By Cary Shuman IAABO Board 130 honored Lynn resident and longtime basketball referee Bob “Moona” Mullins with its James Young Courage Award at the group’s annual Awards Dinner Tuesday at the Danversport Yacht Club. Paul Halloran, former Board 130 president,…
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St Mary’s Boys Basketball will Opt Up to Division 3 Next Season
By Cary Shuman The St. Mary’s High School boys basketball program, fresh off winning the Division 4 state championship, will opt up for placement in Division 3 next season. The Spartans, led by coach David Brown, defeated Maynard, 61-52, in…
Lynn Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Identity Theft
A Lynn tax preparer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on March 24 in Boston in connection with a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns without her clients’ knowledge and pocket the excess refunds. Claudia Carredano, 46, pleaded guilty to…
St Mary’s Claims State Basketball Title
By Cary Shuman There are 351 cities and towns in the state and more than 300 member schools in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association. Each March only four teams have the honor of leaving the basketball court with the Massachusetts…
An Electric State Final:Franklin Edges St Mary’s in Double OT
By Cary Shuman The heart and character of the 2015-16 St. Mary’s High School boys hockey team can never be questioned. Twice facing two-goal deficits in the Division 1 state championship game and when a lesser group could have folded…
St.Mary’s Edges Cathedral for Emass Crown
By Cary Shuman The St. Mary’s High School boys basketball team defeated Cathedral, 65-64, in dramatic fashion in the Eastern Mass. final Monday at the TD Garden. Matthew Cross, a 6-foot-6-inch eighth grader, scored the winning basket with two seconds…
Market Basket of the Future:Developer Begins Excavation of Former Factory of the Future Site
By Joseph Domelowicz Jr. Swampscott resident and developer Charles Patsios was joined by Lynn Mayor Judith Flangan Kennedy on Monday, as an excavating machine begin the work tearing down the walls of the once state-of-the-art General Electric (GE) manufacturing facility…
Cyr,Coppinger Preparing Runs for Essex Sheriff
By Joseph Domelowicz Jr. At the rate things are going in the race to succeed outgoing Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins, there could wind up being more candidates for Sheriff than Republican presidential candidates. Lynn City Councilor Darren Cyr and…
Lynn Becomes First City in Mass to be Certified as Effectively Eliminating Veterans’ Homelessness
Lynn has become the first city in Massachusetts to be certified by the federal government as having effectively eliminated homelessness among veterans. The official announcement confirming the certification was held in a ceremony Tuesday at the Lynn Museum. The certification…
A Good Fight
The St. Mary’s girls’ basketball team faced a tough opponent in Bishop Fenwick on Tuesday night, March 8, and ended up losing. The loss ended a very successful season for the team, which saw very notable victories over several tournament…