THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 REMEMBERING SEPT. 11, 2001 By Gayla Cawley and Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF The somber ringing of the last alarm sounded across several North Shore communities Wednesday morning to mark the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The nation paused to re- member the victims of the ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK attacks, including the rst responders who ran to- ward destruction and cha- os that day to save lives. The ceremonial ringing of the alarm is a 200-year- old tradition, said Lynn Fire Chief Stephen Archer. A bell was traditionally rung to communicate the “all clear” at the end of a call. It has become a sym- bol to announce the death of a fellow re ghter who has returned home for the nal time, he said. In 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorist-piloted planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Penta- gon and a eld in Pennsyl- Sounds like success vania. Among the casualties ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO ITEM PHOTO | BRIDGET TURCOTTE were hundreds of rst re- sponders. for Nahant’s Costin “The courage, the deter- By Bella diGrazia Lynn native and mination, the sel essness ITEM STAFF former Nahant to run towards that dan- resident Midge ger, not knowing what was LYNN — Midge Costin is making waves Costin will bring going to happen or really with her lm that teaches viewers the impor- her lm “Making what was taking place, all tance of sound. Waves: The Art they thought about was Since the 1980s, she has cut and edited trying to save lives,” said sound effects for major motion pictures, but of Cinematic Sound” to the Peabody Mayor Edward the 63-year-old Lynn native, and former Bettencourt at Peabody’s Lynn Auditori- Nahant resident, made her directorial debut Public Safety Memorial. “I um Sunday. this year with her lm “Making Waves: The just think that is amazing Art of Cinematic Sound.” The documenta- and that is why I have so ry-style picture has premiered at lm festi- vals all over the world, including the Tribeca SEPT. 11, A3 Film Festival in New York and the Festival de Cannes in France. Top: Members of the Lynn Fire Department stand at attention as they honor those Costin, who is the daughter of former Lynn lost on Sept. 11; Bill Walsh, middle left, a Wake eld American Legion member, lis- Mayor Tom Costin Jr., will show the movie tens to speakers on the Lynn eld Common for the First Responders Day Ceremony at the Lynn Auditorium Sunday at 7 p.m., in Lynn eld Wednesday night; Rebecca Carritte, middle right, attends Nahant’s with all ticket proceeds going to student 9/11 memorial ceremony Wednesday morning; police of cers, re ghters and town of cials gather in front of the Swampscott re station on Wednesday to remember COSTIN, A5 those who lost their lives on Sept. 11. Fork in the road for Lynn eld rail trail INSIDE Opinion By Thomas Grillo contrast, the Finance Committee endorsed Transportation (MassDOT) has allocated Crighton wheels out a ITEM STAFF the measure by an 8-2 vote. $10.3 million to fund construction of the rail common-sense idea. A4 The question of whether to support the ex- trail’s extension. LYNNFIELD — The divide over wheth- penditure will go before voters at a Special But funding of $700,000 in design costs is Lynn er to extend the controversial Wake eld- Town Meeting set for Thursday, Sept. 26 at on Wake eld and Lynn eld, which are ex- Council approves waterfront plans. A5 Lynn eld Rail Trail through town was on the Lynn eld Middle School. pected to split the cost. Friends of the Lynn- full display this week. Thanks to support from state Rep. Brad- eld Rail Trail have said they hoped to raise Saugus The Board of Selectmen voted 2-0, with ley Jones (R-North Reading), Sen. Brendan the cash to spare homeowners the expense. Friendly’s closes up one member abstaining, to reject a plan to Crighton (D-Lynn) and the Baker adminis- shop for good. A5 fund $348,000 in trail design spending. In tration, the Massachusetts Department of LYNNFIELD, A5 Council approves NOTE TO READERS The Item’s production process can be somewhat compli- cated. Our news staff writes and edits the stories, and our two out of three graphic designers lay out the papers, and then send the pages, via a le transfer protocol (FTP) server, to a printing plant in Auburn. marijuana plans Once the papers come off the press, they are loaded onto a truck and driven here for distribution. One minor hiccup can By Gayla Cawley mean that distribution is delayed — meaning our paper may ITEM STAFF not get to you at the time you’re accustomed to seeing it. LYNN — In a night where three marijuana busi- What occurred Wednesday was more than minor. It was nesses were up for approval by the City Council, res- pretty signi cant. The driver delivering the papers got in idents packed the Council Chambers to voice their an accident in Waltham, and he was taken to the hospital. opposition to cannabis on Tuesday. Thankfully, his injuries were not life-threatening, and he was treated and released. The proposal that incurred the most wrath was The result was home-delivery customers did not receive their Diem Cannabis, an Oregon-based company, which is papers, nor did some stores. Complicating the matter, readers seeking to open a 1,200 square-foot East Lynn recre- calling to inquire about the situation could not get through be- ational marijuana store at 229 Lewis St., also known cause of an overload of calls. All in all, it was a mess. as 1 Chestnut. I apologize to those who were inconvenienced. The Item’s Following an hour of mainly opposition from resi- circulation staff worked all day Wednesday, once it re- dents, the City Council voted to table a vote on the ceived the papers, delivering them to as many customers proposal. Diem has already been given the green as possible. Those subscribers who did not receive the pa- light by the City Council’s Recreational Cannabis per yesterday should today. In addition, subscribers will Site Plan Review Committee and was seeking its spe- receive credit for yesterday. cial permit from the full panel. Also, we are rerunning all obituaries and legal notices Two other companies received approval for their that appeared in Wednesday’s paper. special permit from the council. They were Essex I apologize to our readers. We are not in business to ag- Apothecary, which plans to open a boutique-style gravate you, but that’s what we have done. I’m sorry. Wednesday’s Item was not delivered to most recreational marijuana store at 233 Western Ave. Thank you for reading The Item. in Ward 1, and Essence Labs, which plans to open a subscribers and stores because the truck containing the papers was involved in an ac- — Ted Grant COUNCIL, A2 cident in Waltham. Publisher OBITUARIES .......................... A2-3 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 68° VOL. 141, ISSUE 234 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 54° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 MORE OBITUARIES, PAGE A3 OBITUARIES Dorothy Kereakoglow, 94 Elizabeth Bradley, 57 Samuel H. MacDonald, 77 1925-2019 1962-2019 1942-2019 Dorothy (Brown) Kereako- Bradley, Elizabeth (née NAHANT — Samuel H. “Sam- glow passed in the late night Georgoutsakou). An Art His- my” MacDonald passed unex- hours of Saturday, Sept. 7, tory professor who inspired pectedly on Friday, Sept. 6 at 2019, at Mont Marie Rehabil- countless students with her his residence in Nahant at 77 itation Facility in Holyoke. She love of art. Elizabeth Bradley years of age. made the transition peaceful- died on Sept. 4, 2019 sur- He was a graduate of Revere ly with her son Gregory and rounded by family in Nahant, High School in 1950, and he daughter-in-law Julie by her following a courageous three- joined the U.S. Marines in April bedside. year battle against metastatic of 1962 and served until Jan- Dorothy was the daughter of breast cancer. She was 57. uary of 1965. His discharge the late Gregory (Papaharalam- She was born on Jan. 29, rank was as a PFC. Sam lived pos) Brown and Helen (Vranas) 1962 in Athens, Greece, the in the Point of Pines Section Brown. She was born on Feb. daughter of Konstantinos and (Riverside) of Revere for more 19, 1925 in Lynn and baptized Ioanna Georgoutsakos. She than 28 years, before moving into the Greek Orthodox com- graduated from the American to Nahant about 10 years ago. munity in the tiny house where School in Athens. She earned He soon would join the work she was born on Blossom a Bachelor of Arts in Art Histo- force as a teamster with the Street in Lynn next to the St. ry from the University of Con- Local 25 of Boston. His last George Greek Church where her necticut. She followed this by place of employment was father was the chanter (psalty). to be near Greg and Julie, she getting a Master of Arts in Art on weekends. as a teamster at New Penn el A. MacDonald of Revere, Dorothy was the middle child in stubbornly insisted on living History from Brown University She was an avid traveler of Billerica. During his work Michelle A. MacDonald of a family of eight children: older independently in her own in 1989.