Murdock softball coach Daniel Tenney paid the St. Mary’s softball team the highest compliments after Saturday’s Division 3 state championship game. “St. Mary’s is absolutely the best team we played all season,” said Tenney. “They’re a state champion, not only…
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Nine years of glory
They started playing softball together in the Wyoma Little League as nine year-olds. Samantha Kiley was the standout pitcher on the mound and Brittany Hanscom was the classy catcher behind the plate. Just two Lynn kids learning the game under…
Drinking in Lynn
The mayor is heading down the wrong path suggesting that Lynn’s bars should be open for business after 1:00 am in the morning. Serving as a mouthpiece for the city’s bar owners is one thing. Being the mayor of this…
Duffy leading quest for police funding
Councillor at Large Stephen Duffy’s proposal to solicit money from members of Lynn’s business community to beef up the police budget is unique and controversial at the same time. “If the Police Department can’t find the resources it needs, I…
Budget hearings to highlight furloughs
The Lynn City Council will begin holding budget hearings Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The review of the budget to be discussed Tuesday evening includes public safety and other city spending. It is expected that there could be a discussion on…
Governor Patrick on triumphant Lynn tour
Govenor Deval Patrick began his day at the Lynn Health Center, moved on to Bridgewell – Lynn Mental Health Center on Boston Street and closed the circle at Lynn/Nahant Beach. In all three visits to locations either being expanded or…
Phelan takes emergency action after bloody pit bull maulings
Two brutal and bloody pit bull maulings that took place over the Memorial Day weekend in Lynn have led City Council President Tim Phelan to seek an immediate amendment to the City’s Dog Ordinance. Phelan’s amendment seeks to place added…
Drewicz kindergarten students excel in US census poster contest
The kindergarten students in Pam Laramie’s class at the Drewicz School are certainly making a good ac-count of themselves in the ongoing U.S. census effort. Not only are they learning about the federal population count that takes place every 10…
City facing real time budget realities; mayor trying to avoid layoffs
The city is facing a moment of truth as Mayor Judith Flanagan-Kennedy is making every effort to avoid layoffs during a budget season when there is less money around than last year. The raecession and everything else affecting the local…
Barroom politics
Former Mayor Chip Clancy took major heat from the city’s bar owners and many others in that sphere when he turned back the clock on the bar rooms and set closing time at 1:00 a.m. Now there is talk making…