
Revere has great expectations for 2018
REVERE– Football teams, like most athletic groups, prefer to look forward. But you’ll excuse Revere High’s Lou Cicatelli for taking just a moment... Read more.

St. John’s Prep expects last year’s experience to pay dividends
DANVERS– St. John’s Prep football coach Brian St. Pierre hopes the lumps the Eagles took last season pay dividends in 2018. Last year, the Prep went... Read more.

Appreciation: For Kelly Martin’s friends, it will be hard to move on
There is a paradox connected with Kelly Martin’s death. She is mourned as a person of uncommon enthusiasm and empathy. Her friends and colleagues, often one... Read more.

Krause: McCain was a man who you could always respect
John McCain was a politician in the way that I viewed politicians when I first became old enough to vote, which was in 1972 when I — a newly-minted 19-year-old... Read more.

Krause: The house has history. Mine.
SWAMPSCOTT — A few weeks ago, a video of Paul McCartney going back to the old Liverpool homestead made the rounds. There was Paul, pointing to different rooms... Read more.

Rain shrinks crowd, but doesn’t dampen enthusiasm for Beyond Walls mural festival
LYNN — Jessica Gerardo stood in the pouring rain Saturday in Central Square, after having viewed the murals that were drawn as part of the “Beyond Walls”... Read more.

15 years ago, Saugus American Little League had the World in its hands
Dario Pizzano is still living the dream — even if, on some days, that dream seems so elusive, yet so cruelly within reach. Mike Scuzzarella Mike Scuzzarella... Read more.

Krause: Path to the World Series will run through Fenway Park
Even though the Red Sox have won the last two American League East titles, when it came to this time of the year, the top stories of the day always came out of Foxborough.... Read more.

Krause: Bad joke? Bad timing? Either way, it was bad.
What is the moral take-away from English High cheerleading coach Stephanie Cuevas’ social media faux pas in which an 11-second sound bite on Snapchat of... Read more.

Krause: Mother nature always wins
First things first: yours truly did not escape Sunday morning’s deluge unscathed. Neither did the Daily Item‘s Munroe Street offices. And nor did a whole... Read more.