Grappling with a disease, Register of Deeds John O’Brien wants to give back
SALEM — He has lived with Lewy body dementia since 2016 and now Southern Essex Register of Deeds John L. O’Brien Jr. wants to educate as many people as he... Read more.
Saugus School Committee chair vows vote will be taken on custodians
SAUGUS — School Committee Chair Jeanette E. Meredith said the committee could vote as early as next week on outsourcing school custodial work to a private company.... Read more.
Jourgensen: Dr. Doolittle would be proud
Essex Media Group Controller Susan Conti wears many hats and she added another one to her collection last Saturday when she was thrust into the role of appointed... Read more.
Lynn Tech graduates to become first female interns at GE
LYNN — Starting Monday, Olivia Whitcomb and Kathaleeya Ortega will be the first women high school graduates working summer internships on the General Electric... Read more.
River Works looms large at GE-union contract talks
LYNN — General Electric and union negotiators are bargaining wages, healthcare and retirement at a time when the firm’s aviation business, including the... Read more.
Lincoln-Thomson School’s “Carol the Cook” is hanging up her apron
LYNN — Lincoln-Thomson Elementary School students dash off to summer vacation next Tuesday but not before they say goodbye to the woman who fed them and many of... Read more.
Ehrlich and Crighton want to bring life to the “news desert”
LYNN — A “news desert” is rapidly expanding across the nation, said state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, and she wants a legislative commission to study ways to... Read more.
Jourgensen: The real McCoy
It’s Dave McCoy’s smile that I remember best. It lit up rooms and it embraced me in a warm light of welcome whenever he aimed it at me. David W. McCoy... Read more.
Lynn U.S. Army sergeant reunites with son at Lincoln-Thomson School
LYNN — After nine months of talking to him on FaceTime about his friends and fun at Lincoln-Thomson Elementary School and life with his grandparents, Yissell Mendez... Read more.
Veterans turn to programs like NSCC’s Lynn employment initiative for help
LYNN — There were no civilian jobs for machine gunners when Brian Davenport left the Marine Corps in 2017, so he took a job working on power lines. “It’s... Read more.