Eight years in, Light Commission set to consider joining state renewable energy trust Tuesday
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Four women to join the men on Abbot Hall’s Select Board room walls
Sharon K. Heim, last of her line, is giving Marblehead paintings of a mother, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter married into the town's fishing and privateering trades.
Marblehead courting, the old-fashioned way: thank-you notes, violets and a wedding at Crocker Park
Maroney is usually the one documenting the moment. At Crocker Park, with Brown beside him and Glover’s Regiment nearby, the lens turned toward him.
Marblehead student directors bring 'Harmony' to life
Two rising seniors spent the summer shooting a short about a band under pressure, with a premiere expected in 2027
MARBLEHEAD MORSELS: Dining at the Driftwood
Regulars, staff and one discerning pancake panel say Marblehead’s Front Street diner is keeping its old rhythm under Maria Torres’ family.
Pastries, roast beef put Marblehead Gen Z grads on the map
Lily Tapper and Max Scivetti graduates, are turning early lessons and hometown recipes into thriving restaurants in Swampscott and Beverly.
In first Democratic primary debate, Markey and Moulton measure power differently
The exchange became a test of two political theories: one built on showing up in rooms across Massachusetts, the other on relationships that can deliver money, endorsements and results.
Storytellers trade crashes, romance and a last flight at Marblehead festival
The rules were simple: true stories, no notes and five minutes if the teller could manage it.
MFoA's Best of Show winners map the town: Chandler Hovey's granite, harbor fog and what the tide leaves behind
Water appears throughout the winning works, from rowers and kayaks to shells, driftwood, gulls and granite.
Jodi-Tatiana Charles turns festival labor into a children's book
Charles’ picture book follows four friends through a weeklong celebration, while pointing to the volunteers, shop owners and neighbors who make town traditions work.
In 6th District race, one Democrat has $3 million. Another has $9,535.
Federal filings show a field divided less by policy than by the money each campaign can spend before the Sept. 1 primary.
From Marblehead, Eric Jay Dolin reconstructs a shipwreck that waited 20 years for him
The story stayed with him for nearly two decades after he first came across it while researching American whaling.
New 250th exhibit lets Marblehead’s Revolution speak — loyalists included
Artifacts include loyalist shop goods, Glover documents, a privateering relic and a medicine chest carried by Dr. Elisha Story at Bunker Hill.
Tower 4th-graders watch the oyster reefs they helped inspire go into Lead Mills mud
For the students, the lesson will continue after installation, with data from one sensor expected to make its way back to their classroom.
Historian traces the Revolution’s saltwater roots to Marblehead
A professor of early American history argues the Revolution’s origins were not only on land, but in the Atlantic economy that sustained towns like Marblehead.
After more than a century, oysters may make comeback to Marblehead harbors
The project would start at Tucker’s Wharf, where volunteers plan to raise young oysters in a tank before testing them at selected harbor sites.