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.
LYNN – One of the last things I told the Harrington School fourth-graders to whom I read aloud for an hour Friday morning was that if they never read anot... Read more.
LYNN – Two-term Lynn School Committee member Charlie Gallo says he will not seek re-election in November.Gallo, who was defeated last September by Brendan... Read more.
LYNN – Brad Tilley was there in the beginning, when the late Peter A. Sawin founded the Lynn high school swimming program. Sawin, who died in 2002, and fo... Read more.
LYNN – The Lynn Classical swim team is three quarters of the way toward matching Lynn Tech?s four-year dynasty in the Lynn City Swim Meet. The Rams won th... Read more.
FOXBOROUGH – The New England Patriots did what the Green Bay Packers didn?t Sunday. That?s why they?re going to the Super Bowl while Aaron Rodgers and The... Read more.
FOXBOROUGH – The window for Tom Brady remains open.For the sixth time in the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady era – and eighth overall – the New Engla... Read more.
Former Lynn Mayor Thomas Costin?s affection for the late U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke was both professional and personal. And, says Costin, Brooke, who died Satur... Read more.
The year 2014 was punctuated by bad weather, from a succession of “polar vortices” in the winter to a devastating tornado in Revere July 28 that dam... Read more.
LYNN – As it turns out, Santa?s Island and New York theater have something in common: Broadway is better.Lynn funeral director David J. Solimine took his ... Read more.
LYNN – Yaya DeJesus knew she loved dancing ever since she was a small child in the Dominican Republic.Then, when she came to the United States 12 years ag... Read more.