at North Carolina...... ACC Network 12:30 p.m...... Wolverhampton Wanderers at Brighton...... NBC Skiing 4 p.m...... West Virginia at Oklahoma...... ESPN2 SUNDAY 3 p.m...... Alpine World Cup (taped)...... NBC 4:30 p.m...... Butler at Seton Hall...... FS1 TV 4:30 p.m...... Alpine World Cup (taped)...... NBC 4:30 p.m...... Geo. Mason at Dayton...... NBCSN NFL 6:30 p.m...... Alpine World Cup (taped)...... NBCSN 5 p.m...... St. Bonaventure at Richmond...... CBSSN 1 p.m...... Dallas at NY Giants...... Fox Men’s Soccer 6 p.m...... Alabama at Tennessee...... ESPN2 1 p.m...... NY Jets at New England...... CBS 7 a.m...... Fulham at Burnley...... NBCSN 6 p.m...... Kentucky at Mississippi St...... SEC Network 4:25 p.m...... Arizona at LA Rams...... CBS 9:15 a.m...... Leicester City at Newcastle...... NBCSN 6 p.m...... Purdue at Illinois...... Big Ten Network 4:25 p.m...... Green Bay at Chicago...... Fox 11:30 a.m...... Manchester City at Chelsea...... NBCSN 6 p.m...... Wichita State at Mississippi...... ESPNU 8:20 p.m...... Washington at Philadelphia...... NBC Radio 6:30 p.m...... Arizona St. at Washington...... FS1 NBA NFL 6:30 p.m...... Fordham at La Salle...... NBCSN 3 p.m...... Boston at Detroit...... NBATV, NBCSB 1 p.m...... NY Jets at New England...... WBZ-FM 98.5 7:30 p.m...... Marquette at Georgetown...... CBSSN 8:30 p.m...... Portland at Golden State...... NBATV NBA 8 p.m...... Duke at Florida St...... ESPN2 Men’s College Basketball 3 p.m...... Boston at Detroit...... WBZ-FM 98.5 SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 THE DAILY ITEM B3 NATION Chaotic Congress session comes to a close

By Lisa Mascaro “Our economy is real- separately poised to cam- agreement to pass a $2 ASSOCIATED PRESS ly hurting here,” he said. paign in Georgia ahead of trillion relief package, the “There’s no way to get a Tuesday’s election as GOP largest federal interven- WASHINGTON — Con- vote by Jan. 3. The new Sens. David Perdue and tion of its kind in U.S. his- gress is ending a chaotic Congress begins noon Jan. Kelly Loeffler face Demo- tory. session, a two-year politi- 3. So the new Congress, crats Jon Ossoff and Ra- The COVID-19 crisis cal firestorm that started you could get a vote.’’ phael Warnock. also shuttered the Capitol with the longest federal As the Senate grinds It’s a dizzying end to a and altered the workings government shutdown through the New Year’s session of Congress that of Congress. The House in U.S. history, was riven holiday, the one-two re- resembles few others for changed its rules to allow by impeachment and a buke of Trump’s demands the sheer number of crises proxy voting, a first, so pandemic, and now clos- punctuates the president’s and political standoffs as lawmakers could avoid the es with a rare rebuff by final days and deepens the Trump’s presidency de- health risks of travel to Republicans of President divide between the Repub- fined and changed the leg- Washington. The Senate Donald Trump. lican Party’s new wing of islative branch. ultimately halted its tra- In the few days remain- Trump-styled populists Congress opened in ditional daily lunches. ing, GOP senators are ig- and what had been main- PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS 2019 with the federal gov- The usually bustling noring Trump’s demand stay conservative views. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of ernment shutdown over halls of Congress became to increase COVID-19 The stalemate is expect- Kentucky., walks off of the Senate floor on Cap- Trump’s demands for eerily silent most days. aid checks to $2,000 and ed to drag into the week- itol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. money to build the border Many members tested are poised to override his end. wall with Mexico. Nancy positive for the virus. veto of a major defense An exasperated Senate Pelosi regained the speak- The Congress had few the $600 relief checks just the checks, along with the bill, asserting traditional Democratic leader Chuck er’s gavel after Democrats other notable legisla- Republican spending and Schumer said this week, approved in a sweeping veto Friday or Saturday swept to the House majori- tive accomplishes, and security priorities in de- “After all the insanity that year-end package, declar- of the defense bill, could ty in the midterm election. could not agree on how fiance of a president who Senate Republicans have ing Congress has provided very well be among Mc- The Democratic-led to respond to the racial has marched the party in tolerated from President enough pandemic aid, for Connell’s final acts as ma- House went on to impeach injustice reckoning that a different direction. Trump — his attacks on now, as he blocked repeat- jority leader as two GOP the president over his re- erupted after the deaths Sen. Lindsey Graham, the rule of law, an indepen- ed Democratic attempts to senators in Georgia are in quest to the Ukrainian of George Floyd, Breonna R-S.C., a top Trump ally, dent judiciary, the conduct force a vote. the fights of their political president to “do us a favor” Taylor and other Black tried to bridge the divide that led to his impeach- Opening the Senate lives in runoff elections against Biden ahead of the Americans at the hands of Thursday, saying Con- ment — is this where Sen- on Thursday, McConnell next week that will deter- presidential election. The law enforcement. gress could try again to ate Republicans are going called the House-passed mine which party controls Republican-led Senate Instead, the Senate approve Trump’s push for to draw the line — $2,000 bill matching Trump’s the Senate. acquitted the president was primarily focused bigger COVID aid checks checks to the American $2,000 request “socialism Trump made an early in 2020 of the charges of on filling the courts with in the new session, which people?” for rich people” who don’t return Thursday to the abuse of power and ob- Trump’s conservative ju- opens Sunday. Senate Majority Lead- need the federal help. He White House from his pri- struction of Congress. dicial nominees, including “I am with President er Mitch McConnell has prefers a more targeted vate club in Florida. When the pandemic confirming his third Su- Trump on this,” Graham shown little interest in approach. Trump and Presi- struck, Congress rallied preme Court justice, Amy said on Fox News. Trump’s push to bolster The refusal to act on dent-elect Joe Biden are with unusual speed and Coney Barrett. Pence seeks dismissal of suit aiming to overturn election WASHINGTON (AP) — thority and sole discretion dent to lose a reelection to appoint a special coun- The Justice Department in determining which elec- bid in almost 30 years, sel to look into the presi- has asked a federal judge toral votes to count for a has attributed his defeat dent’s claims about the to dismiss a last-gasp law- given State.” to widespread voter fraud. 2020 election. He resigned suit led by a House Re- The Justice Department But a range of nonparti- from his post last week. publican that seeks to give is representing Pence in san election officials and Trump and his allies Republicans has con- Vice President Mike Pence a case that aims to find have filed roughly 50 firmed there was no fraud the power to overturn the a way to keep his boss, lawsuits challenging elec- PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS results of the presidential President Donald Trump, in the November contest tion results, and nearly election won by Joe Biden in power. In a court filing that would change the re- President-elect Joe Biden, right, listens as Jan- all have been dismissed et Yellen, who Biden nominated to serve as Sec- when Congress formally in Texas on Wednesday, sults of the election. That or dropped. He’s also lost retary of the Treasury, speaks at The Queen counts the Electoral Col- the department said Rep. includes former Attorney twice at the Supreme theater. lege votes next week. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, General William Barr, Pence, as president of and a group of Republi- who said he saw no reason Court. the Senate, will oversee can electors from Arizona the session Wednesday “have sued the wrong de- Biden’s pick to and declare the winner fendant” — if, in fact, any of the White House race. of those suing actually The Electoral College this have “a judicially cogniza- lead Treasury month cemented Biden’s ble claim.” 306-232 victory, and mul- The department says, in tiple legal efforts by Pres- effect, that the suit objects ident Donald Trump’s to long-standing proce- made $7 million campaign to challenge the dures laid out in law, “not results have failed. any actions that Vice Pres- The suit names Pence, ident Pence has taken,” so who has a largely cere- he should not be the tar- in speaking fees monial role in next week’s get of the suit. proceedings, as the defen- “A suit to establish that By Will Weissert climate change. dant and asks the court the Vice President has ASSOCIATED PRESS But receiving steep pay- to throw out the 1887 law discretion over the count, FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS ments from Wall Street that spells out how Con- filed against the Vice Pres- REHOBOTH BEACH, bankers and other pow- gress handles the vote ident, is a walking legal Vice President Mike Pence, as president of the Del. — President-elect erful corporations could counting. It asserts that contradiction,” the depart- Senate, will oversee the session when Congress Joe Biden’s choice to be become an issue as her the vice president “may ment argues. formally counts the Electoral College votes treasury secretary, Jan- nomination works its way exercise the exclusive au- Trump, the first presi- next week. et Yellen, collected more through a closely divided than $7 million in speak- Senate. Hillary Clinton ing fees over the past two faced criticism from the years from major finan- left wing of the Democrat- Once a model, California now cial firms and tech giants ic Party while running including Citigroup, Gold- for president in 2016 for man Sachs and Google, having received lucra- according to disclosure struggles to tame COVID-19 tive speaking fees at Wall forms filed as part of her Street firms. nomination. A Biden transition By Brian Melley out the past efforts, which virus cases surpassed 20 mission of the virus, many Yellen’s was among ASSOCIATED PRESS for much of the year held million, nearly twice as of these deaths would not three financial disclo- spokesperson said Friday that, since leaving the the virus to manageable many as the No. 2 coun- have happened,” said Bar- sures turned in by Biden LOS ANGELES — Am- levels. Cramped housing, try, India, and nearly bara Ferrer, the county’s transition officials that Fed, Yellen has “spoken bulances waited hours for at economic conferences, travel and Thanksgiving one-quarter of the more public health director, were made public on openings to offload coro- gatherings contributed to than 83 million cases who has pleaded with universities and to busi- navirus patients. Over- Thursday by the Office of the spread, along with the globally, according to data people not to get together ness groups and finan- flow patients were moved Government Ethics. In a public’s fatigue amid reg- from Johns Hopkins Uni- and worsen the spread. cial institutions about to hospital hallways and separate filing, Yellen list- ulations that closed many versity. Crowded houses and ed firms and banks where her experiences and her gift shops, even a cafete- schools and businesses In California, the south- apartments are often cit- she had received speak- views on what we can ria. Refrigerated trucks and encouraged — or re- ern half of the state has ed as a source of spread, ing fees and said she in- do as a country to build were on standby, ready to quired — an isolated life- seen the worst effects, particularly in Los Ange- tended to “seek written a stronger economy and store the dead. style. from the agricultural les, which has some of the authorization” from eth- increase our competitive- For months, California Another factor could be San Joaquin Valley to densest neighborhoods in ics officials to “participate ness.” He added that “this did many of the right personally and substan- is not someone who pulls things to avoid a cata- a more contagious vari- the Mexico border. Hos- the U.S. Households in tially” in matters involv- punches when it comes to strophic surge from the ant of the virus detected pitals are swamped with and around LA often have ing them. bad actors or bad behav- pandemic. But by the time in Southern California, patients, and intensive several generations — or Yellen was the Federal ior.” Gov. Gavin Newsom said although it’s not clear yet care units have no more multiple families — living Reserve chair from 2014 Oregon Democratic on Dec. 15 that 5,000 body how widespread that may beds for COVID-19 pa- under one roof. Those tend to 2018. Her term was Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking bags were being distribut- be. tients. Makeshift wards to be lower-income areas not renewed by President member of the chamber’s ed, it was clear that the California’s woes have are being set up in tents, where residents work es- Donald Trump. She took Finance Committee, said nation’s most populous helped fuel the year-end arenas, classrooms and sential jobs that can ex- in the speaking fees in he expects Yellen’s nom- state had entered a new U.S. infection spike and conference rooms. pose them to the virus at 2019 and 2020. ination to “move forward phase of the COVID-19 added urgency to the at- Hospitalizations state- work or while commuting. Her selection by Biden to quickly, with her hearing crisis. tempts to beat back the wide have gone up more The socioeconomic sit- lead the Treasury Depart- held before Inauguration Now infections have scourge that has killed than eightfold in two uation in LA County is ment has been cheered by Day” on Jan. 20. been racing out of control more than 340,000 Amer- months and nearly tenfold “like the kindling,” said progressive Democrats, “In the last few years, for weeks, and California icans. Even with vaccines in Los Angeles County. On Paula Cannon, a profes- who support Yellen’s work she has shared her views has routinely set new re- becoming available, cas- Thursday, the total num- sor of microbiology and as a labor economist who in a range of forums — cords for infections and es are almost certain to ber of California deaths immunology at the Uni- has long prioritized com- congressional testimony, deaths. It remains at or continue growing, and yet surpassed 25,000, joining versity of Southern Cali- bating economic inequal- media interviews, speak- near the top of the list of another surge is expected only New York and Texas fornia. “And now we got to ity. Since her nomination ing engagements, and states with the most new in the weeks after Christ- at that milestone. the stage where there was was announced, Yellen opinion pieces,” Wyden cases per capita. mas and New Year’s. “Most heartbreaking is enough COVID out in the has pledged to work to said in a statement. “She’s Experts say a variety of On Friday, the number that if we had done a bet- community that it lit the fight systemic racism and been fully transparent.” factors combined to wipe of confirmed U.S. corona- ter job of reducing trans- fire.” B4 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 COMICS

OFF THE MARK / MARK PARISI MODERATELY CONFUSED / JEFF STAHLER DILBERT / SCOTT ADAMS

ROSE IS ROSE / PAT BRADY

GARFIELD / JIM DAVIS BIG NATE / LINCOLN PEIRCE

ARLO AND JANIS / JIMMY JOHNSON

HERMAN / JIM UNGER ZIGGY / TOM WILSON

THE BORN LOSER / ART AND CHIP SANSOM

CROSSWORD DEAR ABBY Woman is hurt to be kept at arm’s length by sister DEAR ABBY: I have to tell him repeatedly spent years trying to Dear Abby is written by Abigail that I have moved on and have a close relationship I’m tired. Things got so with my older sister, but Van Buren, also known as Jeanne bad I eventually had a it is clearly not a priority Phillips, and was founded by her mental breakdown and for her. We are very dif- mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact had to seek professional ferent people, but I was help. hoping our shared histo- Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. I’m currently in a new ry and family bond would Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. relationship, and I have be enough for her to pri- never been so happy. My oritize me and my son. husband threatens this We come from a very new man and calls him small family on both with a divorce and other with her will never hap- names. I’m in the process sides and, one day, we life stressors. I received pen. of filing for divorce, but will be some of the few no support from her For whatever reasons, he makes me feel I am remaining family mem- during my divorce. In she isn’t capable of giving obligated to give him the bers. fact, she seemed to take you what you need. You chance to make things I haven’t heard from my ex’s side despite his will find the closeness you right. Am I wrong for her in months during the having emotionally crave by developing wanting to move on? pandemic, which has abused me for years. stronger relationships been hurtful. I’m a work- Should I expect that we with your friends. Sadly, END OF MY ROPE ing single mother, trying will ever have a closer for your sister, she won’t IN NEVADA to take care of my son relationship or just ac- give herself the gift of during this dark time, cept that it won’t hap- these important and re- DEAR END: No, you and she hasn’t bothered pen? warding kinds of experi- are not! You have suffered to check on us even once. ences. enough, so do not back- She once told me that HURT IN ALABAMA track. You are not obligat- the only things she cares DEAR ABBY: I recent- ed to give your alcoholic about are her own son DEAR HURT: If your ly separated from my husband more time than and her dogs. I don’t un- description of your sister husband of 16 years. He you have already devoted. derstand how she can is accurate, she has is an alcoholic who refus- If you allow him to wear have such a loving heart drawn a tight circle es to seek help. He can’t you down, there will only for animals but no con- around herself that she hold a job or help with be more of what you have cern for her own family. doesn’t want breached. household expenses already experienced. (If She can be very selfish You stated that the two of when he does work. you are even tempted, call and has had no close girl- you are very different peo- We have been separat- your therapist!) friends during her adult- ple, but on some level you ed for five months, and he That he refuses to seek hood. haven’t allowed yourself feels that I “owe” him an- treatment speaks vol- Growing up, she was to accept what that other chance. I gave him umes. If you and the new jealous of me, but I means. You will be hurt warning after warning man in your life feel thought things would be less once you accept that for six years — and there threatened, file a police different after I struggled your fantasy of closeness was no change. I continue report. BRIDGE

The defenders provide clues Elizabeth Gaskell, in her first novel, two of the three unbid suits (not just “Mary Barton,” wrote, “There is al- the minors). ways a pleasure in unraveling a mys- North will wonder about a slam, tery, in catching at the gossamer clue but he knows that his partner might which will guide to certainty.” have bid under pressure, and suits Bridge players can relate to that. will tend to break badly. He bids five First today, though, what should South diamonds, then passes when South do after East opens four spades? rebids five hearts to show the round- Suppose that South ends in five ed suits. (Yes, North might advance hearts. West leads a spade. East with five hearts, willing to get to six takes the trick and shifts to the club diamonds if partner has the minors.) eight. What clue should South spot? In the play, the club finesse is When East opens four spades, probably losing, so declarer must it could be best for South to pass. draw trumps safely. There is a natu- However, with two five-card suits, it ral reaction to play the preemptor for would be cautious not to enter the shortness, but his club shift is sure- auction — but how? ly a singleton; and he wouldn’t do Usually, South would make a Mi- that with only one trump. So, South chaels Cue-Bid to show at least 5-5 should win trick two with his club in hearts and a minor. But here that ace, play a heart to the king and re- would drive the auction to the six-lev- turn a trump, conceding one spade el. So South intervenes with four no- and one club when the heart queen trump, which shows at least 5-5 in pops up. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 THE DAILY ITEM B5 TV BEST BETS EVENING TV LISTINGS SATURDAY’S TV JANUARY 2, 2021 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 Saturday, Jan. 2 ic expeditions and the evolution of the BROADCAST STATIONS most scrutinized shipwreck in the world. 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Romance is featured, but Law & Order: Spe- Law & Order: Spe- Law & Order: Spe- Law & Order: Spe- Modern Modern Modern Modern Modern USA caution is encouraged. cial Victims Unit cial Victims Unit cial Victims Unit cial Victims Unit Family Family Family Family Family Love & Hip Hop Love & Hip Hop Sa- Love & Hip Hop Love & Hip Hop Love & Hip Hop Love & Hip Hop Love & VH1 faree gets cold feet. “Spirituali-Tea” Hip Hop B6 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 UK in ‘eye of the storm’ amid surging of cases By Pan Pylas the U.K. has recorded its deaths, there are huge ASSOCIATED PRESS four highest daily new in- concerns about the path fection numbers over the of the pandemic over the LONDON — British past four days — all above coming month or two. hospitals around the 50,000 and around double Britain already has Eu- country face a perilous the daily number of a few rope’s second-highest vi- situation in January, weeks ago. rus death toll at 74,125 medical workers warned The Royal College of after another 613 deaths Friday amid surging coro- Nursing’s England direc- were recorded Friday. The navirus infections blamed tor, Mike Adams, told Sky country looks set to over- on a new virus variant. News that the U.K. was in take Italy and become Eu- Authorities pressed to the “eye of the storm” and rope’s worst-hit country reactivate field hospitals previously mothballed that it was “infuriating” once again. just to handle the crush of to see people not follow- As a result of the spike new patients. ing social distancing guid- in new infections, which Concerns are mounting ance or wearing masks. has prompted even tight- about the ability of the A leading physician er lockdown restrictions, PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS already stretched Nation- also warned of burnout British authorities have A father and his sons transport cows from a flooded area to drier ground al Health Service to cope among health workers on changed their strategy for with the anticipated in- the front line in hospitals, rolling out coronavirus using a dugout canoe, in Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan. crease in people seeking while also urging people vaccines, choosing to get treatment for COVID-19 to follow the rules. more people an initial jab infections over the com- “I am worried,” Adri- as soon as possible, and ‘Our children die in our hands:’ ing weeks that could be an Boyle, vice president delaying the second shot further fueled by holiday of the Royal College of for up to three months. gatherings over Christ- Emergency Medicine, told In a joint statement, the Floods ravage South Sudan mas and New Year’s. the BBC. “We are very chief medical officers for On Friday, the U.K. re- much at battle stations.” England, Scotland, Wales corded another 53,285 The spike in new cases and Northern Ireland, By Maura Ajak village of Wangchot after destroyed her family’s new infections, down is said to be due to a new, said the first vaccine dose ASSOCIATED PRESS their home was swamped. crops and life has been a slightly from the previ- more contagious variant offers “substantial” pro- “We don’t have food here, struggle for months, with OLD FANGAK, South we rely only on U.N. hu- people selling their prized ous day’s record high of of the virus first identi- tection. Sudan (AP) — On a scrap 55,892. Although com- fied around London and Currently, two vaccines manitarian agencies or cattle to buy food that’s of land surrounded by by collecting firewood and never enough. parisons with the outset the southeast of England. have been approved for flooding in South Sudan, of the pandemic are dif- Given the time lags be- use in the U.K. and both selling it,” she said. “My The family eats just families drink and bathe children get sick because two meals a day and the ficult given that testing tween new cases, hospi- require two doses per per- from the waters that was limited in the spring, talizations and COVID-19 son. of the floodwaters, and adults often go to bed on swept away latrines and there is no medical service empty stomachs, she said. continue to rise. in this place.” She has begun collecting Some 1 million peo- She said she eagerly water lilies and wild fruits ple in the country have waits for peace to return for food. been displaced or isolated to the country, with the She said she had little for months by the worst belief that medical ser- knowledge of the corona- flooding in memory, with vices will follow “that will virus pandemic ravaging the intense rainy season be even enough for us.” other parts of the world a sign of climate change. One of her nieces, and spreading largely The waters began rising in Nyankun Dhoal, delivered undetected in poorly re- June, washing away crops, her seventh child into a sourced South Sudan. swamping roads and wors- world of water in Novem- “There are many diseas- ening hunger and disease ber. es living among us, so we in the young nation strug- “I feel very tired and my can’t figure out if it’s coro- gling to recover from civ- body feels really weak,” navirus or not,” she said. il war. Now famine is a she said. One of her Instead, her fear is that threat. breasts was swollen, and the makeshift water dike On a recent visit by The her baby had rashes. She around their home could Associated Press to the wishes for food, and for collapse at any time, flood- Old Fangak area in hard- plastic sheeting so that ing the young children. hit Jonglei state, parents she and her family can The chief of Wangchot spoke of walking for hours stay dry. village, James Diang, in chest-deep water to find The mud sucks at peo- made the decision early food and health care as ple’s feet as they engage in during the flooding to send malaria and diarrheal dis- the daily struggles to hold badly affected children to eases spread. PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS back the waters and find the town center after sev- Regina Nyakol Piny, a something to eat. eral drowned “and every- It was a quiet night on Wardour Street in London, as the New Year’s Eve mother of nine, now lives Nyaduoth Kun, a moth- thing was being destroyed fireworks display was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. in a primary school in the er of five, said the floods rapidly.” CLASSIFIED

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By Jill Lawless now, I think, that we move ASSOCIATED PRESS on and go from there,” he said. LONDON — A steady The break comes 11 trickle of trucks rolled off months after a political ferries and trains on both Brexit that left the two sides of the English Chan- sides in a “transition peri- nel on Friday, a quiet New od” in which EU rights and Year’s Day after a seismic rules continued to apply to PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS overnight shift in relations Britain. Medical personnel attend pto atients at Casa- between the European The trade agreement Union and Britain. lpalocco Covid 3 hospital in the outskirts of sealed on Christmas Eve Rome in the early hours of the new year. The busy goods route be- after months of tense ne- tween southeast England gotiations ensures that the and northwest France is two sides can continue to on the front line of changes buy and sell goods with- New Year comes now that the U.K. has fully PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS out tariffs or quotas. But left the economic embrace People watch the first truck, from Estonia, en- companies face sheaves of of the 27-nation bloc, the fi- tering the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, new costs and paperwork, nal stage of Brexit. northern France. Eleven months after Britain’s including customs declara- to COVID ward, “For the majority of tions and border checks. trucks, they won’t even formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday. The English Channel port notice the difference,” of Dover and the Eurotun- with hope for said John Keefe, spokes- nel braced for delays as the pendence from the EU and COVID-19, which is surg- man for Eurotunnel, new measures were intro- its web of rules. ing across the country. which carries vehicles un- duced. der the Channel. “There British Prime Minister In the subdued streets The vital supply route was end to nightmare was always the risk that Boris Johnson called it “an of London — which voted snarled after France closed if this happened at a busy amazing moment for this strongly to remain in the its border to U.K. truckers a year ago. time then we could run country.” EU in Britain’s 2016 refer- for 48 hours during Christ- By Andrea Rosa ASSOCIATED PRESS “It was all unexpected,” into some difficulties, but “We have our freedom in endum — there was little mas week in response to a Petrassi told The Associat- it’s happening overnight our hands, and it is up to us enthusiasm for Brexit. fast-spreading variant of ROME — While the ed Press. on a bank holiday and a to make the most of it,” he “I think it is a disaster, the virus identified in En- world said goodbye — or Italy was the early epi- long weekend.” said in a New Year’s video among many disasters this gland. Some 15,000 truck- good riddance — to 2020, a center of the pandemic in Britain left the Europe- message. year,” said Matt Steel, a ers needed emergency year in which the pandem- Europe in the spring. Im- an bloc’s vast single mar- The historic moment doctor. “It is a crappy deal. virus tests just to get into ic brought hardship and ages of Italian nurses and ket for people, goods and passed quietly, with U.K. I don’t really see any posi- France, a process that left pain to billions, some of doctors, exhausted as they services at 11 p.m. London lockdown measures against tives in it, to be honest.” many stuck in their trucks those who have been fight- briefly removed their pro- time on New Year’s Eve, in the coronavirus curtail- But in seaside Folkestone, for days. ing the virus on the front tective gear, became a grim the biggest single economic ing mass gatherings to at the English end of the But the pandemic and lines soldiered on even as portent of what would hap- change the country has ex- celebrate or mourn. Brex- Channel Tunnel, retired a holiday weekend meant the clock passed midnight. pen to their colleagues in perienced since World War it, which had dominated bank manager David Binks cross-Channel traffic was At the Casalpalocco Spain, France, the Unit- II. A new U.K.-EU trade public debate in Britain said he was relieved that light on Friday. Britain has Covid 3 Hospital on the ed States and elsewhere, deal will bring restrictions for years, was even pushed the tortuous Brexit saga also delayed imposing full outskirts of Rome doctors months later. and red tape, but for British off some newspaper front was — just possibly — over. customs checks for several and nurses barely seemed Last month, after a sum- Brexit supporters, it means pages by news of the huge “It’s been going on for so months so that companies to register the new year as mer in which Italy seemed reclaiming national inde- vaccination effort against long now that the time is can adjust. they tended to 100 patients to have beaten back the struggling with serious to scourge, it again became critical illness as a result the country with the high- Iraq explosives experts working to of coronavirus infections. est death toll in Europe. In one intensive care And once more, the grim ward, all but one of a dozen reality was reflected in the defuse mine on oil tanker beds were occupied. Medi- eyes of Italy’s medical staff. cal staff calmly tended to “Now we are almost BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi another vessel. It did not patients lying in dimly lit reaching the 12 months explosives experts were identify either vessels or rooms, dispensed medica- of this pandemic and un- working to defuse a large provide more details. tion, checked respirato- fortunately we still don’t mine discovered on an oil The discovery came ry machines and filled in have the possibility to say tanker in the Persian Gulf amid heightened tensions medical records. it’s over,” said Petrassi. and evacuate its crew, au- between Iran and the “This particular one “We only have the hope of thorities said Friday. U.S. in the waning days of (New Year’s Eve) is a sur- the mass vaccination that, The statement came a President Donald Trump’s real night, as was Christ- we hope, will contribute to day after two private se- administration. mas, as will be the Epiph- control this ominous phe- curity firms said sailors Already, America has any, as was the past Easter nomenon.” feared they had found a conducted B-52 bomber and all the other holidays,” European regulators ap- limpet mine on the MT flyovers and sent a nu- said Dr. Paolo Petrassi, the proved the first vaccine Pola, a Liberian-flagged clear submarine into the night shift coordinator. shortly before Christmas. tanker in the waters off Persian Gulf over what “They are, let’s say, holi- Countries across the Eu- the Iraqi port of Basra. A Trump officials describe PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS days detached from what ropean Union began ad- limpet mine is a type of as the possibility of an was the real world once, as ministering the shots on An aerial photo shows oil tankers load crude naval mine that attaches Iranian attack on the we have known it forever.” Dec. 27, but it will be a to the side of a ship, usu- one-year anniversary of oil at Iraq’s Al-Basra Offshore Terminal in Bas- The 53-year-old recount- long time before a sizeable ally by a diver-member the U.S. drones strike in ra. ed the experience now fa- number of the bloc’s 450 miliar to so many in the million inhabitants are im- of special forces. It later Baghdad that killed a top Sudharsan Sarathy, a se- ships in the waiting area explodes, and can signifi- Iranian general and a top medical profession world- munized. nior oil analyst at the da- in Iraq’s international cantly damage a vessel. Iraqi militia leader. wide who have had to treat Experts say at least 60- ta-analysis firm Refinitiv. waters, 28 nautical miles The Iraqi statement said Iraq is marking the an- COVID patients: having 70 percent of the popula- Smaller vessels carry the from Iraqi oil ports. the mine had been at- niversary with a series of to constantly monitor pa- tion need to be vaccinated fuel oil to the ship, which tached to a tanker rented events this week. Despite high waves, the tients and manage their to prevent the virus from then conducts ship-to-ship from Iraq’s Oil Marketing On Thursday, the United vessel receiving the fuel condition, with each hav- getting a foothold. Company SOMO that was Kingdom Marine Trade transfers in the Persian was evacuated while the ing their own set of compli- Petrassi hopes the night- refueling another vessel. Operations, an organiza- Gulf to clients. Iraqi team was still work- cated problems. mare of COVID will end Iraq’s naval forces were tion under Britain’s royal Sarathy said the Pola ing on neutralizing the Over 83 million infec- soon. making “a great effort to navy, said on its website was conducting a ship-to- mine and evacuating the tions with the coronavi- “We all live in uncertain- accomplish the mission” that an “unknown object” ship transfer with the MT refueling ship, it said. rus have been confirmed ty, but at the same time we safely, said Iraq’s Security had been attached to a Nordic Freedom, a Bermu- In 2019, the U.S. blamed worldwide, and over 1.8 hope, and we are all doing Media Cell, which is affil- ship’s hull in the vicinity da-flagged tanker. Iran for a series of limpet million deaths. Along with our best,” he said. “We are iated with the country’s of Iraq’s Khor Al-Zubair Friday’s statement said mine attacks on oil tank- the elderly, medical staff using all of our profession- security forces. Port, without providing an explosives-handling ers near the Strait of Hor- have been particularly al and physical resources, It was the first official further information. team from Iraq’s Interi- muz, the narrow mouth of hard hit, struggling to save our knowledge, our con- Iraqi confirmation that a The Pola serves as float- or Ministry was airlifted the Persian Gulf through patients even as their own science, giving up time mine was discovered on an ing fuel oil storage of to the scene after a “for- which 20 percent of all the colleagues have fallen ill with our families, ours Iraqi tanker transferring Iraq’s State Organization eign body” was observed world’s oil passes. Iran de- with a disease almost no- and our beloved ones’ free fuel in the Persian Gulf to of Marketing of Oil, said attached to one of the nies being involved. body could have imagined time.” After criticism, Bosnia sets up tents for freezing migrants

By Kemal Softic diers had arrived to put buses, waiting to move, ASSOCIATED PRESS up tents for the migrants, but ended up back in the which will be run by the burned-out Lipa camp BIHAC, Bosnia-Her- International Organiza- instead. For the past two zegovina — Trying to tion for Migration. nights, they have lit fires resolve a humanitarian Earlier Friday, the mi- to warm up at the muddy disaster, the Bosnian mil- grants held a protest to camp site. itary set up tents Friday highlight the horrendous Bosnia has struggled for hundreds of migrants conditions they are facing with the influx of thou- who have been stuck in a in Bosnia. Aid groups said sands of people fleeing burned-out refugee camp hundreds of migrants re- war and poverty in their that has no facilities to jected food and held up countries in the Mideast, fend off freezing winter banners calling for inter- Africa and Asia. Migrants weather. national help. mostly flock to Bosnia’s Bosnia has faced in- The authorities an- northwestern corner, ternational criticism nounced earlier this week which borders European for leaving some 1,000 that they would move the Union member Croatia, migrants without shel- migrants from Lipa to a from where they hope to ter after a fire engulfed former army compound move toward wealthier the squalid Lipa refugee in central Bosnia but plan European countries. But camp near its northwest was rejected after local many have reported vio- PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS border with Croatia over residents organized pro- lent pushbacks by Croa- a week ago. tests. tian border forces as well Migrants warm themselves around a fire at the Lipa camp outside Bihac, The armed forces said The migrants spent as hostility from Bosnian Bosnia, Wednesday after hundreds failed to be relocated from the burnt- Friday that about 150 sol- 24 hours in a convoy of residents. out tent camp in the northwest of the country. B8 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 REAL ESTATE

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ST U:C16 Source: Banker and Tradesman, $612,500 S: Rossana Ferrante S: LAR Prop Management LLC S: Ziad Nabbout $297,500 bakerandtradesman.com Scramble is back on to become Amazon of home sales By Jim Buchta half-dozen players in the ise of not having to ready Jim Lesinski, Minne- STAR TRIBUNE iBuyer space, including the house for sale and be- sota general manager at Zillow Offers, RedfinNow ing able to set a closing Opendoor, said that dur- When Opendoor, Zillow and Offerpad, said that to date based on when the ing the shutdown the com- Offers and other “iBuy- make the model more rel- new house they were buy- pany updated its process ers” popped up around evant they have retooled ing would be ready was to make it fully digital the country a few years the buying and selling enticing. and contact-free for sell- ago, they hoped to upend process with new systems “Maybe we could have ers. That included new the traditional homebuy- aimed at eliminating face- gotten a few thousand virtual interior home as- ing process by doing for to-face contact between dollars more (via a tradi- sessments, enabling the real estate what Amazon buyers and sellers. tional sale), but it’s hard seller to walk Opendoor did for online shopping by And in an effort to raise to know,” she said. “And reps through their home using technology to elimi- more cash, Opendoor we didn’t do one repair via video. nate all the hassles and recently made its case to our house or touch up “Today, we’re seeing con- uncertainties of buying to investors. Last week paint or fill nail holes. We sumers more widely adopt and selling a house. That included offering sellers Opendoor started trading literally just walked out of digital solutions,” he said. “instant” online offers on on the New York Stock the house. We didn’t even Because the company properties the companies Exchange after an initial have to clean it.” is still in the quiet phase would later resell. public offering that valued Such deals account for following its IPO, the But this spring, with the the company at $17 billion just a fraction of all real company wasn’t able to FILE PHOTO | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE pandemic bearing down just weeks after announc- estate transactions na- provide additional details on the economy and the ing a national expansion. Seattle-based Zillow will open a residential tionwide, according to an on market share or fu- future of the real estate The iBuyer model is the real estate brokerage — though on a very lim- analysis of MLS and pub- ture expansion plans. But market uncertain, those product of tech companies ited basis. lic records by real estate DelPrete said that while iBuyers stopped buying, that have built national transactions by Redfin, Opendoor is still the domi- interrupting efforts to dis- websites that feature listing the house for more iBuyer customer Amanda which operates its own nant iBuyer, its national rupt an industry that has house listings and real than they paid. Broz. “I couldn’t imagine iBuyer platform via Red- market share had fallen long relied on face-to-face estate data that’s gleaned Though critics of the going the traditional sales finNow. from 70 percent in 2018 to interactions. But now they from multiple listing ser- model said iBuyers de- route with two little kids During the third quarter 50 percent this year. Zil- are back at a time when vices and public records. prive sellers of the op- and being so busy in our of 2020 those iBuyers ac- low, meanwhile, had a 3 there’s a shortage of house Those companies are us- portunity to expose their careers.” counted for 0.2 percent of percent market share in listings and properties ing that information to property to a broader mar- When she and her hus- all U.S. home purchases. 2018, but now has 26 per- are selling in record time, create complicated algo- ket and the possibility of band, Dave Broz, decided That was a slight increase cent of the iBuyer market. prompting some analysts rithms based on recent a higher price, proponents they needed a bigger house, from the previous quarter, DelPrete said Open- to say the promise of an local sales of comparable said the services offer sell- they wanted to know how but far below a peak of 0.9 door’s expansion was like- instant offer isn’t enough. properties that enable ers the ability to forgo much their house might be percent during the same ly fueled by the prospect of “Overall, iBuyers are them to quickly determine all the typical premarket worth. They went to Zil- quarter a year earlier. its IPO. struggling in this high-de- the value of a property home preparations, in- low.com, which provides Just four years ago such “From an optics stand- mand, low-inventory mar- without an initial visual cluding home repairs and home-value estimates, and transactions were virtu- point, it needs to demon- ket,” said Mike DelPrete, inspection. staging. Sellers also don’t clicked on the “instant of- ally nonexistent. strate growth,” he said. a global real estate tech Instead of a traditional have to worry about open fer” button. In March, Zillow, Redfin “One way it can do that strategist. “The consumer real estate commission, houses, home showings They had no intention of and others halted home is by launching new mar- proposition of an instant sellers pay iBuyers a fee and listing photos. They doing of a virtual sale, but purchases because of lo- kets, and most of the new offer is less relevant and that’s negotiated before also offer a flexible and when they received an in- cal and state coronavirus markets it is launching appealing now than it’s the sale. After acquiring guaranteed closing and a stant offer just a couple of shutdowns but also be- are smaller, “satellite” been in the past.” the property the iBuyer quick sale. days later, they decided to cause of uncertainty in the markets near existing Opendoor and at least a does minor repairs before “It was painless,” said play it through. The prom- housing market. markets.”