Pam Foye, longtime Housing Authority commissioner and Anchor to Windward executive director, dies at 83
Colleague remembers hundreds of stapled newsletters, fair meetings, long visits over home-cooked spreads
Will Dowd
I started my full-time reporting career in Marblehead in 2012 and have failed spectacularly at leaving. Now I cover the town through The Independent, following its people and stories with the curiosity that makes this place impossible to quit.
Censured, McMahon says the change is his to make
Two days after a 5-0 vote he moved against himself, the board member points to the ballot box as the only check that counts.
Vienna Teng to open Me&Thee Music’s 57th season
Singer-songwriter and pianist Vienna Teng will perform Friday, Sept. 18, at Me&Thee Music, 28 Mugford St., opening the Marblehead concert venue’s 57th season. The show begins at 8 p.m.
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.
Bell tolls in Marblehead as 9/11 passes from memory into history
Chiefs and a veterans agent recount the Pentagon, fighter jets over Salem and the illnesses that followed
Select Board defines job awaiting Kezer's successor
Recruitment profile seeks consensus builder, offers up to $215,000
Marblehead Arts Association puts fall in the frame
The Marblehead Arts Association will hold an opening reception for its fall exhibits from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, featuring works by local artists and photographers. The exhibits include three solo shows: “Infra Structure” by James Bostick; “Ancient Toddler: 3 Years An Artist” by Julian Orenstein; and
Marblehead Museum to host talk on Revolution-era medicine
The Marblehead Museum will host "Rough Medicine: A Medical History of the Revolution," a lecture by Dr. Raymond Sullivan, at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in its J.O.J. Frost Gallery. Sullivan, a historian, author and lecturer who has spoken extensively on the Revolution and the history
Marblehead Board of Health censures McMahon on his own motion
Residents split over whether the Aug. 24 outburst called for a formal reprimand or an apology and a return to work.
Select Board clears hometown Marine to join police department
Chief Dennis King calls it one of his two favorite parts of the job as Luke Morris follows his father into law enforcement
Select Board picks override campaigner, data director for Finance Committee
Get our free local reporting delivered straight to your inbox. No noise, no spam — just clear, independent coverage of Marblehead. Sign up for our once-a-week newsletter. David Weber spent last spring in the audience — at Finance Committee warrant deliberations, at Select Board budget meetings, at a Dunkin'
Marblehead Select Board to interview five for two Finance Committee seats
Applicants range from a retired portfolio manager to a former Connecticut finance board chairman, competing to help oversee the town's $15 million override.
Healey conditions state permits for large data centers on community agreements
Executive Order 658 covers projects above 25 megawatts and gives agencies until Dec. 31 to build a clean energy payment mechanism
Coffin School bidders must protect green space, not hand it to town
Recreation and Parks sought 37,000 square feet; solicitation promises access rights instead.
Marblehead Cultural Council opens 2027 grant applications
Funding available for arts, humanities and interpretive science projects; submissions due Oct. 15
Marblehead splits finance from facilities, hires Pfifferling successor
Unanimous vote installs a familiar hand as Michael Pfifferling prepares to leave in November, with contract talks still pending