Marblehead News

The state is putting all of its transportation eggheads in one basket - and one of them is a Marbleheader.

When police found 22-year-old Taylor Jackson hiding near the scene of her wrecked car early yesterday morning, they say Jackson made one thing clear: "I'm not going to get arrested from a Salem cop," Jackson allegedly told officers.

It's hard to imagine a place more different from this town than Oklahoma, where, according to the song, "the wind comes sweepin' down the plain." Tonight, the Marblehead Little Theatre will offer its opening performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical comedy "Oklahoma" at Veterans Memorial Middle School.

A Salem Superior Court judge yesterday ordered that an alleged five-time drunken driver - found with a pint of vodka in his lunchbox - will remain in custody until trial.

A home for sale in Marblehead will soon be the site for more than just open houses.

For all her awards and accomplishments, esteemed actress Estelle Parsons still feels like she isn't doing enough.

Susan Steigman believes in sharing her love of books. She has been organizing the annual Jewish Book Month events at the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore for eight years, and the series kicks off its 15th season on Sunday.

A recent phone call from the new owner of a property at 224 Lafayette St. in Salem concerning its history, prompted this look back at a series of high-profile - and still unsolved - murders that occurred on the North Shore between 1932 and 1963.

At least 832,000 smart meters will be installed across New England as a part of smart grid projects receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Smart Grid Investment Grant funding.

The selectmen have, by a 4-0 vote, endorsed a calendar of events with the town's sister city of Grasse, France.

A closed meeting with the chief hardly seemed the way to restore the public's confidence in the Marblehead Police Department.

Two Massachusetts men used counterfeit credit cards to buy cartons of cigarettes and other goods at supermarkets across southern New Hampshire, but were nabbed after staff at Shaw's in Nashua noted the license plate of their car, according to federal court records.

Rachel Theriault, a recent Salem State College graduate, has joined the Manchester Public Library staff as an assistant.

The anti-tax group that spearheaded the adoption of Proposition 2½ in Massachusetts nearly three decades ago is running out of money and may have to close.

Former Marblehead High School Principal John Ziergiebel has lost his battle with cancer, dying yesterday morning.

Barbara Anderson, whose single-minded opposition to tax increases has influenced Massachusetts cities and towns for three decades, is running short of money and may be on the verge of involuntary retirement.

St. John's Masonic Lodge in Newburyport is throwing its first Oktoberfest featuring a traditional German dinner and entertainment next Saturday, Oct.

The state Appeals Court has raised questions about Marblehead Police Department policies in a ruling reversing part of a delinquency finding against a teenager caught with marijuana on school grounds.

Just off Loring Avenue in Salem, there is a bridge that is completely dilapidated and falling apart.

The state appeals court yesterday threw out a drug dealing case against a teenager in the town of Marblehead, saying police shouldn't have cut open a locked bank bag the boy had hidden under his sweatshirt that contained packets of marijuana and a digital scale.