SWAMPSCOTT — Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the person or people responsible for vandalizing a family’s “We stand with Israel” sign with an antisemitic symbol late Monday night. Less than a week before the first day of Hanukkah, Swampscott High School senior Sam Snitkovsky left his home near the water tower off […]
LYNNFIELD — With only four returning players, it would be easy to think that the Lynnfield girls basketball team was facing an uphill battle. Toss in the loss of a couple of impact players in two-time Cape Ann All-League honoree Bella George and co-captain Maggie Ozanian, and things would appear to be all the more […]
LYNN — The city of Lynn is getting $100,000 to help rehabilitate the Lynn Multiservice Center. The grant comes from the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund, a program in the One Stop and administered by MassDevelopment. The grant program aims to help transform vacant, abandoned, or underused industrial or commercial properties by financing the environmental assessment and […]
LYNN — With winter on the horizon, the city is looking to add contractors to its fleet of snow plows. Department of Public Works Commissioner Andy Hall said that the goal is to have 250 pieces of equipment under contract in addition to the 47 pieces owned by the DPW to cover 28 routes throughout […]
BOSTON — Lynn Public Schools recently visited City Fresh Foods, which partners with Chartwells to provide students with tasty and culturally reflective meals. Chartwells and City Fresh Foods are in the midst of the first year of their partnership. Representatives from LPS, Chartwells, and Lynn Mayor Jared Nicholson attended the visit. During the visit, City […]
To the editor: I’d like to offer an alternative perspective on the recent issues with the Lynnfield School Committee. I believe that the main issue is not improving communications between the School Committee and parents, but in identifying the problems facing LPS teachers and proposing concrete solutions. My concern is that the focus has shifted […]
Many families use the holiday season to enjoy warm food, spoil their children with gifts from Santa, and take a break from the day-to-day stress of work to spend quality time with their loved ones. But for the 15,507 people in Massachusetts that the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported were without stable housing […]
Tyler Cowen The YIMBY movement has so far focused on the deregulation of the residential housing market. In California, for instance, a variety of legal changes have made it easier to build more densely. In the commercial market, there is no real YIMBY movement — and not just because offices tend not to have […]
Alexander Stephen Cuenin III of Southold died Nov. 30, 2023, at home. He was 90. Born June 30, 1933, in Brooklyn, he was the son of Alexander Stephen Cuenin Jr. and Mabel Smallberg. He graduated from La Salle Academy in New York City and went to Marquette University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Mr. Cuenin […]
James Stanley Martinsen, aged 46, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. He is survived by his father, James, and stepmother, Robin, of East Setauket, N.Y.; his mother, Virginia, of Florida; his younger brother Michael of Manorville; stepsisters Morgan and Ashley; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. There will be a memorial service for Jimmy […]
