The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program has named Lynn English High School as a Mix It Up Model School for its exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among students and throughout campus during the 2011-12 school year. Shown above are the LEHS students who helped this program and award become a...
The St. Mary’s High School boys basketball team celebrated its state championship season at an awards banquet March 28 at Thompson Country Club in North Reading. It was an event befitting the achievement as each player received awards and gifts commemorating the Spartans’ season. The St. Mary’s junior varsity and freshman teams were also...
Gordon ‘Chick’ Kennedy, Jr. Worked for Champion Lamp, Norelco and Mass. Turnpike Authority Gordon M. “Chick” Kennedy, Jr. of Lynn died at home on March 29 surrounded by his family. He was 74 years old. Born in Lynn, he was a graduate of the Lynn School System, a US Army veteran who served in...
Once dubbed the “City of Firsts,” Lynn is officially living up to its name. The City joined Rockport, Gloucester’s Rocky Neck, Boston’s Fenway neighborhood and Pittsfield as the state’s first group of designated Cultural Districts, approved by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) at its board meeting Tuesday. Authorized by an act of the Massachusetts...
Lynn Shore Drive, the beach, Lynn Woods, Gannon and everywhere else in this sprawling city where people enjoy the warmth of a beautiful day were swamped for the past ten days. It was like summer in March, an incredible happening with no rhyme or reason. We had pushed everything about the cold and the...
The only matter worth measuring in the great shorts debate at Lynn Classical is whether or not shorts can be worn and whether or not they conform to the school’s desired aesthetic. Shorts should be right about the knees. Anything else is simply too short. Anything else is simply too long for shorts but...
Kazimiera ‘Luszchak’ Skop Former St. Michael’s Communicant Kazimiera ‘Luszchak’ Skop of Lynn died on March 23 at Union Hospital after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. A homemaker and a former communicant of St. Michael’s Church, she was the wife of the late Victor Skop and is survived by two sons, Victor...
Grace Cotter Regan has been named head of school at St. Mary’s High School, replacing Dr. Raymond A. Bastarache, who is retiring in June. Regan has almost 30 years’ experience working in education and institutional advancement, including 23 years at Catholic institutions. She has served as executive director of advancement for the New England...
Magnolia Contreras, a member of the board of the directors of the Economic Development Industrial Corporation of Lynn (EDIC/Lynn), has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the state’s Hispanic community by El Planeta newspaper. Contreras and the others on El Planeta’s Powermeter list were honored at a reception at...
The St. Mary’s High School girls hockey program has set the standard for excellence in Massachusetts. It’s been a perennial powerhouse under head coach Frank Pagliuca and after a tough overtime loss in the quarterfinals last year, the Spartans were back playing for the Division 1 state championship Sunday at the TD Garden. The...