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Updated: Mar 29, 2024
ROUNDUP: Swampscott girls lacrosse wins big

Thursday was opening day in girls lacrosse, and Swampscott (1-0) came out of the gates firing on all cylinders. The Big Blue – true to their name – defeated Saugus (0-1), 17-3.  Swampscott received goals from Mia Dahlman (4), Coco Clopton (4), Avery Laundry (2), Madeline Goldman (2), Fiona Kearney (2 goals, assist), Samantha Demady […]

Updated: Mar 29, 2024
St. Mary’s Track — Running for My Brother’s Table

Last year, St. Mary’s High School, in partnership with the track and field team, decided to run a marathon to raise money for the Martin Richard Foundation. The idea sprung from a summer reading book the English department assigned called “Stronger” by Jeff Bauman.  “Stronger” describes the events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Bauman’s […]

Updated: Mar 29, 2024
Police Log 3/29/24 – Itemlive

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  Arnett Bracy, 66, was arrested for possession of a class […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
Sagan paves the way for women in Swampscott

Phyllis Sagan takes pride in being a woman entrepreneur. The Swampscott resident single-handedly started her own real estate business more than 35 years ago. However, her charity work has always been of utmost importance to her. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sagan had a short teaching career. “I’d like to say I […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
Peabody Historical Commission unveils plaque program; cemetery plans

The Peabody Historical Commission has announced that applications are out for a plaque program, through which businesses and commercial buildings that meet historical-building criteria can order a plaque explaining what the building was originally created for and its history.  One criterion is that the area should be in the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS), […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
The US just fired a first diplomatic shot at Israel

Andreas Kluth “Abstention” is a deceptively diplomatic word, implying some sort of bureaucratic omission. And yet this week’s decision by the US to abstain from casting its veto in the United Nations Security Council turned a page in history. For the first time since the terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel on Oct. 7 — […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
The Supreme Court tackles abortion again. How much will it hurt Republicans in 2024?

Jackie Calmes To the dismay of Republicans, and the advantage of Democrats, abortion rights remain a high-priority issue for voters nearly two years after the Supreme Court ended a half-century of constitutional protection nationwide. That should come as no surprise. The topic has rarely been out of the news since the Dobbs decision, what with […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
Peabody teen is ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’

PEABODY — On most days, Callie Mignault is “running around like a chicken with her head cut off” between softball practices and games, dance recitals, craft fairs, and school. When she has some time, however, the high school sophomore is doing work for her small business in her basement, intricately weeding vinyl to prepare the […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024
LTE: Thank you to Lynn’s elected leaders and city employees

To the editor: Over the past few weeks, I have read with interest a number of positive events happening in Lynn, the most recent one being the article in the March 20 Item about Vision Lynn. Once again, this points to the fine leadership Lynn has in Mayor Jared Nicholson and his team. In this […]

Updated: Mar 28, 2024