There is nothing quite like a Fourth of July along the coast of the North Shore. There are flags everywhere, people, parties, cookouts, entire streets shut off for block parties and there are the fireworks which nearly everyone so enjoys.…
Category: Editorials
The Mayor, Tim Phelan, Whomever Else
The time will be here before you know it when the mayor will be revving up her re-election effort and her opponents will be doing the same to theirs. At this moment, Council President Tim Phelan appears to be a…
Thank You Police and Fire
Saturday night the electricity went off for several thousand of us who live along Ocean Street all the way to the Swampscott line and along Lynn Shore Drive to the same place. The electricity had been off about an hour…
KIPP in the Limelight
It is one thing to create and carry on with a very ambitious educational venue and to make it work above all odds and to enjoy great success. It is another thing to have a gaffe and have to apologize…
Agganis Week Begins
One of the great events on the North Shore every year for student athletes is the Agganis Classics week. It is not only a tribute to one of Lynn’s most legendary athletes, Harry Agganis, but a final recognition for the…
Graduation 2012
Lynn’s public high schools and St. Mary’s have held their graduations. Slightly more than 1000 Lynn students will shortly move on to colleges and universities or into the armed forces or into the business community. This year’s graduates enter a…
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…
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…
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…