50 Lynn families were brought together for the “Family Day with SkillUSA” event Saturday at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute. “The main mission is to give out a sense of hope and a sense of healing. I think in the past few months there’s been sort of a wave of hostility within our city and I […]
A state grant is being put to good use at the auto technician and welding programs at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute. Late last year, Lynn Tech received a $200,000 state Career Technical Initiative grant to offer classes in automotive technology and welding for adults. CTI Program Director David Gagner said the class began last week […]
Swampscott Police are warning residents about stolen mail— particularly checks— from mailboxes. The region-wide issue was brought to light when resident Sally Clapp revealed that she had a check stolen from a U.S. Postal Service collection box outside the Swampscott Post Office. “We just had a check stolen from the mailbox in front, altered and […]
The Saugus Department of Planning and Economic Development might be restructured to attract more qualified and experienced candidates, Town Manager Scott Crabtree said. Crabtree, speaking during a discussion of the fiscal year 2025 operating budget at a recent meeting of the Board of Selectmen, said that the town has had difficulty finding a second person […]
An aerial view of the Greenport waterfront. (Credit: David Benthal) As I stood on the side of Main Road and gazed towards what was once nearly 7 acres of grasses, trees and wildlife, I was struck by how quickly the bulldozers had done their work scraping the land of all life. All of this work […]
Veronica Stelzer, a teacher at Oysterponds Elementary School, voices her opinion on the state of affordable housing in Southold last September. (Nicholas Grasso photo) SOUTHOLD Thank you for writing this editorial I wanted to commend you for your excellent opinion article in the latest Suffolk Times (“Maybe the sky is falling — so now what?”). […]
Across the North Fork, as development projects are proposed and debated, the nearly universal response from most residents is an immediate, “No, that is not a good use of our open space and, if built, it will destroy our community character.” Riverhead and Southold share the North Fork and the beauty and natural splendor that […]
Southold police were called to a Greenport bar Feb. 19 to investigate a trespassing report against Carlos Hernandez, 30, of Orient, who had earlier been served with a notice of trespass for that location, according to police. He was arrested for trespassing and transported to headquarters for arraignment. • On Feb. 20, a Mattituck man […]
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LYNN — No. 10 St. Mary’s – coming off its Division 3 Championship appearance against Archbishop Williams last winter – met its match in Friday night’s Round of 32 against No. 23 Dover-Sherborn. The host Spartans fell in a 47-46 nail-biter that came down to the final shot. JJ Martinez came to play with 26 […]
