MONDAY JULY 19, 2021 By Tréa Lavery Swampscott Conservancy ITEM STAFF SWAMPSCOTT — The Swampscott Conservancy is advocating for a ban on balloons in the town, saying that they have a detrimental effect on the airing out its case environment and on animals that may ingest them. In a post on the Conservancy’s website, President Toni Bandrowicz ac- knowledged that balloons are a bright and fun way of celebrating happy against balloons events, but asked residents to consider the negative impacts as well as the positive. “To protect nature in our neighborhood, perhaps it’s time for Swamp- scott to consider such a by-law — or at least a policy that bans balloons at town-sponsored events, on town-owned properties, or for any events requir- ing town approval,” Bandrowicz said. “The town should promote the use of non-disposable, reusable decorations for such events, not balloons and other single-use plastic decorations.” A handful of communities in Massachusetts have already enacted similar rules, including Chatham, Everett, Nantucket and Provincetown. In 2019, State Representative Sarah Peake of Provincetown introduced a bill that would ban “the sale, distribution and release of any type of balloon, includ- ing, but not limited to, plastic, latex or mylar, lled with any type of lighter BALLOONS, A3 Lynn, Revere and MBTA mapping out transit plan By Allysha Dunnigan ITEM STAFF The Massachusetts Bay Transporta- tion Authority (MBTA) announced its collaboration with municipal partners, including Revere and Lynn, for a series of bus priority projects that will construct up to 4.8 miles of bus lanes — and other pro-transit infrastructure upgrades — to improve bus speed and reliability as the region re-opens from COVID-19-related regulations. These summer projects will address transit delays on congested roadways to improve bus travel time and reliability, ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK as well as ef ciently move more people Rain didn’t deter spectators from taking in “The Wall That Heals” in Nahant following the Welcome Home to support economic recovery and public ceremony for the wall on Saturday. health. As part of the MBTA’s Better Bus Proj- ect and Transit Priority effort, these projects are a major initiative to improve ‘The Wall That Heals’ hits Nahant bus service and the system as a whole. By Sam Minton ny, even as the sky cracked with thun- the crowd to be quiet. The band member Several of the projects received funding ITEM STAFF der. Nothing could stop people from pointed out a veteran and thanked him through the Baker-Polito Administra- getting to witness this chapter of Amer- for his service. tion’s Shared Winter Streets and Spaces NAHANT — Standing at 375 feet long, ican history. The governor said that this apprecia- grant program, which aims to improve it’s hard to miss “The Wall That Heals.” The rain was almost tting in a way. tion showed how the country had grown traf c and transit conditions in support of The replica of the Vietnam Veterans At the end of the ceremony, a speaker since Vietnam. Instead of condemning public health, safe mobility and renewed Memorial visited Nahant, which held said that it represents the tears shed by soldiers for the decisions made by poli- commerce across the Commonwealth. a “Welcome Home” ceremony Saturday. family members and friends who lost ticians, Baker said, Americans thanked “These are precisely the kinds of proj- The event was attended by Governor someone in the war. veterans for their willingness to go ects the Baker-Polito Administration Charlie Baker, as well as Medal of Hon- Baker retold some remarks that were above and beyond for their country. had in mind in awarding municipalities or recipient Ryan Pitts, who was a key- given when the wall visited Gloucester a “We have to be able to separate the Shared Winter Streets and Spaces fund- note speaker. few years ago. He remembered going to warrior from the war because I know at ing for public transportation needs as we Though rain was pouring down, com- a Blink-182 concert with his family and munity members ocked to the ceremo- during the show a band member told WALL, A3 MBTA, A7 In-person Peabody summer candidate school calls for returns responsible in Lynn development By Anne Marie Tobin By Allysha ITEM STAFF Dunnigan ITEM STAFF PEABODY — Ward 4 City Council candidate Julie Daigle LYNN — Entering its unveiled a new campaign adver- third week, the summer tisement last week pledging to programs in the district’s Saugus Middle-High School was awarded the grand prize in Learning By Design maga- hold developers more account- schools have returned to zine’s spring 2021 Educational Design Awards Showcase. able and protect the quality of normal after more than a life of city residents. year of remote and hybrid “As city councilor, I will scru- learning, as well as con- Saugus Middle-High School is grand tinize development proposals to stant mask wearing. ensure that they meet the needs Students in the ele- By Sam Minton was awarded the grand prize in establishes a welcoming, moti- of our city and are appropriate mentary school summer ITEM STAFF Learning By Design magazine’s vating experience for students. for the areas in which they are programs are no longer spring 2021 Educational De- Town Manager Scott Crabtree proposed,” Daigle says in the video ad. “I believe in responsi- required to wear masks SAUGUS — The school de- sign Awards Showcase. Judges mentioned that the design of the or practice social distanc- partment’s investment in the ble development that bene ts pointed out the school’s unique school really changes how teach- ing, and are now allowed Middle-High School has added all of us, not just the developer.” concepts to improve education, ing and learning can ourish. to share materials and a trophy to the town’s collection. community well-being and social In the 90-second ad, Daigle work closely in groups and Saugus Middle-High School equity, as well as how the design PRIZE, A3 discusses the housing develop- classroom activities. ment project known as Kings At Connery Elementa- Residences Peabody slated for ry School, the Summer Opinion Sports 15 King St., the former site of Learning Coordinator INSIDE In ation hurts poor and low- Peabody West outlasts Peabody, the J.B. Thomas Hospital and SCHOOL, A3 income Americans the most. A4 takes home District 16 title. B1 DAIGLE, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 72° VOL. 142, ISSUE 189 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 65° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY JULY 19, 2021 OBITUARIES Probe: Journalists, Paul Joseph Laubner Nathalie J. (Good) Kehoe, 98 1922 - 2021 WILKES-BARRE, PA - It is with activists among heavy hearts the family of Paul MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA Joseph Laubner announce his - Nathalie J. (Good) Kehoe peaceful passing into the arms of Manchester by the Sea firm’s spyware of his wife, Josie, Thursday, passed away three days shy September 17th, 2020. Born of her 99th birthday on Tues- in Lynn, MA in 1931 to George day morning, July 13, 2021 targets and Helen Laubner, Paul was at Seacoast Nursing & Reha- the 4th of five boys, prede- bilitation Center in Gloucester. By Frank Bajak called the Forbidden Sto- ceased by brothers, George, She was the wife of the late AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER ries report “full of wrong Philip and Bobby. Married assumptions and uncor- Kenneth Kehoe. Born in Lynn, BOSTON — An investi- in 1955 to Joanne Davis, Mom she was the daughter of the roborated theories.” and Dad began their journey, gation by a global media The company reiterated late Ernest and Evelyn (Knox) consortium based on leaked 1st in Nahant Mass, building Good. She was raised and its claim that it only sells their forever home then settling targeting data provides to governments for use educated in Lynn and gradu- further evidence that mil- on Virginia Terrace, the best ated from Lynn English High against terrorists and ma- street in Forty Fort, Pa. for a itary-grade malware from jor criminals. Critics call School, class of 1939. During Israel-based NSO Group, 20 year cocktail party then re- the Great Depression, Nathalie those claims dishonest and tiring back to their little island the world’s most infamous say repeated abuse of Pega- and her family sold Christmas hacker-for-hire outfit, is be- of Nahant. In the interim they strong work ethic and a love of sus spyware highlights the trees out of their driveway on ing used to spy on journal- managed to raise six children, all things beautiful, his gardens ter-by-the-Sea; her son, Thom- nearly complete lack of reg- East Park Avenue in Lynn. She ists, human rights activists provide a solid, loving home of Roses and Dahlias. We will as P. Kehoe and his partner ulation of the private global also held various newspaper and political dissidents. to family and friends and trav- miss this wonderful father who Marjorie Gove of Manchester- surveillance industry. routes in Lynn with her two From a list of more than eled to the ends of the earth, had such a kind, generous, brothers. During the Second by-the-Sea; five grandchildren The source of the leak — 50,000 cellphone numbers China, England, Haiti and Por- gentle soul. World War, Nathalie worked and their spouses, Benjamin and how it was authenti- obtained by the Paris-based tugal. Paul is survived by Service Information: In for General Electric as a screw Jackson and his wife Marina, cated — was not disclosed.