Terms of Unemployment: Examining the youth work crisis By Sophie Yarin | December 19, 2021 9:22 PM Unemployment among young people is the societal panic of late, and the numbers can prove it. A Time magazine story
Negro Election Day comes back to Lynn as exhibit By Sophie Yarin | December 9, 2021 6:03 PM LYNN ― Doreen Wade, president and founding member of Black heritage organization Salem United, surveys a wall of artifacts she
Grandma goes the extra mile By Sophie Yarin | December 8, 2021 7:02 PM A mother’s work is never done, and that goes double for grandmothers. In times of strife that overcome even a
COVID-19 has Salem’s psychics detecting change By Sophie Yarin | December 7, 2021 5:10 PM SALEM ― In 2021, the city’s businesses successfully bounced back from a COVID-19-induced lull (Item, Oct. 12), which was a
Swampscott homeowners facing $79 tax increase By Sophie Yarin | December 2, 2021 6:51 PM SWAMPSCOTT ― The average single-family homeowner will see a $79 hike in their tax bills next year. At a joint
Yarin: Knowledge is power when it comes to sex education By Sophie Yarin | December 2, 2021 4:30 PM The state Senate’s passage of the Healthy Youth Act, a sexual-education reform bill approved in late September, might seem like
Christmas joy for small family’s smallest member By Sophie Yarin | December 1, 2021 7:21 PM You hear it everywhere: These are trying times. Unprecedented times. Unfortunate times. Bewildering, uncertain, scary times. The shadow of the
Yarin: Fellow Jewish people, it’s time to get over Hanukkah By Sophie Yarin | December 1, 2021 7:02 PM I used to be the kind of person who’d get mad when someone wished me a merry Christmas instead of
She wants her kids to stay kids By Sophie Yarin | November 30, 2021 6:33 PM Watching one’s young children grow up is never easy. Watching them grow up in times of strife can sometimes feel
So. What’s the real reason I can’t get a Christmas tree? By Sophie Yarin | November 30, 2021 5:00 PM The nation’s hand wringing over supply-chain disruption has kicked into high gear during the holiday season, and anyone who watches
40 years later: the Second Great Lynn Fire revisited Slideshow By Sophie Yarin | November 28, 2021 8:05 PM LYNN ― On Saturday evening, the Lynn Museum hosted a presentation on a dark chapter of the city’s history that
North Shore NAACP hosts panel on racial disparities in medical services By Sophie Yarin | November 18, 2021 9:58 PM Besides being life-threatening diseases, what do prostate cancer and COVID-19 have in common? According to a number of health care
Yarin: Against compulsory culture: A rant. By Sophie Yarin | November 18, 2021 6:03 PM A quick statement of the obvious: Pop culture does not just proliferate ― it accelerates. With new media rolling off
Yarin: They had Woodstock (and Altamont); we got Astroworld By Sophie Yarin | November 9, 2021 7:17 PM “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious
NSMT brings ‘A Christmas Carol’ back for 30th run By Sophie Yarin | November 4, 2021 4:44 PM BEVERLY ― An original adaptation of a beloved Christmas story has found its home on the North Shore, and this
Food for thought: Parents provide feedback on Lynn school menu By Sophie Yarin | November 3, 2021 9:45 PM LYNN ― In response to numerous concerns levied by a group of parents, Wednesday night’s School Committee meeting consisted of
Yarin: Just another Fluff piece By Sophie Yarin | November 2, 2021 6:52 PM The pandemic has ruined a number of centennial celebrations that would have commemorated the industrious year of 1920. While many
Lynn’s All Care VNA hires new COO By Sophie Yarin | October 25, 2021 7:40 PM LYNN ― All Care VNA and Hospice has announced its new chief operating officer (COO) in former Senior Vice President
Yarin: Postcards from Camp Horror By Sophie Yarin | October 25, 2021 7:31 PM I can still remember my high school drama teacher’s reaction when I asked him what he thought of horror movies.
Walk the (40th) walk for My Brother’s Table in Lynn By Sophie Yarin | October 21, 2021 8:30 PM LYNN ― For My Brother’s Table’s 40th Annual Walk, the largest soup kitchen on the North Shore is inviting participants
