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Archive for January, 2008

Reader call of the week

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2008 Comments Off

An alert reader of Saturday’s Salem News noted the juxtaposition of the stories about high school students raising money to help stave off teacher layoffs and the 20 Salem State kids who packed into an elevator last Thursday night, causing it to fall two stories.
Instead of taking housing away from the Salem State students, the [...]

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State representative debate tonight

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2008 Comments Off

Just a reminder that The Salem News is sponsoring a debate/forum for the race to replace Doug Petersen as the representative of the 8th Essex District, which includes Marblehead and Swampscott.
Here’s the notice from today’s paper:
Tonight at 7:30, The Salem News will sponsor a forum for the candidates in the special election being held for [...]

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‘Lives’ of the North Shore

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008 Comments Off

It is common practice for newspapers to write a “feature” obituary on the news pages — even on Page 1 — when a prominent citizen passes away, or when one of our neighbors dies in tragic circumstances.
In the past year, The Salem News has written stories on people ranging from former Beverly alderman Ed Doherty [...]

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Welcome to the Witches Brew

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008 Comments Off

If you haven’t already, take a look at a new addition to our Web site: The Witches Brew, the student newspaper of Salem High School.
All of the work is done by high school students, and the opinion here is they’ve done a fine job.
For background on the collaboration, go here.
Stay tuned for future editions of [...]

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Send us your questions…

Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008 Comments Off

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m., The Salem News will sponsor a forum for the candidates in the special election being held for the 8th Essex House seat formerly held by Doug Petersen of Marblehead. The event will take place in the library at Marblehead High School and is open to the public.
The five [...]

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