WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 MBTA and city square off over triangle By Gayla Cawley location as it will negatively affect traf c ITEM STAFF ow and serve as a nuisance to this neigh- borhood,” said City Council President LYNN — Residents and city of cials Darren Cyr, who added he was blindsided are steaming over a Massachusetts Bay by the proposal, in a statement posted on Transportation Authority (MBTA) pro- his Facebook page Monday night. posal that would allow buses to idle at Cyr, who represents Ward 3 where a busy intersection on the Lynn/Swamp- the triangle is located, told MBTA rep- scott line. resentatives at a Lynn Traf c Commis- The MBTA is considering creating a sion meeting Tuesday night that creat- layover space at the John Flenniken ing the layover space would eliminate Square, also known as the John Flenni- much-needed parking in a highly popu- ken Triangle at the intersection of Ocean lated area. He said it was disrespectful ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO Street, Eastern Avenue and Lynn Shore to allow a bus to sit and idle at an island Drive. A meeting was held Tuesday night in Lynn to try and prevent the MBTA “I am in vehement opposition to this TRIANGLE, A3 from using the John Flenniken Triangle as a bus parking depot. Swampscott library Saugus brightens S.A.D. situations balks at housing project By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — Construction of a 300-unit residential complex near Prankers Pond will begin this year. Saugus Ridge, a project submit- ted by Saugus Residential, LLC., will be located on a 28-acre parcel located on Route 1 North. It is ex- pected to take 18 months to two years to be completed. The 300 units include 100 one-bedroom units, 36 one-bed- room apartments with a den, 87 two-bedrooms, 17 two-bedrooms with a den, 31 three-bedroom units and 29 studios in a single ve-story building. Of the 300 units, 75 are expected to be af- fordable. The cost for rent is ex- pected to range from $1,400 to $2,000. By Bella diGrazia lic Library acquired two therapy lamps, Alice Deveau, The state’s 40B housing pro- ITEM STAFF one of which can be rented out for a week Swampscott library gram allows developers to over- by library card members. The two lamps, director, demon- ride local zoning bylaws to SWAMPSCOTT — The winter blues are which together cost about $300, were do- strates how to use increase stock of affordable hous- real and Swampscott Public Library has a nated by Swampscott native Deb New- ing in municipalities where less remedy for them. one of the lights man, on behalf of the town’s Commission designed to help res- than 10 percent of the homes are Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) is a affordable. They often construct diagnosable condition, but it wasn’t char- on Disability. idents with Seasonal Monday night, Mischoulon led an in- Affective Disorder. denser developments. acterized until the 1980s, according to Dr. In 2016, the Massachusetts David Mischoulon, a 20-year psychiatry formative workshop that broke down the therapy lamp process and told attendees ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO Area Planning Council held vi- professor at Harvard Medical School. Be- sioning sessions with the town fore then, there were only observations of why they’re a good investment. “Basically, the lamps are a way of treat- to help develop a housing devel- people being more vulnerable to seasonal opment plan. At the time, only 7 depression, he said. ing this condition without using medi- cation,” Mischoulon told the Item. “They percent, or 749 units, were con- “People who live in parts of the world sidered affordable. give out a strength of 10,000 lux, com- where there is less sunlight are more vul- Moderate income is de ned as pared to a regular lamp which gives out nerable to seasonal depression,” Mischou- 80 percent of median income, less than 1,000. The light hits the retina lon told the Item on Tuesday. “Back then, which is also de ned by the fed- they just called it the winter blues.” SWAMPSCOTT, A3 eral government regionally. In A few weeks ago, the Swampscott Pub- the Boston area, which includes Saugus, the median income for a family of four is $107,000. Mod- BRIDGET TURCOTTE INSIDE erate income in Saugus is about COMMENTARY $80,000. Money Low income is de ned as 50 Life expectancy and percent of the median income, Social Security. A2 and very low income is de ned as Hey, whatever happened to ... 30 percent of the median income. Saugus When Saugus Ridge developer I’m glad that kids are no longer eating Tide Over the course of a few months, pale-faced Collection event Toll Brothers Apartment Living pods and the creepy clown crisis has come to an clowns wearing bright, patterned uniforms ap- to dispose of submitted a Comprehensive Per- end. But how could these strange problems just peared in cities and towns across the globe. Day af- hazardous waste. A2 mit Application for the complex disappear like they never happened? ter day, we read stories about characters who were last year, residents spoke out Did we all forget that we had an actual, valid supposed to bring joy to children’s birthday parties Lynn about concerns with the project, fear of real-life clowns haunting us at random? instead wielding knives and lurking in dark alleys. Man charged with ranging from traf c and safety to The clown frenzy popped up like a jack in the Massachusetts was no exception. home invasion. A6 environmental. box and quickly spread terror across the world A residential hall was evacuated and students Sports The effect on nearby Prankers in 2016. Sinister clowns were running amok, were told to shelter in place at Merrimack Col- Swampscott girls soccer Pond has been a contentious de- reportedly trying to lure children into forests and lege after someone reported an armed clown on blanks Peabody. B1 bate. threatening school shootings, wreaking fear in public places. TURCOTTE, A3 SAUGUS, A3 Alleged Lynn eld dealer arrested — 32 years later By Thomas Grillo But the arrest wasn’t pretty. Police said he Portes, requested privacy. ITEM STAFF soiled his pants when stopped by three U.S. “I’m still in shock,” she said. “I don’t have all Marshals and two Lynn eld detectives on Sa- the facts and I would like to protect my 4- and LYNNFIELD — It took more than three de- lem Street, less than a mile from his apart- 15-year-old children.” cades, but the U.S. Marshals nally got their ment at Lynn eld Commons on Route 1. Rivera, who was 22 at the time of sentenc- man. “He was taken to the police station where he ing, used a variety of aliases while on the Lynn eld resident and convicted drug deal- got cleaned up, took a shower, and given a new lam, including Eulogio Portes and Enrique er Enrique Rivera, 54, was arrested Monday pair of pants,” said Capt. Karl Johnson. “Other Rivera-Nobles, according to police. He was after he failed to appear for sentencing in a than that, the arrest was without incident.” Enrique Rivera New York courtroom in 1987. Reached by telephone, Rivera’s wife, Yahaira LYNNFIELD, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 61° VOL. 141, ISSUE 239 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 49° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 OBITUARIES Gail I. Nelson, 76 1942-2019 Longtime political journalist NASHUA, N.H. — Gail I. (Fudge) Nelson, 76, of Nash- Cokie Roberts dead at 75 ua, N.H., formerly of North Reading and Lynn eld, died By David Bauder brother couldn’t pronounce on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS “Corinne,” grew up primar- at Langdon Place in Nashua, ily in Bethesda, Md. She N.H. She was the beloved wife NEW YORK — Cokie attended Wellesley Col- of 53 years to the late Allan R. Roberts, the daughter of lege, and met her future Nelson. politicians and a pioneer- husband at a conference Born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., ing journalist who chron- for student leaders. on Dec. 5, 1942, she was icled Washington from “Journalism just kind of the daughter of the late Jimmy Carter to Donald happened to me,” she said George and Madeline (Rash) Trump for NPR and ABC in a 2018 interview with Fudge. Gail was a graduate News, died Tuesday of the Television Academy. of Lynn eld High School and complications from breast “It wasn’t anything I had Vesper George Art School in cancer. She was 75. planned to do.” Boston. She was also award- ABC broke into network But she got her start at ed a scholarship to Mass Art programming to announce a newsletter, worked in lo- School Summer Program in husband James; her nephews, her death and politicians cal news and led stories Boston. Jimmy Jones and the late Ja- including former presi- for CBS News from Greece Gail was a secretary for the son Jones, all of Peabody. dents George W. Bush and when her husband was Sagamore Fuel Company, Inc. Service information: Her Barack Obama offered FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS stationed there as a corre- in Lynn. She was a former res- funeral service will be held sympathy. Cokie Roberts, a longtime political reporter spondent. She was bitten ident of North Reading for 55 on Friday, Sept. 20 at noon Roberts devoted most and analyst at ABC News and NPR, has died, by the bug.