Kennedy: City negotiating with Wynn
LYNN – Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy is working to forge a surrounding community agreement with Everett casino executives even as she praised a rival Revere... Read more.
Kennedy: City will try again for new Pickering
LYNN – Pickering Middle School?s rejection from a state fix-up list last year won?t keep Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy from pressing again for state tax dollars... Read more.
Agency looking to be model for hiring vets
REVERE – Housing Authority Director Linda Marie Shaw wants her agency to set an example for businesses and public agencies by hiring veterans – that... Read more.
African-American groups put focus on jobs, health care
LYNN – One out of eight Lynn residents is an African-American, according to U.S. Census statistics, but relatively few work in city jobs and many do not have... Read more.
Kennedy: I dispute traffic study
LYNN – Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy called a $350,000, agreed-upon annual payment from a proposed Suffolk Downs casino to the city “found money,”... Read more.
Fixing a hole
LYNN – Calvin Johnson has learned to take a live-and-let-live attitude concerning potholes, even after one of the winter menaces damaged his car.”I learned... Read more.
Starbard: School safety should be uniform
LYNN – The School Department spent more than $500,000 making public schools safer last year, but a School Committee member wants to make sure security measures... Read more.
City Hall entryway to be repaired
LYNN – It takes a walk down to City Hall’s boiler room and a climb up a shaky metal ladder into a dark, packed-dirt crawl space to learn why the city... Read more.
Lynn to benefit from casino
LYNN – Lynn is set to benefit from an agreement between Revere casino proponents and seven communities, Mohegan Sun and Suffolk Downs executives announced... Read more.
Marina revival entering second phase
LYNN – Dock work and other Seaport Landing Marina improvements planned for this winter and spring could top $1 million and cap off the largest-scale project... Read more.