Reuters has a story today about a poem by John Updike that’s due to be published later this year. Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and longtime Beverly Farms resident, writes about his “overdue demise” in the poem, titled “Requiem”:
It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say,
Betty Crawford, Stephen Fortunato’s mother, provided us with this photo of Stephen alongside the three Fortunato brothers who served in World War II — Joseph, Peter and Stephen, from left to right. Stephen Fortunato was young Stephen’s grandfather and the longtime head school custodian who also was known for his great singing voice. Peter was [...]
Here’s a photo of D.W. Kim inside the former Town Paint & Supply building on Cabot Street, the soon-to-be-home of his U.S. Tae Kwon Do Center. The martial arts school is scheduled to move into the building in May or June.
If your discarded Christmas tree is still stuck in a snowbank, don’t worry. Peter Seamans, the city’s recycling coordinator, says the city is planning to send a truck around again to pick up the trees.
Christmas trees used to be collected in the regular trash truck, but this year the city is sending around a separate [...]
VFW Post 545 is scheduled to vote tonight to name its post in honor of Stephen Fortunato, the Beverly soldier who was killed in Afghanistan last October. We’ll have the story in tomorrow’s Salem News.
Mayor Scanlon has asked the City Council to approve spending another $100,000 to complete the design work on plans for the waterfront. The city has been paying Vine and Associates of Newburyport to design a plan that would include the proposed Black Cow restaurant as well as improvements to the city’s two marinas and public [...]
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Arthur Powell of Beverly, who served as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, sent along these photos from this week’s big events in Washington, D.C.
Shelley Powell of Beverly and her nephew Andrew Leighton of Lowell are greeted by Gov. Deval Patrick at a reception hosted by the Massachusetts Democratic Party at Nationals Park.
The latest campaign finance reports are now on file at City Hall. Here’s how much money each candidate has (not everyone has filed):
Mayor Bill Scanlon — $1842.92
Ward 5 City Councilor Don Martin — $585.99
Ward 4 City Councilor Kevin Hobin — $525
Ward 2 City Councilor Wes Slate — $310.83
Ward 5 School Committee Annmarie Cesa — $237.01
Councilor-at-Large [...]
That’s Beverly’s own Tim Smith (third from left) on the scene in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Smith, commander of the Beverly VFW 545 Post, sent us this photo of him posing with Civil War reenactors of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment, the all-black infantry that was portrayed in the movie “Glory.” The reenactors will march in [...]
Remember these three sharpshooters? That’s Melissa Lubas, Becca Moriarty and Veronica Dela Cruz, who all won the state championship for their age group in the Elks Hoop Shoot contest last year. That was the first time three girls representing the same lodge — the Beverly/Salem Elks Lodge, in this case — had won state titles [...]
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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