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By Anne MArie ToBin
Lynnfield has
hired a new
assessing manager,
Meredith
Stone.
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For the second time in less than
two years, Lynnfield has a new assessing
manager.
Meredith Stone, a 1985 Lynnfield
High School graduate and Middleton
resident, succeeds Michael Golden,
who resigned after just a year and a
half on the job.
Stone’s first official day on the
job was Monday. She was greeted
by a crew of construction workers
and a lot of sawdust.
“It was a great first day, I couldn’t
have asked for a better one as they
are building an office for me, so
that’s wonderful,” Stone said. “With
all the COVID restrictions and remote
meetings, there will be some
privacy on my end when doing
Zoom meetings and other things. It
will be beautiful.”
Town Administrator Rob Dolan
said he is grateful to have Stone on
board.
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Schools sort out high-tech trouble
By Anne MArie ToBin
After a relatively uneventful first day
of school on Sept. 16, a major technological
glitch caused a near-total breakdown
in internet connectivity in local schools.
“It happened the day after school
started when we started to get attacked
and those attacks began inundating our
systems in terms of bringing our internet
down,” said Superintendent of
Schools Kristen Vogel. “What we do
know is they were from outside sources,
from other countries, all over the world
that basically brought the district-wide
system down and essentially disabled
our major network.”
Vogel said the district received 17,000
attacks on Sept. 17 alone and that, while
the system was brought back up, it
couldn’t sustain the zooming demand.
“We started to have these intermittent
in and out in terms of getting on
throughout the day,” Vogel said.
The good news is that the town learned
last Wednesday that the most recent
Department Public Health color-coded
risk assessment data on the rate of average
daily cases showed a significant
shift from red (more than eight average
daily cases per 100,000) to yellow (four
to eight cases per 100,000). In response
to the data, the School Committee voted
last Thursday to pivot from a fully remote
learning model to a hybrid-learning
model effective this Tuesday.
Vogel said the district reached out to
its technology consultant and major internet
provider, but those efforts were
unsuccessful. The district reached out
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MarketStreet is offering
Sunday lunch outdoors on the
Green with picnic available for
reserve and a specially-curated
menu prepared and served by
one of several of MarketStreet’s
exceptional restaurants.
Yard House, King’s, Legal C
Bar, Temazcal, and Wahlburgers
are among participating restaurants
and Green lunches feature
live local entertainment as
well as trivia hosted Oct.4 from
2-4 p.m. by Lynnfield resident
and celebrated local National
Anthem singer Todd Angilly.
Guests are asked to reserve
their table in advance. To
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COVID-19 may have slowed
the pace of business in many industries,
but there is no slowing
down Lynnfield realtor Nikki
Martin and her team at Compass
Real Estate.
Martin joined Compass in
the middle of the pandemic in
April of 2020. Since then, she
has been doing everything she
can to keep up with a frenetic
residential real market, which
has buyers, sellers and brokers
clamoring to navigate their way
through a market now defined
by high demand, low inventories
and sales prices well above
asking — in some cases, Martin
said, up to 15-20 percent above
list price.
Toss in a new Lynnfield office
off Main Street (between
Faith Spa and the Center Street
Market) that is scheduled to
open Oct. 15, and it’s a wonder
that Martin has any time to
catch a breath.
“I made the move to Compass
during COVID because I
needed to change just about
everything about the way I conduct
business,” Martin said.
“People are just afraid, and I
needed to go with a tech-based
company to expand my growth.
Compass has enabled me to
do this through the web with
live-streaming of open houses
through restaurant-like scanners
on their devices that allows
them to literally be walking
through actual homes through
their phones.”
It’s mission accomplished for
Martin.
Since joining Compass on
April 24, she has grossed $38
million in five months, which
she says projects to be about
$84 million over a 12-month
span.”
“I’m up about 30 percent,
which is just incredible and
it’s all due to the technology,”
Martin said. “I had to learn to
think like a buyer. They want to
feel like they are in the house,
and this technology I now have
allows them to do that and I’m
saving so much time as now we
are seeing real buyers and are
able to focus on pre-approved
buyers we know are serious.”
Born and raised in Lynnfield,
Martin is a graduate of
Lynnfield High School. She
went on to attend Northeastern
University, where she graduated
at the top of her class, receiving
a Bachelor of Science
in business administration with
a concentration in marketing.
Martin has been a realtor for
37 years, settling in Lynnfield
primarily, but is also active
in Peabody, Middleton,
North Reading, Melrose and
Wakefield. She said the move
to Compass has allowed her to
expand to other new communities,
including Somerville.
A top-producing real estate
agent for Compass, Martin is
a perennial winner of prestigious
awards, such as Boston
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She has also been named to the
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the top 1 percent of all realtors
for 20 consecutive years.
In 2019, Martin’s team closed
more than $64 million in sales,
selling 84 units across the North
Shore.
She made the move to
Compass as a senior vice-president
after spending a year at
Wiliam Raveis, 19 years at
Coldwell Banker and nearly 18
years at Robert Stone.
At Compass, Martin leads
a team of six people, four of
whom are Lynnfield mothers.
She says she always strives to
provide a fun, flexible atmosphere
for her team at all times.
“I am the oldest on the team,
but they all have that technology
swag, so thanks to them, technology
has changed my life in
such a positive way,” Martin said.
As far as the location goes,
it’s all about having that smalltown
feel.
“I wanted to be in a place
that gives the warm feeling of
Lynnfield, right in the center
of town. I guess I’m just old
school,” she said. “It was important
to be in the community
as opposed to some ordinary
office on Route 1. I really
wanted to show all of my team
members that I care especially
because the world has changed
since the virus. I think it’s going
to be part of our lives and impact
how we do business. I
don’t think we will ever do our
business the pre-pandemic way
ever again, especially now with
the technology that is just over
the top.”
The grand opening for
Martin’s new office was originally
scheduled for Oct. 3, but
she said she will likely wait
until Christmas to have a formal
opening.
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to an alternative provider late
in the week to “increase and
change our systems so that we
had a substantial backup equivalent
to our major provider.
“However, we didn’t know
when we would continue to
get attacked so we decided we
needed to have a way to decrease
the numbers of people
using our backup internet in
case our major line got attacked
again,” Vogel said. “So we made
the decision to allow teachers to
zoom from home. Our teachers
love being in their classrooms
where they have their materials
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Schools sort out high-tech trouble
set up, so they chose to come in
but were still struggling.”
The attacks continued into
this week, prompting an emergency
meeting at Town Hall last
Wednesday.
“This should not be taken
lightly, what was done behind
the scenes over the last couple
of days. There were elbows
squeezed, favors called in by
state representatives, selectmen,
(Town Administrator) Rob
Dolan, that got us to yesterday
(Wednesday) afternoon,” said
School Committee member Rich
Sjoberg who represented the
School Committee at the emergency
meeting. “I’m proud of the
team for everything they did.”
Board of Selectmen Chairman
Chris Barrett, a former School
Committee member, brings
technology with him to the
board. He said he is always
ready and willing to help make
sure the students, families and
teachers have everything they
need to succeed. Barrett, a principal
at the Webster School in
Everett, was instrumental in
connecting the district with
NorthEast Technology, Inc., a
company Barrett works with on
a daily basis in Everett.
“I have a prior relationship
with that team helping to lead
the tech efforts in Everett, and
we have had absolutely zero
tech issues, so that was a direct
connection I had that I knew
would work in Lynnfield after
all the problems,” said Barrett.
“As a principal, I also know full
well the challenges of remote
learning and what is needed
to be a complete success. The
Board of Selectmen was happy
to work with all involved to
make sure our students and staff
are back on track for the 2020-
2021 school year.”
Vogel said she is confident
that “now we have a plan to
support our teachers.”
School Committee Chairman
Jamie Hayman said he still has
a lot of questions about how this
could be allowed to happen.
“Could we have foreseen this
coming, could we have done
something different?” he asked.
“These are all valid questions.
We want to get to the bottom of
this and we will. Our first step
was we had to get the kids back
online. It’s about making sure
our technology is working correctly
and kids are learning, but
we will circle back to make sure
we understand what we have
to do to prevent this from happening
again.”
On a more positive note,
Vogel said switching to hybrid
is great news for extracurricular
activities.
“Extracurriculars and athletics
are a big part of students’
school experiences and life,
so this is very good news for
them,” she said, adding fall tryouts
will be held throughout the
week.
Home sweet home for new assessing manager
STONE
FROM PAGE 1
“I commend and thank the
Lynnfield Board of Assessors
for hiring this outstanding
new addition to our Town Hall
team,” he said. “Meredith has
over a decade of experience in
town assessing departments and
I think Meredith also looks as
this new position as sort of a
homecoming, having grown up
in Lynnfield and being a proud
graduate of Lynnfield High
School.”
Stone comes to Lynnfield
on the heels of serving as chief
assessor and geographical information
systems (GIS) coordinator
for the Town of West
Newbury since May, 2013. Her
duties included managing the
operations of the assessors department,
including overseeing
all appraisals.
Stone said, while she loved
her time in West Newbury,
“Lynnfield was calling me
home.
“I grew up in Lynnfield, so
it’s my hometown. My heart
was with West Newbury for
a while. They had a lot of interesting
agricultural and different
residential areas and
the town has really developed
over the last two years into a
really beautiful community.
It was busy and exciting,
but I am looking forward to
coming into a commercial and
residential atmosphere that
Lynnfield has, now that it has
the venture with MarketStreet.
MarketStreet is such a
blessing, people come from all
over to come and it’s a really
really happy area.”
Stone’s goals are simple.
“Excellence. My primary
goal is to bring the office
on a journey of excellence,”
she said. “I know the office
has been through some
people lately and is in need
of someone to rearrange and
take control to bring it to a
better level. You need to get
all the different departments
together, we all need to be on
the same page, which brings
everyone at Town Hall to a
better level in terms of being
informed and up to date, as
opposed to a situation where
people are saying, ‘oh, I didn’t
know that was going on.’ It’s
just a better system when everyone
is informed.”
Prior to serving West
Newbury, Stone was the principal
clerk for the Town of
Saugus from 2004-2013, where
she processed and researched
deeds and transfers from the
Essex South Registry of Deeds
as well as processing vehicle,
boar and specialty abatements.
Stone holds an associates
degree in paralegal studies
from North Shore Community
College (1994) and also earned
an associate of science degree
from Endicott College
in 1987. She was certified by
the Massachusetts Association
of Assessing Officers for
Massachusetts (MAAO) as an
accredited assessor in 2011, receiving
citations from the town
for recognition of her certification
in 2011.
For now, Stone is focused on
making a seamless transition.
“We are working on getting
the office organized and up to
date and are getting ready to
send out the preliminary second-quarter
tax billing, so everything
is busy, busy, busy and
I’m trying to give them all my
paperwork, but it’s a lot of fun.
I’m glad to be back home.”
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Sunday, Sept. 20
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle
crash at 12:40 p.m. Sunday on
Condon Circle.
Breaking and Entering
A report of a burglary/
breaking and entering at 1:38
p.m. Sunday at 4 Cedarwood
Road. A caller reported people
were in the house.
Complaints
A report of a suspicious
person at 5:03 p.m. Sunday at
4 Cedarwood Road. A caller reported
a U-Haul truck was in the
driveway.
Monday, Sept. 21
Arrest
Mark R. Cheever, 68, of 8 Ola
Road, Saugus, was arrested and
charged with OUI liquor at 9:38
p.m. Monday, Sept. 21.
Thursday, Sept. 24
Complaints
A report of a disturbance
at 9:03 p.m. Thursday at 59
Police Log
Lynnbrook Road. A caller reported
hearing gunshots in the
woods behind his house. Other
neighbors told police they didn’t
hear anything.
Friday, Sept. 25
Accidents
A report of a motor vehicle
crash at 9:46 a.m. Friday at 61
Pillings Pond Road; at 2:12 p.m.
Friday on Market Street.
Saturday, Sept. 26
Complaint
Police were called on Saturday
at 6:58 p.m. to Christmas Tree
Shop on a report of a man and
woman fighting. The pair could
not be located but State Police
later located in Revere.
Sunday, Sept. 27
Medical
Police assisted with medical
transport from Salem Street to
Melrose Wakefield Hospital on
Sunday at 9:37 a.m.; assisted
with transport from Salem
Street to Winchester Hospital on
Sunday at 10:04 a.m.; assisted
with transport from Market
Street to Lahey Burlington on
Sunday at 11:42 a.m.
They make the town
a better place
By Anne MArie ToBin
Fred Santangelo and Betty
Adelson are this year’s recipients
of the Daniel Townsend
Award for Excellence Award.
The award, the fourth annual,
is given to those who have gone
above and beyond to help make
Lynnfield a better place.
“This award is for those who
exemplify excellence in the area
of volunteerism and to honor
individuals for their community
service and legacy,” said Board
of Selectmen Chairman Chris
Barrett. “Both have always
stepped forward and given their
best to the town.”
The Townsend Award was established
by the Board in honor
of Daniel Townsend, who died
on April 19, 1775 in the first
major battle of the Revolutionary
War, the Battle of Menotomy,
which took place in what is now
Arlington. He is buried in the
Old Burying Ground.
“He is one of our most celebrated
sons, so it is truly fitting
we named this after an individual
who most exemplified
excellence in liberty,” Barrett
said. “He answered the first call
on April 19, 1775 and one of the
very first Americans to give his
life for his country.”
Santangelo moved to
Lynnfield in 1962. He and his
wife, Gloria, a well-known educator,
raised their family here.
Santangelo was a football player
and track and field standout at
Lynn Classical High School,
where he is a member of the Hall
of Fame. He received an athletic
scholarship to Wake Forest and
later returned to Classical to
serve as a line coach.
Santangelo has served the
town in several capacities.
Herved for more than a decade
on the Council on Aging,
where he worked to expand programs
for local seniors. He also
served on the LIFE Board of
Directors, the Personnel Board
and the Public Works Support
Committee.
Santangelo also excelled professionally
as a manager for
AVCO, later Textron, working
on defense systems such as the
Minuteman missile. A longtime
fixture in youth sports, he
volunteered as a football and
baseball coach and also served
on the Lynnfield Junior Sports
Board of Directors.
A parishioner and eucharistic
minister at St. Maria Goretti
Church, he was a member
of the Capital Improvements
Committee. He is also a Past
Grand Knight at the Lynn Council
#70 Knights of Columbus.
Adelson and her husband,
Jack, have lived in Lynnfield
since 1986. She and her husband,
Jack, have both been
active in the community while
raising their family.
She was hired by the
Conservation Commission as a
clerk in 1988 for seven hours
a week. She shared a desk,
phone and typewriter with the
Planning Board clerk. She took
courses at Salem State College
and, through the Massachusetts
Association of Conservation
Commissions, studied on her
own to become more knowledgeable
and informed about
conservation issues. By the time
she retired in 2018, she was regarded
as a much-respected
expert on wetlands and conservation
issues, serving as an ambassador
in the community for
conservation and open space.
Adelson was involved in
many civic organizations, including
the local PTO organizations,
as president of the
Lynnfield Flower Workshop, as
a board member of Townscape,
as a past president with Jack of
the Lynnfield Couples Club, and
as a member of the Lynnfield
Historical Society, the Lynnfield
Athletic Association, and the
Tricentennial Committee.
She remains active in town government
as a volunteer member of
the Open Space Committee.
“Both Betty and Fred are
worthy for their past dedication
and continued dedication,” said
Barett. “They are two individuals
that command our respect.”
Fellow board member Dick
Dalton, said “they are both great
nominations, they’ve done so
much for this community over
the years and both are very very
deserving of this honor.”
“I fully agree with Selectman
Dalton as they are both very
worthy and a lot of the things
that were outlined today, I
wasn’t even aware of,” said selectman
Phil Crawford. “I’ve
done a lot of projects with both
of them, and it has been a pleasure
knowing them and working
with them.”

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You’re a winner with a chicken dinner
By AnitA L. ArAmBuLA
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For the amount of time I
have spent in the kitchen, one
would think that roasting a
chicken would be old hat by
now. I should have dozens of
roasted chickens in my culinary
past. Sadly, until last
year, I could count the number
of chickens I’ve roasted in my
lifetime on one hand.
Why?
Maybe it’s the dried-out
chicken breasts the teen in me
remembers eating at friends’
homes that made me fearful
that I could do no better.
Or maybe it’s the intimidation
of staring at an entire
chicken on a cutting board,
string in hand, trying to figure
out what the heck “truss”
means?
Perhaps it’s just the convenience
factor of being able to
swing by nearly any grocery
store these days to pick up a
rotisserie chicken, no knowledge
of trussing required.
You know what, though?
At least half of the time, those
rotisserie chickens have been
sitting under hot lights long
enough for the breasts to dry
out anyway, and the meat on
the legs becomes so hard as to
render it inedible.
The idea of roasting a
chicken at home was becoming
more and more appealing with
every disappointing storebought
rotisserie chicken.
And honestly, is there
anything like the smell of a
roasting chicken as it filters
throughout the house? For
me, the smell stirs memories
of weekends spent gathered
around the kitchen table, with
family members fighting over
who got the drumsticks.
A freshly roasted chicken
straight out of the oven is comfort
food times ten.
Depending on the size of the
chicken, it’s also a dish that
keeps on giving. Leftovers
are perfect for chicken salad
or shredded for chicken tacos,
ideal for soups, or even tossed
with greens for a satisfying
salad.
I started the year determined
to roast more chickens. So far,
I’ve only done it a few times.
The first one I made this
year, I followed the muchhyped
recipe from Jamie
Oliver for chicken roasted in
milk with cinnamon. It was
tasty and different and a recipe
I plan to try again. (I had no
sage when I made it, and in
hindsight, it needed the bitterness
of sage to balance
out the sweet warmth of the
cinnamon.)
Then there’s this version of
roasted chicken inspired by a
book I recently added to my
Kindle library.
After having “The Flavor
Bible” mentioned to me at
least a half-dozen times in
less than a week, I bought it
and I’m so happy I did. “The
Flavor Bible” is not a recipe
book. It’s a reference book
with more than 600 entries
listing compatible flavor combinations.
I find the book inspiring,
sparking new ideas for
recipes. It’s easy to get stuck in
a rut of using the same ingredients
and the same familiar recipes,
but this book helps me in
truly creative ways by listing
unique ingredient combinations
I would not have thought
of on my own.
For example, roasting
chicken with grapes.
This idea came about after
reading the entry for grapes. It
was in the middle of summer
and I had a large bag of ripe
red Muscato grapes sitting in
my refrigerator. Although excellent
for eating out of hand,
they were screaming for more
creative use.
According to “The Flavor
Bible,” grapes pair perfectly
with nearly all of this dish’s
ingredients. I just went down
the list of compatible flavors
under the grape heading,
checking off ingredients I already
had on hand to come up
with this recipe. Not having
tried this combination before,
I bit the bullet and went with
it, adjusting amounts as I experimented.
This roast chicken
is moist, fragrant and utterly
delicious. It’s an elegant dish
easy enough for everyday
cooking but fancy enough for
company.
Muscato grape season has
just passed, but any seedless
red grape will do. Some of the
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Rosemary Roasted Chicken with Red Grapes is an elegant
and fragrant dish easy enough for everyday cooking but fancy
enough for company.
grapes burst while roasting,
their juices mingling with the
butter and olive oil, creating a
lovely sauce for the chicken. I
left a few grapes on the vines
just for the photos; I suggest
you take them all off the vine
when you make the recipe.
As for trussing the chicken
_ which involves tying the
wings and legs close to the
body _ skip it if you like, but
it helps keep the breasts from
overcooking by limiting the
amount of air circulating into
the breast cavity.
Afraid to truss? Here’s an
amusing video on trussing
from Chef Brian Polcyn, a
butchery expert:
For guidance on how long to
roast chickens, I rely on Julia
Child’s expertise to determine
roasting time: In a 450-degree
oven, start with 45 minutes and
add 7 minutes for each pound.
You’ll need a 10- to 12-inch
heavy skillet (preferably cast
iron, although my cast iron is
only 8 inches, so I used my
commercial grade Calphalon
skillet).
Another pro tip: Preheat
your skillet. Doing so not only
shortens the cooking time, but
it gives the thighs a little more
heat, so they start cooking immediately.
Just wait until you
hear that sizzle the moment the
chicken makes contact with
the hot pan _ it’s a beautiful
sound!
ROSEMARY ROASTED
CHICKEN WITH RED
GRAPES
For best results, allow
the chicken to rest on the
counter 30 minutes prior to
starting the recipe. A too-cold
chicken going into a hot oven
will render uneven cooking
throughout. If trussing the
chicken, you’ll need kitchen
twine. There are plenty of
videos on YouTube with
trussing how-tos if you are
unsure how to truss a chicken.
Or you can simply tie the legs
together.
Makes 6-8 servings
FOR THE COMPOUND
BUTTER
3 tablespoons butter, room
temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated
black pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons finely
chopped fresh rosemary
1 clove garlic, minced
Zest from one medium
lemon
FOR THE GRAPES:
1 1/2 pounds red seedless
grapes
2 tablespoons extra virgin
olive oil
1 tablespoon balsamic
vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh mint,
finely chopped
FOR THE CHICKEN:
4 1/2-to-5-pound chicken
1/2 of a lemon
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Place your oven-safe skillet
on the middle rack of your
oven; preheat oven to 450
degrees.
Make the compound butter
by placing all the ingredients
in a small bowl and stirring
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well to incorporate; set aside.
Rinse the grapes, shaking
off excess water, then place in
a bowl. Drizzle the olive oil
and vinegar over the grapes.
Sprinkle with the salt and the
chopped mint; toss to coat and
set aside.
Rinse then pat the chicken
dry, including the cavity, with
several sheets of paper towels.
Place the chicken on a work
surface with the cavity facing
you. Carefully slide two fingers
between the skin and
breast meat to create pockets to
fill with the compound butter,
taking care not to tear the skin.
Massage a quarter of the butter
directly onto each breast under
the skin. Slice the lemon in
half and place both halves
into the chicken’s cavity along
with the two sprigs of rosemary.
Truss the chicken or tie
the legs together with kitchen
twine. Massage the remaining
butter all over the chicken.
Carefully pull the hot pan
out of the oven and onto the
stove. Lay the chicken in the
center (chicken will sizzle) and
surround the chicken with the
grapes, making sure to scrape
out the olive oil and mint from
the bowl with a rubber spatula.
Return skillet to the oven and
roast for 70-80 minutes, until
the temperature in the thickest
part of the leg reaches 162
degrees. Remove the chicken
from the oven. It will continue
to cook and will hit the
165-degree safe zone while
resting. Let it rest for at least
15 minutes before carving.
Serve the chicken with the
grapes and some of the pan
juices on the side. Brown
rice, green beans, broccoli or
a green salad make excellent
sides.
Debone the completely
cooled leftover chicken before
storing it in the refrigerator.
Save the carcass to make a
killer homemade bone broth.
Recipe is copyrighted by
Anita L. Arambula from
Confessions of a Foodie.
Reprinted by permission.

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Here’s how to get that vacation high now
By Rachel SchnalzeR
loS angeleS TimeS
Chances are, you’ve had to
cancel vacation plans in the
last five months. You probably
felt bummed about it — and
guilty for mourning lost trips
while the COVID-19 pandemic
has caused others to lose much
more.
It turns out that disappointment
about canceled trips
goes beyond feeling sad. For
many, travel — and anticipating
travel — is a type of
self-care. “We tend to use
something to look forward to
as part of our self-care routine,”
said Taisha Caldwell-
Harvey, a psychologist and
chief executive of the Black
Girl Doctor.
Now, because of the unpredictable
nature of the pandemic,
would-be travelers are
stuck in a “holding pattern,”
said Caldwell-Harvey. “It’s always
a struggle to keep yourself
uplifted. (Now) it’s like
everyone’s trying to do it with
both hands tied behind their
back.”
Some use travel as a way
to disrupt anxiety and racing
thoughts — both before and
after a trip. “You’ve never
been to the Hawaiian Islands,
and you try to predict what
it’s going to look like. That’s
the kind of soothing thought
that puts you to sleep,” said
Tom Gilovich, a professor
of psychology at Cornell
University. And after your
trip, you’re able to compare
your expectations to the reality
you experienced, which
can also feel gratifying, he
added.
Why does anticipating travel
enhance our well-being? And
what happens when we no
longer have trips to anticipate?
“The emotional system
is really geared toward
steering people to engage
with good things and to avoid
bad things,” said Leaf Van
Boven, a professor of psychology
and neuroscience at
the University of Colorado at
Boulder. This is why thinking
about future events can elicit
stronger emotions than reminiscing
about past events.
Have you ever felt as if your
anticipation of a trip was
more pleasurable than the
trip itself? This is why, Van
Boven added.
Some good news: A lack of
vacation plans doesn’t necessarily
add stress to your life.
However, with no trips to anticipate,
you have “less beautiful
things to think about”
when you’re feeling down, Van
Boven said.
Fortunately, there are ways
to recreate the positive feelings
associated with looking forward
to a trip.
When we’re focused on
day-to-day responsibilities
and the latest tragedy in the
news, it can be hard to be excited
about the future. And
yet, devoting attention to the
future is key to receiving the
benefits of anticipation, Van
Boven said. “We have to do
that mindfully, because it
doesn’t otherwise happen naturally
... especially now that
we’re doing less extravagant
vacations.”
Planning day trips and other
low-key getaways is a great
way to get psyched for the immediate
future. And it turns
out that these smaller excursions
can result in some of the
same benefits as lavish travel
abroad. “The benefits of experiential
consumption can be
quite modest,” said Gilovich.
“Hopefully, people are taking
local trips and ... using hiking
trails and bike paths in their
communities that they didn’t
use before.”
Take a moment and make a
list of parks and attractions near
your home that friends from
out of town might like to visit.
Have you experienced them all?
“It’s a rare person that has really
taken full advantage of all this
around them locally,” Gilovich
said.
If you don’t have many amenities
around you, then perhaps
there’s something you
can do. For example, if your
area doesn’t have hiking trails,
Gilovich recommended mobilizing
with others to advocate
for more paths in your community.
“It doesn’t have to be
elaborate. ... This can be a local
thing where you get a bunch of
people in a hiking group,” he
said. “Suddenly, you do have
enough people that might make
a difference so that you can get
your local or state government
to grant access and provide support
for turning an old railroad
bed into a hiking trail.”
Besides the hiking opportunities
you create in the
process, you will have made
more friends. “There’s so
much evidence that when
people are socially connected,
they just feel better.
And you don’t have to go far
to increase your social connection,”
Gilovich said.
You also don’t need to leave
your home to recreate some of
the positives of a vacation. For
Caldwell-Harvey, it’s all about
creating as many moments of
true joy as you can — like that
feeling you get when you bust
out laughing and “get that burst
of emotion in you that feels really
good,” she said. “Anytime
you can create that emotion,
it impacts your overall wellbeing
... it actually compounds.
And so it ends up leading to
a happier life.” And finding
moments of joy in your dayto-day
life can take the shape
of something as small as a specialty
tea you treat yourself
with, Caldwell-Harvey said.
She recognizes that people,
particularly Black and brown
Americans who are confronted
with news of racial violence,
may feel invalidated by the near
constant barrage of upsetting
news — and guilty for finding
ways to continue to enjoy life.
Still, she says, it’s critical to
find moments of joy amid stress
and pain — this may even help
you avoid developing mental
health challenges later in life,
she said. “You’re ensuring your
health and the health of your
family down the road by taking
care of yourself today.”
Caldwell-Harvey has one
last tip for anyone looking for
a moment of joy amid the pandemic,
courtesy of a colleague
who plans four-hour vacations
in her home. “She orders her
favorite food, she has her wine
... doesn’t bring the phone in
there with her, and she completely
vibes out, listens to
music and does whatever she
wants to do.”
So it’s worth remembering
that the next time you’re feeling
stressed and could use a vacation
to look forward to, a joyful
escape could be closer than you
think.

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Coping with Halloween
By Priscilla Blossom
Kaiser HealtH News
DENVER — For Laura
Stoutingburg and her family,
Halloween has always been a
month-long celebration of corn
mazes, pumpkin patches and, of
course, trick-or-treating in their
suburban Denver neighborhood.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic
has forced the mother of
two to change their plans.
“Traditional trick-or-treating
house to house does not feel like
a smart choice to me this year,”
Stoutingburg said.
Families across the nation are
haunted by the same dilemma:
How can they safely keep the
pandemic from overshadowing
Halloween? Can families trickor-treat
and go to haunted houses,
or should they opt for lower-risk
activities at home?
Health experts say families
should err on the side of caution
when it comes to trick-or-treating
and other traditional fall activities.
Much depends on each family’s
comfort with taking risks and ensuring
they adhere to safety standards
and common sense, they
said. Masks should be worn by all,
even if not part of a costume.
“My kids love going to the
farm ... to go pumpkin-picking,
apple-picking and all those things
we do in the fall,” said Dr. Aaron
Milstone, a professor of pediatrics
and an associate epidemiologist
at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore. But, he added, “if you
show up at the pumpkin patch and
it’s packed with people, that’s not
the right time for you to be there.”
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recently
released Halloween guidelines
that warn against high-risk activities
like traditional trick-ortreating,
haunted houses and costume
parties, as well as hay and
tractor rides, among other things.
The federal agency is also clear
on the need for social distancing,
mask-wearing and hand-washing
to continue.
Many parents are coming
up with creative alternatives
for Halloween night. For
Stoutingburg, 30, that means
hosting a small sleepover with
relatives that features pumpkin-carving,
cupcake-decorating
and a scavenger hunt.
Jody Allard and her family also
will forgo their usual tricks and
treats. Allard, 42, lives in Seattle
and has a rare genetic disease putting
her at higher risk for COVID-
19. The mother of seven said her
family will make new traditions
this year.
“We’re going to make a bunch
of different fun foods from the
Halloween shows they like to
watch on the Food Network, and
we’re going to watch kid-friendly
Halloween movies,” Allard said.
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
44-year-old writer Jamie Beth
Cohen’s daughter came up with
the idea that she and her brother
dress up in costumes and trick-ortreat
inside their own home, with
their parents behind the doors
of various rooms, waiting with
candy.
“She’s excited to wear a costume
without a jacket and get lots
of the kind of candy she likes,”
Cohen said.
Maya Brown-Zimmerman and
her family of six never miss out on
trick-or-treating in Cleveland. But
they will this year, with Brown-
Zimmerman, 35, at higher risk for
COVID-19 because of multiple
lung diseases. Instead, her family
will use their costume money on
new Halloween decor, and her
four kids, ages 3 to 11, will search
for candy at home.
“I’ll hide eggs of candy in the
front yard for my little kids,” she
said. “After they go to bed, the
older kids will have a hunt for
eggs in the dark in our backyard
with flashlights.”
For families still hoping to trickor-treat
this year, though, what can
be done to stay as safe as possible?
The Harvard Global Health
Institute created a website to help
parents assess their risk level for
Halloween activities with a color-coded
map of county COVID
data. It shows which counties are
“lower-risk” zones for COVID
(green and yellow), where parents
might feel more comfortable
allowing their children to trick-ortreat,
and which are higher-risk
areas (orange and red), where online
parties and very small gatherings
are recommended instead.
Milstone said families should
think less in terms of green versus
red zones and more in terms of
staying safe no matter what, especially
considering asymptomatic
carriers.
“Rather than people getting a
false sense of security that ‘My
area is a low-risk area, so I’m
just gonna go and do whatever,’ I
would say ideally everyone practices
the same safe things,” he
said.
Dr. Heather Isaacson, a pediatrician
with UCHealth in Longmont,
Colorado, said masks must be
worn by all and has a simple
suggestion for the reluctant:
“Decorate those masks and incorporate
them into the costumes.”
People who hand out candy
also should wear masks, added
Dr. Alok Patel, a pediatrician
and co-host of the “Nova”
and PBS Digital Studios show
“Parentalogic.” If trick-or-treaters
see candy-givers without masks,
he suggested wishing them a
“Happy Halloween” and passing
them by for the next home.
“If people are outside serving
candy without a mask, consider
the added risk of potential respiratory
droplets flying around, including
in the candy bowl,” said
Patel.
When it comes to handing out
candy, it’s a good idea to maintain
as much distance as possible.
“Think outside of the box
with ideas like a reverse trick-ortreating,
where kids stay home
and dress up and neighbors do
a parade and throw candy,” said
Isaacson. She also recommended
creating individual goody bags
in place of bowls of treats.
“You could go all out and
make candy chutes or a giant
spider web with candy trapped in
it. In some ways, the physically
distanced candy-delivery ideas
sound more fun,” said Patel.
The Lynnfield Cultural Council
(LCC) has announced that it will
be accepting grant applications
from Oct. 1-Nov. 15.
Applications must be submitted
online at http://www.lynnfieldculturalcouncil.org/applications.
All Massachusetts residents are
eligible to apply.
The Lynnfield Cultural Council
(LCC) is a state-funded organization
that awards grants locally to
bring community-based arts, history,
science, literature, and ethnic
diversity programs to Lynnfield.
LCC includes local volunteers
appointed by the Lynnfield Board
of Selectmen. LCC is funded
by the Massachusetts Cultural
Council (MCC), a state agency
that receives funding from the
Massachusetts State Legislature
and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
LCC is committed to enhancing
the cultural offerings within
Lynnfield by helping to promote
events and to encourage cross-collaboration
between in-town organizations.
It aims to build and support
a community of local artists
and to find innovative ways to
celebrate the many diverse cultures
that are represented within
Lynnfield.
Recent LCC initiatives over
the last year include the Walk and
Sketch Nature Journal Calendar,
From JAZZ to Hip Hop dance
demonstration, and Ancient Alive!
at the Lynnfield Library.
Town Meeting
date set for
Saturday, Oct. 17
The Board of Selectmen voted
last week to hold a special Town
Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 17 beginning
at 9 a.m. outdoors at the
Lynnfield High School football
field.
The recommendation was
made by Town Moderator Joe
Markey, who noted the success
of the April Town Meeting at the
same location.
“The April meeting was great
and we will use the same precautions
we used at that meeting
for October’s meeting,” he said.
“That meeting was done in a record
amount of time, so my recommendation
is to do the same
thing.”
As with the spring meeting,
there will be a 50-person quorum.
At the time this paper went to
print, the warrant for the meeting
had not yet been closed.

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Sports
Lynnfield moves back to ‘yellow,’
votes to resume fall sports season
By Mike Alongi
Fall sports in Lynnfield are
back on after a two-week delay.
After the town was reclassified
as a “yellow” district based
on the Department of Public
Health‘s (DPH) metric of average
daily cases per 100,000
residents last Wednesday, the
Lynnfield School Committee
voted once again to resume
fall sports in the “Fall Sports I”
season that will run until Nov.
20. The school committee had
previously voted to approve fall
sports in early September, but
the Pioneers had to put those
plans on hold after the town was
classified as “red” by the DPH
two weeks ago.
School districts designated
as “red” based on the DPH’s
metric of average daily cases
per 100,000 residents and which
therefore have their high school
students learning remotely at the
start of the season must postpone
their entire season, including
practices, until the “Fall Sports
II” season that will run from
Feb. 22 to April 25.
But once the town flipped
back to “yellow” in Wednesday’s
weekly report by the DPH, the
school committee met the next
morning and voted to proceed
with the season.
Tryouts and practices for boys
and girls soccer, field hockey and
cross country began at the high
school last Thursday afternoon.
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Left: Lynnfield captain Lauren Braconnier runs a drill at the girls soccer practice at Lynnfield High School on Monday afternoon.
Right: Lynnfield boys soccer captain Jack Bird runs a drill at a practice on Monday afternoon.
PHOTOS | OLIVIA FALCIGNO
Left: Lynnfield girls soccer coach Mark Vermont walks across the field as the team warms up before practice at Lynnfield High School on Monday afternoon.
Right: Lynnfield boys soccer coach Brent Monroe watches over practice at Lynnfield High School on Monday afternoon.

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ACROSS
1 Get one’s teeth into
5 Pinnacle
9 Soft metal
13 Vader’s creator
15 Fraud
16 News, briefly
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20 Conceit
22 Mark a page (hyph.)
24 AAA suggestion
25 Bartok or Lugosi
26 Make public
29 University administrator
31 Dupes
36 Courier
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40 Admit
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66 Wooden strip
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37 Finest quality
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42 Tolstoy’s name
44 Party
47 Free to roam
49 Links org.
50 Vocal group
51 Doing nothing
52 Haul
53 Night attire
54 Lifeguard’s beat
55 — Samms of “Dynasty”
56 Others
57 Coffee server
59 Refrain syllables
Thursday, Oct. 1
Carmen Sandiego
Netflix
Season Premiere!
The animated revival of the classic character returns for Season
3, with Gina Rodriguez again voicing the title role.
Code 404
Peacock
New Series!
This buddy detective comedy is set in London in the near future.
DI John Major (Daniel Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Stephen
Graham) are the best of the best at an elite police unit. After
Major’s cover is blown and he is met with an untimely death, he
is brought back to life with some glitchy AI technology. Now, he’s
better than ever — or so he thinks.
The Shoes of the Fisherman
TCM, 11:30am
Anthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier headline the cast of the Oscar-nominated
1968 drama based on the novel by Morris West.
With Cold War tensions high, Russian Catholic archbishop Kiril
Lakota (Quinn) is released after years of imprisonment in Siberia
and is made a cardinal by the Vatican. After the pope dies, Lakota
is the surprise choice elected to replace him and, as newly
elevated Pope Kiril, he uses his authority to inspire and transform
the world. Oskar Werner and David Janssen also star.
Live From Daryl’s House
AXS TV, 8 p.m.
New Episodes!
Ten additional episodes of the acclaimed music series debut on
AXS TV starting tonight on a new day and time, and with one of
two episodes making their worldwide debut. This episode features
host Daryl Hall’s jam session with Styx frontman Tommy
Shaw, with intimate performances of Styx signatures “Blue Collar
Man,” “Too Much Time on My Hands” and “Renegade,” as well
as Daryl Hall and John Oates’ hits “Delayed Reaction” and “It’s
a Laugh.”
Walk Against Fear: James Meredith
Smithsonian Channel, 8 p.m.
James H. Meredith is one of the most influential, controversial
and forgotten icons of the civil rights movement. His complete
story has never been told in a documentary, largely because he
has refused to grant access. On Oct. 1, 1962, Meredith became
the first Black man to enroll at the University of Mississippi in
America’s segregated South. His objective was to force the U.S.
government to use the military to enforce his rights as a citizen,
and he did. When riots broke out, President Kennedy had to call
in 20,000 federal troops. Meredith quickly became a civil rights
icon. A nonconformist, he has always marched to the beat of
his own drum. In 1966 he was shot while walking alone across
Mississippi in a “Walk Against Fear.” His walk ended up attracting
some 15,000 marchers and encouraged 4,000 Black citizens of
Mississippi to vote for the first time.
Connecting…
NBC, 8:30 p.m.
New Series!
Executive producer Martin Gero’s (Blindspot) scripted ensemble
comedy is about a group of friends trying to stay close (and
sane) through video chats as they share the highs and lows of
these extraordinary times.
Let’s Be Real
FOX, 9 p.m.
Robert Smigel of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog fame is an executive
producer of this new comedy special covering politics,
pop culture, and the 2020 election through puppets, celebrity
cameos, and remote pieces.
Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa: “Style vs. Substance”
HGTV, 9 p.m.
After selling his insurance business, Kenny and his wife Somer,
a design enthusiast, jumped into house flipping in pricey Pasadena.
The couple often battle over what looks good and what’s
affordable for a successful flip. Thankfully, Tarek is there to get
these novices on the same page before project delays, a challenging
lot and unforeseen problems turn a dream project into
a nightmare.
American Pickers
History, 9 p.m.
Season Premiere!
In Season 22, antiquers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz continue their
mission to recycle America by rescuing forgotten relics and giving
them a new lease on life, while learning a thing or two about
American history on the way.
Impact of Murder: “There’s No Winning in Murder”
Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Season Finale!
In West Haven, Connecticut, mother of four Corrinna Martin
learns that her daughter Alyssiah is missing. After an exhaustive,
statewide search, a discovery confirms Corrinna’s worst fear, and
a murder investigation is opened. As a pattern of abuse against
Alyssiah is uncovered, Corrinna vows to help other victims of
domestic violence. When a suspect is identified, it looks like the
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Time to revisit the Universe
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Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy stars, from left, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, and Chris
Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord.
By Chris hewitt
star triBune
(Minneapolis)
It has been 15 months since
the last entry in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, (MCU),
“Spider-Man: Far From Home,”
and it could be much longer for
the next.
That’s the biggest gap between
Marvel Studios movies
since the 23 months between
“The Incredible Hulk” in 2008
and “Iron Man 2” in 2010. With
the announcement Wednesday
that the already-delayed Nov.
6 release of “Black Widow,”
starring Scarlett Johansson,
has been pushed back to May
2021, we’re looking at another
nearly two-year wait for the
movies in which superheroes
bicker and save the planet from
maniacs.
The MCU has been responsible
for plenty of bad trends,
including the omnipresence
of superhero movies and the
dedication to fan service over
storytelling. Too many Marvel
movies worry less about coherent
narratives than cramming
in characters and story
lines from the comic books.
But the MCU has been responsible
for worthwhile
trends, as well. “Black Widow”
will be a rare movie that centers
on a female superhero, something
Disney-owned Marvel
Studios also did with “Captain
Marvel” and has been laying the
groundwork for since Scarlett
Johansson’s Black Widow debuted
in “Iron Man 2.” Her
popularity undoubtedly fueled
rival Warner Bros.’ decision
to give Wonder Woman two
of her own films, the latest of
which, “1984,” was postponed
to Christmas.
The Marvel series has also
been fairly inclusive, with juicy
roles for Samuel L. Jackson,
Don Cheadle, Tessa Thompson
and others. “Black Panther,”
with its cast of top-notch talents,
made the late Chadwick
Boseman a star and gave an entire
community the heroes it had
deserved for decades, while also
providing gifted Ryan Coogler
a big stage on which to direct.
The MCU has lagged on behind-the-scenes
women. So far,
a co-credit for Anna Boden on
“Captain Marvel” is the only
sign that women also make
movies. But that will change
with the next two projects, Cate
Shortland’s “Black Widow”
and “Eternals,” which stars
Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani,
Gemma Chan and Brian Tyree
Henry and was directed by
Chloe Zhao. Zhao is known —
barely — as the director of “The
Rider,” a beautiful drama that
killed on the festival circuit and
nowhere else.
That may point to the
best thing about the Marvel
movies. Producer Kevin Feige
has taken chances on directors
whose records give no
indication they’ll be good at
staging explosions in space,
with one bunch of special-effect
characters battling another.
In addition to Zhao,
Coogler (“Fruitvale Station”),
Boden and Ryan Fleck (“It’s
Kind of a Funny Story”) and
Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short
Term 12”) have basically gone
straight from making movies
about three people chatting on
a porch to movies where the
world might end.
For complicated and boring
reasons, not all Marvel characters
are part of the MCU —
the rights to the X-Men, for
instance, have belonged to another
studio — but they’ve still
released 23 movies in 12 years,
and from the perspective of
someone who’s more a fan of
good movies than comic book
movies, many are worth another
look.
“Guardians of the Galaxy”
(2014)
A sense of fun has not always
been evident in Marvel
movies, but it’s all over my
favorite, powered by the wideeyed
charisma of Chris Pratt as
Star-Lord, the I-get-no-respect
Rodney Dangerfield of heroes.
It’s the loosest MCU movie,
the funniest and arguably the
one that is least concerned
with how it fits with the others.
“Guardians” characters have
been integrated into the other
films but they’re at their best in
this entry, where they let their
freak flags fly.
“Iron Man” (2008)
How long ago did the MCU
launch? So long ago that
the trailer actually mentions
Myspace as if it were a cool
thing. Robert Downey Jr. genuinely
is a cool thing as the title
character, giving the no-contest
best performance in any
of these movies. Glib, sly and
brainy, his Tony Stark is a millionaire
jerk whom Downey
makes endearing.
“Black Panther” (2018)
We don’t even know yet
how many movie careers were
launched or given a boost by
Coogler’s swift — if typically
overstuffed — empowerment
adventure. Letitia Wright and
Winston Duke have snagged big
parts as a result of it and Michael
B, Jordan, Danai Gurira and
Lupita Nyong’o have moved
into different realms.
“Thor: Ragnarok” (2017)
A case could be made that
Taika Waititi, an Oscar winner
for writing “Jojo Rabbit,” is
the best thing to happen to
the MCU. Another director
plucked from the world of lowbudget
movies (“Hunt for the
Wilderpeople”), Waititi didn’t
worry much about the previous
movies in the “Thor” series,
choosing to turn the third one
into a speedy, funny romp that
has some of the energy of the
Indiana Jones franchise. And
the hits keep coming; Waititi is
writing and directing the next
“Thor,” too.
“Ant-Man” (2015)
Paul Rudd has been in many
movies that rely on his charm to
bail out a dumb script, but the
“Ant-Man” films show how he
can exponentially improve an
already sharp one. He’s wry and
winning as the title character,
whose superpower (getting
tiny) is sort of embarrassing.
And Rudd isn’t even the most
delightful person in the movie.
That would be screw-up sidekick
Michael Pena.
“Captain America: Civil
War” (2017)
This let’s-get-all-the-heroestogether
adventure benefited
from coming on the heels of
DC’s horrendous “Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice.”
The “Captain America” entries
feel unique because of
the Norman Rockwellesque
quality of Chris Evans’ character,
but he’s balanced here by
Downey’s ironic sensibility and
by the addition of a brand-new
Spider-Man: Tom Holland.
Whom Iron Man insists on
calling “Underoos.”
“Captain Marvel” (2019)
A feminist comic book
movie? Sure. This one’s all
about an accidental superhero
(Brie Larson) who literally
spends the movie discovering
who she is and in what ways she
is powerful. I hope they come
up with a worthy villain for
the next “Captain Marvel,” but
this one succeeds by exploring
something few caped-crusader
movies care about: its protagonist’s
humanity.
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