Peabody News

Like a proud parent following her child in a parade, Marie Oliver walked nearly two miles Tuesday morning behind a flatbed truck ferrying the town Christmas tree from her yard on Ralph Road to Danvers Square.

City lawmakers last night changed the future of vocational education in Peabody by choosing to join a regional school district that will give students access to a $133 million high school in 2013.

The Jewish Rehabilitation Center plans to relocate most of its operations to a proposed $40 million building at the site of Peabody's Woodbridge Assisted Living on Lynnfield Street.

They are the classrooms that were left behind nearly 40 years ago when Peabody High School moved to its current home on Lowell Street.

When members of the Peabody School Committee met last week to consider merging that city's vocational school with two regional technical schools, one of the most pressing concerns was whether all current teachers would be guaranteed jobs with the new entity.

School budgets seem to be shrinking down to nothing, squeezing out any and all enrichment programs such as art, music, shop, home economics, even computers.

Nearly a year of searching and wondering came to a sad end for a Peabody family yesterday when police divers found what they believe to be the remains of a grandmother who disappeared last December.

The Peabody School Committee refused to let the perfect become the enemy of the good Tuesday night, voting 6-1 to endorse the proposed merger of Peabody Vocational High School with the Essex Aggie and North Shore Regional Technical High School.

The missing woman's black Lexus was winched out of the water. By Jenna Russell, Milton Valencia, and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff, and Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent The body of a missing Peabody woman has been recovered from the bottom of a Lynn pond, not far from the bar where she was last sighted in December 2008, authorities said this ...

Please excuse Josh Simpson if he momentarily sneaks away from the "The Art of Fire" festival at the Peabody Essex Museum next weekend.

I am writing regarding an article in The Salem News - "Groundwater settlement nets Peabody $2.8 million" - that has stirred up some major concern with me.

A gunman zeroed in on a car with three occupants yesterday morning on a downtown, residential street.

Munroe Street is a short side street downtown with a handful of multifamily homes and apartments.

A mother driving with her 18-year-old son and his friend was turning onto Munroe Street Wednesday morning when a car following them hit the bumper of her Honda Accord.

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.

Jeff Grayson, who lost the race for Ward 4 city councilor by a single vote, confirmed yesterday that he will ask for a recount.

This year's race for mayor will go down in the history books as the most expensive on record: The candidates have spent more than $94,000. According to finance reports filed with the city clerk's office this week, challenger Richard J. Alcombright has raised $54,587.26 and spent $44,701.78. Mayor John Barrett III, who began the campaign season with ...

A Beverly man has been sentenced to up to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a Peabody boy numerous times when he was between the ages of 6 and 8. Prosecutors called the actions of 31-year-old Shawn Finnegan "despicable, horrific and unimaginable" in Salem Superior Court on Monday.

A man who received just a suspended sentence for sending child pornography to someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy back in 2004 is now facing charges that he lured a mentally disabled 23-year-old to his apartment and sexually assaulted him Saturday afternoon.

A Beverly man will serve no more than 31A 2 years in state prison for repeated sexual assaults on a young Peabody boy, a Salem Superior Court judge decided yesterday.