Beyond Walls lights up downtown Lynn 'like Times Square on New Year's Eve'

Beyond Walls lights up downtown Lynn ‘like Times Square on New Year’s Eve’

This bridge on Market Street was one of the three bridges that were lighted as part of the Beyond Walls lighting ceremony. (Owen O'Rourke)

LYNN — Wednesday night, as darkness set in, about 500 people, including the mayor of Lynn, stood under a railroad underpass on Washington Street and looked toward the heavens. With…

Bill Brotherton Brotherton is Features editor for the Daily Item. He is also editor of Essex Media Group’s North Shore Golf, 01907 and ONE magazines. A Beverly native and Suffolk University graduate, Bill recently retired from the Boston Herald, where he wrote about music, edited the Features section and was Editorial unit chairman for The Newspaper Guild-CWA local 31032. This is his second stint at the Item, having labored as Lifestyle editor back in the olden days, when New Wave and Hair Metal music ruled the airwaves.

Bill Brotherton can be reached at bbrotherton@itemlive.com

Beyond Walls lights up downtown Lynn ‘like Times Square on New Year’s Eve’

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