Weekly round up of high school sports scores for the North Fork. BOYS BASKETBALL Class B Playoffs Mattituck (7-13, 4-10) will visit Babylon (6-12, 5-9) in a semifinal game of the Suffolk County playoffs on Monday, Feb. 26, at 5 p.m. The Tuckers and Panthers split their season series, with Mattituck winning the first League […]

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. LYNN Arrests Carlos Alcantara-Acosta, 25, of Boylston Street in Boston, was arrested […]

A panel of local black leaders shared their stories of what it was like growing up in Lynn and their perspectives on the black experience in honor of the Black History Month. Lynn Museum/LynnArts Executive Director Doneeca Thurston-Chavez was the moderator for the Black History Month Panel that was held in the Lynn Auditorium on […]

The Swampscott For All Ages Committee met Tuesday night to further their discussion on their Dementia Friendly Initiative. The initiative, tentatively titled Forget-Me-Not, is an effort to make respect and inclusion for seniors with dementia and other memory-impairing disabilities more of a priority for Swampscott businesses. Last December, Swampscott Council on Aging received approximately $7,000 […]

LYNN — With less than 10 seconds remaining in Tuesday night’s Spartan Classic championship game, St. Mary’s girls held a 48-46 lead over Oliver Ames. But in the 50-49 win for the host Spartans, it took some big-time heroics to get the job done. Oliver Ames sophomore Avery Gamble drilled one from downtown with 5.4 […]

The Marblehead hockey team skated its way to a Fournier Division championship in the Newburyport Bank Classic Tournament on Tuesday, topping Triton to end the regular season with a 12-9-1 record. In the 2-1 final at Graf Skating Rink in Newburyport, James Caeran and Toby Grenier were on goal-scoring duties – both finding twine in […]

(photo credit: Steve Wick) While a great deal of change has occurred on the North Fork in recent years, in many ways, at many businesses, small-town Southold is still on display. Which brings us to Brian Walker, who last month celebrated 25 years as store manager at Southold Pharmacy. The store, on Main Road in […]

THE SUFFOLK TIMES Local athletes leap and bound to state championships Brian Walker marks 25 years at Southold Pharmacy RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW Man charged for dumping 24-foot boat in Pine Barrens SWR Wildcats girls hoops land No. 4 seed SHELTER ISLAND REPORTER Shelter Island ‘Souper Bowl’ scores a win: School rallies to support food pantry NORTHFORKER […]

The Community Preservation Committee continued hearing from grant applicants at their meeting on Monday night. The first proposal heard was from Johnson Elementary School Principal Kevin Andrews, with a value of $15,606, as he seeks to install a “boulder scramble” at the school’s Forest Playground. The project described an eroding incline that students climb up […]

The Peabody City Council will vote on Thursday on the authorization of a pair of statements of interest to be submitted to the Massachusetts School Building Authority seeking grant funding to replace the roofs of both the South and West Memorial Elementary Schools. The statements of interest were approved by the School Committee last week […]