The St. Mary’s High School girls hockey team left no doubt that it is the No. 1 team in Massachusetts, skating to a convincing 7-2 victory over Woburn in the Division 1 final Sunday night at the TD Garden in Boston. Senior captain Courtney White and junior forward Sabrina Iannetti each scored two goals...
In a stunning move representing the school department’s desire to undo the failing problems at two major Lynn schools – Harrington and Connery – School Superintendent Catherine Latham has announced she will be replacing the principals of those schools. In a letter posted on the School Department Web site, the superintendent said she would...
The St. Mary’s School Girls Hockey Team won its third state championship in a row Sunday night at TD Garden in Boston. This is an incredible achievement given the capabilities of so many teams that the St. Marys Girls competed against in the state. We want to congratulate head coach Frank Pagliuca, Assistant coaches...
It is easier said than done – that is – turning around the failing Harrington and Connery Schools. The teachers haven’t failed. It is the leadership that has failed. We urge the superintendent of schools to come out of the box in searching for solutions to this chronic and nagging problem. If she tries...
Richard McGuinness is this year’s Friendly Knights of St. Patrick Irishman of the Year. Like his father before him, he is an educator and a former baseball coach at Lynn English. His four children are all college graduates. This is a great guy who has lived a charmed life – and to him –...
Tudina ‘Trudy’ Misiano, 86 Revere resident Tudina M. “Trudy” (Paglierani) Misiano of Revere died on March 12. She was 86 years old. A lifelong resident of Revere, she worked along with her husband in the family shoe business. She was the beloved wife of the late Savino “Salvy” Misiano; devoted mother of Robert Misiano...
Vito’s Pizzeria (formerly Pizza Plus), 778 Summer Street in Lynn celebrated their grand opening on Monday, March 1. The LACC Ambassador Committee and Mayor Judy Flanagan Kennedy welcomed owners David and Laura Salvo (center with scissors) to the Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce and the City. Vito’s offers hand tossed Italian pizza. They prepare...
Fame arrives quickly in the State Tournament. You do something really special in a big game – like scoring a hat trick – and then you open up your Globe and your Herald the next day and there are your personal quotes and a photo of you celebrating a goal. Sabrina Iannetti, come on...
Mayor Judith Flanagan-Kennedy has released final payments to former staffers who worked for Mayor Edward Chip Clancy following an investigation into the validity of the payments that were ordered. “I inherited shoddy files and so I withheld payment until such time that determinations could be made,” the mayor said. She said the vacation and...
The multi-cultural aspects of the ever changing city of Lynn is now being reflected in the flags being flown from the pole in city hall square. According to Mayor Judith Flanagan-Kennedy, that flagpole will become Lynn’s link with the world outside of the city in the weeks and months to come. In that spirit,...
News from the state last week that the Harrington and Connery elementary schools are failing came as no surprise to those of us with younger children who never have placed our children in such facilities. First and foremost, the facilities themselves doom children who enter them as they give the look and the feel...
John Chandler US Postal retiree, worked at West Lynn Smoke Shop and Nadworny Funeral Home, Pastoral Assistant, Eucharistic Minister and member of many organizations John R. Chandler of Lynn died at Salem Hospital on March 6 after a brief illness. He was 78 years old. He was a US Postal Worker in South Boston...
Kirsten Ferrari would be making headlines on almost any other team but the St. Mary’s High School junior has been content this season making everyone around her a better player and her team a contender for the state championship. Ferrari, the starting point guard on the St. Mary’s High School girls basketball team, had...
James Cowdell, the city’s development man extraordinaire, said that a historic moment is set to strike for the city. “The crux of the matter – the power lines on the Lynnway development property – are about to be moved. We’re on the cusp of relocating those power lines,” he said. Cowdell, Executive Director of...
I know a Lynn woman who owns her own home who became an inmate inside her home because of two degenerates who played the system, failed to pay their rent for longer than one year, and finally were evicted by court order – with the woman-homeowner having to pay a moving company to remove...
Statement of Superintendent of Schools Dr. Catherine C. Latham I am deeply troubled by the penalties assessed to Lynn English High School by the MIAA with regards to the recruiting violations that were determined to have occurred. After meeting with all the parties involved and conducting an investigation, I have determined that, as principal,...
Many, many schools in this city are underperforming or have students who cannot compare statistically to kids living in other towns less than two miles away. More kids here have lower reading and math scores than in most other cities and towns across the Commonwealth. Many, many students in the Lynn School system cannot...
Bautista Gonzalez-Ayala, 94 Lynn resident Bautista Gonzalez-Ayala of Lynn died on February 27. Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico where he worked as a farmhand, he came to the United States in 1965, settling first in Newark, New Jersey and for the last 26 years in Lynn. He passed away at the North Shore Medical...
Lynn Tech basketball coach Marvin Avery felt in his heart he would be getting a phone call soon from Antonio Anderson, with the message that he had been expecting to hear. Avery knew that his former star player at Tech had been excelling for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Developmental League,...
The Lynn Tech boys basketball program was named one of the top programs of the decade by Boston Herald sportswriter Danny Ventura. Ventura had Watertown nipping Tech for the Division 3 team of the decade honors. Tech’s status as the best vocational school program in the state was reaffirmed Friday night as the Tigers...
Charlie Gaeta has a bit more vision around here than most people trying to help the city’s historically significant neighborhoods to come back or to re-do themselves. As the head of the Lynn Housing Authority and Neighborhood Development (LHAND), Gaeta’s efforts are more often than not routed in his understanding of development and how...
Lynn English Principal Andy Fila said he intends to file an appeal with the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association regarding its decision to penalize the English boys basketball program for recruiting violations. The MIAA will not allow head coach Buzzy Barton to coach the team during games in the 2010 State Tournament and Barton will...
The suspension of Lynn English basketball coach Buzzy Barton by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association is about as unfair as anything having to do with high school sports we have witnessed in years. That the gratuitous complaints of a principal from East Boston could lead to Barton being benched and the Lynn English basketball...
Maybe you listened to him. Maybe you didn’t. But Tiger Woods’ apology on television last Friday was quintessential American media stuff. It was fabulous theater. Tiger even choked up a bit. Bottom line, we thought it was a US Open winning performance by Tiger, who now has come to understand that he has a...