A heads-up that the city is scheduled to start paving streets in the downtown area tomorrow. Department of Public Services Director Michael Collins said the work will begin on Pond, Chapman and Bow streets, as well as on the busy stretch of Cabot between Pond and Bow streets. All of the downtown businesses will be [...]
The City Council is scheduled to hold its final meeting of the summer tonight at 7 at City Hall. The council will take a second vote on the trash fee to make it official. Nothing is expected to change from the original vote last month, which was 7-2 in favor of keeping the annual fee [...]
More proof that times have changed at the Beverly Golf & Tennis Club. Manager Manny Barros said members have taken $6,000 in money left over from a legal fund they had raised to battle former manager Doug Johnson and used the money to buy three new widescreen TV’s for the club.
“We just wanted to start [...]
Here’s a view nobody’s seen in awhile — groceries on the shelf at Bell Market. That’s Bob Lacombe of the Associated Grocers of New England stacking shelves earlier this afternoon.
Bell’s closed in March of 2007 after 42 years in business. Ken Patel bought the building at 206 Cabot St. last year and plans to re-open [...]
The next time you drive by the traffic island at the corner of Essex Street and Lakeshore Drive, remember this picture. This is 72-year-old Neil Douglas, working away in the heat earlier this afternoon to tend to the flowers on the island, which is sponsored by the Beverly Rotary Club. Douglas has volunteered on the [...]
That’s Henry as in Henry’s Market, of course. Henry Swanson (shown above in a 2004 photo before the North Beverly fire station was renovated, which he paid for) celebrated his 93rd birthday today at the North Beverly grocery store that he opened in 1941. About 65 employees and customers gathered around and sang Happy Birthday [...]
Jerry Guilebbe, the city’s veterans agent, sends along word about a Veterans College Fair scheduled for tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. at North Shore Community College in Lynn. Check here for more information.
Above, the winning entry by Linda Atherton of 4 Tremont St. in the best resident window box category of the Friendly Garden Club of Beverly’s annual contest.
Below, Ellen Marchand of 15 Spring St. won for “best large newly established flower garden.”
Here’s the full press release from the Garden Club:
The Friendly Garden Club of Beverly is [...]
Back in January we ran this photo in The Salem News asking readers if they could identify any of the ballplayers on the 1920s-era Beverly baseball team. Beverly native Stephen Rossi of Virginia had sent us the picture, which includes his late grandfather, Neil Murphy, who’s sitting in the the middle of the first row [...]
If you were driving on Balch Street earlier today, you might have heard the free concert. A drum corps called The Crossmen — all 150 of them — was practicing on the field behind the Memorial Building.
The Crossmen are based in San Antonio and are in the midst of a five-week, 15-state tour that began [...]
Paul Leighton was born in Beverly, grew up in Beverly, lives in Beverly and covers Beverly for The Salem News. He needs to get out of Beverly more, but in the meantime he promises to keep readers up-to-date on what's going on around the city.
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Paul Leighton was born in Beverly, grew up in Beverly, lives in Beverly and covers Beverly for The Salem News. He needs to get out of Beverly more, but in the meantime he promises to keep readers up-to-date on what's going on around the city.
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