Author: Journal Staff

Looking at the News

Those of us who know Suffolk University and understand what goes on there have come to love the place. It has grown into a major university over the years and its Law School has produced a legion of powerful Massachusetts…

The Stormy Weekend

Lynn/Nahant Beach over the wet weekend rocked and rolled. Huge waves rolling in and smashing against the seawall roared and crashed until the wee hours of the morning when Saturday turned to Sunday. The roar of the ocean, and we…

Obituaries 06-05-2012

Genevieve Marzec Member of St Michael’s Parish and Many Organizations Genevieve T. (Kocialka) Marzec died at home on May 29 surrounded by her loving family. She was 95 years old. She was born in Salem the daughter of the late Konstanty…

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,…

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…

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…