Letters to the Swampscott Reporter editor
Wicked Local
Expressing agreement with rail-trail column
I am writing to express my strong agreement with Brian Watson’s letter that was in the Swampscott Reporter’s July 15th issue. We are property owners whose land would be taken and leveled for this project. The issues that he raises are ones that we have been arguing for years and nobody seems to care. In the past five years we have lost four 100 foot plus trees that were over 100 years old. One missed our house by less than a foot. Before that we lost none. We have all seen the trees falling like matchsticks all over town.
Can Our Underperforming Asphalt Become Bustling Boulevards? Northland’s Newton Project Offers Path Forward for Tired Real Estate By Amy Dain | Special to Banker Tradesman | May 9, 2021 | Reprints | Print
Amy Dain
Burlington Mall Road might be the quintessential car-oriented commercial corridor of Massachusetts. It hugs Route 128, like the child of the highway that it is, in Burlington, a suburb that never had a train station and grew faster in the 1950s and ’60s than any other town in the state. Burlington officials have called the corridor of low-rise shops and dated office buildings “underperforming asphalt.” Now they are launching an effort to redesign it.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has launched a civil rights investigation into a state representative over social media posts encouraging property destruction at homes displaying lawn signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Rep. James Spillane, a Republican in Rockingham’s second district, is being investigated after posting a message on Facebook inviting people to “loot and burn” houses. Massachusetts Sep 3, 2020
A Massachusetts woman is facing civil rights charges after she allegedly drove her car toward a group of three Black women and their five children and shouted racial slurs at them earlier this summer. Rhonda Wozniak, 60, of Lynn, is accused of speeding toward the group as they were walking in Swampscott’s Vinnin Square on July 28, the Essex County…
Officials promise fines for blight
Town gave property owners until Sept. 15 to address issues and concerns
William J. Dowd
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A pair of Swampscott commercial property owners has for the third time been mailed official outreach notices by the local building inspector for allegedly violating the town’s blighted property bylaw.
The dilapidated properties the town argues remain in violation include the old gas station at 182 Paradise Road – owned by Best Petroleum – as well as the old General Glover House Restaurant at 299 Salem St. – owned by the Sunbeam Development Limited Partnership (Sunbeam).