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Impact report 2025–26
It’s our first birthday. See what year one looked like.
A year ago the Independent launched out of a borrowed basement with one reporter. Twelve months on: 770 stories, 14 free civic tools, a newsroom of 13 — and a full accounting of every dollar you gave us.
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Marblehead Historical Commission plans to hang four women in Abbot Hall's Select Board room of all men
Sharon K. Heim, last of her line, is giving Marblehead paintings of a mother, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter married into the town's fishing and privateering trades.
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COLUMN: Sept. 11 memories remain vivid 25 years on
A phone call, a son in Manhattan and a flight that couldn't wait: one family's small piece of a day that changed everything
COMPUTERS 101: You are cordially invited ... to a scam
I have received Paperless Post invitations in the past for legitimate gatherings, so when one came into my inbox a few weeks ago, I didn't think twice before clicking on it. Fortunately, as soon as I was asked to log into my email account in order to view
EDITOR’S DESK: League leaves Marblehead seven years of meeting notes
Fifteen volunteers left 399 dated reports on laundry machines, curb cuts, beach ramps. Seven years of showing up for Marblehead.
TO THE EDITOR: Observer Corps concludes after years of town government coverage
To the editor: When we started the League of Women Voters of Marblehead’s Observer Corps in 2019, we were living in different times. The existing “news desert” and then Covid motivated League members to fill in for the lack of information about town boards and committees. Our observer reports
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Pam Foye, longtime Housing Authority commissioner and Anchor to Windward executive director, dies at 83
Daughter's eulogy recalls a mother who wrote her own obituary, then approved its themes in advance
Marblehead courting, the old-fashioned way: thank-you notes, violets and a wedding at Crocker Park
Maroney is usually the one documenting the moment. At Crocker Park, with Brown beside him and Glover’s Regiment nearby, the lens turned toward him.
COLUMN: Sept. 11 memories remain vivid 25 years on
A phone call, a son in Manhattan and a flight that couldn't wait: one family's small piece of a day that changed everything