Claire McKenzie drives to the basket in Tuesday night’s Long Island title game. (Robert O’Rourk photo.) Moments after Tuesday night’s final buzzer, the Mattituck girls team was summoned to the middle of the St. Joseph’s University basketball court to be presented with a trophy. Only it wasn’t the one the Tuckers had strived for. A […]
Robert Pearl During my residency at Stanford, I traveled to Mexico with a group of surgeons to operate on children with cleft lips and palates. On the first day, I watched in awe as the team leader meticulously realigned the tissues of the lip, mouth and nose of a 3-month-old boy, leaving behind nothing but […]
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton will bring Salem resident Oleksandra Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian national who works to protect heritage sites and museums in her home country, as his guest to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday. Kovalchuk had to cross several countries with her husband and son after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, […]
The effort to build a new building for the Lynnfield Public Library has come to an end after the Finance Committee voted against moving the project forward to Special Town Meeting. Instead, the town is committing to renovating the existing building. A citizen petition had called for a Special Town Meeting to be held, allowing […]
Pat Merloe When Americans vote for a presidential candidate, they are actually voting for a slate of people to represent their state in the Electoral College. What few Americans realize is that their state legislature could legally exercise the power to select the electors without holding a popular vote – or it could even ignore […]
A Cutchogue firefighter is accused of inflating the number of emergency calls to which he and his family members responded, potentially granting them fraudulent monetary benefits. James P. Burns, 27, of Cutchogue, has been accused of tampering with public records in the first degree and official misconduct for making 96 false entries in the electronic […]
The Marblehead Fire Department responded to a two-alarm fire on West Shore Drive. This is a breaking news story and will be update as more details become available. Residents are advised to use caution. Delays have been reported. Source link
Cameron Stanton (left) and Olivia Misiukiewicz (right) composite of Robert O’Rourk photos Several area athletes earned spots in the New York State indoor track and field championships on Saturday at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island. Here’s how they fared: Cameron Stanton, Southold High School, Long Jump Stanton entered the state competition battling a stomach virus and […]
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SAUGUS — The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday night to send a letter to Gov. Maura Healey and members of the town’s state delegation requesting that the Ballard Street Salt Marsh Restoration project be revisited and funded as soon as possible. Selectman Michael Serino, who drafted the letter, said that it contains a history of […]
