Chris Warren has played quarterback in the high school Super Bowl at the New England Patriots’ home stadium and led his Lynn Classical softball team to 38 consecutive conference wins. But Wednesday night’s 9-0 win over Lynn English – in…
Month: May 2012
Water Rates Remain as Is: The Miracle Continues
Water rates in Lynn for the second year in a row have remained the same. Lynn Water and Sewer Executive Director Dan O’Neill said the stable water rate reveals the full value of conservation efforts as well as efficiencies in…
The Summer of 2012
It is impossible to know what awaits us at the beginning of another summer of our lives. With Memorial Day past us, the mystery of the coming summer is upon us in full force. The death last week of Robin…
Obituaries 05-29-2012
Patricia Boyer New Hampshire Resident Patricia L. (Roberts) Macchione-Boyer of Salem NH died unexpectedly on May 20 at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. She was 54 years old. The loving wife of James Boyer, she also leaves a son and daughter,…
General Electric Employees Break Group-exercise World Record (Unofficial)
Four-hundred-and-thirty GE employees gathered at the plant’s walking path today and engaged in a 30-minute, instructor-led stretch-band workout, thus establishing an unofficial world record (pending verification) for the largest resistance-band group exercise. Once the registration is validated by the World…
WFNX Going off Air
In 1991, the summer going into my freshman year of high school, a monumental event would take place that would reshape music for the first half of that decade. At 7 p.m. on August 29 a raw sound from a…
Excellence and Achievement: St. Mary’s Senior Marianne Halas Will Study Pre-med at Emmanuel College
St. Mary’s High School senior Marianne Halas will experience mixed emotions when she receives her diploma at commencement ceremonies Thursday night. The Lynn resident and Class of 2012 graduate said she is sad that her four years as a member…
Mushroom Lovers Pick in Lynn: Group Travels to Lynn Woods in Search of Popular Food Item
Mushroom lovers united in Lynn over the weekend. The North Shore-based group, Mushroom Lovers U.S.A., convened at Lynn Woods Reservation Saturday to pick mushrooms. “We’re a meet-up group, meetup.com, and our mushroom lovers group has grown from 49 to 193…
A Casino in Lynn?
Two local businesspeople are reaching out to Steve Wynn, the iconic casino developer and one of the world’s richest men to consider coming to Lynn. On its face, the reach out by Patricia Keefe and David Zeller, should be complimented…
Obituaries 05-22-2012
Irene ‘Daisy’ Piasecki Retired Fruit Processor Irene P. “Daisy” (Johnson) Piasecki, a lifelong resident of Chelsea, died on May 16. She was 75 years old. A retired fruit processor, having worked at the Lowell Bros. Produce Co. in Chelsea for…