This spring the Yawkey Foundations awarded scholarships to 22 high school seniors from Massachusetts. Each of the recipients displayed a high level of academic achievement, leadership potential and was involved in a balance of community, school and work activities. The…
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Warren Named Globe Coach of the Year
The Lynn Classical softball program’s 21-win season has earned its leader one of the state’s most esteemed awards: Boston Globe Coach of the Year. Chris Warren, Classical softball coach for the past 12 seasons, received the Globe’s top honor in…
GE Contracted Janitors are on Unfair Labor Practice Strike
What: 24-hour unfair labor practice strike and picket by Complete Cleaning employees that clean General Electric plant in Lynn to combat Complete Cleaning’s retaliatory firing of workers and other illegal unfair labor practices Where: General Electric plant at 1100 Western…
A Plan for a Brand: Mayor Kennedy Considers Marketing Campaign for the City
Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy announced at a Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast Friday that the city is considering a new branding and marketing campaign for the city. “I was approached a couple of weeks ago by the EDIC who…
Clancy Tournament will Continue in 2012
We are pleased to announce that after a meeting between Edward ‘Chip’ Clancy, Frank Carey, Gary Molea, Jeff Newhall and Bill Devin, that the Clancy Tournament will continue for many years to come on Memorial Day weekend at Fraser Field.…
Graphic Boomer Tell All Memoir – The Evening News with Walter Cronkite
The Evening News with Walter Cronkite evokes a time, the years 1967-1971, and the shift in ideals and experience through the closely observed eyes of Jack Krivitsky. He goes off to college in 1967 straddling two worlds: the upper middle…
Lord Stanley, Meet Captain Chara
One of our photographers grabbed this historic shot Thursday morning of Boston Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara exiting the charter plane at Logan Airport while hoisting the Stanley Cup into the air. A small group of fans were there to cheer…
A Proud English Graduate Moves On
Whittredge overcame adversity and became a school leader Neil Whittredge’s message to his fellow graduates at Lynn English High School is: Accept change, create diversity, and push to succeed when adversity faces you.” Whittredge overcame some major obstacles in his…
Looking at Politics: Blame Everyone
The John Pace dismissal isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Nothing is, really, as most of us know. Why Pace was dismissed by Chief Financial Officer Richard Fortucci is, among other things, the most talked about recent event at…
Pace Fired by Fortucci in a Total Turn Around
There is an ancient story told about Caesar and Pompey, Rome’s greatest generals, who went after one another until their final meeting in battle at Pharsalus in the year 48 BC. Pompey had 150,000 troops as compared with Caesar’s Legion…