Description: Father of assaulted son who died outside Lynn Hospital says many do not know emergency room was closed and services cut back there in favor of less central but newer Union Hospital. AtlantiCare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/28/1991
Description: Lynn rooming house fire is blamed on lack of sprinklers, though landlord was required to install them. Exterior of burnt building. Police lead search dog through rubble.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1989
Description: Fire bomb destroyed Lynn home of 40 Cambodian refugees. Red Cross gave food and clothing assistance but could provide only limited shelter. Emergency aid.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/28/1988
Description: Interview with Arthur Lane, president of Boston Shipping Association, on importance of having new container port serving Boston to maintain shipping industry. Proposes new facility in Lynn across Gen. Edwards Bridge because of accessibility and lack of conflicting use. Parsons Brinckerhoff estimates $132 million to build with five container cranes. Major dredging necessary. Japanese companies already threaten to stop shipping to port of Boston because it is too slow. Potential for 45,000 jobs in 15 years. Lane says Boston lacks foresight to develop shipping industry, is second class, and could become just a barge depot for Halifax and NYC. Boston money “too tied up in trust funds in financial district.” Map, aerial photo and artist's rendering.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979
Description: Dedication of Quaker Meadows Apartments in Lynn, developed by Corcoran Mullins Jennison, for low and moderate income residents. Sen. Paul Tsongas, Gov. Michael Dukakis, communities and development secretary Amy Anthony speak. Ribbon cutting.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1983
Description: Questions linger about lack of enforcement of rooming house sprinkler ordinance in wake of fatal Lynn fire. Burnt building and rubble cleanup. Charles Barry, Rep. Michael Morrissey.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1989
Description: CAMPAIGN AD FOR ALEXANDER 'SANDY' TENNANT IN LYNN MAYORAL RACE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1985
Description: Before news broadcast: Ted O'Brien advertises WGBH membership; advertisement for "Vietnam: Present Tense" program with Seth Rolbein; James Earl Jones advertises "Long Ago and Far Away" program; 1)Carmen fields reports on revelations on Sen. William Bulger's questionable investment in American Cablesystems Midwest with Harold Brown and Thomas Finnerty. 2) David Boeri debriefing on set on Bulger. 3) Sludge processing at Deer Island treatment plant turns sewage into compost and pelletized fertilizer; Paul Levy of MWRA and Michael Deland of EPA; incinerator in Lynn. 4) History of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, now landfill repository. Anchors Lydon and Fields. 5) Report on President George Bush Sr.'s tax campaign and Congressional leaders meeting about budget. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends budget restrictions, rather than taxes. 6) New childcare package is political olive branch between political parties. 7) National Urban League report on poverty and income conditions among black people. 8) Execution of serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida. 9) Pennsylvania native Barbara Harris chosen as first woman bishop in Anglican Communion, ordained by Boston Archdiocese.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989
Description: Lynn economy is declining because of GE layoffs & plant closings.Unemployed people go to job workshop. Drab streets w/ traffic. GE Aircraft Division & Daily Evening Item exterior.Closed stores.General Electric.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1990