North Shore Democrats rallied for Barak Obama and other Democratic candidates on Sunday outside the local Democratic headquarters on Cabot Street. More than 200 people took part in an afternoon activities, according to local Democrats. Roger Fisk, who heads the Obama campaign in Massachusetts, told volunteers that more than 46,000 new voters have registered in [...]
The City Council will still meet as scheduled tonight at 6 at City Hall, but it has again postponed voting on the high school project. City Council President Tim Flaherty said this morning that the city is still waiting for a second vote of the Massachusetts School Building Authority board of directors to confirm that [...]
There was a great turnout of almost 100 runners for yesterday’s Heads-Up 5k Road Race at Lynch Park. The race was organized by Beverly High seniors Courtney Chalifour, Caitlin Amatucci and Meghan Chatellier to raise money for Heads-Up, the organization run by Tom Grant that pays Beverly sports team to perform community service rather than [...]
While Army Spc. Stephen Fortunato’s body returned home to Beverly yesterday, a similar scene played out in Center, Texas. Spc. Cory Bertrand, who died along with Fortunato and Sgt. Preston Medley of Florida in the explosion in Afghanistan, was also returned home. KTRE.com has a video of the ceremony.
The City Council last night approved spending $1.5 million on improvements at the city-owned Beverly Golf and Tennis Club, as well as the waterfront parking changes designed to require fewer parking spaces for the proposed Black Cow restaurant. Here’s the background on those two issues here and here.
Maybe. Maybe not.
That’s the word from Mayor Scanlon this afternoon heading into tonight’s public hearing (7:15 at City Hall) on the high school project.
Scanlon said he’s not sure if he’ll have the “final written documents” from the Massachusetts School Building Authority in time for tonight’s meeting. Those documents would state officially that the MSBA will [...]
A couple of commenters on this story in today’s Salem News said they’d never heard of Shingleville. One of them wondered if it’s a new “yuppy phrase” for the neighborhood. Actually, the name refers to the houses across McKay Street that were built for United Shoe workers. I don’t think it’s a phrase coined by [...]
I just drove past the Beverly Tire and Auto gas station at Gloucester Crossing and spotted the first sub-three-bucks-per gallon price in a long time — $2.98 for regular.
The plan to install quieter bells at five railroad crossings is now official. The City Council this week unanimously approved the proposal to spend $35,000 on the new bells at Congress Street, Kittredge Crossing, North Beverly and the two crossings near the Montserrat train station.
The idea was first proposed by Colon Street resident and former [...]
Mayor Scanlon came in for some high praise from city councilors last night for his work in securing as much as $47.8 million from the state to help pay for the $81.5 million high school project:
Bill Coughlin: “I don’t know anyone else who could have done it better.”
Maureen Troubetaris: “I commend you for your hard [...]
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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