Month: October 2011

On the Campaign Trail

Host of happy Tim Phelan sign holders during a visibility recently held in Austin park. The election is moving to an end with an intensification of campaigning – and this is an example of that extra push being made throughout…

Democratic Unity Meeting Draws Large Crowd

A huge crowd packed the city’s Democratic Unity breakfast at the Porthole Restaurant early Sunday morning. Congressman John Tierney, State Treasurer Steve Grossman and our state delegation – State Senator Tom McGee and State Representatives Robert Fennell and Steve Walsh…

Halloween

Everyone in this city with kids will be out and about on Halloween. Huge throngs of kids and their parents or kids just by themselves come out to ask for candy throughout our major neighborhoods. This places an impossible task…

Shame on Tim Bassett

Everyone in Lynn in politics or in a position of responsibility over the past two decades has come to know Tim Bassett. He has been characterized in the Boston press as a former Lynn pol. Last week, he hit the…

Obituaries 10-25-2011

Lawrence ‘Buzzy’ Salvatore Former Lynn and Swampscott Barber Shop Owner Lawrence J. “Buzzy” Salvatore of Peabody, formerly of Revere, died October 21 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers following a brief illness. He was 76 years old. Born…