THE SUFFOLK TIMES Mattituck-Cutchogue school district teams up with local charity for P.S. I Love You week Closing of Satur Farms’ packaging plant another sign of challenges facing North Fork farmers RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW Peconic Bay Medical Center nurses and healthcare workers vote in favor of a strike  Editorial: What the present means for the future […]

The community gathered at Swampscott Cemetery Sunday morning for the annual memorial service celebrating the life of Jennifer Harris. Feb. 7 will mark the 17th anniversary of her death. The Swampscott native served as a Marine pilot for more than five years. On Feb. 7, 2007, Harris’s CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter was shot down by […]

Lynn Wednesday, Feb. 7 Municipal Messy Mornings, Lynn Public Library, 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8 Municipal Teen Tech Space, Lynn Public Library, 10 a.m. Lynnfield Monday, Feb. 5 Municipal Tree Committee, Meeting House, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6 Municipal Lynnfield School Committee, Lynnfield Public Schools, 8:30 a.m. Lynnfield Public Library Board of Trustees, Zoom, 6:30 […]

Town Administrator Rob Dolan’s contract was provided an extension by the Select Board last week, adding another year to his contract, extending the term from Feb. 1, 2024, through Jan. 31, 2026, and was unanimously agreed upon by the Select Board. According to Select Board Chair Joe Connell, Dolan will be given a two percent […]

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. LYNNArrests Alex Bal Lopez, 37, of Nichols Street, was arrested and charged […]

At Raymond J. Bourque Arena (Endicott College), Swampscott’s boys hockey team escaped with a 3-2 win against the Beverly Panthers.  In the Saturday matinee, Jackson Bartram (2 assists) tucked the game-winning tally, while Kody Langevain and Will Roddy (assist) scored the other goals.  Dom Pappalardo (28 saves) stood strong with goaltending duties as the Big […]

SAUGUS — The town’s plans to come into compliance with the state’s MBTA Communities law, which requires cities and towns with rapid transit access or adjacency to transit to implement a zoning district allowing multi-family housing by right, remain shrouded in secrecy, with little public communication from Town Manager Scott Crabtree’s office. Crabtree said the […]

LYNN — When Jack Marino began researching the four chaplains, hailed as heroes for their actions aboard the doomed USAT Dorchester, he discovered a key piece of the story was missing. Marino, a former commander of the Capt. William G. Shoemaker, American Legion post in the city, said he began researching the chaplains when he […]

Lynn firefighters responded to a house fire on Crescent Street Sunday morning and were able to quickly knock the fire down, according to Lynn Fire Public Information Officer Lt. Denis Ring. Everyone was outside of the building, and no injuries were reported. According to Ring, the call of a building fire at 5 Crescent St. […]

Robert Pearl Modern medicine, for most of its history, has operated within a collegial environment — an industry of civility where physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals stayed in their lanes and out of each other’s business. Times have changed as health care has taken a 180-degree turn. This year will be characterized by cutthroat competition […]