LOOK! A THOUSAND HILLS IN LYNN • $3 MILLION IN NAHANT • CIVIL RIGHTS TALE IN SWAMPSCOTT Page A8 WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 Man accused of pistol-whipping Lynn woman found in LA By Allysha Dunnigan man’s whereabouts to a U.S. Marshals Ricker proceeded to run away from tually nding information that led them ITEM STAFF task force, which led to the arrest of sus- of cers and discard the handgun that to believe Ricker was hiding in the Los pect Hakeem Ricker last Friday, state had been used in the alleged assault. At Angeles area, state police said. LYNN — A 23-year-old man wanted police said. the time of the incident, Ricker was on On May 7, members of the U.S. Mar- for pistol-whipping a woman in Lynn in Ricker was wanted for an alleged pis- probation out of Suffolk Superior Court shals Service Paci c Southwest Regional March was arrested last week after he tol-whipping that took place in Lynn on for another rearms offense, state police Fugitive Task Force saw Ricker getting was tracked to Los Angeles, where he March 13. Lynn Police of cers respond- said. into a ride service vehicle on Flower was evading capture, state police said. ed to the scene and attempted to stop In the following weeks, State Police Street in downtown Los Angeles. Mem- The Massachusetts State Police Vi- Ricker, which prompted a struggle that troopers from the VFAS North Team bers of the task force stopped the car a olent Fugitive Apprehension Section resulted in injuries to an of cer, state po- tracked Ricker by conducting surveil- (VFAS) relayed information about the lice said. lance and gathering intelligence, even- PISTOL, A6 Support in Peabody place for pauses Lynn eld power memorial plant By Allysha Dunnigan By Anne Marie Tobin ITEM STAFF ITEM STAFF LYNNFIELD — House Mi- PEABODY — The Massa- nority Leader Bradley H. Jones, chusetts Municipal Whole- Jr. (R-North Reading) secured sale Electric Company $50,000 in state funding to put (MMWEC) has temporarily toward the construction of a pulled the plug on its Proj- new war memorial in Lynn eld ect 2015A plans to build a and state Sen. Brendan Crigh- peaking plant in Peabody. ton (D-Lynn) said he will work MMWEC’s Board of Di- with Jones to get the project rectors authorized a 30-day completed. ITEM PHOTO | JULIA HOPKINS minimum pause in a vote The funding was given pre- on Monday. liminary approval as part of Nahant of cials, from left, Josh Antrim and Mark Cullinan accept a $3 million do- “It’s not any one group a consolidated amendment to nation presented by Emily Potts of Nahant Preservation Trust to aid in the effort to in particular, but certain- the House of Representatives’ enact eminent domain over East Point. Story, A8. ly the noise the opposition proposed scal year 2022 state has created has reached budget. STEVE KRAUSE all levels of government,” The earmark still needs ap- said Peabody Municipal proval from the Senate as well COMMENTARY Light Plant (PMLP) Man- as Gov. Charlie Baker’s signa- ager Charles Orphanos. ture before the money can be “The opposition did a good released to the town. job getting their message Crighton said he will be ling Can cooler heads prevail in Nahant? out, which is basically false an amendment for $50,000 as claims of lack of transpar- Is the Northeastern vs. Na- Most likely, it is a case of all for more than 50 years, wants well. ency. We did not get the hant mess a typical town vs. of the above. Jones said the planned war to renovate and expand the facts out there, which are gown dispute? Is it a magni- For those who may skip over memorial will provide a tribute facility. The people in Nahant that, at the time the proj- that will honor all of Lynn eld’s ed case of NIMBY (Not In anything in the paper that worry that the sprawl resulting ect was voted (on) in Janu- residents who have served the My Backyard)? Is it a case of doesn’t involve their town di- from such a project will engulf ary 2017, we held multiple United States. intractability and/or arrogance rectly: Northeastern Univer- a town that is hardly set up to public hearings to explain on the part of one party or an- sity, which has had a marine why this project is neces- MEMORIAL, A6 other? Or is it something else? biology center on East Point KRAUSE, A6 sary. “It’s a shame that these groups that have no con- nection to Peabody are PAUL HALLORAN spreading misinformation.” INSIDE MMWEC CEO Ron De- COMMENTARY Curzio noted that much has changed in technolo- Lynn gy since the project was Baffert races to nd Raw Arts Mural to rst proposed more than go up at Lynn City ve years ago, making the Hall. A3 need for reassessment even more necessary. yet another excuse Opinion “We are thankful for the Housing Lynn signi cant input we have In a text exchange Sunday Eight days after winning his Steering received from interested with my good friend Moona record seventh Derby, Baffert, Committee: A stakeholders, including Mullins and three of our clos- horse racing’s most recogniz- housing plan that the elected and appointed est horse racing brethren, I able gure with his striking will work. A4 leaders of the Common- jokingly suggested the head- white hair and media-friendly wealth and from municipal line on the story about Bob personality, was back at Chur- Sports of cials,” DeCurzio contin- Baffert’s Kentucky Derby win- chill Downs — not answer- St. Mary’s softball ued. “We share the zeal ex- ner failing a drug test should ing questions about Medina PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS drops close one to pressed by many members be: It’s a duck. Sub-head: Con- Spirit’s chances in Saturday’s Gloucester. B1 of the public for embracing clusion reached after it looks, Medina Spirit, left, trained by Bob Baf- talks and walks like one. HALLORAN, A7 fert, could be disquali ed from his Ken- tucky Derby win. POWER, A6 Another grocery store may replace Big Y in Saugus By Elyse Saugus Plaza Shopping Carmosino Center, Selectwoman ITEM STAFF Debra Panetta said that, as of now, no plans SAUGUS — The for- have been con rmed mer Big Y building with the Board of Se- along Route 1 will like- lectmen. ly be lled by another “I do believe it’s going large grocery chain, to be some sort of large multiple local of cials grocery chain, but right said. now it’s just rumors and Although rumors have hearsay,” Panetta said. swirled in recent weeks Big Y World Class about what will occupy Market, which opened the now-empty struc- ture situated in the BIG Y, A6 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 66° VOL. 142, ISSUE 131 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 47° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 OBITUARIES NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS Boston homeless scale and with all the fea- Baker touts vaccine housing project to break tures we have designed,” Bruce J. Entwistle, 72 Mitchell said. “But the 1949 - 2021 ground in the fall extra time has had an rollout, activists say impact, and that will BOSTON (AP) — The SAUGUS - Saugus- Mr. Bruce mean resources that will Pine Street Inn and its code- J. Entwistle, age 72, died at get used here maybe we velopers can proceed with more work needed Seasons Hospice Inpatient could’ve used elsewhere.” building a 202-unit building Center in Milton on Tuesday, BOSTON (AP) — Gov. VIRUS BY May 11th. He was the husband after reaching a settlement State police form unit to with a neighbor who sued to Charlie Baker praised the THE NUMBERS of Donna (Ducott) Entwistle, Massachusetts health of - stop construction. investigate sensitive cases state's COVID-19 vaccine with whom he shared 50 years cials released some positive Pine Street and its part- push during a meeting of marriage. SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) — pandemic numbers Tues- ner, Community Builders, Tuesday with other gov- Born in Melrose and a life- The Rhode Island State ernors and President Joe day, with the state reporting long resident of Saugus, Bruce plan to break ground by Police have formed a unit Biden, saying the state's no new COVID-19-related was the son of the late John fall on the building that to investigate sexual as- deaths and the number of Leonard Entwistle and Ruth will include 140 units for "mixed model" of vaccine sault, abuse and other distribution helped ensure residents fully vaccinated Fiske (Gillam) Turcotte. He was the homeless with a suite sensitive cases involving against the disease topping a leader for Boy Scout Troop # of social services onsite, a broad base of Massachu- children, the developmen- setts residents received 3 million. 61 in Saugus, enjoyed camp- The Boston Globe reported. The number of new dai- tally disabled and older shots. ing with his sons. He liked gar- “We’re really happy that ly cases of COVID-19 in- residents, the agency an- "Our program was ba- dening, golng and vacationing this litigation has been creased by about 470. nounced Tuesday. sically what I refer to as a with friends and family. settled,” said Pine Street’s With no new deaths, the In addition to his wife, Bruce The Special Victims Unit, mixed model," Baker said. chief executive, Lyndia within the detective bureau, state's con rmed COVID-19 is survived by his son Robert Relatives and friends are Downie.