Jourgensen: A day to remember
For a small place, Nahant has plenty of fun stories and trivia nuggets, including claims by locals that Harriet Beecher Stowe lived for a time in a home on Nahant... Read more.
He tears down the present but saves the past
LYNN — Squat, black and heavy, the iron stove takes up a corner of Estaban Acosta’s crowded Munroe Street office, but the demolition company owner has... Read more.
His own little corner of Paradise
LYNN — David Pruitt is 77 years old, but when he walks down a set of stone steps just off Great Woods Road he time travels back to adolescent days spent playing... Read more.
Jourgensen: The pits that wouldn’t quit
For sheer drama and tragedy, the decades-long saga of the West Lynn clay pits ranks high among enduring Lynn tales. Labeled in the 1950s and 1960s as “death... Read more.
These friends solve ‘all the world’s problems’ on the Lynn Shore Drive seawall
LYNN — The boys of summer are rising early to sip coffee and offer smiles to one and all as they idle away a morning hour on the Lynn Shore Drive seawall. Barring... Read more.
Personal tragedy inspires Lynn personal injury attorney
LYNN — Michael F. Mahoney lives life on two wheels, and don’t think for a second there is any place in the world where he is afraid to roll. He has visited... Read more.
Congressional candidate Joseph Schneider sits down with the Item to discuss his campaign
LYNN — Republican candidate for Congress and self-described problem solver Joseph S. Schneider said he can offer 6th Congressional District voters a clear-cut... Read more.
Jourgensen: Cavallaro’s, the Cow Palace, Casper and casinos…
I’m finally digging some gems out of Nahant thanks to my friend Carla, who has family roots deep enough in town to recall Frank & Sam’s. Described... Read more.
Two Lynn signmakers uphold a tradition of hand-painted typography
LYNN — With an adjoining door connecting their shops, sign painters Ted Kiley and Chrissy Lebel are young entrepreneurs continuing a Central Square business... Read more.
Former workers of Lynn’s Western-Walnut program still believe in their revitalizing neighborhood formula
LYNN — Surviving members of a small band of city workers who worked to better the city, one house at a time, almost half a century ago, remain true to their... Read more.