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Full story coming Friday’s Salem News, but here are some highlights from our conversation with Mark Bettencourt, who was named Peabody High’s 21st head football coach on Thursday. (Add: That story is now live here: http://www.salemnews.com/sports/x1746086627/Peabody-tabs-Bettencourt-as-head-coach ) An 8-person search committee conducted seven interviews from a pool of 16 candidates and unanimously recommended Bettencourt, who [...]
With the conclusion of another round of fall all-stars, we thought it would be fun to take a stroll down memory lane. Here’s a list of all the student-athletes that have been Salem News Player of the Year and Coaches of the Year for fall sports since The Salem News reinstated its all-star program at [...]
2012 Salem News coverage area rushing leaders Player, School Rushing Yards, TDs Jon Thomas St. John’s Prep 1,812 yards, 16 TDs Brendan Flaherty Beverly 1,496 yards, 18 TDs Rufus Rushins Bishop Fenwick 1,302 yards, 17 TDs Ross Murphy North Shore Tech 995 yards, 19 TDs Trevor Lyons Hamilton-Wenham 905 yards, 13 TDs Kenny Pierce Beverly [...]
Lost of chatter about the Beverly-Marblehead football game and the combined 17-1 record of the clubs heading in. Here are the November football games, locally, featuring the most and win and least losses combined over the last 15 years. Most wins: 20: St. John’s Prep (10-0) vs. Xaverian (10-0), 2001; Masconomet (9-2) vs. Winthrop (11-0), [...]
We highly recommend reading the proposal in its entirety here. You can read about the proposal in the archives of The Salem News here and here. Questions? Opinions? Tweet us @PhilStacey_SN, @MattWilliams_SN and @MattJenkins_SN.
Here is the full list to inductees for the Peabody High Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2012 Helder Braz: Three season track standout, Hall of Famer at UMass-Dartmouth Kevin Bettencourt: Class of 2002, 1,000 point club member, went on to led NCAA tourney teams at Bucknell Frank Candela: The Flash, Peabody’s all-time leading rusher [...]
Came across the proposed divisional alignments for the MIAA’s next reset coming next fall. The notables locally: In Girls soccer, Beverly would drop from Division 1 to Division 2. Swampscott and Bishop Fenwick would both drop from Division 2 to Division 3. North Shore Tech would drop from Division 3 to a newly created Division [...]
Eleven years ago this morning I was in the Dunham Road newsroom of The Salem News watching smoke and flames spew from one of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. Colleague Jimmy Carlson, the paper’s IT guru, was the only other person in the vicinity, and as we watched he observed, “I wonder if [...]

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