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Marblehead heads toward first override accounting amid finance turnover
Pfifferling's exit for Andover follows the announced departures of Benjamin and Kezer, leaving unfinished budget work and two searches already underway.
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A plain-language look at every dollar raised and spent by the candidates for Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District, built from their own official FEC filings. Updated as new filings come in.
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TO THE EDITOR: Why I support John Beccia for Congress
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: Why I support Tram Nguyen for Congress
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: Harbor Rotary gives thanks for Friends Forever Day
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: What a hockey net means for a neighborhood
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
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At Select Board retreat, officials begin defining Marblehead’s post-override future
Town leaders outlined a decade-long strategy to rebuild reserves, fund capital projects and keep the budget on stable footing without another operating override before 2030.
In Moulton succession race, two campaigns stockpile millions as rivals fight for room
The last full FEC filings before the Sept. 1 primary show two campaigns with millions, six smaller war chests and one candidate already out of the race.
IN MEMORIAM: Noel Young, Scottish editor who spent 25 years in Marblehead, dies at 86
To readers back home he was a tabloid man who built a paper to nearly 900,000; to a few Lincoln Park neighbors he was the friend who arrived with red wine and stayed for hours