To the editor: When we started the League of Women Voters of Marblehead’s Observer Corps in 2019, we were living in different times. The existing “news desert” and then Covid motivated League members to fill in for the lack of information about town boards and committees. Our observer reports
To the editor: I am tired of polite, establishment Democratic candidates. It is time for us to put one of our own in office. A mother, a fighter, a working-class woman that paid her own way through Salem State and worked for everything she has. Jamie was a state
To the editor: As voters across the 6th District prepare to cast their ballots in the upcoming Democratic primary, it is vital to look past campaign rhetoric and evaluate candidates based on actual legal experience, administrative execution and proven dedication to the Commonwealth. While challenger Diann Baylis has framed her
To the editor: On behalf of the Marblehead Museum, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the community for making our recent tag sale a resounding success. It is truly an event that is loved and supported by the community and beyond. The success of this sale is
To the editor: Skyrocketing costs of groceries, gas and utilities, are painful, and being made worse by tariffs and oil wars. Healthcare is prohibitively expensive and rising. The astronomical expense of housing creates brutal obstacles for people just to have a place to live. And what will happen to the
To the editor: There are six good people still running in the Democratic primary for the sixth Congressional District. How to choose? Here is my thinking. Positions: the issues pages of all the candidates are quite similar. Medicare for all, more affordable housing etc. As Andrew Yang has pointed out,
To the editor: On July 30 – the International Day of Friendship - Marblehead Harbor Rotary hosted eight 16- and 17-year-old Friends Forever International participants from Northern Ireland for a day in Marblehead. FFI (https://www.ff.international) is an empathy-based leadership program that develops the skills young people
To the editor: A Marblehead police officer recently came to my home because someone complained about my children’s hockey net. The officer was courteous and professional. After he left, I looked at the net, thought about dragging it into the garage and then looked across the street at a
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
To the editor: I was driving home from the Council on Aging and ended up behind a garbage truck. I noticed that the garbage man still hung off the back, hopped down and unloaded the trash barrels by hand like he always had. I pulled over and called out to
To the editor: My sincere thanks to our community for the unprecedented turnout at the 60th Marblehead Festival of Arts. The energy throughout the four-day celebration was inspiring to everyone who attended and visited our beautiful town. A heartfelt thank-you goes to the hundreds of volunteers who gave
To the editor: It is with a mixture of deep gratitude and profound sadness that I write to share that Lauren McCormack, our executive director at the Marblehead Museum, will be leaving her position effective June 30. As board president, working alongside McCormack has been one of the greatest privileges
To the editor: Three cheers for Marblehead democracy, which achieved a satisfactory outcome Tuesday without the help of this local voter. Registering for a mail-in ballot was the easy bit. Knowing I was going to be in Scotland on June 9, I strolled into the Town Clerk’s Office
Huge congratulations to Village School student Peggy Mulombe for her second-place win in Massachusetts' 2026 Letters About Literature program. It would be lovely to read her winning entry in the Marblehead Independent, and I hope you will print it. Youthful wins like this are such an inspiration, and
To the editor: On June 9, our community faces an important decision. The override vote is not simply about numbers on a spreadsheet; it is about the people who provide the services that residents depend on every day. Municipal employees are the ones who maintain our roads and public buildings,
To the editor: After many years serving on the Marblehead Select Board, I am stepping down. As I reflect on my time in that seat, one thing I know for certain is that this town has been fortunate to have Erin Noonan serving alongside me. I am writing to ask