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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.
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Who's funding the MA-06 race?
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: 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
TO THE EDITOR: Automated trash collection comes at a human cost
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: Patriotism and gratitude on the Fourth of July
To the editor: The Fourth of July is not just the date of our country’s founding, it is also the annual opportunity for the nation’s take slingers to Say Something Important About America. Especially with this year being the 250th anniversary of the republic’s birth. The narratives
TO THE EDITOR: Thanking Lauren McCormack for her service
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
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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