Brad Tilley took a final walk through the halls of Lynn Tech last Wednesday, stopping at the different shops and offices to say good-bye. It was an emotional day for the beloved teacher who loved teaching at Tech. Tilley, a teacher, coach, and athletic administrator in the Lynn school system for 34 years, spent...
She defied the odds. She defied gravity. She took on a force when she announced she was running on stickers for mayor against Edward ‘Chip’ Clancy. When all was said and done in November, she had knocked Clancy out of the box in one of the most stunning local political victories against all odds...
It isn’t just the end of 2009, it is the end of the decade and the beginning of a new one. Here in Lynn, this was the Clancy decade, so to speak – a political decade that began with the end of Mayor Patrick McManus’s term and began anew at the other end of...
There is no way to know what awaits us before it happens – and so – we watch the coming of 2010 with great interest and hope. The hope is for a healthy, prosperous New Year. The interest is in having a positive year of gains and success in both our personal lives and...
Belinda Sirignano, 94 Member of St. Joseph’s Society and Sons of Italy Belinda ( Paterna) Sirignano of Boston’s North End died on Christmas Eve. She was in her 94th year. She was a member of St. Joseph’s Society of the North End and the Order of Sons of Italy Lodge 208 Boston. She was...
Lynn English is going to have to build a new trophy case, and the awards inside of it will have nothing to do with sports. Although the high school is well known for its successes in the realms of competitive sports over the years, more recently Lynn English has been basking in the limelight...
The city’s decision to seize valuable properties along the Lynnway using court sanctioned eminent domain is an often used method of putting together important parcels for a development or a special need that wouldn’t otherwise come up for sale. In the instance of the five properties the city is seeking, it is seeking only...
The city of Lynn is resorting to eminent domain proceedings in order to secure five tracts of land along the Lynway as a first giant step in bringing development to one of the city’s vast, underutilized stretches of prime land, according to a host of Lynn officials including City Council President Timothy Phelan, Lynn...
Lynn resident Andrew Shadoff, a third-year student at Duke University School of Law, won the top prize in a major law school competition. Shadoff and fellow Duke student Greg Dixon received the best brief award in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps inaugural National Moot Court Competition held at Naval Air Station in Jacksonville,...
Carney Barone, 95 GE Retiree Carney E. Barone of Revere, formerly of Lynn, died on December 11. He was in his 95th year. A member of the Gannon Golf Club, he was a graduate of Lynn English High School, Class of 1934, and a GE employee for more than 35 years. He was the...