Today’s Headlines
Lynn makes zoning changes to impact properties on Lynnway; WCVB-TV reports explosions at Newburyport chemical plant; School superintendent search updates from Salem, Peabody, and Gloucester; Lynn English boys basketball wins big conference match-up; Tarr seeks to strengthen mental health care bill
North Shore Today newscast with Rick Moore and Bill Newell
Weather: A look toward the weekend…getting colder Friday
Daily Item of Lynn Writers Win Awards
Item staff writers, Cheryl Charles and Steve Krause, won awards for commentary in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper Competition.
Charles and Krause received their awards Saturday night at the NENPA dinner at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.
Charles took first place with a column, which ran last Feb. 27, called “That Dialogue about Race? First, Talk Among Yourselves,” which, NENPA said, contained “no-pulled punches, no sweet talk” and came “straight from the heart.”
Krause took second in the same category with “I Am The Proverbial Grey-Haired White Guy You Keep Hearing About,” which ran in September 2018 in the wake of the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. NENPA called it a “refreshing take on white privilege.”
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the Hutchinson Hardware Store Fire on Munroe St. 4 Lynn Firefighter made the ultimate sacrifice as the building would collapse trapping them. Killed was Capt. Henry L. Skinner, FF Thomas E. Murray, FF John F. Donlan, & FF Abraham C. Moody.
