Peabody/Lynnfield Weekly News

PEABODY -- For the first time in generations, students at the city’s elementary schools will be on the same page when it comes to learning to read. Literally.

Principals and teachers have been preparing through the summer months for implementation of the new “Journeys” literacy reading program, a program developed by a textbook publisher after extensive research into how children learn to read.

One focal point of the new program is to make it easier for parents to be involved in teaching their children to read.

LYNNFIELD – The day circled in red on calendars is fast approaching. Next Wednesday is the first day of school for the 2010-2011 year.
Students in grades 1-12 will start Sept. 1, while kindergarten and preschool pupils will go into school for orientation programs Sept. 2 and 3, but won’t start until Tuesday, Sept. 7.
School hours will remain the same this year, except for Summer Street School. The middle school once again starts the earliest of the four schools, with hours from 7:50 a.m.-2 p.m.

LYNNFIELD –The Priestleys Photography Dog (and Cat) Days of Summer event is being held on Saturday and Sunday Aug. 28-29 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at 3 Wing Road.
For a $20 donation to Protection of Animals in Wakefield Society, Inc. (PAWS), you will receive a free portrait session and a purse tag portrait of your furry friend.
Due to limited time slots, sessions are by appointment only. For further information or to schedule your 15 minute session call (781) 334-0001.

Photo by Bob Albright Lynnfield youth football coach Dennis Allain puts the blocking bag to good use at a recent practice.

By Bob Albright

When Steve Beradino first showed up for his first youth football practice in Lynnfield better than a decade ago with his two young sons, Steve and Rick, in tow, it’s safe to say he was not reminded of his own youth football experience in his hometown.

“The uniforms were like rags,” Beradino recalled. “The shoulder pads and helmets were all worn.

Courtesy photo Kevin Franey Jr. had an eventful summer working as an intern at Essex County Club.

By Bill Kipouras

Kevin Franey, Jr. grew up on Ellis St. in Peabody, off the 10th hole at the Meadow at Peabody Golf Club. That, no doubt, was his orientation to the game.

The 20-year-old is now a junior at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., located in the middle of the state, 30 minutes from Fayetteville, “in the middle of nowhere,” Franey said.

The Tobacco Road Country Club in Sanford is another 30-minute drive and it’s a tough track, a Top Ten rated club on the U.S. Golf Map.

Meadow Walk, an ambitious project to transform part of the Colonial golf course property into a village of commercial and residential buildings while retaining a vast expanse of open space may soon be back on track.
Officials with National Development presented selectmen with a plan that would to allow the project to be constructed in phases, a concession to the challenges of undertaking a major development project in a recession.
Selectmen and Town Administrator William Gustus will now negotiate the details of a phased-development construction timetable.