A year later, a more traditional Easter on the North Shore

Parishioners will have their temperatures checked and wait to be seated by ushers during Easter on Sunday at St. Mary's and the Sacred Heart parishes in Lynn. (Spenser Hasak)

Parishioners had just left St. Pius V Church in Lynn after last Sunday’s 11:30 a.m. Mass, and palms had been distributed. But there was a buzzing sound coming from the back of the church that sounded like someone was mowing his lawn. Considering that it rained, quite substantially, on Palm Sunday that wouldn’t have seemed…

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

A year later, a more traditional Easter on the North Shore

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