The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program has named Lynn English High School as a Mix It Up Model School for its exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among students and throughout campus during the 2011-12 school year.…
Sakowich Recalls Lynn Lions Hoop Season
What would happen today if you placed all of Lynn’s best high school basketball players on one team? You’d have one very good basketball team representing the city and most likely competing for the state title every year. But that’s…
St. Mary’s Boys Basketball Celebrates Its 2012 State Championship Season
The St. Mary’s High School boys basketball team celebrated its state championship season at an awards banquet March 28 at Thompson Country Club in North Reading. It was an event befitting the achievement as each player received awards and gifts…
Obituaries 04-03-2012
Gordon ‘Chick’ Kennedy, Jr. Worked for Champion Lamp, Norelco and Mass. Turnpike Authority Gordon M. “Chick” Kennedy, Jr. of Lynn died at home on March 29 surrounded by his family. He was 74 years old. Born in Lynn, he was…
Shorts Are In
The Lynn School Committee has decided to allow middle and high school students to wear shorts year around. However the mayor said students in Lynn’s public schools must make sure of their appropriateness. The committee discussed the possibilities for about…
Legendry Coach Herb Brenner Look Back at 1962 Season
The Lynn Journal sat down with legendary Lynn basketball coach Herb Brenner to talk about the 1961-62 Lynn Lions’ season. The 93-year-old Brenner, a patient at the Aviv Center for Living in Swampscott where is rehabilitating from shoulder surgery, was…