By Jay Lancaster Double-poles were front and center at the City Council meeting Tuesday night, as councilors took on the issue of how to cut down their numbers around the city. Representatives for Comcast and Verizon each received verbal lashings…
Author: Journal Staff
Mayor Kennedy to Make Election Announcement
Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy was set to make a major announcement about her plans to run for re-election at “A Cocktail Hour with Mayor Kennedy” event Wednesday night at the Porthole Restaurant in Lynn. Kennedy is in her second term…
NSCC Presents George Orwell’s Animal Farm
North Shore Community College (NSCC) and The Performing Arts Council present George Orwell’s Animal Farm, adapted by Ian Wooldridge and directed by Matthew Woods. The neglected animals of Manor Farm overthrow their keepers, and vow to create a utopian society…
Sacred Heart School Easter Basket Drive
In the lunchroom cafeteria of the Sacred Heart School is a table stacked with Easter baskets wrapped in pink cellophane and pastel ribbons. As a school-wide Lenten project, students from each classroom collected goodies to donate to the Lynn Shelter…
Conlon Family to Award Scholarship
In 1996 to honor the memory of Michael J. Conlon, Lynn English Class of 1992 and Babson College, Class of 1996, a Memorial Scholarship was established. Sadly, Michael’s sister died on Feb. 10, 2011 from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Michelle also graduated…
Breaking Communication Barriers in the Lynn Community
A new one-hour radio program in Lynn called “Orientacion Juridica A La Comunidad” has been sharing news and information with its Lynn-area listening audience since the beginning of the new year. The bilingual program host and Lynn resident, Eulogio Portes,…
Spring Has Sprung….
Although our winter season was a mild one, both in terms of cold and snow, giving us hopes for an early arrival of spring, our optimism proved illusory thanks to a near record-setting chilly and wet month of March that…
Happy Easter
It’s hard to believe that another Easter already is upon us. Good Friday and Easter Sunday will be here this week, and those of the Christian faith will begin the observance of the holiest days of their religion upon which…
Happy Passover
We want to wish our friends in the Jewish community a Happy Passover or Happy “Pesach” as this important holiday is known in Hebrew. The holiday begins with a special Passover dinner known as a Seder when the story is…
Obituaries 04-11-2017
Eugene Hally GE retiree, of Florida, formerly of Lynn Eugene C. Hally of Barefoot Bay, FL, formerly ofLynn and Georgetown, died peacefully on March 25. He was 81 years old. Gene was born at Lynn Hospital, raised and educated in…