There are three questions on the ballot for the upcoming state election on Tuesday, November 6. The three are about as unrelated and disparate as one could imagine. The first question asks voters to adopt a proposed new law that…
Author: Journal Staff
Champions for NSCC Recognition Breakfast
North Shore Community College held its second Annual Champions for NSCC Recognition Breakfast. Three community leaders received Champions Awards at the breakfast. From left, are NSCC Foundation President Stephen Vesey, Mary Sarris, executive director of the North Shore Workforce Investment…
Council Backs Ordinance to Clean Up Properties
In an effort to clean up some properties the City Council voted to amend an ordinance regulating the maintenance of abandoned, foreclosed residential and commercial properties. The ordinance acknowledges the number of foreclosed homes with banks and large real estate…
Councillors to Consider More Borrowing
At their upcoming Oct. 23 meeting, the city council will consider a request from the city’s Chief Financial Officer Michael Bertino and the Mayor Thomas McGee to borrow $4.5 million. During fiscal year 2018, which ended June 30, the city…
City Council Approves Space for MWRA
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is preparing to replace a large, inactive pipe under the General Edwards Bridge and the Lynn City Council has agreed to rent the MWRA some land near the site and adjacent to the Lynn…
Our Veterans:Transfer-Mation New Life for the Lynn Armory
T he Lynn Armory was transfered to the Neighborhood Development Association during a special ceremony inside the Lynn Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development Community Room. Director of Veteran Services Michael Sweeney called the event “a fitting tribute to the service…
Letter to the Editor
VOTE YES ON QUESTION 3 Dear Editor Massachusetts has always been a leader in the nation. The United States looks to our state as a model for progressivism, especially when it comes to civil rights. We were, after all, the…
Massachusetts Must Move Forward on Our Own
With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, coming on the heels of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch, it is clear that the America as we have known it for the past 70 years, a time in…
Robyn Mazin, a St Mary’s Success Story
Valedictorian Class of 1997, National Honor Society member, first female basketball player at St. Mary’s to score 1000 points, softball player, soccer player, voted Most Athletic and Most Likely to Succeed – all is who Robyn Mazin was in high…
Matt Willis Named as Head Coach of The Revere Girls Varsity Basketball Team
Revere High School Athletic Director Frank Shea has announced that Matt Willis has been named as the new head coach of the Revere girls varsity basketball team. Willis was most recently the head coach at Amesbury High School. Willis succeeds…