SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016 TED GRANT Early vote COMMENTARY It’s ends on basic high note By Adam Swift ITEM CITY EDITOR logic The line for early voting LYNN — Early voting ended Friday, and the region’s city and town clerks are still If you agree with the prem- stretched catching their breath from the number of ise that relevant experience out the door matters for the next pres- voters who took advantage of the initiative. at Lynn ident, then one candidate In Lynn, Mary Jules, the election coordi- stands out in the race for the City Hall on nator, said City Hall was “absolutely buried” White House. Thursday. with early voters. It was common to see lines If you agree with the prem- snake through City Hall during early voting. ise that a sheriff is a law-en- ITEM PHOTO | forcement of cer, then one OWEN O’ROURKE EARLY VOTING, A7 candidate stands out in the race for Essex County sheriff. If you agree with the prem- ise that relevant experience matters in the State House, HANDS-ON HISTORY IN LYNN Saugus then one candidate stands out in the race for 9th Essex By Leah Dearborn District representative. FOR THE ITEM looks Hillary Clinton knows what the presidency entails. She LYNN — Holocaust was a United States senator. survivors Saul Dreier to give She was Secretary of State. and Reuwen Sosnowicz She can walk into the White are living tributes to the House on Friday, Jan. 20, importance of memory. seniors 2017 ready to be president. Both survivors took Kevin Coppinger, the Dem- part in a forum at En- ocrat candidate for sheriff, glish High School Fri- an assist has 33 years’ public-safety day to commemorate experience and has worked the 78th anniversary of By Bridget Turcotte as a police chief in a city of Kristallnacht, otherwise ITEM STAFF more than 90,000 since 2009. known as the “Night of He has a proven track re- Broken Glass.” SAUGUS — Engineers cord working with organiza- Dreier, 92, and Sos- are talking about con- tions committed to putting nowicz, 87, were guests structing a ve-story as- young men on a straight and of local participants in sisted living facility at the narrow path. He has imple- the Global Embassy former site of Ferns Motel mented community-liaison of Activists for Peace. on Route 1. programs and training ini- The two met when they There’s no word on tiatives he promises to bring formed the Holocaust whether residents will to the Sheriff’s Department. Survivor Band, which be offered free HBO or a He has overseen a law-en- has since performed whirlpool tub, but Robert Clarke, president of Allen forcement agency that, in the ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE at Schindler’s facto- region, is second only to the ry near one of three & Major Associates Inc., Sheriff’s Department in size. Holocaust survivor Saul Dreier looks at a plaque that honors vic- concentration camps told the Planning Board He has directly managed 200 tims of the Holocaust during a ceremony at Lynn English High the building would include law-enforcement employees School on Friday. HOLOCAUST, A7 about 100 units. and implemented $20 mil- Chairman Peter Rossetti lion annual budgets. He has said neither an application negotiated union contracts, nor design has been pre- fought for additional funding INSIDE sented yet. The engineers sources, and successfully run came to Thursday night’s the department during times LOOK! meeting to get a feel for of budget constraints. He John Legend to how the town would re- knows that many of the male speak at Salem spond to a project proposal. and female substance-ad- State. A5 Under the new zoning for dicted inmates who end up Route 1, developers must under the sheriff’s jurisdic- In Sports rst go to the town man- tion were arrested on local Tech boys soccer ager and a committee con- streets before being sent to drops double-OT sisting of several town de- Middleton jail, only to return heartbreaker. B1 partment heads. The panel to the street without a path decides whether the project forward to a law-abiding life. Marblehead ts with the town’s vision Coppinger faces opposition football cruises to for the redevelopment of from Mark Archer, a former D2A North nal. B1 the road, or whether chang- State Police of cer, sheriff’s es should be made. employee and attorney; Kevin St. Mary’s boys The developers can then Leach, a retired county com- soccer takes down go to the Planning Board missioner; and Anne Man- Ipswich. B1 for a master plan review ning-Martin, a Peabody city and public hearing, which councilor who is one of 24 Lynn eld gives St. offers the public the oppor- deputy superintendents in the Mary’s football tunity to weigh in on the state Department of Correc- a test, but the designs. tions and who contrasts her Spartans pass. B1 “We told them that it experience in corrections with Nahant salutes kind of ts with what the her other opponents’ in law en- town was looking for with forcement by saying, “You don’t its master housing plan,” send a cop to put out a re.” a favorite son Rossetti said. “If this can OK, but you do send one to t into this plan, that could enforce the law. By Bridget Turcotte Retiring certainly help.” Donald Wong is a former ITEM STAFF Nahant Town Planner Krista Saugus Town Meeting and Police of cer Leahy said she wasn’t fa- Board of Selectmen member; NAHANT — Of cer Armand Conti of the Nahant Police Armand Conti miliar with the speci c a three-term Republican state Department thought he was responding to the Johnson El- is mobbed project, but the type of de- legislator representing pre- ementary School for a routine drill, but the children had by Johnson velopment is something the other plans. cincts in Saugus, Lynn, and Elementary town is looking for. Teachers and the Johnson School Parent Teacher Orga- Wake eld; can take credit for School “Based on the Metropol- nization put together a surprise gathering for Conti, who tax dollars he has helped se- students. itan Area Planning Coun- cure for town school improve- has served the department and the school as the student cil’s population projection ments, Route 1 repairs, and resource of cer, for more than 25 years. As he pulled into for Saugus and the North upgrades to the Saugus wa- PHOTO | PAULA MULLER ter supply. Democrat Jennifer NAHANT, A7 SAUGUS, A7 Migliore worked 14 months as a district representative for U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton. Be it for state rep, Essex County sheriff, or president, For the love of art voters must decide if rele- By Thomas Grillo Danielle Delisio’s classroom with vant experience matters. ITEM STAFF stories about how scorpions, cac- It is The Item’s policy not to ti and mountains, things he saw LYNN — Marlin Lebron isn’t endorse candidates for public near his home as a child, made Children’s book of ce. Instead, we view it as sure what kind of work she’ll do their way into his art. His use of illustrator our responsibility to present when she grows up, but becom- Spanish was another way to con- Raul Gonzalez news and relevant informa- ing an illustrator is on the list. brought art les- The 10-year-old fourth grader nect with students. tion – and we believe rele- sons to Cobbet vant experience matters. If and her classmates at Cobbet “Today, I learned we can cre- Elementary you agree with that premise Elementary School got a lesson ate art not only from our imag- you can only reach one con- Friday from Raul Gonzalez, a inations but from everyday School in Lynn clusion in each race. children’s book illustrator. things,” Lebron said following on Friday. The Texas native, who grew up the lesson. (Ted Grant is the publisher of in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, ITEM PHOTO | The Item.) Mexico, captivated students in ART, A7 OWEN O’ROURKE OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 53° VOL. 138, ISSUE 285 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 40° LOOK ........................................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2016 OBITUARIES Gregory J. King, 33 Questions on Christie role swirl after ex-allies’ conviction SAUGUS — Mr. Gregory J. son and her husband Doug of King, age 33, died on Wednes- Derry, N.H. By David Porter day, Nov. 2, at his home. In lieu of flowers donations ASSOCIATED PRESS Born in Salem, he was the in his memory may be made son of Marybeth Serozynsky to My Brothers Table, 98 Wil- NEWARK, N.J. — Two of Raymond, N.H., and Henry low St., Lynn, MA 01901. former aides to Gov. Chris “Joe” King III of Boxborough. Service information: Rel- Christie were convicted Greg was a graduate of St. atives and friends are invit- Friday of causing epic Mary’s High School in Lynn. ed to attend visiting hours traffic jams for political He worked as a driver and in the BISBEE-PORCELLA revenge near the nation’s outreach assistant for A Hope Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln busiest bridge, a verdict of the Boston Public Health Ave., Saugus on Monday that further damaged the Commission. 4-8 p.m. Funeral service on Republican governor’s leg- In addition to his parents, Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the acy and raised anew ques- Gregory leaves his maternal funeral home.