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Rails 

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LYNN: The great Walls 

LYNNFIELD: Channel 25’s Wonder Woman 

PEABODY: Time to make the doughnuts 

SAUGUS: A writer looks back 

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INSIDE THIS EDITION 

8 Tales of rails to trails 

12 Breaking down Walls 

15 Time to make the doughnuts 

16 Lynn native gets political at CBS 

18 A writer remembers 

20 Channel 25’s Wonder Woman 

22 Summertime blues 

24 The tragedy of Tony C 

27 Frank talk about hot dogs 

28 The wig experts 

The ONE 

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One. Two. 

We enter One Magazine’s second year of publication with some changes. The magazine 

itself is printed on a different stock with slightly altered page dimensions. It won’t 

mean much to you, the reader; but it’s a benefit to our advertisers because it enables us 

to increase circulation by inserting it into several newspapers produced by our parent 

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The Daily Item, which is distributed primarily in Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Marblehead, 

Medford, Nahant, Peabody, Revere, Saugus, and Swampscott. 

Within our circulation area, there have been a few changes, as well. 

For starters, there’s been a lot more talk — and even some progress — on plans for rail 

trails. Peabody and Danvers trails have been around for a few years, and more and more 

communities are getting on board with the concept. Another 7.5 miles of continuous 

trails are now open through Everett, Malden, Revere, and Saugus; and Lynn’s first path 

section opened in September 2016. In April, rail-trail supporters in Lynnfield got their 

win by just one vote. As was the case in Swampscott, the vote reflected just how divisive 

an issue it became. 

Downtown Lynn is looking a little different these days, too. Fifteen large-scale murals 

have gone up on building sides - and lighting is set to be installed under railroad 

bridges and vintage neon signs in and around the city’s Arts & Cultural District. What 

began with former Lynn Community Development director Jansi Chandler in the 

’90s has enjoyed a rebirth under Beyond Walls founder Al Wilson. The one constant is 

Charlie Gaeta, who as chairman of EDIC/Lynn worked with Jansi and now with Al to 

bring art to the masses. 

In addition to street art and off-street bike paths, One also catches up with some of 

the area’s past and current residents and business owners. You may have seen CBS News’ 

Steve Chaggaris or Boston 25 news anchor Heather Hegedus on TV, but One goes offcamera 

to provide a closer look at how they got to their respective positions. We’ll also 

introduce you to Sylvia Caruso, who is going the extra step to help patients in need. 

Also in this issue, we’ll engage in some frank talk about hot dogs (get it, frank talk?); 

look at a Peabody company that bakes all the doughnuts for local Dunkin’ Donuts 

shops; see fashions that address the summertime blues; and hear Saugus writer Tom 

Sheehan’s 89 years of memories. 

And while I don’t quite have 89 years of memories, I have one that’s 50 years old: A 

fastball hit him square; he’s down. Tony was badly hurt. Steve Krause brings back the 

pain of Aug. 18, 1967, beginning on Page 25 (of course). 

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Trail mix 

Abandoned railroads become vibrant paths but some communities voice concerns 

BY DAVID LISCIO 

A national initiative to transform 

abandoned railroads into public bicycle 

and walking trails is stirring controversy in 

at least two North Shore communities. 

Lynnfield and Swampscott residents 

remain divided, but recent ballot votes 

in both communities favored trail 

construction and authorized partial 

funding. 

Those who embrace the Rails to Trails 

concept contend such paths enhance 

abutting property values, create healthy 

recreational opportunities and put the land 

to better use. 

Detractors are concerned the trails will 

bring noise and traffic, encourage a parade 

of strangers through their neighborhoods, 

increase local taxes to pay for maintenance, 

damage environmentally-sensitive areas 

and lead to crime. 

Bicyclists, pedestrians and runners of 

all ages typically gravitate to the trails. 

Motorized vehicles are prohibited. 

Several local communities have 

successfully built trails at little cost to 

taxpayers and no discernible spike in 

crime. Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, 

Revere and Saugus all have some form of 

bicycle/ pedestrian trail and few problems 

have arisen. 

The Rails to Trails initiative encountered 

stumbling blocks in Swampscott and 

Lynnfield, although the respective 

boards of selectmen and voters in both 

communities subsequently authorized 

bicycle and pedestrian trail projects. 

LYNNFIELD 

In Lynnfield, voters on April 24 

authorized the town to move forward 

with plans for a 4.4-mile Wakefield/ 

Lynnfield Rail Trail that begins at the 

Galvin Middle School on Main Street in 

Wakefield and extends to the Lynnfield/ 

Peabody town line. 

Those opposed to the project, like 

Citizens of Lynnfield Against the Rail 

Trail, contend it’s a mistake and plan to 

challenge the vote outcome. 

The project mustered strong community 

support and will be funded by $7 million 

in state and federal grants. Friends of 

the Lynnfield Rail Trail will raise $5,000 

annually for trail maintenance. 

Lynnfield resident Thomas Grilk, CEO 

of the Boston Athletic Association and 

the Boston Marathon, posted a personal 

statement on the Friends group website, 

www.lynnfieldrailtrail.org, that outlines 

the benefits of a fitness trail. As Grilk 

put it, “Whether as nearby as Peabody or 

Lexington, or in more distant locales such 

as New Hampshire, Michigan, California, 

Germany or countries in Asia, I have yet 

to see a fitness trail that did not become 

a treasured asset of the communities 

privileged to be served by it. I welcome it 


Walkers, joggers and cyclists enjoy their morning exercise along the Danvers Rail Trail. 

PHOTOS: MARK LORENZ 

to my backyard.” 

Vince Inglese, a member of the 

Friends’ group Leadership Team, said the 

funding meets the state Department of 

Transportation estimate. “The trail cost 

is between $7 million and $9 million. 

Lynnfield’s trail will not be surfaced 

with stone dust. It will be paved with 

asphalt and be ADA (Americans With 

Disabilities Act) compliant,” he said. 

Inglese said the $5,000 in annual trail 

maintenance amounts to $2,000 per mile 

and is modeled after successful trails in 

Topsfield and Danvers where support 

groups are composed of volunteers, as it 

would be in Lynnfield. He noted those 

communities raise maintenance funds 

through sponsors of one-tenth-mile trail 

markers. 

“The marker would have the donor’s or 

the business sponsor’s name on it,” he said. 

Not every Lynnfield resident was pleased 

by the pro-trail vote. 

Robert Breslow posts statements on the 

opposition group’s website www.nofor 

lynnfield.com. 

After the April vote, he announced the 

group plans to continue its fight, adding 

that any structure built in Lynnfield 

Conservation Commission. 

Breslow also pointed out any potential 

grants for the project likely would not be 

made available from the state or federal 

government until 2021. 

The opposition group has warned 

Lynnfield taxpayers they could be 

responsible for construction budget gaps, 

extra policing and emergency medical 

response costs, fence maintenance, storm 

damage repairs and additional parking 

expenses, all without any guarantee of 

future funding. 

Breslow decried the trail will increase 

town traffic, put more bicyclists on the 

roads, create a need for traffic lights, 

heighten the risk of fire and crime, cause 

noise and water pollution, result in litter 

and dog waste, and present a threat to the 

environment. 

Lynnfield and Wakefield in 2007 

conducted a joint feasibility study on 

whether to build the bike path along 

property owned by the Massachusetts Bay 

Transportation Authority (MBTA). The 

corridor was once part of the southern 

section of the now defunct Newburyport 

Railroad. The subsequent plan showed 

1.9 miles of trail in Wakefield and 2.5 

miles in Lynnfield. Once built, it would 

become part of a 30-mile trail plan linking 

eight Essex County communities. 

Reedy Meadow has also complicated 

Lynnfield’s efforts to create a bike trail. 

The meadow was once a marsh and during 

storms it still floods the railroad tracks 

that cross it. The flooding has clogged 

culverts beneath the rail bed, curtailing the 

flow of water. 

The situation has raised questions about 

potential environmental damage, and 

the cost of building and maintaining a 

wooden walkway across the wetlands. 

Wakefield residents have expressed 

concern about the lack of parking for trail 

users, particularly near the town’s alreadycongested 

business district. Two additional 

parking areas on town-owned land have 

been examined as solutions. 

SWAMPSCOTT 

In Swampscott, a measure to spend 

$850,000 on design, engineering and the 

legal costs of acquiring property rights to 

the proposed trail, was passed by Town 

Meeting on May 15. The vote was 210-56. 

The outcome was quickly challenged by 

a citizens’ petition that gathered enough 

signatures to put the appropriation to a 

ballot vote on June 29. Forty-six percent 

of Swampscott voters turned out, resulting 

in an outcome of 2,741 to 2,152 in favor 

of the trail project. 

“I’m very happy that plans for a rail trail 


will move forward,” said Naomi Dreeben, 

chairwoman of the Swampscott Board of 

Selectmen. “Now it’s time to heal the rift in 

our town.” 

In addition to trail-related concerns 

voiced by other communities facing similar 

decisions, Swampscott residents must still 

address controversy over land ownership 

along the former rail corridor. 

The Boston & Maine Railroad once 

operated trains along the route. When the 

company divested, the land was sold to the 

Massachusetts Electric Co., now known as 

National Grid. The electric company utility 

poles were installed along the right-of-way 

and remain in place to transmit kilowatts to 

Marblehead. 

Over the years, the steel rails and 

wooden railroad ties were removed, and 

some abutting residential property owners 

began using pieces of the National Grid 

land as their own. A few of those abutters 

attempted, and in some cases may have 

succeeded, in obtaining title to those plots. 

“If certain residents encroached on land 

owned by National Grid, that means they 

have been using it and might not be paying 

taxes on it,” said Swampscott Community 

Development Director Peter Kane. “We’re 

not looking to take anyone’s land. We 

simply want an easement. We can’t go 

forward with any grant application until we 

have the acquisition rights in hand.” 

Of the $850,000 approved by Town 

Meeting, $610,000 will be used to acquire 

the land-use rights. The remainder would 

cover design and planning costs. 

If a property title search indicates an 

owner has encroached on the National 

Grid land, it would be difficult to challenge 

the town’s intent to obtain an easement. 

However, if the property owner holds title to 

an abutting piece of the utility corridor, the 

town would be forced to take legal steps. 

Kane acknowledged the ownership 

borders are murky along a small section 

of the rail corridor, adding, “This isn’t an 

eminent domain taking. We just need to 

clarify ownership through title searches.” 

Kane’s office will now solicit bids for 

design and engineering plans. The annual 

debt service on $850,000 is approximately 

$65,000, he said. 

The proposed 10-foot-wide trail would 

follow a route from the Swampscott train 

station to the Clarke Elementary School, 

Swampscott Middle School and Stanley 

Elementary School until it connects to 

Marblehead’s trail. 

“The plan is for a stone dust surface, 

which would be aesthetically in keeping 

with Marblehead’s and much less costly 

than an asphalt surface,” Kane said. 

At slightly less than two miles in length, 

trail construction would cost approximately 

$400,000, but that estimate is not definitive 

nor is it included in the funds approved by 

Town Meeting, he said. 

Kimberly Nassar, who headed the 

opposition group, said in a statement 

following the June 29 vote, “We will 

now continue the legal steps needed to 

demonstrate what we have stated all 

along: that the abutters own much of the 

land along the proposed rail trail and for 

the town to acquire that land by eminent 

domain will require millions of dollars in 

taxpayer monies.” 

As for other concerns unrelated to the 

land titles, Kane said, “They’re pretty much 

the same wherever somebody proposes 

building a trail. It’s fear of the unknown, 

fear of change. I read a newspaper story 

that quoted a Danvers resident who was 

very much opposed to the Danvers trail but 

now uses it regularly and can’t say enough 

good about it.” 

LYNN 

In Lynn, the plan for a bike and 

pedestrian trail has been under discussion 

for years. Bike to the Sea has been part 

of those talks, which involve obtaining a 

necessary right-of-way. 

“You must sign an agreement with the 

property owner that says you will take 

care of the right-of-way. That just hasn’t 

happened in Lynn,” said Attorney Stephen 

Winslow of Malden, founder of Bike to 

the Sea, an organization that over the past 

two decades has actively supported bike 

trail initiatives. 

In some communities, that agreement 

may mean accepting responsibility for 

routinely clearing brush, maintaining 

pathways and elevated walkways, and even 

plowing snow in winter if the trail surface 

is asphalt. 

“If the trail becomes an integral part of 

the community, where it provides a walking 


route to the schools or the local businesses, 

then it might be kept open year round,” 

Winslow said. 

According to Lynn Community 

Development Director James Marsh the 

city’s trail project is currently in the predesign 

phase. If built, it would extend 1.2 

miles through Lynn along a former MBTA 

railroad corridor, starting where Boston 

Street crosses the Saugus River and ending 

on Spencer Street. 

“Before we jump into it, we want to know 

all the variables that are associated with 

liabilities,” Marsh said. “That’s why we’re 

taking baby steps. Those are important if 

we’re going to make this a reality.” 

Marsh estimated the design would 

cost $50,000 to $75,000, 50 percent 

of which would be paid for by a grant 

from the Lawrence and Lillian Solomon 

Foundation. 

The foundation strives to increase 

access to the state’s natural, cultural and 

recreational resources and recently assisted 

the Watertown Riverfront Park and 

Braille Trail. 

Marsh, representatives of the Office 

of the Mayor, and local property 

management executive Gordon R. Hall 

have been overseeing the plan, which 

includes discussion of a long-term land 

lease from the MBTA, Marsh said. 

Lynn officials also have been monitoring 

the waterfront along the Lynnway where 

new development is slated because any 

construction would impact the proposed 

pedestrian boardwalk connecting the 

Nahant traffic circle to the General 

Edwards Bridge. 

Marsh cited the former Beacon 

Chevrolet property across from North 

Shore Community College and the 

O’Donnell property near the Saugus 

River as waterfront development sites. 

“Under Chapter 91, a boardwalk would 

be required at each site and the private 

developers would pay for it,” he said. 

“But all of that is many years away,” he said. 


STATEWIDE 

Richard Fries, executive director of 

MassBike, said Massachusetts has the 

potential to become a world leader in 

bicycle trails. “We’re sitting on a network 

that could turn us into the Netherlands of 

America,” he said. 

According to Fries, when Americans 

discuss bicycling, talk turns to places 

like San Francisco, Denver, Portland 

and Minneapolis. “The Northeast, 

however, has this amazing labyrinth 

of transportation corridors hidden in 

plain view. Rail beds, both active and 

abandoned, are just the start. Canals, 

aqueducts and power lines are another 

layer of under-utilized corridors. 

Riverfronts are another critical component 

to the rebirth of cities, big and small,” he 

said. 

BUILD IT AND PEOPLE WILL COME 

Dan Tieger of Manchester-by-the-Sea, 

founder of the North Shore Bikeways 

Coalition and visionary behind the Border 

to Boston concept in the 1990s, continues 

to personally enjoy regional bike paths 

while he monitors fitness trail initiatives 

nationwide. He commutes daily to his job 

as a scientist in Gloucester. 

“Border to Boston was founded in 

1994. The trail evolved from the New 

Hampshire border down to Danvers, but 

since then people have pushed it south to 

Peabody. It took twenty-something years,” 

he said. “And other trails may eventually 

connect to it.” 

Tieger jokes about the scars he and 

Winslow received from opposition groups 

over the years. 

“Some communities say they don’t want 

a trail, but once they have one, there’s 

no turning back,” he said, recalling Palm 

Beach, Fla., where wealthy abutters 

erected tall fences to keep out trail users. 

But once the trail began to flourish, those 

same residents cut doors in their fences 

through which they could gain access 

from their houses.” 

“These trails are actually linear parks,” 

he said. “You’ll see people walking dogs, 

kids being pushed in strollers, people 

on bicycles or rollerblades. It becomes 

an enjoyable place; instead of having a 

decrepit ex-railroad where people go to 

drink it becomes a clean, healthy area.” 

Rails to trails not a new concept 

BY DAVID LISCIO 

Stephen Winslow of 

Malden has been carrying 

the torch for the Bike to the 

Sea initiative for more than 

20 years. He has seen some 

communities rally and 

succeed in building nearly 

cost-free fitness trails while 

others struggled with the 

concept and the funding. 

“Danvers had the good 

fortune of building the first 

trail in the area,” he said, 

noting the town was able to 

take advantage of state and 

federal grants, mile-by-mile 

sponsors, and an offering 

by the nonprofit Iron Horse 

Preservation Society. 

The 4.3-mile Danvers trail 

cost $50,000 per mile. The 

Iron Horse Preservation 

Society trimmed the 

expense by removing the 

steel rails and wooden ties 

in return for the salvage 

rights. 

“At the time, the price of 

steel was very high,” the 

Malden attorney explained. 

“Iron Horse was selling 

the rails to a facility in 

Pennsylvania. Once the 

price of steel went down 

and the cost of getting rid 

of the railroad ties went up, 

it was no longer a feasible 

option.” 

The state and federal 

grants paid for trail grading 

and resurfacing. 

Winslow noted the 

Danvers trail is popular 

with bicyclists, pedestrians, 

joggers and families. It has 

become a vital part of the 

community. 

“The Danvers trail is 

beloved. It’s hard to 

think anybody would say 

anything bad about it,” he 

said. 

Winslow said Revere’s 

two-mile bike trail was built 

for $150,000 per mile. 

DANVERS 

The Danvers Rail Trail links 

schools, parks, residential 

areas, the city’s downtown 

business district and other 

trails in the neighboring 

communities of Peabody, 

Wenham and Topsfield. 

It was constructed along 

what was once part of 

the historic Boston & 

Maine railroad connecting 

Danvers to Newburyport. 

Since its inception, the trail 

has been managed and 

maintained by a group 

of volunteers. See www. 

Danversrailtrail.org 

PEABODY 

In Peabody, the 8.1-mile 

Independence Greenway 

stretches from the North 

Shore Mall on Route 128 to 

Russell Street at the Ipswich 

River. 

SAUGUS 

Saugus town officials 

in 2012 gave the goahead 

for a bicycle and 

pedestrian path along a 

former rail corridor. As a 

way of cutting costs and 

eliminating the need to 

raise funds for construction 

and maintenance, the town 

partnered with the Iron 

Horse Preservation Society. 

The organization 

assumed responsibility 

for removing the iron rails 

along the 2.6-mile track 

and grading the trail, in 

return for permission to sell 

the scrap iron. 

REVERE 

Bike to the Sea has been 

lobbying since 1993 to 

create what it calls the 

Northern Strand Trail, 

which would take bicyclists 

and pedestrians from the 

Malden/Everett area to the 

beaches in Revere, Lynn 

and Nahant. 

The organization has 

made significant strides. 

The trail can be accessed 

where Lynn and Wesley 

streets converge in Malden 

near the Revere city line. 

Another access point is 

located where Salem and 

Franklin streets meet in 

Revere, near the Saugus 

town line. 

RESOURCES 

List of bicycle and 

pedestrian trails in 

Massachusetts. 

www.traillink.com 

Bike to the Sea 

www.biketothesea.com 

MassBike 

www.massbike.org 

Danvers 

www.DanversRailTrail.org 

(David Liscio is a North Shore-based 

photojournalist, www.davidliscio.com.) 

The East Coast Greenway connects 15 states and miles of trails from Maine to Florida. 

The Danvers Rail Trail is only 2,482 miles from Key West, Fla., as the sign indicates. 


Wonder 

Walls 

Muralists help 

downtown Lynn 

move one 

step Beyond 

BY MEAGHAN CASEY 

What brought Australian artist Georgia 

Hill to downtown Lynn last month? A 

mural, to put it simply. 

But if you ask her or Beyond Walls 

founder Al Wilson, it’s much bigger than 

that. Wilson lured artists from across the 

globe to lend their talents to a creative 

movement that has the city buzzing with 

energy, enterprise, arts and culture and will 

for years to come. 

Under Wilson’s vision, Beyond Walls 

launched earlier this year as a grassroots 

effort to create a sense of place and safety 

in Lynn’s Central Square, through a 

multifaceted installation of public art and 

lighting. 

On July 22, 15 large-scale murals, 

commissioned and painted on buildings 

by international and local artists, were 

unveiled during a block party — the 

culmination of a 10-day mural festival. 

More than 2,500 persons joined the fun at 

the block party, which included live music, 

food, drink and a festive vibe. 

“I think these mural projects really make 

people feel proud of their own streets,” 

said Hill. “These walls and buildings are 

home to the stories and histories that 

people make together, and hopefully the 

artworks celebrate this and a city that 

people truly care about.” 

For Hill, who specializes in type-based 

art that combines bold, black-and-white 

textures and lettering within experimental 


compositions, this was her tenth mural 

project since 2014, but her first in the 

United States. 

“In my short time painting murals, 

I’ve been amazed at how these artworks 

can engage the public and send bigger 

messages, and really make people connect 

in ways they might not have before — 

from changing the way they might walk to 

work to becoming more passionate about 

bigger themes around them,” said Hill. 

“I'm always really excited to push my work 

that little bit further every time I paint. 

Lately I've been focusing on connecting 

architecture and odd structures, nature 

and our memories.” 

Other international muralists came from 

Puerto Rico, Canada, the Dominican 

Republic and Mexico. More locally, 

Boston-based street artist Cedric “Vise” 

Douglas participated, painting “The Black 

Madonna” on the exterior wall of 114-120 

Munroe St. 

New Yorker Cey Adams, founding 

creative director of Def Jam Records, 

brought a little love to 65 Munroe St. 

with a mural inspired by Donna Summer’s 

song, “I Feel Love.” 

Cambridge-based artist Caleb Neelon, 

immersed in the global graffiti scene 

under the name SONIK by the mid- 

’90s, colorfully painted a wall on Munroe 

Street, which he describes as a “big, loving, 

family quilt. Neelon, who co-authored 

“The History of American Graffiti,” has 

painted murals and artworks that can 

be seen in city streets and exhibitions 

throughout the world. “What’s fun is the 

community interaction,” he said. “Being in 

public, there’s a performance aspect.” 

Lynn was already host to a massive 

mural on the exterior of the LynnArts 

building at 25 Exchange St., designed 

and painted by artists David Fichter, 

Yetti Frenkel and Joshua Winer. Yet, 

the idea for this project occurred to 

Wilson, a Marblehead resident, years 

ago when he was in Miami and visited 

Wynwood Walls. Conceived by the 

late Tony Goldman, a renowned 

community revitalizer and placemaker, 

the site has become a major art statement 

transforming the warehouse district 

of Wynwood. Since its inception, the 

Wynwood Walls program has seen more 

than 50 artists from 16 countries create art 

on more than 80,000 square feet of walls. 

“In the five years it took for the pop-up 

installation to morph into the curated 

space it is now, a ton of other stuff 

happened,” said Wilson, talking about 

Wynwood. “The art expanded from two 

blocks to eight and a neighborhood 

formed where there really wasn’t one.” 

Wilson, who grew up in Walpole, was 

familiar with the North Shore from 

his childhood soccer days and saw an 

opportunity. 

“There I was in Miami thinking about 

Lynn,” he said. 

Wilson also found inspiration during a 

trip to London, where he saw firsthand 

the urban artwork — one of the largest 

illustrations of its kind — that appears at 

the gateway to King’s Cross. 

“The street art there was a catalyst for 

cafes opening and more housing,” he said. 

“That’s what we need in Lynn. A number 

of cultural organizations like RAW and 

LynnArts have been doing work for years, 

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PHOTOS: JIM WILSON 

This mural at left is on the building at the corner of Spring and Exchange streets in Lynn. It was painted by Mexican-born and New York 

City-based artist Marka27. Above, near the Monroe Street Community Garden plot, is a work by muralist FONKi Both were part of the 

Beyond Walls Mural Festival, which ran from July 13 to 23. 


East Coast,” said Wilson. “We’re really 

fortunate Payette and LAM stepped 

in, along with Philips Color Kinetics, 

donating some of their services and 

materials. That brought the price down 

about 60 percent. They came in and saw 

this former industrial city with a raised 

rail going through the heart of it, and 

recognized it could be something great.” 

The final piece will be a sculpture 

donated by GE Aviation paying homage 

to Lynn’s rich industrial history as the 

home of America’s jet engine technology. 

That will be installed next spring. Wilson 

also hopes to expand the mural project 

from 15 walls to 25. 

“I’m excited about the possibilities,” 

said Drew Russo, executive director at 

the Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts. “People 

are looking to rediscover and take pride 

in this city and I think this is the great 

creative spark we need. It helps to shine 

a light on what we’ve all been doing to 

build a cultural community and hopefully 

will provide more opportunity for the livework-play 

experience in downtown.” 

The project has been funded entirely 

through donations and matching funds 

from MassDevelopment. Neighborhood 

Development Associates, a nonprofit 

housing corporation and subsidiary 

of the Lynn Housing Authority & 

Neighborhood Development, provided 

the group with a 5013c fiscal sponsorship. 

In addition to Wilson, dozens of residents 

and individuals from local businesses came 

together to form a leadership committee 

to help bring this project to fruition. 

“If we can fund ourselves, we can 

become an entity to do more Lynn-based 

activities,” said Wilson. “I’d also love for us 

to go on the road to another gateway city 

next year.” 

PHOTO: JIM WILSON 

The mural above was painted on the building at the corner of Munroe and Washington 

streets in Lynn by Miami-based artist Don Rimx. Below right, Miss Zukie and JPO 

painted these lovable figures on the side of 16 City Hall Square. 

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 

and new businesses and coffee shops have 

been opening up — which are all signs of 

people trying to do cool things in Lynn — 

but there’s still a feeling that the district 

shuts down once it gets dark.” 

That’s where the lighting comes in. 

By adding lighting under the elevated 

MBTA tracks and illuminating sidewalks 

with vintage neon art pieces, businesses 

will be encouraged to stay open later and 

residents and visitors will be encouraged 

to walk from place to place. 

Beyond Walls has also seen the 

installation of 12 vintage neon art pieces. 

The colorful, dynamic LED underpass 

lighting from Payette and LAM Partners 

is expected to be completed in September. 

The lighting will connect Central Square 

and Washington Street, creating a safe 

and inviting passageway through the heart 

of Central Square. The project will also 

include laser mapping of the bridge. 

“There’s really nothing like it on the 

PHOTO: SPENSER HASAK 


The sweet spot 

Peabody firm bakes treats for area Dunkin’ Donuts 

BY STACEY MARCUS 

For Joe Tavares, it’s 

time to make the 

doughnuts. 

Eighty-fourthousand 

doughnuts. 

The plant manager of Rantoul 

Distributors in Peabody’s 

Centennial Park hands me a 

hairnet as my tummy starts 

rumbling. I simply must resist 

sticking my hand in a vat of 

yummy chocolate frosting. 

Tavares leads me into the 

23,000-square-foot facility, 

one of 97 central bakeries in 

the United States for Dunkin’ 

Donuts, and the aroma might 

make resistance impossible. 

“We sell more doughnuts than 

anyone else in the Northeast,” 

said Tavares with pride. 

Rantoul Distributors’ central 

bakery provides goods for 140 

Dunkin’ stores in Massachusetts, 

New Hampshire, Maine and 

Vermont. Tavares says the plant 

operates seven days a week, 23 

hours per day in three shifts. The 

bounty is seven thousand dozen 

doughnuts and more than 8 

million Munchkins a day. 

Tavares, who has been on 

board since the bakery opened 

in 2005, said much of the 

doughnut making is automated, 

except for such finishes 

as glazing, frosting and 

sprinkles, which are done by 

hand. The company has 90 

employees. 

“I love to work. I love to 

challenge myself and make 

things better,” said Tavares, 

noting that his favorite is the 

honey-dipped, the company’s 

best-selling doughnut. 

“When we began, we were 

a local operation with 10 

franchisees operating roughly 

50 stores,” said Bill Panzini, who 

sits on the board of directors 

of Rantoul Distributors with 

RANTOUL 

DISTRIBUTORS 

BY THE #’S 

7,000 dozen 

doughnuts made daily 

39 

different types made daily 

Honey-dipped 

#1 seller 

8,195,357 

Munchkins made daily 

6,500 

pounds of flour used daily 


Candida Rodriguez stirs strawberry glaze, as she prepares to frost 

doughnuts at Rantoul Distributors. The Peabody business bakes 

all the Dunkin Donuts treats. 

fellow franchise owners Dinart 

Serpa of Beverly, Bob Jackson 

of Salem and Deo Raga of 

Gloucester. 

“We took our name from 

Rantoul Street in Beverly, our 

original intended site for the 

central bakery. However, we 

saw an opportunity for a preexisting 

space on Centennial 

Drive that could be converted 

... so, as opposed to having to 

build from the ground up, we 

switched over to that space,” 

said Panzini, a North Reading 

resident. He and Serpa, 

who have nearly 50 years of 

combined experience at Dunkin’ 

Donuts franchises, direct the 

operations and management 

teams. 

Rantoul Distributors’ 

transformation came in the 

form of automation, said 

Panzini. 

“We saw an opportunity to 

expand the line, which would 

result in more efficient 

operations. We decided to shift 

the production of doughnuts 

and Munchkins to the central 

bakeries and focus on baking 

the bagels, muffins and other 

items in stores. By doing so, 

we were able to continue in 

the same vein and ensure that 

our products were of consistent 

quality,” Panzini said. 

The company expanded a 

couple of years ago, adding 

6,700 square feet. A nearby 

central bakery that provided 

treats to some 40 area stores was 

absorbed by Panzini and team, 

bringing everything 

in-house under one roof, 

increasing efficiency and 

production in the area. 

Panzini and the other 

franchise owners enjoy the 

efficiency and camaraderie the 

central bakery offers. “Having 

the opportunity to work with 

other Dunkin’ Donuts franchisees 

that face the same 

challenges gave us the 

opportunity to cultivate real 

friendships with one another. 

It is a great thing to work with 

people for whom you hold the 

highest regard,” Panzini said. 

Sweet! 


POLITICAL 

POWERHOUSE 

Lynn native Steve Chaggaris guides CBS News’ coverage 

As much insight 

as Steve 

Chaggaris may 

have had as 

CBS News’ 

senior political 

editor, even he couldn’t have 

written the end to the 2016 

presidential election. 

“I had a pretty good sense 

that it would be a historic 

campaign, but I never imagined 

a businessman/celebrity with 

no political background would 

be elected,” said Chaggaris, 

now CBS News’ political 

director. “It was unbelievable, 

but fascinating. I think it’ll go 

down as one of the most 

interesting election years, at 

least from a history standpoint.” 

Chaggaris, a Lynn native 

and St. John’s Prep graduate, 

leads CBS News’ political 

and campaign coverage and 

provides on-air reporting and 

analysis across the network’s 

broadcast and digital platforms. 

Having run the network’s 

political unit that covered the 

election, Chaggaris says early 

days on the campaign trail 

suggested business as usual. 

“It was a pretty traditional 

start with candidates like Jeb 

Bush and Hillary Clinton — 

names we were all familiar 

with,” Chaggaris said. “When 

Jeb announced he had already 

raised $100 million, we were 

thinking it would be a Bush/ 

Clinton election. There was 

speculation that maybe 

[Marco] Rubio or [Chris] 

Christie would make a splash, 

but Trump really wasn’t on the 

radar early on.” 

Yet, Chaggaris, who has been 

with CBS News since 1999, 


PHOTO: CBS 

CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris, a Lynn native, interviews Donald Trump on the 

campaign trail. 

wasn’t ruling Trump out once 

he hit the campaign trail. 

“I was one of the few to say, 

on the record, that he had the 

money and had a message, and 

he was polling pretty well,” 

Chaggaris said. “Whether you 

took him seriously or not, he 

was a candidate.” 

During a CBS News 

broadcast in July of 2015 

— exactly a month after 

Trump officially declared his 

candidacy — Chaggaris said 

on air: “It’s a combination 

of name recognition and of 

the message he’s sending to 

Republicans that you need a 

tough talker in order to get 

things done. Whether he’s the 

one at the end of the day who 

gets the nomination remains 

to be seen, but it should be a 

signal to the other dozen or 

so candidates that members 

of the party, conservatives at 

least, are looking for someone 

who’s going to slam Obama, 

who’s going to talk about 

what he’s going to get done as 

president and basically who’s 

going to be a fighter against 

Hillary Clinton in the general 

election.” 

He attributed a lot of Trump’s 

popularity to the “simmering 

frustration” among part of the 

Republican party after losing 

the elections in 2008 and 2012. 

“In the end, he wound up 

connecting with voters,” said 

Chaggaris. “People just wanted 

someone to shake the system 

up. It wasn’t something that 

anyone could have predicted, 

but I think it’s telling that there 

are a lot of people who are fed 

up with Washington and with 

politicians..” 

Chaggaris had his first hint 

that Trump had a real shot of 

winning the general election 

when he was home for Easter 

in the spring of 2016. 

“I remember driving to 

Lynnfield from Logan and 

seeing a number of Trump 

signs,” he said. “In hindsight, 

it was a wakeup call that I 

saw more signs for Trump 

than Clinton in a blue state 

like Massachusetts. I started 

thinking, this guy is resonating 

with people you don’t expect.” 

In the meantime, Chaggaris 

faces his own challenges in terms 

of how to present news during a 

time in which journalism itself 

has come under attack. 


“As political director, my goal 

is to cover politics without bias 

and to tell both sides of the 

story,” he said. “In this time of 

fake news and partisan news, 

we’re just trying to be real 

news.” 

Chaggaris participates in a 

weekly podcast, “The Takeout,” 

with CBS News’ Chief White 

House Correspondent Major 

Garrett. Discussing politics, 

policy and pop culture, the two 

chat with guests and analyze 

the week’s political news over 

lunch at D.C. restaurants. 

“I’ve learned so much 

working with the likes of 

Major Garrett, Bob Schieffer, 

John Dickerson and so many 

more,” said Chaggaris. “It’s 

incredible that these people are 

my peers now. I’ll never take 

those things for granted.” 

Chaggaris also had an 

interesting role in prepping 

CBS News’ Elaine Quijano for 

the vice presidential debate last 

year, which she moderated. 

“For three weeks we were 

sequestered, putting questions 

together,” he said. “To have 

such a key role in that was 

pretty cool. It’s a memory I’ll 

never forget.” 

Chaggaris says his interest 

in broadcast journalism and 

politics developed at an early 

age. 

“I watched a lot of TV and 

news as a kid,” said Chaggaris, 

who attended Shoemaker 

Elementary School in Lynn. 

He split his middle school 

years between Pickering 

Middle School in Lynn and 

Lynnfield Middle School. 

After graduating from St. 

John’s Prep in 1990, he went 

to Ithaca College, earning a 

television-radio degree. He 

was particularly inspired by 

one of his professors, Alan 

Schroeder, a former journalist, 

television producer and 

diplomat and author of several 

books, including “Presidential 

Debates: Risky Business on the 

Campaign Trail” and 

“Celebrity-in-Chief: How 

Show Business Took Over 

the White House” (ironically 

published in 2004). 

Chaggaris got his foot in 

the door at WMUR-TV in 

Manchester, N.H., where 

he worked as a production 

assistant for nearly a year before 

he made the move to D.C. 

“I had some friends in D.C. 

so I saved enough for a few 

months’ rent and went down 

there,” he said. “I had made 

some thin connections with 

people there so I started 

out with some odd jobs — 

camera work, research for 

documentaries.” 

In the summer of 1995, 

Chaggaris got his break and 

was hired by C-SPAN for 

a temporary position in the 

promotions department. That 

led to a four-year career with 

C-SPAN on the programming 

side. Among the many standout 

moments of his career, the first 

would be the 1996 Republican 

National Convention in San 

Diego. “It was my first political 

convention and as a 23-year-old 

kid, it was amazing,” he said. 

He began his CBS News 

career in 1999 as an associate 

producer in the political unit. 

He vividly remembers the 

coverage of his first major 

election in 2000 — recount 

and all. 

“When it wasn’t called, 

they sent us home at 7 a.m.,” 

said Chaggaris. “That was 

something. It was also pretty 

incredible because I was sitting 

on set with the anchors, just 

feet away from Dan Rather.” 

During the 9/11 attacks, 

Chaggaris was sent out to cover 

the Pentagon, sitting in on a 

briefing with former Secretary 

of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. 

“It was heart-wrenching and 

it can’t compare to anything 

else I’ve done,” said Chaggaris. 

“It was the one time I truly felt 

the weight of history.” 

Other major assignments 

have included covering 

Congress and working as an 

embedded campaign reporter 

covering John Kerry’s 2004 

presidential run. 

“As a kid from Massachusetts, 

it was amazing to be in Boston 

for the convention and see 

Kerry announced as the 

Democratic candidate,” said 

Chaggaris. 

Although he doesn’t return 

to the North Shore as often as 

he’d like (especially for stops at 

Kowloon, Kelly’s and Land ’n 

Sea), Chaggaris says he’s still in 

touch with childhood friends, 

including Brian Field and Taso 

Nikolakopoulos, who are both 

seeking councilor-at-large seats 

in Lynn. 

“It’ll be fun to follow them 

from afar,” said Chaggaris. 

“Seth Moulton is also an 

interesting story. We briefly 

covered him in 2014, and that 

was another election where 

voter connection mattered. It 

was a reminder to never take 

tenure for granted.” 

As for Chaggaris, he doesn’t 

need anyone reminding him 

that he’s right where he wants 

to be. 

“Somehow, I stumbled into a 

job that’s everything I’ve ever 

wanted to do,” he said. “I’m so 

grateful for that.” 

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The 

Writer’s 

life 

Memories flood back for 

Saugus’ Tom Sheehan 

BY TOM SHEEHAN 

PHOTO: SPENSER HASAK 

Author Tom Sheehan in his Saugus 

home, surrounded by photos and 

artifacts that spark his creativity. 

My father said it early and often to me: 

“We come into this life with two gifts, 

love and energy,” and it has never been 

truer as I have just stepped into my 

90th year on the planet, still working 

at my first love, seeking the magic, the 

mystery, the mastery in words. 

My latest book, Beside the Broken Trail, was accepted by Pocol 

Press; and two reviews of a story published in London's Literally 

Stories magazine said of one of my stories on their site that 

morning, “Comes a Prisoner Bound in Rags”: 

1. It begins with a boom and never lets you go. Classic example 

of a 3K (3000 word) piece sprinting from start to finish yet 

carrying and conveying layers of detail. To the wise: short form 

need not be anorexic. Refer to Sheehan if confused by that. 

2. Brilliant. 

To go along with those simple reviews and the matter of 

memory, this Saugus “kid” fully believes the memories of the old 

days are keener than more recent days, as events prove. With 

a sort of distinct catch, I remember my team's football games 

at the old Manning Bowl in Lynn; two games against Lynn 

Classical in 1945 and 1946 (one win, one loss), one against Lynn 

English, two against Peabody, one against Swampscott. There 


were others that scatter in the 

quick search. 

These days Manning Bowl 

memories keep leaping to 

the fore, and the names and 

faces and accomplishments 

keep coming back in a litany 

of images. Their names beget 

actions, the images in constant 

motion: Rocco Cerrone 

and Tony Andreottola from 

Revere; Clayton Sheehan 

and Joe Penney and Rick 

Ricciardelli and Ruby Jules 

and Marty Smith and Jack 

Hennessey and Charlie Long 

(who later worked in my 

crew at Raytheon) from Lynn 

English; George Comiskey 

and Billy Ransom and Bob 

Debner and Al Gouzie from 

Beverly; Pat Arena and Joe 

Palazola and Mooter Albert 

and Ted Williams and another 

Destino from Gloucester; 

the intrepid phalanx from 

Peabody of Herky Harris, 

Buddy Roche, Dick Keone, 

Pete Kravchuk, Luke 

McHugh, Art Adamopoulos 

and tackle tandem Berger 

and Pelletier, the ones we 

scrimmaged against so many 

times I can’t remember; and 

Harry Agganis and Don 

Miosky and Ray McClorey 

and George Pike and Vic Pujo 

and Dave Warden and Nils 

Strom and Stanley Britton 

and Mecca Smiarowski and 

Boley Dancewicz from Lynn 

Classical. 

And there was Jimmy 

Vizarkas, of Lynn Classical, 

who a few years later I spotted 

walking down the Main 

Supply Route (MSR) in Korea 

as his outfit was relieving mine 

on Heartbreak Ridge or some 

such site and did not see him 

again until Founders Day in 

Saugus in 2002. That day on 

the MSR we talked about 

Manning Bowl and our last 

encounter there in 1945. 

There was a smiling 

quarterback named Rodriguez 

from Classical and an Air 

Force team at Fort Devens 

in 1950 when he and I and 

Art Spinney, then with the 

Baltimore Colts and later to 

protect Johnny Unitas in that 

great 1958 win over the New 

York Giants, rehashed our 

days at The Bowl after our 

military game, just before we 

headed off to other destinies. 

Oh, one wonders how such 

names might spur the legends 

of old memories, how they fall 

out from the site of the old 

Bowl, floating in the air as I 

drive by, caught up in reverie 

and nostalgia. Time does have 

its good swaps of fortune. 

John Burns, a high school 

teacher just back from his war 

in 1945, found my deep love 

of words and the attachable 

mysteries. So it was, at the 

beginning of this century, 

that we brought hundreds of 

Saugonians tightly together to 

create and publish 2000 copies 

each of two books, A Gathering 

of Memories and Of Time and 

the River, sold all copies and 

established a scholarship at 

Saugus High School in Burns' 

memory. 

It was a joy to work with 

John, Bob Wentworth and 

Neil Howland on those two 

issues. 

Those memories linger, 

but others have a way of 

forcing entry, declaring their 

importance, stating their 

claims; tightly remain the near 

unforgettable, the precious 

elements held in the deepest 

cells of memory. 

I remember my mother 

and my Aunt Bess thumbing 

up the Pike to a night game 

versus Newburyport in 1944 

(knowing if they got there 

they'd be sure of a ride home). 

I thought that they were too 

old then for such tomfoolery, 

yet it was the seventh game of 

the undefeated year and the 

first time we were scored upon, 

much thanks to teammates 

Art Spinney, Killer Bob Kane, 

and the likes of Frank Pyszko, 

toughest teammate of them all 

to this day. 

I don’t make any money at 

these efforts, love of words 

continuing to drive me on, 

the magic or sometimes 

mastery, the desires that are 

indefatigable, endless, full of 

possibilities: nothing tried is 

Mike Harrington, illustrious 

Saugus High halfback, 

intercepts a Marblehead 

pass in 1941. This pic hung 

in SHS hallway until the 

high school burned down. 

nothing printed, the dormant 

words cry for escape; I’m at 

their command. 

Memory, as I’ve said, falters 

lately, though the old stuff 

hangs on. 

The love and energy doesn’t 

let go, not if you hold onto 

it, even in these latest years, 

Saugus and Peabody high school football teams in a 1946 game. 

like it’s a possession you can’t 

release: it’s bonded to your 

soul, every now and then 

flashing back at you for all it’s 

worth. Some folks, for sure, 

know the feeling; some never 

feel it. 

Being 89 years old, of course, 

has some drawbacks, but at 

this machine, and with the 

love and energy refusing to let 

go, holding on for dear life, 

every last damned minute of it, 

there’s room for getting done. 

The newest story, finished 

this morning, has already been 

sent on to an editor, at his 

desk, waiting, hopefully to be 

knocked wide awake. I keep 

trying for that wake-up call; 

it’s worth the wait. 

My biographical note, as 

requested or often demanded 

by publishers, says, at this 

moment: Sheehan has 

published 30 books, has 

multiple works in Rosebud, 

Linnet’s Wings, Serving House 

Journal, Literally Stories, 

Copperfield Review, Literary 

Orphans, Indiana Voices Journal, 

Frontier Tales, Western Online 

Magazine, Faith-Hope and 

Fiction, Provo Canyon Review, 

Eastlit, Rope & Wire Magazine, 

The Literary Yard, Green Silk 

Journal, Fiction on the Web, The 

Path, etc. He has 32 Pushcart 

nominations, 5 Best of the Net 

nominations (one winner). 

2015-2016 book publications 

include Swan River Daisy 

by KY Stories, From the 

Quickening by Pocol Press, The 

Cowboys by Pocol Press, and 

Jehrico by Danse Macabre. Back 

Home in Saugus (a collection) is 

being considered, as is Elements 

& Accessories (poetry), Small 

Victories for the Soul (poetry) 

and Valor’s Commission. He was 

2016 Writer-in-Residence at 

Danse Macabre in Las Vegas. 

He served in 31st Infantry, 

Korea, 1951-52, graduated 

from Boston College in 1956, 

and worked at Raytheon 

Co. for 30+ years until his 

retirement in 1991. 

Tom Sheehan can be reached at 

tomfsheehan@comcast.net 


LOCAL 

NEWS 

Heather Hegedus, a Lynnfield 

High graduate, in the Boston 25 

newsroom, above, and, at right, 

with husband, Tom McNamee, 

and their 1-year-old son, Brooks.

Lynnfield native Heather Hegedus 

balances life on- and off-camera 

BY CARLEY D. THORNELL 

Forget Wonder Woman — 

the real on-screen dynamo 

is Boston 25 News star 

Heather Hegedus. 

The 1996 Lynnfield High 

graduate’s resume with an 

honors degree from Georgetown and 

master’s from Columbia speaks volumes, 

but her actions speak louder. The mom to 

1-year-old Brooks gets up at 3 a.m. not 

to pull diaper duty but to leave for what 

is often a 12-hour workday as a weekend 

anchor and general assignment 

reporter for the Fox news station. 

So how does she keep it all 

together? 

Keeping in touch with her high 

school friends helps. 

“It’s been so much fun connecting 

and reconnecting with people 

from my class, with social media, 

especially. We have a really tight 

group since there were just 86 of us, 

and a lot of us had babies later — 

one of the reasons our reunion is a 

bit overdue!” she said. 

Back then, among other activities, 

Hegedus was on the student council, was 

a debate team champion, Miss Teen-Age 

America finalist, cheerleader and dancer 

for 17 years at LaPierre Dance Studio in 

Reading. Today, she says she’d advise her 

teenage overachiever self to keep it all in 

perspective. 

“I would tell her to relax and it will all 

fall into place. It’s important to look for 

balance in life. Even before I had a baby I 

knew there were other things besides my 

career, although it’s easy to define yourself 

that way. Being a reporter is not entirely 

who I am, it’s important to be a good mom, 

daughter, friend, wife.” 

That means that, yes, it’s OK for the real 

Wonder Women out there to eat chocolate 

cake for breakfast the morning of their 

husband’s birthday (for Hegedus, news 

cameraman Tom McNamee); and that 

relationships are the real key to happiness. 

After emceeing the annual Buddy Walk 

at Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield 

— where Hegedus spent every July 

Fourth competing in the bike-decorating 

contest for kids — she has served on the 

Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, 

advocating for people with intellectual and 

developmental disabilities. She also takes 

a bit of her work home with her willingly, 

she says, by keeping in touch with the 

families that share their personal stories 

with the world at large, such as 

6-year-old Devin Suau’s, who are raising 

awareness for his rare form of cancer; and 

Kate and Scott Middlemiss, who had two 

sons with cardiomyopathy. 

“The part of my job that I enjoy the most 

is the connections I make with people,” 

said Hegedus. “I’m really fortunate to meet 

with people who have let me into their 

personal lives. My heart goes out to all of 

them. … obviously these are the hardest 

stories to do in my job, but I try to stay in 

touch because I don’t just want to be one 

interview in someone’s life,” she said. 

As far as staying in touch with her 

roots, Hegedus said that despite living 

in several places — including New York 

City, and a year overseas at the London 

School of Economics — she’d love to 

move back to Lynnfield someday if it 

were closer to the news station’s Dedham 

headquarters. (“It would be so much 

fun to have my son in the same nursery 

school and elementary school as me!”) 

Meanwhile, she’s psyched to visit her 

parents, Beverly and Jordan, and check 

out all that’s transformed in her old town, 

including opportunities to socialize and fun 

outdoor activities for kids like ice skating 

at MarketStreet. Count anchor stores 

like Lululemon and Athleta among her 

favorites these days, too. “My closet used 

to be filled with heels, now it’s filled with 

sneakers,” she said of life post-baby. “Plus 

if I wear workout clothes, then I’m more 

likely to work out!” 

Time off now includes hiking with 

her husband, baby and 7-year-old 

goldendoodle; just don’t expect her to 

be wearing makeup meant for highdefinition 

TV, since her skin’s not the 

only thing that needs some breathing 

room. 

After 17 years in the news business, 

Hegedus, who recently won a New 

England Emmy award with her 

WFXT teammates for a “Hooked on 

Heroin” report, says she’s seen a real 

shift. 

“The cycle and deadlines have 

changed so much because of social 

media and phones that it’s so much 

shorter — journalists now have a greater 

responsibility and we have to be more 

vigilant to keep the facts straight to report 

things with pressure to turn things around 

faster,” she said. “Plus we also have to make 

sure it’s appealing on social media — when 

I was growing up it was ‘appointment 

television’ and you’d just turn it on at 6 

o’clock.” 

However, there is another side to the 

coin — that same social media that keeps 

her in touch with former Lynnfield High 

classmates “makes it easier to spread 

the word about all of the positive work 

we’re reporting out there in the field,” 

said Hegedus. “Every day we’re out there 

becoming experts in new subject matter, so 

it’s always a learning experience for us— 

and viewers.” 

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Boston Red Sox outfielder 

Tony Conigliaro is carried off 

the field on a stretcher after he 

was beaned during a game at 

Fenway Park on Aug. 18, 1967. 

AP FILE PHOTO: BILL CHAPLIS 

THE TRAGEDY OF 

TONY C 

BY STEVE KRAUSE 


50 YEARS AGO, BEANBALL CUT 

SHORT TONY CONIGLIARO’S CAREER 

He had been in a slump. Tony 

Conigliaro, the 22-year-old kid who, 

earlier in 1967, had become the youngest 

player in American League history to 

reach the 100-homer mark, was in a rut 

and hadn’t hit one out in 10 days. 

“He’d had some pretty good stats up to 

that time,” said teammate and friend Rico 

Petrocelli, “but yeah, he was struggling. We 

always talked about waiting on the ball. 

When you’re in a slump you always tend 

to rush things. He wanted to wait on the 

ball. That’s what all the great hitters could 

do. Tony probably had that on his mind. 

Wait … wait … wait until the last second.” 

“Unfortunately,” said Petrocelli, “it 

worked against him. He didn’t have 

enough time to get out of the way.” 

Tony Conigliaro was a local idol - the 

Swampscott kid (via East Boston) and St. 

Mary’s High graduate who had made his 

Major League debut with the Red Sox 

at age 19 and homered in his first at-bat, 

on the first pitch he saw off Joel Horlen 

of the Chicago White Sox in 1964, at 

Fenway Park. 

In no time, he became the toast of 

the town. He even recorded rock ’n’ roll 

records. 

“I remember seeing him open his trunk 

up once and there were all these 45s of 

‘Little Red Scooter’ (one of his recordings 

that got local airplay),” said Frank Carey, a 

lifelong friend and teammate at St. Mary’s. 

“He loved that stuff.” 

Just about every Red Sox fan probably 

wanted to be Tony Conigliaro, and a good 

many female fans surely would have dated 

him if they’d had the chance. 

That all changed in a split second 50 

years ago, on Aug. 18, 1967 -- Tony 

Conigliaro’s Day of Infamy. The Red Sox 

were playing the California Angels (as 

they were called at the time) and both 

teams were in the thick of a pennant race 

that -- even that late into the summer -- 

involved half of the American League’s 10 

franchises (Boston, California, Minnesota 

AP FILE PHOTO: FRANK CURTIN 

Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro relaxes 

in the Red Sox locker room before a game. 

Twins, Chicago White Sox and Detroit 

Tigers). 

The game was scoreless going into the 

bottom of the fourth inning. Conigliaro, 

batting sixth that night, had already hit 

a single, and it looked like his efforts to 

break out of his slump had paid off. 

“He was a streak hitter,” said middle 

brother Billy Conigliaro, himself a player 

in the Red Sox minor league system at 

the time. “We were talking at home that 

afternoon and he said he was going to 

stand closer to the plate and stay in a little 

longer before making a commitment to the 

pitch,” Billy said. 

“(Tony) always crowded the plate,” said 

Carey, a member of the National High 

School Baseball Coaches Association 

Hall of Fame who spent 49years at North 

Reading High. 

“He was fearless. I can remember back in 

1964 he was going to face (Yankee Hall of 

Famer) Whitey Ford. 

“Now, Ford was well past his prime,” said 

Carey, “ but he was still, you know, Whitey 

Ford. But Tony says ‘I’m going to get him,’ 

and he did. He could always back it up.” 

That confidence wasn’t anything new. 

“One day in high school, we’re going 

up to St. John’s Prep and Danny Murphy 

(of Beverly, who later pitched for the 

White Sox and Chicago Cubs) was on the 

mound,” said Lynn School Committee 

Secretary Tom Iarrobino, a teammate of 

both Carey and Conigliaro in high school. 

“Same thing. ‘I’ll take him deep!’ We tell 

him, ‘Tony you can’t say things like that.’ 

Sure enough, he gets up and hits one out. 

He was only a sophomore at the time.” 

To that point in the 1967 season, 

Conigliaro had hit 20 home runs 

and knocked in 67 runs. With Carl 

Yastrzemski hitting in front of him for 

most of the season, they’d formed a potent 

1-2 punch. 

Conigliaro was the third hitter up in the 

bottom of the fourth. George Scott led off 

with a single, and Reggie Smith had flied 

out. 

Richie Conigliaro recalls that a smoke 

bomb then went off in left field, delaying 

the game for almost 15 minutes. Finally, 

Conigliaro dug in against Angels pitcher 

Jack Hamilton in his customary wideopen 

stance, legs spread apart, bat high 

behind his shoulder. 

The ball came in, high and tight - a 

brushback pitch. 

“It was a fastball,” confirmed Petrocelli, 

who was on deck. “A lot of times, when 

you’re in a slump, you wait up there in 

case it’s a curveball or a changeup. Who 

knows? He may have been thinking about 

a breaking ball.” 

Also, said Petrocelli, “Tony had a little 

blind spot inside. He got it a few other 

times too, in the back, or in the arm. I 

think he fractured his arm once. 

CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 

25| ONE MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2017

AP FILE PHOTO: BILL CHAPLIS 

Tony Conigliaro reads fan mail, as he 

recuperates at his home in Swampscott, 

after his beaning 50 years ago. 

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 

“If he got a strike on the black (of either 

corner of the plate), you couldn’t throw 

it by him. He’d nail it. But maybe two or 

three inches inside, it’s like he didn’t move. 

It’s almost as if he lost the ball. 

“Even though it was eye-high, it could 

be that he didn’t see the ball.” 

Conigliaro never moved. The ball hit 

him flush on the side of his face, and, as 

it turned out, below the helmet line (few 

players had ear flaps on their helmets in 

1967; after that helmets were designed 

with them). 

Conigliaro fell to the ground immediately, 

face down. 

“Everything,” said Petrocelli, “went 

silent. Everyone in the ballpark - and it 

was probably a full house - groaned and 

then went still.” 

“I saw the whole thing,” said Billy 

Conigliaro. “It was terrible. We all thought 

it hit the side of his helmet and that he 

wasn’t going to have permanent problems.” 

However, one portent of how bad it was 

came when the ball did not ricochet, as it 

would have had it hit a hard, plastic object 

such as a helmet. 

“It went straight down,” Billy Conigliaro 

said. “I don’t even remember hearing any 

sound. And it went completely silent in 

the stands. Everybody was silent.” 

Despite all this, Billy Conigliaro and his 

family tried to remain optimistic. 

“We thought he’d get up,” he said. “We 

didn’t find out until much later how bad 

it was.” 

However, Richie Conigliaro said, “you 

knew it was bad when, after a couple of 

minutes, he still didn’t get up, and wasn’t 

even moving.” 

Petrocelli knew immediately. 

“He was lying on the ground, face down, 

and holding his eye,” Petrocelli said. “I saw 

the side of his face start to blow up like a 

balloon. It was so scary. I don’t know if it 

hit him in the eye directly, but certainly 

right below the eye. That’s why it blew up 

the way it did.” 

Almost immediately, trainer Buddy 

LeRoux rushed onto the field along with 

team doctor Thomas Tierney. 

“Right away, they called for a stretcher,” 

Petrocelli said. “They knew he was hurt 

real bad. I helped put him on the stretcher. 

I kept telling him, ‘Tony, you’re going to 

be all right.’ ” 

By this time, the family had made it 

onto the field and saw him being placed 

onto the stretcher and whisked away to 

Sancta Maria Hospital in Cambridge. 

“We thought he was going to die,” 

Richie Conigliaro recalled. “My poor 

parents. I mean, he was only 22. This was 

the ‘Impossible Dream’ year, and here we 

were.” 

By the next day, after he’d stabilized, 

the question wasn’t whether he’d live, but 

whether he’d ever play again. 

“You saw that picture of him, lying in 

the hospital bed, with his eye blackened 

the way it was, and you thought, ‘no way 

was he ever going to be able to play again,’ ” 

said Petrocelli. 

Conigliaro was officially diagnosed 

with a detached retina. He was done for 

the rest of ’67, and missed the entire 

1968 season as well. But he had designs 

of making it back as a pitcher as spring 

training dawned in ’69. However, he began 

to see the ball well enough to hit it, and 

thoughts of a comeback became that 

much more realistic. 

“Scar tissue had formed in the back 

of his eye, and his eyesight was 350-20. 

It was ridiculous,” said Petrocelli. “How 

could you see out of that?” 

But slowly those numbers improved, 

until, several weeks later, it was back to 

20-20, Petrocelli said. 

“He came to spring training and started 

hitting the ball,” he said. 

He made the team, and was in the 

lineup, in right field, on opening day. 

And in the 10th inning of opening day in 

Baltimore, he hit a two-run homer to give 

the Red Sox, at the time, a 4-2 lead. 

“What a story here!” exclaimed Red Sox 

broadcaster Ken Coleman as Conigliaro 

almost flew around the bases. 

“All I could think of was my parents,” 

Billy Conigliaro said, “and how thrilled 

they must have been.” 

Conigliaro hit 36 home runs and 

knocked in 116 runs in 1970. But his 

eyesight started to deteriorate again, and 

he was traded to the Angels during the 

off-season. 

“I was shocked. Stunned,” Petrocelli said. 

“What were they doing?” 

But by mid-1971, Conigliaro abruptly 

retired, saying his eyesight no longer made 

it possible for him to hit. He was hitting 

only .222 with four homers. 

Conigliaro attempted one final comeback 

in 1975. But by midseason he was 

hitting below .200 and Jim Rice and Fred 

Lynn were in the middle of historic rookie 

seasons. He was optioned to Pawtucket, 

but chose to hang up his spikes instead. 

On Jan. 9, 1982, two days after his 37th 

birthday, he’d auditioned, apparently 

successfully, to take Ken Harrelson’s place 

as the Channel 38 color man for Red Sox 

broadcasts. His brother Billy was driving 

him back to Logan Airport, and they were 

near Suffolk Downs when Billy noticed 

Tony slumped over in the passenger seat. 

He’d suffered a heart attack. 

Billy took him right to Massachusetts 

General Hospital in Boston. By then, 

however, Tony Conigliaro had lost too 

much oxygen. Even though he survived, 

he was never the same. 

He died in 1990 at age 45. Among 

the pallbearers were Petrocelli, Carey, 

Iarrobino and Tony Nicosia, another St. 

Mary’s friend. 

“A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think 

of it,” said Richie Conigliaro. “But when 

all is said and done, I ask myself if I had a 

choice, would I take 37 great years, and all 

the living I could cram into them, or 70 

or 80 lousy years? I know what my choice 

would be.” 

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