The distinguished historian David Herbert Donald once tried to prompt John F. Kennedy to evaluate the performances of his predecessors. “No one has a right to grade a president — not even poor James ...

I grew up in Connecticut and, at the age of 30, moved to Nahant. Flora Kerwin Walsh, my mother, grew to adulthood in Connecticut and at the age of 85, moved to Nahant. She left us in 1996 at the age ...

He’s been playing football nearly his entire life, but a green uniform has never seen the light of day. Come August, that will change for Lynn’s Edwin Castro, a defensive back from St. John’s Prep who ...

Not done yet. Thursday at Lynn Classical High, eight student-athletes enjoyed Signing Day and signed their letters of intent ...

Lynnfield’s baseball team is off and running to the Division 4 state tournament. With Thursday’s 9-5 home victory against ...

Two zoning bylaw Articles passed at Town Meeting this week. Despite attempts to indefinitely postpone the vote on Article 23 and amend its wording, the first zoning bylaw, which passed Tuesday night ...

The Catholic Church has elected an American pope, Leo XIV, for the first time in the history of the papacy. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was officially named the first-ever pope from the United ...

A long-vacant, overgrown stretch of Lynn’s southern waterfront could soon become home to 850 new housing units, 26,000 square feet of retail space, and an eight-acre public park, as city officials and ...