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| VIDEO: Surveillance tape of burglar breaking into a home-security store Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:48:00 EDT This surveillance tape, released yesterday by HomeLogic in Marblehead, shows a burglar kicking open the door and entering the store, which, among other things, sells home alarm systems and surveillance cameras. The suspect was caught shortly afterward and arrested, according to police. |
| Whoops! Burglary caught on videotape
Police: Suspect's target was wired office of home-monitoring fi Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT MARBLEHEAD — It may have seemed like the perfect crime: Kick in a business's door in the middle of the night, grab something that looks expensive, and run. But police say a Revere man made a big error by burglarizing a business that specializes in high-tech home-monitoring products. |
| VIDEO: Swing'n Thursdays Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:21:00 EDT Every Thursday morning The Golden Echos, a swing band made up of local big band musicians, perform for a packed house at the Torigian Community Life Center. For two hours seniors are invited to come and join the dance party featuring music from the 30's and 40's. Around two hundred people from all over the North Shore come to kick up their heels and dance every week. |
| Recovery High students bristle at sales of 'Cocaine' energy drink Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:08:00 EDT BEVERLY — For students at Recovery High School, the word cocaine conjures images of a powdery, white, illegal drug that has ruined too many of their lives. So they were surprised to find out it's also the name of an energy drink sold at the Lucky 7 on Cabot Street, just down the street from their school, which educates kids recovering from drug and alcohol addictions. |
| Supreme Roast Beef dials back prices to 1973 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:07:00 EDT DANVERS — Supreme Roast Beef took the edge off the town's hunger pangs yesterday by rolling back prices to a time when Richard Nixon was president, there was an Arab oil embargo, and Tony Orlando and Dawn topped the charts with "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree." |
| WEB EXCLUSIVE: Building a boat at Masco Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:20:00 EDT |
| 'Sick' DPW worker caught at outside job must repay benefits Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT SALEM — A public works employee fired for working a private job at a Dunkin' Donuts while on sick leave last year will have to pay back the unemployment benefits he collected. A district court judge ruled that DPW worker Rhett Rochna shouldn't receive unemployment, reversing a state agency's previous finding that the judge said "simply defies logic." |
| Locals weigh in as Democratic primary winds down Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been campaigning nonstop since the delegate scoreboard switched on in January with the Iowa caucus. The back-and-forth battle that has followed culminated yesterday with primaries in South Dakota and Montana. |
| Gas too expensive for Topsfield station to fill its tanks Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:39:00 EDT TOPSFIELD — Several times a month, a "Sorry No Gas" sign gets propped up between the service islands at Silva Tire, a Topsfield Shell station on Route 97. "Prices are up, shipping is up, all the numbers are up," said manager Don Emery, who was expecting a delivery of about a third of a truckful on Monday. While customers dig deep to fill their tanks, typical stations have to do the same thing on a much larger scale — or simply shut their doors. |
| Danvers High students undertake submersible lessons Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:33:00 EDT DANVERS — When a piece of Avery Pecci and Jackie Gala's submersible rover broke off as it floated in the Putnamville Reservoir, their Danvers High classmate Chris Gotts came to the rescue. As the students looked on from a wall along the reservoir, Gotts rolled up his pants, climbed down and scooped up the part. |
| Beverly override crushed: Tax limits upheld, but McKeown School will close at month's end Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:32:00 EDT BEVERLY — Voters overwhelmingly rejected a $2.5 million tax increase in the city's first Proposition 21/2 override election yesterday, staging what the leader of the winning side said amounted to a "taxpayer revolt." |
| Masco students test rowboats with mixed results Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:00 EDT BOXFORD — Masco wood shop teacher Ralph Arabian called out to his students, telling them they weren't supposed to have gone into the water of Stiles Pond. He was too late. Mike Nay's rowboat was already in the water and, seconds later, Nay was, too. |
| Wire fire leaves Beverly neighborhood powerless Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:00 EDT BEVERLY — An electrical wire above Conant Street caught fire yesterday morning and knocked out power to about 580 homes and businesses in the area for an hour and a half. Flames could be seen shooting from the power wire around 11 a.m. in front of a home at 90 Conant St. A worker from National Grid put out the fire with a fire extinguisher from an aerial bucket truck, then wet the dead wire down with a water hose. The Beverly Fire Department assisted. |
| Ipswich marshes being sprayed for mosquitoes Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:25:00 EDT IPSWICH — Aerial salt marsh spraying kicked off yesterday and will run through June 18. The purpose is to control salt marsh mosquitoes by killing their larvae. The marshes are normally sprayed between three and six times a year to control salt marsh mosquitoes. The marshes in neighboring Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury will also be treated. |
| Flag that flew over Iraq now hangs in courthouse Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:25:00 EDT SALEM — Courthouses are the kind of place only lawyers seem to love — until you've lived in a place where there are none, where disputes are settled in the streets, sometimes in blood. Emery Haskell just returned from such a place, the city of Ramadi in Iraq. |
| Salem music students earn medals at festival Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:24:00 EDT SALEM — Paula Miller wasn't too nervous for her solo clarinet performance until her instrument squeaked — but she played through it and sailed to a gold medal in a recent state festival. Eleven Salem students performed in the 18th annual MICCA Solo & Ensemble Festival, held earlier this month in Concord. |
| Man on GPS bracelet charged with exposing himself to 7-year-old Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:23:00 EDT SALEM — A 7-year-old girl who heard footsteps behind her as she walked along Boston Street Monday turned around to see a man exposing and fondling himself, a prosecutor said. Now the man suspected of doing that, Alexis Infante, 42, is being held without bail, charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness and with violating the terms of his release in a separate incident last December, when police say he tried to stab his wife to death. Because of those charges, he was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet. |
| Beverly schools say no to kids' 'Yes' T-shirts Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:23:00 EDT BEVERLY — Elementary school students who wore "Yes" T-shirts to school yesterday were instructed to turn them inside out to avoid breaking election laws. Superintendent James Hayes said the students were given that order after a poll worker at Cove Elementary School told school officials that the T-shirts violated a law prohibiting campaign material within 150 feet of a polling place. |
| Centerville chief's send-off is today Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:22:00 EDT BEVERLY — Centerville Elementary School Principal Bill Foley knows the children of the children he once taught. Thousands of kids have passed through the doors of the school, and now that he's retiring at the end of the year, those kids are being called back. |
| Burke principal to leave for Lynn post Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:22:00 EDT PEABODY — The science-loving principal of Burke School is returning to his roots. Principal Brian Fay sent letters home to parents yesterday sharing news he'd been named top administrator at Cobbet School in his native Lynn. Fay spent 15 years teaching in the neighboring community before landing the Peabody job. |
| Charges dropped against man accused of rape Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:21:00 EDT MARBLEHEAD — Prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Marblehead man charged last month with raping a mentally disabled woman. Carl Caswell, 51, of 174 Pleasant St., Marblehead, was in Lynn District Court yesterday for what had been scheduled to be a probable cause hearing in the case. The Essex County District Attorney's Office instead filed a motion formally notifying the court that it was ending its prosecution of the case. |
| Danvers neighbors all abuzz about Beverly Airport noise Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:20:00 EDT DANVERS — Maria and Tony Bettencourt of Thorpe Circle wanted selectmen and Beverly Airport commissioners to know they are not the only ones bugged by noise from planes, jets and helicopters buzzing their bucolic neighborhood over the past several years. |
| None hurt in rush-hour pileup in Beverly Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:19:00 EDT BEVERLY — The Fire Department reported no injuries in a five-car pileup on Route 128 north yesterday just before Exit 20. But the crash in the midst of the afternoon commute snarled traffic in both directions of the highway for hours. |
| Police Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:17:00 EDT Salem Sunday r A business owner on Front Street at 5:30 p.m. reported a man was urinating on the street. Police found the man sitting on a bench nearby and placed him under arrest for a default warrant issued by Peabody District Court for failing to report to probation. |
| Officials: Clinton will concede delegate race to Obama Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:06:00 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede tonight that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president. |
| Uncertainty marks Beverly's first override election Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT BEVERLY — The biggest question facing the city today is whether voters will pass a $2.5 million Proposition 21/2 override. The second biggest question is: How many voters will make that decision? |
| Second fire has many tenants eyeing breaking leases Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT PEABODY — Last week's fire has many tenants of a 446-apartment development questioning whether they want to continue calling The Highlands at Dearborn home. The fire destroyed one of 18 buildings in the sprawling complex above Route 128 and Interstate 95. It was the second fire there in 14 months — a one-alarm blaze in March 2007 displaced the occupants of 22 apartments — and some tenants say they are worried for their safety and considering breaking their leases. |
| Salem launches summer entertainment cruises Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT SALEM — Hugh Kerr has a lot of oars in the water. He owns a company that makes leather motorcycle apparel, he runs a popular Indian restaurant in downtown Salem, and he operates a pedicab business that transports tourists around the city. |
| More time needed to chew on school lunch plans in Salem Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT SALEM — Superintendent William Cameron Jr. says schools can't afford to keep food service in-house and guaranteed it would be cheaper to hire an international company to feed local students. The superintendent said he "spent several days reading the proposals and trying to weigh them," but recommended removing the food program from local management because it is running a six-figure deficit the district can't afford. |
| Highlands fire raises mulch safety questions Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:49:00 EDT PEABODY — Mulch, a product used to spruce up lawns and keep down weeds, has a dark side when extremely dry: flammability. It's one of the reasons fire Chief Steven Pasdon advised managers of The Highlands at Dearborn yesterday to remove all the mulch from the apartment complex, which suffered an estimated $4 million to $5 million in damage from a raging fire Thursday. |
| Endangered turtles get head start at Essex Aggie Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:48:00 EDT DANVERS — Essex Agricultural and Technical High runs a unique head start program, but it's not for toddlers. Turtles are the ones who benefit from the extra help. Since the fall, students in the environmental technology program have been raising six endangered Northern red-bellied cooters. They are the state's second-largest freshwater turtle, next to the snapper, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife says. |
| Low river flow means less watering in Topsfield Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:47:00 EDT TOPSFIELD — April showers brought May flowers, but not quite enough rain to keep Topsfield from moving toward mandatory water restrictions in June. Yesterday, the town began encouraging public and private water users to only use water outside with a handheld hose or watering can from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. The policy prohibits sprinklers. Water Superintendent Greg Krom said he expects the town's water board will approve mandatory restrictions on Friday. Krom said low flows in the Ipswich River mean traditional summer water restrictions are beginning about a month ahead of schedule. |
| Local graduates at Gordon College Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:46:00 EDT WENHAM — The following local students were awarded degrees from Gordon College this spring: Philip Masterson, Hamilton, business administration/economics; Kristen Helgesen, Manchester, early chi |
| Students see success from after-school program at Higgins Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:46:00 EDT PEABODY — Seventh-grader Chris Paolini went from low grades last year to the honor roll. The difference was the after-school program by the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem at Higgins Middle School this year. |
| Salem man, 71, admits molesting young relatives Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:45:00 EDT SALEM — An elderly Salem man will spend a year in jail after pleading guilty yesterday to molesting two young relatives he was baby-sitting. Leon Moulton, 71, once insisted he did not understand what he had done wrong, according to his lawyer. Through counseling, he has come to accept responsibility. |
| Morning break-ins spur Swampscott police warning Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:44:00 EDT SWAMPSCOTT — A recent rash of home invasions has Swampscott police Detective Tim Cassidy warning residents to keep their eyes open. "If you see anything suspicious — with someone you don't know — give us a call," he said. |
| Mom acquitted in sixth DUI case Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:44:00 EDT DANVERS — A Gloucester mother of two was cleared of drunken-driving charges yesterday by a jury, some of whose members expressed frustration with what they believed were holes in the prosecution's case. |
| McKeown's McBride headed to Andover post Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:39:00 EDT BEVERLY — McKeown Elementary School Principal Colleen McBride has resigned, days before finding out if her school will close, to begin a job in the Merrimack Valley. After eight years at McKeown, McBride is leaving as the community struggles to determine the future of Beverly public schools. She starts July 1 at South Elementary School in Andover. |
| Ipswich's winter cleanup causing summer chill Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:38:00 EDT IPSWICH — Melting the mountain of Department of Public Works' snow and ice bills has been sending a June chill through other town departments nearly every year, and selectmen acknowledged last night they need to find a way to avoid it. |
| Adventurous pooch has ruff time on roof Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:38:00 EDT SALEM — One of the iconic images of firefighters is the act of saving a cat from a tree. But on Woodside Street in North Salem yesterday, that image took a bit of a twist: Firefighters instead rescued an 8-year-old golden retriever from a roof. |
| Ipswich cops collar car-break suspects Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:36:00 EDT IPSWICH — A tip at 3 a.m. led to the arrest of two North Shore men yesterday who police say are behind a number of car breaks in the Great Neck area and possibly other communities. Christopher Parady, 29, of 23 Planters St., Salem, and Craig R. Ouellette, 25, of 5 Dix Road, Ipswich, were arrested on Jeffreys Neck Road, the main road leading to Ipswich's Great Neck, after police spotted the suspicious car described by a resident. |
| A weekend of cocaine, heroin busts Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:35:00 EDT Two North Shore police departments netted a stash of illegal drugs in recent days. Ipswich police arrested a Boston man yesterday after he was found with 11 ounces of cocaine. Patrolman Eric Copithorne was on patrol at 6 p.m. when he spotted a suspicious vehicle on Old Right Road believed to be engaged in a drug transaction. |
| Party girl-turned-nun left big impression on her students Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT Everyone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of those stories about North Shore people who have died recently. "Lives" runs Mondays in The Salem News. BEVERLY — Charlotte Kane was 21 when she answered The Call. Oh, she found her path to God, all right, but along the way she found something else, something even more important to the people whose lives she would touch. |
| H-W grads leave with 'maps' but no destination in mind Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT WENHAM — If poet Robert Frost were alive today, valedictorian Michael Zheng would have a few questions for him. At yesterday's graduation, he read Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," about arriving at a fork in the road and choosing the less traveled path which "made all the difference," Frost wrote. |
| Residents skeptical of cigarette explanation
Fire chief says dry conditions turned mere spark into f Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT PEABODY — The Highlands at Dearborn returned to some level of normalcy yesterday as half the 18 buildings in the apartment complex reopened and residents returned home to gather bags of belongings. Yet tenants displaced by a massive fire last week were left with questions. |
| Beverly override election Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 EDT > > r When Tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. r Polling places Ward 1, Precincts 1&2, Ayers Ryal Side School Ward 2, Precincts 1&2, Beverly Public Library, Winter Street entrance Ward 3, Precincts 1&2, McKeown Elementary School |
| Lack of preservation spending prompts questions Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 EDT HAMILTON — The selectmen spent some time last week talking about how money collected through the Community Preservation Act is being spent — or, more accurately, how it isn't being spent. Christine Berry, the town's Community Preservation Act agent, was on hand to inquire about the status of two projects — land acquisition around the School Street well and repairs to the ceiling on the second floor of Town Hall and replacement of the building's windows. |
| Police trailer closed to public over access issues Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 EDT BEVERLY — The police department's temporary home is temporarily off limits to the public. Police were forced to bar visitors on Friday when they were informed that the temporary home, a trailer in the parking lot next to the police station, violated federal law because it is not handicapped-accessible. |
| First physics fair at SHS is a flying success Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:23:00 EDT SALEM — A pump, welded copper pipes and a couple of pressure gauges allowed juniors Abby Brengle and Autumn DeLorenzo to show how airplanes fly. Really. They are among 55 students who competed in the first physics fair at Salem High School on Thursday, featuring counterweights, trebuchets (a form of catapult), siphons, electricity experiments and all sorts of student-built gizmos that demonstrated the principles and laws of physics. |
| Going to bat for Elvis:
Boxford boy helps deaf child attend baseball camp Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:13:00 EDT A shared passion for baseball has brought together two boys from two different worlds. Lawrence resident Elvis Calcano, 12, who is deaf, will learn more about the game when he attends the Mike Bush Fantasy Baseball Camp for the deaf and hard of hearing in Missouri from June 23 to 27. |
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