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Vision Lynn earns award for planning and design

LYNN — The city’s comprehensive plan is the city’s award-winning comprehensive plan – again.  Vision Lynn, a comprehensive plan completed last year after 18 months of community engagement, research, and analysis, received the Unbuilt Planning & Design Honor Award from the Boston Society of Architects, the highest award in the category. This is the second […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Ours is the most wasteful civilization in history. Here’s how to stop that.

Edward Humes What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis, and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can fix? That’s right, the planet is fighting a single archvillain: Waste. Americans live in the most wasteful civilization in history. This goes way […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
‘Unsubstantiated threats’ made by student at Marblehead school

In an email sent to Village Elementary School staff and families, Principal Mandy Murphy said that a student at the Marblehead school “accessed a walkie-talkie and made unsubstantiated threats over the walkie” at around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. According to Murphy, a “shelter in place” was implemented and the Marblehead Police Department was notified of […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Nature in the Neighborhood: Vibrant vernal pools

The Swampscott Conservancy “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade,” ― Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” Spring comes marching in this month (pun intended) but, as Mr. Dickens observed, the third month of the […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Robert E. Shaw – The Suffolk Times

Robert E. Shaw of Laurel died Sunday, March 17, 2024. He was 69. The family will receive visitors Friday, March 22, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck, where Mattituck Fire Department and Hauppauge Fire Department services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Source link

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Elvis F. Abad – The Suffolk Times

Elvis F. Abad of Mattituck died March 14, 2024. He was 39. The family will receive visitors Thursday, March 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. The funeral service will be held graveside at 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, at Sterling Cemetery in Greenport. Source link

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Ellen Levin Wiederlight – The Suffolk Times

Ellen Levin Wiederlight of New Suffolk passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2024. She was 69 years old. Ellen was born on Feb. 11, 1955, in Greenport to Donna Lenore (née Downing) and Jack J. Levin. She was raised on the East End along with her three siblings. After high school, she attended several colleges […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Southold’s Senior Services celebrates golden anniversary

Jacqueline Martinez, director of the Southold Senior Services Center, at a St. Patrick’s Day lunch. (Steve Wick) photo) Here are the headlines for March 19, 2024. SUFFOLK TIMES Southold’s Senior Services celebrates golden anniversary Annual Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park returns on March 23 RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW Blue Waves’ Deanna North pitches positive […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Swampscott Finance Committee reviews town budget

The Swampscott Finance Committee spent Monday night analyzing the town’s operating budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald first presented the budget of $81,233,644 to the Select Board earlier this month. The amount has increased by 2.9% in comparison to FY24. Its seven key funding areas are public education, general government, enterprise funds, […]

Updated: Mar 19, 2024
Today’s page 1: 3-19-24 – Itemlive

Daily Item Staff March 18, 2024 by Daily Item Staff Source link

Updated: Mar 19, 2024