PEABODY – This one was never in doubt. The No. 29 Peabody girls basketball team was on a mission against visiting No. 36 Beverly Monday night in the preliminary round of the MIAA Division 1 state tournament.  The Tanners played with intensity on both ends of the court and led by 15 at the half, […]

You know what I’ve been thinking? One of the more athletic and entertaining players on the North Shore plays basketball at Lynn Tech, and there was no stopping him this past weekend. Ederick Gonzalez led his Tigers to back-to-back state vocational titles. Tech defeated Monty Tech Friday, followed by Sunday’s victory against Shawsheen. Against Monty […]

The No. 34 Lynn Classical girls basketball team fell in the preliminary round of the MIAA Division 3 state tournament Monday evening, dropping a 50-41 final to No. 31 Notre Dame Academy of Worcester. In the single-digit defeat, positives were aplenty. Classical’s leading scorer was senior Lauren Wilson (17 points), followed by Keisha Perez (12) […]

LYNN — Well, like many, this one was a game of runs. KIPP coach Moody Bey will be the first to tell you that. But in No. 26 KIPP’s 56-39 preliminary win (MIAA Division 4) against No. 39 Whitinsville Christian (Worcester County) Monday night, Bey said it was more about the “base hits” than the […]

LYNN – The Lynn English High School (LEHS) Theater Collective presented a matinee production Monday of its original play, “The Show Must Go On” to an audience that included Mayor Jared Nicholson. During the show, the actors took the audience through the trials and tribulations of high school theater. Lynn English Drama Club members, from […]

LYNN — Georgia Katsoulomitis, executive director of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, has joined the board of directors of My Brother’s Table, the largest soup kitchen on the North Shore.  Katsoulomitis has run MLRI, a nationally recognized poverty law and policy program and the leading poverty-fighting legal non-profit in the state, for 13 years, a […]

MARBLEHEAD– Beach Street resident Henry Peabody spoke Monday evening at the town’s Traffic Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC) regarding speeding on the one-way street, a long-standing concern that has resulted in multiple deaths on the street, including his family’s six-month old puppy who was hit and killed last month.  According to police, on Jan. 31, a […]

ReachArts in Swampscott is celebrating International Women’s Day with an upcoming exhibit on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10. “Inclusion” will feature the works of local artists Ghufran Al-saegh, Sammia Atoui, Karin Marleen Dijkstra, Helene Falcon, Maureen Holub, Cathy Marie Michael, Amy Mathews, Hannah Sharpless, Tereza Swanda, Stefanie Timmermann, and Cynthia Zeman. “We wanted […]

ReachArts in Swampscott is celebrating International Women’s Day with an upcoming exhibit on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10. “Inclusion” will feature the works of local artists Ghufran Al-saegh, Sammia Atoui, Karin Marleen Dijkstra, Helene Falcon, Maureen Holub, Cathy Marie Michael, Amy Mathews, Hannah Sharpless, Tereza Swanda, Stefanie Timmermann, and Cynthia Zeman. “We wanted […]

LYNNFIELD — Ballot-scanning machines that will be used for the upcoming presidential primary elections on March 5 were tested at the Board of Registrars’ meeting Monday. Lynnfield Town Clerk Amanda Haggstrom, Board of Registrars members Carolyn Scollard and Anne Patriquin, and election staff members Wendy Larovere and Melissa Ripley were there to supervise and conduct […]