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MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019 ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE Snow nally makes Saugus driver dies its 2019 debut after horri c crash By Gayla Cawley Newhall Street in By Gayla Cawley This car, now at the ITEM STAFF Lynn was plowed, but ITEM STAFF bottom of a 40-foot sleet made driving embankment, rst Winter got off to a slow start this year, but accu- treacherous all day. SAUGUS — A driver has died after crashing a car smashed through the mulating snow made its unwelcome debut on the through a garage at a Hammersmith Drive home, back wall of a garage North Shore Sunday. falling off a cliff and tumbling down a 40-foot em- at 31 Hammersmith Lynn and surrounding communities only saw a bankment on Sunday afternoon. Drive Sunday in few inches in the early morning hours, but it was The driver had to be extricated from the car by the hours of sleet and freezing rain that followed Saugus Fire crews following a crash that ended Saugus. that caused headaches for Department of Public with the car on its roof. There were no passengers Works crews and residents trying to clean up the in the car. mess. Police have not identi ed the driver, who was tak- It was unclear if a fatal crash in Saugus on Sun- en to a local hospital and later pronounced dead. day afternoon, in which a person died after driving Saugus Police and Fire responded to the crash at a car through a garage and tumbling off a cliff and 31 Hammersmith Drive at about 1:30 p.m. SNOW, A2 SAUGUS, A6 INSIDE Opinion We still have not overcome Letter to the editor: Let’s get uncomfortable, shall we? tism, nationalism, or white supremacy. But Nahant Historical CHERYL CHARLES We are six days removed from Dr. Martin we can’t celebrate Dr. King’s legacy while Society weighs in Luther King Jr.’s actual birthdate, and today on NU plans. A4 COMMENTARY turning a blind eye to what’s going on right marks the national holiday celebrated in his under our noses. name. So let’s talk some hurtful truths. Because • This is the day many people will extol the knowledging their complicity in making sure as Maya Angelou said, “When we know bet- Letter to the editor: values of a man who was assassinated more that more than 50 years later, that dream ter, we do better.” Thoughts and hopes for than 50 years ago, rewriting history about still hasn’t come true. Already, the hair on the back of your neck a ferry in Lynn. A4 how this great man was revered and beloved. Despite the proclamations of a post-racial is starting to rise. You’re feeling that anger Dr. King was revered and beloved — he America after President Barack Obama was that comes when you’re being accused of LOOK! was also reviled and hated. And people who elected to the highest of ce in the land, the some wrong that you may (or may not) have Lynn sees its rst lived their lives then, and now, on the wrong ensuing backlash of virulent racism from the knowledge of, but certainly don’t condone or snow day of 2019. A8 side of history, will forever quote his words supporters and apologists of the next occu- participate in, and you don’t want to be held pant, have made one thing crystal clear: we about dreaming his “little children will one accountable for the sins of others. still have not overcome. Sports day live in a nation where they will not be But you also can’t fathom what it’s like to Swampscott boys hockey judged by the color of their skin but by the We can call the gleeful hatred and cruelty survives Revere scare. B1 content of their character,” without once ac- spreading throughout this country patrio- CHARLES, A3 ITEM PHOTO | BELLA diGRAZIA ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Lynn students join She’s getting a kick Women’s March out of life these days By Bella diGrazia Lynn Girls Inc. By Steve Krause Robin Wilson Cotter ITEM STAFF members and male ITEM STAFF of Lynn shows off students from KIPP some kickboxing BOSTON — Lynn high school students braved the Academy Lynn SWAMPSCOTT — Robin Wilson Cotter of Lynn stances in front of bitter cold to march for women’s rights on Saturday. attended the march in took stock of herself 20 years ago. She was 250 a mirror at Burke’s More than a dozen members from Lynn’s Girls pounds, and with all the unhappiness that weight Inc., and a handful of male students from the city’s Boston on Saturday. Tumbling Academy issues can cause. in Swampscott. KIPP Academy, took the trip into Boston, along with She knew she needed something. But things were nearly 20,000 other people. The Lynn students said such that she couldn’t even afford DVDs for the Tae they were excited for the chance to have their voices Bo classes that interested her. heard at the 2019 Boston Women’s March, put on Tae Bo is a total body tness program that incor- by nonpro t organization March Forward Massa- porates elements of martial arts techniques. It be- chusetts. came popular in the 1990s. For most of the high schoolers, they had never ex- Cotter saw a television infomercial about it, and perienced a march before, according to Lena Crowley, knew she wanted to try it. WOMEN, A5 KICKBOXING, A3 OBITUARY ..................................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 10° VOL. 141, ISSUE 37 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 6° COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2019 OBITUARY Nathan Glazer, famed Bitter cold sets in as winter sociologist, dead at 95 storm wreaks havoc on travel By Hillel Italie rick Moynihan examined ASSOCIATED PRESS five racial and ethnic By Philip Marcelo groups in New York City and Catherine Perloff NEW YORK — Nathan — blacks, Italian-Ameri- ASSOCIATED PRESS Glazer, a prominent so- cans, Jews, Puerto Ricans ciologist and public intel- BOSTON — A major and Irish-Americans — winter storm brought lectual who assisted on a and concluded that even classic study of conformi- some of the coldest tem- as languages and customs peratures of the season ty, "The Lonely Crowd," from the old world faded, and co-authored a ground- and blanketed a wide new styles and traditions swath of the country in breaking document of emerged that reflected non-conformity, "Beyond snow as it wreaked havoc distinct identities. "It on air travel and caused the Melting Pot," has died was reasonable to believe at 95. dangerously icy conditions that a new American type throughout New England Glazer's daughter, Sar- would emerge, a new na- ah Glazer, confirmed her on Sunday. tionality in which it would The National Weath- father died at his home be a matter of indifference in Cambridge Saturday er Service issued winter whether a man was of An- storm warnings or advi- morning. glo-Saxon or German or sories for part or all of at A longtime professor at Italian or Jewish origin," least 15 states stretching PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS Harvard University, Glaz- the authors wrote. "The from southeast Missou- er, was among the last of initial notion of an Amer- Miguel Delao, of Norwood, front, shovels snow in front of his home, ri to the northern tip of the deeply-read thinkers ican melting pot did not, Sunday. Maine ahead of the week- who influenced culture it seems, quite grasp what end storm. and politics in the mid- would happen in Ameri- way to icy rain and sleet in so far this season. cut reported more than More than 1,500 flights 20th century. Starting in ca." parts. Wind chills were expect- 20,000 customers without were canceled nationwide the 1940s, Glazer was a The book was published Manhattan saw most- ed to hit in the teens in the power. Sunday, with Boston's writer and editor for Com- in 1963 to immediate and ly rain and cities along New York City area, 25 be- "We had more freezing Logan Airport among the mentary and The New continuing debate over its Connecticut, Rhode Island low in Albany and down rain and sleet than we hardest hit, according Republic. He was a co-ed- refutation of a blended and Massachusetts' coast to 40 below in the Adiron- expected," said Hartford to FlightAware, a flight itor of The Public Interest, society, over the authors' recorded two to five inches dacks. Mayor Luke Bronin as and wrote or co-wrote nu- belief that blacks' strug- tracking company. of snow. In New England, they're crews across the state merous books. With peers gles could not be blamed Typically bustling secu- Mountain regions saw expected to fall to as low raced to clear and treat such as Daniel Bell and on discrimination alone rity lines, ticketing count- significantly more, with as 20 below zero around major roadways to pre- Irving Howe, he had a and that blacks would ers and baggage claims the Adirondacks in up- Boston, 30 below zero in vent dangerous black ice wide range of interests, "a eventually achieve the were largely deserted state New York register- the Berkshires and as low conditions. notion of universal compe- kinds of advances en- Sunday morning at Logan ing up to 20 inches while as 35 below zero in parts Amtrak canceled trains tence," from foreign policy joyed by immigrant pop- Airport, but some strand- western Massachusetts' of Vermont, Maine and across the Midwest and to Modernist architecture, ulations.