Mike Foster, head professional for the past 34 years at Larry Gannon Municipal Golf Course in Lynn, received the 2009 PGA Junior Golf Leader Award from the New England PGA at the organization’s special awards celebration dinner Saturday night at the Wollaston Golf Club in Milton. The Junior Golf Leader Award is given to...
In honor of Matt Robinson, a young Lynn native who had passed away this month, two brothers, Michael and Steven “Sven” Olbash, also from Lynn, performed a concert of sacred art songs and Gregorian chant last Tuesday night, October 20th, at 7:30 pm at the St. Pius V Church on Maple Street in Lynn....
Interscholastic volleyball may be coming to Lynn Classical. More than 100 girls are participating in an intramural volleyball two days a week in the high school gymnasium. Plans are to have a junior varsity team in 2010 and a varsity team in 2011. Frank Grealish, a social studies teacher at the school, is overseeing...
The Massachusetts Appeals Court this week affirmed the murder conviction of a Chelsea man who stabbed a Lynn father of three to death at a Chelsea produce market seven years ago, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. The court last week affirmed the second-degree murder conviction of Victor Moran, 27, indicted for...
It is up to the voters of this city on next Tuesday to cast one of the most important votes in quite a while. The mayor of Lynn is the bottom line in this city – and most leadership springs from the mayor’s office. Mayor Edward Chip Clancy is facing his first real test...
William Thomas Raffoul Revere resident William Thomas Raffoul of Revere, formerly of Peabody, died on October 18. He was 94 years old. He was the husband of the late Betty Jennie (Cudnik) Raffoul; father of Donna Raffoul of Glendale, AZ and Arlene Collins and her husband, Leo, of Port St. Lucie, FL and the...
Congressman Mike Capuano came to Brothers’ Deli in Lynn Sunday morning for an “Open Mike” conversation, an event that was held in conjunction with his campaign for the United States Senate. The Open Mike events are being held to offer Capuano a chance to speak directly with voters and learn more about the issues...
I was watching the city councilor at large candidates do their thing on Lynn cable television recently. They were at the Knights of Columbus discussing the issues and making their comments on them. I thought to myself, after listening to all of them – doesn’t Council President Tim Phelan present himself well. He remains...
Hole in one for Chris Warren Chris Warren was a Super Bowl quarterback at Lynn English High School and has brought the Lynn Classical softball program to the brink of a Division 1 North sectional championship. But on Saturday, he did something in sports that few achieve: a hole in one. “As a golfer,...
About 100 residents and a large number of the city’s leading politicians, including Mayor Edward Chip Clancy, attended a meeting last Thursday evening at the Diamond District Inn which featured Department of Conservation and Recreation Rick Sullivan as the main speaker. Sullivan was introduced by Robert Tucker, the president of the beach organization. He...