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FY19 tax rate set

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By Sue Ellen Woodcock

Tuesday night the City Coun-cil, based on information from the Board of Assessors, set the tax rate for fiscal year 2019. Taxpay-ers can expect to see the results in their January 2019 tax bill. The average residential bill will go up by $123 and the average tax bill should be about $4,656.

The FY19 residential tax rate is $14.30 per $1,000 of valua-tion, as opposed to FY18 tax rate of $15.15. The FY19 commercial tax rate is $27.61 per $1,000 of valuation, as opposed to $29.45 in FY18.

“Overall, in the past few years there has been a large increase in residential valuation,” said Chris-topher Gaeta, director of assess-ing for the city of Lynn.

The average single-fami-ly home value rose 8.82 per-cent, from $299,200 in FY18 to $325,600 in FY19. Condo sales are also up 8.11 percent and 2-3-

family home values are up 13.52 percent.

The total taxable assessed val-ue for FY19 is $8,318,577,009. Residential real estate makes up 88.92 percent of the taxable property. Commercial real estate is 6.66 percent, industrial is 1.93 and personal property is 2.85 per-cent.

“Lynn really is a bedroom community,” Gaeta said. “Apart-ment building values are also up 22 percent.”

Residential real estate val-ues rose 11.72 percent from $6,620,907,645 in FY18 to $7,397,015,205 in FY 19.

The median commercial real estate values rose 7.96 per-cent, from $302,900 in FY18 to $327,000 in FY19. The me-dian industrial value also rose 5.85 percent from $345,400 to $365,600.

The total taxable assessed value in the city for FY 19 is $8,318,577,009.

By Sue Ellen Woodcock

He’s been working in the city of Lynn for the past 40 years and now he would like to get more involved by serving on the Lynn Water and Sewer Commission.

Tuesday night the City Coun-cil appointed Vincent Lozzi Jr. to take the seat once held by City Councilor Peter Capano, who stepped down because he will be sworn in as state representative next month. He will also give up his councilor seat at the end of this month.

“I consider it to be an honor to

serve on the committee,” Lozzi said during his interview. “The Water and Sewer Commission plays a very important role in this city. The biggest thing is to protect the environment, to have the best quality water. I’m very fascinated at how all this is put together.”

Lozzi has owned the Stacy Shade Shop for over 40 years, and the business itself is just over 100 years old. He is also the de-veloper of a 12-lot subdivision in Lynn called Rockland Estates. During this time, he worked closely with the commission, the

Conservation Commission, and the Planning Board.

“That was a big experience for me back then,” he said, adding he’d like to see a continued in-vestment in infrastructure.

In his new role, Lozzi, brother of Ward 1 Councilor Wayne Lozzi (who recused himself from the vote) will give the council regular updates on the commission.

He is president of the Lynn Italian Club and a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Also interviewed for the seat was Elyse Fannon, a grant writer in the school system.

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Chhear Hang, owner of Boba Tea and Snow Ice House, 1 City Hall Square, cuts the ribbon at the grand open-ing festivities for his new store last Saturday. North Shore Latino Business Association Executive Director Frances Martinez, Mayor Thomas McGee, Sen. Brendan Crighton, School Committee member Jarod Nichol-son, Lynn residents, and friends also participated in the ceremony. See Page 2 for more photos.

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With Christmas just two weeks away, most of us will be rushing about -- either to the stores and malls or online --- as we do our last-minute holiday shopping in hopes of finding that “perfect” gift for our family members and loved ones.

Although the vast majority of Americans have much to be thank-ful for because of a strong economy and a record-low unemployment rate, there are many of our fellow citizens who have not shared in the general prosperity.

Statistics tell us that millions of Americans of all ages, including those in our own communities, have been left out of the new econ-omy, often through no fault of their own. Too many Americans, in-cluding children, either live in shelters or temporary housing arrange-ments because the strong economy ironically has left them out in the cold -- literally -- thanks to high rents and soaring real estate values.

For these millions of Americans, the reality is that the holiday sea-son brings little joy.

We would note that psychologists tell us that the Biblical directive that giving to others is the best gift that we can give to ourselves is indeed true.

So we hope that our readers will take the time and make the even the smallest effort to do something for those who are less fortunate. Whether it be donations to local food banks and toy programs, or even as simple as dropping a few dollars in the bucket of the Salvation Army Santas, there is something each and every one of us can do to make the holidays brighter for others.

Boba Tea and Snow Ice House opens at 1 City Hall SquareBoba Tea and Snow Ice

House held its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday at its new store loca-tion at 1 City Hall Square.

Pictured (left) at the grand opening of Boba Tea and Snow Ice House last Saturday are, from left, Sen. Brendan Crighton, North Shore Latino Business Association Executive Direc-tor Frances Martinez, Mayor Thomas McGee, business owner Chhear Hang, Mayor Thomas McGee, and Chheang Ngeth.

Lynn School Committee member Jared Nicholson congratulates Boba Tea and Snow Ice House owner Chhear Hang at the grand opening Saturday in Lynn.

Celebrating the grand opening of Boba Tea and Snow Ice House are Sen. Brendan Crighton, North Shore Latino Business Association President Frances Martinez, business owner, Chhear Hang, Pisey Hang, Mayor Thomas McGee, NSLBA board member David Zeller, and Ginger Zeller.

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By Sue Ellen Woodcock

Police have identified the badly burned body found in the woods at Frey Park off Walnut Street by a dog walker last Thurs-day afternoon.

Tito Lopez-Ebanks, 29, of Lynn was identified as the victim.

The Essex County District Attorney’s Office, Essex State Police Detective unit and Lynn police are conducting the inves-

tigation.The dog walker found the

body in a wooded area, and at first he was not sure what he was looking at, he told Fox 25 News. After a neighbor helped confirm what they were seeing police were called.

The body was found just up the hill from the baseball field and burn marks could be seen on the tree.

The investigation continues.

Burned body found at Frey Park

Special to the Journal

Governor Charlie Baker nominated Brian V. Sullivan of Swampscott as Clerk Magistrate of the Lynn District Court. Sulli-van has 32 years of experience in the Massachusetts court system; 13 years as a Probation Officer and 19 years as a Clerk Magis-trate. Sullivan has been the Act-ing Clerk Magistrate of the Cam-bridge District since July 2017.

“Brian Sullivan’s experience presiding over a variety of court-room matters and assisting the public will allow him to serve this busy court well,” said Gover-nor Charlie Baker. “I am pleased

to nominate him and submit his name to the Governor’s Council for their advice and consent.”

“If confirmed by the council, I am confident that Brian Sulli-van’s courtroom experience will serve all parties and counsel who appear in the Lynn District Court well,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito.

The District Court hears a wide range of criminal, civil, housing, juvenile, mental health, and other types of cases. District Court criminal jurisdiction ex-tends to all felonies punishable by a sentence up to five years, and many other specific felonies with greater potential penalties;

all misdemeanors; and all viola-tions of city and town ordinances and by-laws. The District Court is located in 62 courts across the Commonwealth.

For more information about the District Court, visit their homepage.

Judicial nominations are sub-ject to the advice and consent of the Governor’s Council. Appli-cants for judicial openings are reviewed by the Judicial Nom-inating Commission (JNC) and recommended to the governor. Governor Baker established the JNC in February 2015 pursu-ant to Executive Order 558, a non-partisan, non-political Com-

mission composed of volunteers from a cross-section of the Com-monwealth's diverse population to screen judicial applications. Twenty-one members were lat-er appointed to the JNC in April 2015.

About Brian V. Sullivan:Brian V. Sullivan has 32

years of experience in the Mas-sachusetts courts system. From 1986-1999, Sullivan worked as a Probation Officer in the Chelsea District Court, managing a case-load of nearly 100 probationers, performed investigations assist-ing the court in sentencing and served as a liaison between Dis-trict Court Judges and attorneys.

In 1999, he became Assistant Clerk Magistrate in the Chel-sea District Court, managing courtroom sessions and presid-ing over show-cause and motor vehicle hearings and issuing warrants. Since 2017, Sullivan has served as Clerk Magistrate Pro-Tempore of the Cambridge District Court where he manages court business and administra-tive procedures. Sullivan gradu-ated with a B.S. from Northeast-ern University in 1982. Since 1977, he has been a member of the Chelsea Knights Club of Co-lumbus and served as the Grand Knight in 1984 and President of the Board of Directors in 1985.

Governor Baker nominates Brian V. Sullivan as Clerk Magistrate of the Lynn District Court

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every thursdayCommunity Credit Union .....................1 Andrew Sq.St. Marys High School ..........................35 Tremont St Eastern Bank .........................................195 Market St Brothers Del ..........................................41 Market St Lynn YMCA ............................................20 Neptune Blvd Shaws ....................................................43 State St Marketplace Edison Bldg ...........................................85 Exchange St GLSS Senior Center .............................8 Silsbee St Silsbee Tower ........................................67 Silsbee St D&M .......................................................13 Broad St PickUp Modern .....................................68 Exchange StCharlies .................................................65 Exchane StLynn Art .................................................25 Exchange StCal News ................................................53 Central StPF O’Sullivan ........................................151 Central StLynn Museum .......................................590 Washington StLynn Police ...........................................300 Washington StStop n Shop ..........................................35 Washington StLynn Court House ................................580 Essex StLynn Housing Authority .......................10 Church StCapitol Diner .........................................431 Union StLynn City Hall ........................................3 City Hall SquarePorthole Pub .........................................98 LynnwayJohnny Market ......................................33 LynnwayLynn Library ..........................................5 N Common StBoys and Girls Club .............................25 N Common StCVS ........................................................200 S Common StTony Lena’s ...........................................617 Boston StLittle River .............................................618 Boston StLynn Liquor ...........................................825 Boston StCVS ........................................................65 Boston StRite Aid ..................................................52 Boston7 Eleven .................................................3 Lynnfield StRichdale .................................................229 Broadway Walgreens .............................................290 Broadway Equitable Bank ......................................400 Broadway

Mobil Mart ..............................................512 Chestnut St Richdale .................................................573 Chestnut StLazy Dog ................................................328A BroadwayRollys .....................................................338 BroadwayHughes Re .............................................319 BroadwayLynn water &Sewer ..............................400 Parkland AveKwick Stop ............................................532 Lynnfield StUnion Hopsital ......................................500 Lynnfield StDeMoulas ...............................................40 Federal St7 Eleven .................................................50 Western AveWestern Ave Store ................................108 Western AveLynn Convenience ................................109 Western AveJohns Roast Beef .................................111 Western AveConvenience Plus .................................225 Western AveMetro Credit Unio .................................475 Western AveWalgreen ...............................................841 Western AveRiverworks Credit Union ......................947 Western AveThree Yolks ...........................................1103 Western AveOsborne Medical Supply ......................59 Essex StCVS .......................................................509 Eastern AveChristophers Café ................................2 Lewis StTedeschi ................................................210 Lewis StRichdales ...............................................149 Walnut St Walnut Coffee .......................................157 Walnut StAll Day Convenience ............................548 Summer StCorner Shop ..........................................70 Market Sq Richdale .................................................585 Essex StLynn Classical High School ................235 O’Callaghan WayLynn English High ................................50 Goodridge ST

Special to The Journal

St. Mary’s Head of School Grace Cotter Regan was one of seven individuals inducted into the North Shore Chamber of Commerce’s Academy of Distin-guished Leaders at the chamber’s 99th annual meeting Wednesday at Danversport Yacht Club.

The honorees were selected based on criteria that includes “demonstration of leadership, commitment to social respon-sibility, strong community in-volvement, proven economic impact and/or social impact on the region, high level of creativi-ty, innovation and determination and sustained enhancement of the quality of life in our commu-

nity,” according to the chamber.Regan has served as head

of school at St. Mary’s since 2012. She was recently appoint-ed the first woman to serve as president at Boston College High

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By Joyce Erekson

The English High football team didn’t have much left to prove at Manning Field Thanksgiving morning, but if there were any non-believers remaining, the Bulldogs’ resounding 38-0 win over a very good Classical team brought them on board. The much-anticipated show-down between the 9-1 Bulldogs and the 8-2 Rams had the poten-tial to be one for the books, but in the end the day belonged to English. The Bulldogs, who had

already claimed the Northeastern Conference Divisoin 3 title, became only the third English team in history to finish the season with 10 wins. Both teams had plenty to be proud about this season. The Rams, under first-year coach Brian Vaughan, finished 8-3 after going 3-8 in 2016. The saving grace that season came on Thanksgiving when the Rams, who had just seen English take the lead with eight seconds left in the game, came back from the dead to win on a crazy kick return by Marcus

English takes Classical, 38-0 in Thanksgiving Day contest

Rivera. Although English coach Chris Carroll downplayed the revenge factor in this year’s game, the English faithful, many of them wearing T-shirts that read “Looking for Revenge” had other ideas. Whatever the Bulldogs’ motivation, it worked like a charm.“This one feels good,” Carroll said. “Last year puts a little extra on it, but every year is a new year. I just love this 2017 team. It’s just a special, special team … To end it this way, playing four great quar-ters of football, was a really special ending to the season.” This was Carroll’s third year as head coach. In the two years prior to him taking over, the Bulldogs finished 3-7. In his first year they went 5-6, but fell to 2-9 last sea-son. “To beat a team as good as Classical 38-0, I don’t think any coach goes in thinking that’s going to happen,” Carroll said. “I’m very happy with the result. I proud for my program and of my team.” The Rams had hoped for a bet-ter ending to their season. “That was a good, old-fash-ioned butt-whooping,” Vaughan said, crediting Carroll and his play-ers. “They were better prepared than us. They came out here and laid the wood on us. Sometimes as a program you’ve got to take that.

NS Chamber honorsSt. Mary's Grace Regan

By John Lynds

The Lynn City Council voted 10-1 Tuesday night in favor of a Home Rule Petition that seeks a one-time exemption from state law that requires cities and towns to have a balanced budget before sending out the third-quarter res-idential tax bills.

The City’s Chief Financial Of-ficer Peter Caron told the council last week that if the city was un-able to set the tax rate and mail out the third-quarter tax bills by the end of the year, the city would not receive the $31 mil-lion in real estate taxes by Feb. 1.

“We will be unable to meet payroll,” Caron told the Council. “Without the Legislature’s ap-proval, we would have to borrow a significant amount of cash that would probably cost $100,000 in

interest.” Caron and others have suggested that the city’s $5 mil-lion deficit could ballon to $36 million without the special ex-emption voted on by the Council Tuesday night.

If the Home Rule Petition is approved by the state legisla-ture then the city would be able to mail out the third-quarter tax bills and start to receive revenues without the budget balanced.

Caron requested the Council take action and was backed by Council President Darren Cyr.

The City Council has taken several measures to raise revenue to close the deficit gap this year. The Council has voted in favor of implementing a trash fee, rais-ing meals tax and payments from the city’s two medical marijuana

Council votes in favor for tax Home Rule Petition

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The Lynn Classical cheerleaders are shown at the annual Classical-English Thanksgiving game last Thursday morning at Manning Field.

Lynn English and Lynn Classical football captains participate in the coin toss before their annual meeting at Manning Field.

By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.More than a half dozen youth

services and educational organi-

zations in the city have teamed

up to establish a campaign to end

child sexual abuse in the Lynn.

The Enough Abuse Campaign,

consists of the joint efforts of

Lynn Economic Opportunity,

My Brother’s Table, St. Mary’s

School of Lynn, the Lynn Pub-

lic Schools, All Care VNA, and

Massachusetts Citizens for Chil-

dren. The campaign will be fo-

cused on helping to identify the

victims of child sexual abuse and

raise awareness of the issue to

others in the community.The campaign was the idea of

local attorney James Carrigan,

who has witnessed firsthand the

impacts of child sexual abuse and

wanted to do something to stop

it. Carrigan organized a group

of executive directors from local

non-profits and youth services

agencies and the Enough Abuse

Campaign was launched.The group will jointly host

training workshops on April 27,

28 and 29 (Wednesday, Thursday

and Friday), from 89 a.m. to 4

p.m. in the City Council Cham-

bers at Lynn City Hall.

The workshops will focus on

teaching those who work with

children to look for the signs of

child sexual abuse, so the victims

can be identified and the perpe-

trators can be brought to justice.

Carrigan said that the cam-

paign will continue to focus on

prevention, prosecution fo the

offenders and treatment for the

victims.Other key contributors to the

effort include Birgitta Damon

of Lynn Economic Opportunity

(LEO), Diane Kuzia Hills of My

Brother’s Table, Superintendent

Catherine Latham f the Lynn

Public Schools and Jetta Bernier

of the Massachusetts Citizens for

Children.Participants in the workshops

must pre-register by calling 781-

309-5619

By Joyce EreksonA proposal to merge what

remains of the Greater Boston

League with the Northeastern

Conference will come up for a

vote at meeting of the NEC prin-

cipals on April 27 at Beverly

High School. Classical High Principal Gene

Constantino is a fan of the merg-

er, which would bring Everett,

Malden, Medford and Somerville

into the conference. A proposal to

merge the two leagues has been

rejected in the past, but Con-

stantino is hoping some of the

concerns expressed at that time

have been addressed in the new

proposal. One of those concerns was

that some NEC teams could find

themselves in a league with four

GBL teams, but the current pro-

posal would stipulate that the

four teams would be split with

two going in one division and

two in the other. Another con-

cern involved the Everett High

football team, a perennial pow-

erhouse. Under the new proposal,

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By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.City Council President Daniel

Cahill, running unopposed for the

Democratic nomination to suc-

ceed former State Representative

Robert Fennell, got 369 votes out

of 380 votes Tuesday, April 12

and has essentially cleared his

path to become Lynn’s newest

State Representative.Cahill, who at one time thought

he would have a challenger in

the primary was grateful for the

votes he received on Tuesday.

“I am always humbled by the

support I receive,” said Cahill.

“To get that kind of support, 400

people, when my name was the

only name on the ballot, I was

very excited.”The voter turnout for the spe-

cial election was exceedingly

low, even with only one candi-

date on the ballot, representing

less than 2-percent of the city’s

22,074 registered voters.Still, of the votes cast, 97-per-

cent were for Cahill, with just 11

write-in ballots.Cahill will next appear on the

Special General Election ballot

on Tuesday, May 10, where he

will also be unopposed, as no

Republican candidates ran for the

open seat.Cahill thanked his campaign

team, which he noted has worked

very hard over the last few weeks,

despite the fact he was unopposed

in the election and Cahill said he

and the team will continue to use

the campaign trail as a way to

raise awareness about important

topics like local unemployment,

the opioid epidemic, and access

to a quality, affordable education.

Voters have until April 20 to

register to vote in the May 10

special election.

NEC/GBL merger coming up for a vote

Local youth groups teaming up to stop child sexual abuse

Cahill wins primary with 369 votes

Will run unopposed on May 10 ballot

Please see MERGER Page 2

The Tony Conigliaro Gymnasium was transformed into a casino Friday evening for the second annual Casino

Night.  Guests enjoyed casino games, live music, and food from local restaurants. Please see pages 6 and 7 for

more photos.

By Cary ShumanBrandon Devin and Andre

Gaudet have been friends, class-

mates, and teammates for a long

time. They starred in different

Little League organizations,

played for the Gallant All-Star

team and were united as All-Stars

again in the Greater Lynn Babe

Ruth program.Now seniors and star athletes

at Lynn Classical High School,

they will be moving on after

graduation to a larger stage and

fulfilling a lifelong dream to be a

college baseball player.Devin and Gaudet each signed

letters of intent to attend Saint

Anselm College in Manchester,

N.H., where they will play in

coach Barry Rosen’s Division 2

program.In an interesting twist to this

baseball story, Classical coach

Double A BallLC stars Devin, Gaudet will continue careers at St. Anselm

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Lynn Classical seniors Brandon Devin (left) and Andre Gaudet sign

letters of intent to attend St. Anselm College. Also pictured at the

ceremony are Brandon’s parents, Bill and Lynne Devin, LCHS Principal

Gene Constantino, and Andre’s parents, Ron and Diane Gaudet.

By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.

Lynn Farmer’s Market Thurs-

day in Central square

The Lynn Farmers Market will

be open today (Thursday) begin-

ning at 11 a.m. in Central Square.

Residents are encouraged to

come down to the square this after-

noon to fund fresh produce and oth-

er farm fresh foods and products.

12:01 Blues Band at Red Rock

Concert series tonight

The Friends of Lynn and Nahant

Beach sponsored summer concert

series at Red Rock Park on Lynn

Shore Drive will resume this eve-

ning from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with a

visit from local favorites the 12:01

Blues Band.

The concert is free and open to

the public and will be a treat for the

entire family.

Gypsy Jazz Jam at Walnut

Street Café

For those who wish to stay in-

doors this evening, or if you just

want to keep the night going after

the Red Rock show, the Walnut

Street Café will host the Gypsy

Jazz Jam beginning at 8 p.m.

New Music in the Square next

weekThe New Music in the Square

series continues next Wednesday,

July 27 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

with a pair of acts, Molly Pinto

Madigan and Set the Nation will

each perform live in the event that

offers residents a chance to enjoy

By Cary Shuman

Leon Elwell has known for

a few years that the players on

his 15-year-old Lynn Babe Ruth

Baseball All-Star team were a

special group. They have not

only excelled on the field but

they have been a credit to the city,

their schools, and their families.

Beginning tonight, the new-

ly crowned Eastern Mass. state

champion Lynn Babe Ruth team

will be a part of one of the big-

gest showcases ever in this city

when the Lynn Babe Ruth orga-

nization hosts the New England

Regionals at Fraser Field.

Though Lynn had qualified for

the Regionals as the host team,

the Elwell Men reaffirmed their

excellence with a 6-1 victory in

the Eastern Mass. final over an

outstanding Medford team that is

also quite deserving of its entry in

the Regionals.

Christian Burt, one of the

team’s aces, led the way with

a superb pitching performance

against Medford Saturday at the

Boston College High School

baseball field.

Elwell and his players are ex-

cited to be playing in the Region-

als in front of the expected large

hometown audiences and hope to

win it all and qualify for the Babe

Ruth World Series in North Da-

kota.“It’s a really special honor to

have the Regionals in Lynn,” said

Elwell. “It’s a little crazy that we

might have an opportunity to

play for a world championship.

But that’s a long way away. A lot

of things have to happen.”

Elwell previously coached

in the Regionals in 2000 when

his Lynn team came within one

victory of the New England

championship. Two of Elwell’s

colleagues in the Lynn Fire De-

partment, Chris Oram and Tim-

my Magner, were members of

that outstanding team.

Elwell has coached several of

the current Lynn players since

they were 5 and 6 years old.

“I have a close bond with the

players on this team,” said El-

well. “I’ve watched them grow

up from little kids to young men.

I hope we’ll have some good

crowds at the games. We have a

great group of parents. I just want

to say thank you to all the people

who helped bring the tournament

to Lynn. Jim Beliveau and Bill

Terlecky and Jeff Earp have done

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By Cary Shuman

Shanna McCarriston is doing

what she loves this summer and

that is working in the world of

sports.McCarriston is a press intern

in social media and conducts

post-game interviews for the

North Shore Navigators. She is

also working in the WBZ-TV

Channel 4 sports department as

an intern.

A 21-year-old senior at Quin-

nipiac University, McCarriston is

majoring in broadcast journalism

and has an anchor position on the

college television station, Q-30.

You’ll certainly recognize the

name of her grandfather, legend-

ary Lynn sportscaster John Hoff-

man, who has been the voice of

local sports for 35 years. McCa-

rriston impressed everyone with

her remarks at a testimonial for

her grandfather last year at the

Nahant Country Club.

Mr. Hoffman helped his

granddaughter reach out to the

Navigators and Shanna said the

The Massachusetts state champion Lynn Babe Ruth 15-year-old team is set to compete in the New England

Regionals at Fraser Field in Lynn. The team is pictured at a practice session. Front row, from left, Erick Ubri,

Luke Boisselle, Kevin Durant, Aedan Leydon, Zach Elwell, Brett Bucklin, Danny Lilja, and A,J. Luciano. Back

row, from left, are coach Ryan Boisselle, coach Sean Leydon, Mike Leavitt, Anthony Nikolakakis, Christian

Burt, Matt Gisonno, David Barnard, Dayshon Anderson, James Wilkins, and manager Leon Elwell.

By Joseph Domelowicz Jr.

The Lynn City Council voted

this week to approve a change in

the zoning ordinance, and for the

first time allow food trucks to op-

erate within the city limits.

The zoning change was initi-

ated by the Building Department,

after several city councilors re-

ported getting calls from people

who were interested in operating

food trucks in the city. The pro-

posed amendment had also been

approved by the Planning Board,

which is required to make a rec-

ommendation on zoning changes.

Among those supporting the

zoning amendment was Swamp-

scott resident and Lynn business

owner Aaron Reames of Bent

Water Brewing. Reames had pre-

viously said he would work with

city officials to bring food trucks

to the city, so that his patrons

could have more food choices

when visiting Bent Water.

Bent Water, the city’s first craft

beer brewery, does not have a li-

cense to serve food and visitors

to Bent Water currently have to

order from a variety of take-out

and delivery restaurants. Reames

said he believes that having food

trucks available to his custom-

ers will improve the choices for

Bent Water customers and also

improve foot traffic to the former

Lynn Lumber site, where Bent

Water is located.

Food trucks have become a

common sight in larger urban

metropolitan areas like Boston,

Cambridge, Somerville and even

Worcester and have built a loyal

following among young urban

foodies and the types of young

professionals that Lynn is seek-

ing to attract to the Downtown

District and the waterfront.

Council votes to

allow food trucks in Lynn

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nd fun

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Shanna McCarriston is pictured

with her grandfather, Lynn TV

sportscaster John Hoffman, at

Fraser Field.

The New England Regionals

Massachusetts champion Lynn Babe Ruth set to compete for World Series berth

McCarriston plots her co

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MASS. COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS HOLDS A BED FOR EVERY CHILD HOLIDAY EVENTThe Massachusetts Coalition

for the Homeless held A Bed For Every Child’s Holiday Build-A-Bed Event Saturday at the Coa-lition’s warehouse located at 73 Buffum St., Lynn.

Families, community groups, and local organizations assem-bled beds that A Bed For Every Child will deliver to children during the holiday season.

“Today we have participants from 23 different communities

participating in our annual Hol-iday-Build-A-Bed event where families and groups come togeth-er to build a twin-size bed frame for a child on A Bed For Every Child’s waiting list,” said Tina Giarla, program director for A Bed For Every Child.

Mayor Thomas McGee thanked the families for their vol-untary participation in the chari-table event.

Ready to build a bed are David Read, Stephanie Read, Susan Warner, and Mark Warner.

Tina Giarla, with representatives from Slick Oil, who built a bed at the event, Nancy Marshall, PJ Solomon, Chris Buchanan, and Jill Ciarami-taro.

Mayor Thomas McGee greets some of the youths that participated in the Holiday Build-A-Bed event in Lynn. The Ferrari, Mackin, Cantrell, Maes, Garofalo, Faessler, Kennedy, and Boisvert families volunteered their

efforts to build a bed at the community event Saturday.

Representing the Zonta Club of Chelsea, Georgia Green and Pres-ident Joan Lanzillo-Hahesy.

A Bed For Every Child Program Director Tina Giarla, Carolyn Berndt, and Victoria Jones, owner of Inbound Ink, who donated T-shirts for the event.

Mayor Thomas McGee, with the Project Y.E.S. group who built a bed at the event, from left, Niriely Pena, Tim Ferrari, Hancel Muniz, Joe Castro, and Jaylynn Lopez.

Lending their support to A Bed For Every Child are Lynn school-teachers Stephanie Miller and Irene Crighton.

A Bed For Every Child Program Director Tina Giarla, with Mayor Thomas McGee, at the Holiday Build-A-Bed event in Lynn.

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EAST LYNN ̔D̓ TEAM HONORED BY THE CITY COUNCIL

HALL OF CHAMPIONSBy Cary Shuman

The state champion East Lynn Pop Warner Bulldogs ‘D’

team was honored by the Lynn City Council Tuesday night.

Councillor-at-Large Brian LaPierre led the ceremony during which each member of the team received a Lynn City Council official citation recognizing their Eastern Massachusetts and State

championship season. LaPierre did an excellent job at the podi-um, enthusiastically introducing each player and adding to the grandeur of what was a memora-ble season for the players, coach-es, and parents.

The Bulldogs finished with a 12-2 record, including an excit-ing 7-6 victory in the state final over the Boston Raiders, who had defeated the Bulldogs in the regu-lar season finale by a substantial

margin. The coaches put together an outstanding game plan for the state championship game and the Bulldogs were able to hold the Raiders’ offense in check.

An East Lynn ‘D’ team won the state title for the third year in a row. Pete Dow, a former Lynn Tech football All-Star, is the head coach of the Bulldogs. The assistant coaches are John Raye, Jarod Dennis, D.D. Thornton, Dennis Rowe, Kevin Dusablon,

and Limbert Thomas.The team mothers are Tina

Berry Soto and Casey Ferrioli.Following the ceremony in an

interview with the Lynn Journal, Pete Dow revealed what would be a major development in youth football nationwide, stating that Pop Warner football is consid-ering the elimination of weight limits for each division.

The East Lynn Pop Warner ‘D’ team players and coaches are pictured with Lynn City Councillors (from left) Rick Starbard, Hong Net, Brian LaPierre, Brian Field, Wayne Lozzi, and Diana Chakoutis, during the ceremony honoring the team for its state championship season.

Marvin Avery Jr. is pictured with his father, Marvin Avery Sr.

Kim Raffoul and her son, Gregory Raye.

Nelson Pena and Sandra Solano, with son, Misael Pena.

Johanny Martinez and son, Joseluis Echevarria.

Olivia Solis, with her son, Julio Cuevas, and daugh-ter, Nataly Solis.

Karla Machado, with sons, football players Aavian Pena and Elai Machado, and daughter, Davian Pena.

Team mother Casey Ferrioli and son, Thomas Ferrioli.

Magaly Cruz and son, Geo-vanni Pena.

Team mother Tina Soto and son, Matao Soto.

Assistant Coach and Defensive Coordinator John Raye and son, Gregory Raye.

Penny Buckman and son, Ethan Sanchez.

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GREATER LYNN BABE RUTH

AWARDS BANQUETGreater Lynn Babe Ruth held its 2018 Awards Banquet at Prince

Restaurant.President Jeff Earp led the presentation ceremony during which the

championship teams and the individual award recipients were honored.Many parents and players thanked Earp for his outstanding

leadership of the youth baseball organization.CARY SHUMAN PHOTOS

The 14-15-year-old Division Champions, the Royals, with coaches Steve Galatis, Mark Marino, and Aman-do Mateo.

John Holland Sportsmanship Award recipient Chris Figuereo, Sports-manship Award recipient Dante Migliaccio, and Most Valuable Player Award recipient Jared DeFillipo.

Sportsmanship Award recipients for their respective teams are pictured at the awards banquet.

Former Lynn English Super Bowl quarterback and Babe Ruth coach Chris Warren, with his son, Brady Warren, recipient of the Sportsman-ship Award for the 13-year-old Twins.

Right: Rockies Manager Dave Galeazzi and Dylan Mejin, recipient of the Lucas DeJoie Award.

For more information about Greater Lynn Babe

Ruth baseball, please visit

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The 13-year-old Division Champions, the Mets, with manager Mike Nicolau and coaches Rick Anderson and Scott Parker.

The 13-year-old All-Star team, with coach Chris Warren and manager Paul Hartford.

The 14-year-old All-Star team, with coach Matt Donahue, Manager Brian O’Connor, and coach Mark Marino.

The 15-year-old All-Star team, with manager Dave Galeazzi, and coaches Tony Luciano, Mike Nickolau, and Kevin Mannion.

Left: Greater Lynn Babe Ruth President Jeff Earp presents the Players’ Champion Award to Bill Trahant, whose generosity and support to the organi-zation were applaud-ed by league officials, players, coaches, and parentsRight: Manager Brian O’Connor, with twins, Bruce Whitcomb (left) and Nathan Whit-comb, recipients of the Sportsmanship Awards for the Astros.

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE REGION

CHELSEA RECEIVES MWRA GRANT

CHELSEA – Lead pipes are often a hidden danger under the streets and sidewalks for a lot of families in Chelsea, but if the City can help it, that danger will be removed one pipe at a time.

On Monday, the MWRA and the Clean Water Action Group awarded the City of Chelsea and GreenRoots for their early adop-tion of a program that removes, at no cost to the homeowner, lead water service lines while in the process of other infrastruc-ture projects.

Part of that award included a $100,000 grant to help continue the program and remove more lead water lines as the City en-counters them during paving or sidewalk repair programs.

City Manager Tom Ambrosi-no said it is a common sense operation, but one that goes the extra step in replacing the line for free – as it usually is the re-sponsibility of the homeowner to pay for the replacement.

“For the last year or more, as we’ve undertaken other con-struction projects on the streets, when we encounter a lead ser-vice line on the street, we are re-placing it at no cost to the home-owner,” he said. “The MWRA grant helps ensure we will be able to continue to do that. We all want safe and clean drinking water and having clean water is elemental.”

Over time, lead can leach into drinking water, and studies have shown that lead is a neurotoxin and can affect cognitive abilities with repeated exposure. This is particularly dangerous for chil-dren and pregnant women.

“Chelsea is so proactive in doing this,” said MWRA Direc-tor Fred Laskey. “They are going through the inventory and go-ing house to house and street to street to get rid of this problem. This is something that should serve as a model in how to pre-vent the scourge of lead in water. No other community has forged into this.”

Fidel Maltez of the Chelsea DPW said that more than 50 lines have been replaced so far under the program. Some of those were last year and came when they were working on street repairs, including to Shur-tleff, Maverick, Clark, Crescent, Lawrence, Tudor and Webster streets. This year, they will take on Essex Street and will be look-ing for lead water lines there too.

“Every project moving for-ward is going to identify and re-

move these lines with zero cost to the homeowner,” he said.

He said that any homeown-er that thinks they might have a lead service line should contact the DPW at (617) 466-4200. They will send out a technician to verify if it is a lead pipe, and if it is, they will put it on a list for completion.

POLICE CONTRACT ALMOST DONE

CHELSEA – After more than two and a half years of negotia-tions, the City is on the verge of a new contract with its two police unions that will see pay increases of up to three percent and imple-ment residency requirements for new hires.

Monday night, City Manager Thomas Ambrosino requested the City Council approve the contracts, which are retroactive to Fiscal year 2017. The Council forwarded the request to its sub-committee on conference, and will take up an official vote on the contracts at a future meeting.

The collective bargaining agreements are for the unions which represent police superior officers and patrol officers.

“Both deals encompass four years, made up of two separate contracts: a one year deal for FY17; and a subsequent three year deal for FY 19-FY20,” Am-brosino stated in a letter to the City Council.

The contracts include a retro-active salary increase of 2.5 per-cent for FY17 and 3 percent for FY18 and FY19. There is also a 3 percent increase slated for FY20 and an additional 1 percent in-crease that goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.

All told, the retroactive salary increases total about $876,000.

“I strongly recommend that the City Council support these agreements, which have been the subject of lengthy negotiations spanning more than two and a half years,” Ambrosino stated. “We set aside in Salary Reserve for the resolution of these two agreements a total of $700,000. Accordingly, we will need an ad-ditional appropriation from Sta-bilization of $176,000 to satisfy these contractual commitments.”

The salary hikes are the only cost item in the new contracts, according to the City Manager. Other items in the contracts re-lated to longevity, detail pay, sick leave incentive, and clothing al-lowance are limited to clarifica-tions or minor changes and do not add any additional costs to the City, he added.

The percentage increases for salary are slightly more than those other City Hall unions have received, Ambrosino said.

“However, in return, the City did secure new language on residency upon which the City Council insisted,” he stated. “As of Jan. 1, 2019, all new police hires must live in the City of Chelsea for five years, consistent with the Ordinance approved by the City Council earlier this year.”

While there was no debate over the union contracts them-selves at Monday’s Council meet-ing, District 1 Councillor Robert Bishop did raise concerns about the City’s use of its stabilization, or “rainy day” funds.

Bishop noted that Ambrosino was requesting the use of stabi-lization funds for improvements to Eden Park and for a protective cover for the new high school turf field as well as for the con-tract salary costs.

Those stabilization funds should be used for emergency situations, Bishop said.

“I don’t think any of these requests rise to the level of an emergency to use the rainy day fund,” he said.

While Bishop said he support-ed the requests being made, he wanted assurances that any mon-ey taken out of the City’s stabili-zation funds be replaced by free cash as soon as those funds are certified by the state.

UNCOVERING TREASURES OF THE PAST

EVERETT –There are no shortage of historic homes in Everett – homes and buildings with a glorious history – but it’s a history lost on almost everyone living in the city.

Everett is one of the more unique Greater Boston cities with a Colonial past that has been virtually lost to time, but over the past week the compre-hensive Everett Historical Survey has been completed, providing the beginnings of re-construct-ing the history before everyone’s eyes.

“I’ve learned a lot about Ever-ett,” said Lisa Mausolf, the con-sultant who compiled the survey over the past year. “I think I only began to scratch the surface and there are a lot of magnificent properties. There was a survey done in the 1980s, but this new work represents a much more comprehensive look that what was accomplished in the `80s. Glendale Square had never been looked at holistically. No one

had looked at why it looks the way it does. Everett Square has some great buildings and a lot of potential for restoration and in-vestment. I have to say, though, the cemeteries were my favorites. Woodlawn Cemetery is incredi-ble, and Glenwood is a wonder-ful municipal cemetery. The Jew-ish Cemetery is incredible too, and very few know it’s there.”

The effort to restore the past started a little over a year ago when the Historical Commis-sion began to meet again under the auspices of retired City Clerk Michael Matarazzo and current City Clerk Sergio Cornelio. Sev-eral residents have joined the Commission, and the first order of business was to conduct an of-ficial survey.

Maria Josefson, of the City’s Department of Planning and De-velopment, has taken charge of the project and the Commission now. After reviewing the survey, she said so much of Everett’s his-tory has come alive for her.

“There’s a home I walk by all the time on the way to the gym and I never stopped to notice it until I saw it was on the survey,” she said. “I stopped one day and noticed how stately it was. It’s one of those things that’s right in front of you, but you don’t notice. It’s nice to understand the history behind it.”

And such is the case for one of the oldest homes in Everett. Though may school children are taught about 519 Ferry St. – the Jonathan Green House – few re-ally know that the home likely dates to around 1719. Though

there were once many older homes in Everett like it, most have been demolished through the years.

It is the one that does remain. The survey points out that it is the only early gambrel-roofed houses remaining in Everett. Other examples which once ex-isted, but are no longer standing, included the Carrington-Paine House on Main Street and the Old Lynde House on Bow Street. That makes the Green House even more special, and a gem that few know about.

The house was originally lo-cated in “south Malden,” and on Ferry Street, which was a route to get Malden residents to Win-nisimmet (or Chelsea) where the Ferry existed. Jonathan Green eventually was prominent in Stoneham, but it is believed he came there from South Malden, which is now Everett.

That said, Mausolf said they were very excited to document the home and she said the Mas-sachusetts Historical Commis-sion was excited to potentially study the home to get more defi-nite answers.

“One thing that was very in-teresting about that house was the folks from Mass Historical were excited about it,” she said. “They really wanted to study it a little more. There aren’t many communities that have a struc-ture that old still standing.”

The focus of the study, how-ever, was more on Glendale and Everett Squares. Both are very historic, but Glendale Square had a very extensive historical

PHOTO BY SETH DANIEL

Stan Pratt and Linda Sullivan display the commemorative Chelsea Soldiers’ Home water tower pins that marked the end of the old, iconic water tower. The Home held a community farewell to the tow-er on Friday, Nov. 30, and the tower is expected to be demolished by the end of December.

SOLDIERS’ HOME WATER TOWER TO COME DOWN

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survey done for, likely, the first time ever. The Square came to be during the transition from pas-toral fields to a streetcar suburb. Starting in the 1880s when horse-cars began carrying people to the Square, development began to sprout there. By the 1890s, the area quickly began to transform under the new streetcar mode of transportation. After that, it be-gan to boom, and develop into a “streetcar suburb,” such as is seen in other areas of Greater Boston that are now considered urban areas.

In all, Mausolf said Everett has a lot of historic buildings and homes, and many of them are likely fit for the National Regis-try.

“I think it was a good project,” she said. “There are a number of properties that are likely to be eligible for the National Historic Registry,” she said. “It’s an excit-ing time in seeking out Everett’s history.”

ENGINE 2 READY TO COME HOME TO HANCOCK STREET

EVERETT - The City is get-ting ready to re-open the historic Hancock Fire Station this Satur-day, Dec. 8, but with a $3.5 mil-lion facelift to tidy up the old fire house.

“This is a great example of the City’s capital improvement plan at work for us in the fire service,” said Chief Tony Carli this week while going over the finishing touches at the Station. “We hav-en’t had a new fire station or ma-jor renovation for many, many years. We did the Ferry Street sta-tion in 1999, but that was to this extent. We have, basically, a brand new building in an older, historic building. It’s very exciting.”

Mayor Carlo DeMaria said he, too, is proud of the investment in restoring the historic firehouse.

“Our firefighters put their lives on the line every day, and I am proud of our $3.5 million investment in this building and infrastructure,” he said. “These funds have been used to not only restore this historic firehouse, but also to include new technology to protect firefighters from ex-posure to any contaminates that may be on that apparatus floor. These modern upgrades will help our members stay safe and en-hance our firefighting capabilities throughout the city.”

The project began one year ago when the City decided to reno-vate the station, mostly to help with firefighter safety and health – a move that is becoming more

common in all fire departments, but particularly appropriate in Everett where a firefighter was lost to occupational cancer this summer.

The project cost $3.5 million and actually came in under bud-get and on time, Carli said. The work has been done by P&S Con-struction of North Chelmsford.

But more than anything, it’s going to promote firefighter safe-ty.

The renovation is fully sprin-klered, has the full fire alarm system and has 100 percent of the asbestos removed. Firefight-ers will have a special place for their gear to be washed, and will also have a laundry area for their clothing as well – a very import-ant measure to try to prevent re-spiratory ailments.

“The biggest thing here is the whole apparatus floor is blocked from the residential area,” said Carli. “That is a huge piece for firefighter safety and now the fire-fighters will be protected in the upstairs from things like fumes and other kinds of problems.”

The renovation has also kept a close eye on the historic nature of the building. In a very recent historical survey of the City’s his-toric buildings, the Hancock Fire Station did register as a historic building. Known as the Chem-ical Engine House due to the fact that it housed the City’s first chemical fire engine, it was built in 1899 and designed by Wil-liam Hart Taylor. Taylor was an immigrant from Prince Edward Island and, in Everett, designed the old Horace Mann School and the Woodlawn Cemetery gate. In Chelsea, he designed many of the historic buildings in its down-town after the 1908 fire.

City officials said they would be re-installing the ornamental weather vane on the building for Saturday’s big open house event.

Carli said they have also kept historic fire service items too, such as a large lifesaving net that people used to jump into from the tops of buildings.

“We’re keeping the life net and will hang it up in the station, and we also kept the 1930s wainscot-ing in the living quarters too,” said Carli. “That net used to be in service in Everett. It is original.”

While construction has been going on, the City had re-pur-posed a part of the old Everett High School to house a tempo-rary station – a feat accomplished by the talented Public Facilities Division. While it has been an adequate temporary home, Carli said firefighters belong in a fire-house.

“The firefighters of Engine 2 are ready to get back here,” he said. “I am very proud of their persistence and their patience in this. The City did a great job of constructing the temporary fire house, but they want to be back here. The firehouse is as integral as the fire trucks for us. They miss being here.”

The Open House took place on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the new station.

HVNA APPROVES SARATOGA STREET DEVELOPMENT

EAST BOSTON – Over the past two years Saratoga Street resident Mike McCormack emerged as the most vocal crit-ic of plans to develop a large vacant lot on his street. McCor-mack thought earlier blueprints of the planned development at 656 Saratoga St. were ‘too big,’ included ‘too many units’ and would be a monstrous eyesore in the middle of the block.

McCormack successfully led the charge to have Harbor View Neighborhood Association (HVNA) members vote against the proposal to build a 50 feet tall, 40 unit development and send developer MG2 back to the drawing board.

So at Monday night’s HVNA meeting when McCormack gave his endorsement to the proposed changes to the original project HVNA members were taken back.

“This proposal makes a lot more sense,” said McCormack of the changes to the original plans. “This is something I can get on board with. They listened to us on height, on one for one parking, so they did some work and this is something I could live with.”

Attorney for MG2 Richard Lynds, who has gone numer-ous rounds with McCormack at public meetings over the project, quipped that ‘it is the season of giving’ to which McCormack jokingly responded ‘I hope no one took video of what I just said’.

Developer MG2 plans to de-velop the 16,500 square-foot va-cant lot at 656 Saratoga St. into market rate rental housing by combining six parcels on the lot into one developable parcel.

The original plan would have MG2 erect a five-story, 50-foot building. The building would have included 62 units with a mix of studio, one and two-bed-room units and retail opportu-nity on the ground floor. A later scaled down version then called

for 43 units of market-rate rent-als that would be a mix of studio, one-and two-bedroom units and 39 parking spaces and eliminated the retail component.

However, the community still felt at five stories and over 50 feet tall the building was un-characteristic of the surrounding neighborhood and sent MG2 back to the drawing board. MG2 then lowered the building to four stories and 40 units with 30 parking spaces. This was the plan that was rejected by members of the HVNA at a meeting a few months back.

At Monday night’s HVNA meeting MG2’s attorney, Rich-ard Lynds, said his client has re-duced the number of units to 30 and knocked an entire floor off the building, bringing the height down to just under 32 feet at three stories.

“This is more in line with the triple deckers that one may see along Saratoga Street,” said Lynds. “This addresses many of the comments and concerns over the height. At 31.8 feet in height the building would be below 35 feet zoning code.”

The entrance to the building’s

parking has been moved around the block to Chaucer Street after resident objected to a curb cut and vehicles entering and exiting a garage on Saratoga Street. MG2 also added more landscaped buf-fers between the proposed build-ing and abutting homes.

Variances MG2 would be seeking from the Zoning Board of Appeals will include Use, Floor Area Ratio or FAR, Open Space and Parking. The devel-oper would also need a variance for Height. While up to 35 feet is allowed in the area and the build-ing is under this threshold, zon-ing does not allow for buildings to be over two and half stories.

While most seemed to be pleased with the changes some still expressed some concern over the building’s massing and asked the development team if there was anyway to break up the building or incorporate architec-tural details to make it look less ‘boxy’.

The public comment period for the project will end on Friday, Dec. 7, Comments can be sent to www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/656-sara-toga-street#comment_Form.

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Dr. Hugh F. Lena, Providence College provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced that Dr. Aurelie A. Hagstrom, associate professor of theology, has been appointed the College’s first William J. and MaryAnn Christie Endowed Chair in Catholic and Dominican Stud-ies.

Dr. Hagstrom, who will serve for a three-year term, will work with Rev. James Cuddy, O.P. ’98, vice president for mission and ministry, to develop programming, lectures, and activities to increase awareness of the Catholic and Do-minican mission within the College community. “We’re thrilled to have Dr. Hagstrom on board as the first Christie Chair,” Fr. Cuddy said. “Her love for Providence College and its Catholic and Dominican mission and identity match that of

Bill and Maryann Christie. I’m ex-cited to work with her in the years to come.” The endowed chair, which is the College’s fourth, was made possible by a gift from Wil-liam J. Christie ’61 & ’11Hon. and his wife, Maryann.

Hagstrom attended Lynn English High School, and is the daughter of Joe and Mary Hagstrom. She is currently a resident of Providence. Following her graduation from PC, she received a doctor of sacred the-ology degree from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican university in Rome also known as the Angelicum, in 1991. She then joined the faculty at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill. She left her tenured posi-tion there to become the second lay woman to teach theology full-time at PC in 2003. She later became the first woman to serve as department

chair.For three years, from 2013-

2016, Dr. Hagstrom served as faculty resident director of the PC Center for Theology and Religious Studies in Rome, PC’s signature study abroad program. Her re-search specialties are ecclesiology and Mariology. She is the author of The Emerging Laity: Vocation, Mission, and Spirituality (Paulist Press, 2010).

Founded in 1917, Providence College is the only college or university in the United States administered by the Dominican Friars and has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,000 students. Providence College con-sistently has been ranked among the top five regional universities in the North according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.”

Dr. Hagstrom appointed to Providence College's First Christie Endowed Chair

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