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.
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. Marblehead Little Theatre and the Marblehead Festival of Arts will present “America the Beautiful,” a family-friendly song-and-dance revue July
Coffee and harbor talk defined a small room where regulars came for breakfast and stayed for company.
Residents showed visitors old houses, harbor views and everyday hospitality, giving the trip a Marblehead chapter far from the stadium.
Federal filings show Koh far ahead in fundraising, with John Beccia self-funding nearly $2 million and other contenders running on much smaller accounts.
Born at Mary Alley Hospital, native has spent his life in Marblehead and decades working for the town’s electric light company.
The story stayed with him for nearly two decades after he first came across it while researching American whaling.
LWVM Observer: Tom Krueger Members in Attendance: Andrew Petty, Tom McMahon, Dr. Tom Massaro, Dr. Amanda Ritvo, Kristin Elizabeth Dubai Horton (Julie B. Selbst not present) Following the recent town election and expansion of the board to five members, a reorganization was held. Massaro was reelected as chairperson. Massaro noted
He told Select Board Chair Dan Fox before residents voted June 9, and framed retirement as a personal timing decision.
His tenure included leadership rebuilding, budget forecasts, labor disputes and sharp disagreement over how severe Marblehead’s financial challenges had become.
A crowd gathered outside Abbot Hall for the annual ceremony, where speakers tied the flag-raising to public visibility, civil rights and local responsibility.
Speakers described a department shaped by old loyalties and present-day pressures, from rising call volume to the health risks firefighters face.
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. Friends of Green St Woods launched Slow Roll Marblehead on May 21 as part of Massachusetts Bike Month, organizer Rick Smyers said.
Nicole McClain traced Juneteenth to June 19, 1865, and said the delayed news of freedom still carries weight in American life.
Artifacts include loyalist shop goods, Glover documents, a privateering relic and a medicine chest carried by Dr. Elisha Story at Bunker Hill.
That does not mean the town gets a pass. Forecasters at the weather service office in Norton expect temperatures across eastern Massachusetts to hold in the mid 80s to low 90s both days.
The new board’s first meeting after the election focused less on celebration than on how the town will track and explain the new revenue.