After the MIAA imposed a postseason ban for every Fenwick team, the team most affected by this was the Bishop Fenwick girls basketball team. Last year they finished second in the state and this year they were primed to make another run at the state title. With the ban imposed, all they could do was […]
LYNNFIELD — The boys basketball team got off to a slow start Monday afternoon against visiting Tewksbury, but stepped it up over the last three quarters to close out the season with a 60-47 victory and finish the regular season 15-5. It was no easy task however. The Pioneers twice got the lead up to […]
Lynnfield Director of Public Works John Tomasz presented his department’s budget request for fiscal year 2025 at the Select Board’s most recent meeting. “The budget’s a 2.4% increase from last year,” Tomasz said during his presentation. The Department of Public Works had a budget of roughly $8.3 million in FY24, and Tomasz said the budget […]
?????????? Charlotte Dickerson of Mattituck was called home peacefully to our Lord on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. She was 90 years old. Born in 1933 to Catherine (Grochowski) and Frank Wolgo on her family’s small Mattituck farm, she was the youngest of four. She held dear the value of family, her Polish heritage, her Catholic […]
Mary Gajek of Greenport, and former longtime resident of Woodside, Queens, died on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital. She was 92 years old. Mary was born on Nov. 6, 1931, in Jesiorko, Poland to Marcella (née Staszkowski) and Stanislaw Marzec. She was one of two surviving children; four siblings […]
The Nahant Cultural Council is bringing a classical music concert to the Community Center on Saturday, March 2. The concert will be performed by the string quartet Fin de Siècle, which features violinist and Nahant resident Katharina Radlberger, violinist Sarah Ibbett, violist Karen McConomy, and cellist Jennifer Morsches. Before taking her talents to Nahant, Radlberger […]
Lynn is set to celebrate the creativity of African American artists this week at Lynn Museum/LynnArts. The African-American In The Arts: A Black History Month Celebration exhibition will start Feb. 19 and conclude Feb. 23. Lynn Museum/LynnArts Executive Director Doneeca Thurston-Chavez said the events will have something for everyone. “We want attendees to have the opportunity […]
June McGinty, a former resident of Mattituck, died in Myerstown, Pa., on Feb. 18, 2024. She was 95. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, Feb. 26, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery, where she will be laid […]
The Town of Swampscott announced it is still seeking volunteers for both the Solid Waste Advisory and Climate Action Plan Committees. SWAC is looking to add three resident voting members, while CAPC has one position open. The town expressed a preference that it be filled by a high school student to receive input from the […]
Before dawn on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, Steve “Buck” Buchanan of Cutchogue joined a choir of angels at the age of 76. Steve passed peacefully at East End Hospice Kanas Center with his wife, Karin Stiles Buchanan, and his stepdaughter Kristen Gregory by his side. Steve “Buck” was our “Miracle Man” after overcoming multiple health […]
