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Dump Truck Kills Moped Rider in Lynn DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 DEALS Elderly housing slated for Lynn to require masksOF THE $DAY$ former Union Hospital site in municipal buildingsPG. 3 By Allysha for the site of the former housing units and the By Gayla Cawley Mayor Thomas M. Mc- comes effective on Thurs- Dunnigan Union Hospital. rear portion, the hospi- ITEM NEWS EDITOR Gee announced Tuesday day, will also extend to ITEM STAFF The amendment im- tal’s back parking lot, for night that anyone visiting school buildings; masks age-restricted, detached LYNN — With COVID-19 will beDEALS required for all LYNN — The City Coun- plements zoning chang- cases rising again across or working in municipal es that will allow for the single-family homes. buildings must wear a face staff andOF students THE at the cil unanimously voted In terms of zoning for the country with the emer- start of the school year. In Tuesday to approve a zon- reuse of the front portion gence of the highly-con- mask. ing ordinance amendment of the hospital for senior UNION, A7 tagious Delta variant, This policy, which be- $DAMASKS,Y$ A7 PG. 3 Saugus sets DUMP TRUCK KILLS DEALS tentative start MOPED RIDER IN LYNN OF THE $DAY$ times for PG. 3 school year By Sam Minton ITEM STAFF DEALS SAUGUS — Students will get to sleep in a OF THE bit when school starts this fall. On Tuesday, Superintendent of Schools $DAY$ Erin McMahon announced new, later start PG. 3 times for the upcoming school year in an email to parents that was shared with The Item. Students at the new Saugus Middle-High School will begin their day at 7:50 a.m. and get out at 2:15 p.m. At the Belmonte STEAM Academy, students will begin their day at 8:05 a.m. and be released at 2:05 p.m. Final- ly, at the Veterans Early Learning Center, students will start learning at 8:30 a.m. and get out of school at 2:30 p.m. However, the changes are minimal, ac- cording to School Committee member John Hatch, who told The Item that the differenc- es are by only minutes, not by hours. The new start times were agreed upon at a meeting held on Monday between all of the school unions, including the Saugus Ed- ucators Association, Saugus Clerical Asso- ciation and Saugus Educational Assistants ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON Association, Hatch said. Lynn Police and State Police investigators at the scene of a fatal crash where a 55-year-old wom- McMahon said she will be recommending an died after she fell off of a moped and was run over by a 10-wheel dump truck near the intersec- the new start times to the School Commit- tion of Washington Street and Western Avenue. tee at its meeting this Thursday. The times have to be approved by the committee. LYNN — A 55-year-old woman Both occupants of the moped were and Lynn Police examined the scene. School Committee Vice Chair Ryan Fisher died after she fell off of a moped and sent to Salem Hospital, where the said he plans to support the proposed start A Lynn man at the scene said he was times. was run over by a 10-wheel dump woman was pronounced dead. The on his way to Stop & Shop when he “The district is going to continuously look truck near the intersection of Wash- man suffered non-life-threatening heard the moped crash into the truck, at start times so they work best for Saugus ington Street and Western Avenue injuries and is in stable condition, which was followed by screams and and work best for education,” said Fisher. “I Tuesday morning, police said. police said. people running toward the accident. support the proposal for this fall.” The woman was driving the mo- Washington Street was blocked off “When you see something like that The public will get to speak with McMa- ped, with her boyfriend on the back, from Western Avenue to the traffic it just makes your stomach turn,” hon about the upcoming school year, includ- when the truck hit them at around light on Boston Street until around the man said. “It’s tragic.” 9:20 a.m., which caused them both noon as the State Police Collision TIMES, A6 to fall off onto the street. Analysis and Reconstruction Section MOPED, A6 See the Nahant world gets on the its field YMCA of dreams By Allysha By Sam Minton Dunnigan ITEM STAFF ITEM STAFF NAHANT — The Lowlands LYNN — The YMCA of softball fields will look a little Metro North is hosting its different when residents make fourth annual Where in their next visit. the World gala at the new At a town meeting last May, Demakes Family YMCA members voted to allow the on Thursday, Sept. 23 town to use Community Pres- from 6-9 p.m. ervation Act funds in order This event, which is to make improvements to the the YMCA’s biggest fund- fields. As a result, the fields now raiser of the year, takes have a new backstop, outfield the form of a cocktail re- fence and benches. ception featuring seven The project cost $35,000 to different continents rep- $40,000 in Community Preser- resented by signature ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK cocktails, beer, wine and The softball fields at Lowlands Park in Nahant have been upgraded. FIELD, A7 cuisine, and will have per- formances by YMCA chil- dren. There will be a live auc- INSIDE: tion that includes two va- Swampscott super apologizes for ‘enthusiasm’ cation packages: One con- campaign for a new district-wide involve the construction of a K-5 sists of airfare, a round By Allysha Dunnigan Opinion elementary school, which will be Homework time for of golf, and a three-night ITEM STAFF school for 900 students on the site voted on at a special town meeting Lynn voters. A4 stay at Pebble Beach in of the current Stanley School. SWAMPSCOTT — Superinten- • Monterey, Calif.; the other next month. The new building would replace dent of Schools Pamela Angelakis Newman: Balloons are is a guided trip to Nash- “I have some happy news to the Hadley School, Stanley School, has sent an email to parents ad- an environmental haz- ville, Tenn. that includes share,” Angelakis wrote in the ini- and Clarke School. It would have dressing a past email she sent in ard. A4 the Country Music Hall of tial email. “There is a YES cam- separate entrances for younger and support of a new proposed elemen- Fame & Museum, Ryman paign for the new elementary older students, but there would be tary school that was viewed by op- school and its website is now up Sports Auditorium and a three- shared resources. Lynn’s Katie Burt ponents of the school as too political. and running.” The superintendent’s email in- In an Aug. 4 email to parents, An- This new elementary school is a making a return to the YMCA, A6 gelakis shows support for the YES $98.5 million project, which would SUPER, A6 Boston Pride. B1 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 90° VOL. 142, ISSUE 208 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 75° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 OBITUARIES Suit: Brown failed to protect Randall L. Johnson, III, 81 1940 - 2021 women from sexual misconduct TOPSFIELD - Randall L. John- son, III, age 81 of Topsfield, for- By Philip Marcelo ual misconduct on campus, merly of Lynn, passed away on ASSOCIATED PRESS including recommenda- tions from the university's Friday, August 6th, 2021. Brown University has Born in Lynn on April 29, sexual assault task force systematically and repeat- released in 2015. 1940, to the late Randall L. edly failed to protect wom- Jr. and Lola (Appleton) Mur- "Brown has made it an en from rape and other institutional priority to phy. Randall was a graduate of sexual misconduct, accord- Lynn Trade High School, grad- create an environment in ing to a federal class action which no incident of sex- uating with the Class of 1958. lawsuit led recently by Following high school, Randall ual violence is tolerated, four current and former fe- and the experiences and proudly enlisted into the United male students. States Navy, honorably serving perspective of students and The suit, which was led others impacted by sexual on board the Aircraft Carrier last Friday in Providence USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN CVS39. violence have been instru- federal court, alleges the After returning home from his mental in informing the Ivy League school in Rhode service, Randall worked as a actions we've taken," she Island actively prevented truck driver for Goldberg’s Fur- said. the reporting of incidents of niture Co on Monroe St FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS In a joint statement, the In addition to his sexual violence and perpet- four women named in the in Lynn. In his free time A cyclist rides along a path on the campus of he loved to collect an- parents, Randall is pre- uated a culture of silence on suit dismissed the school's Brown University, in Providence, R.I. tiques and attend flea deceased by his step- campus. recent efforts as "begrudg- markets. parents Doris Johnson One of the women said and sanctioned her after forward with their truth, ing, minor changes to policy she was advised against Surviving Randall are and Edward Murphy, she went public with her even under the best cir- and procedure" that have making a formal complaint his brothers; Charles, his sister Emma (John- concerns about his role in cumstances," she said.
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