TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016 Lynn pair is charged with attempted murder By Thomas Grillo ing of Peter Parsons. Police say the ITEM STAFF 23-year-old was shot in the abdomen and the arms. He was rushed to Mas- LYNN — Two men are being held sachusetts General Hospital where he without bail following their arraign- is in critical condition. ment Monday after they were charged The Essex County District Attor- with trying to kill a Lynn man last ney’s of ce said police were called to ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE weekend. the front of a single-family home Sat- Yeison Reynoso, left, and Joell Yeison Reynoso, 23, and Joell Sosa, urday afternoon on Union Court on a Sosa were arraigned in Lynn 19, both of Lynn, face charges of as- report of a shooting. sault with intent to murder and a se- District Court on assault with ries of rearm violations in the shoot- ARRAIGNMENT, A7 intent to murder charges. ITEM PHOTO | JIM WILSON Lynn’s Arthur Brown found this 1976-77 Babson College student ID card. budget DO YOU KNOW gap not BABSON’S JEAN as bad as MATHIESON? expected By Thor Jourgensen ITEM NEWS EDITOR By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF LYNN — When Arthur Brown glanced LYNN — City of cials down at a rubble pile and saw a young say it’s too early to tell woman smiling up at him from a college whether there will be lay- identi cation card photograph, he knew offs as department heads he needed to reunite the 39-year-old card are urged to trim costs with its owner. and the city treasurer “I’d like to give it back to her. I’m sure recalculated health care LOST AND FOUND, A7 St. Mary’s High delivers costs in the face of a bud- get de cit. “The mayor is review- Christmas present to city ing the budget looking for cuts,” said Peter Caron, the city’s chief nancial Chuck Parsons, Saugus By Bridget Turcotte of cer. “But for now, we’re ITEM STAFF left, helps stu- not cutting active employ- dents Stephen LYNN — Students at St. Mary’s High School gave the city an ees.” Fama and Liam early Christmas gift, restoring the nativity scene that has been Caron and Mayor Ju- parents Reddy, right, dith Flanagan Kenne- used on the Lynn Common for 75 years. The set had seen better days, said art teacher Trish Richard. hoist the newly dy have asked City Hall One of the three Wise Men had a cracked head and several of painted Joseph managers to nd a way get say the gurines had broken ngers and missing turbans. onto a truck, to pay for raises to City Of cials considered replacing the set, but learned a new na- Monday, for Hall employees totaling tivity scene would cost the city more than $7,000. Mayor Judith the St. Mary’s $587,360 this year. Flanagan Kennedy knew she could turn to St. Mary’s when she nativity scene. In addition, Caron sent on school went in search of someone to help repair the 11 dilapidated a memo to each depart- statues. ment on Friday seeking By Bridget Turcotte PHOTO | “I thought the perfect way to get volunteers was though the NICOLE GOODHUE BOYD information about permit ITEM STAFF Catholic school,” Kennedy said. “They worked for weeks and fees and nes that could be increased and how SAUGUS — Parents had a voice in the complete NATIVITY, A7 much it would raise. He overhaul of Saugus Public Schools Monday night. will also review every line Superintendent David DeRuosi presented plans item transfer and any ex- for the future of the district, which includes penditure over $500. changes at every grade level. By 2020, residents “If a department wants could be looking at one lower elementary school Marblehead, to buy a couple of cases of for Pre-K through grade 2; one upper elementary paper, that’s ne,” he said. for grades 3-5; and a combination middle and high “But if they want new school. Swampscott furniture, that will get re- The new school structure would replace the exist- viewed.” ing Pre-K, four elementary schools, middle school On another major bud- and high school. still kicking get buster, Caron is re- The new middle-high school would be constructed lying on city Treasurer on the same property as the existing high school. A By Steve Krause Richard Fortucci’s latest new football stadium with multi-use elds would ITEM STAFF review of health care costs replace the current building. paid to school employees. MARBLEHEAD — Fran Sheehan The Veteran’s Memorial Elementary School, Fortucci said he has re- has played — and headlined — at which is 16 years old, would become the lower ele- calculated the number of mentary school. the biggest venues in the United retired teachers receiving Modi cations would be made to the Belmonte States. health insurance bene ts Middle School and it would become the Belmon- As the bass guitarist for the rock and could save the city as te STEAM Academy. The upper elementary school group Boston in 1970s, Sheehan much as $5 million. would have a special focus on science, technology, and his band packed them in at the Originally, the treasurer engineering, arts and mathematics. Houston Astrodome, Boston Garden used actuarial accounting, As an alternative, to renovate all elementa- and Pontiac Dome in Detroit. a statistics-based method ry schools except the Veteran’s Memorial School But, he said Monday night, the favored by the insurance would cost more than $80 million, DeRuosi said. biggest thrill he ever had was back industry, to account for the “The future of this town rides on this,” he said. at Swampscott High School in 1968 number of retired school “We have the opportunity to recreate the district.” when the Big Blue won the state workers who receive city He said a new building would support 21st cen- basketball championship, and two health bene ts. tury learning. of his teammates lifted him up on That calculation ear- Parents discussed exible seating options and re- their shoulders so he could cut the lier this year had 1,043 placing rows of desks with clusters of tables. They nets down. PHOTO | BOB ROCHE retirees getting bene ts. listed bene ts that included more collaboration be- The fact that those two teammates But Fortucci’s headcount tween students and teachers being more involved both went onto play professional Former Swampscott baseball coach last week determined the with group activities. football probably had something to Frank DeFelice attends the Swamp- number was closer to 970. scott-Marblehead Old Timer’s Night on SAUGUS, A7 FOOTBALL, B2 Monday. BUDGET, A7 INSIDE UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT In Opinion City of Peabody takes ownership of Tillies Farm Peabody plotting a plan for pot. A4 By Adam Swift ownership of the farmstand ITEM CITY EDITOR from the Spurr family were put Police/Fire in place nearly a decade ago but PEABODY — Long-time Lynn man charged the council made it of cial. after hit-and-run. A6 South Peabody farmstand Til- Although he voted in favor of lies Farm will be operated by the budget, Ward 6 Councilor In Sports the city beginning in Febru- Barry Sinewitz said he had some Anything is possible ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE ary after the City Council ap- questions about the long-term in Thanksgiving proved a $140,000 budget last plans for the farm. football games. B1 Tillies Farm in Peabody is set to give ownership to the city week. by the beginning of February. Plans for Peabody to take over TILLIES FARM, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 43° VOL. 138, ISSUE 298 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 31° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016 OBITUARIES NuTonomy is set Hazel R. Ryan Alice H. Mercier, 103 1939-2016 to test autonomous LYNN — Hazel R. Ryan died were young we were sent to LYNN — Alice H. husband Daniel, Su- peacefully in her sleep after our elderly neighbors homes (Lagasse) Mercier, zanne Bogart and her cars in Boston a lengthy illness, on Monday with a hot meal, and told it 103, of Lynn, died ancé Scott Kautz, (AP) — NuTonomy, a start- out ts its vehicles with a Nov. 14, 2016. She was born was better to give than to re- at home surrounded Laurie Hartenstein up that makes driverless state-of-the art software in Lynn, April 11, 1939. She is ceive. When a family’s house by her family on Nov. and her husband vehicles, says it will start system to enable safe op- predeceased by her parents burned down even though our 20. Born in Lowell Paul, 22 great-grand- Donald Sprague and Doris house was small, she took in the daughter of the children and several testing its self-driving cars eration without a driver. Carmody. She is survived all six people. Many stray an- late Ernest and Alda nieces and nephews. on public streets in Boston The City of Boston plans by her loving husband of 53 imals found their way to her (Cordeau) Lagasse She was the sister of by the end of the year. to monitor the effects of years, John J. Ryan, and her house and found their forev- and wife of the late the late Antoinette The Cambridge, Massa- autonomous vehicles and four children, John M. Ryan and er home. There was always a Joseph E. O. Mercier.