POW/MIA chair reaches Abbot Hall 12 years after first vote, spot still undecided
Select Board accepts restored antique as memorial to missing service members; where it will stand depends on rearranging a crowded meeting room
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.
Marblehead Arts Association seeks artist members
The Marblehead Arts Association is seeking artist members; artwork for jury consideration is due Oct. 13.
Festival Chorus to begin rehearsals for holiday concerts
Registration opens Sept. 30 at Old North Church; December program centers on a Ristori Christmas Mass.
Marblehead Counseling Center announces Swamp-Stock fundraiser
The flyer for ‘Swamp-Stock: Rock the Night!,’ a five-band fundraiser for the Marblehead Counseling Center at the Swampscott Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Oct. 1, 6–11 p.m. Tickets are $60.
Hestia Creations celebrates 40 years with Linda D'Addario
Ornament shop honors longtime sculptor Nov. 12 at Hawkes St. store.
St. Michael's Church calls Patrick Gray as priest in charge
Episcopal parish names veteran Hamilton-Wenham rector for Oct. 1 start
Rusted nut halts plan to turn Abbot Hall's 1877 bell
Volunteers warn the casting could crack after nearly 3 million strikes on one spot.
Four women to join the men on Abbot Hall’s Select Board room walls
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.
Mary Alley renovation begins with asbestos removal, lower-level demolition
Building Commissioner Stephen Cummings details a four-phase renovation, in-house boiler work at fire headquarters and what comes next for the Old Town House and Abbot Hall.
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
Primary settled, Marblehead Democrats shift from choosing to organizing
Nominee Dan Koh says the race 'got a little testy' as an Ed Markey sign hangs in a hall 13 days after the town backed Congressman Seth Moulton.
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