Council Makes a House Call for School
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017 Peabody murder story gets grislier By Gayla Cawley for a week after the bodies of Mark ITEM STAFF Greenlaw, 37, and Jennifer O’Connor, Wes Doughty ap- 40, were found at 19 Farm Ave. PEABODY — The second man pears in Peabody Authorities released the cause of death charged with the rst-degree mur- District Court ders of a man and woman in a Farm for both victims following the arraign- Tuesday during Avenue home on Feb. 18 was ordered ment. Greenlaw died after he was shot his arraignment held without bail Tuesday morning. in the head and his girlfriend, O’Connor, for the mur- Wes Doughty, 39, pleaded not guilty was killed after she was stabbed in her ders of Jennifer and was ordered by Peabody District neck and torso, according to the Essex O’Connor and Court Judge James Barretto to return County District Attorney’s of ce. Mark Greenlaw. for a probable cause hearing on April 6. Doughty, of Danvers, was on the run MURDERS, A7 PHOTO | MARK LORENZ Council makes a house call for school By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF LYNN — There could be a happy ending after all for Janet Guanci and her ranch- style home on Parkland Avenue. Facing the possibility of losing her First-graders Josean 1,000-square-foot house to eminent do- Ortiz and Giuliana main for construction of a new middle Patricelli work on a school, the City Council is considering a Chromebook at the plan to move the house 200 yards away. Oaklandvale School Guanci, who bought the two-bedroom in Saugus Tuesday. house in 2004 for $267,900, listened as the Public Property & Parks Committee un- ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE veiled the idea Tuesday night. “We are trying to keep you in the same neighborhood because I know you like it there,” said Ward 2 Councilor William Saugus trying to get a read Trahant. “We’d like to keep you happy. All of us feel bad about the possibility of em- inent domain and we are trying to work with you.” on Chromebook spending James Lamanna, the city’s assistant city solicitor, said this is one option in a com- By Bridget Turcotte Finance Committee in the spring. The new technology will be necessary plicated process for a new middle school ITEM STAFF School Committee member Peter Ma- next year when MCAS testing will re- proposed for the neighborhood near Pine noogian said in a meeting earlier this quire a computer, according to commit- Grove Cemetery. SAUGUS — Saugus of cials are hov- month that the board also voted to tee member Arthur Grabowski. Eric “We are trying to be creative,” said La- ering over the keyboard when it comes manna. “Rather than demolish your home submit a request for Town Meeting to Jones, principal of the Oaklandvale El- to nding funding for Google Chrome- at 97 Parkland Ave., we could relocate it books for students. fund the purchase. He drafted an arti- ementary School, said his students are down toward the salt shed. The city is try- Earlier this year, the panel approved cle and presented it to the committee already there. ing to give you as many options as possi- a $29.6 million spending plan for scal on Feb. 16. Manoogian complained that Children in grades four and ve are ble.” year 2018, up from $28.1 million last his peers hadn’t yet acted on the article. using Google Docs for the majority of Moving the house at a cost of about year. The amount includes an allocation But a few members questioned whether their writing assignments, he said. All $60,000 would be far less costly for the city of $82,000 to fund the Chromebooks. it was too soon to ask the town for more The request will be considered by the money. SAUGUS, A7 COUNCIL, A7 Malden More than mayor waves crash looks to on Lynn the future Shore Drive LYNN — Lynn Shore By Steve Freker Drive closed for a half hour FOR THE ITEM Tuesday morning while tow trucks cleared a truck that MALDEN — Mayor veered off the road, police Gary Christenson opened said Tuesday morning. his sixth “State of the Police Lt. Glenn Dunnigan City” address Tuesday said a box truck driver heading morning declaring Mal- to Swampscott veered over the den is “on the move.” center line near Pierce Road at Christenson greeted an 8:15 a.m., over-corrected to get audience of 300 gathered back in his lane and swerved at Anthony’s by holding off the drive, pushing a parked up a set of keys to sym- car down the embankment bolize city action to pass ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE into the seawall. ownership of the former This truck swerved over the center line on Lynn Shore Drive, over-corrected, and in doing City Hall to develop- so, hit this parked car, pushing it down the embankment to the sea wall. CRASH, A7 er Jefferson Apartment Group. With city govern- ment temporarily relocat- ed to new quarters, the INSIDE Trump: ‘Time to join forces’ to x problems 1970s-era building has been sold to Jefferson and In Lynn By Julie Pace Striking an optimistic tone, executive order that was blocked by will be demolished this No question: ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump declared: “The time for the courts. spring to make way for Ballot a problem. A2 small thinking is over.” Trump, who typically relish- residential-commercial WASHINGTON — Heralding a Trump’s address came at a piv- es outing political convention, and retail mix develop- In Swampscott “new chapter of American great- otal moment for a new president embraced the pomp and tradi- ment. Remembering ness,” President Donald Trump elected on pledges to swiftly shake tion of a presidential address to “Malden is strong, vi- North Shore’s deadliest stood before Congress for the rst up Washington and follow through Congress. He stuck largely to his brant and on the move,” train wreck. A3 time Tuesday night and issued a on the failed promises of career script, made occasional overtures the mayor asserted. In Sports broad call for overhauling the na- politicians. His opening weeks in to Democrats and skipped the Relocating City Hall tion’s health care system, signi - personal insults he so often hurls English boys of ce have been consumed by dis- cantly boosting military spending and the Malden Police basketball bounced tractions and self-in icted wounds, at his opponents. from tournament. B1 and plunging $1 trillion into up- including the bungled rollout of a MALDEN, A7 grading crumbling infrastructure. sweeping immigration and refugee TRUMP, A5 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 61° VOL. 139, ISSUE 72 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 49° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017 OBITUARIES No question: Ballot a problem in Lynn Gloria M. O’Shea Joan L. Kimber, 83 By Thomas Grillo The cost to reprint them Gloria M. O’Shea Elizabeth, Lauren and LYNN — Joan Loret- Irene M. Kimber, San- ITEM STAFF has been estimated at be- (Locke) passed away Brian along with six ta (Armstead) Kim- dra L. Kimber-Sierra, tween $3,000 and $9,000. peacefully surround- great grandchildren. ber, age 83, of Lynn, Thomas J. Kimber and LYNN — Two missing Lamanna said he was ed by her family on Gloria regularly passed away Monday, James W. Kimber; her words could cost the city contacted by the Secre- Feb. 25, 2017. supported the Fran- Feb. 27, 2017. She brother, Raymond as much as $9,000 after tary of State’s Election Gloria was the ciscan Missions, St. was the wife of the late Armstead; and many a typo was discovered on Division last week telling daughter of the late Jude Research Hos- Richard Kimber Sr. grandchildren, great one of the ballot questions him they had received a Alice (Morel) and pital and Boys Town Born in Dorchester, grandchildren, nieces for the March 14 special number of calls reporting Henry Locke. Born of Nebraska. one of 10 siblings, and nephews, and by election. confusion over the ballot and raised in Revere, Service informa- she was the daughter many who referred to The hotly contested poll question. Gloria lived in Nahant for the tion: A funeral Mass will of the late Robert Armstead her as “Mom” and “AJ.” She was will ask voters to approve About 200 ballots had past 49 years. be said in her honor on Fri- Sr. and Agatha Catherine the sister of the late Ronald $188.5 million for the con- been mailed to absentee She was a past president day, March 3, 2017 in St. (Wooten) Armstead Cassell. Armstead, Robert Armstead struction of a pair of mid- voters before the error of the Nahant Women’s Club, Thomas Aquinas Church, Joan spent much time growing Jr., Catherine Armstead Kim- dle schools to serve the was spotted. A letter ex- was active in the St. Thomas 248 Nahant Road, Nah- up in a West Lebanon, Maine, ber, Sylvia Armstead Robin- city’s burgeoning school plaining the problem has Aquinas Sodality and was a ant, at 10 a.m. Family and farm. son, twins, Richard and Ralph population. been sent to those voters longtime communicant of St. friends are encouraged to Prior to her retirement, Armstead, Roger Armstead and In the initial printing, with a corrected ballot. Thomas Aquinas Church. She visit prior to the funeral in she had worked at Davis Barbara Armstead Hill. Question 1 failed to in- Donald Castle, found- enjoyed winters in Florida and the CUFFE-MCGINN Funeral and Shoe, Shoe Factory and Service information: A clude the words “be ap- er of the Protect Our traditional Sunday dinners Home, 157 Maple St., Lynn General Electric.