Month: February 2010

Doing what must be done

Charlie Gaeta has a bit more vision around here than most people trying to help the city’s historically significant neighborhoods to come back or to re-do themselves. As the head of the Lynn Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development (LHAND), Gaeta’s…

Fila will appeal MIAA decision

Lynn English Principal Andy Fila said he intends to file an appeal with the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association regarding its decision to penalize the English boys basketball program for recruiting violations. The MIAA will not allow head coach Buzzy Barton…

Barton’s suspension unfair, Draconian

The suspension of Lynn English basketball coach Buzzy Barton by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association is about as unfair as anything having to do with high school sports we have witnessed in years. That the gratuitous complaints of a principal…

Tiger Woods

Maybe you listened to him. Maybe you didn’t. But Tiger Woods’ apology on television last Friday was quintessential American media stuff. It was fabulous theater. Tiger even choked up a bit. Bottom line, we thought it was a US Open…

Obituaries 02-25-2010

Karen Voto, 48 Whidden Memorial Hospital Nurse Manager Karen M. (Messina) Voto of Lynnfield died peacefully February 18 in the Whidden Memorial Hospital surrounded by her loving and devoted family following a long illness. She was 48 years old. The…

Teenager dies in Gallagher Park

Pine Hill residents have been shocked and shaken by the stabbing death of a Lynn teenager at Gallagher Park Friday night. According to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office Huy Le,19, was apparently found dead at the scene by Lynn…