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…
Author: Journal Staff
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…
Home Prices and Other Things
If you follow home prices on Zillow, then you know we have come back a bit from the precipice in Lynn. Prices are up a bit over last year and this past month registered a bigger gain in average price…
St. Mary’s Softball Team Wins Holland; Begins Tourney Run
The St. Mary’s High School softball team looks ready to make another run at a state championship. The Spartans won the John Holland Memorial Tournament and then raced past Winthrop, 12-2, in their opening game in the State Tournament Sunday.…
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,…
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…
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…