Rainbow Adult Day and the Health Care Center of Lynn celebrated a five-year anniversary. The program began in 2018 with only forty participants attending each day. Currently, the program has grown to over 190 participants from throughout Massachusetts. Many beneficial…
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Judith Wilson Announces Her Candidacy for School Committee
Judith Wilson is a political candidate campaigning to be one of Lynn’s next School Committee members. The following is her statement: For the past 36 critical years, Judith Wilson has called Lynn home. She is vested in this historic city and…
Candidates Night for Lynn City Council Being Held by E. F. Gilmore DAV
Special to the Journal The E. F. Gilmore DAV of Swampscott/Lynn will be hosting a candidates’ forum for Lynn City Council candidates on Monday October 30 at 6:30 P.M. at the Lynn Campus of the North Shore Community College. The…
Temporary Lynn Commuter Rail Station Platform Expected To Open Nine Months Ahead of Schedule
Acting Transportation Secretary and CEO Monica Tibbits-Nutt, MBTA General Manager and CEO Phillip Eng, Senator Brendan P. Crighton, Representative Peter Capano, Lynn Mayor Jared Nicholson, and MBTA Board Director Thomas McGee joined community leaders and stakeholders at the construction site…
Lynn Shannon Community Safety Initiative Partners Host Legislative Breakfast
Lynn Police Department hosted the Legislative Breakfast in collaboration with the Shannon Safety Committee. Partnering agencies in the committee include Lynn Police Department, LifeScene, LYOSA, Lynn Parks and Recreation, Catholic Charities North, and Northshore Community College. The Shannon Safety Initiative…
City of Lynn Names Unarmed Response Team and Looks To Hire Director
The City continues to make progress in the formation of an unarmed response, and gets closer to implementing the team by coming up with a name and the posting the director job. A working group of stakeholders has been meeting…
Healey-Driscoll Admin. Unveils $4 Billion Affordable Homes Act To Increase Production and Lower Costs
Special to the Journal The Healey-Driscoll Administration today unveiled a $4 billion plan to jumpstart the production of homes and make housing more affordable across Massachusetts. The Affordable Homes Act, a comprehensive package of spending, policy and programmatic actions, represents…
Healey Announces State’s Emergency Family Shelter System Approaching Capacity
Gov. Maura Healey announced that, by the end of October, the state will no longer be able to add additional units to its emergency shelter system for families experiencing homelessness. For months, the state’s emergency family shelter system has been expanding at an unsustainable rate…
Hamas Are Terrorists, Not Freedom-Fighters
The demonstrations that have been occurring around the country, especially on college campuses, in apparent support of the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 1400 Israelis, have been disappointing on many levels. The Hamas organization is not composed of “freedom fighters” who…
Will a Pill Make Americans Slimmer?
Americans have been overeating — and eating the wrong kinds of food — for a long time. It is estimated that 40 percent of Americans are obese and another 32 percent of us are overweight — which means that three…