The Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a Transportation Breakfast Forum on March 12 at 8 a.m. at the YMCA Lynn, 20 Neptune Boulevard. Mayor Thomas McGee and Sen. Brendan Crighton will be attending the forum. There will be…
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End of Year Real Estate Prices Are Up
According to figures from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, Lynn’s year-end median sale prices were up for single-family homes and condominiums. Median single-family sales were up 6.2 percent from $329,559 in 2017 to $350,000 in 1918. In median sales price…
Baker-Polito Administration Awards $7.74 M in Anti-gang Funding
Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor KarynPolito and Secretary of Public Safety and Thomas Turco announced the release of $7.74 million in competitive Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr., Community Safety Initiative (Shannon CSI) Grant Program funds to communities and local partners…
Mayor Mcgee Delivers State of the City Address
Mayor Thomas M. McGee already made history before he took the podium for his state of the city address. According to Council President Darren Cyr, “This is the first time in the history of the city that the mayor has…
Board Seeks to Ban the Bags
The Board of Health is expected to take up the issue of banning plastic bags at its Feb. 12 meeting at 6:30 p.m. in City Hall. Many neighboring communities and across the Commonwealth have banned plastic bags. In these communities,…
City Hall Hosts Traveling Exhibit on Frederick Douglass
In honor of Black History Month the City Hall foyer is playing host to a traveling exhibit on Frederick Douglass, a well-known abolitionist and one time Lynn resident. With the help of Lynn Tech film students installing the exhibit, the…
Her Blades Are Sharp at 79, Her School Is Even Sharper
Chances are that if you were a kid taking skating lessons in the Greater Boston area during the past 50 years, you most likely took your lessons through the Bay State Skating School. It’s likely too that owner Rosemary Hanley…
NSPO to Perform Winter Concert on Feb. 17 in Swampscott
Music Director Robert Lehmann will conduct the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in its Winter Concert with a program highlighted by trumpeter Joseph Foley playing the Trumpet Concert by Johann Nepomuc Hummel on Sunday, February 17, at 3 p.m. at Swampscott…
Lynn Man Pleads Guilty to Causing Overdose Death
A Lynn man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to multiple drug charges associated with his distribution of heroin and fentanyl, which led to the 2017 overdose death of a Melrose resident. Yeffry Reynoso, a/k/a Chris, 27, pleaded guilty…
A Career Night-Walker Stars in Classical Victory over Gloucester
The Lynn Classical girls basketball team made its longest road trip of the season Friday night, travelling to Gloucester on Cape Ann for an NEC encounter with the Lady Fishermen. It proved to be a memorable excursion for the Lady…