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.
Reports ranged from a bracelet missing from a Washington Street jewelry store and a ring taken from a locked box to unordered packages, a backyard surveyor mistaken for a prowler and four valve stem caps.
Finance Committee unanimously approved $67,000 in unbudgeted transfers Monday, still contingent on Select Board sign-off Wednesday, as the town starts spending to replace its administrator and its chief financial officer.
Retired risk consultant and library trustee edges two other applicants 5-3 to fill Adam Smith’s vacancy on the town’s electric commission
Pfifferling's exit for Andover follows the announced departures of Benjamin and Kezer, leaving unfinished budget work and two searches already underway.
Visitor spending lifted collections well past what officials budgeted, though most of this summer’s activity — including Scottish soccer fans priced out of Boston — will not show up until fall.
Vessel was thrown clear of the surface in Salem Sound; injuries ranged from minor to serious
The Democratic Senate rivals traded allegations, sidestepped Massachusetts concerns and left several factual disputes unresolved ahead of the Sept. 1 primary.
Marblehead Public Schools has named Mary LeBlanc as the new principal of Glover Elementary School following an extensive search process, the district announced. LeBlanc has worked in the Marblehead school system for 24 years. Most recently, she spent five years as a literacy coach at Glover and Brown schools, where
The program launches in November, but nobody yet knows how many seniors will qualify.
Paid repetition has made some candidates ambient and left the rest waiting to be found — visibility bought before persuasion, sorted by who could afford the air.
The Marblehead Museum will guide visitors through two centuries of the town's role in the struggle for freedom when it holds its Slavery to Freedom Walking Tour on Thursday, August 6 at 4 p.m. The tour traces sites where enslaved people lived in Marblehead during the 1700s
This week’s calls included fish-scented crates, an unexpected household visitor and a two-wheeled machine police said had crossed into motorcycle territory.
A Marblehead shoemaker who never held office helped save Washington’s army twice — historian Robert Booth traced John Glover’s unlikely rise at the first “Glovers at Goldthwait” talk.
To the editor: In the early 1900s, “The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage” (founded by women) distributed a pamphlet outlining the reasons to vote no on woman suffrage: • Because 90 percent of the women either do not want it or do not care • Because it means competition of women
From a trash-cart injury to beach testing delays, the meeting exposed how spread-out channels leave people guessing where to look next.
The investigation is ongoing as police piece together what happened.