LYNN — The city of Lynn is getting $100,000 to help rehabilitate the Lynn Multiservice Center. The grant comes from the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund, a program in the One Stop and administered by MassDevelopment. The grant program aims to help transform vacant, abandoned, or underused industrial or commercial properties by financing the environmental assessment and […]
LYNN — With winter on the horizon, the city is looking to add contractors to its fleet of snow plows. Department of Public Works Commissioner Andy Hall said that the goal is to have 250 pieces of equipment under contract in addition to the 47 pieces owned by the DPW to cover 28 routes throughout […]
To the editor: I’d like to offer an alternative perspective on the recent issues with the Lynnfield School Committee. I believe that the main issue is not improving communications between the School Committee and parents, but in identifying the problems facing LPS teachers and proposing concrete solutions. My concern is that the focus has shifted […]
Many families use the holiday season to enjoy warm food, spoil their children with gifts from Santa, and take a break from the day-to-day stress of work to spend quality time with their loved ones. But for the 15,507 people in Massachusetts that the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported were without stable housing […]
NEW YORK — TIME Magazine named Tony Award-winning actor and Lynn native Alex Newell Breakthrough Artist for their success both on stage and on screen as one of the two first non-binary actors to win a Tony. In the Spring, Newell, who attended KIPP Academy and graduated from Bishop Fenwick High School, won a Tony Award […]
Tyler Cowen The YIMBY movement has so far focused on the deregulation of the residential housing market. In California, for instance, a variety of legal changes have made it easier to build more densely. In the commercial market, there is no real YIMBY movement — and not just because offices tend not to have […]
Alexander Stephen Cuenin III of Southold died Nov. 30, 2023, at home. He was 90. Born June 30, 1933, in Brooklyn, he was the son of Alexander Stephen Cuenin Jr. and Mabel Smallberg. He graduated from La Salle Academy in New York City and went to Marquette University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Mr. Cuenin […]
James Stanley Martinsen, aged 46, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. He is survived by his father, James, and stepmother, Robin, of East Setauket, N.Y.; his mother, Virginia, of Florida; his younger brother Michael of Manorville; stepsisters Morgan and Ashley; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. There will be a memorial service for Jimmy […]
Helene Estelle Meras (Jordan) of Riverhead, formerly of New Suffolk, died Dec. 2, 2023, in Riverhead. She was 94. Born Aug. 1, 1929, in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of Henry C. and May Jordan (Mills). A graduate of Southold High School, she was employed for 40 years at New York Bell as a supervisor. […]
Christine Elizabeth “Christie” Nietupski of Cutchogue, and formerly of Arizona, passed away suddenly on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. She was 33 years old. Christie was born on Dec. 22, 1989, in Phoenix, Ariz., to Tracy A. (née Doyle) and Daniel “Scott” Nietupski. She was one of five children. She attended elementary school and middle school […]
