Lynn Dept. of Public Works Citywide Sweeping will begin next week

As of November 2, 2020 the contractor “American Sweeping Company LLC” will start the neighborhood sweeping in Ward 7 and will sweep each ward until the city is completed. Sweeping will be done during the hours of 7:00 am to 3:00 pm. Should inclement weather prevent sweepers from working in your area as scheduled they will return in 7 days from the date originally scheduled.

Please remove all cars from the area’s listed below on the scheduled dates. Please keep them off the street until operations are complete. The sweeper may make several passes before the area is completely clean.

Sweepers will go around large objects and yard waste; in such situations you will have to clean this material yourself. Please encourage your neighbors to do the same and do not create piles in the gutter.

“WHERE NECESSARY, VEHICLES IMPEDING SWEEPING OPERATIONS WILL BE TICKETED OR TOWED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CITY ORDINANCES”

A clean neighborhood increases property values and reduces a source of food for vermin. Remove potential environmental pollution and makes for a safer neighborhood. Please help us to improve our City environment. Thank you.

The above press release was sent to us by the Lynn Dept. of Public Works.

LCTV will release the schedule every Friday afternoon for the next week while street sweeping is being done on our Facebook page.

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• The House and Senate on Monday enacted a $5.4 billion interim budget filed last week by Governor Baker that would cover state spending through November while the Legislature continues to deliberate over how to budget for fiscal 2021 in the middle of a pandemic. The interim budget takes effect Oct. 31 when the current three-month authorization expires. It’s the third interim budget approved since the fiscal year began on July 1.
• The branches also cooperated during informal sessions on Monday to send Governor Baker a bill that would make thousands of workers who were unemployed between the end of July and early September newly eligible for a $300 expanded federal unemployment benefit for that six-week period.
• As many as 17,000 unemployed Massachusetts residents could become eligible for thousands of dollars in additional unemployment benefits under legislation the House and Senate on Monday passed to provide relief to residents who didn’t initially qualify for the federal Lost Wages Assistance program. The federal program ran in Massachusetts for six weeks from the end of July through the first week in September, but in order to qualify for the additional $300 in weekly unemployment benefits a claimant had to be receiving at least $100 in weekly state benefits. The bill passed by the Legislature on Monday increased the minimum benefit for any unemployment insurance beneficiary to $100 for the week ending Aug. 1 through the week ending Sept. 5.
• The Senate Ways and Means Committee also included a directive for the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development to report back by the end of the year on how many people were newly deemed eligible for the expanded benefit and how much money was dispersed. It’s unclear how much the change will cost the state, but sponsors have said it could help bring in $31 million in additional federal dollars for workers who were unemployed during the covered period.
• The Senate on Monday also agreed to give the Judiciary Committee until Nov. 12 to take action on Rep. Christine Barber legislation dealing with COVID-19 estate recovery issues.
• A 39-year-old Boston resident is expected to be arraigned in municipal court on a charge of willful and malicious burning in connection with a Sunday morning ballot box fire, police said. The fire, set in a ballot drop box outside the main branch of the Boston Public Library, prompted Secretary of State William Galvin, the state’s elections overseer, to direct local officials to step up their security and monitoring of the drop boxes set up to receive early-voting ballots. Secretary Galvin also asked the FBI to investigate the incident. Boston Police announced Monday that members of the fire investigation unit had identified Worldy Armand as a suspect. Of the 122 ballots that were removed from the box after the fire, 87 were still legible enough to be processed, according to Galvin’s office, and the Boston Elections Department plans to mail new ballots to the other 35 voters
• Members of a special legislative oversight committee investigating the COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home earlier in the pandemic will be back in the western part of the state Tuesday to hear from current or former staff, staffing agencies and unions connected to the long-term care facility about what happened. The committee, co-chaired by Rep. Linda Dean Campbell and Sen. Walter Timilty, traveled to Holyoke last week to hear from families who had either lost a loved one or had a parent or husband still living at the Soldiers’ Home. More hearings this week will focus on testimony from those who have worked at the facility during the pandemic, including an in-person hearing on Tuesday at Holyoke Community College beginning at 11 a.m. and a 9:30 a.m. virtual hearing.
• The state’s quasi-public development agency MassDevelopment will soon be in need of new leadership with CEO Lauren Liss preparing to step down at the end of the year after three years at the helm. The Baker administration planned to announced Liss’s departure on Monday, and said that Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kennealy, who chairs the MassDevelopment board, will be leading the search for the next head of the agency. No reason was given for Liss’s departure, though her contract is up this year.