The Christmas season usually is the most wonderful time of the year. But Christmas, 2020, is anything but wonderful. We are undergoing a degree of hardship unlike any that we have experienced in our lifetime. More Americans are dying each…
Author: Journal Staff
In Recognition: Lynn YMCA Announces New Name in Honor of the Demakes Family and Their Lifetime of Philanthropy
Special to the Lynn Journal YMCA of Metro North is pleased to announce its new Lynn YMCA on Neptune Boulevard is scheduled to open in Spring 2021 and will receive a new name for the 70,000 sq. ft. downtown facility.…
Small Businesses Can Enhance Employees’ Supervisory Skills
North Shore Community College’s (NSCC) Corporate and Professional Education Division has been awarded $98,000 from the Baker-Polito administration to provide training in Supervisory/Leadership Skills. The grant is funded by the Small Business Direct Access Program from the Workforce Training Fund…
Lynn City Hall Was Closed Dec. 15 – 16
Due to several positive COVID-19 cases recently reported among City of Lynn employees, Lynn City Hall was closed on Tuesday, December 15 and 16, out of an abundance of caution for full scale cleaning and sanitation. All appointments scheduled with…
Boston Ballet Presents “BB@yourhome: The Gift” Through Dec. 27
Boston Ballet presents “BB@yourhome: The Gift,” a one-hour long program featuring new works choreographed by Boston Ballet Company dancers Paul Craig, Chyrstyn Fentroy, John Lam, Haley Schwan, My’Kal Stromile, Gabriel Lorena (Boston Ballet II) and Arianna Hughlett (post graduate), set to…
Pet Safety Tips for the Holidays
We all know that cats and dogs love to chew (and unfortunately swallow) a surprising array of household items. In fact, one of the most common claims we receive at Trupanion is for Foreign Body Ingestion. The holidays, along with…
NSCC Student Wins First Prize for Creating LSCNS Logo
Special to the Lynn Journal Kelsey Taylor, a North Shore Community College liberal arts student, won first place for creating a new logo for the Life Science Consortium of the North Shore (LSCNS). Taylor, from Lynn, won $1,000 for her…
The Virus Is in Our Homes
We now are fully amidst the holiday season. Hanukkah is here and the Christmas and New Year’s holiday week is fast-approaching. Public health officials at all levels of government have been warning us for months that we must change our…
Thank You, Gov. Baker
We’d like to take a moment to express our appreciation to Gov. Charlie Baker, who has demonstrated incredible leadership during the past nine months of a crisis that is unprecedented in our state’s history. Day-after-day, Gov. Baker has confronted a…
Remember the Needy
We saw a statistic the other day that was absolutely mind-numbing: 18% of all Americans, and 24% of American children, do not have enough to eat on a daily basis. We mention this because during this Christmas season, when many…