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Peabody picks superintendent

PEABODY — Joseph Mastrocola has been hired as the new superintendent of the Peabody School District after a unanimous vote by the Peabody School Committee Thursday...

Colossal campaign collection

Many know Alan Hartnett as a guy who operates a popular, family-owned car wash and auto body shop on Water Street in Danvers. Few realize he is really cleaning...

4th man charged in Hilltop probe

SALEM — A former resident of a Boston Street rooming house, where two men died last fall of apparent drug overdoses, has been charged in connection with one of the...

6 years and counting, restaurant still on hold

After Mayor Bill Scanlon's State of the City address Monday night, City Council President Paul Guanci asked the question that residents have been asking since 2006....

No water woes for region — yet

Water levels on the North Shore are still close to average but dropping fast due to a recent lack of precipitation. Up through last night, not a single drop of moisture had...

Police respond to NSCC

DANVERS — Police responded to a professor who "had an incident in class," but an arrest was not made, according to Linda Brantley, director of public relations at...

Police

Marblehead Thursday Lately, there have been several reports of contractors attempting to scam residents by promising to inspect and repair their chimney. The latest such...

Correction

An editorial in the Friday, Feb. 10 edition ("Arbitrator's ruling reflects the giveaways of the past") had an incorrect date for Salem police Capt. John...

Health care law debated

About 100 city union members packed the Wiggin Auditorium in City Hall last night, as the Peabody City Council debated the merits of a new law that would curb the unions'...

Borders site is next chapter for auto dealer

DANVERS — Danvers-based Kelly Automotive Group is ramping up expansion plans along Route 114 in both Danvers and Peabody. Kelly is mulling the creation of a...

Road race issue crosses finish line

SALEM — The City Council agreed last night to track and monitor Salem's many road races through creation of a master calendar. Salem's volume of road races, and the...

Salem businessman offers firsthand insight on Egypt

SALEM — David Williams, 55, had a good feeling when he was asked to go to Egypt as part of a team of Americans dedicated to teaching that country's new democrats...

A Salem flag-raising in Afghanistan

SALEM — For Veterans Day, third-graders from the Witchcraft Heights School wrote letters to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The school has done this in the past, but...

Body-moving case in court next month

SALEM — The arraignment of two men charged with moving the body of an apparent drug overdose victim out of a controversial rooming house has been postponed to next...

Hamilton looks to share emergency dispatch facility

HAMILTON — Hamilton has an emergency dispatch facility that is less than five years old and was built to support two towns. The trouble is, the second town —...

Chocolate and ice festival this weekend

SALEM — If you're not in a Valentine's Day mood yet, then "Salem's So Sweet" may be just what Cupid ordered. The 10th annual chocolate and ice sculpture festival...

New trash rules boost recycling, officials say

DANVERS — The town's strict new mandatory recycling rules have more than doubled the amount of paper, bottles, cans and glass that haulers collected curbside during...

Police

Marblehead Wednesday Police re-secured a home on McKinley Road that had its front door "wide open" at 10:28 a.m. when no one was home. Maxwell B. Martinez, 19, of 1...

Ruling: city must pay cop

The city must pay a retired police captain more than $17,000 in benefits for time he did not work following his retirement because those payments have been "past...

'Her name is going to change things'

PEABODY — Dozens of family, friends, lawmakers and social workers came out to a candlelight vigil last night at Buckley Field to remember and honor the life of...

Salem State lands Valentine, Cooper for Speaker Series

SALEM — For its 30th year, the Salem State Series has hit a home run. The university announced yesterday it has signed new Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine for its...

Peabody squelches mulch operation

PEABODY — Peabody officials have issued a cease-and-desist order for the J. D. Raymond site on Farm Avenue, where a mulch fire on Monday spewed heavy smoke and...

Rep tackles health care reform at chamber breakfast

SALEM — Health care is like an open bar, says state Rep. Steven Walsh: "Everybody's drinking but no one's paying." The Lynn Democrat's quip drew laughs from the...

Peabody council to debate new health care law

PEABODY — The Peabody City Council will consider tonight whether to adopt a new municipal health care law that could save the city millions of dollars per year. ...

Town moves to solve dispatch center's space crunch

DANVERS — By June there should be a plan on how to tackle the communications center space crunch in the Police Department, Selectman Michael Powers told the board...

Ipswich gets money for Farley Brook project

IPSWICH — Ipswich is one of five towns selected for state money through the Coastal Pollution Remediation grant program. The grants, announced yesterday by...

School schedule changes, fees on agenda in Ipswich

IPSWICH — The School Committee will discuss several proposed budget cuts tonight that could affect Ipswich Public School students of all ages. Tonight's discussion...

Teller blocks attempt to cash stolen checks

SALEM — Barely 10 minutes after a bank customer called a teller to report that her checks had been stolen, a man walked in with the stolen items and attempted to...

New Sox manager to speak at Salem State

New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine will appear at Salem State University this year as part of the 2012 Speaker Series.

Keeping track of road races

City councilors on the committee on public health, safety and the environment came to a consensus about road races last night like a group of runners headed toward a...

Ruckus over street crossing

SALEM — A new pedestrian light on Bridge Street has a city councilor fuming and police concerned. The light at Skerry Street — right by the Carlton School...

Vigil tonight remembers slain Peabody social worker

PEABODY — Social services workers will gather in three locations across Massachusetts tonight to remember the life of Stephanie Moulton of Peabody. Moulton, a...

DeFranco unabashedly liberal in Senate run

SALEM — Marisa DeFranco is a proud liberal Democrat who believes in a single-payer health care system, deficit spending, diplomacy, gay rights and equal pay for...

Alternative school settles in at new home at the Gables

SALEM — The Salem Prep Program, an alternative school program for at-risk teens, has found a new home at The House of the Seven Gables. The program's 32 students...

High school to keep interim principal another year

HAMILTON-WENHAM — John Hughes, a retired educator who was hired in July as an interim principal for the high school, will stay through next year. Interim...

Driver undone by vanity plate

SALEM — A woman who crashed into a downtown building and then drove away was quickly caught thanks to a vanity plate that had a witness seeing JSTARS. Because she...

Danvers, SSU win grants for water protection

Salem State University and the town of Danvers are among the eight recipients receiving $135,000 in federal grant funding for projects to protect Massachusetts coastal waters....

Boxford woman scratches Monopoly ticket for $1M

DANVERS — By playing a lottery scratch ticket featuring Monopoly's Mr. Moneybags at a local convenience store, a Boxford woman has won a bunch of money. On Feb. 2,...

Gunshot victim has no answers

SALEM — A gunshot victim who arrived at North Shore Medical Center, Salem Hospital, prior to 7 p.m. yesterday has offered few clues as to the identity of his...

AmericanTowns Heroes: Ariana Hargis is a Real Livesaver

Ariana Hargis is the kind of lifeguard you want on duty when your loved ones are in the pool. She's a quick-thinking, focused professional with eyes in the back of her head. When...

Romney leads area in funds

With a $100,000 boost from a single donor, area Republicans are overwhelmingly supporting Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate of choice. The former Massachusetts governor...

Blaze likely caused by spontaneous combustion

PEABODY — Heavy equipment and four Peabody Fire Department engines were required to control a mulch fire off Farm Avenue yesterday. Billowing white smoke shot high...

Police identify crash victim

DANVERS — One man is alive and in stable condition, while the mother of his close friend got word yesterday of her son's death in a violent crash on Route 128...

Scanlon to focus on repair projects

With the signature accomplishment of a new high school behind him, Mayor Bill Scanlon plans to turn his attention to the nuts and bolts of repairing city buildings, streets,...

Court settlement with Salem power plant ends city's coal era

SALEM — A federal court settlement announced yesterday between Dominion Energy Inc. and two environmental groups that accused the company of pollution violations...

Legislators move forward with sentencing bill

BOSTON — House and Senate conferees last week came closer to resolving differences between respective bills cracking down on violent offenders. State Rep. Brad...

Beverly Cultural Council awards grants

BEVERLY — The Beverly Cultural Council has awarded grants totaling more than $11,000 to 22 artists or groups. Twelve of the 22 recipients live in Beverly, while the...

Mack Park still seeks tenant

SALEM — The future of a building at Mack Park is still up in the air. The Park and Recreation Commission decided to seek a new round of proposals after getting only...

Salem Cultural Council allots $11,000

SALEM — From a school trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra to a mural project, the Salem Cultural Council is injecting more than $11,000 into the Witch City...

Get ready to sculpt if snow falls

IPSWICH — Although it certainly hasn't been the snowiest winter on record, a group of Ipswich citizens has organized a snow sculpture contest. Once we get a coating...