Marblehead crews rescue 6 after boat crashes onto Grays Rock
Vessel was thrown clear of the surface in Salem Sound; injuries ranged from minor to serious
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COMPUTERS 101: Let technology be your travel agent (sort of)
Digital tools can make trip planning easier — if you know which ones to trust and when to use them.
Pastries, roast beef put Marblehead Gen Z grads on the map
Lily Tapper and Max Scivetti graduates, are turning early lessons and hometown recipes into thriving restaurants in Swampscott and Beverly.
Moderators seek evidence as Markey, Moulton trade accusations
The Democratic Senate rivals traded allegations, sidestepped Massachusetts concerns and left several factual disputes unresolved ahead of the Sept. 1 primary.
Marblehead schools name LeBlanc principal of Glover Elementary
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
Marblehead's senior tax break to face its first real test
The program launches in November, but nobody yet knows how many seniors will qualify.
In 6th District primary, money decides which names feel familiar
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.
BENEATH THE BLUE: A place of peace
Freediving awakens childhood wonder as worries disappear below Marblehead's surface.
MARBLEHEAD MORSELS: Lettuce eat local
Lettuce [let us] eat local. A Cyclospora outbreak has made food safety one of the top news stories in the country. Many people are left wondering: what produce is safe? How do we eat in a way that's nutritionally healthy while also staying safe from the outbreak? I
Marblehead Museum to offer walking tour exploring slavery and abolition
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
POLICE LOG: Mystery chum, a mudroom stranger and an e-bike that wasn’t
This week’s calls included fish-scented crates, an unexpected household visitor and a two-wheeled machine police said had crossed into motorcycle territory.
Historian traces a Marblehead shoemaker’s rise to Revolutionary War hero
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: SAVE Act could threaten voting rights
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
Board of Health moves to launch five-year wellness plan while residents scramble for basic answers
From a trash-cart injury to beach testing delays, the meeting exposed how spread-out channels leave people guessing where to look next.
State police detectives join Salem death investigation
The investigation is ongoing as police piece together what happened.
Marblehead survey on first master plan since 1989 closes Aug. 4
Residents are being asked to help shape the town’s vision for 2037 through a 50-minute questionnaire covering housing, transportation, land use, climate resilience, public services and historic character.