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Lynn lands $100,000 grant for early literacy screening

A $100,000 state grant will help Lynn’s public schools bolster its early literacy screening program, allowing the district to select a screener that fully meets expectations as set by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The screener serves a dual purpose, first to identify or determine indications of growth in early literacy skills for […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
It’s 2024 and Trump is still losing on Obamacare

Mary Ellen Klas The iconic image of former Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain giving the thumbs down in a crucial 2017 vote to repeal Obamacare still annoys Donald Trump. “We’re gonna fight for much better health care than Obamacare,’’ the former president told supporters in Iowa, earlier this month. “Obamacare is a catastrophe. Nobody talks […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
Robotics program a smash hit in Saugus

SAUGUS — While the Belmonte Bullbots and the Techno Titans, the two teams representing the Belmonte STEAM Academy at the Lego League Robotics Competition in December, may not have taken home the top prize, there is no shortage of enthusiasm for robotics in the town’s schools. However, the program is limited to only students at […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
PUTTING SOME ENGLISH ON IT

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Updated: Jan 28, 2024
Swampscott Superintendent promotes Director of Finance

SWAMPSCOTT— Superintendent of Schools Pamela Angelakis announced that the district’s Director of Finance, Cheryl Herrick-Stella, has been promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operation. The promotion comes on the heels of Herrick-Stella’s one-year anniversary of working in Swampscott schools. Angelakis said that her new role will allow her to impact the direction of the […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
We welcome your letters — but let’s be civil

We’d like to remind our readers of some basic rules for writing letters to the editor for publication in the Suffolk Times. First, we want to stress that we value your opinions and, as a community newspaper, we want to publish them. Providing readers the opportunity to freely express their viewpoints in a publication that […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
Letters to the editor: We must understand the Constitution

NEW SUFFOLKHas it ‘changed everything’? “Sea level rise has changed everything?”  This is an interesting article (“Saturday’s high tide is a major concern,” Jan. 18) but the implication that high tides and local flooding are new is wrong. First, according to tide tables, Jan. 12 was the peak local high tide and the 11th and […]

Updated: Jan 28, 2024
Southold Blotter: Pet parrot calls 911 on man’s phone in Greenport

Current Southold police headquarters. (Melissa Azofeifa photo) A Greenport woman reported to police Jan. 17 that her boyfriend had overdosed and was not responsive. An officer interviewed the boyfriend in the basement of the house, where he was alert and walking around. He “appeared to be in an impaired state and admitted to using heroin […]

Updated: Jan 27, 2024
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Updated: Jan 27, 2024
St. Mary’s protects its house against Bishop Feehan

LYNN — Friday night hoops in Lynn, featuring the visiting Bishop Feehan Shamrocks and host St. Mary’s Spartans, who showed off all their strengths in a 59-51 win. Coach Dave Brown of St. Mary’s (9-4; No. 18 in Division 3) was pleased with his team’s performance against a tough Feehan (5-6; No. 46 in Division […]

Updated: Jan 27, 2024