City and State Show They Mean Business
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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018 City and state show they mean business By Gayla Cawley gram, according to a letter sent to the city or professional-looking, such as upgrading ITEM STAFF from Andrew Levine, TDI program and proj- brickwork, signage or awnings. ect manager for MassDevelopment. To participate, businesses sign up with the LYNN — The city has received a $25,000 Money The grant will supplement the $50,000 Community Development Department by grant to supplement its ongoing efforts to targets spruce up its storefronts. The project is part Lynn’s Community Development Depart- lling out U.S. Department of Housing and of the city’s overall endeavor to rehabilitate ment budgeted for its facade program this Urban Development paperwork and provide storefront the downtown. year, which is through the Community De- the city with their plans. MassDevelopment, the state’s economic de- velopment Block Grant Program. Marsh said his department has reimbursed improvements velopment and nance agency, has awarded According to James Marsh, director of com- businesses up to $4,000 with the program in Lynn a Transformative Development Initia- munity development, businesses will be able the past, but with the extra funding, that cap tive (TDI) Local Grant for the city’s Store- to get reimbursed for improvements aimed front Improvement Program, or Facade Pro- at making their storefronts more attractive BUSINESS, A7 Heroic Necco week for workers Saugus ponder remen next By Bridget Turcotte steps ITEM STAFF SAUGUS — Saugus re ghters pulled an By Bridget Turcotte unconscious man and a dog out of burning ITEM STAFF buildings during two separate kitchen res REVERE — Less than a within the past week. week after more than 230 A man was rescued from his home at 7 Fal- Necco employees abruptly mouth St. shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday lost their jobs, more than after re ghters discovered him passed out in 50 were connected with the kitchen. Four days later, a second man was companies trying to re- burned on his arm and head in a re on Essex cruit the displaced work- Street. He got himself out of the building and, ers. shortly after 6 p.m., re ghter Mike Leary The former employees of found a dog in the apartment and carried him New England Confection- to safety. ery Co. (Necco) attended A veterinary technician happened to be out- a job fair at Revere City side the home, and helped administer oxygen Hall Monday and were to the dog using the re department’s dog connected with a list of mask, said Fire Chief Michael Newbury. more than 50 potential “I think we had an angel looking over us be- employers, career resourc- cause we were able to get this guy out,” said es, and résumé building Lt. Bill Cross about Wednesday’s re. “It was tips. The fair was orga- terribly hot and the smoke was ceiling to oor. nized by Mayor Brian It was a brick building with three stories and Arrigo and attended by it held the heat like a brick oven. It was really Attorney General Maura hot. We got lucky.” Healey. A scan of the apartment with a thermal im- Meanwhile, two for- aging camera showed no one was in the home, mer employees have but Cross heard the man, who was uncon- led a class action law- scious but breathing, cough about 15 to 20 feet suit against the compa- from where he was standing in a smoke- lled ny claiming Necco failed hallway. to warn employees they Cross dragged the man from the heat of the PHOTO | SAUGUS FIRE LT. DAMIAN DRELLA would be laid off. The com- kitchen and others helped by grabbing his legs plaint, led in U.S. District Saugus Fire ghter Mike Leary rescued a dog from a burning home on Essex SAUGUS, A7 Court, said the shutdown Street Sunday night. was in direct violation of the federal Worker Ad- justment and Retraining Noti cation (WARN) Act. According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s website, the act protects workers, their families, and com- munities by requiring em- ployers with 100 or more employees to provide at least 60 days advance written notice of a plant closing and mass layoff affecting 50 or more em- ployees at a single site of employment. The complaint was led by Dexter Main of Lynn and Francesco D’Amelio of Revere. Necco calls itself the country’s oldest contin- uously operating candy Clockwise from left, Ed Bar- company. They are best ry, Don Durkee, Dick Mur- known for Necco Wafers, ray, and Paul McNeil — all Mary Janes and Valentine in their 90s and all 60-year Sweethearts. members of Tedesco — have Round Hill Investments been honored by the coun- LLC said Tuesday they try club. are selling the company’s brands to another man- ITEM PHOTOS | SPENSER HASAK ufacturer and shuttering its American Legion High- way plant. STEVE KRAUSE The company purchased AT LARGE NECCO, A7 Tedesco honors fabulous foursome INSIDE MARBLEHEAD — Dick Murray put his four have been members at Tedesco for more paying a yearly fee are over. Opinion status as an honorary member at Tedesco than 60 years, and they have seen many But in the grand scheme of things, for Te- Krause: Razzle Country Club in proper perspective. changes in the course in that time. desco’s four latest honorary members, free dazzle ’em. A4 “Usually,” Murray says, “this kind of hon- “It’s a great golf course,” said Durkee, who memberships are the least of the reasons to or comes to members who are about to die. I ran the Durkee-Mower company in Lynn be proud of being so recognized. Sports hope they’re not trying to tell me something.” that produced Marshmallow Fluff. “It’s un- “The recognition is the nicest part of it,” said Lynn Babe Ruth, NS Murray, 92, is one of four nonagenarians dergone a lot of facelifts, and it’s only made Durkee. “I’ve been a member for so long, and Giants scrimmage. B1 who have been given honorary memberships the course better.” all of us have contributed a lot to the club.” at Tedesco. The other three are Don Durkee One of the perks in being named an honor- NSBL teams prep (93), Ed Barry (94) and Paul McNeil (93). All ary member at Tedesco is that your days of TEDESCO, A7 for playoffs. B1 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ 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B6-7 HIGH 80° VOL. 140, ISSUE 197 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 LOW 68° LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018 MASSACHUSETTS BRIEFS Lawmakers OK rental, voter, climate bills as deadline looms By Steve LeBlanc 31, but only to take up non- setts to borrow up to $2 bil- House Speaker Robert and Bob Salsberg controversial items. lion to make the state more DeLeo had wanted the ASSOCIATED PRESS Lawmakers also gave fi- resilient to climate change, Democratic-controlled nal approval Monday to a including funds to protect Legislature to remain in BOSTON — The Massa- bill that would automati- the state’s coastline against session over the weekend chusetts Legislature gave cally update the registra- more frequent storms. to work on the backlog, but final approval Monday to tion status of voters when As the clock ticked down on Thursday, Senate Pres- a bill that would tax and they interact with the toward adjournment, be- ident Karen Spilka decid- regulate short-term rent- Registry of Motor Vehi- hind-the-scenes negotia- ed to adjourn the Senate als, including those of- cles and MassHealth, the tions were believed to be fered by Airbnb and other until Monday morning, online platforms. state’s Medicaid program. continuing at the State- leaving less than 48 hours After weeks of negotia- If the bill is signed into house on a major health to wrap things up. tions, House and Senate law by Republican Gov. care bill that sought to The House finished its PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS lawmakers reached agree- Charlie Baker, Democrat- reduce price disparities business on Monday just Marcus Maseda, center, puts his arm around ment on the compromise ic Secretary of State Wil- between large teaching before 7 p.m. The Senate Kimberly Koval during their joint arraign- bill over the weekend. It liam Galvin said his of- hospitals and smaller com- agreed to keep working ment in Falmouth District Court Monday. called for extending the fice would be able to start munity hospitals that are later into the evening. state’s current 5.7 percent automatically registering struggling to keep pace. As the popularity of en- Pair accused of interfering with cops prior to shooting hotel tax to most short- voters on Jan. 1, 2020. Among other measures tities such as Airbnb has term rentals and giving Those automatically regis- hanging in the balance: grown, so have concerns in FALMOUTH (AP) — Cape and Islands Dis- cities and towns the option tered would be notified by a major economic devel- some communities over in- Two people accused of trict Attorney Michael of tacking on an additional mail of the opportunity to opment bill that includes vestors buying up homes or interfering with police O’Keefe says police 6 percent to the tax; 9 per- choose a political party or a proposed sales tax hol- condos just to rent out the just prior to a shoot- returned fire, hitting cent if an owner rents out to decline to register. iday for the weekend of rooms by the day or week ing that injured two the suspected shooter, two or more units in the “We should do every- Aug.