Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2008 Comments Off
We had a story in today’s Salem News on the five progamming awards won by BevCam at the 11th annual Fall Video Festival. Here’s a look at the other four winners:
Robert Dokes and Rebekah Blizzard, Documentary Profile, “The Beverly Bookmobile”
Mary Zaki, Bob Hobbs (bottom row); Al Torsey, Delores Gray, Marguerite Coughlin, Louise Fennell (middle row); [...]
Beverly Main Streets is inviting everyone to join them for caroling today at 5:30 p.m. in the downtown area. Church and school groups as well as singers from the North Shore Music Theatre will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Beverly Depot to greet commuter trains, then will stroll down Cabot, Rantoul and Elliott streets.
The [...]
The Police Department has sent out a reminder that downtown parking meters are free during December. The city has adopted the free parking the last few years as a way to encourage holiday shopping in the downtown.
Even though the meters are free, a two-hour limit will be enforced at meters on the street, to encourage [...]
My story in today’s Salem News on the City Council’s water fund transfer neglected to mention that it was the council’s budget analyst, Kathy Griffin, who first pointed out the problem with transferring money between the city’s water and sewer accounts. That fact was in yesterday’s story.
One of the features of the new high school is a proposal to provide all 1200 students with a laptop computer that can be used anywhere in the building because it will be equipped with a wireless Internet connection. That plan is not so certain now.
The problem arose when the Massachusetts School Building Authority approved [...]
A judge this morning denied a request by the low bidder for the high school construction project to stop the city from awarding the contract to another company. City Solicitor Roy Gelineau said that Brait Builders’ request for a preliminary injunction was rejected this morning in Suffolk Superior Court.
Brait was the low bidder on the [...]
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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