Krause: Idle chatter on a humdrum day
Idle chatter while waiting for a horse to emerge from the pack of Democrats that has, rather haphazardly, sprung out of the gate with the goal of attaining the 2020... Read more.
Codi Butt, St. Mary’s athlete and Swampscott resident, gets appointment to West Point
SWAMPSCOTT — Codi Butt has achieved a dream that she’s had since she was 10 years old. The three-sport athlete at St. Mary’s has received an appointment... Read more.
Krause: 40 years and counting
Forty years ago, I figured on April 16, 1979, that The Item, my hometown paper, might be but one stop along the way to — if I dare sound a note of conceit —... Read more.
Lynn says goodbye to Little River Inn
LYNN — Very often, we measure our memories in little things — the grocery store at the corner where we used to buy penny candy, or the playground down the street.... Read more.
Local marathoners weathered the course in good times
BOSTON — While Lawrence Cheono and Worknesh Degefa were staging their dramatic finishes in Monday’s 123rd running of the Boston Marathon, the back-of-the-pack... Read more.
Krause: A true ‘Eye of the Tiger’
Sunday, we saw perhaps the best example in the past 50 years of why sports, once called the “Toy Department of Life” by iconoclastic blowhard Howard... Read more.
High school sports schedule
MONDAY Baseball Revere at Everett (10) Marblehead at Winthrop (4) Softball Everett at Revere (10) Triton at Lynnfield (10) Boys Lacrosse Malden at Lynn (10) Saugus... Read more.
Baez ready to lead Lynn YMCA through transition
LYNN — Andrea Baez won’t be standing at the site of the new YMCA building with a hardhat on, telling the construction workers what to do. But make no mistake.... Read more.
For this Saugus resident, running the Boston Marathon is personal
SAUGUS — Glen Harrington found himself at a low point in his life, hampered by substance abuse problems that got in the way of his college education, and picked... Read more.
Breakfast with the Lynn Community Safety Initiative
LYNN — As Lynn Police Lt. Peter Holey said Thursday, “hopelessness equals violence.” Holey, a former Lynn English football coach (and a player for... Read more.