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2020 Persons of the Year: Peabody’s Amber Kiricoples channeled her sadness into helping others

By | December 28, 2020
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Peabody teenager Amber Kiricoples is one of Essex Media Group's "Persons of the Year." (Olivia Falcigno)
PEABODY — Amber Kiricoples is only 18 years old. Most people who know her see her as an outstanding student-athlete, but she is becoming perhaps even more well-known as a stand-up activist. Prior to the outbreak in early March, Kiricoples was coming off an MVP basketball season and looking forward to playing a final year…
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Anne Marie Tobin Anne Marie Tobin is a sports reporter for the Item and sports editor of the Lynnfield and weeklies. She also serves as the associate editor of North Shore Golf magazine. Anne Marie joined the Weekly News staff in 2014 and Essex Media Group in 2016. A seven-time Massachusetts state amateur women’s golf champion and member of the Massachusetts Golf Association Hall of Fame, Tobin is graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Suffolk University Law School. She practiced law for 30 years before becoming a sports reporter. Follow her on Twitter at: @WeeklyNewsNow.

Anne Marie Tobin can be reached at atobin@itemlive.com

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