Ward 3 City Councilor John Burke is trying to find a solution for the lack of visitor parking at the Montserrat condominiums at the corner of Heather and Herrick streets. At last night’s City Council Legal Affairs Committee meeting, Burke said Heather Street is only street in the city that has a no-parking restriction from [...]
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The Registry of Motor Vehicles has closed all 35 of its branches, including Beverly’s, due to an electrical power outage caused by a manhole explosion near the State Transportation Building in Boston, according to the Registry’s Web site. The explosion affected the computer systems that support the branches, the Registry said. The notice says they [...]
The School Committee of the Whole will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Memorial Building, not tonight as we erroneously reported in today’s paper. Superintendent Hayes is scheduled talk about next year’s school budget.
Here’s a link to a story in The Union Leader about Sister Irene Turgeon, a Beverly native who died Thursday.
Mayor to speak on North Beverly Brook project
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2008 Comments Off
According to the agenda for tonight’s City Council meeting at City Hall, Mayor Scanlon will talk about the upcoming North Beverly Brook drainage project. The work is designed to alleviate flooding in a 1,000-acre section of the city that includes about 1,250 homes around the North Beverly Brook. The area ranges from the Cummings Center [...]
Leftover notes from last night’s eventful Licensing Board meeting regarding The Press Box:
– Police said there have been 122 police calls about the Press Box this year — more than the rest of the bars in the city combined. Panther Pub was second with 24, followed by Fibber McGees (20), The Pickled Onion (18), Kitty [...]
The fate of The Press Box could be decided tonight. The Licensing Board is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. in the City Council chambers. Police have responded to more than 60 incidents in and around the Park Street bar this year. We’ll have a story on the meeting in tomorrow’s paper.
It’s time to take advantage of one of the best deals of the fall — the annual Newspapers in Education book sale.
This weekend, the back room at The Salem News in Beverly will be filled with thousands of used books of all kinds. Prices range from 10 cents to $2, and all the proceeds go [...]
Should police be in charge of crossing guards?
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2008 Comments Off
The City Council plans to look into whether it makes sense to put the Police Department in charge of school crossing guards rather than the School Department. The issue came up at Monday night’s council meeting during a discussion over the need for a crossing guard to help students from the Shingleville neighborhood cross Elliott [...]
Veterans agent Jerry Guilebbe sends along word that the annual Veterans Day ceremony will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Veterans Memorial at Odell Park, across from the train depot.
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