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…
Patrol plan will benefit beachgoers in Lynn, Nahant
State Police officials at Revere Beach have announced a comprehensive plan to patrol that Beach this summer, and those resources will spill over to beaches in Lynn and Nahant. The days of depleted staffing at the area’s beaches isn’t quickly…
Spartans win Holland Tournament
It was a battle between the St. Mary’s Spartans and the Lynn Classical Rams during the championship game of this year’s Holland Tournament, but the Spartans triumphed over the Rams 9-4. The Spartans’ Samantha Kiley had an impressive game, striking…
Bullies have no place in Lynn schools
The Lynn School Department is to be praised for its proactive and correct effort to implement a legal and just protocol to be used against those who bully other students. Bullying can’t be legislated away. In other words, we can’t…
Baker at the Porthole
Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, everyone’s favorite Republican, came to the Porthole Restaurant for an early morning Lynn Chamber of Commerce breakfast. He is an appealing sort – a good looking, tall, Harvard guy who made a fortune in the health…