The local effort was led by Lynn Police officer and former basketball standout Mike Kmiec and his wife, Ashley, an officer in the Cambridge Police Department. The Lynn Police Department learned about four-year-old Diego Cornejo through an e-mail the department received in January from Annette Rinaldi. Annette owns a florist shop in Revere called...
George Markos, owner of Brothers Deli in Lynn, has received an award for community service from President Barack Obama. Markos was named as a recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award in recognition of his work in the Lynn community. The award is presented through the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. The...
Area residents are invited to join Dave Lee and his family for a Night of Kidney Awareness Comedy Show on April 8, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Lynnfield Street. Dave’s ailment requires a kidney transplant and his search is ongoing for a donor match. Carl Phillips of...
Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy and a host of other mayors met in a behind the door session with Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo at a location in North Revere last week. The discussion, which was not open to the press, was about an expanded gaming bill and of the possibility of casinos. Speaker...
The Lynn English High School Hall of Fame induction was a great event. A number of prominent people whose lives are inextricably bound up in this city were honored by the high school. Those inducted were: Dr. Jill Maron, Claire Cavanagh, John Donovan, David Hughes, Charlie Long, Larry Pleau, Bradford Tilley, David Armstrong, Dom...
It sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie. Radiation is reported to be in the rain in New England as a result of the nuclear reactor malfunctions in Japan. And what do our public officials say? Don’t worry. It isn’t harmful? They tell us also that it isn’t in our water supply....
It comes as great news to Lynn residents working for General Electric now that GE has received a $247 million engine contract that secures employment at the River Works plant for another two years. In the post recession economic world we are living in today, two more years at full employment at GE in...
Christine Lucas Secretary for Suffolk County House of Correction Christine V. Lucas of Walnut Avenue, Revere died at the Massachusetts General Hospital on March 24 after a brief illness. She was 65 years old. Born in Chelsea, she was the beloved daughter of the late Florence (Harkins) and William Mosher. A longtime resident of...
The St. Mary’s High School girls basketball team completed a season for the ages with an impressive 64-54 victory over Lee High School in the Division 3 state championship game Saturday at the DCU Center in Worcester. It was as superb and as well executed a total team performance as head coach Jeffrey Newhall...
St. Mary’s extraordinary state championship victory is now in the record books – and what an incredible season it was. So many schools start out trying to win a state title but only a few get to accomplish such a prodigious feat. It takes excellence, desire and great athleticism all around to gain a...