Marblehead News

Selectman Harry Christensen told a joke on himself as the retired U.S. Marine solved the mysteries of military time for fellow board members, quoting his own father in the process.

In 1775, he was one of those who joined General John Glover's regiment. Yet, you only have to hear his name to realize that Abraham Solomon was different than his fellow soldiers, even signing the muster roll in Hebrew.

Helaine Hazlett of the town's Task Force Against Discrimination appeared before the selectmen last week to present the winning logo for the "No Place for Hate" campaign, a poster created by high school sophomore Michael Harper.

Firefighters yesterday quelled a two-alarm fire at a two-family home in Old Town.

So, it's the local art festival and you're thinking that every retired person in creation is going to show up with an oil painting of Marblehead Light labeled Marblehead Light because otherwise you wouldn't be able to figure out what it's supposed to be.

This charming novel is both a tale of New England grad-student life in 1991 and the Salem witch hunts in 1692.

Singing sensation discovered warbling in the shower. You always thought it would happen to you, but if Marblehead songbird Casey Rae Macomber, 25, becomes a big success, that's what they can say.

During Monday night's City Council meeting on a proposed housing project at the Salem Mission, two city councilors revealed that they, too, were once homeless.

Marti Shea, women's winner of the Newton's Revenge bike race up Mt. Washington both years the race has been held, hopes to go three-for-three in 2009, as she leads the field of women entered for this year's race on July 11.

This charming novel is both a tale of New England grad-student life in 1991 and the Salem witch hunts in 1692.

Experience working with non-profits would be ideal. North-shore non-profit looking for a part-time grant/proposal writer for up to 10 hours a week through the end of the year.

A series of accidents involving elderly drivers, tragically culminating in the death of a 4-year-old girl in Stoughton over the weekend, has prompted several North Shore legislators to throw their support behind a bill that would require mandatory testing at 85.

They are known as commons, greens, training fields, or sometimes all of the above.

An impromptu conversation about music that took place on a Marblehead sidewalk in the 1980s set in motion Marblehead Summer Jazz, which will kick off its 25th season Saturday night at the Unitarian-Universalist Church on Mugford Street.

Before Anne Crimmins took a phone call from her son Sam on Wednesday, she had no idea the 14-year-old had been in the building when a fatal shooting occurred at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is a witch story that will leave you spellbound.

It didn't end at Buchenwald. Sonia Weitz, a survivor of that Nazi death camp, watched the grim news coming from the Holocaust Museum in Washington on Wednesday only to learn of another victim of hate, museum guard Stephen Johns, 39.

" I'm the kind of person who never quits at anything." Carl Harris, 75, of Salem, who received his degree from Bates College this spring, 54 years after leaving the Maine school to join the Army " Whether you're a congressman or a member of a school board, raising money is part of the process." Democratic State Committeeman Arthur Powell on ...

The following students from North Shore towns were named to the honor roll for the second trimester of 2008-2009 at Shore Country Day School: HONORS Grade six: Aisling Batchelder and Duncan Lechner of Manchester; Christopher Brady, Matt Sheridan and Ali Sledge of Marblehead; Samantha Brainard of Wenham; James Burr, Carter Daume, Lizzie Flynn, Lily ...

There are books and movies, monuments and medals, as well as students who examine D-Day in detail.