Maldden alld a Vol. 29, No. 47 den AADD -FREEThe Advocate - A household word in Malden! CTE OCAT AT www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday City, Police Honor Officer Isaiah McLain 617-387-2200 Offi cer Edward Callahan Died on September 16, 1963 By Steve Freker S Shown from left to right are Mayor Gary Christenson, Francesca Halloran and Chief Kevin Molis during the November 12 memorial dedication for Offi cer Isaiah McLain. Halloran’s husband, Richard, a sergeant in the Boston Police Department, was killed in the line of duty on November 6, 1975, in East Boston. (Advocate photo by Josh London) By Christopher Roberson M embers of the Malden Police Department recently gathered to memorialize the site on the Fellsway where Offi cer Isaiah McLain was killed in the line of duty on the afternoon of November 12, 1934. Chief Kevin Molis said McLain was approached by a resident who had been the victim of a robbery the previous day and that he saw the assailant walking up the Fellsway. McLain responded immediately and beMCLAIN | SEE PAGE 10 ince our nation was founded in 1776, some 24,560 police offi cers have made the ultimate sacrifice and given their lives in the line of duty. The deaths may have come either through violent actions of others, or unexpectedly tragic occurrences which included health-related reasons. In Massachusetts, there are 391 in line of duty police offi cer deaths, according to the Offi cer Down Memorial Page (odmp. org) website. Of these felled ofE Friday, November 20, 2020 Plans in place to honor third Malden PD officer killed in line of duty Watchman David Faulkner was slain by a gunshot on Summer Street in 1868 Offi cer Isaiah McClain Died on November 12, 1934 fi cers, 127 of them have been struck by gunfi re and died in the line of duty. Three of those offi cers shot down in the line of duty have been Malden Police Offi cers. When the new Malden Police Station opened just over four years ago in October 2016, the Malden Police Department also unveiled a new memorial to those three offi cers and a fourth who died in the line of duty due to a health condition. Last week, a memorial sign was unPLANS | SEE PAGE 22 Progress made on plan for citywide overnight parking for residents only Malden Parking Review Comm. votes to mark “private ways;” close watch set on Revere parking program rollout By Steve Freker N umbers dominated the discussion at Monday’s Parking Review Committee meeting, some old, some new. For instance, how many Malden residents are aware that there are 320 smaller streets, “terraces” or courts in this city that are legally designated as “private ways”? Malden City Council President Jadeane Sica has been living on Cleveland Street in the Linden neighborhood of Ward 8 for many years. Unbeknownst to Councillor Sica when she fi rst began residence there, and probably not known to residents now residing there, Cleveland Street, an average-sized street in Linden, is a private way. Here are some more numbers. Next door in Revere, where that city rolled out its residents-only, citywide overnight parking program on September 14, they have not been able to adequately begin enforcing the regulations yet, partly due to some 7,500 emails the Parking Department has been inundated with since its inception. Not to mention the work still needed to be done in evaluating just how many residential parking stickers are to be allotted to the 175 residential buildings of eight or more units in Revere. Oh, and the private way issue is alive and well in that community, too. Just not to the tune of over 300 such thoroughfares as exist in Malden. Facts and fi gures These were just some of the facts and figures brought to the fore by Malden Parking Director Ron Hogan in Monday’s virtual meeting, the first held by the committee since February, in a year where the calendar has been upended by COVID-19 pandemic. The key is that Malden streets are often full of vehicles overnight which include both nonresident-owned vehicles and resident-owned vehicles that are not registered in the city of Malden. The two-fold problem the City Council and Parking Department seek to address is a shortage of parking space for residents and a shortfall of appropriate vehicle excise tax revenue if all the vehicles were properly registered in Malden, where they legally should be registered. Hogan related how he has been observing and exchangPARKING | SEE PAGE 12
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