SAUGUS Vol. 22, No. 7 -FREELady Sachems basketball on a roll see page 9 ADVOCATE www.advocatenews.net Published Every Friday Vacant For Three Decades A five-unit townhouse on Vine Street near Pennybrook Gardens apartments is still nobody’s home 30 years after it was built 781-233-4446 Friday, February 15, 2019 ~ THE ADVOCATE ASKS ~ Kelly’s Saugus celebrates 25 years on Route 1 A conversation with GM Artie Perrin UNINHABITABLE: Longtime neighbors say this five-unit townhouse at 71-73 Vine St. looked like a great place to live when it was built in 1989. But it’s remained vacant for three decades, ever since the former site of Ludwig’s Cleaners was determined to be contaminated. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) By Mark E. Vogler U p until the middle of last December, a five-unit townhouse off of Vine Street had been obscured from public view, hidden and forgotten by about 10 years of ground growth. The white, two-story building with vinyl siding with the second floor skylights had just become part of the landscape for residents of the neighboring Pennybrook Gardens apartments who would walk or drive by the unoccupied buildings daily. If they looked close enough, they could see broken windows and a collapsed porch in the rear building with an open door that gave vandals, squatters, animals and other unwanted guests easy access to a building that’s never been occupied by bonafide tenants. A long-time resident of Pennybrook Gardens apartments said the neighbors don’t really complain about the unkempt property next door. But officials at the state Department of Environmental Protection haven’t stopped caring about the one-third acre site that’s been contaminated over the years by the release of oil and other hazardous materials. After years of neglect by a previous owner who sold the property in December 2017 after 11 years of not doing anything to clean up the townhouses or the contaminated site, the DEP’s Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup began cracking down late last summer. “As of the date of this Notice of Noncompliance (“NON”), you have failed to meet the InTHREE DECADES | SEE PAGE 12 ~ Home of the Week ~ SAUGUS 1st AD KELLY’S MAN IN SAUGUS: Artie Perrin, general manager of Kelly’s Roast Beef in Saugus, this week at the restaurant. Kelly’s recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in Saugus. (Saugus Advocate Photos by Mark E. 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Off ered at $750,000 O 335 Central Street, Saugus, MA 01906 (781) 233-7300 View the interior of this home right on your smartphone. View all our listings at: CarpenitoRealEstate.com rin, general manager of Kelly’s Roast Beef at 595 Broadway (Route 1 South) in Saugus, to highlight the restaurant’s quarter of a century in Saugus. Perrin, 54, was born and grew up in Winthrop and is a 1982 graduate of Winthrop High School. He has worked for Kelly’s Roast Beef, Inc. for 39 years at three restaurant locations as the general manager: Natick, Revere and Saugus (where he has been assigned for the last seven years). He worked as a slicer on the kitchen staff that opened up the Saugus restaurant in 1994. Perrin, his wife, Julie, and their 15-year-old daughter, Rachel, live in the neighboring town of Lynnfield. Kelly’s in Saugus celebrated its 25th birthday on Thursday of last week (Feb. 6). Some highlights of the interview follow. Q: So, you recently celebrated your 25th anniversary here. A: Correct. Q: Anything special on that day? A: We got the crew together and got a couple of big sheet cakes and balloons and things like that. Everybody was in a festive mood, so that’s what we usually do for something like that. Q: So, the customers got cake that day. A: Yes. We passed it out to our staff. And the regulars who come here, we gave them cake, too. Q: So, you yourself started out here 25 years ago when it opened. ASKS| SEE PAGE 3 ANGELO’S "Over 40 Years of Excellence!" 1978-2019 Regular Unleaded $2.239 Mid Unleaded $2.639 Super $2.699 Diesel Fuel $2.839 KERO $4.759 Diesel $2.849 FULL SERVE HEATING OIL 24-Hour Burner Service Call for Current Price! (125—gallon minimum) Open an account and order online at: www.angelosoil.com (781) 231-3500 (781) 231-3003 367 LINCOLN AVE • SAUGUS • OPEN 7 DAYS Prices subject to change FLEET
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