John Chandler US Postal retiree, worked at West Lynn Smoke Shop and Nadworny Funeral Home, Pastoral Assistant, Eucharistic Minister and member of many organizations John R. Chandler of Lynn died at Salem Hospital on March 6 after a brief illness.…
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Driving force: Ferrari keys St. Mary’s team
Kirsten Ferrari would be making headlines on almost any other team but the St. Mary’s High School junior has been content this season making everyone around her a better player and her team a contender for the state championship. Ferrari,…
Cowdell says wire relocation could begin May1
James Cowdell, the city’s development man extraordinaire, said that a historic moment is set to strike for the city. “The crux of the matter – the power lines on the Lynnway development property – are about to be moved. We’re…
What is a nuisance eviction?
I know a Lynn woman who owns her own home who became an inmate inside her home because of two degenerates who played the system, failed to pay their rent for longer than one year, and finally were evicted by…
Superintendent suspends Fila for one week
Statement of Superintendent of Schools Dr. Catherine C. Latham I am deeply troubled by the penalties assessed to Lynn English High School by the MIAA with regards to the recruiting violations that were determined to have occurred. After meeting with…
Charter school scam vote
Many, many schools in this city are underperforming or have students who cannot compare statistically to kids living in other towns less than two miles away. More kids here have lower reading and math scores than in most other cities…
Obituaries 03-04-2010
Bautista Gonzalez-Ayala, 94 Lynn resident Bautista Gonzalez-Ayala of Lynn died on February 27. Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico where he worked as a farmhand, he came to the United States in 1965, settling first in Newark, New Jersey and for…
Anderson signs NBA contract – Tech graduate joins Oklahoma City Thunder
Lynn Tech basketball coach Marvin Avery felt in his heart he would be getting a phone call soon from Antonio Anderson, with the message that he had been expecting to hear. Avery knew that his former star player at Tech…
Tech wins State Vocational championship
The Lynn Tech boys basketball program was named one of the top programs of the decade by Boston Herald sportswriter Danny Ventura. Ventura had Watertown nipping Tech for the Division 3 team of the decade honors. Tech’s status as the…
Doing what must be done
Charlie Gaeta has a bit more vision around here than most people trying to help the city’s historically significant neighborhoods to come back or to re-do themselves. As the head of the Lynn Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development (LHAND), Gaeta’s…