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Historic Salem cemetery is getting a facelift

By | June 1, 2020
Construction is set to begin on the Charter Street Cemetery, a burial ground dating back to the Salem witch trials. (Olivia Falcigno)
SALEM — For the second October in a row, the cemetery that contains the remains of some of the city’s most historic figures will be closed to the public. The Charter Street Cemetery, more formally known as the Old Burying Point Cemetery, was closed Monday so that the city can begin the second phase of…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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