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MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND
The Memorial Playground, which is administered by the School Committee, received attention to the full extent of the amount al- lowed under the budget. Under the direction of Mr. John Caldwell of the School Committee the bleachers were repaired and painted, considerable fill was added, and the general condition of the ball field improved.
FINANCE
Despite rising costs in all items of equipment end supplies, under the careful management of Mr. Whittier the School Committee was able to remain within its budget and to complete the year with a small balance. Certain savings were effected in such items as painting, and teachers' salaries, one teacher not being hired until September rather than January. However, to offset this we were faced with several somewhat major repairs. Also, after consultation with the Finance Committee we proceeded with the installation of the new lunch room equipment, using funds available in our budget rather than to necessitate the calling of a special Town Meeting.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The School Committee feels very strongly that the Townspeople should seriously consider the request to be made by it in 1949 to allow money for the operation of the Hot Lunch Program, a self-supporting operation, on a yearly basis. Such an arrangement would result in but one annual transfer of money from the "Hot Lunch Funds Avail- able" account to the School Department, and that at the regular Town Meeting. This would obviate the necessity of the four or five special Town Meetings called yearly - a plan neither to the liking of the School Committee nor many of the Townspeople.
Respectfully submitted,
LYNNFIELD SCHOOL COMMITTEE BURTON W. BARROWS, Chairman ORODON S. HOBBS, Secretary JOHN S. CALDWELL
January 19, 1949
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
Members of the School Committee:
Dear Sirs:
My twenty-sixth annual report is herewith submitted.
ENROLLMENT JANUARY 1, 1949 Elementary Schools
Centre School
South School
Total
Grade
1
*61
30
91
Grade
2
39
15
54
Grade
3
*53
22
75
Grade
4
40
20
60
Grade
5
29
23
52
Grade
6
25
23
48
Grade
7
31
31
Grade
8
43
43
Lynn - Sight Saving Class
1
Wakefield - Special Class
2
Total Elementary School Enrollment *2 Divisions
High School
Wakefield:
Freshmen
39
Sophomore
37
Junior
40
457
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Senior
25
Parochial High
1
Melrose High
1
Somerville Vocational School ..
1
Lynn English
1
Essex County Agricultural School
...
2
Beverly Trade School
1
Total Secondary School Enrollment
148
Grand Total School Enrollment 605
TEACHERS
We were most fortunate to retain all our teachers at the South School. At the Center School resignations were received from Mrs. Josephine Durkin, teacher of grades four and five, and Mrs. Virignia Goring, Art Supervisor. Appointments were Mrs. Faustina Barrows, Mrs. Martha Libby, Mrs. Pauline Chadwell, Mr. Roy Brooks, and Mr. Rupert Lillie, Art Supervisor for both schools.
The assignment of duties for all teachers will be found in the teachers' directory of this report.
CLASSROOMS
At the opening of schools in September the West Wing was suf- ficiently completed that the School Building Committee granted per- mission to the School Committee to use the Wing for School pur- poses. Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 were assigned rooms in this addition. The four additional rooms in this Wing made it possible to seat all pupils in classrooms above ground. Classes in Manual Training for the boys, Sewing for the girls, physical training for all pupils in inclement weather and classes requiring use of the film projector, are still main- tained in basement rooms.
As grades one, two and four will each require use of two class- rooms and the other five grades will require a classroom for each grade, there will be need of one additional classroom when schools open in September.
It would seem there is but one solution of our classroom prob- lem as of September and that solution is to have each division of grade one receive but one half day's schooling. The following seems to be about as exact an estimate of classroom needs as can be given at this time for both schools of the town for the next five years.
Classrooms:
'49-'50
'50-'51
51-'52
'52-'53
'53-'54
Center
13
15
16
16
17
South
6
6
6
6
6
1
-
-
-
Total
19
21
22
22
23
. .
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
A Building Committee is already at work on plans to improve and extend school facilities at the South end of the town. Another com- mittee should be appointed at once to work on the Center School al- teration and enlargement to meet our school housing needs before it is necessary to have a large number of pupils attend school on a shortened program.
LUNCH ROOM
A new lunch room has been set up in one of the large basement rooms of the East Wing. This room is now equipped with an electric refrigerator, gas stove, electric hot water booster, electric potato peeler, three-compartment sink, an electric dish washer, tables, and benches for pupils. A hood with vent through the wall is to be installed over the stove. Screen doors and window screens will also be installed.
Our pupils can now enjoy their noon lunch consisting of sand- wiches, vegetables, meat, milk, and dessert at 20 cents per meal to cover cost of materials and labor.
HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
By vote of the Committee all pupils desiring to pursue a regular high school course are to attend Wakefield High School unless ex- tenuating circumstances prompt the Committee to allow attendance elsewhere at a cost not exceeding that charged by Wakefield which for 1949 is $214.47
Tuition and transportation cost for each pupil enrolled in high school is about $250.00 per year. We endeavor to have our pupils reg- ular in attendance and maintain a standard of scholarship which will warrant this expenditure. Most of our pupils are now maintaining a very satisfactory scholastic record. The few who are not should con- fer with the guidance director before deciding upon their course for the next year. All pupils desirous of extending their formal school training beyond high school should determine that for which they wish to prepare themselves, map out their high school course accordingly and determine what institutions offer the necessary training beyond high school. Because of the fact that it is now difficult to be accepted in higher institutions of learning one should file an application for admission in more than one institution.
REIMBURSEMENTS
The following is reported as the State Aid for 1948 receivable to the Town of Lynnfield.
General School Fund Part I $ 2824.00
School Transportation 5837.87
Total
$ 8661.87
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TEACHERS' SALARIES
The following will, no doubt, be of interest to teachers and tax- payers.
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"MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS FEDERATION 14 Beacon Street, Boston 8 Research Department
Fred E. Pitkin
Research Director
October 22, 1948
Teachers' Salaries Compared with Wages in Trades and Industry 1948-49 Series No. F14
The annual wage rates given below for the trades and industry in Massachusetts are based on information secured from the Massa- chusetts Department of Labor and Industries. They are the average weekly wages for August multiplied by 52 (weeks).
$4,097 Electrical construction.
4,077 Steam-railroad-train crews.
3,787 Heavy construction.
3,666
Plumbing, heating, and ventilating.
3,430 Masons and plasterers.
3,416 Building construction.
3,266 Painters.
3,228 Street and electric railways and buses.
3,228 Electrical machinery.
3,120 Machine shop products.
3,032 Gas and electric companies.
3,030 Leather tanning.
3,023 Beverages and liquors.
2,984 CLASSROOM TEACHERS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MASSACHUSETTS (Est.).
2,721 All manufacturing industries.
2,589 Bakeries.
2,114 Retail trade.
2,037 Confectionary.
1,945 Women's garments.
1,670 Restaurants and lunchrooms.
The unfavorable position of teachers' salaries encourages teachers to leave the profession and discourages our capable high school seniors from choosing to enter the teaching profession.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
It is estimated that, due to the recent increase in the number of children born annually, nearly 5,000 more elementary teachers will be needed in our schools than are now teaching in Massachusetts."
Critics of higher salaries for teachers can surely find little satis- faction in arguing their point when they realize that those to whom the youth of Massachusetts are entrusted to receive an education are SEVENTH from the bottom of the above annual wage scale. Are the sons and daughters of the critics training to become teachers? Why not? Some argue that salaries do not need to be increased because we are employing married women many of whom are local and that they would continue if a small or no increase were given.
Regardless of whether a teacher was born in Missouri or Massa- chusetts, whether she was educated in California or Carolina, whether she is married or single, she should be hired and paid what she is worth to do the greatest job on earth - to make a citizen. If that is not our goal, we have missed the point.
If the services of all teachers now employed were dispensed with at the close of schools in June I would expect everyone to be located by next September within a twenty-five mile radius from Lynnfield at an increase in excess of the present salary with the $200 increase re- quested for 1949-50. To fill the positions vacated at salaries covered by our budget would not guarantee teachers of any higher teaching ability.
SCHOOL BUDGET
Although several unforeseen expenditures occurred during the year it is gratifying to state that the total school budget for 1948 was not expended. This balance is due to the fact that he Finance Com- mittee had confidence in the School Committee's recommendation to the extent that the budget submitted was approved.
The School Budget for 1949 is considerably greater than for 1948. It has been carefully prepared and expenditures will be kept within the budget if unforeseen expenditures of considerable size are not necessary because of an emergency.
Anticipated increases in expenditures are due to:
Employment of an extra teacher.
Increases in salaries - September-December.
Substantial increase in cost of transportation.
Substantial increase in cost of high school tuition.
An item for Physical Training Equipment.
An item for Industrial Arts' Supplies.
Increase of $1,000.00 for fuel.
The item for repairs includes $700.00 for installation of screens, $175.00 for a hood and installation over kitchen range, $100.00
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for screen doors and window screens in lunch room, $1,490.00 to make alterations and repairs requested by the Building Inspector.
Purchase of desks for two classrooms.
An item of $1,000.00 to improve the school grounds at the Center, $500.00 for a power lawn mower, an item of $200.00 for a "Wall-Master" used in cleaning painted wall surface.
$1,000.00 for equipment and salaries of playground instructors.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion may I express my appreciation to the School Com- mittee, teaching staff, janitors, lunch room employees, parents and pupils for their cooperation and assistance in making the past year a successful one in the education of youth.
Respectfully submitted
JOHN D. WHITTIER Superintendent of Schools
January 21, 1949
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
To the Superintendent of Schools
Lynnfield, Massachusetts:
Dear Sir:
I herewith submit my nineteenth annual report as School Nurse of the Town of Lynnfield.
Enrollment as of September
Center
319
South
130
Total enrollment for both schools
449
Result of physical examination by Dr. Ralph N. Brown, M. D. school physician:
Defects: Corrections:
Mod. Enlarged Tonsils 26 Tonsillectomy and
Mod. Enlarged Glands 31 Adnoidectomy 13
Enlarged Tonsils 3
Heart Murmurs
3
Posture
31
Heart Murmurs rechecked
and followed up
3
Posture improved
20
Appendectomy
3
Fractures
2
DENTAL WORK
All dental work in the Lynnfield schools is taken care of privately: Number having dental work completed 136 Number having some dental work done 42
Number having no dental work done or not reported ..
271
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DIPHTHERIA IMMUNIZATION
Result of survey :
Number immunized to date 459
Number not immunized or no record 18
Number of consents given by parents this year 7
Number refusing immunization 2
Number immunized in 1948 2
Letters have been sent to all parents who have children attend- ing school without immunization records, and those refusing im- munization to date with the request that they have the treatments given by their family physician or by the School Physician at the time of the clinic.
CONTAGIOUS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
The following contagious and communicable diseases were re- ported :
Chicken Pox 73 Whooping Cough 4
Measles 58 Mumps 5
Scarlet Fever
2 Pneumonia 2
Oak Poisoning 1 Ivy 4
The eye and ear examination in both schools will be completed during the next two months. A complete report will be available for both schools. Parents will be notified of results if their children are found to have defective sight or hearing.
Number of children having glasses as a result of last examination 6
Number having glasses changed during past year 8
TUBERCULOSIS SURVEY
Pupils of grades VII and VIII and all adult personnel at both schools were given the Patch test and those reacting to test were X- rayed. The result of those X-rayed was not reported in time for last year's report. However, I am reporting all cases as Negative as a result of the reports sent me after the X-rays were taken.
Total number X-rayed 37
Total number negative X-rays 37
The routine health program carried on in the schools follows:
Physical examination, I. Q. examination, eye and ear examina- tion, weighing and measuring, clerical work, home calls, first aid, con- sultation with children, parents, teachers, health supervisors, school physicians, superintendent of schools, and representatives of the State Public Health Department.
In closing I would like to suggest that more individual health education be given our children. They should be taught how they
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may prevent illness by eating proper foods, by caring for their teeth, by being immunized or inoculated against various diseases. Parents should be kept informed as to the many health services available for children as well as adults.
I wish to thank all the teachers, parents, pupils, school physician and Superintendent of Schools for their kind and considerate co- operation in helping to further the health program.
Respectfully submitted, FLORENCE L. STOBBART, R. N.
School Nurse
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Graduation Exercises Class of 1948
LYNNFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
TOWN HALL
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1948
EIGHT P. M.
PROGRAM
Processional
The Lord's Prayer
Malotte
Welcome
Sir Arthur Sullivan
The Lost Chord
Selections from "The Mikado"
A Wandering Minstrel Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
Claudette Pelletier
David Hardy
Three Little Maids From School Are We
Judith Horton
Audrey Newhall Virginia Hewitt
A Condensed Version of "H. M. S. Pinafore"
Arranged by N. Clifford Page
Chorus and Solo Parts
Solos: George Greenwood, Irene Rosa, Vesta Miller, Ronald Brown, Audrey Newhall, Claudette Pelletier, Howard Swett, Timothy Hibbard, David Bates.
Presentation of Diplomas
Mr. Burton W. Barrows
Chairman, School Committee Rev. John J. Linnehan
Benediction Star Spangled Banner Recessional
Accompanists: Diane Crowell, Frederick Wilkins, Natalie Fitts
Class of 1948 David Bates Audrey Newhall Mixed Chorus
Robert Gibbons
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GRADUATES
David Martin Bates President
Ronald Kenneth Brown Vice-President
Jean Katherine Roberts
Secretary
David Roswell Hardy
Treasurer
James Everett Beherrell
Vesta Pearl Miller
Arthur True Buswell
Alvin Norman Moore
Alma Florence Chute
Audrey May Towne
Diane Evelyn Crowell
Elaine Susan Nugent
Phyllis Marie Deaton
Claudette Irene Pelletier
Loretta Rose Foglietta
Bruce Pelton
Robert Gibbons
David Neil Rayworth
Carleen Avis Rhoadhouse
George William Greenwood
Virginia Ann Hewitt
Timothy Dean Hibbard
Shirley Ann Smith
Malcolm Merrill Stone, Jr.
Howard William Swett
Jane Sandra Schwarz
Audrey Carol Towne
Frederick Charles Wilkins
FACULTY
Mr. John D. Whittier, Superintendent
Mrs. Ona K. Ridley, Principal
Mrs. John S. Fitts, Mathematics
Mrs. Chester Waite, Science
Mrs. Charles Getchell, Sewing
Miss Maude Thomas, Music
Mr. Rupert Lillie, Art
CLASS MOTTO "Deeds, Not Words."
CLASS FLOWER
CLASS COLORS
White Carnation
Green and White
Elaine Robinson
Judith Ellis Horton
Robert Caldwell Howell
Douglas Frederick Hulsman
David Garfield Maddison
John Lawrence McCarthy
Irene Rachel Rosa
Chester Bartlett Gilson
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CLASS POEM
DEEDS, NOT WORDS
As we, the class of '48, Go down Life's winding road
We'll meet success at labor's gate By following our code.
The goal we seek may be so great That sometimes we may falter
Yet, ever striving, early-late Our true course ne'er must alter.
So may our class of '48 Where'er the pathway leads,
Be steadfast as we seek the great Our guide-Not Words but Deeds. Audrey Towne
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL
In case of no school for the day in grades or high school, an- nouncement will be made by Stations WBZ, WNAC, and WESX be- tween seven and eight o'clock.
AGE OF ADMISSION
No child will be admitted to the first grade at the opening of school in September, who was not five years of age on or before the first day of April preceding his entrance.
Pupils are admitted to this grade only during the first two weeks of school in September unless they have attended school in some other town.
VACCINATION
Children who have not yet been vaccinated will not be admitted to school in September unless they present a certificate from a regular practicing physician stating that they are not fit subjects for vaccina- tion. Parents are requested to attend to this matter during the summer vacation as exemption must be presented at the opening of school to entitle the children to admission.
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SCHOOL CENSUS AS OF OCTOBER, 1948
Boys
Girls
Number between five and fourteen years of age
265
238
Number between fourteen and sixteen years of age
49
34
Number over sixteen years of age
89
70
Totals
403
342
HONORS
At the close of schools in June, special awards to pupils were made as follows:
Perfect attendance certificates 10
Penmanship certificates 102
Reading certificates
98
EDUCATION COURSES PURSUED BY TEACHERS IN 1948
Bernice Munroe
Katherine Morrill
Mrs. Mildred Fitts
Mrs. Esther Getchell
Mrs. Ona K. Ridley
Arts and Crafts
Teaching the Social Studies
Demonstration Class in Remedial Reading School and Society
Primary Methods
Measurements of Intelligence
Problems of Elementary School Principals
Problems of Elementary School Principals Problems of Elementary School Principals
SCHOOL CALENDAR
1948
September 8
Schools Open
October 11
Schools Close
October 12 Holiday
November 5
Schools Close Holiday
November 11
November 24
Schools Close at Noon
November 29 Schools Open
December 23 Schools Close
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1949
January 3
Schools Open
February 18
Schools Open
February 28
Schools Open
April 15
Good Friday
April 22
Schools Close
May 2
Schools Open
May 30
Holiday
June 23
Schools Close at Noon
June 24
Graduation
MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, OCTOBER 1, 1948
AGE
Grade
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14 15
16
17 Total
1
33
57
1
91
2
21 32
3
56
3
31 35
8
1
75
4
24 26
2 3
55
5
20
25
7
52
6
14
23
9 1
47
7
1
10
14
4
29
8
10
22
9
4
45
-
Totals
33
78 64
62
54 43
43
33
27
9
4
450
LYNNFIELD SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM Profit and Loss Report 1948
Mrs. Ethel Tyacke, Dietitian and Business Manager
Income from Schools
Income from Subsidy
Total Income
Food Cost
Labor Cost
General Expense
Total Expendi- tures
Net Profit
January
$
579.04
$ 319.25
$ 898.29
$ 601.82
$ 272.00
$ 24.15
$ 897.97
$ .32
February
$
624.36
$
342.00
$ 966.36
$ 677.36
$ 272.00
$ 16.90
$ 966.26
$
.10
March
$
553.40
$
370.20
$ 923.60
$ 570.68
$ 272.00
$ 24.92
$
867.60
$ 56.00
April
$
405.98
$ 380.93
$ 786.91
$ 561.94
$ 204.00
$ 18.50
$ 784.44
$ 2.47
May
$
567.73
$
430.41
$ 998.14
$ 702.11
$ 272.00
$ 20.55
$ 994.66
$ 3.48
June
$
327.69
$
193.45
$
521.14
$ 300.70
$
204.00
$ 9.00
$
513.70
$ 7.44
September
$
628.02
$
344.08
$
972.10
$
645.39
$ 272.00
$ 54.71
$
972.10
October
696.76
367.51
$ 1064.27
$ 768.02
$ 272.00
$ 20.25
$
1060.27
$ 4.00
November
$
829.51
$ 408.65
$ 1238.16
$ 950.25
$ 272.00
$ 12.75
$
1235.00
$ 3.16
December
$ 766.69
$ 383.72
$ 1150.41
$ 848.69
$ 272.00
$ 26.64
$ 1147.33
$ 3.08
Totals
$ 5979.18
$ 3540.20
$ 9519.38
$ 6626.96
$ 2584.00
$ 228.37
$ 9439.33
$ 80.05
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LYNNFIELD TEACHERS' DIRECTORY, JAN. 1, 1949
Subject
Name
School
or Grade
Salary
Appointment
Education
Mrs. Katherine Morrill
South
5 & 6
$2,550.00
1942
Mrs. Retta Lovejoy
South
3 & 4
2,450.00
1942
Mrs. Gladys Goodwin
South
2 & 3
2,450.00
1946
Mrs. Bernice Munroe
South
1
2,450.00
1924
North Adams Normal
Mrs. Ona Ridley
Center
Prin.
2,950.00
1921
Boston University
Roy Brooks
Center
7 & 8
2,500.00
1948
Texas A. & M. College
Mrs. Lena WWaite
Center
7 & 8
2,450.00
1945
Farmington Normal
Mrs. Martha Libby
Center
7 & 8
2,000.00
1948
Simmons College
Mrs. Mildred Fitts
Center
7 & 8
2,450.00
1945
Keene Normal
Mrs. Faustina Barrows
Center
6
2,400.00
1948
Bridgewater State Teachers
Mrs. Esther Getchell
Center
5
2,450.00
1947
Bridgewater Normal
Mrs. Leora Donovan
Center
4
2,400.00
1947
Farmington State Normal
Mrs. Pauline Chadwell
Center
3
2,200.00
1948
Salem Normal
Mrs. Mildred Rourke
Center
3
2,450.00
1947
Aroostook State Normal
Mrs. Katherine Higgins
Center
2
2,450.00
1946
Lesley Normal
Mrs. Edythe Baxter
Center
1
2,400.00
1947
Hyannis Normal
Mrs. Marjorie Coon
Center
1
2,450.00
1947
Boston University
Maude Thomas
All
Music
1,110.00
1923
Boston University
Rupert Lillie
All
Art
1,024.00
1948
Harvard School of Art
Florence Stobbart
All
Nursing
595.00
1927
Beverly Hospital
Hyannis Normal School Farmington State Normal Hyannis Normal School
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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REPORT OF MAIN LIBRARY
Number of book patrons
399
Number of magazine patrons 35
Number of books loaned 4,692
Number of magazines loaned 310
Received in fines $54.75
Number of magazines subscribed for
7
Number of books bought
219
Number of books given 71
Books have been given by: State, Mrs. Albert Jacobson, Mrs. F. M. Sheldon, Thomas Suckley and Mrs. Maga.
Magazines have been given by: Mr. and Mrs. John Ward, Mrs. W. I. Olmsted, David Robinson, Donald Wiley, Carl H. Russell and Christian Science Church of Reading.
Books have been loaned to the schools as asked for by the teachers.
Respectfully submitted, ELIZABETH W. GREEN,
Librarian
REPORT OF BRANCH LIBRARY
Number of books loaned
3,912
Number of magazines loaned
502
Received in fines
$68.80
Books purchased
211
Magazines purchased
120
Respectfully submitted, SYLVIA A. MAYNARD,
Librarian
REPORT OF MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Lynnfield:
The appropriation for Memorial Day, May 30, 1948, was used as follows:
Appropriation
$250.00
Decorating 131 graves
$105.00
Parade music
100.00
Dinner expense
45.00
$250.00 $250.00
Respectfully submitted, T. HAWLEY, Treasurer of Committee, Lynnfield Post No. 131, Inc., American Legion
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REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD
REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD
The Lynnfield Planning Board submits its report for the year ending December 31, 1948.
The Board has held semi-monthly meetings, and two Public Hearings on changes in the Zoning By-Law, and one meeting with the Peabody Planning Board at Peabody during the past year.
The completion of several developments during the past year has taken considerable time and effort of the Planning Board, these duties are incumbent on the Board on account of the fact that the Town has no Engineer. In Towns having the services of an Engineer it is his duty to see that the specifications provided by the Board are adhered to as to engineering data.
The Zoning By-Law has been changed during the past year by making a Single Residence Section in the Center, and by adding the word "otherwise" after the word "sale" in Section 5A making the first Paragraph of that Section read; "the removal, for sale or otherwise, from a Residence District or a Single Residence District or from one place to another in such District of sod, loam, clay, sand, gravel or quarried stone forming a part of the real estate in such district, ex- cept when necessarily incidental to or in connection with the con- struction, at the site of removal, of a building for which a permit has been issued, or for grading or otherwise improving the premises of which such building is a part, shall be permitted only if written per- mission of the Board of Appeals be first obtained."
The Board is preparing a revised edition of the Zoning By-Law and hopes to have it ready for distribution shortly after the Annual Town Meeting.
The residential development known as the Town Lyne Colony in Lynnfield which was to be in both the Town of Lynnfield and the City of Peabody has been held up by the developers, as they wish to change this from a residential to a business district, to be known as a Shopping Center. The Lynnfield Planning Board has been advised of their intentions, and advised to await the action of the Council of the City of Peabody, who have the matter under consideration. The developers have signed a Petition to change the district from resi- dential to business, the fee has been advanced to this Board, with instructions to wait until the City of Peabody had made final decision.
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