A sinking feeling on the Common
LYNN – A 12-foot by 16-foot sinkhole swallowed part of Shepard Street at South Common Street Friday afternoon with a Water and Sewer Commission foreman bl... Read more.
Sewell-Anderson of principal concern
LYNN – Sewell-Anderson School?s 300 students won?t start classes until Sept. 9, but new Principal Mary Panagopoulos? academic year started on July 1 when ... Read more.
Eternal flame burns again
LYNN – The four members of a Lynn family credit an outpouring of social media concern and a Wakefield businessman?s generosity for helping them recover fr... Read more.
Life after death: From grief, hope
LYNN – By telling the stories of 20 people recovering from grief, Helen Cogan said she has taken to heart a simple message in the six years since her husb... Read more.
Police student academy graduates preparing to serve
LYNN – She will be an English High School senior next year, but Kelly Portillo wants to be a police officer, and that?s why she spent six weeks this summe... Read more.
History uncovered in Nahant
NAHANT – Time – a half century, to be exact – proved no match for a reproduction of the town’s official seal that survived obscurity onl... Read more.
Pine Grove wall: the long and the short of it
LYNN – Believe it – or not – legend and local lore about the Pine Grove Cemetery wall being the “second longest contiguous stone wall in... Read more.
Steeplejack fills tall order in Nahant
NAHANT – More than a century old and 100 feet tall, the Town Hall flagpole was a comfortable place for steeplejack Joshua Klockars to work on Wednesday as... Read more.
A clean line from Saugus to West Lynn
LYNN – After moving to Illinois for a change of scenery, Susan Connors returned to Lynn and found herself filled with pride over how her South Street neig... Read more.
A resurrection of Swampscott chapel
SWAMPSCOTT – The shock Deb Bogardus received when she opened Andrews Memorial Chapel?s doors 14 years ago sparked a labor of love by more than a dozen tow... Read more.