Page 12 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, MArCH 17, 2023 PRECINCT 3| FROM PAGE 3 er residents of Stocker Street have safety concerns that a potential dog park would create. People and their dogs that live in the area face the threat of being attacked by other dogs visiting the park, Floramo said. “My neighbors are concerned about the safety of the neighborhood,” Floramo said. “We have senior citizens there, and we have a senior medical home next door to me. People like to sit out in their chairs in the driveway on a summer day. I like to sit out in the yard in the summertime,” she said. “And we’re going to have dogs coming from all sides of us that could come up to us,” she said. Board of Selectmen Vice Chair Debra Panetta confirmed that Selectman Cicolini created a committee to look into having a dog park. “He did look at Stocker Park and he did think it would be a good idea,” Panetta said. “There’s nothing set in stone,” Panetta said, reassuring the Stocker Street residents that no decision has been made about making Stocker Field a dog park. “I’m sure they’re going to have public discussion,” she added. “Selectman Cicolini is very transparent,” Panetta added. Tesora tried to reassure her constituents that “a lot of research is involved in applying for the grant” that would essentially be a starting point for any dog park site. NEMT FOREST| FROM PAGE 4 consideration by the Project team (not by the MSBA). It sounds like – although all three drafted designs (options C1, C2, and C3) were designed to accommodate 1600 students in a 383,000 square foot building space – one of the main reasons the Northeast School Building Committee decided on the costlier option to clear cut 13.5 acres of pristine virgin forest was so they would not disrupt the current athletic fields during construction, and to allow for a future hockey rink: “The location of the new school allows construction to occur with the least amount of disruption to the existing school of any option. The district gains additional athletic fields with this option and maintains the potential of reserving the current football field/track for future development as a hockey rink.” Source: Preferred Schematic Report - 3.3.1 Final Evaluation of Alternatives – Dec 21, 2020. Thus, even though there is With a shortage of Precinct 3 Town Meeting members available for this week’s filming of “Saugus Over Coffee,” Stocker Street resident Kim Calla (left) and Board of Selectmen Vice Chair Debra Panetta (right) joined Precinct 3 Town Meeting Member Annemarie Tesora on the panel. (Courtesy photo by SaugusTV to The Saugus Advocate) an existing hockey rink ten minutes away from the school, and they could certainly find alternatives on a temporary basis for the loss of athletic fields, the Committee decided that their wants and desires override the needs of rare and endangered species to have a livable habitat, and override the irreplaceable environmental benefits of a virgin forest. As you most likely know, unStocker Street resident Michelle Raponi expresses her concern about building a dog park in a wilderness area, noting that “wild and domestic do not mix.” (Courtesy photo by SaugusTV to The Saugus Advocate) MESSAGES| FROM PAGE 9 it out but cry wolf when they get a taste of it back,” Cogliano said. “I wasn’t put on this earth to take anyone’s b.s. and I will not start now....Chairman of the Board of Selectmen or not… I think most people in this town know who I am and what I stand for. I never turn my back on anyone. This ridiculous noise will not deter me from leading this town. I’m not going anywhere.” The letter from Ross Demore Here’s the entire letter that selectmen received via email this week: Dear Members of the Saugus Board of Selectmen et al., I was disturbed to read that Chairman Anthony Cogliano allegedly falsified documents under penalty of perjury in an ongoing lawsuit against WIN Waste Saugus. Subsequently several people have criticized him publicly on social media for his unlawful behavior. In response to his critics, he has denied that they are real people, and has made homophobic comments towards them on social media, as you can see in the attached screenshots. Cogliano’s homophobic comments do not align with the policies and values of the touched old-growth forests exhibit a number of important properties that younger, disturbed forests cannot match. It would take approximately 100 years for replanted trees to mature into an oldgrowth forest again. Meanwhile a native habitat rich in biodiversity, dependent on the unique environmental conditions of a virgin forest will be lost, and the corresponding benefits for humans will be lost as well, including improved mental health and stress relief; air purification, water purification, and flood control; and fightTown of Saugus. The Town’s Use and Email policy prohibits “Comments that offensively address someone’s age, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, national origin or disability.” Furthermore, the town’s Sexual Harassment Policy specifically prohibits “gossip regarding one’s sex life” and “…sexual messages or images posted on social media, including but not limited to instant ing the greenhouse effect. Although we have minimal and dwindling natural resources left, avoiding clear-cutting a mature, virgin forest was never prioritized by the committee. See my attached letter published in the Wakefield Daily Item on February 21, 2023 for further discussion of this point. On January 27, 2023 Friends of Wakefield’s Northeast Metro Tech Forest submitted a 26-page Fail Safe petition through 301 CMR 11.04 of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) documenting nine areas of environmental damage (bulleted at the beginning of my letter) that would result if the Voke is built on the Hilltop site. The letter urges the MEPA Director to require a full MEPA review including an Environmental Impact Report, which shockingly has never been done. The letter can be found at nemtforest.org. As the first-ever climate chief with a “mandate to do nothing less than reshape the state government to focus on climate” per the Boston Globe, I request you include preservation of the NEMT forest in your plans to combat climate change, including: • Placing a moratorium on this project as suggested by The Massachusetts Sierra Club in their letter to the editor of the Saugus Advocate, February 17, 2023. o The fencing is already up in the area and I am very concerned the clear cutting will begin shortly. Thus, I request this moratorium be put in place ASAP. • Pushing through a full MEPA review with an Environmental Impact Report that includes investigation of loss of habitat for rare and endangered species The above actions would directly contribute to your quest to “make the change that we need to make with climate so that this can be a habitable planet.” Sincerely, Sherri Carlson Wakefield messages, Facebook posts, Tweets, Snapchat, Instagram, or blog entries.” Cogliano should publicly apologize to members of the LGBTQ+ community that he has offended. Furthermore, in accordance with the policies of the town, he must immediately be removed as chairman and publicly reprimanded for his hate speech. Regards, Ross Demore
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