Lilly Corwin snatches a rebound. She scored 24 of Greenport’s 40 points Tuesday. (photo credit: Robert O’Rourk) It’s not every day that your star player nearly outscores the first-place team sporrting a nine-game winning streak. Then again, it’s not every team that has someone like Lilly Corwin. The Greenport/Southold senior captain and forward played one […]
LYNN — After interviewing five candidates for the position this week, the district has decided that Molly Cohen will be Lynn Public Schools’ newest deputy superintendent. In the more than 20 years Cohen spent serving as an educator in Lynn, she held numerous leadership positions, serving as interim deputy superintendent for a year following Secretary […]
NAHANT — Alberta McMahon sat at the entrance of Jesmond Nursing Home as arriving guests greeted her for her 100th birthday party on Thursday. The Revere native graduated from Immaculate Conception High School in 1941. She married Martin McMahon in 1948 and they soon moved their budding family to Lynnfield. Her career history included working […]
Carl P. Leubsdorf Anyone who wonders why Congress hasn’t passed immigration legislation for decades need only look at the political shenanigans surrounding the current bipartisan Senate effort to cope with the issue. Once again, the roadblocks are House Republicans, who don’t believe in the concept of compromise, and Donald Trump, who prefers an issue to […]
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 Gabriel Alcantara, 30, of Sheridan Street, was arrested for operation […]
Matthew Yglesias One of the few bipartisan traditions left in American politics is hating on the presidential debates. They’re never substantive enough, the moderators always intervene too much or too little, and they have little effect on voters. Who needs ‘em? So reports that President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are contemplating skipping this year’s […]
Jack Sepenoski makes it past two Greenport defenders, Jeremiah Smith (l) and Fausto Compos (r). (photo credit: Robert O’Rourk) How appropriate that on one of the coldest nights of the month, they staged a barn-burner of a boys basketball game at Southold High School. The Suffolk County League VII contest between Greenport and Southold had […]
Bud Holman beginning in the 1980s served as the de facto Chairman, before there was such a title, of the second oldest law firm in the country, Kelley Drye and Warren where he continued to represent clients on behalf of the firm until his death at the age of 93 on Jan. 23, 2024. In […]
Francis J. Meyer of Mattituck passed away Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. He was 88. The family will receive friends Monday, Feb. 5 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of […]
The Marblehead Police Department is asking for the public’s help in obtaining Ring footage or similar showing a black sedan/SUV that was involved in a hit-and-run that resulted in the car striking and killing a dog Wednesday evening. According to a social media post, police said that the car was driving down the one-way Beach […]
