DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2020 DEALS Swampscott AG and EDIC OFspell THE $DAY$ casts a relief for businessesPG. 3 By Gayla Cawley city that have been battered worried eye ITEM STAFF by the coronavirus, thanks to a $45,000DEALS grant Lynn re- LYNN — Business has been ceived from Attorney General to the sky steady lately for Uncommon Maura Healey’sOF THof ce.E Fifteen Feasts, but the pandemic con- of the 18 businesses awarded tinues to bring uncertainty to funding are$ DAminority-Y$ or fe- By Thor Jourgensen the coming months, which is male-owned. PG. 3 ITEM STAFF why owner Michelle Mulford “I’m grateful for it,” said Mul- is grateful for the recent boost ford. “It’s helping us prepare SWAMPSCOTT — The town wants she received from the city. to make sure its voice doesn’t get for the fall, what the fall and That boost is a $2,500 grant winter is going to bring. It gives drowned out if changes in Logan Air- Mulford received from the port ight patterns mean more air- a little bit of a buffer. I am, as Economic Development and usual, gratefulDEALS for the EDIC for craft noise over Swampscott. Industrial Corporation of The Select Board is moving to ll an ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO pulling it all together.” Lynn (EDIC/Lynn). OF THE empty seat on the Massachusetts Port Mulford said once the weath- Michelle Mulford, owner of Uncommon Feasts, re- EDIC/Lynn has been able to Authority (MassPort) Community Ad- er gets bad, she will be able to organizes the zero waste products on display in her award that same amount to 17 $DAY$ visory Committee (CAC), a 41-member store on Wednesday afternoon in Lynn. other small businesses in the PGRELIEF,. 3 A3 board advising MassPort, the agency that runs Logan. “Help Swampscott take ight in the important conversations about Mass- port operations and the skies above Library our Town,” states an application invi- DEALS tation on the town website. Working with the Federal Aviation OF THE Administration (FAA) and Massachu- receives setts Institute of Technology, MassPort $DAY$ for six years has studied noise levels for PG. 3 aircraft arriving and departing Logan. largest The goal is to study “community noise exposure” for Greater Boston communities surrounding the airport gift ever and nd ways to reduce it. Initial ef- forts launched by the study allowed MassPort to reduce noise by having Green Trust pilots adjust the series of turns they take approaching Logan or alter take- awards $587,000 off speeds. Those changes will be followed, said By Gayla Cawley Massport spokeswoman Jennifer B. ITEM STAFF Mehigan, by more complicated noise dampening measures. One concern fac- LYNN — At more than ing MassPort is how to provide noise $587,000, the gift represents reduction over other communities the largest donation in the without increasing noise from jets ap- Lynn Public Library’s re- proaching Logan’s runway 22Left with corded history, but it’s a bit its ight pattern over Swampscott. of a mystery as to why the The FAA is scheduled to comment on late donor was so generous. preliminary noise reduction proposals With the Lynn City Coun- this month. cil’s vote Tuesday evening The comments will be delivered, iron- to accept the gift from the ically, at a time when the COVID-19 Burton E. Green Trust of pandemic has reduced jet traf c — for Jan. 13, 1971, the funds will the time being. be turned over to the Lynn Swampscott’s past representation on Public Library Trustees. the committee has been authoritative PHOTO BY PETER FRANKLIN Chief Librarian Theresa with Charles Borgioli, a career airport Instead of the usual messages about social distancing, passersby on the Marble- Hurley said the library was employee and air traf c controller head Causeway had this sign staring back at them Wednesday morning. noti ed a couple of years ago that it had been named preceding pilot Richard Malagrifa on in Green’s trust, but would the committee. not bene t from the funds Mehigan said Swampscott’s commit- until his sister, Cora A. Jor- tee seat has been vacant for more than In Marblehead, a sign dan, died. a year and the invitation for residents Jordan had been receiving interested in sitting on the committee were quickly dispatched to con rm the sign the monthly interest on the requires the successful candidate to By Elyse Carmosino ITEM STAFF change, as well as to check that the sign’s pro- trust, but upon her death have experience in one of these areas: gram compartment was still locked. last summer, Green’s will airport operations, environmental af- MARBLEHEAD — Early passersby along Marblehead’s Highway Department was dictated that all of his trust fairs, labor relations, public health or the Marblehead Causeway Wednesday morn- noti ed, and the sign, which was otherwise property should be named port operations. ing may have witnessed an odd sight. to the Lynn Public Library. “The CAC member is appointed by A programmable LED sign — located on undamaged, was switched back to its original messaging by 6:53 a.m. “At rst it was a little the Select Board, and will be expected Ocean Ave. near Devereux Beach — was pre- overwhelming,” said Hur- to report back to the Board periodical- sumably hacked into overnight and repro- The Item reached out to Marblehead Police, the Marblehead Highway Department, Town ley. “We’ve had trusts going ly and ensure that any vote they cast grammed to prominently display the words back from the late 1800s Administrator’s Of ce, and Selectmen’s Of ce, as part of the CAC re ects the views of “God is Gay” to passing motorists. but I haven’t seen anything but no one returned a request for comment by the community,” states the application Of cers were initially noti ed of the hack like this and I’ve been here invitation. around 6:23 a.m., when a resident called to re- the time of publication. 25 years.” Thor Jourgensen can be reached at port the unusual message. Elyse Carmosino can be reached at ecarmosi- [email protected]. According to Marblehead Police, of cers [email protected]. LIBRARY, A3 COVID Peabody reported Patrol, pandemic, and public new cases and additional death. A2 perception in Lynn eld Opinion Charles: We are not a monolith. A4 By Alex Ross middle of a pandemic doesn’t look any- FOR THE ITEM thing like it used to. “Once school stopped being in ses- Sports LYNNFIELD — Lynn eld native Marblehead’s sion [in March], my chief put me back Alex Doto simply wasn’t cut out for a Elizabeth Driscoll on patrol where I was before I became 9-5 desk job. He knew as early as high commits to the school resource of cer,” Doto said. school that he wanted to become a po- St. Anselm women’s “And, now, we’re just kind of waiting to lice of cer. lacrosse. B1 see what’s going to happen here in the Now, after nearly three and a half • next couple weeks.” years with the Lynn eld Police De- Before the coronavirus forced schools to Peabody partment, Doto works as the school re- ITEM PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO close around the country, Doto’s day-to- Champions drop source of cer servicing all four public day duties as the resource of cer involved Game 3 of Alex Doto is the Lynn eld School Resource Of - schools in town. NSBL nal. B1 cer at Lynn eld High School. The problem? Public school in the LYNNFIELD, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 64° VOL. 141, ISSUE 218 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ 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Wanelik, a LECANTO, Fla. — Richard J. his wife Mary of Tampa Fla. lifelong Lynn resident, age 94, Burke of Lecanto, Fla., (for- (formerly Saugus) niece Erin passed away on Monday, Au- merly Amesbury) passed away E. Powers and her husband party; 26 new gust 24, 2020 with his loving on August 15, 2020. Born Eric of Boxford, grand niece family by his side. He was the April 30, 1942 to Joseph M. Claire E. Powers, niece Megan beloved husband of Theresa Burke and Mary P. (McManus) M. Brewster and her husband (Martin) Wanelik, with whom Burke of Lynn, (predeceased). Robert of Tampa, Fla., grand confirmed deaths Richard graduated from St. niece Blake M. Brewster, grand he celebrated 65 years of BOSTON (AP) — A clus- LIMITED LIBRARY Mary’s High School in 1959. nephew Burke R. Brewster, sis- marriage in June. ter of COVID-19 cases in REOPENING Served in the United States ter Mary Jane McQuarrie and Born in Lynn, MA on May Massachusetts was traced The main branch of the Airforce. Received his Bach- her husband Charles of Lynn, 23, 1926, he was a son of to a bachelorette party Boston Public Library is elors of Business degree niece Shannon McQuarrie of the late Boleslaw and Rose in Rhode Island late last reopening to the public from Northeastern University.