Essex County News Archives

“We want their children going to school with our children.”

There may not be a prettier spot in town - 13 acres in the southeast corner of Wenham sloping down to some 1,600 feet of frontage on Wenham Lake. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

“They took away his license because he kept drinking and driving. He just wouldn't stop driving. The registry can't follow him around all day.”

Authorities are investigating whether a man arrested on his seventh drunken driving charge may have committed more drunken driving offenses in other states. via NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

“We never say when we'll participate in a State Police checkpoint, but this is certainly the time of year you'd expect to see one”

State and local police have already started to crack down on underage drinking and drunken drivers in anticipation of a busy New Year's weekend. via NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

“He served his full term. Now we're criticizing him for doing that. It's not like he left, or ran again, won and went out and ran for office. Look at what happened in 1986 to 1990 when Mike Dukakis did that.”

Posted on 12/26/2007 11:17:21 AM PST by Fred BOSTON- Republicans are known for closing ranks around a candidate. via Free Republic

A Peabody woman arrested in Maine could be back in Massachusetts as soon as tomorrow to face charges she shook her 9-month-old daughter to death last month. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

“Pickering is responsible for our largest single donation each year”

In the wake of a possible shortage of donations for the Lynn Fire Department's annual Toys For Tots drive, Pickering Middle School Students came through with a toy store's worth of gifts this holiday season, ... via The Daily Item

When you have a sick child, it seems like the whole world around you has stopped and nothing else seems to matter. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

A Peabody mother is accused of shaking her infant child to death, according to the Essex County District Attorney's Office. via WBZ TV

“Chemicals that mimic natural estrogen may contribute to a women's cumulative lifetime exposure to estrogen, a factor that has been linked to increased risk of developing breast cancer”

Time to check your holiday list and ask what to send your state senator this year. via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

A 37-year-old Peabody mother who is accused of shaking her 8-month-old daughter to death has been indicted by an Essex County grand jury for murder. via Daily Item

“You will be always be remembered in our hearts and prayers for all your dedicated services to the people of the city of Lynn”

Plans for the 21st annual Santa Parade to be held on Christmas Eve continue to shape up. via The Daily Item

Just as many people had finally cleared their driveways and sidewalks of snow and ice, another winter storm is impacting the area. via Cw56.com

State Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein on Tuesday took under advisement the cast of a Lynn woman charged with setting a deadly 1999 fire that killed five people in the city's Highlands. via The Daily Item

“We are gratified with the jury's verdict and believe that a dangerous person will be off the streets for the period sentenced by the judge”

Blake Colella, the 25-year-old Swampscott native convicted last week of stabbing a man outside the 7-Eleven on Essex Street in Lynn last year, received up to 10 years in prison, but now his father may be ... via The Daily Item

“I didn't expect anything out of it. I was just basically trying to help out our soldiers.”

Lynnfield resident Paul M. Keefe has always been computer savvy. In fact, he used to host "LAN parties" at his home where he and friends would battle one another from numerous computers he networked together. via The Daily Item

“Basically, what the police did was they ordered this police drug testing kit online or something . . . and said go use them.”

When the mother looked at her 16-year-old son's day planner, she could barely make out what was left of the sketch. via Boston.com

A major storm will affect southern New England late tonight and Sunday. Low pressure developing near the western Gulf of Mexico will move to the Ohio Valley by Sunday morning. via Daily Item

A Lynn man already under indictment on drug trafficking charges has been indicted again on a related drug offense by an Essex County grand jury. via The Daily Item

“I think we ought to investigate the possibility of making [the former Byfield Elementary School] the new Newbury Town Hall”

Nearly a year ago, officials from the Yellow School Center for the Arts accused two former members of financial shenanigans after an outside audit revealed more than $90,000 missing from the popular ... via Boston.com

“Some of those folks we have helped”

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in an occasional series about the foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

“The planning for this plaque has been ongoing for the past few years”

Freshly released from a Danvers insane asylum, 38-year-old John F. Steele headed for the State House in Boston where he intended to assassinate Gov. via Daily Item

“This year, it seems there's a heightened level of domestic abuse”

Warning of a growing domestic murder "crisis" in Massachusetts, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett is calling on Beacon Hill lawmakers to increase the punishment for domestic abuse. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

On March 7, 1895, a solemn procession led by three Massachusetts lawmakers, one bearing an item wrapped in an American flag, arrived at the doorway of the House of Representatives chamber in the new wing of the ... via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- A millionaire technology guru and former MIT professor who staged his own shooting to frame his son will be allowed to perform his court-ordered community service by clearing horse trails. via Telegram & Gazette

A Nahant resident who allegedly stole $80,000 in electrical services from National Grid, will be back in court later this month. via The Daily Item

“Amesbury still has a lot of undeveloped areas, and we don't”

Newburyport and Amesbury are both in the top 10 percent of the Bay State's 351 cities and towns in a ranking of how attractive communities are to high-tech companies, according to a report released this week by ... via NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA