DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 DEALS OF THE Swampscott Grand opening$DAY$ has elementary for DemakesPG. 3 Y By Steve Krause problem with ITEM STAFF LYNN — Tom Demakes wasn'tDEALS keen at rst on having the new YMCA in OFLynn THnamedE for his new school family. By Tréa Lavery But, said Kathleen Walsh,$ CEO of the$ YMCA of ITEM STAFF the Metro North, which includesDA Lynn,Y Demakes, CEO of Old Neighborhood FoodsPG. 3on Waterhill SWAMPSCOTT —A number of residents in ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Street, warmed up to it. town have formed a group to oppose the pro- A crowd of media and attendees of the grand opening of the And so Friday represented the culmination of posed new school on the site of the current Demakes Family YMCA take photos and video of the ribbon Stanley Elementary School. The group “Save Our Schools” has several cutting of the 70,000 square-foot facility in Lynn on Friday. DEMAKES, A6 complaints, but the main ones are traf c on DEALS and around Whitman Road, where the school OF THE is located; environmental concerns; and lack of transparency in the proposal process, said Peabody$ $ member Gail Brock. DAY “Nobody in Swampscott would deny that we PG. 3 need new schools. However, the Stanley School looks to plan is going to put two schools on a small space where one school currently exists,” Brock said. “The rami cations of the traf c and the air quality and the environmental impacts are reel in enormous. A lot of people are also concerned DEALS about the process by which they arrived at this OF THE decision, because we’ve been in a pandemic shing now for a long time, and a lot of people know $DAY$ nothing about this proposal.” PG. 3 The town’s School Building Committee has families proposed one universal elementary school on the Stanley site, divided into a lower school for By Anne Marie grades kindergarten to 2, and an upper school Tobin for grades 3 to 4. The project originally had an ITEM STAFF estimated price tag of $110 million, but that PEABODY — The city estimate has now dropped to approximately unveiled a new initiative $97.5 million, and the town is also hoping for designed to introduce partial reimbursement from the Massachu- families to an old-fash- setts School Building Authority. ioned pastime — shing. Currently, Swampscott has three elementa- "Let's Go Fishing at ry schools: Hadley Elementary, built in 1911; Crystal Lake" will be held Clarke School, built in 1952; and Stanley, built Saturday, May 15 in rec- in 1929. ognition of the National In 2014, a similar proposal was voted down ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Park Trust's 11th Annual by Town Meeting — something town of cials MIKE ALONGI Kids to Parks Day, which across the Select Board, School Committee, COMMENTARY celebrates outdoor play. "Kids to Parks asks com- SCHOOL, A7 munities to develop cre- COVID can’t compete ative ways to get kids into the outdoors to promote INSIDE discovery of the many fun with Classical-English things you can do out- Opinion doors," the city's Recre- Shribman: Can Joe Biden go the distance?A4 LYNN — The annual battle between Classi- Lynn Classical takes ation, Parks and Forestry cal and English, which normally takes place on on Lynn English in Director, Jennifer Davis, LOOK! Thanksgiving Day, commenced its 107th itera- a Thanksgiving Day said at a press conference Lynn’s Callahan School hosts tion Friday night at Manning Field. rivalry football game, held Friday at the lake. ‘touch a truck day’ for students. A8 And boy, was it a taste of some real normalcy. which was delayed "Years ago, our adven- Sports In what was the most well-attended game of until May due to the ture series included sh- any sport I’ve seen in nearly a year and a half COVID-19 pandemic. ing, but it was discontin- Saugus’ Ventre tosses perfect game in softball — there were 820 paid ticket stubs but closer ued for unknown reasons." opener. B1 Davis credited Bob Langley, the city's direc- RIVALRY, A7 tor of engineering and an avid sherman, for coordi- nating the dredging of the lake and restoration of the Lynn eld church area. She also acknowl- edged the Recreation pushes through Department's Outdoor Education Coordinator, Maureen Sammon, for the pandemic coming up with the idea. "Bob came to Maureen By Tréa Lavery and together they oat- ITEM STAFF ed the idea, and we all The members of Centre Congregational thought, 'why not bring Church thought that things couldn’t get any that back to Peabody?'" worse when the pandemic forced their pro- Davis said. "Fishing is grams online. a great activity for not Then, on May 30, a sprinkler burst in only kids, but families, so ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK the sanctuary ceiling, causing more than we are excited to bring it back." Salem Heights is undergoing a rehabilita- $600,000 worth of damage. “The hard thing has been when some Langley's son, Andrew tion and is looking to hire a resident con- Langley, the 2020 Mass- struction liaison. churches were starting to gather and follow- ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK ing the guidelines … we have not been able Wildlife's Freshwater The Rev. Nancy Rottman is the Catch-and-Release Angler pastor of Centre Congregational Salem Heights CHURCH, A7 Church. FISHING, A6 complex to undergo major renovation By Elyse grateful to have it hap- Carmosino pening,” Mayor Kimber- ITEM STAFF ley Driscoll said. “We’ve had challenges in this SALEM — Salem building, from elevators Heights, the city’s larg- breaking down to me- est affordable housing chanical units not work- complex, will undergo a ing properly, and so this major rehabilitation of its is going to be a signi - Pope Street residential cant upgrade in the me- building this summer. chanicals and ventilation The $40 million im- and some of the interior provement plan will in- buildout.” clude both interior and Salem Heights was exterior upgrades to the built during a time when 48-year-old, 283-unit the U.S. Department of building that houses se- Housing and Urban De- niors and working fami- velopment (HUD) was lies, including more than emphasizing the con- 170 children. struction of large-scale “(The remodeling) is long overdue and we’re RENOVATION, A6 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 54° VOL. 142, ISSUE 128 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ...............................B6 LOW 46° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 OBITUARIES NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS Man agrees to plead guilty chetti said, but the district to some charges in PPP attorney described it as Rosanne M. Fay, 72 Jean M. Mulhern, 67 part of the foundation. 1949 - 2021 1954 - 2021 fraud case City police and the feder- al Occupational Safety and A businessman who fed- SWAMPSCOTT - Rosanne LYNN, MA - Jean M. Mulhern, Health Administration re- eral authorities say faked Margaret Fay, of Swampscott, of Lynn, passed away at home sponded to the scene and suicide to avoid prosecu- entered into eternal life of in the care of hospice on May are also investigating. tion for fraudulently seek- May 6, 2021 after a long 3. Family members say ing hundreds of thousands and courageous battle with Jean was born on Feb 22, Harron was a father of of dollars in loans intend- cancer. She was 72 years of 1954 in Boston to Bradford three. age. Rosanne was the lov- and Isabel Mulhern. She grew ed for businesses strug- ing daughter of the late Lynn up in Wakeeld, Ma. where she gling during the coronavi- Rhode Island Police Chief Thomas F. Fay, Jr. was active in multiple sports. rus pandemic has agreed and Margaret H. (Deveney) Fay. After attending Mass College to plead guilty to some police ofcer convicted of Her brother Thomas F. Fay III of Art, Jean began a ten-year charges, according to court assaulting detainee of Pembroke, with whom she career at Boston City Hospi- documents. shared a very special bond, tal, where she was a member David Staveley, 53, of PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) survives her. Rosanne was of the rst class of women to Andover, Mass., will plead — A Rhode Island police born in Lynn and was a grad- serve on Health and Hospitals guilty to conspiracy to com- ofcer has been convicted uate of St. Mary’s High School, ambulances. She then began mit bank fraud and failure of punching and kneeing a and received a bachelor’s and a career in health insurance to appear in court charges, man in custody. master’s degrees from Salem at Blue Cross, becoming an according to documents Cranston Ofcer Andrew State University. She was underwriter working at several led Thursday in federal Leonard, 40, was found a dedicated teacher for 43 the successes but never com- medical re-insurers, and retired Nashua N.H, Leslie Mulhern court in Rhode Island. guilty Thursday after a years in the Lynn School Sys- plaining when things did not when necessitated by health of San Francisco, CA, Priscilla In exchange, feder- three-day bench trial of tem. Rosanne enjoyed her job work out as planned. This at- issues. Mulhern of Syracuse, N.Y, An- al prosecutors agreed to misdemeanor simple as- immensely as it provided her titude served her well in later In her retirement, Jean vol- drew Mulhern, and sister-in-law dismiss charges of bank sault, and received a one- with the ability to impact the life when confronted with many unteered at PALS, a cat rescue Frankie Dietz of Napa, CA.