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Moulton discusses floodgate project with Saugus

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton visited Saugus Monday to discuss funding for a study of the proposed Saugus River Floodgate Project. Moulton’s meeting with local and state officials comes after the Saugus Board of Selectmen sent a letter to the local and state delegations calling for funding for a study to investigate the potential of the […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Police Log 3/5/24 – Itemlive

All address information, particularly arrests, reflects police records. In the event of a perceived inaccuracy, it is the sole responsibility of the concerned party to contact the relevant police department and have the department issue a notice of correction to The Daily Item. Corrections or clarifications will not be made without express notice of change […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Carl Vail resigns from park district board, dispute over parking in Dave Allison Park

The current entrance to the park. (Credit: Brianne Ledda) Last week, Carl Vail, one of the three commissioners of the Cut­ch­ogue-New Suffolk Park District, informed the other two members that he was resigning from the board, effective immediately.  In a letter to the editor of The Suffolk Times, Mr. Vail explained that work underway at […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Lynnfield School Committee presents work-in-progress FY25 budget recommendations

The Lynnfield School Committee and interim Superintendent Tom Geary recently met to discuss the district’s fiscal year 2025 budget and recommended a 5.5% budget increase, for a total budget of $31,302,455 with $350,000 in capital requests. Both Committee Chair Kate DePrizio and Geary emphasized that the budget being presented “is a work in progress” that […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Raymond Thomas MacLean – The Suffolk Times

Feb. 28, 1931 – Feb. 6, 2024 Raymond Thomas MacLean made his appearance in this world on Feb. 28, 1931, in East New York, Brooklyn. At the age of 5, he moved to Bellport, with his loving parents, Raymond and Jessie MacLean. Ray, an only child, grew up surrounded by beloved aunts, uncles and cousins. […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
LTE: Lynnfield should keep the high school’s library media specialist

To the editor: I am writing to address the Lynnfield Public Schools budget discussion from the School Committee’s Feb. 27 meeting. I have been a teacher in Lynnfield for eight years. Under Superintendent Kristen Vogel’s tenure, I watched our district change in ways that felt wrong to me. I watched as our high school lost […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
When we develop technology without morality, we get the Alabama in-vitro ruling

Cynthia M. Allen I have spent several days reading coverage of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized extrauterine embryos as children. Then I read the court’s actual decision and found that the two — the coverage and the ruling — have almost nothing in common. Headlines decry how the court has effectively “ended […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Garrity: Tyranny of the majority

The Federalist Papers were written to convince the people of New York and the rest of the fledgling states to ratify the Constitution that our democratic republic has labored under since the end of the 18th century. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison were political theorists whose combined wisdom has stood the test of […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Community Calendar Monday, March 4 – Saturday, March 9

LYNN Tuesday, March 5 Community Flu Vaccine clinic, City Hall Room 103, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Children’s Lego Night, Lynn Public Library, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6 Community Messy Mornings with the LPL, Lynn Public Library, 10 a.m. LPL Adult Computer Classes, Lynn Public Library 11 a.m. LPL Teen Craft Hour, […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024
Russell R. Goldsmith Jr. – The Suffolk Times

Russell R. Goldsmith Jr. of East Marion died Feb. 29, 2024. He was 81. The family will receive friends Monday, March 4 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral mass will be held Tuesday, March 5 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R. C. Church in Cutchogue. […]

Updated: Mar 4, 2024