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JANUARY 6, 2022 • VOL. 60, NO. 52<br />
SERVING THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1957<br />
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Three new<br />
city councilors<br />
assume office<br />
By Sam minton<br />
There was a sense of<br />
change in the air at City Hall<br />
on Monday night.<br />
It was inauguration<br />
night in the city, as new<br />
City Councilors Stephanie<br />
Peach (Ward 3), Julie<br />
Daigle (Ward 4), and Dave<br />
Gamache (Ward 5) replaced<br />
outgoing councilors James<br />
Moutsoulas, Ed Charest, and<br />
Joel Saslaw, respectively.<br />
Peach said that she is very<br />
excited to work with the<br />
council to benefit residents.<br />
“I’m excited to get started<br />
to work for the people of<br />
Ward 3,” said Peach. “You<br />
work a whole year running<br />
the campaign and now the<br />
time’s finally come to start<br />
that work. It’s exciting, it’s<br />
a little nerve-wracking, but<br />
I appreciate people trusting<br />
me to do this, and I look<br />
forward to working with<br />
everyone.”<br />
Daigle has attended the<br />
inauguration since she was<br />
16 years old, and had similar<br />
emotions to Peach.<br />
However, things felt a little<br />
different now, being inaugurated<br />
instead of the one sitting<br />
in the audience.<br />
In her first year, Daigle<br />
expects to learn from her<br />
peers.<br />
“I have a lot of institutional<br />
knowledge, but I have<br />
a lot to learn, so you will<br />
see me do a lot of listening<br />
and learning from everyone<br />
else, talking to constituents,<br />
and figuring out how I can<br />
best represent them,” she<br />
said. “The first year is a big<br />
learning curve for me but<br />
I’m excited to get people<br />
involved and get to know<br />
the residents and bring them<br />
together.”<br />
Gamache left the City<br />
Council after his term ended<br />
in 2013, but nine years later<br />
said it felt like the first time<br />
all over again.<br />
“I look forward to hitting<br />
the ground running,” he<br />
said. “Now I’m retired, so<br />
this is all I got. This is what<br />
I’m going to give the residents,<br />
not only in Ward 5,<br />
but (in) the city.”<br />
Also being sworn in were<br />
the five incumbent councilors-at-large<br />
— Thomas<br />
Gould, Anne Manning-<br />
Martin, Ryan Melville,<br />
Thomas Rossignoll, and Jon<br />
Turco — Mayor Edward A.<br />
Bettencourt Jr., who is now<br />
beginning his sixth term, and<br />
Peabody School Committee<br />
members Beverley Griffin<br />
Dunne, Jarrod Hochman,<br />
and Jon Swanson.<br />
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Ryan Melville is sworn in as City Council president<br />
during Monday evening’s inauguration at City Hall.<br />
Melville will serve as<br />
City Council president. He<br />
was voted into the position<br />
unanimously.<br />
“He worked hard, as he’s<br />
always done, and he’s done<br />
very well,” said Gamache.<br />
“I know he’s going to<br />
do a great job as council<br />
president.”<br />
In his opening speech,<br />
Melville called for spirited<br />
debate and compromise in<br />
the upcoming term.<br />
“I ask this council to<br />
be prepared and willing<br />
to compromise while still<br />
holding true to the principles<br />
of the residents,” Melville<br />
said. “I hope and know this<br />
council will listen to each<br />
other and set a better example<br />
than we’ve received<br />
in Washington, D.C. for the<br />
past 10 or 20 years.”<br />
Melville touched upon<br />
many of his aspirations for<br />
2022 — including the post-<br />
COVID world. He also<br />
called for a review of the<br />
city charter.<br />
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Heading into 2022, the city’s fight against<br />
COVID-19 has faced another battle in what<br />
will be a now three-year war.<br />
On Dec. 20, the city Health Department’s<br />
two-week report showed 10,362 cases of<br />
COVID-19 in Peabody, a test-positivity increase<br />
of 7.3 percent, with 611 new cases,<br />
and an average daily infection rate of 78<br />
residents per day.<br />
The Tanner City ended 2021 in anticipation<br />
of the current surge by reintroducing<br />
an indoor-mask mandate as omicron and<br />
the winter season contributed to an uptick<br />
in cases across the country and the<br />
commonwealth.<br />
“Obviously it’s been a really challenging<br />
year,” said Health Director Sharon<br />
Cameron. “We’ve had a lot of illness and<br />
a lot of deaths in our community. I think<br />
people have gotten used to COVID but<br />
there’s been a lot of heartache for a lot of<br />
families here and I hope people don’t lose<br />
sight of the fact that we are all in this together<br />
as a community and (I) really would<br />
hope that people think about what it means<br />
to be a member of the community.”<br />
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The oath of office is administered to Peabody Mayor Edward<br />
A. Bettencourt Jr. by City Clerk Allyson M. Danforth.<br />
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“We can make a difference,<br />
and we should make a difference,<br />
and we will make a difference,<br />
and we have made a<br />
difference,” he said.<br />
In Bettencourt’s inauguration<br />
speech, he started off by<br />
thanking his family and acknowledging<br />
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his previous term.<br />
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Bettencourt touched upon<br />
two major projects regarding<br />
the downtown area. Bettencourt<br />
plans to build a Peabody<br />
Children’s Museum and mentioned<br />
the proposal to turn the<br />
former O’Shea building into<br />
a bed and breakfast. He also<br />
praised the city for ranking third<br />
among Realtor.com’s top-10<br />
housing markets.<br />
BY ADAM BASS<br />
Amy Giammarco-Moquin<br />
and Michele MacBeath held an<br />
adult candle-making class to<br />
expand their creative-arts business,<br />
“Total Arts!” The response<br />
from participants waxed a positive<br />
future for their business.<br />
The class took place at the<br />
“Total Arts!” facility in Peabody<br />
on Dec. 20. Participants made<br />
either a jar candle or a gift set<br />
of candles. Twelve people attended<br />
the class and the owners<br />
said they would return for future<br />
programs.<br />
“We are going to hold more<br />
creative-art classes for adults<br />
over the next year,’’ said<br />
MacBeath. “January we are<br />
doing an interim watercolor<br />
class, February a traditional<br />
painting class, March an Irish<br />
step-dance class and in April an<br />
artisan craft fair.”<br />
The candle-making class was<br />
a partnership with “Scent for<br />
Cents,” a business focused on<br />
selling affordable soy candles.<br />
Giammarco-Moquin said Total<br />
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local businesses in the Peabody<br />
area.<br />
“We thought that a pour-yourcandle<br />
workshop would make<br />
a great event and would benefit<br />
both our businesses if we<br />
joined forces for a fun event,”<br />
said Giammarco-Moquin.<br />
“Partnerships with other local<br />
artisans and instructors are a<br />
big part of our mission at Total<br />
Arts!”<br />
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The city’s Health Director Sharon Cameron said that in 2022 she wants residents to not lose<br />
sight of the fact that “we are all in this together as a community.<br />
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to take steps to help each other.<br />
There are a lot of people in our<br />
community who are vulnerable<br />
and would potentially face serious<br />
outcomes from the virus,<br />
and we hope that people are<br />
mindful of that even though<br />
their personal risk might be<br />
considered low, and to think<br />
about doing things that will<br />
help other members of our community.<br />
Those are things like<br />
getting vaccinated, adhering<br />
to masking requirements, and<br />
staying home when they are<br />
sick.”<br />
Peabody currently has 70<br />
percent of its population fully<br />
vaccinated against COVID-19.<br />
Cameron noted that the Health<br />
Department has seen some<br />
stagnation in vaccination rates<br />
in the younger demographics<br />
ranging from 12 to 29 years old.<br />
“Those rates are not where<br />
we would like to see them,”<br />
said Cameron.<br />
The health director did note<br />
that the mask mandate is a temporary<br />
one that will be reviewed<br />
monthly by the Board of Health.<br />
“I think there is a commitment<br />
to review the data and to<br />
lift the mandate at a time when<br />
it is appropriate to do so,” said<br />
Cameron. “We recognize that<br />
this does impose a hardship on<br />
local businesses, particularly<br />
businesses who are tasked with<br />
enforcing the mask mandate. It<br />
creates some very difficult interactions<br />
with their customers.<br />
Giammarco-Moquin and<br />
MacBeath met when their<br />
daughters started attending the<br />
same dance classes in 2019.<br />
The two began thinking about<br />
creating a business that would<br />
introduce a wide range of arts to<br />
children. In March of 2020, the<br />
two established “Total Arts!,”<br />
a pop-up business that offered<br />
different classes for different<br />
ages.<br />
“We teach as low as newborns<br />
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Health takes lightly.”<br />
One of the major reasons for<br />
the mask mandate is the feedback<br />
that local boards of health<br />
have been receiving from hospitals<br />
about the strain that<br />
COVID-19 has been putting on<br />
hospital capacities, Cameron<br />
said.<br />
The health director is hopeful<br />
for 2022 and believes that as<br />
more people get vaccinated, life<br />
will return back to “normal.”<br />
Cameron also hopes that people<br />
get children vaccinated just like<br />
they do the flu vaccine.<br />
“This might be a virus that<br />
becomes endemic in our population<br />
but it will stop resulting<br />
in the type of really serious illness<br />
that we are seeing now.”<br />
For these businesses, collaboration makes scents<br />
Giammarco-Moquin. “For the<br />
younger children, we have a<br />
storytime class or a music class<br />
that lets the parents relax for a<br />
while and (for) the older children,<br />
we have more advanced<br />
classes like writing and creative<br />
projects.”<br />
Most of the classes took<br />
place online in 2020 due to<br />
the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />
MacBeath said that for virtual<br />
classes, the two would put all of<br />
the materials in a box and have<br />
them prepared for participants.<br />
In 2021, classes moved toward<br />
an in-person setting and “Total<br />
Arts!” opened its first facility in<br />
Peabody in September.<br />
The two business owners<br />
hope that the introduction of<br />
adult creative-arts classes will<br />
bring more customers to their<br />
business and help them meet<br />
their mission statement of<br />
sharing the creative arts with<br />
everyone.<br />
“We have a love for the arts<br />
and we want to share them<br />
with adults and children,” said<br />
Giammarco-Moquin. “We<br />
have several more ideas in the<br />
coming year.”
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Gina Goodwin is Peabody’s Person of the Year<br />
By AllyshA DunnigAn<br />
Gina Goodwin has lived in<br />
West Peabody her entire life<br />
and has been a registered nurse<br />
working in home care for 25<br />
years.<br />
In addition to her job in health<br />
care, where she helps people<br />
throughout the North Shore<br />
with managing their medications,<br />
Goodwin comes to people’s<br />
aid in other ways.<br />
About six years ago,<br />
Goodwin was at work around<br />
Thanksgiving and realized that<br />
a lot of her patients had nowhere<br />
to go for the holiday, or<br />
didn’t have the funds to buy and<br />
prepare a Thanksgiving meal.<br />
This inspired her to start<br />
Gina’s Giving Back, where<br />
she and volunteers provide<br />
Thanksgiving meals, Christmas<br />
toys, and assistance year round<br />
to those in need.<br />
In its first year, Gina’s Giving<br />
Back provided around 500<br />
Thanksgiving meals to people<br />
in need in the North Shore,<br />
thanks to donations which were<br />
brought in by word of mouth.<br />
For these contributions to her<br />
community, Goodwin has been<br />
named an Essex Media Group<br />
(EMG) “Person of the Year” for<br />
Peabody.<br />
This past Thanksgiving,<br />
Gina’s Giving Back provided<br />
more than 4,400 meals — some<br />
precooked, to-go meals and<br />
others containing the ingredients<br />
to cook the meal at home.<br />
“We’re open all year round<br />
for people that have food,<br />
toys or clothing insecurities,”<br />
Goodwin said. “We do any type<br />
of help that we can provide<br />
through community donations.”<br />
Goodwin has a fundraising<br />
page that she publicizes during<br />
the holiday season, and local<br />
organizations, schools and businesses<br />
host food drives to support<br />
her initiative.<br />
Goodwin posts about the<br />
food donations on local community<br />
pages, to find people in<br />
need to give the food to.<br />
“If people can cook themselves,<br />
and they just don’t have<br />
the financial means for it, we<br />
do a meal box that comes with<br />
a gift card to get a turkey or a<br />
ham and then all of the fixings,”<br />
Goodwin said. “For the people<br />
who can’t cook, then I cook the<br />
meal.”<br />
Goodwin cooks all of the<br />
meals on her own in her kitchen,<br />
since she doesn’t allow other<br />
people into her home because<br />
of COVID-19.<br />
For the Christmas-toy donations,<br />
Goodwin collects funds<br />
to purchase toys and also collects<br />
toys from local toy drives.<br />
This year, Goodwin teamed<br />
up with a Boston organization<br />
for the toy drive, and donated<br />
more than 10,000 toys combined<br />
to kids for Christmas.<br />
“It was insane,” Goodwin<br />
said.<br />
Between raising the funds for<br />
the meals and toys, preparing<br />
everything and delivering it all,<br />
Goodwin said she has around<br />
100 volunteers during the holiday<br />
season.<br />
Goodwin and her husband<br />
have six kids ranging from 5 to<br />
15 years old, all of whom help<br />
out.<br />
Goodwin’s husband is usually<br />
a large factor in helping<br />
with Gina’s Giving Back, but<br />
was unable to pitch in this year<br />
because he is battling throat<br />
cancer and has a feeding tube.<br />
While he is undergoing chemotherapy<br />
at Mass General,<br />
Goodwin said she continued<br />
Gina’s Giving Back because<br />
“life doesn’t stop for her<br />
problems.”<br />
“People still need meals and<br />
help,” Goodwin said. “This was<br />
a really tough year for us too,<br />
financially.”<br />
In the past, Goodwin matched<br />
most donations that were given<br />
to her for the meals, but couldn’t<br />
this year because her husband<br />
hasn’t worked since he got sick<br />
in June, and she is working part<br />
time to help care for him and<br />
her kids.<br />
“Even though we’re going<br />
through our own thing right<br />
now, other people are going<br />
through things too,” Goodwin<br />
said.<br />
In addition to running Gina’s<br />
Giving Back during the holiday<br />
season, Goodwin also helps<br />
people throughout the year who<br />
are transitioning from a shelter<br />
into housing by gathering donations<br />
for them.<br />
“It’s primarily around the<br />
holidays but I never close,”<br />
Goodwin said. “I’ll throw up a<br />
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we’re trying to help a lot of the<br />
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Since starting this six years<br />
ago, Goodwin said everybody<br />
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has been a huge factor in<br />
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A report of a disturbance at<br />
9:22 p.m. Monday at 52 Forest St.<br />
A caller reported several youths<br />
on dirtbikes in the street.<br />
TUESDAY 12/28<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
accident at 7:42 a.m. Tuesday in<br />
Peabody Square; at 7:47 p.m.<br />
Tuesday at Gardner Park Variety at<br />
44 Margin St.<br />
Complaints<br />
A report of a disturbance at<br />
3:15 p.m. Tuesday at 11 Wheeler<br />
St. A caller reported someone had<br />
assaulted her in her house.<br />
A report of an unwanted guest<br />
at 8:28 p.m. Tuesday at the Mobil<br />
at 137 Newbury St. A caller reported<br />
a customer was causing<br />
a disturbance and refusing to<br />
leave the store. The caller said the<br />
person had thrown a candy bar at<br />
her and proceeded to leave in a<br />
silver Toyota. Police were unable<br />
to locate the person.<br />
WEDNESDAY 12/29<br />
Arrests<br />
Ashley M. Hunt, 30, of 286<br />
Newbury St., Apt. 57, was arrested<br />
on five warrants at 12:13<br />
p.m. Wednesday.<br />
Joseph M. Melchionda, 27,<br />
of 28 Essex Green Drive, Apt. D,<br />
was arrested on a warrant and<br />
charged with assault and battery;<br />
malicious destruction of property;<br />
intimidating a witness, juror,<br />
police officer or court official;<br />
kidnapping; and assault with a<br />
dangerous weapon at 10:52 a.m.<br />
Wednesday.<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
crash at 11:15 a.m Wednesday<br />
at Extended Stay America at<br />
200 Jubilee Drive; at 3:56 p.m.<br />
Wednesday at Gulf Station at<br />
136 Newbury St.; at 5:49 p.m.<br />
Wednesday at 76 Andover St.<br />
A motor vehicle crash was reported<br />
at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday<br />
on Donna Street. A car into the<br />
woods was reported.<br />
A report of a hit-and-run motor<br />
vehicle crash at 11:52 a.m.<br />
Wednesday at Legal Seafoods at<br />
210L Andover St. A motor vehicle<br />
reportedly struck a pole and multiple<br />
vehicles, causing significant<br />
damage.<br />
A hit-and-run motor vehicle<br />
crash was reported at 3:24 p.m.<br />
Wednesday at The Cheesecake<br />
Factory at 210C Andover St.<br />
Complaints<br />
A report of suspicious activity<br />
at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at 22<br />
Tracey St. A caller reported a<br />
youth in a hoodie was ringing<br />
doorbells.<br />
Theft<br />
A stolen wallet was reported at<br />
10:01 a.m. Wednesday at Harvard<br />
Vanguard Medical Associates at 2<br />
Essex Center Drive.<br />
A report of a larceny at 3:25<br />
p.m. Wednesday at Nordstrom at<br />
210N Andover St.<br />
A report of a stolen package<br />
at 4:37 p.m. Wednesday at 17<br />
Truman Road.<br />
A larceny was reported at 7:56<br />
p.m. Wednesday at 145A Summit<br />
St. A caller reported someone was<br />
constantly coming onto the property<br />
and taking things.<br />
THURSDAY 12/30<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle accident<br />
at 10:11 a.m. Thursday at<br />
4 Margin St. and 2 Proctor St.;<br />
at 10:49 a.m. Thursday at 288<br />
Washington St. and 2 Lynn St.<br />
Complaints<br />
Suspicious activity involving an<br />
altercation between a man and a<br />
woman was reported at 10:45<br />
a.m. Thursday at 84 Wallis St. and<br />
35 Tremont St.<br />
Vandalism<br />
A report of vandalism at 9:10<br />
a.m. Thursday at 8223 Crane<br />
Brook Way. The property manager<br />
reported a past breaking and entering.<br />
No people were inside of<br />
the unit. Police reported the nature<br />
of the incident was property<br />
damage.<br />
FRIDAY 12/31<br />
Arrests<br />
Brandon Donovan Dixon Jr.,<br />
34, of 16 Littles Lane, Apt. 1, was<br />
arrested on a warrant at 6:07 p.m.<br />
Friday.<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
crash at 3:54 p.m. Friday at 5<br />
Sutton St. and 2 Putnam St.<br />
Breaking and Entering<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
breaking and entering at 2:34<br />
p.m Friday at 60 Trask Road. Two<br />
credit cards, a license, and some<br />
loose change were taken from an<br />
unlocked vehicle overnight.<br />
Complaints<br />
A report of a disturbance at<br />
6:07 p.m. Friday at Elks Lodge at<br />
40 Oak St. A caller reported six<br />
to eight children, one of whom<br />
with something that appeared to<br />
be a gun or a toy. A 34-year-old<br />
man was arrested (see arrests).<br />
Children on scene claimed that<br />
they did not have anything that<br />
resembled a gun.<br />
Fire<br />
A report of a building fire at<br />
7:53 p.m. Friday at 240 Lynnfield<br />
St. A chair reportedly caught fire.<br />
The fire was deemed to be under<br />
control. Patients were evacuated<br />
to another building during the<br />
response.<br />
Overdose<br />
A report of an overdose at<br />
11:13 p.m. Friday at 286 Newbury<br />
St. Narcan was administered and<br />
the person was taken to Salem<br />
Hospital.<br />
Theft<br />
A report of a stolen motor vehicle<br />
at 10:59 p.m. Friday at 2<br />
Munroe Court.<br />
SATURDAY 1/01<br />
Arrests<br />
Karen Ann Cottreau, 72, of 4<br />
Essex Green Lane, Apt. C5, was<br />
arrested and charged with OUIliquor<br />
(second offense) and negligent<br />
operation of a motor vehicle<br />
at 7:14 p.m. Saturday.<br />
Abraham Exilus, 28, of 11 First<br />
St., Medford, was arrested and<br />
charged with OUI-liquor and Class<br />
B drug possession at 3:50 a.m.<br />
Saturday.<br />
Francisco Genao Gonzalez, 51,<br />
of 534 Essex St., Apt. 115, Lynn,<br />
was arrested and charged with<br />
OUI-liquor (second offense) at<br />
1:41 a.m. Saturday.<br />
Stephanie Ann Powers, 39,<br />
of 11 Littles Lane, Apt. 201, was<br />
arrested and charged with assault<br />
and battery on a person 60-plus or<br />
disabled at 4:06 a.m. Saturday.<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
crash at 11:42 a.m. Saturday<br />
at Higgins Middle School at 85<br />
Perkins St.<br />
A report of operating under<br />
the influence of liquor at 1:41<br />
a.m. Saturday at the 7-Eleven at<br />
100 Lynn St. A caller reported<br />
someone in a silver Honda struck<br />
his ice machine. A 51-year-old<br />
man was arrested (see arrests).<br />
A motor vehicle crash involving<br />
an ambulance and someone operating<br />
under the influence of liquor<br />
was reported at 3:50 a.m. Saturday<br />
at the 7-Eleven at 79 Lowell St. A<br />
28-year-old Medford resident was<br />
arrested (see arrests).<br />
A report of a hit-and-run<br />
motor vehicle crash at 4:27 p.m.<br />
Saturday at Daniella’s Restaurant<br />
at 41 Cross St.; at 7:06 p.m.<br />
Saturday on Centennial Drive.<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
crash involving someone under<br />
the influence of liquor at 7:14<br />
p.m. Saturday at T-Mobile at 232<br />
Andover St. A 72-year-old woman<br />
was arrested (see arrests).<br />
Assaults<br />
A report of an assault and battery<br />
at 4:06 a.m. Saturday at 11<br />
Littles Lane. A caller reported<br />
he was hit by his neighbor. A<br />
39-year-old woman was arrested<br />
(see arrests).<br />
Breaking and Entering<br />
A report of a breaking and entering<br />
at 4:40 p.m. Saturday at<br />
8223 Crane Brook Way.<br />
Complaints<br />
A report of a suspicious motor<br />
vehicle at 6:27 p.m. Saturday<br />
at Barnes and Noble at 210B<br />
Andover St. A caller reported a<br />
white pick-up truck was slowly<br />
circling the parking lot in a suspicious<br />
manner. Police reported<br />
the driver was on the phone with<br />
his doctor to try to determine if<br />
he needed to be seen at the Lahey<br />
emergency room. The man declined<br />
medical assistance.<br />
Theft<br />
A report of stolen medication<br />
at 2:34 p.m. Saturday at 15<br />
Ravenwood Road.<br />
SUNDAY 1/02<br />
Accidents<br />
A report of a motor vehicle<br />
crash at 9:10 p.m. Sunday at 192<br />
Main St. and 2 Howley St.; at<br />
10:55 p.m. Sunday at 44 Wallis St.<br />
Overdose<br />
An overdose was reported at<br />
6:36 p.m. Sunday at Four Your<br />
Convenience at 150 Main St. An<br />
employee reported someone was<br />
sleeping in the store. An officer reported<br />
the person had overdosed.<br />
The person was taken to Salem<br />
Hospital.<br />
MONDAY 1/03<br />
Arrests<br />
Aislan Thiago Bales, 34, of 70<br />
Margin St., Apt. 3, was arrested<br />
and charged with OUI-liquor and<br />
unlicensed operation of a motor<br />
vehicle at 2:28 a.m. Monday.
JANUARY 6, 2022<br />
For The Weekly News<br />
The Peabody Institute Library<br />
is pleased to announce<br />
its Spring 2022 Concert Series,<br />
starting Monday, Feb. 14<br />
at 7 p.m. All concerts are free<br />
and open to all, but registration<br />
is required and opens one<br />
month before the show. Concerts<br />
are scheduled to take<br />
place in the Sutton Room,<br />
and may be live streamed or<br />
changed to fully virtual.<br />
Patrons may sign up on the<br />
Peabody Library calendar at<br />
peabodylibrary.org/calendar,<br />
or by calling 978-531-0100.<br />
Information about COVID-19<br />
safety, program locations, and<br />
how to sign in for an online<br />
program is located on the calendar.<br />
Patrons are encouraged<br />
to check in frequently in case<br />
of a location change.<br />
Concerts are sponsored by<br />
the Peabody Institute Library<br />
Foundation and the McCarthy<br />
Family Foundation.<br />
The schedule is as follows:<br />
Monday, Feb. 14:<br />
Harpist Aine Minogue<br />
Join us on Feb. 14 to kick<br />
off our Winter/Spring Concert<br />
Series here at PIL with<br />
Áine Minogue! She will play<br />
a show in celebration of Valentine’s<br />
Weekend and in celebration<br />
of February, the month<br />
that honors Brigid of Ireland,<br />
goddess and saint.<br />
Áine has done extensive<br />
research into old Celtic traditions<br />
and has unearthed some<br />
unusual and haunting selections,<br />
as well as having written<br />
some original tunes.<br />
The show will celebrate<br />
love in all its forms, from romantic<br />
love, with such selections<br />
as “Buachaill Ón Éirne<br />
(The Boy From Ireland)”, a<br />
song of marriage proposal; to<br />
music that reflects love of nature,<br />
like “Sliabh na mBan,”<br />
which means “The Mountain<br />
of Women,” a beautiful air<br />
named after a mountain in<br />
Áine’s home county of Tipperary.<br />
https://aineminogue.com/<br />
Monday, Feb. 28:<br />
New England Chamber Players<br />
NECP is back at Peabody<br />
Institute Library Sutton Room<br />
with a program of music for<br />
winds and strings. We are particularly<br />
thrilled to include<br />
two living composers with<br />
works that you might not have<br />
known. This performance includes<br />
works by Horovitz,<br />
Hunt, and Holst.<br />
https://www.newenglandchamberplayers.org/<br />
Monday, March 28:<br />
Singer-Songwriter<br />
Karen Grenier<br />
Karen Grenier continues to<br />
make her mark as a both a gifted<br />
songwriter and crafty lyricist.<br />
Drawing in both new and<br />
faithful fans, Karen’s songs<br />
resonate in the heart and leave<br />
listeners anticipating the next<br />
song and humming her catchy<br />
melodies. A polished performer,<br />
Karen’s smooth, penetrating<br />
voice, rhythmic acoustic<br />
style and positive emotional<br />
energy make for an excellent<br />
concert experience.<br />
A former guidance counselor<br />
for Peabody Public<br />
Schools, Karen is currently<br />
elementary dean of students<br />
for Somerville Public<br />
Schools.<br />
“You’ve got to reach for<br />
your dreams and do what you<br />
love,” she says. “It’s an attitude<br />
I’ve always tried to inspire<br />
in my students.<br />
Karen’s concert will feature<br />
her original work along<br />
with a few favorite songs that<br />
have inspired her along her<br />
path.<br />
http://www.karengrenier.<br />
com/<br />
Monday, Apr. 11:<br />
New England Chamber Players<br />
Encore performance by<br />
NECP this spring.<br />
The ensemble will play<br />
works by Stravinsky, Rivier,<br />
Beethoven, Hovaness and<br />
Francaix, featuring their core<br />
woodwind players.<br />
https://www.newenglandchamberplayers.org/<br />
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Library announces spring concert series<br />
Thursday, May 12:<br />
Dance Caliente<br />
Eileen Herman-Haase and<br />
Raul Nieves, owners of Dance<br />
Caliente, will entertain you<br />
and get you on your feet with<br />
a one-hour interactive, multicultural,<br />
ballroom dance show<br />
called “Dancing Joy.”<br />
Together as Dance Caliente,<br />
Raul Nieves and Eileen<br />
Herman-Haase share a compelling<br />
magnetism as master<br />
teachers, choreographers,<br />
and performers. Their goal is<br />
to impart the joy of partner<br />
dancing onto their students.<br />
They welcome students of<br />
varying ages and experience.<br />
Dance Caliente will do an<br />
interactive sampler performance.<br />
They will perform<br />
four to five dances, such as<br />
the waltz, swing, the Argentine<br />
tango, salsa, and foxtrot,<br />
and leave time in between<br />
each performance for a short<br />
lesson on that dance. The<br />
lessons will be interactive<br />
and low-impact, tailored to<br />
seniors and beginners, and<br />
do not require a partner. Audience<br />
members can sit back<br />
and watch Raul and Eileen, or<br />
get up and dance themselves!<br />
https://www.dancecaliente.<br />
us/<br />
Monday, June 13 :<br />
Stephanie James<br />
The Library welcomes back<br />
Peabody native and recording<br />
artist Stephanie James, who<br />
brings an evocative, fresh experience<br />
to the world of pop<br />
music. With a voice often<br />
described as “stunning” and<br />
“soulful,” Stephanie is a gifted<br />
storyteller who masterfully<br />
touches the hearts and souls of<br />
her fans. Both raw and refined<br />
musically, the songs solidify<br />
Stephanie’s status as a poised<br />
and powerful performer often<br />
likened to a revival of legendary<br />
Linda Ronstadt combined<br />
with modern-day super talents<br />
Sara Bareilles and Kacey<br />
Musgraves. James released<br />
her debut album “Unbreakable”<br />
in collaboration with<br />
Grammy-nominated producers<br />
Jorel Corpus and Simone<br />
Torres. The album explores<br />
winter sale<br />
vulnerability, self-reliance,<br />
themes of growing up, and<br />
learning from the past. Stephanie<br />
is bi-coastal, spending<br />
much of her time in Los Angeles,<br />
where she lives today,<br />
and the Greater Boston area<br />
where she grew up.<br />
https://www.stephaniejamesmusic.com/<br />
For all programs taking<br />
place at the library, the following<br />
COVID-19 protocols<br />
are in place, per the Peabody<br />
Board of Health:<br />
1. Masks covering the nose<br />
and mouth must be worn at all<br />
times while in the library and<br />
library spaces.<br />
2. 3 feet of distance must<br />
be kept between all attendees.<br />
*Room capacities have<br />
been decreased to allow for<br />
safe distancing.*<br />
For further information<br />
about library programs, contact<br />
Senior Adult Services and<br />
Public Programming Librarian<br />
Gabi Toth at 978-531-0100<br />
ext. 17 or gtoth@noblenet.<br />
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Religious News<br />
Temple Tiferet Shalom<br />
Services and all other programs<br />
are being held virtually<br />
via Zoom and StreamSpot.<br />
Services Friday evenings at<br />
7:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings<br />
at 9:30 a.m.<br />
Rabbi David Kudan<br />
Music Director Bryna Toder<br />
Tabasky<br />
Prayer Leader Gary Gillette<br />
489 Lowell St.<br />
Peabody, Mass<br />
978-535-2100<br />
www.templetiferetshalom.<br />
org<br />
Saint Adelaide and Saint Ann<br />
are now a collaborative<br />
One pastor: Rev. David C.<br />
Lewis<br />
Saint Adelaide Parish<br />
708 Lowell St.<br />
Peabody, MA 01960<br />
Masses: Vigil Mass 4:00<br />
PM Saturday<br />
8:30 & 10:00 AM Sunday -<br />
12:00 Noon Latin Mass.<br />
8:30 Mass live streamed<br />
www.saintadelaide.org<br />
Saint Ann Parish<br />
140 Lynn St.<br />
Peabody, MA 01960<br />
Vigil Mass on Saturday 4:00<br />
PM<br />
Sunday 9:30 AM and is live<br />
streamed<br />
www.catholic-church.<br />
org/~st-ann-peabody/public_<br />
html//<br />
Temple Ner Tamid<br />
Service Times<br />
Sunday to Thursday: 7 p.m.<br />
Friday: 8 p.m.<br />
Saturday: 9:30 a.m.<br />
Holidays as published.<br />
Join Us Online.<br />
Services and all other programs<br />
are being held virtually<br />
using Zoom, Facebook and<br />
YouTube<br />
Rabbi Richard Perlman<br />
Associate Rabbi Bernie<br />
Horowitz<br />
Visit our website<br />
www.templenertamid.org<br />
Contact office<br />
978-532-1293<br />
office@templenertamid.org<br />
368 Lowell St.<br />
Peabody, Mass.<br />
St. John Lutheran Church<br />
Worship: 9:30 a.m., Sunday,<br />
in-person and on Zoom<br />
Bible Study: 11 a.m.<br />
22 Ellsworth Road, Peabody<br />
Website: https://stjohnpeabody.org<br />
Church phone: 978-531-<br />
1731<br />
Pastor: The Rev. Charles N.<br />
Stevenson<br />
Email: stjohnpastor@earthlink.net<br />
For the Zoom link, please<br />
email the pastor.<br />
St. Clare of Assisi<br />
(non-Roman)<br />
Our Parish family welcomes<br />
everyone. We are not here to<br />
condemn, criticize, or judge<br />
you. Rather, we want to offer<br />
our love, our support, and our<br />
prayers for you. Your presence<br />
is an important part of our<br />
celebration of the Mass and<br />
when you are not here, you are<br />
missed!<br />
The Rev. Fr. Mike Otero-Otero,<br />
O.S.F.<br />
978-804-2250<br />
www.stclarepeabody.org<br />
Holy Mass: Saturdays at 3<br />
p.m.<br />
St. Clare Mission (feeding<br />
the hungry)<br />
Saturdays at 11 a.m.-1 p.m.<br />
Mission Outreach Services<br />
(Homelessness Outreach)<br />
Call Jill at 267-481-5725.<br />
Al-Anon Meetings<br />
Find us at:<br />
https://alanonma.org/.<br />
North Shore Baptist Church<br />
706 Lowell St., W. Peabody<br />
Sharing God’s Truth for<br />
Life’s Transitions<br />
Small Group Worship & Bible<br />
Study (in-person) - 10:30<br />
a.m. Sundays. For info, prayer<br />
or help, contact us at 978-535-<br />
6186<br />
or office@northshorebaptistchurch.org.<br />
Congregation Tifereth Israel<br />
Congregation Tifereth Israel,<br />
8 Pierpont St., Peabody, will be<br />
open for High Holiday services<br />
in person. Rosh Hashanah,<br />
Tuesday, Sept. 7, and Wednesday,<br />
Sept. 8, at 9:30 AM. Yom<br />
Kippur, Wednesday, Sept. 15, at<br />
7:30 PM, and Thursday, Sept.<br />
16, at 9:30 AM. All services<br />
will also be available through<br />
Zoom and a link will be emailed<br />
to all members.<br />
Congregation Tifereth Israel<br />
8 Pierpont Street<br />
Peabody, MA 01960<br />
Tel. 978.531.8135<br />
web: www.ctipeabody.org<br />
Carmelite Chapel<br />
Carmelite Chapel in the<br />
Northshore Mall<br />
Holy Mass:<br />
Monday through Friday:<br />
Noon and 3 p.m.<br />
Saturday: Noon, 4 and 5:30<br />
p.m.<br />
Sunday: Noon<br />
Confession:<br />
Monday through Friday<br />
11-11:45 a.m. and 2-2:45 p.m.<br />
Saturday<br />
11-11:45 a.m. and 2:45-3:45<br />
p.m.<br />
Gift Shop<br />
Open Monday through Saturday:<br />
11 a.m.-5 p.m.<br />
Phone: 978-531-8340<br />
All Saints Episcopal Church<br />
of the North Shore<br />
Good morning and thank<br />
you! All Saints Episcopal<br />
Church of the North Shore in<br />
Danvers has in-person worship,<br />
as well as Zoom opportunities<br />
on Sunday mornings and<br />
throughout the week. Our webpage<br />
is https://allsaintsepiscopalnorthshore.org/,<br />
and we are<br />
also on Facebook, Twitter and<br />
Instagram.<br />
In-person Worship<br />
Join us for our modified<br />
service of the Holy Eucharist<br />
at 8:30 Sunday mornings, with<br />
COVID-19 safety protocols in<br />
place. Advanced registration is<br />
required (call the church at 978-<br />
774-1150).<br />
Outreach<br />
Join us on the third Sunday<br />
of each month as we prepare<br />
40-50 bagged lunches for<br />
the food insecure in Peabody.<br />
Contact the church office (978-<br />
774-1150) if you would like to<br />
donate food or help prepare the<br />
lunches.<br />
We also have the following<br />
Zoom services and fellowship<br />
opportunities:<br />
Worship on Sundays at 10<br />
a.m.<br />
https://zoom.us/j/134596872<br />
Meeting ID: 134 596 872<br />
Phone: 929-205-6099<br />
Coffee hour on Tuesdays at<br />
10 a.m.<br />
https://zoom.us/j/201985541<br />
Meeting ID: 201 985 541<br />
Phone: + 1 929 205 6099<br />
Frank Time Discussion on<br />
the second Wednesdays of each<br />
month at 5:15 pm<br />
https://us02web.zoom.<br />
us/j/85499949543<br />
Meeting ID: 854 9994 9543<br />
Phone: +1 929 205 6099<br />
Morning Prayer on Fridays<br />
at 8:30 a.m.<br />
h t t p s : / / z o o m .<br />
us/j/96760775904<br />
Meeting ID: 967 6077 5904<br />
Phone: +1 929 205 6099 US<br />
Perfect Paws Pet Ministry,<br />
the third Sunday of each month<br />
at 5 p.m.<br />
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Parish office: Call 978-774-<br />
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gmail.com<br />
Peace,<br />
Michelle Behling, Parish<br />
Administrator<br />
Michelle Behling, Parish<br />
Administrator<br />
All Saints Episcopal Church<br />
of the North Shore<br />
46 Cherry Street<br />
Danvers, MA 01923<br />
978-774-1150 / allstoffice@<br />
gmail.com<br />
Seniors<br />
Don’t open your doors to grandparent scams<br />
For The Weekly NeWs<br />
When it comes to scammers,<br />
nothing is sacred ― including<br />
the bond between grandparent<br />
and<br />
grandchild. Lately, grandparent<br />
scammers have gotten<br />
bolder; they might even come<br />
to your door to collect money,<br />
supposedly for your grandchild<br />
in distress.<br />
These kinds of scams still<br />
start with a call from someone<br />
pretending to be your grandchild.<br />
They might speak softly<br />
or make an excuse for why they<br />
sound different. They’ll say<br />
they’re in trouble, need bail,<br />
or need money for some reason.<br />
The “grandkid” will also<br />
beg you to keep this a secret<br />
— maybe they’re “under a gag<br />
order,” or they don’t want their<br />
parents to know. Sometimes,<br />
they might put another scammer<br />
on the line who pretends<br />
to be a lawyer needing money<br />
to represent the grandchild in<br />
court.<br />
But, instead of asking you<br />
to buy gift cards or wire money<br />
(both signs of scam), the<br />
scammer tells you someone<br />
will come to your door to pick<br />
up cash. Once you hand it over,<br />
your money is gone. But you<br />
might get more calls to send<br />
money by wire transfer or<br />
through the mail.<br />
To avoid these scams and<br />
protect your personal information:<br />
Take a breath and resist the<br />
pressure to pay. Get off the<br />
phone and call or text the person<br />
who (supposedly) called.<br />
If you can’t reach them, check<br />
with a family member to get the<br />
real story. Even though the<br />
scammer said not to.<br />
Don’t give your address,<br />
personal information or cash to<br />
anyone who contacts you. And<br />
anyone who asks you to pay<br />
by gift card or money transfer is<br />
a scammer. Always.<br />
Check your social media<br />
privacy settings and limit what<br />
you share publicly. Even if your<br />
settings are on private, be<br />
careful about what personal<br />
identifiers you put out on social<br />
media.<br />
If you lost money to this<br />
kind of scam, it was a crime, so<br />
file a report with local law enforcement.<br />
And if you get any<br />
kind of scam call, report it at<br />
ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
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Obituaries<br />
Mary Ann English, 83<br />
1938 - 2021<br />
BROOKFIELD, NH - Mary Ann<br />
English, age 83 of Brookfield, NH,<br />
formerly of Lynnfield, MA, passed<br />
away on December 23, 2021 at<br />
her home, surrounded by family.<br />
Born on September 30, 1938,<br />
the daughter of George and Mary<br />
(Caruso) Cappannelli.<br />
Mary grew up in East Boston,<br />
then as a teenager, Mary and her<br />
family moved to Lynnfield, MA<br />
where she would meet her husband<br />
Samuel English.<br />
Survived by her husband of<br />
63 years, 3 children; Stephen M.<br />
English, Marlene L. Piazza and<br />
Christina M. Love, brother George<br />
Cappannelli, 6 grandchildren and<br />
2 great grandchildren.<br />
Mary was a vibrant woman, with<br />
a beautiful smile who always put<br />
others first. In her working years<br />
she wore many hats, from owning<br />
her own fragrance business, to her<br />
position at the local senior center,<br />
in addition to volunteer work in<br />
her retirement years, which she<br />
adored.<br />
Mary cherished every moment<br />
spent with her family. She had<br />
many interests including reading,<br />
listening to music, dancing, traveling<br />
and planting flowers in her<br />
garden. She will be deeply missed<br />
by all.<br />
A celebration of her life will be<br />
held for family and friends at a<br />
later date.<br />
To express condolences, please<br />
visit: www.peasleefuneralhome.<br />
com<br />
PHOTO | PEABODY HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br />
The Johnson Proctor Tavern sign can be found at the Peabody Historical Society.<br />
Cheers to history and<br />
the Proctor Tavern<br />
From The Peabody<br />
Historical Socitey<br />
The Proctor family<br />
opened a tavern at their<br />
homestead on Lowell Street<br />
in 1666 “to sell Beere, sider<br />
& liquors for the accommodation<br />
of Travellours.”<br />
In 1796, Johnson Proctor<br />
purchased the inn and tavern,<br />
at 348 Lowell Street,<br />
from his mother.<br />
One of the most treasured<br />
items in the Peabody<br />
Historical Society’s collection<br />
is the Johnson Proctor<br />
Tavern Sign, as seen above.<br />
Proctor descendants recalled<br />
seeing this tavern<br />
sign in a pile of rubbish<br />
in a corn barn before it<br />
was donated to the Peabody<br />
Historical Society in<br />
1908. They also noted that<br />
the word “ENTERTAIN-<br />
MENT” could dimly be<br />
seen underneath the elephants<br />
on both sides. The<br />
tavern and farm remained<br />
in the Proctor family until<br />
1851.<br />
The inspiration for the<br />
elephant can be traced to<br />
the year 1796, when Capt.<br />
Jacob Crowninshield, a<br />
wealthy merchant from Salem,<br />
arrived in New York<br />
with a 2-year-old elephant<br />
he purchased in India. The<br />
animal caused an instant<br />
sensation in New York,<br />
where it was exhibited on<br />
the corner of Beaver Street<br />
and Broadway. Crowninshield<br />
sold the elephant for<br />
$10,000, and for the next<br />
several years it was exhibited<br />
in cities across America,<br />
including Charleston,<br />
Baltimore, Philadelphia,<br />
Boston and Salem. Thousands<br />
of people paid up to<br />
50 cents each to see the animal.<br />
The artist, who is unknown,<br />
may not have had<br />
first-hand knowledge of<br />
the elephant, because the<br />
scale of the animal to the<br />
human figures is distorted.<br />
By referencing a potent<br />
image from popular<br />
culture, there can be little<br />
doubt that Proctor hoped to<br />
profit from the sensation it<br />
caused.<br />
Note - This article was<br />
originally researched and<br />
written by our former curator,<br />
Heather Leavell.<br />
Dear Members of the Peabody Community,<br />
We express our heartfelt gratitude for the outpouring<br />
of love we received from so many people since the<br />
sudden, tragic loss of our beautiful son Jack. The<br />
many expressions of support have been deeply<br />
touching and an incredible source of strength for our<br />
family at such a difficult time.<br />
While we are heartbroken by this immeasurable loss,<br />
we feel incredibly blessed to be surrounded by such a<br />
large community of caring, compassionate, thoughtful<br />
and giving people. These qualities were important to<br />
Jack, so mourning in solidarity with this amazing<br />
community has been especially comforting. We are<br />
Peabody Strong!<br />
We know that many of you will join us as we continue<br />
to carry Jack’s memory in our hearts. Again, we thank<br />
you for the outpouring of love you have shared with us<br />
in Jack’s name. We will remain forever grateful.<br />
With gratitude,<br />
Andy, Maryellen & Andrew Hamel<br />
LYNNFIELD - Janet Lane, 66, of<br />
Lynnfield passed away on December<br />
31, 2021 after a courageous<br />
battle with multiple sclerosis.<br />
Janet is survived by her beloved<br />
husband Kevin of Lynnfield, her<br />
three daughters, Julie and husband<br />
Kevin Korn of Andover, Christine<br />
and husband Steve Schedin of<br />
Lynnfield, and Kimberly and husband<br />
Jan-Michael Magliocchetti of<br />
Lynnfield. She was deeply loved<br />
and cherished by her six grandchildren,<br />
Kristina, Katie and Kellie<br />
Korn, Kenzie and William Schedin,<br />
and Giancarlo Magliocchetti. She<br />
is also survived by her sister, Linda<br />
Kochan and her husband Matthew<br />
of Plano, TX. She also leaves behind<br />
many nieces and nephews.<br />
She was pre-deceased by her parents,<br />
John & Athena Chryssakis of<br />
Winchester, formerly of Arlington.<br />
Janet had many wonderful and<br />
compassionate caregivers including<br />
Ellys Guerrero who cared for<br />
her while she resided in Lynnfield,<br />
and many nurses and staff at<br />
The Boston Home. Janet lived at<br />
The Boston Home in Dorchester,<br />
MA for the last three years, this<br />
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Working for a bear-y good cause<br />
PHOTO | LYNNFIELD VILLAGE AND GARDEN CLUB<br />
Village Home and Garden Club members Carol Schelzi and Ellen Crawford delivered over 40 teddy bears collected by the club to Melinda Harris of<br />
Children’s Hospital, Peabody. The club has been are donating to this cause for the past six years.<br />
Announcing Roots to Kinship at the library<br />
From The Weekly NeWs<br />
The Peabody Institute<br />
Library is pleased<br />
to announce the official<br />
launch of our year-long<br />
community engagement<br />
project, Roots to Kinship.<br />
This project starts with a<br />
“Community Read” book<br />
and continues with book<br />
discussions and interactive<br />
programs related to<br />
the book, and then continues<br />
further with programming<br />
(both online<br />
and in person) related to<br />
the theme of “Roots to<br />
Kinship.”<br />
We’ve chosen “We<br />
Share the Same Sky”<br />
by New England author<br />
Rachael Cerrotti as our<br />
Community Read book.<br />
The author will be joining<br />
us at the library on<br />
April 26, to tell us more<br />
of her story, sign books<br />
and answer reader questions.<br />
From there, Rachael<br />
will also lead us<br />
on a path to discovering<br />
our own roots and creating<br />
art out of family and<br />
community histories.<br />
Patrons are encouraged<br />
to read or listen to<br />
the book at their own<br />
pace. Our librarians will<br />
keep you engaged while<br />
you read with discussions,<br />
interaction on social<br />
media, displays and<br />
activities inside the library,<br />
and other virtual<br />
content. Books are available<br />
for check out at the<br />
public service desks at<br />
all three branches, and<br />
e-books and e-audio are<br />
available on Libby.<br />
Find out more about<br />
the book and author at<br />
rachaelcerrotti.com.<br />
Beyond reading “We<br />
Share the Same Sky”<br />
together, this year-long,<br />
interactive, community-based<br />
project will<br />
include other book and<br />
movie discussions, genealogy<br />
and discovering-your-roots<br />
programs,<br />
arts-and-crafts programs,<br />
and more ways to connect<br />
with your neighbors.<br />
It will culminate<br />
in an open mic night ―<br />
an opportunity for participants<br />
to share what<br />
they’ve learned or created<br />
throughout the project.<br />
Be sure to follow our<br />
social media, for inspiration,<br />
tidbits from the<br />
book, and prompts to facilitate<br />
discussion. Stop<br />
by the library for more<br />
ways to participate!<br />
Find out more about<br />
the project at peabodylibrary.org/rootstokinship.<br />
For further information,<br />
contact Senior<br />
Adult Services and Public<br />
Programming Librarian<br />
Gabi Toth at 978-531-<br />
0100 ext.17 or at gtoth@<br />
noblenet.org.
JANUARY 6, 2022<br />
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Sports<br />
Defensive effort lifts<br />
Peabody to win in<br />
David Green<br />
Memorial Tournament<br />
BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
WINTHROP — It may have<br />
been a fairly close game at<br />
halftime, but the Peabody boys<br />
basketball team came out in the<br />
second half with a suffocating<br />
defensive effort and was able<br />
to take home a 62-46 win over<br />
Winthrop in the championship<br />
game of the inaugural David<br />
Green Memorial Tournament<br />
at Chris Tsiotos Court Thursday<br />
afternoon.<br />
The tournament was established<br />
in honor of David Green,<br />
a former Massachusetts state<br />
trooper and Winthrop native<br />
who was killed in a shooting in<br />
Winthrop back in July.<br />
Shea Lynch, who was named<br />
the Tournament MVP, finished<br />
the game with 18 points<br />
and eight rebounds to lead the<br />
Tanners. Colin Berube added 12<br />
points and five rebounds to get<br />
named to the All-Tournament<br />
Team, while Anthony Forte<br />
(nine points, four steals), Danny<br />
Barrett (eight points) and Nick<br />
Soper (seven points) all played<br />
well in the win.<br />
“Our biggest strength as a<br />
team is that we don’t have to<br />
rely on one guy — we can get<br />
contributions from five, six or<br />
seven guys on any given night,”<br />
said Peabody coach Thad<br />
Broughton. “When we can get<br />
a bunch of guys going on offense<br />
and then play defense like<br />
we did (Thursday), we’ll be in<br />
good shape.”<br />
Winthrop, which was without<br />
a key player in Zach Bogusz,<br />
was led by George Galuris’<br />
14-point performance. Mikey<br />
Chaves added 10 points in the<br />
loss, while Luca Zanelli contributed<br />
eight points and 10<br />
rebounds. Chris Cappuccio<br />
(five points, five rebounds) also<br />
played well for the Vikings.<br />
“We played well in spurts,<br />
but on the whole we simply<br />
made too many mistakes to stay<br />
in this game,” said Winthrop<br />
coach Mike Triant. “Give a lot<br />
of credit to Thad and Peabody,<br />
they run that pressure defense<br />
really well and it causes<br />
problems.”<br />
The Tanners got off to a solid<br />
start in this one, jumping ahead<br />
7-2 in the opening minutes. But<br />
Winthrop battled right back to<br />
within one point behind an 8-3<br />
rally, making it a game again by<br />
the end of the first quarter.<br />
In the second, Peabody<br />
started to get its defensive legs.<br />
A number of steals and quick<br />
transition baskets helped the<br />
Tanners extend their lead, and<br />
by halftime they held a 30-21<br />
advantage.<br />
But the third quarter is where<br />
the game was won for Peabody.<br />
The Tanners got explosive play<br />
from Lynch, Berube and Forte,<br />
with Peabody scoring 21 points<br />
in the quarter and allowing only<br />
seven. When the dust settled,<br />
the Tanners held a commanding<br />
51-28 lead.<br />
The Vikings did come out<br />
with some fight in the fourth<br />
quarter, outsourcing Peabody<br />
to get back within 20 points.<br />
But the Tanners were able to<br />
coast home with the easy win<br />
and the inaugural David Green<br />
Memorial Tournament title.<br />
Winthrop (2-3) hosts<br />
Marblehead Tuesday (7).<br />
“We’ve just got to keep<br />
working out there,” said Triant.<br />
“We still have issues at times<br />
with turnovers and scoring, but<br />
there were times (Thursday)<br />
where we played our best manto-man<br />
defense in the past two<br />
years. So there’s plenty to build<br />
on.”<br />
Peabody (4-2) plays on the<br />
PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ<br />
Peabody’s Colin Berube had 12 points and five rebounds in a win over Winthrop at the David<br />
Green Memorial Tournament Thursday.<br />
road at Salem Friday (7).<br />
“We started 0-2 and now<br />
we’ve won four straight, so<br />
we’re definitely starting to play<br />
better,” said Broughton. “But I<br />
think the best thing is that we<br />
still have plenty of room to improve,<br />
so we’re just going to<br />
keep working and trying to get<br />
better each day.”<br />
Triant especially wanted to<br />
thank the Winthrop High staff<br />
for their support in getting the<br />
tournament off the ground this<br />
year and for helping establish a<br />
new tradition in the city.<br />
“I thought it was a great start<br />
to an annual tradition and a<br />
great way to honor a local man<br />
who gave his life for the community,”<br />
said Triant.<br />
Bishop Fenwick comes up short at Masconomet<br />
BOYS HOCKEY<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
HAVERHILL — The Bishop<br />
Fenwick boys hockey team got<br />
off to a solid start on the road<br />
at Haverhill Valley Forum, but<br />
the Crusaders faded late and allowed<br />
three unanswered goals<br />
in the third period to fall to<br />
Masconomet by a score of 4-1<br />
Monday night.<br />
The lone goal for Fenwick<br />
was scored by Ralph Juffre,<br />
with Gerry Visconti notching<br />
the assist. Goalie Dillon Bloom<br />
notched 18 saves in the loss for<br />
the Crusaders.<br />
After a back-and-forth battle<br />
for much of the first period,<br />
Masconomet was finally able<br />
to draw first blood when Cam<br />
Juliano knocked home a rebound<br />
after a Bloom save with<br />
two minutes to go in the frame.<br />
It was Juliano’s first career varsity<br />
goal.<br />
But Fenwick wasn’t deterred,<br />
and within the first two minutes<br />
of the second period the<br />
Vikings knotted the score. After<br />
the Crusaders dumped the puck<br />
deep into the offensive zone,<br />
Visconti raced into the left<br />
corner and won the puck. He<br />
flipped a pass into the slot for a<br />
waiting Juffre, who one-timed it<br />
into the back of the net to make<br />
it a 1-1 game.<br />
The rest of the second period<br />
went by without incident, although<br />
Fenwick was forced to<br />
kill off two power plays and a<br />
five-on-three opportunity.<br />
But the third period was a<br />
different story, as Masconomet<br />
took control. It started when AJ<br />
Sacco found the back of the net<br />
with 13:30 to play, scoring on<br />
a near breakaway after coming<br />
out of the penalty box. He<br />
added his second goal of the<br />
game six minutes later, and he<br />
effectively sealed the win a few<br />
minutes after that by scoring his<br />
third and final goal of the game.<br />
Bishop Fenwick (1-4-0) hosts<br />
Archbishop Williams Saturday<br />
(6) at McVann-O’Keefe<br />
Memorial Rink.
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THURSDAY<br />
Swimming<br />
Salem at Peabody (7)<br />
FRIDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Bishop Fenwick at St. Mary’s (6:30)<br />
Triton at Lynnfield (6:30)<br />
Peabody at Salem (7)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
St. Mary’s at Bishop Fenwick (6:30)<br />
Lynnfield at Triton (6:30)<br />
Salem at Peabody (7)<br />
SATURDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
St. John’s Prep at Central Catholic (5)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Peabody at Dracut (TBD)<br />
Boys Hockey<br />
Archbishop Williams at Bishop Fenwick (6)<br />
Lynnfield at Hamilton-Wenham (7)<br />
St. John’s Prep at Xaverian (7)<br />
St. Mary’s at Bishop Feehan (7:30)<br />
Girls Hockey<br />
Marblehead at Peabody/Lynnfield (4)<br />
Bishop Feehan at St. Mary’s (6:20)<br />
Bishop Fenwick at St. Joseph Prep (TBD)<br />
Wrestling<br />
Marblehead at St. John’s Prep (10)<br />
SUNDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Danvers at Bishop Fenwick (3)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Bishop Stang at St. Mary’s (4:30)<br />
Girls Hockey<br />
Beverly at Bishop Fenwick (9)<br />
Swimming<br />
St. Mary’s at Bishop Fenwick (12)<br />
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE<br />
Manchester-Essex at Lynnfield (5:30)<br />
MONDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Whittier Tech at Peabody (7)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Bishop Fenwick at Beverly (6:30)<br />
Peabody at Billerica (7)<br />
Indoor Track<br />
Marblehead, Beverly at Peabody (3:45)<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Lynnfield at Amesbury (6:30)<br />
St. Mary’s at Arlington Catholic (6:30)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Amesbury at Lynnfield (5:30)<br />
Arlington Catholic at St. Mary’s (6:30)<br />
Swimming<br />
St. Mary’s at East Boston (4)<br />
Peabody at Gloucester (7:45)<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
Boys Basketball<br />
Lynnfield at Melrose (6)<br />
Girls Basketball<br />
Lynnfield at Minuteman (6)<br />
Boys Hockey<br />
Austin Prep at Bishop Fenwick (7)<br />
Lynnfield at Triton (7:15)<br />
Archbishop Williams at St. Mary’s (8)<br />
Girls Hockey<br />
St. Mary’s at Austin Prep (4:50)<br />
Bishop Fenwick at Medford (5)<br />
Malden Catholic at Peabody/Lynnfield (5:15)<br />
Wrestling<br />
Peabody at Pentucket (6:30)<br />
Triton at Lynnfield (6:30)<br />
Indoor Track<br />
North Reading at Lynnfield (5:30)<br />
FILE PHOTO<br />
Bishop Fenwick’s Olivia Found had nine points five assists and<br />
five steals in a loss to Rockland Wednesday night.<br />
Bishop Fenwick falls<br />
in Christmas Classic<br />
GIRLS BASKETBALL<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
The Bishop Fenwick girls<br />
basketball team came in on<br />
a winning streak, but the<br />
Crusaders didn’t quite have<br />
enough magic to take home the<br />
win in a 60-40 loss to Rockland<br />
in the championship game of<br />
the Bishop Fenwick Christmas<br />
Classic Wednesday night.<br />
Sophomore Cecilia Kay continued<br />
her strong season with<br />
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another double-double of 11<br />
points and 12 rebounds, while<br />
senior captain Olivia Found<br />
filled the stat sheet with nine<br />
points, five assists and five<br />
steals. Senior captain Maria<br />
Orfanos added nine points and<br />
three steals.<br />
For her efforts, Found was<br />
named to the all-tournament<br />
team. Rockland’s Julia Elie<br />
was named tournament MVP.<br />
Fenwick (4-2) hosts rival St.<br />
Mary’s Friday evening (6:30).<br />
FILE PHOTO<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield’s Chloe Considine scored two goals in a win over Masconomet on the road at<br />
Veterans Memorial Rink in Haverhill Friday.<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield knocks off<br />
Masconomet in NEHL battle<br />
GIRLS HOCKEY<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
HAVERHILL — The offense<br />
came to play for the Peabody/<br />
Lynnfield girls hockey team<br />
Friday morning, as the Tanners<br />
pulled out a 6-1 road win over<br />
Masconomet in a Northeastern<br />
Hockey League matchup at<br />
Veterans Memorial Rink.<br />
It was a great win for<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield, which<br />
was missing 11 players due to<br />
injury and needed to shuffle<br />
things around for the early<br />
morning faceoff.<br />
“Things definitely looked a<br />
little different out there for us<br />
with all the missing players, but<br />
it was great to see so many of<br />
our younger girls step up with<br />
big minutes,” said Peabody/<br />
Lynnfield coach Michelle<br />
Roach. “I think we can take a<br />
lot of positives away from this<br />
performance.”<br />
Chloe Considine led the way<br />
for Peabody/Lynnfield with<br />
two goals in the victory, while<br />
Penny Spack notched one goal<br />
and one assist. Jenna DiNapoli,<br />
Ella Chase and Catherine<br />
Sweeney each scored one goal,<br />
while Catie Kampersal — who<br />
was moved to defense for<br />
the game out of necessity —<br />
had two assists. Abi Travers,<br />
Caroline Burton and Ava<br />
Buckley each had one assist.<br />
“For younger players like<br />
Ava to come in and get quality<br />
minutes and also contribute to<br />
the offense, that’s huge,” said<br />
Roach. “Games like this are<br />
big for those players who are<br />
trying to find a place within<br />
our system.”<br />
After some back-and-forth<br />
play to start the game, the<br />
Tanners got on the scoreboard<br />
first when DiNapoli found the<br />
back of the net with about five<br />
minutes to play in the opening<br />
period. Chase took a pass from<br />
Spack and knocked it home a<br />
few minutes later to make it<br />
2-0, and Peabody/Lynnfield<br />
took that lead into the first<br />
intermission.<br />
The second period is where<br />
the Tanners started to really<br />
extend their lead, as Spack and<br />
Considine netted goals just 14<br />
seconds apart from each other<br />
to instantly double up the lead<br />
and make it 4-0. Masconomet<br />
was finally able to quell the<br />
rally as the second period came<br />
to a close, with Kailyn Willa<br />
scoring her first varsity goal<br />
with 44.2 seconds remaining to<br />
make it a 4-1 game.<br />
But that late spark wasn’t<br />
enough to shift the momentum,<br />
as Peabody/Lynnfield got two<br />
goals in the first seven minutes<br />
of the third — one each from<br />
Sweeney and Considine — to<br />
make it 6-1 and effectively ice<br />
the win.<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield (4-1-1)<br />
is back in action Saturday<br />
afternoon (4) for a home<br />
game against Marblehead at<br />
McVann-O’Keefe Memorial<br />
Rink.<br />
“It’ll be nice to have a day or<br />
two off and to get a bunch of<br />
skaters back on Sunday,” said<br />
Roach. “We know we’ve got a<br />
tough test in Newburyport on<br />
Wednesday and we want to win<br />
as many of these league games<br />
as possible, so we’re going to<br />
try to hit the ground running<br />
next week.”
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PHOTO | JAKOB MENENDEZ<br />
Peabody native and St. Mary’s forward Henri Miraka had nine<br />
points and seven rebounds in a win over St. John’s Prep.<br />
St. Mary’s rides defense<br />
to close win over<br />
St. John’s Prep<br />
BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
DANVERS — The St.<br />
Mary’s boys basketball team<br />
may not have had its offense<br />
clicking on all cylinders, but<br />
the Spartans made up for<br />
that on the defensive end in a<br />
52-42 win over St. John’s Prep<br />
in a non-league bout at Pat<br />
Connaughton Court Sunday<br />
afternoon.<br />
“Anytime you can hold a<br />
team like the Prep to 42 points,<br />
that’s a great defensive effort,”<br />
said St. Mary’s coach Dave<br />
Brown. “We didn’t shoot well<br />
at all out there, but if we come<br />
with that kind of a defensive<br />
effort then we’ll always be in<br />
the game.”<br />
Derick Coulanges led the<br />
Spartans with 13 points and<br />
two rebounds, while Omri<br />
Merryman added 10 points and<br />
six rebounds. Peabody native<br />
Henri Miraka had a solid game<br />
with nine points and seven rebounds,<br />
while Anthony D’Itria<br />
and Nick Sacco each scored<br />
four points.<br />
But the player of the game<br />
had to go to David Brown Jr.,<br />
who filled the stat sheet with<br />
11 points, six rebounds, four<br />
assists and four steals. He<br />
also came up with a huge momentum-shifting,<br />
chase-down<br />
block in the final minutes of<br />
the game to keep the Spartans<br />
ahead.<br />
“David’s been around the<br />
game for a long time, and he<br />
knows when to make the right<br />
play,” said Brown. “He’s not a<br />
guy who cares about stats, he’s<br />
all about making the right play<br />
and doing what it takes to win.”<br />
The game was a defensive<br />
struggle from the very start,<br />
with neither team able to score<br />
a basket until three minutes had<br />
gone by in the first quarter. The<br />
two teams went back and forth<br />
for the rest of the quarter, and<br />
after a late flurry by the Eagles<br />
the Prep led 11-6.<br />
St. Mary’s battled back to<br />
tie things at 11-11 early in the<br />
second quarter, and the lead<br />
changed hands five different<br />
times before the half was over.<br />
But still, after a couple of solid<br />
defensive plays to end the half,<br />
St. John’s Prep went into the<br />
break with an 18-17 lead.<br />
The Spartans started to find<br />
their rhythm in the second half,<br />
but not before the Eagles took<br />
their largest lead of the game<br />
at five points. But St. Mary’s<br />
would not be deterred, and the<br />
Spartans pulled ahead before<br />
taking a seven-point lead (35-<br />
28) into the final frame.<br />
St. Mary’s extended its lead<br />
to 10 points early in the fourth,<br />
but St. John’s Prep would not<br />
go away. The Eagles rallied to<br />
get all the way back to within<br />
three points with three minutes<br />
to play in the game, and it appeared<br />
that all the momentum<br />
was on the home team’s side.<br />
But then came what both<br />
coaches said was the play of<br />
the game.<br />
After Jack Perry jumped a<br />
passing lane and stole a St.<br />
Mary’s pass, he broke free for<br />
a fast-break layup chance that<br />
would’ve made it a one-point<br />
game. But out of seemingly<br />
nowhere, Brown raced back<br />
from the offensive side of the<br />
court and leapt up to notch a<br />
LeBron James-esque chasedown<br />
block. He then picked<br />
up the rebound and fired it up<br />
the court, where Merryman<br />
was waiting to knock down a<br />
3-pointer that gave St. Mary’s<br />
a six-point lead.<br />
“It was a three-point game<br />
when he made that play, and<br />
that was just huge,” said<br />
Brown. “To put us up by six<br />
instead of only being up by one<br />
just made it a totally different<br />
game.”<br />
“That five-point swing probably<br />
decided things,” said St.<br />
John’s Prep coach John Dullea.<br />
“It was great to see us battle<br />
back to get to that point, but<br />
in the end St. Mary’s was just<br />
able to make a few more plays<br />
than we were.”<br />
The Spartans were able to<br />
keep the Eagles at bay from<br />
there, hitting a few clutch shots<br />
down the stretch to seal the win<br />
on the road.<br />
St. Mary’s (7-1) plays on the<br />
road at Bishop Fenwick Friday<br />
evening (6:30).<br />
St. John’s Prep (1-2) is off<br />
until Saturday (5), when it<br />
plays on the road at Central<br />
Catholic.<br />
PHOTO | VANESSA LEROY<br />
Winthrop’s Mia Martucci, left, and Peabody/Lynnfield’s Chloe Considine, right, chase after the<br />
puck during a game at McVann-O’Keefe Memorial Rink Wednesday evening.<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield, Winthrop<br />
skate to a draw at McVann<br />
GIRLS HOCKEY<br />
By Mike Alongi<br />
PEABODY — It may have<br />
been ugly, but in the end both<br />
teams were able to skate away<br />
with a point.<br />
That’s how the head coaches<br />
of the Peabody/Lynnfield and<br />
Winthrop girls hockey teams<br />
felt following a 2-2 draw in a<br />
Northeastern Hockey League<br />
battle Dec. 29 at McVann-<br />
O’Keefe Memorial Rink. In<br />
all, 15 total penalties were<br />
called between the two teams.<br />
“When you’re running your<br />
special teams the whole night,<br />
it kind of throws things off on<br />
your bench,” said Peabody/<br />
Lynnfield coach Michelle<br />
Roach. “I’d certainly like to<br />
see us not take as many penalties,<br />
but I did like to see that<br />
we were able to battle back two<br />
different times and walk away<br />
with the tie.”<br />
“It was just an unreal game<br />
between two really good<br />
teams,” said Winthrop coach<br />
Anthony Martucci. “You know<br />
coming in that when you have<br />
two physical teams, penalties<br />
are going to get called. It<br />
would have been nice to stay<br />
out of the box a little more and<br />
obviously not give up those<br />
two powerplay goals, but at<br />
the same time we were able to<br />
walk away with a point.”<br />
Sarah Powers had one goal<br />
and one assist to lead the way<br />
for Peabody/Lynnfield, while<br />
Jenna DiNapoli scored one<br />
goal and Hannah Gromko<br />
had one assist. Goalie Audrey<br />
Buckley had a big night in net<br />
with 32 saves.<br />
“We give out a Player of the<br />
Game award after each game,<br />
and Audrey for sure gets it<br />
(Wednesday),” said Roach.<br />
“She was the backbone of the<br />
team out there and she had<br />
a phenomenal performance<br />
keeping us in it all night.”<br />
The Vikings got goals<br />
from Mia Martucci and Julia<br />
Holmes in the draw. Winthrop<br />
goalie Summer Tallent made<br />
21 saves.<br />
“We had a lot of opportunities<br />
(Wednesday), and to<br />
be honest we’re having some<br />
trouble putting the puck in<br />
the net at the moment,” said<br />
Anthony Martucci. “It always<br />
helps when you have a oneof-a-kind<br />
goalie like Summer<br />
back there keeping you in the<br />
game, but we have to give her<br />
some support out there.”<br />
Winthrop came out hot to<br />
start the first period, scoring<br />
just one minute into play when<br />
Holmes found the back of the<br />
net to put the Vikings ahead<br />
early. The Vikings continued<br />
that early pressure for much<br />
of the first period, eventually<br />
taking that lead into the<br />
second. By the time the second<br />
period ended, Winthrop had already<br />
put 22 shots on net.<br />
But even with that pressure,<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield was able to<br />
find an opening. After earning<br />
a powerplay chance, Powers<br />
was able to rip a shot that<br />
DiNapoli was able to tip into<br />
the back of the net to tie the<br />
score up at 1-1.<br />
The two sides remained<br />
deadlocked going into the<br />
third period, but Mia Martucci<br />
quickly put the Vikings back<br />
in front when she slapped one<br />
home on the powerplay early<br />
in the final frame.<br />
However, as was the case<br />
all night, Peabody/Lynnfield<br />
quickly got a powerplay of<br />
its own and cashed in. It was<br />
Powers once again, as she<br />
scored with 8:30 left in the<br />
game to knot things up at 2-2.<br />
From there, the only things<br />
that flashed up on the scoreboard<br />
were penalties. After<br />
battling through the rest of the<br />
third period and then an entire<br />
overtime without either side<br />
giving an inch, the two league<br />
foes skated away with the draw.
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A look at the past week in sports<br />
Photos | Spenser Hasak, Vanessa Leroy, and Jakob Menendez<br />
Peabody/Lynnfield’s Penelope Spack looks for the puck.<br />
Peabody’s Luke Roan shoots a free throw during a win over Winthrop.<br />
Nick Soper, left, dives for a loose ball but doesn’t reach it in<br />
time.<br />
Chloe Considine, left, knocks the puck away from a Winthrop player.<br />
Ava Buckley takes the puck out from behind the net.<br />
Colin Berube, left, and Aneudy Medrano, right, play suffocating defense.
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NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE<br />
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage<br />
given by Justine V. Cormier and Karen V. Cormier Shortell, to Mortgage Electronic<br />
Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Clearpoint Funding Inc., dated April 18,<br />
2013, and recorded with the Essex County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds in<br />
Book 32430 at Page 95, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder<br />
by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as designated<br />
nominee for Clearpoint Funding, Inc., to Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, dated August<br />
4, 2014, recorded with the Essex (Southern) County Registry of Deeds in Book<br />
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(Southern) County Registry of Deeds in Book 34052, Page 224; by assignment<br />
from Federal National Mortgage Association to MTGLQ Investors, L.P., dated<br />
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Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee of the Chalet Series III Trust, dated<br />
February 13, 2019, recorded with the Essex (Southern) County Registry of Deeds<br />
in Book 37376, Page 186, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for<br />
the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 3:00 P.M. on<br />
the 17th day of January 2022, at 12 Kittredge Street, Peabody, MA 01960, all<br />
and singular the premises described in said mortgage,<br />
To wit:<br />
The land in said Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts, together with the<br />
buildings thereon, situate on the Southeasterly side of Kittredge Street and<br />
bounded and described as follows:<br />
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Northeasterly by Lot 38 on plan of land hereinafter referred to,<br />
One Hundred (100) feet;<br />
Southeasterly by land of Vickingsholms Construction Co. INc.<br />
Sixty (60) feet; and,<br />
Southwesterly by Lot 36 on said plan, One hundred (100) feet.<br />
Containing 6,000 square feet and being shown as Lot 37 on a Plan of Land dated<br />
October 24, 1958 and recorded with Essex South District Registry of Deeds, Plan<br />
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City of Peabody<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of the City of Peabody will hold a<br />
Public Hearing January 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wiggin Auditorium, City Hall,<br />
24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960 on the application of J Douglas & Deborah<br />
White for a Variance from the Provision of the Zoning Ordinance 2020, as<br />
amended, Section(s) 7.1.5, as it applies to the premise known as 15 ELGINWOOD<br />
RD, Peabody, MA, 033-062X. Petitioner seeks a variance for an accessory<br />
structure garage and requires relief to Side Yard where 10' is required and 4' is<br />
proposed; Accessory Structure Size where 500 sf is allowed and 720 sf is<br />
proposed. The property is located in a R1 zoning district. The application and plan<br />
are available to the public and can be viewed by contacting Carla McGrath at<br />
carla.mcgrath@peabody-ma.gov or 978-538-5792 in advance and prior to the<br />
Public Hearing. The agenda for this meeting is posted on the City of Peabody<br />
website.<br />
Board of Appeals<br />
Frances Bisazza-Gallugi, Chairperson<br />
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City of Peabody<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of the City of Peabody will hold a<br />
Public Hearing January 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wiggin Auditorium, City Hall,<br />
24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960 on the application of EVANS MARGARET L<br />
TRUSTEE for a Variance from the Provision of the Zoning Ordinance 2020, as<br />
amended, Section(s) 7.2, as it applies to the premise known as 315 LYNNFIELD<br />
ST, Peabody, MA, 105-005B. Petitioner seeks a variance for a 16' x 17' addition<br />
and requires relief to Left Side Yard where 20' is required and 15' is proposed. The<br />
property is located in a R1B zoning district. The application and plan are available<br />
to the public and can be viewed by contacting Carla McGrath at<br />
carla.mcgrath@peabody-ma.gov or 978-538-5792 in advance and prior to the<br />
Public Hearing. The agenda for this meeting is posted on the City of Peabody<br />
website.<br />
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Board of Appeals<br />
Frances Bisazza-Gallugi, Chairperson<br />
City of Peabody<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of the City of Peabody will hold a<br />
Public Hearing January 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wiggin Auditorium, City Hall,<br />
24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960 on the application of 437 ESSEX INC for a<br />
Variance from the Provision of the Zoning Ordinance 2020, as amended,<br />
Section(s) 7.2, as it applies to the premise known as 6 AZALEA LN, Peabody, MA,<br />
056-074. Petitioner seeks a variance for an addition with roof extension to cover<br />
walkway and requires relief to Side Yard where 20' is required and 12.8'; is<br />
proposed; Front Yard where 25' is required and 24.2' is proposed . The property is<br />
located in a R1 zoning district. The application and plan are available to the public<br />
and can be viewed by contacting Carla McGrath at carla.mcgrath<br />
@peabody-ma.gov or 978-538-5792 in advance and prior to the Public Hearing.<br />
The agenda for this meeting is posted on the City of Peabody website.<br />
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City of Peabody<br />
Zoning Board of Appeals<br />
LEGAL NOTICE<br />
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of the City of Peabody will hold a<br />
Public Hearing January 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wiggin Auditorium, City Hall,<br />
24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960 on the application of LORIS IOAKEIM for a<br />
Variance from the Provision of the Zoning Ordinance 2020, as amended,<br />
Section(s) 7.2, as it applies to the premise known as 28 NO CENTRAL ST,<br />
Peabody, MA, 064-029B. Petitioner seeks a variance for an accessory structure<br />
and deck and requires relief to Lot Coverage where 20% is allowed and 30% is<br />
proposed; Deck Side Setback where 10' is required and 5' is proposed. The<br />
property is located in a R3 zoning district. The application and plan are available<br />
to the public and can be viewed by contacting Carla McGrath at<br />
carla.mcgrath@peabody-ma.gov or 978-538-5792 in advance and prior to the<br />
Public Hearing. The agenda for this meeting is posted on the City of Peabody<br />
website.<br />
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Frances Bisazza-Gallugi, Chairperson<br />
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New year, new events at Black Box Theater<br />
2022 will see the return of the Proving Ground local wrestling showcase, at the Black Box Theater, after it was a smash hit in 2021.<br />
PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK<br />
By Sophie yarin<br />
To kick off 2022, the city’s<br />
Black Box Theater has announced<br />
a year’s worth of<br />
unique, fun and community-driven<br />
events to inspire and<br />
entertain.<br />
Founded in 2018, the Black<br />
Box is the result of a partnership<br />
with the city and Northeast Arc,<br />
a not-for-profit organization<br />
that helps disabled children and<br />
adults become full participants<br />
in the community. Located in the<br />
heart of the city’s downtown, the<br />
theater’s James Family stage has<br />
seen stage productions, comedy<br />
shows, drag, dance, film, live<br />
music, and even wrestling. This<br />
year’s roster of events will see<br />
some familiar favorites return,<br />
and will also introduce some<br />
new fun into the mix.<br />
The Black Box’s first show<br />
of 2022 comes to audiences<br />
courtesy of Judy Garland and<br />
Barbra Streisand ― or their<br />
drag impersonators, that is. The<br />
Judy and Barbra show, featuring<br />
“New England’s #1 Judy<br />
Garland/Barbra Streisand drag<br />
duo,” will reprise its popular<br />
Drag Bingo night on Saturday,<br />
Jan. 8 from 8 to 10:15 p.m. Tickets<br />
cost $25 and include snacks,<br />
drinks, bingo games and special<br />
performances. This show is for<br />
those 21 and older.<br />
Catch some local wrestling<br />
on Saturday, Jan. 15 from 6 to<br />
10 p.m., when Proving Ground<br />
returns to the Black Box for<br />
its ‘biggest show to date,’ the<br />
North Shore Rumble. Of a cast<br />
of 30 contenders, one will earn<br />
the right to participate in the<br />
Proving Ground championship<br />
in March. In addition to the<br />
Proving Ground Championship<br />
match, this show will feature a<br />
DLC Championship match, a<br />
tag-team championship match<br />
and more. There will also be a<br />
cash bar available for guests age<br />
21 and over. Tickets cost $25<br />
and selling fast.<br />
Those in the mood for romance<br />
can catch Young Sinatra,<br />
a.k.a. New York’s Tony DiMeglio,<br />
on Monday, Feb. 14 from<br />
5 to 6 p.m. DiMeglio, who portrays<br />
the Chairman of the Board<br />
in New York’s longest currently-running<br />
Rat Pack revue, will<br />
perform favorites such as “A<br />
Foggy Day,” “I’ll Be Seeing<br />
You,” “Summer Wind,” “Witchcraft”<br />
and many more, along<br />
with some special tunes for Valentine’s<br />
Day. Ticket prices start<br />
at $25.<br />
Just in time for spring, the<br />
Black Box’s Easter Bunny Hop<br />
on Friday, April 15 from 1 to<br />
2 p.m., will be an afternoon of<br />
tunes, treats, and pictures with<br />
the Easter Bunny. Audiences<br />
will enjoy performances of<br />
hits such as “The Bunny Hop<br />
Hop,” “Easter Parade,” “Rockin’<br />
Robin,” and more, while<br />
helping the Easter Bunny and<br />
friends find missing Easter eggs<br />
and save Easter. There will be<br />
a second performance of this<br />
family-friendly show at 4 p.m.<br />
Ticket prices begin at $20, while<br />
VIP ticket holders may receive a<br />
complementary photo with the<br />
Easter Bunny.<br />
New York City magician<br />
Matt Roberts returns to the Black<br />
Box on Saturday, April 23 from<br />
1 to 2:20 p.m., for an all-ages<br />
show filled with sleight of<br />
hand, levitation, mind reading,<br />
“a jaw-dropping twist on one<br />
of Houdini’s famous feats,” and<br />
a few laughs to round it all out.<br />
This show’s audience will be<br />
capped at 50 people in order to<br />
comply with COVID-19 guidelines,<br />
but never fear ― Roberts<br />
will be back at the Black Box<br />
on May 21, July 9, and Sept. 17.<br />
Ticket prices start at $20.<br />
After catching some magic,<br />
stick around for some tunes<br />
on Saturday, April 23 from 4<br />
to 5:30 p.m., when the Atlantic<br />
City Blues Brothers get soulful<br />
at the Black Box. Christian<br />
Milazzo and Cooper Jordan,<br />
fixture performers at Atlantic<br />
City’s Boardwalk Showroom,<br />
will reprise their roles as Jake<br />
and Elwood, played by John Belushi<br />
and Dan Aykroyd in John<br />
Landis’ beloved 1980 comedy.<br />
There will be another show from<br />
7:30 to 9 p.m., and ticket prices<br />
start at $25.<br />
In town from Las Vegas for<br />
one night only, tribute artist<br />
Martin Andrew will perform his<br />
one-man show, “Forever Rod,”<br />
a tribute to Rod Stewart’s decades-spanning<br />
career. There<br />
will be two performances on<br />
Saturday, May 21 ― one from<br />
4 to 5:30 p.m., and another from<br />
7:30 to 9 p.m. Fans of Faces will<br />
be treated to Stewarts early hits,<br />
and there’ll be plenty of beloved<br />
numbers from his storied solo<br />
career, such as “Maggie May”<br />
and “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”<br />
Ticket prices start at $25.<br />
Cooper Jordan, one half of<br />
the Atlantic City Blues Brothers,<br />
will be back in town in the<br />
fall to host Boston’s Got Talent<br />
at the Black Box ― a showcase<br />
of rising stars from the Greater<br />
Boston area who will vie to<br />
compete in New York’s Got Talent<br />
All Stars: Stars of Tomorrow,<br />
a one-night event to be held in<br />
2023 in Times Square. Catch<br />
singers, dancers, ventriloquists,<br />
gymnasts and more ― as well as<br />
a program of high-profile judges<br />
― on the following dates:<br />
Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 7<br />
to 8:30 p.m. (Season 1 kickoff<br />
and preliminary round)<br />
Wednesday, Sept. 21 from 7<br />
to 8:30 p.m. (Season 2 preliminary<br />
round)<br />
Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 7<br />
to 8:30 p.m. (Season 1 semifinals<br />
and wildcards)<br />
Wednesday, October 12 from<br />
7 to 9 p.m. (Season 1 finale)<br />
Ticket prices start at $10.<br />
Check out the Monster Mash<br />
Bash on Friday, Oct. 15, from<br />
2 to 3 p.m., where Dracula and<br />
friends will perform a “not-soscary<br />
spooky sing-along” for<br />
parents and kids. Sing along to<br />
Halloween favorites and get<br />
your picture taken with Drac, the<br />
wolfman, and Frankenstein and<br />
his Bride. Kids are encouraged<br />
to come in costume, but parents<br />
be warned: There will be candy.<br />
Tickets cost $20.<br />
Later in the day on Friday,<br />
Oct. 15, catch the Rat Pack Undead<br />
in their return to the Black<br />
Box. There will be two shows<br />
featuring the undying (some<br />
might say undead) talents of<br />
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and<br />
Sammy Davis Jr. in a modern ―<br />
and spooky ― revue that hails<br />
directly from Broadway’s 42nd<br />
Street. The Rat Pack Undead<br />
will perform the classic hits<br />
with a seasonal spin, including<br />
“Come Die With Me,” “Lie Me<br />
in the Tomb,” and “What Kind<br />
of Ghoul Am I?”. There will be<br />
four 90-minute shows in total:<br />
Friday, Oct. 15 at 4 and 7 p.m.,<br />
and Saturday, Oct. 16 at 4 and 7<br />
p.m. Ticket prices start at $25.<br />
To purchase tickets and learn<br />
more information on the shows,<br />
please visit https://ne-arc.org/<br />
black-box-events/.
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These kids are creating for an escape<br />
Photos | Vanessa Leroy<br />
Adalyn Roberge, 6, displays her finished cupcake decorations at the Shop Local event held at<br />
Create and Escape in Peabody.<br />
Alessandra Morales, 7, decorates cupcakes at the Shop Local<br />
event held at Create and Escape in Peabody.<br />
Adalyn Roberge, 6, decorates cupcakes at the Shop Local event held at Create<br />
and Escape in Peabody.<br />
Gabi Couto, left, daughter of the owner of Central Bakery in Peabody, and<br />
Wendy Lattof, owner of Create and Escape, stand for a portrait in the back of<br />
the shop during the Shop Local event held at Create and Escape.<br />
Children engage in craftmaking and cupcake decorating at the Shop Local event held at Create and Escape in Peabody.