Marblehead votes: Live results from every race, precinct by precinct
Unofficial results from Marblehead’s six precincts, from the U.S. Senate race to 10 ballot questions, posted as the town clerk and the state report them.
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.
ELECTION 2026: What we’re watching tonight
From Massachusetts’ statewide contests to pivotal congressional races and the battle for control of Congress, here are the Election Day storylines we’re following as voters render their verdict.
Friends of Marblehead Basketball to hold Rock the Court fundraiser Nov. 20
Live music, a silent auction and door donations at Gerry 5 will help pay for scholarships and gym equipment for high school players.
Author to sign book profiling three decades of Marblehead High School teachers
Maureen Graves Anderson will greet readers Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. at 170 Washington St., where wine, cheese and crackers will be served.
Marblehead Festival of Arts seeks volunteers to run marketing, fundraising
Five unpaid part-time posts, including director plus four chair positions covering sponsorships, donations, communications and fulfillment, each ask for a few hours weekly.
POLICE LOG: Man finds feces in mailed package, letter claims $18.9 million policy on living resident
Sept. 14 9:26 a.m. — A Madison Road resident reported an alleged scam involving a $50 lamp she was trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace. Officer Adam Mastrangelo was dispatched to Madison Road, where the woman told him she had been contacted out of the blue about the lamp
Polls open in Marblehead with nearly a third of voters already done
Before the polls opened, 5,283 residents had voted by mail or early in person. Polls close at 8 p.m., and mail ballots must reach a drop box or the Town Clerk by then.
Teets steps up to chair as first override dollars go out
Finance Committee to taxpayers: Watch for the third-quarter bill
Volunteers sought to walk town's historic ways Nov. 7
The town will perambulate its historic public ways starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Abbot Hall, Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer told the Select Board on Oct. 28. Town historian Don Doliber will open the event with an introduction. Participants then split up and walk their assigned routes
Norma C. Betters, 89
On the morning of Oct. 26 Norma Betters passed away peacefully in her home. She was 89 years old. Norma was born Aug. 24 one of two daughters to mother Edith and father Joseph Centoni. She is survived by her sister Ella, her only child Bill and his wife Lisa,
Select Board fills harbor, conservation seats
The Select Board on Oct. 28 appointed Andrew Garnitz to the Harbors and Waters Board and Donald Henrich to the Conservation Commission. Garnitz, of Bartlett Street, is a senior project manager at Windover Construction with 18 years in commercial construction, estimating and project management. He grew up sailing at Stramski&
Board to set tax rate Dec. 8
The Select Board will hold its annual tax classification hearing and set the fiscal 2027 tax rate at its Dec. 8 meeting, Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer said Oct. 28. The assessors and the town's other finance offices are preparing for the hearing. Patriot Properties, the town's
Marblehead walks seniors through new means-tested tax exemption
Applications open Nov. 1 for first-year program; officials urge residents to call with questions
Topsfield, Haverhill officials and former Oxford manager are finalists for Marblehead town administrator
Select Board interviews Harutunian, Callahan and Main Nov. 4, with appointment vote possible that night
Marblehead Counseling Center seeks $125,000 in year-end drive
Postcards will arrive by mail this November; gifts fund about a quarter of operating costs at the clinic, which says it turns no one away.
Veterans Middle School to stage ‘Lightning Thief’ musical Nov. 13-14
Tickets cost $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students for two evening shows based on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson books.