A virtual celebration of our business community On February 3, 2021, the business community will have the opportunity celebrate the achievements of our business community during the past year and meet the Board of Directors for the upcoming year. Join…
Author: Journal Staff
Cetera Advisors Opens New Location
Longtime Cetera Advisor, Brian Thomas, former Lynn English High School graduate, relocated to the Lewis School Professional Building. He is an experienced Financial Advisor who can offer many different options toward retirement savings. Being located in the Wyoma Square district…
‘Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art’
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), “Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art” reflects on benefactor and donor Maxim Karolik’s quest to champion the “art of the people.” The exhibition examines the creation of folk art as a collecting category…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Fall 2020 Dean’s List at Dean College Dean College is pleased to announce the students that have earned a place on the Dean’s List for the Fall 2020 semester. These students have demonstrated a serious commitment to their studies while…
Minimum Wage Should Be at $15
In 1971, the minimum wage across the United States, as mandated by federal law, was $1.60. Today, the federal minimum stands at $7.25. One might look at those two numbers and think that because the minimum wage has increased by…
Oregon Leads The Way On Drugs
For more than 50 years, America has been fighting the “war on drugs,” an endeavor that began under the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, who had the avowed purpose of arresting and incarcerating as many Blacks and other minorities as possible, especially…
City of Lynn COVID-19 Latest Update
The Lynn Public Health Department has confirmed that the number of active, confirmed positive COVID-19 cases is 1,811 with 84 new cases today. 12,252 Lynn residents have recovered and 177 have died. The total number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases…
The Days are Getting Longer
Amidst our winter of discontent, there is some good news on the horizon (literally): The days are getting longer. As this is being written, we will have passed the first full month of the astronomical winter (which starts on December…
Lawsuits Will Bring Out The Truth
The announcement this past week that Dominion Voting Systems Inc., the company that manufactures voting machines that are used widely across the United States, has filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani for his deliberately defamatory statements about the…
Hank Aaron Was a Wonderful Man
Boston baseball fans never got to experience first-hand the greatness of Hank Aaron. The Boston Braves left for Milwaukee in 1953 and Aaron joined the Braves in 1954. With Aaron leading the way, the Braves then embarked on a run…