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COVID-19: LOCAL NEWS

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Students’ dreams trashed by COVID-19: ‘This has slowly been changing me’

By Lezmari Castrodad

Recently, I found out about the schools being closed for the remainder of the school year and will be starting up again next year. This came as a shock to me and ultimately left me feeling down because I enjoyed the time spent with all my teachers and want to keep working with them. This whole epidemic has slowly been changing me. I’d like to share what I’ve been feeling and how a 7th-grade girl is going about this whole experience with you. 

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Students’ dreams trashed by COVID-19: A reality that hit as hard as bricks

By Carlos Prudencio

An unscheduled vacation from school; just what every high schooler wants — except when there is pandemic going around and it threatens our lives. 

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Swampscott school board, teachers union reach tentative deal

By Gayla Cawley | May 20, 2020

SWAMPSCOTT — The Swampscott Education Association and the School Committee have reached a tentative three-year agreement following months of tension-filled contract negotiations, according to the teachers’ union. 

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Lynn Museum/LynnArts director gives back in coronavirus crisis

By Bill Brotherton | May 20, 2020

LYNN — With each passing week of the coronavirus pandemic, Doneeca Thurston, the director of Lynn Museum & Historical Society/LynnArts, realized tough financial decisions had to be made. All Massachusetts museums were forced to close and rentals of the historic building, a major revenue source, vanished due to the no-more-than-10-person social distancing order.

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Art teacher channels her love of Boston skyline into Swampscott beach sticker

By Steve Krause | May 20, 2020

SWAMPSCOTT — Every day on her way home from Swampscott High School, art teacher Taylor Byrnes drives along Lynn Shore Drive, and she always marvels at the sight of the Boston skyline off in the distance.

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Kane’s: Now you can design donuts before eating them

By Elyse Carmosino | May 20, 2020

SAUGUS — Kane’s Donuts on Route 1 in Saugus is selling “donut kits” so that fans of the staple North Shore bakery can decorate their own sweet treats at home.

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Hundreds gather at Salem State for drive-by commencement celebration

SALEM — A student-organized Drive-by Commencement Celebration brought cheers, honks, and decorated cars to Salem State’s O’Keefe parking lot on Saturday, where students and their families lined up in cars for the start of a celebratory drive around campus. About 100 cars holding some 300 people took part in the procession as approximately 40 Salem State faculty, staff, and administrators — including President John Keenan — spread out wearing their masks and cheered on the Class of 2020.

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COVID cases trending lower on North Shore

By Gayla Cawley | May 20, 2020

A small number of new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths were reported in several North Shore communities on Tuesday. 

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COVID-19 death toll rises in Lynn, Peabody

By Gayla Cawley | May 19, 2020

The COVID-19 death toll continues to climb in Lynn and Peabody, which presents a stark contrast to the declining number of new cases that have been reported in those same communities. 

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Plan to reopen state met with optimism

By Thor Jourgensen | May 19, 2020

BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker’s plan to free Massachusetts’ economy from coronavirus restrictions won cautious approval on Monday from area builders, manufacturers and business group representatives. 

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